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She holds the key to more than a fortune…There’s more to love than meets the eye… The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Sophia Russell has no interest in marriage, especially after a recent humiliation—and especially not to Maximilian, Marquess of Devereaux. But it’s the only way to save herself from fortune hunters—and those who wish to seize a powerful connection she prefers to keep secret—even from her future husband… Marrying Sophia is the only way Max can regain the wealth his father...
| Автор | Lynne Connolly |
An aspiring dressmaker, orphaned Starling Smith is accustomed to fighting for her own survival. But when she’s offered a year’s wages to temporarily pose as a wealthy man’s bride, she suspects ulterior motives. She can’t lose the chance to open her own shop, but she won’t be any man’s lover, not even handsome, infuriating Alisdair Seymour’s… To prevent his visiting sister from parading potential brides in front of him, Alisdair has decided to present a fake wife. He lost his heart once, and had...
| Автор | Virginia Taylor |
Ella Beaufort knew better than to rely on a sexy stranger. But with two sisters to support on the modest earnings of the family sheep station, she accepts shearer Cal Lynton’s help—along with his intoxicating kiss. The most Ella can hope for is an affair. Something a woman in her situation wouldn’t dare—or would she? Heir to his family fortune, Charlton Alfred Landon Lynton abandoned his privileged life to prove his independence. He doesn’t have time for a woman, but once he woos the lovely Ella...
| Автор | Virginia Taylor |
A marriage most inconvenient… After losing his first love in childbirth, Nicholas Alden knows with a great certainty that he must never be a father. But to be a husband is a very different matter—mandated by South Australian society, necessary for his family name. So when he meets beautiful social climber Charlotte, he believes he has found a wife he can keep at arm’s length. He is terribly wrong. Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Charlotte hopes Nick can prop up her reputation long enough...
| Автор | Virginia Taylor |
A light in the darkness . . . The youngest son of Anglesea, the once idealistic Henry has survived the Holy Pilgrimage, but lost all his deeply held beliefs in honor and nobility. Captured in battle, he is sold as a slave into the home of Alif Al-Rasheed, a wealthy Genovese merchant who has converted to Islam. Bereft of faith, imprisoned in a foreign land, Henry has lost hope in his ability to love again—until he lays eyes on his captor’s beguiling daughter. A marriage of opposites . . . To...
| Автор | Sarah Hegger |
"The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." —Pearl S. Buck A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and, famously, Chinese erotica, The Golden Lotus (also known as The Plum in the Golden Vase ) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese Literature and one of the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel. Admired in its own time for its literary qualities and biting indictment of the immorality and cruelty of its age, this Chinese classic has also been...
| Автор | Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng |
This collection of Japanese literature features the works of noted Japanese novelist Koda Rohan.Japanese literary history usually classifies Koda Rohan as an idealist writer, and the three stories included in this anthology belong to this genre. The Five-Storied Pagoda, one of Koda's best-known works, is the moving account of a misunderstood carpenter who has been inspired to undertake the construction of a pagoda by himself. It is not merely a story of individualism, however, for the...
| Автор | Koda Rohan |
"Clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior in the extremities of poverty, stupidity, greed, vanity… Story-telling of an unconventional sort, with most of the substance beneath the shining, enameled surface." — The New York Times Book Review Widely acknowledged as «the father of the Japanese short story,» Ryunosuke Akutagawa remains one of the most influential Japanese writers of all time. Rashomon and Other Stories , a collection of his most celebrated work, resonates as...
| Автор | Ryunosuke Akutagawa |
The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon. The collection of thirty-four folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian...
| Автор | Makuchi |
HERE once lived a gentleman and his wife, who were the parents of a lovely little daughter.<br><br>When this child was only nine years of age, her mother fell sick. Finding her death coming on, she called her child to her and said to her, "My child, always be good; bear every thing that happens to you with patience, and whatever evil and troubles you may suffer, you will be happy in the end if you are so." Then the poor lady died, and her daughter was full of great...
| Автор | Henry W. Hewet |
Here are thirty-one enchanting selections drawn from Andrew Lang's famous series of colorfully titled fairy tale anthologies. Scholar, poet, novelist, and literary critic, Lang tirelessly collected magical stories from cultures all over the world—stories, according to Lang, that «have been inherited by our earliest civilised ancestors, who really believed that beasts and trees and stones can talk if they choose, and behave kindly or unkindly.»The best single-volume collection of...
| Автор | Andrew Lang |
The third part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS‘Extraordinarily imaginative, and wholly exciting’ The TimesThe armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring.The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, begun in The Fellowship of the Ringand The Two...
| Автор | Джон Толкин |
Eri jest inna niż wszyscy. Nie tylko dlatego, że jako jedyna we wsi ma rude włosy. Przyjaźni się z dobrą szeptuchą Maruszą, a zwierzęta okazują jej zdumiewające posłuszeństwo. Pewnego dnia Marusza powierza dziewczynce szczególne zadanie: ochronić ostatnie smocze jajo przed złym Widukindem. To bardzo ważne, bo ten, kto będzie przy narodzinach smoka i nada mu imię, zdobędzie nad nim władzę. A nikt nie chce, by taka potężna broń trafiła w ręce bezlitosnego czarnoksiężnika… Eri wyrusza w pełną...
| Автор | Jacek Inglot |
<P>For nineteenth-century New Englanders, «vampires» lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities from the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and consuming the bodies of the deceased. Author and folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. While writers like H. P. Lovecraft, Henry David Thoreau, and Amy Lowell drew on portions of these stories in...
| Автор | Michael E. Bell |
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.A Guardian Book of the Year • A Times Book of the Year • A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year • A Sunday Times Book of the Year • A New Statesman Book of the Year • A Spectator Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020‘Mantel has taken us to the dark heart of history…and what a show’ The...
| Автор | Hilary Mantel |
The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The Unseen No-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: the Nazi occupation of Norway. When the bodies from a bombed vessel carrying Russian prisoners of war begin to wash up on the shore, Ingrid can’t know that one will not only be alive, but could be the answer to a...
| Автор | Roy Jacobsen |
Сказки Ханса Кристиана Андерсена «Дикие лебеди», «Блоха и профессор», «Пастушка и трубочист» и «Сундук-самолёт» в сокращенном изложении с красочными иллюстрациями для детей дошкольного и младшего школьного возраста.
| Автор | Ганс Андерсен |
Чудесная история о маленьких человечках-добывайках, которые живут рядом с нами и потихоньку «одалживают» разные вещи. Главное для них – никаких контактов с людьми. Но маленькая добывайка Арриэтта нарушает правило…
| Автор | Мэри Нортон |
Не так-то просто для добываек переселиться в новое жилище, а тем более – попасть в новый город. Хорошо, что есть смельчак Спиллер, который сделал барку из ящика для ножей и вилок, и с ним семейство Курантов отправилось в настоящее плавание.
| Автор | Мэри Нортон |
Добывайки Куранты ищут себе новое жилище. А смогут ли они прожить на открытом воздухе, например в барсучьей норе или… в старом башмаке?
| Автор | Мэри Нортон |
«Деревья разговаривать не умеют и стоят на месте как вкопанные, но все-таки они живые. Они дышат. Они растут всю жизнь. Даже огромные старики-деревья и те каждый год подрастают, как маленькие дети…»
| Автор | Евгений Шварц |
Сказки Ханса Кристиана Андерсена «Новое платье короля», «Дюймовочка», «Свинопас» в сокращенном изложении с красочными иллюстрациями для детей дошкольного и младшего школьного возраста.
| Автор | Ганс Андерсен |
«Жила на свете одна женщина, и не было у неё детей. Однажды колдунья дала ей ячменное зернышко, из которого появился чудесный цветок. А в нём сидела живая девочка. Она была маленькая-премаленькая, поэтому её назвали Дюймовочка…»
| Автор | Ганс Андерсен |
