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This book is one of Mencken's essays and journalism originally published between 1919 and 1927 in a series of books called «Prejudices». Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist and cultural critic. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements. In his career Henry Louis Mencken was not only editing and writing for The American Mercury magazine and the Baltimore Sun newspaper, but also for the Chicago...
| Автор | H. L. Mencken |
Gunsight Pass, or How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West is the tale of Dave Sanders, a young and brave cowboy from Arizona who tries to save a victim of a robbery and gets wrongly accused of a murder. After serving his sentence Dave returns to the cattle country finding that the oil boom has brought all kinds of crooks and troublemakers to the Old West. Determined to shake off his past and clear his reputation Dave stands up against outlaws to protect himself, his friends,...
| Автор | William MacLeod Raine |
Musaicum Books presents to you the best Josephine Tey murder mysteries and detective books in one ebook edition. Inspector Alan Grant is a Scotland Yard detective who relies on his instincts and often goes against the evidence if his gut feeling says so. He is thorough and systematic in his investigations and always pulls through. Contents: "The Man in the Queue" (or Killer in the Crowd) – Inspector Grant investigates a murder of a man who was stabbed in the ticket line in front of...
| Автор | Josephine Tey |
This collection includes the carefully selected masterpieces of German literature. The most representative German writers of each period are brought together and represented by their best and finest works from the great epoch of Classicism and Romanticism to early modern literature of twentieth century: Vol. I & II: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vol. III: Friedrich von Schiller Vol. IV: Jean Paul; Wilhelm von Humboldt; August Wilhelm Schlegel; Friedrich Schlegel; Novalis; Friedrich...
| Автор | Various |
Robert Blair, a local solicitor, is called on to defend two women, Marion Sharpe and her mother, who are accused of kidnapping and beating a fifteen-year-old Betty Kane. As the Sharpes are about to be interviewed by local police and Scotland Yard, represented by Inspector Alan Grant, Marion calls Blair and, although his firm does not do criminal cases, he agrees to come out to their home, «The Franchise», to look out for their interests during the questioning. The case against them is quite...
| Автор | Josephine Tey |
Gösta Berling is a defrocked Lutheran priest who has been saved by the Mistress of Ekeby from freezing to death on the snowy shores of Lake Fryken (Lake Löven in the story) in Värmland and thereupon becomes one of her pensioners in the manor at Ekeby, where the storyline of the novel begins to unfold and is later on filled with many wild adventures. Using wolves, snow, supernatural elements and eccentric upper-class characters to project an exotic image of 1820s Värmland, the novel can be...
| Автор | Selma Lagerlöf |
This carefully edited collection Cyril M. Kornbluth Sci-Fi collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Takeoff The Syndic Search the Sky Wolfbane King Cole of Pluto Reap the Dark Tide The Rocket of 1955 What Sorghum Says The City in the Sofa Dead Center! The Perfect Invasion Masquerade The Little Black Bag Iteration The Marching Morons With These Hands The Altar at Midnight The...
| Автор | Cyril M. Kornbluth |
Учебник может быть рекомендован школьникам, студентам, а также широкому кругу лиц с уровнем знаний В2 и может быть использован как самоучитель. Пособие содержит наглядные таблицы по каждой из тем с подробными и доступными объяснениями и большое количество упражнений по переводу с русского языка на английский. В учебник включены тесты с ключами по всему пройденному грамматическому материалу. В качестве приложений даны основные правила английской грамматики и таблица неправильных глаголов.
| Автор | Татьяна Олива Моралес |
Каким должен быть идеальный разговорник? В виде постановок, где актёрами разыгрывается та или иная бытовая ситуация. Нужно ли эти сцены снимать? Нет, потому что они уже сняты режиссёрами тех или иных англоязычных фильмов. Вы изучите английский язык по ситуациям, максимально приближенным к реальным.
| Автор | Анатолий Верчинский |
This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. As a young man Henry Dunbar, heir to the London banking house, was spoiled and arrogant. When he fell into debt he convinced his friend Joseph Wilmot, a clerk with a gift for reproducing handwriting, to help him create forged bonds that he could use to pay off his creditors. When the bank uncovered the fraud Henry blamed Wilmot for everything. His uncle still banished Henry to the...
| Автор | Мэри Брэддон |
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique and meticulously edited adventure collection: Philo Gubb is a small-town paperhanger who admires Sherlock Holmes and learns a deductive technique by correspondence course. Gubb differs from many mainstream fictional detectives in that he is not brilliant, nor egocentric, but he is persistent, good-natured, and occasionally displays common sense. Also in contrast, his work may be characterized by elaborate disguises that deceive nobody, theories that are...
| Автор | Ellis Parker Butler |