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This eBook edition of «Eugene Onegin» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. In the 1820s, Eugene Onegin is a bored St. Petersburg dandy, whose life consists of balls, concerts, parties, and nothing more. Upon the death of a wealthy uncle, he inherits a substantial fortune and a landed estate. When he moves to the country, he strikes up a friendship with his neighbor, a starry-eyed young poet named Vladimir Lensky. Lensky takes Onegin to...
| Автор | Alexander Pushkin |
A young man named Raphaël de Valentin wagers his last coin and loses, then proceeds to the river Seine to drown himself. On the way, however, he decides to enter an unusual shop and finds it filled with curiosities from around the world. The elderly shopkeeper leads him to a piece of shagreen hanging on the wall. It is inscribed with «Oriental» writing; the old man calls it «Sanskrit», but it is imprecise Arabic. The skin promises to fulfill any wish of its owner, shrinking slightly upon the...
| Автор | Honoré De Balzac |
Riders of the Purple Sage tells the story of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon fundamentalist church. A leader of the church, Elder Tull, wants to marry her. Withersteen gets help from a number of friends, including Bern Venters and Lassiter, a notorious gunman and killer of Mormons. She struggles with her «blindness» to the evil nature of her church and its leaders, and tries to keep Venters and Lassiter from killing the adversaries who...
| Автор | Zane Grey |
Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited short story collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Tales of the Five Towns: Part I. At Home His Worship the Goosedriver The Elixir of Youth Mary with the High Hand The Dog A Feud Phantom Tiddy-fol-lol The Idiot Part II. Abroad The Hungarian Rhapsody The Sisters Qita Nocturne at the Majestic Clarice of the Autumn...
| Автор | Arnold Bennett |
As Sir Michael Audley celebrates his marriage to Lucy Graham, his nephew, the barrister Robert Audley, welcomes his old friend George Talboys back to England, after three years of gold prospecting in Australia. George finds out that his wife Helen has died and that his son is under the care of his father in law. After settling the matter of the boy's guardianship, the Robert and Geroge set off to visit Sir Michael. While at the country manor Audley Court, Lady Audley avoids meeting George,...
| Автор | Мэри Брэддон |
Salome tells the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils. Wilde wrote Salome in French and translated it to English several years later. The play was refused a license by the Lord Chamberlain, since it was illegal to depict biblical characters. It was eventually...
| Автор | Oscar Wilde |
Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited Balzac collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Novels : The Chouans At the Sign of the Cat and Racket Vendetta The Magic Skin The Exiles Louis Lambert Eugenie Grandet The Country Doctor Ferragus The Duchesse de Langeais The Alkahest Seraphita Father Goriot The Lily of the Valley The Marriage Contract The Old Maid Rise and...
| Автор | Honoré De Balzac |
Ethan Frome is a limping, quiet old man, a local fixture of the community, and a lifelong resident of the town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. When an unnamed narrator comes to spend a winter in Starkfield, he is curious to learn more about Frome. He learns that Frome's limp arose from having been injured in a «smash-up» twenty-four years before, but further details are not forthcoming. He also finds out that Frome's attempt at higher education decades before was thwarted by the sudden...
| Автор | Edith Wharton |
The Woman Who Did tells the story of the young, self-assured middle-class woman who defies convention as a matter of principle and who is fully prepared to suffer the consequences of her actions. Herminia Barton, the Cambridge-educated daughter of a clergyman, frees herself from her parents' influence, moves to London and starts living alone. As she is not a woman of independent means, she starts working as a teacher. When she meets and falls in love with Alan Merrick, a lawyer, she...
| Автор | Allen Grant |
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique children's books collection, carefully crafted and meticulously edited for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Table of Contents: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There Sylvie and Bruno Sylvie and Bruno Concluded Bruno's Revenge and Other Stories What the Tortoise Said to Achilles The Hunting of the Snark Puzzles from Wonderland The Life and Letters of...
| Автор | Furniss Harry |