So könnte der Anfang vom Ende aussehen … Sie nennen es das Qilu Virus. Es kam aus dem Osten, von irgendwo entlang des Gelben Flusses in China. Es fegte innerhalb weniger Wochen über die ganze Welt und verwandelte normale Menschen in wilde Verrückte. Es gibt nichts, was es stoppen kann. Der ehemalige Boxer Colin Ross ist entschlossen, aus der kleinen Stadt Wenatchee zu fliehen, bevor sie durch das Virus überrannt wird. Dabei muss er überforderte und schießwütige Polizisten, Horden von...
Естественно, что и песни все спеты, сказки рассказаны. В этом мире ни в чем нет нужды. Любое желание исполняется словно по мановению волшебной палочки. Лепота, да и только!.. …И вот вы сидите за своим письменным столом, потягиваете чаек, сочиняете вдохновенную поэму, а потом – раз! – и накатывает страх. А вдруг это никому не нужно? Вдруг я покажу свое творчество людям, а меня осудят? Вдруг не поймут, не примут, отвергнут? Или вдруг завтра на землю упадет комета… И все «вдруг» в один миг...
В книге доктора филологических наук, профессора Петра Евгеньевича Бухаркина устанавливается и раскрывается понятие «русской идеи», а также исследуются ее роль в отечественной историософии и литературе. Определяя «русскую идею» как соборность, автор анализирует творчество русских писателей на предмет соответствия ей. Особо выделяются авторы, литературные труды которых являются показательными для «русской идеи», но вместе с тем в книге рассматриваются и альтернативные художественные миры, не...
This is a historical romance novel written by an anonymous author who published a series of books about Elizabethan era England. Excerpt: "I denounce thee, in the presence of this menial, as a traitor and a spy!" A flash of anger mounted to Hildebrand's cheeks at these words, and his rapier, on which his grasp had already been fastened, leaped from its scabbard on the instant. «Such terms would provoke an angel! Stand on thy guard!» he said and jumped."
"Trafalgar" is the historical novel of the Battle of Trafalgar. The action is narrated in the first person by Gabriel de Araceli, a heroic character, mixing his romantic and often folkloric biography. Gabriel is presented as a rogue orphan from Cádiz, who at the age of 14 gets involved in the battle of Trafalgar as a servant of an old Navy officer in the reserve. The action takes place in October 1805 and narrates with a certain epic rhythm, the preparations, development and outcome of the...
Kitty Alone is a romance and mystery novel written by Sabine Baring-Gould. It's a suspenseful story set on the South Devon Coast. The eponymous Kitty is a clever and sensitive young girl, Kate Quarm. She is feeling rather lonely and misunderstood most of the time. Kitty lives with her relatives in a farmhouse, but both her father and her uncle don't seem to have enough time to understand her. Her solitude comes to an end when the son of the most prosperous farmer in the area falls...
The León Roch tells the story of love and passionate triangle between two women and a man, in the environment of Madrid's upper class in the second half of the nineteenth century. León is an industrious Krausist, intelligent and heir to a great fortune, who arrives from Valencia accompanying the Marquises of Fúcar, whose daughter, Pepa, is secretly in love with León. But in Madrid, the intellectual is going to fall under the spell of the fiery, imaginative and sensual temperament of María...
The Black Arrow is set in the reign of «old King Henry VI» and tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses. Outlaws in Tunstall Forest organized by Ellis Duckworth, whose weapon and calling card is a black arrow, cause Dick to suspect that his guardian Sir Daniel Brackley and his retainers are responsible for his father's murder. Dick's suspicions are enough to turn Sir Daniel against him, so he has no recourse but to escape from Sir Daniel and join the...