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Set in 1625, «The Three Musketeers» recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state and court. Dumas frequently works into the plot various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the old regime, giving the...
| Автор | Alexandre Dumas |
This eBook edition of «The Hampstead Mystery (Thriller Novel)» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. High Court Justice Sir Horace Fewbanks is found murdered in his own home in Hampstead. A butler with a shady past is the first suspect, but there are several other characters who turn attention there way with suspicious behavior. Scotland Yard detectives are in charge of the case, but the Judge's daughter hires a famous private...
| Автор | Arthur J. Rees |
"War and Peace" by graf Leo Tolstoy (translated by Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
| Автор | graf Leo Tolstoy |
La Familia Tafur parece tenerlo todo: la mayor procesadora de mariscos de la zona y una hermosa mansión en la orilla de la playa, aparte de un estilo de vida lujoso y sin aparentes complicaciones. Pero dentro de los muros de dicha mansión se esconden muchos secretos. Una serie de asesinatos extraños, sin aparentemente ningún patrón en común, hace que los habitantes de la Casa Grande estén inmersos en un infierno. La vida de todos está en peligro, y ni la policía puede evitar su sangriento...
| Автор | Byron Mural |
Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perkins sends a man forward in time to a better world, but gives him deep difficulties in adjusting to it. Herland describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. The story is told from...
| Автор | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
