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Sherrill and Alan grew up together and have been friends ever since. Sherrill gets invited to visit her wealthy relatives in New York and Alan is offered to take part in an important archaeological mission in Egypt at the same time. What seems as a chance of a lifetime for both soon turns out to be the complete opposite. Sherrill and Alan realize that the only true happiness is when they are together.
| Автор | Grace Livingston Hill |
"The Celtic Twilight" by W. B. Yeats. 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 that are user-friendly and accessible to...
| Автор | W. B. Yeats |
Best known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was also a dedicated exponent of Irish folklore. Yeats took a particular interest in the tales' mythic and magical roots. The Celtic Twilight ventures into the eerie and puckish world of fairies, ghosts, and spirits. «This handful of dreams,» as the author referred to it, first appeared in 1893, and its title refers to the pre-dawn hours, when the Druids performed their rituals. It consists of stories recounted to the...
| Автор | W. B. Yeats |
After seven years of struggling to make ends meet and working hard and late in London hospitals, John Wolfe finds himself in the town of Navestock as an assistant to Dr. Threadgold. He is assigned to the poor districts of the town where he gets faced with an increase of illnesses caused by poor sanitation. He discovers that the town's water supply is polluted, causing dangerously unsanitary conditions in these districts. When he seeks reform in order to improve conditions, he comes against...
| Автор | Victorian Romance Novel |
After seven years of struggling to make ends meet and working hard and late in London hospitals, John Wolfe finds himself in the town of Navestock as an assistant to Dr. Threadgold. He is assigned to the poor districts of the town where he gets faced with an increase of illnesses caused by poor sanitation. He discovers that the town's water supply is polluted, causing dangerously unsanitary conditions in these districts. When he seeks reform in order to improve conditions, he comes against...
| Автор | Victorian Romance Novel |
"The Champdoce Mystery" by Emile Gaboriau. 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 that are user-friendly and accessible to...
| Автор | Emile Gaboriau |
"The Changed Valentines, and Other Plays for St. Valentine's Day" by Elizabeth F. Guptill. 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...
| Автор | Elizabeth F. Guptill |
This unique collection of romance novels has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. «Victor de Cardillac had remained motionless so long that, in the gathering darkness, he seemed but a carved stone figure on the bridge. He was leaning forward, arms folded on the top of the parapet, gazing steadily at the swirling water below, which at last became invisible save for the quivering reflection of yellow lights from the windows of the palaces on either bank.» (Cardillac) TABLE...
| Автор | Robert Barr |
The Charterhouse of Parma chronicles the adventures of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo from his birth in 1798 to his death. Fabrice grows up surrounded by intrigues and alliances for and against the French. At young age he pulls a rather quixotic effort to join Napoleon on his return to France wandering onto the field at the Battle of Waterloo where he gets seriously wounded and lucky to survive. Upon his return to Parma, Fabrice becomes a protégé of his aunt Gina who sends him to...
| Автор | Stendhal |
Rose Charteris' dead body at the bottom of a sand pit let the onlookers believe that probably she died due to a freak accident… But Chief Inspector Pointer is deeply suspicious as there are many people who will directly benefit from her murder! Excerpt: "Cockburn thought that the colonel looked vexed. An old scar on his forehead blazed a bar of crimson. A sign of anger. Yet he could hardly be annoyed with the girls for knowing where the professor was. But already the colonel had...
| Автор | Dorothy Fielding |
The Child of the Dawn is a tale about the afterlife and personal immortality of the human soul. The story is told from the perspective of a first person narrator who experiences what mortals call the Death. He is joined by the presence of something or somebody he names Amroth, who proceeds to lead him through the afterlife, introducing him to great mysteries that wait ahead.
| Автор | Benson Arthur Christopher |
"The Chimes" is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby «Trotty» Veck, a poor working-class man. When Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness he is visited on New Year's Eve by spirits to help restore his faith and show him that nobody is born evil, but rather that crime and poverty are things created by man.
| Автор | Charles Dickens |