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Benito Cereno

Herman Melville

Benito Cereno

A fictionalized account about the revolt on a 19th-century Spanish slavery ship, Benito Cereno was first published in three installments in 1855. Melville scholar Merton M. Sealts, Jr. called the story “an oblique comment on those prevailing attitudes toward blacks and slavery in the United States that would ultimately precipitate civil war between North and South.” The famous question of what had cast such a shadow upon Cereno was used by American author Ralph Ellison as an epitaph to his 1952...

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Herman Melville

Christmas Carol, A A

Чарльз Диккенс

Christmas Carol, A A

Marley was dead, to begin with…' And yet, he manages to visit his old partner, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, and send him on a transformative journey, led by three ghosts. First to his own past, where he sees again the love he spurned, then to the present, where he sees those around him going about their holiday preparations, and then into his own future, to see his just reward. A Christmas favorite, it will warm your heart with favorite memories, and remind you how the true Christmas spirit...

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Чарльз Диккенс

Chasing Daisy

Ксюша Ангел

Chasing Daisy

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Ксюша Ангел

Mr. Sammler's Planet

Сол Беллоу

Mr. Sammler's Planet

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Сол Беллоу

Atlas Shrugged

Айн Рэнд

Atlas Shrugged

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Айн Рэнд

Atlas Shrugged

Айн Рэнд

Atlas Shrugged

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Айн Рэнд

King Coal

Upton Sinclair

King Coal

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Upton Sinclair

Him with His Foot in His Mouth, and...

Сол Беллоу

Him with His Foot in His Mouth, and Other Stories

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Сол Беллоу

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio

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Sherwood Anderson

Man with the Twisted Lip, The The

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Man with the Twisted Lip, The The

In The Man with the Twisted Lip, Dr Watson is called upon late at night by a female friend of his wife whose husband has been absent for several days. Frantic with worry, she seeks help in fetching him home from an opium den. Watson finds his friend Sherlock Holmes in the den, disguised as an old man, trying to extract information about a new case from the addicts therein. The case of double identity and potential murder presents Holmes with a task that is anything but elementary. This is the...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Tale of Two Cities, A A

Чарльз Диккенс

Tale of Two Cities, A A

Two photographers from very different cultures swap cities. Chinese photographer Yu Haibo travels to Canberra to capture the young Australian capital, and Canberra photographer Lee Grant travels to Beijing to capture images of the ancient Chinese city. As the two of them photograph the sister cities, they discover new perspectives and come to realize that these two national capitals with their different types of government and their contrasting populations have much in common.

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Чарльз Диккенс

Return of Sherlock Holmes, The The

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Return of Sherlock Holmes, The The

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 mysteries that were originally published in the Strand Magazine and Collier's in Great Britain and the United States. Published in 1905, the book was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes died in a confrontation with his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty in The Final Problem. The success of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” published in 1901–1902, and set before Holmes' death, created great pressure...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Five Orange Pips, The The

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Five Orange Pips, The The

In The Five Orange Pips, a young Sussex gentleman named John Openshaw tells the strange story of his uncle Elias Openshaw, who came back to England after living in the United States as a planter in Florida and serving as a colonel in the Confederate Army. His uncle begins receiving threatening letters inscribed “KKK” and including five orange pips. He is killed shortly thereafter. The job of unraveling this sordid transatlantic mystery falls to Holmes and his trusty companion Dr. Watson. The...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr....

Роберт Стивенсон

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The

Dealing with split personalities, Dr. Jekyll battles with himself to overcome the evil Mr. Hyde. An old friend of Dr. Jekyll's, a lawyer Gabriel John Utterson, investigates odd occurrences that are linked to Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll is determined to stop becoming Mr. Hyde and uses a potion to stop the transition. This works for a time but the need for the potion increases because he can't stave off the beast.

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Роберт Стивенсон

Red-Headed League, The The

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Red-Headed League, The The

The Red-Headed League is the second of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which was published in 1892. In it, Jabez Wilson, a flame-haired London pawnbroker, comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Some weeks before, Wilson responded to a newspaper want-ad offering highly-paid work to only red-headed male applicants. Wilson is hired on the basis of the precise hue of his hair color and performs menial work at a decent wage. When this occupation is suddenly...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sea-Wolf

Джек Лондон

Sea-Wolf

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Джек Лондон

Great American Authors Read from Th...

Ксюша Ангел

Great American Authors Read from Their Works

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Ксюша Ангел

Rover

Джозеф Конрад

Rover

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Джозеф Конрад

O, Pioneers!

Уилла Кэсер

O, Pioneers!

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Уилла Кэсер

Time Machine, The The

H. G. Wells

Time Machine, The The

An English scientist, known only as the Time Traveler, constructs a machine that allows him to move back and forth through different periods of time. Testing this machine, the man travels forward to AD 802,701. Here he discovers a lazy, non disciplined group of people who do not seem interested in anything. Thinking he has seen all he needs for his research, he decides to travel back home. Upon returning to where he left his time machine, he discovers an intelligent, violent group of people...

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H. G. Wells

Boscombe Valley Mystery, The The

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Boscombe Valley Mystery, The The

In The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Inspector Lestrade summons Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes, employing his trusty magnifying glass quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail. This is the fourth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Secret Agent, The The

Джозеф Конрад

Secret Agent, The The

In The Secret Agent, a Soho shopkeeper is a member of a terrorist cell, supported by a foreign power, plotting to undermine the English state by means of a bomb plot. Published in 1907, it is considered to be among Conrad's finest novels, written at a time when he was moving away from the seafaring themes which he was known for. Prescient in its depictions of terrorism and political instability, it has become mandatory reading for anyone wishing to understand terrorism and counterterrorism...

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Джозеф Конрад

Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Th...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventure of the Copper Beeches, The The

In The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Violet Hunter asks Holmes, whether she should accept a job with very strange conditions. She has been offered £120 per year as a governess, but only if she will cut her long hair short. This is only one of many peculiar conditions to which she must agree. The employer, Jephro Rucastle, seems pleasant enough, yet Miss Hunter obviously has her suspicions. After a fortnight, Miss Hunter beseeches Holmes to come and see her in Winchester, as the situation has...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Pilgrim's Progress, The The

John Bunyan

Pilgrim's Progress, The The

The Pilgrim's Progress is a 1678 Christian allegory written by the Puritan preacher John Bunyan. Begun while Bunyan served a 12-year jail sentence for his nonconformist preaching, the novel unfolds over two parts, one concerning Christian, and the other his wife Christiana and their sons. Both concern the central characters’ ordeals in traveling from the worldly to the sublime, and are filled with allegorical characters with names like Hypocrisy and Prudence, and places like Plain Ease, and...

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John Bunyan

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