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gallery |Ë?gal…erÄ?|<br><br>1 a room or building for the display or sale of works of art – a collection of pictures.<br><br>2 a horizontal underground passage, esp. in a mine.<br><br>PHRASES<br><br>Play to the gallery – act in an exaggerated or theatrical manner, esp. to appeal to popular taste.
| Автор | Todd Ph.D. Komarnicki |
"The House of the Seven Gables" is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous works. It is the story of the Pyncheon family and the title house, the mansion where they reside. The house, which is built upon land acquired through unscrupulous circumstances, carries with it a curse on the Pyncheon family through the many generations of the family that inherit it. A classic moral tale «The House of the Seven Gables» is the story of how the wrong doings of one generation follows through to...
| Автор | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Though written at the beginning of the Romantic era, this remarkable French historical romance takes place in medieval Paris at the Cathedral of Notre Dame. It is there that the deformed Quasimodo has gone deaf ringing the grand church's bells for his adoptive father Dom Claude Frollo. The severe priest, though he looks after the grotesque Quasimodo, ignores the public persecution that the man suffers whenever he leaves the Cathedral, and it is at just such moment of vulnerability that the...
| Автор | Victor Hugo |
"The Innocence of Father Brown" is the first in a series of Gilbert K. Chesterton's much-loved Father Brown mystery short story collections. In this volume are the following twelve tales: The Blue Cross, The Secret Garden, The Queer Feet, The Flying Stars, The Invisible Man, The Honour of Israel Gow, The Wrong Shape, The Sins of Prince Saradine, The Hammer of God, The Eye of Apollo, The Sign of the Broken Sword, The Three Tools of Death.
| Автор | Gilbert Chesterton |
The metamorphosis of a man who has lost everything, his will to survive wrapped in a promise. Once fulfilled, he moves through a mental darkness where the drastic is camouflaged as perfection. Hope arrives in a most unexpected form.
| Автор | P D Michaels |
By the year 2030 quantum computers have become self aware. These machines run everything in society and have provided mankind with countless advancements. But something has just happened and an Artificial Intelligence engineer finds himself alone, unsure who to trust, and desperately searching for a way to correct a mistake that threatens our very existence. <br>
| Автор | Thomas Aman |
This volume collects Moffett's classic «riddle stories.» In the first, a card given to the narrator seems to bring about catastrophic events. The second story offers an explanation of paranormal interest.
| Автор | Moffett Cleveland |
“…And yet throughout this you still find yourself dreaming after all hope is lost…” "She then knew , this is where she belonged....Always Have, Always Will…"
| Автор | Jemma Price |
John Ruskin (1819-1900) was an aesthetician, art historian, reformer and economist, who is perhaps best known for his works on social reform. One of his earliest, and most surprising, is a fairy tale called "The King of the Golden River. Ruskin wrote the story in 1841 (it was not published until 1851) for nineteen-year-old Euphenia Chalmers Gray, whom he married in 1848. The story is set in the ancient country of Stiria, in a beautiful and fertile valley called Treasure Valley, owned by brothers...
| Автор | John Ruskin |
IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verney's pavilion, he saw, walking on the sea-front, a fair-haired young lady of medium height, wearing a _beret_; a white Pomeranian dog was running behind her.<br><br>And afterwards he met her in the public gardens and in the square...
| Автор | Anton Tchekhov |
BASED ON A TRUE STORY A GIRL OF 11 KILLS HER FIRST MAN.BORN IN THE SLUMS OF COLOMBIA BUT WOULD RAISE TO BE THE DRUG QUEEN OF MIAMI FLORDIA MAKING MILLIONS. KILLING HUSBANDS ALONG THE WAY WHO GOT IN HER WAY.DRUG WARS AND THE ITALIAN MAFIA.ACTION AND ADVENTURE .
| Автор | Steve Harmon |
Gang war in Temple Caneston The Symes Brothers, Eddie and Tony, are new to Temple Caneston butthey have big plans.Their aim is topple Victor Monk and take over the city But someone is hunting them…and it's not Victor Monk.
| Автор | Mr David Dalby |
New Killer In Town Maxine Graff has come to Caneston. Working for a dying criminal who wants three men to precede him into the afterlife. Maxine is here to carry out his last wishes. The killing of a police informer brings Hazel Vernon on her trail. One step behind at every turn this might be one case Hazel can't crack.
| Автор | D. C. Dalby |
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper’s story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron...
| Автор | Джеймс Купер, James Fenimore Cooper и др. |
One of the most popular novels of early American literature, «The Last of the Mohicans» helped to establish James Fenimore Cooper as one of the first great and world-famous American authors. The second novel in the «Natty» Bumpo series, «The Last of the Mohicans» is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War. It concerns the rescue of two sisters, daughters of a British commander who are kidnapped following a Huron massacre of Anglo-American soldiers, by the two...
| Автор | Джеймс Купер |
Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist whose noble Hungarian origins afforded her an idyllic childhood and extensive education in the arts at schools in Brussels, Paris and London. In 1903, with the success of a play written by Orczy and her husband based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Orczy rewrote the story as a novel that drew huge sales. As a result, «The Scarlet Pimpernel» cemented Orczy's name in the literary world,...
| Автор | Baroness Orczy |
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy. 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...
| Автор | Baroness Orczy |
Walter de la Mare (1873 – 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and the poem «The Listeners». De la Mare also wrote some subtle psychological horror stories, of which «Seaton's Aunt» and «Out of the Deep» are noteworthy examples. His 1921 novel «Memoirs of a Midget» won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
| Автор | Walter de la Mare |
This novelet features Don Quebranta Huesos, a grim Spanish criminal who is «vicious toward the rich and evil but kind to the poor and good» (Steinbrunner and Penzler). Don Q. may have helped inspire Johnston McCulley's «Zorro» character. Indeed, there are so many similarities that Douglas Fairbanks turned the Don Q. character into the film sequel to «The Mark of Zorro» – as «Don Q., Son of Zorro» – in 1925.
| Автор | K. Prichard |
From the writer of The Secret Garden and A Little Princess comes the story of how Queen Crosspatch and her band of fairies help to save the Racketty-Packetty House. With classic illustrations by Harrison Cady, «Racketty-Packetty House» is Frances Hodgson Burnett’s whimsical tale of wonder with a positive message that will enchant and delight young readers.
| Автор | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Mia Parker’s restaurant-in-progress is the best shot Bailey’s Cove has at survival.That is, until a two-hundred-year-old skeleton is unearthed onsite.It doesn’t help that the investigator—sexy, guarded anthropologist Daniel MacCarey—instantly charms her to distraction. Add in rumours that the remains belong to a pirate—and that his treasure might be buried nearby. Mia’s trapped in the mystery that jeopardizes everything.Despite the risk to his own career, Daniel can’t resist offering to help...
| Автор | Mary Brady |
The rarest treasure of all Discredited journalist Adriana Bonacorda has a lead on the hottest story of the year–billionaire business titan Zachary Hale is accused of cheating investors! She's so determined to talk to him that she follows him to the charming town of Bailey's Cove, Maine.When a hurricane traps Addy and Zach together, it's her one chance to revive her career. But she's shocked by the passion that springs up between them. Is Zach really a criminal? Or is there a...
| Автор | Mary Brady |
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, and Other Stories" is the collection of Washington Irving's stories originally published as «The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.» This collection of Washington Irving's stories are some of his most loved and includes the following: The Author's Account of Himself, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Wife, Rip Van Winkle, English Writers on America, Rural Life in England, The Broken Heart, The Art of Book-making, A Royal Poet, The...
| Автор | Washington Irving |