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Collected here are the early stories of Kiran Bhat, stories written between his college days and his backpacking experiences around the world. The stories of a young writer in between Western and Asian culture, stretching largely across the United States, Europe, and India, these stories demonstrate Bhat's commitment to stylistic experimentation, artistic growth, and getting into the heads of people quite different from himself, all the while remaining true to his voice.
| Автор | K. B. |
In Willa Cather's first novel, «Alexander's Bridge», Construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges, Bartley Alexander strays from his wife Winifred to resume his acquaintance with former lover Hilda Burgoyne. The consequence of infidelity is examined in this classic romantic novel.
| Автор | Willa Sibert Cather |
A young wealthy Venezuelan named Abel flees Caracas, after a failed attempt at revolution, into the uncharted forests of the Guyana jungle. There he meets the mysterious Rima the Bird Girl. William Henry Hudson's «Green Mansion» is a romantic tale set in the exotic jungles of Venezuela.
| Автор | William Hudson |
John Fox (1862-1919) was an American novelist, journalist and short story writer. Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction in his later years. Influenced by his childhood in the Kentucky's Bluegrass Region and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, most of his works reflected the naturalist style. Fox's novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region. «The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come» (1903)...
| Автор | John Fox Jr., Jr. John Fox |
"The Log of a Cowboy" by Andy Adams. 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 | Andy Adams |
"The Log of a Cowboy" is the captivating tale of an 1882 cattle drive up the old Western Trail from the Rio Grande to just south of the Canadian border in Montana. While a fictional narrative, «The Log of a Cowboy» is rich with authentic detail of the old west, due largely to the fact that the author, Andy Adams, spent more than a decade in Texas in the 1880s driving cattle on the Western Trail. A delightful story of a bygone era, «The Log of a Cowboy» will delight fans of the western genre...
| Автор | Andy Adams |
When Buck Duane, the son of a famous gun fighter, is forced to kill a man in self-defense he must ride off to the lawless region along the border between Texas and Mexico. As he is hunted by the law, Duane gains a reputation for himself by killing some of the most notorious of Texas outlaws and, in so doing, is offered a pardon by a captain of the Texas Rangers if he will infiltrate a gang of ruthless rustlers headed by the shadowy figure known as «Cheseldine». As Buck infiltrates the gang and...
| Автор | Zane Grey |
"The Lost Girl" by D. H. Lawrence. 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 | D. H. Lawrence, D.H Lawrence |
H. R. Haggard's «King Solomon's Mines» is quite simply one of the greatest adventure novels ever written. Originally published in 1885, «King Solomon's Mines» quickly became one of the best selling and most popular novels of the late 19th century. «King Solomon's Mines» is the story of elephant-hunter Allan Quatermain and his quest for a fabled treasure in the wilds of Africa.
| Автор | Haggard Haggard |
"The Song of the Lark" is the story of Thea Kronborg, an ambitious young heroine, who leaves her home to go fulfill her dream of becoming a famous opera star. As is typical with much of Cather's work, «The Song of the Lark» is a portrayal of an independent-minded woman with a strong work ethic who will not allow anything or anyone to get in the way of her own personal achievement.
| Автор | Willa Sibert Cather |
Jack London's «The Sea Wolf» is the story of Humphrey van Weyden. While onboard a San Francisco ferry which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks, Humphrey is picked up by Wolf Larsen, the captain of the seal-hunting schooner the «Ghost». A brutal ship master, Wolf rules over his ship with an iron hand. Forced to be a cabin boy and do menial work, Humphrey is forced to toughen up quick in this thrilling nautical adventure.
| Автор | Jack London |
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was a versatile and visionary author of novels, short stories, poetry, essays and translations whose reputation has been overshadowed by early censorship and sensationalist memoirs of the 1930s and 40s. He rejected Victorian prudishness and promoted the idea of sexual liberation in a Utopia he wished to see take form. This led to works that were viewed as obscene and pornographic by both literary critics and government officials alike, in what was still a...
| Автор | D. H. Lawrence |
Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) was an American writer of children's books, best known for creating the marvelous Land of Oz in «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz». This fanciful kingdom was catalogued in a series of children's books beginning with the publication of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz». Baum's Oz series compasses the first fully developed fantasy world created by an American author. In 1900, Baum and Denslow, famous illustrator with whom he shared the copyright, published «The...
| Автор | Лаймен Баум |
"The Lost World" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of fantasy. Two scientists, a big-game hunter and a journalist set off to the wilds of South America and the Amazon in search of prehistoric beasts. There, high atop an Amazonian plateau they find an amazing land of strange and dangerous ancient creatures. «The Lost World» is a classic tale of science-fiction adventure that has inspired many successive works and is considered by many fans of the genre as one of the greatest...
| Автор | Артур Конан Дойл |
With Markos Lyonedes, there’s no smoke without fire!He’s one of the most talked-about men in New York – and interior designer Eva Grey has heard all the stories. Yes, Markos is powerful, wealthy and unbearably good-looking, but Eva knows that whilst he might make a girl feel special for one searingly hot night, that’s all he’s good for… After her disastrous marriage, he’s just the type of man she should avoid.But when Markos hires Eva to decorate his penthouse it’s too lucrative an opportunity...
| Автор | Кэрол Мортимер |
Can he turn defiance into desire?Drakon Lyonedes has it all: power, wealth, sex appeal…and any woman he wants! Until the beautiful Gemini Bartholomew steps into his life, that is… Confronting him over his plan to turn her family home into a hotel, Gemini intrigues Drakon.The problem? Long-term just isn’t in this infamously arrogant tycoon’s vocabulary – and Gemini is a virgin who surely wants more than one night of sizzling, scorching passion…? She’s determined to defy him, but whose will-power...
| Автор | Кэрол Мортимер |
"Taras Bulba" is the story of its title character, Taras Bulba, an old Ukrainian Cossack and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap, who journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Ukraine to fight Polish nobles with fellow Cossacks. A romanticized historical novel, «Taras Bulba» is a story of great adventure and battle.
| Автор | Николай Гоголь |
Considered by many as a masterpiece, John Dos Passos «Three Soldiers» is an authentic portrait of the horrible conditions of the First World War. As the title would suggest it is the story of three soldiers caught up in the machinery of war. «Three Soldiers» is a gripping and psychological portrait of the terror of war and the consequences for its participants.
| Автор | Dos Passos John |
James Matthew Barrie's «Peter Pan» is considered one of the greatest fantasy tales ever written. It is the story of a boy who wouldn't grow up. Follow Peter Pan with Wendy to Neverland and share in their adventures with the lost boys, Tinker Bell and the evil Captain Hook. Originally performed as a play in 1904, «Peter Pan» is presented here in the book format that was subsequently written and published by Barrie following the success of his play.
| Автор | J. M. Barrie |
The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. The story, set in a world where humanity lives...
| Автор | E. M. Forster, E.M. Forster |
E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist,and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel, Howards End: «Only connect…» His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his...
| Автор | E.M. Forster |
Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) was an American writer of children's books, best known for creating the marvelous Land of Oz in «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz». This fanciful kingdom was catalogued in a series of children's books beginning with the publication of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz». Baum's Oz series compasses the first fully developed fantasy world created by an American author. In 1900, Baum and Denslow, famous illustrator with whom he shared the copyright, published «The...
| Автор | Лаймен Баум |
"O Pioneers!" is considered to be one of Willa Cather's greatest works. It is the story of Alexandra Bergson, a young girl who arrives in the prairie frontier of Hanover, Nebraska and grows up to build a prosperous farm. «O Pioneers!» is a classic portrayal of the struggles of immigrants in the great plains of America. It is a story of success in the face of tragedy and the growth of a young woman along the way.
| Автор | Willa Sibert Cather |
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" is the impassioned story of Lilia Herriton, an English widow who while traveling with her friend Caroline Abbott in Italy falls in love with a much younger Italian man. Put at odds with her dead husbands family over this relationship, which they see as a betrayal to their sons memory, Lilia is torn between an idealized and romantic Italian culture and the more conservative morals and values of English society.
| Автор | Forster Forster |