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Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924) was an American author, naturalist, photographer and movie producer who drew primarily on her Midwestern farm roots for inspiration in her work. She grew up on an Indiana farm, one of twelve children, and spent her life outdoors drawing sketches and taking notes and photographs. She began her career contributing articles and photographs to magazines including «Recreation», «Outing» and «McCalls», and debuted her first novel, «Cardinal», in 1903. In 1911,...
| Автор | Stratton-Porter Gene |
Zane Grey, who is best known for his novel «Riders of the Purple Sage,» helped to define the popular image of the Old West through his popular adventure novels. First published in 1910, «The Heritage of the Desert» is set in the American southwest where John Hare is found dying in the desert and consequently nursed back to health by the rancher August Naab. John soon finds himself caught between his indebtedness to the generous rancher, whose daughter he has fallen in love with, and a band of...
| Автор | Zane Grey |
The Home and the World illustrates the battle between the ideas of Western culture and revolution against the Western culture in India. These two ideas are portrayed in two of the main characters, Nikhil, who is rational and opposes violence, and Sandip, who will let nothing stand in his way from reaching his goals. These two opposing ideals are very important in understanding the history of the Bengal region and its contemporary problems. The novel is set in early 20th century India. The story...
| Автор | Rabindranath Tagore |
A man under sentence of marriage would be lucky to have a girl like Julia assigned to him—or would he? Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
| Автор | Robert F. Young |
She was the Galaxy’s most beautiful whore. He knew that if he went to her couch during the time-storm, he, too, would be booking Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
| Автор | Robert F. Young |
The fey Mr. Young continues his scholarly researches in the scientific origins of our myth and legend with this tale of an agile—and avaricious—one-man Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
| Автор | Robert F. Young |
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913), was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright. Tagore modernized Bengali art and literature by rejecting classical forms, and produced strongly poetic and spiritual works. He spoke largely to political and personal topics as he rejected the British Raj and supported independence. His 1916 novel, «The Home and the World», illustrates a multitude of conflicts between tradition...
| Автор | Rabindranath Tagore |
THIS was the time when Sandip Babu with his followers came to our neighbourhood to preach Swadeshi.<br><br>There is to be a big meeting in our temple pavilion. We women are sitting there, on one side, behind a screen. Triumphant shouts of Bande Mataramcome nearer: and to them I am thrilling through and through. Suddenly a stream of barefooted youths in turbans, clad in ascetic ochre, rushes into the quadrangle, like a silt-reddened freshet into a dry river-bed at the first burst of...
| Автор | Rabindranath Tagore |
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own...
| Автор | Anton Chekov, Anton Tchekhov |
A HOSPITAL assistant, called Yergunov, an empty-headed fellow, known throughout the district as a great braggart and drunkard, was returning one evening in Christmas week from the hamlet of Ryepino, where he had been to make some purchases for the hospital. That he might get home in good time and not be late, the doctor had lent him his very best horse.<br><br>At first it had been a still day, but at eight o'clock a violent snow-storm came on, and when he was only about four...
| Автор | Anton Tchekhov |
Godhead can be more than a guilt complex growing out of the knowledge of good and evil. It can also be a sense of fulfillment that comes from the ability to create. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
| Автор | Robert F. Young |
Which answers mankind’s problems better: a stern god or a tolerant one? And what do you do if you have the power to decide it either way? Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
| Автор | Robert F. Young |
He had a beautiful wife. But the girl he really loved came out of a slot machine – warm and soft and clinging and unalive. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
| Автор | Robert F. Young |
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" is considered to be one of the greatest of the Sherlock Holmes stories and one of the greatest mystery novels ever written. While most of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories take the form of shorter narratives, readers will delight in the fact that «The Hound of the Baskervilles» is a full-length novel instead. At the center of this novel is the investigation of the murder of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the ghost of the Hound of the Baskervilles, who as...
| Автор | Артур Конан Дойл |
"The House Behind the Cedars" by Charles W. Chesnutt. 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...
| Автор | Charles W. Chesnutt |
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addressed the complex issues of racial and social identity at the turn of the century. Chesnutt's early works explored political issues somewhat indirectly, with the intention of changing the attitudes of Caucasians slowly and carefully. His characters deal with difficult issues of miscegenation, illegitimacy, racial identity and social place. They also expose the anguish of mix-race men and women and...
| Автор | Charles W. Chesnutt |
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths of the human soul. Describing...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky |
Published in 1862 after Dostoyevsky's imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, «The House of the Dead» is a collection of memoirs, related by themes, that portrays the horrific life of convicts. The author drew on his own experiences in prison to depict the squalor, destitution, and severity of a Siberian camp with remorseless detail. Dostoyevsky reveals the characters of many of the other convicts, which includes the depravity many have come to expect through their mental and physical...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
We doubt if the real television people will ever go as far as the fictional ones in this story. But if they do—wow! Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
| Автор | Robert F. Young |
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 |