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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Guy de Maupassant<br><br>Pierre and Jean<br><br>Bel Ami<br><br>Comedy of Marriage<br><br>Une Vie, A Piece of String<br><br>Mademoisselle Fifi<br><br>Complete Original Short Stories
| Автор | Guy de Maupassant |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Henry James<br><br>The Turn of the Screw<br><br>Portrait of a Lady<br><br>The Ambassadors<br><br>Daisy Miller<br><br>Washington Square<br><br>What Maisie Knew
| Автор | Генри Джеймс |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Laurence Sterne:<br><br>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman<br>A Political Romance<br>A Sentimental Journey
| Автор | Laurence Sterne |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Tobias Smollett<br><br>The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom<br>The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle<br>The Adventures of Roderick Random<br>The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves<br>The Expedition of Humphry Clinker<br>Travels Through France And Italy
| Автор | Tobias Smollett |
Contained within this volume are two of Joseph Conrad's great tales of the sea, «The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'» and «The Secret Sharer.» Drawing from his own experiences as a seaman, Conrad's writing is rich with the details of a life lived at sea. In «The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'» a ship's crew struggles with morale as a black member of the crew lay dying. In the shorter work «The Secret Sharer» a captain on his night watch discovers an officer that has come...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
"The Odd Women" by George Gissing. 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 | George Gissing |
George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist of the late-Victorian era. Gissing's career as a novelist, at least until the late twentieth century, has been assessed in the framework of the nineteenth century realism and naturalism. Like many writers at the end of the nineteenth century, he was caught between the sociological realists with reform instincts and the adherents of an aesthetic movement with their emphasis on the attainment of ideal beauty. Gissing never achieved fame or...
| Автор | George Gissing |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Gene Stratton-Porter<br><br>At the Foot of the Rainbow <br>A Daughter of the Land <br>Freckles <br>A Girl Of The Limberlost <br>The Harvester <br>Her Father's Daughter <br>Laddie <br>Michael O'Halloran <br>Moths of the Limberlost <br>The Song of the Cardinal
| Автор | Stratton-Porter Gene |
An existential novel set in a dystopian, post-industrial America.
| Автор | Strat Boone's Douthat |
"Embracing the Fool" is the first book in a series featuring Cassie Thornton, an art history professor and aspiring writer in New York City with more secrets than she can hide in a storage unit.
| Автор | Dawn Leger |
War tore his family apart, now the young merchant must learn to create his own life in a new land. Making friends along the way and getting involved in technological advancements as well as politics, there's always quite a bit on his mind. He is soon presented with a choice; live in safety or help those suffering the effects of war.
| Автор | Alistair Nunamaker |
First published as a weekly serial in 1841, «The Old Curiosity Shop» is a novel that details the life of a young orphaned girl named Nell Trent. She lives with her loving grandfather in his London curiosity shop, until a gamble for wealth forces them to leave for the English countryside, penniless. After their departure, they are sought by both friends who wish to help them and cruel men with harmful designs. The pair of beggars ultimately experience the extremes of human loyalty and villainy in...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Duty – or desire?Revered businessman Falco Orsini has left life in the Special Forces behind – though he uses his powerful skills occasionally, when duty calls. But duty is always on Falco’s terms! When his estranged father asks him to protect a young model who is being stalked, he begrudgingly agrees…only because of the vulnerability he can see in her eyes.Elle Bissette won’t be a victim – she can take care of herself! And surely big, dark, devilish Falco is dangerous? Because one kiss from a...
| Автор | Sandra Marton |
He will claim his son! Gabriella Ramos Viera fell for Dante’s raw masculinity and ended up pregnant and alone – with no choice but to return home in shame. Tough corporate raider Dante Orsini has set his sights on a huge Brazilian ranch.However, he discovers it’s to be inherited by Gabriella, the one woman he’s never been able to forget… But where’s the New York career woman he once knew? And who’s the dark-haired little boy who calls her Mummy?The Orsini Brothers Darkly handsome – proud and...
| Автор | Sandra Marton |
Raffaele Orsini doesn’t want a wife… But when he meets his arranged bride Raffaele feels honour-bound to marry her. Though she’s not quite what he was expecting… Her plain, dowdy clothes can’t hide her lusciously feminine figure, nor her wildcat temperament!Chiara Cordiano will not love her husband! She tries everything to avoid her fate, but in the blink of an eye Chiara is swept away from her quaint Sicilian town to New York! She wants to hate Rafe, but seduction is in his blood.With his dark,...
| Автор | Sandra Marton |
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 Eavesdropper's Pen is about the adventures of a young boy growing up in the Caribbean in the 1950's. It follows his early years in a strictly Catholic country where is bravely eavesdrops and questions everything around him with the intention of documenting everything for the future.
| Автор | A R Magaron |
When WWII was over the world felt at ease because the evil of Nazism was extinguished. But was it? There were many question that were unanswered because information was lost or destroyed, or so everyone thought. But was it? The Nazi Party was being reborn over the last many years and now has a new birth birth and a new view on how to finish the job they started 72 years ago. Isn't science wonderful?
| Автор | Don Boshard |
The new Earl of Haloran Hall is seeking a wife to provide an heir. Shalan Kiley is determined that she not be chosen as the Earl's bride, as she desires to be no man's Lady. She feels she is saved from that fate, however, when a message arrives that the ball has been cancelled due to the Earl being recalled to London due to an urgent matter.
| Автор | Myrna G. Raines |
While James Fenimore Cooper’s 1840 novel «The Pathfinder» is the fourth installment in «The Leatherstocking Tales» series, the action takes place third chronologically. Set amongst the wilderness of the Great Lakes region of the United States during the French and Indian War, «The Pathfinder» is a classic tale of early American frontiersman Natty Bumpo in which he finds himself rather uncharacteristically falling in love, a romance which pits him against his fundamental mission in life. «The...
| Автор | Джеймс Купер |
Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable vision, the author writes in the foreword, “I’ve chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting and singing Chorus, which focuses on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of the Odyssey: What led to the hanging of the maids, and...
| Автор | Маргарет Этвуд |
The Pioneers enters of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town of the American frontier. The heart of the novel is a conflict over who owns America, and by what concept of right. The competing claims of Native Americans, Tory loyalists, roving hunters, and visionary cultivators are pitted against one another in the area of history, and the magical village of Cooper’s youth becomes the scene in which a nation’s destiny is...
| Автор | Джеймс Купер |
The fourth and last work chronologically in Cooper's Leather-stocking Tales, «Pioneers» is a historical novel that follows the later life of Natty Bumppo. Already introduced by the previous novels as the archetypal American frontiersman and friend to Indians, Natty now struggles with hunting and new societal laws that restrict the freedom of the wilderness he has always known. He finds allies of his rebellion in a local landowner's daughter and a mysterious young visitor in this rich...
| Автор | Джеймс Купер |