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First serialized in 1845, Alexandre Dumas’ “Twenty Years After” is the second part of the “D’Artagnan Romances”, the first sequel to “The Three Musketeers”. It was followed by “The Vicomte de Bragelonne”, which was first serialized in 1847. Dumas’s beloved characters return for more adventurous duty, and as the title suggests, two decades have elapsed since D’Artagnan and his friends have prevailed over the evil machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and the icy Milady. However, danger and political...
| Автор | Александр Дюма |
Real/fake?Jade Ferraro is a cosmetic surgeon at an elite Beverly Hills clinic. But to Loukas Demakis she's a fraud.Revenge/pleasure?Loukas plans to seduce top secret information from Jade, and then discard her when he's done.Money/truth…Loukas buys Jade dinner–for a donation of one million dollars! But will the cost of the truth be worth the price of his heart?
| Автор | Trish Morey |
‘I do have an option to offer you.’ Three months between the Greek’s sheets!Blackmailed into the billionaire’s bed? Elvi can’t believe her attempt to appeal to heartless Xan’s benevolent side has gone so wrong! But to save her step-mother’s job, she nervously agrees to the Greek’s outrageous terms. Xan is gorgeous with a damaged side only Elvi sees—but how will he react when he realises that his new mistress is an innocent virgin?
| Автор | Lynne Graham |
Twin Temptation Heiress Maddie’s just discovered she’s got a secret twin sister! Now their inheritance depends on temporarily switching places. Sex with her sister’s gorgeous friend Jase is just an added bonus. Yet can she give him up when it’s time to return to her life?Twin SeductionJordan has always had Wild West fantasies. Until her long-lost twin sister arrives…and they switch places! Jordan heads to Santa Fe and encounters red-hot cowboy Cash, who’s everything she imagined and more – and...
| Автор | Cara Summers |
Книга о молодом мошеннике, который каждодневно разыгрывает в дорогих ресторанах приступы удушья – и зарабатывает на этом неплохие деньги…
Книга о сексоголиках, алкоголиках и шмоткаголиках. О любви, дружбе и философии. О сомнительном «втором пришествии» – и несомненной «невыносимой легкости бытия» наших дней.
Впрочем… сам Паланик говорит о ней: «Собираетесь прочесть? Зря!»
Короче – читайте на свой риск и страх!
| Автор | Чак Паланик |
One of the most important works of modernist literature, James Joyce’s «Ulysses» was originally published in serial format from 1918 to 1920 and then published in a single edition in 1922, which this edition is drawn from. «Ulysses» chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. While the novel appears largely unstructured at first glance it is in fact very closely paralleled to Homer’s «Odyssey», containing eighteen episodes that correspond to...
| Автор | James Joyce |
"Under Fire" by Henri Barbusse (translated by W. Fitzwater Wray). 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 | Henri Barbusse |
One of the most powerful accounts of trench warfare from the WWI era, «Under Fire» recounts the experiences of the men of the French Sixth Battalion on the front lines after the German invasion. Compiled from diaries he had written on the front from 1914-1915, and completed in the hospital while recovering from injuries, Barbusse published his work in both serial and novel forms in late 1916. By the end of the war it was a world-wide bestseller, having sold over a quarter of a million copies....
| Автор | Henri Barbusse |
"I want everything."She’s taking control. And it’s driving him wild!Lucy Baudin’s ex dented her self-esteem and it’s time to regain control. In her job as a lawyer she’s bold, confident. But in the bedroom…she needs inspiration to reawaken her inner seductress. Asking her friend Gideon Novak for help seems wrong, yet so deliciously right!
| Автор | Katee Robert |
Mixing businessWith pleasureTexan Rancher Adam Hartley has a plan to expand the family business – unfortunately, someone else beat him to it. Beautiful single mum Lauren Shayne has just stolen Adam’s dream – and his heart! Lauren knows that love is dangerous, and she won’t ever make that mistake again, but sexy Adam is determined to win over Laura and her adorable twins
| Автор | Trish Milburn |
Joseph Conrad's «Under Western Eyes» is the story of a young Russian student named Razumov who when returning home to St. Petersburg, Russia discovers his friend Victor Haldin, an anarchist who has just committed a political assassination, hiding from the police in his apartment. Victor Haldin calls upon his friend Razumov to help him escape and in so doing puts him in the unenviable position of choosing between his loyalties to his friend or to abiding by the authority of the law in the...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
Единственный уцелевший из секты фанатиков-самоубийц.
Пророк. Суперзвезда. Новый мессия, захлебнувшийся собственной славой – и проклинающий день, когда не умер.
Он ведет в никуда пустой Боинг-747 – и рассказывает «черному ящику» свою историю.
Свою настоящую историю. Жизнь – в обратном отсчете, от конца – к началу!
Об этом никогда не расскажет всемогущая пресса!
| Автор | Чак Паланик |
A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while...
| Автор | Уильям Теккерей, William Makepeace Thackeray и др. |
OutrageousJudd Sanders couldn't believe it when the beautiful, wide-eyed woman he rescued from some drunk hoodlums started poking her gorgeous little nose into his business. She was obviously a menace to herself–not to mention to his libido. Worse, she'd blow his cover. For little did Emily Cooper know that Judd was really a cop–whose cover left him a little too «uncovered» for his liking….
| Автор | Lori Foster |
Billionaire Nikos Kristallis is shocked to discover his orphaned nephew is being raised by personal trainer Carrie Thomas. When Carrie refuses to give him the baby Nik whisks her away to Corfu, where he'll seduce her and then claim her as his bride!Carrie isn't prepared for the intense feelings Nik arouses in her, and the gorgeous Greek is only interested in a marriage of convenience. Then Carrie discovers something that could change everything.…
| Автор | Natalie Rivers |
The Italian's bridal bargain…Libby Vincent wants to tell Romano Vincenzo why she allowed his ruthless family to take her baby from her. But the dark-hearted billionaire isn't in the mood for listening.He needs Libby back in his life and he knows she will do anything to see her child. Even marry her most bitter enemy…. He'll take her as his bride, but Romano doesn't do love….
| Автор | Elizabeth Power |
First published serially from 1847 to 1848, “Vanity Fair” is William Makepeace Thackeray’s most famous work in which the author reflects his interest in deconstructing the notions of literary heroism of his era. It is the story of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, who have just completed their studies at Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies and are beginning to embark upon the world. The simple-minded nature of Amelia, who comes from a wealthy family, is contrasted with the strong-willed...
| Автор | William Makepeace Thackeray |
Severin is a young Galician nobleman with a secret; he can only love a woman with a ruthless heart, who will rain her whip upon him in a shower of bloody kisses. Naughty by Nature: Mischief Books.When Severin meets Wanda, the wealthy and beautiful widow living in the apartment upstairs, he wonders if she might be the one to help him realise his darkest desires. But Wanda is better than she ever dreamed possible at domination – and soon Severin realises he is powerless to escape what he has...
| Автор | Леопольд Захер-Мазох, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch и др. |
The framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while she wears furs. The unnamed narrator tells his dreams to a friend, Severin, who tells him how to break him of his fascination with cruel women by reading a manuscript, Memoirs of a Suprasensual Man. This manuscript tells of a man, Severin von Kusiemski, who is so infatuated with a woman, Wanda von Dunajew, that he asks to be her slave, and encourages her to treat him in progressively more degrading ways. At...
| Автор | Leopold von Sacher-Masoch |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The girl he had come across … that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.’Damaged by his father’s nihilistic philosophy, Axel Heyst has withdrawn from the world to live in near-isolation on the island of Samburan. His solitude ends when he rescues an English girl from her preying patron, but their heady existence will...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
HOW TO BAG A BILLIONAIREAnother ‘billionaire bagger’ caught climbing through the restroom window! Except Olivia isn’t interested in billionaires, even the delicious Adam Masterson. She just needs to find Adam’s father – which is why she’s crashing his swanky party! Only she’s caught by Adam himself! He’ll help Olivia – if she poses as his girlfriend. And how can she refuse? Next stop: Thailand. And a whole heap of trouble!
| Автор | Nina Milne |
She was the little rich girl, he was the poor housekeeper's son, and their innocent affair was cruelly crushed.But now Kane Kaproulias has Bryony Mercer in the palm of his hand… She's been bought with cold, hard cash… Kane will take her and his revenge on her family!Bryony's family is now penniless and she's at Kane's mercy. He's waited a long time to get Bryony right where he wants her – in his bed, as his wife!
| Автор | Melanie Milburne |
It started as one night of passion—but since Will Braggett has become a partner in Maggie Lawless' medical practice, it has turned into a steamy affair!Will, though, is a single dad: his priority is his little boy, Daniel. Will isn't ready to find a new mother for his son—but Maggie is soon not satisfied being just his mistress. She insists they can only have a future if Will lets her get to know his child, too.Can Maggie convince Will?
| Автор | Lilian Darcy |