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"A Raw Youth (The Adolescent)" is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1875 novel which tells the story of the life of a 19-year-old intellectual, Arkady Dolgoruky, who is the illegitimate child of the controversial and womanizing landowner Versilov. The novel focuses primarily on the conflict that arises between Arkady and Versilov, when Arkady rejoins his family in St. Petersburg. Arkady who has been away at boarding school hardly knows his family and when he comes to learn more about them he...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
"A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth" contains three of Charles Dickens most popular Christmas-time stories. In «A Christmas Carol» we have the classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man who is visited by ghosts prior to Christmas to show him the error of his ways. In «The Chimes» we have the story of Toby Veck, a poor working-class man who has lost his faith in human nature. On New Year's Eve he is visited by spirits who show him that nobody is born...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
A predecessor to such monumental works as «Crime and Punishment» and «The Brothers Karamazov», «Notes From Underground» represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives withdraws from that society into the underground. A dark and politically charged novel, «Notes From Underground» shows Dostoyevsky at his best. In...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
The boy she tried to forget is now the boss her heart won’t let go…Neve Wilder’s past comes flooding back when she meets her boss, Davide Cortese. Can he really be that boy who stole her heart and then disappeared? The intense chemistry between them hasn’t changed! But can she allow herself to be captivated by her gorgeous Italian again?
| Автор | Rosanna Battigelli |
The biggest playboy becomes the perfect fake fiancé!To stop her matchmaking mother, Alyssa Cabrera, the newest gal in Haven, finds herself faux-engaged to Jason Channing – the town playboy! Though both are committed to staying single, could they be the perfect couple after all?
| Автор | Brenda Harlen |
Reunited on Wedding Island…will they ever say ‘I do’?Rosa Gray has returned to La Isla Marina to help with a wedding, not to see rock star Jude Alexander – the man she once ran from! They may have unfinished business, but this time will they risk it all – for forever?
| Автор | Sophie Pembroke |
His convenient wife is nothing like he expected…If black sheep billionaire Deacon marries Callie, his father has promised him legitimacy and acceptance. But Callie isn’t the gold-digger Deacon was promised, and now his heart’s on the line.
| Автор | Barbara Dunlop |
Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840) was an American novelist who published her best-selling novel, «The Coquette», anonymously in 1797. It wasn't until 1866, after multiple reprints of the novel, and 26 years after the author's death, that her name appeared on the work. The novel is a fictionalized account of a Connecticut socialite named Eliza Wharton, whose death nine years prior had been highly publicized. Wharton was a 37 yr-old woman who died at a roadside tavern giving birth to a...
| Автор | Hannah Foster |
First published in 1748, «Clarissa» is the long and tragic tale of the ever-virtuous Miss Clarissa Harlowe. Though her family, newly wealthy, wishes to enter the aristocracy, they can only do so by marrying Clarissa to an unrefined and loveless man. She is soon offered protection from the selfish motives of her family by Robert Lovelace, who tricks Clarissa into running away with him. Though witty and urbane, Lovelace soon proves himself a villainous rake, eager to strike out at the Harlowes by...
| Автор | Samuel Richardson |
Sara Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was an American regionalist and feminist writer, in the circle of writers like Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Born in South Berwick, Maine, Jewett had a happy, peaceful childhood where she developed a strong affinity to the nature and people of rural New England. Her first novel, «A Country Doctor», is a semi-autobiographical work about a young girl's struggle to choose between a medical career and marriage. Like most of...
| Автор | Sarah Orne Jewett |
Published in 1928, Nella Larsen's first novel «Quicksand» regards the story of Helga Crane, the lovely and refined mixed-race daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father. The character is loosely based on Larsen's own experiences and deals with the character's struggle for racial and sexual identity, a theme common to Larsen's work. In Larsen's second novel, «Passing,» published in 1929, the author revisits this struggle through the lives of two childhood...
| Автор | Nella Larsen |
He's returned to Texas to save his family’s ranch. A reunion with his ex isn’t part of the plan.To save his ranch from ruin, billionaire Luke Weston needs the help of his former lover – veterinarian Scarlett McKittrick. Their sizzling attraction hasn’t changed…but will Luke’s dark legacy end their second chance at love?
| Автор | Sara Orwig |
Tia knows she can’t marry Dr.Luca Zattoni. She’s pregnant as a result of their whirlwind romance, but she’s made a shocking discovery about Luca. So she leaves Venice – and the man she loves.Luca is determined to find Tia, and soon he’s living and working alongside her again! This passionate Italian fully intends to claim his bride, and their unborn child, but first he must prove his feelings for Tia go deeper than intense physical desire…
| Автор | Sarah Morgan |
With a half billion dollars at stake, this playboy needs a plan.Hiring his brother’s ex is just the start.To earn his inheritance, Valentine LeBlanc must switch jobs with his twin, or so says his father’s will. Val vows to succeed at any cost – but to win, he needs the help of Sabrina Corbin – his brother’s beautiful ex!
| Автор | Kat Cantrell |
Willa Sibert Cather (1873– 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). Through the 1910s and 1920s, Cather was firmly established as a major American writer. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.<P> This volume collects 50 of her classic short works, published between 1892 and 1920....
| Автор | Уилла Кэсер |
The Second G.A. Henty MEGAPACK™ assembles 20 more classic historical adventure novels. Included in this volume are: <P>WITH THE ALLIES TO PEKIN<BR> THE CAT OF BUBASTES<BR> IN FREEDOM’S CAUSE<BR> A KNIGHT OF THE WHITE CROSS<BR> UNDER DRAKE’S FLAG<BR> BY RIGHT OF CONQUEST<BR> THROUGH RUSSIAN SNOWS<BR> SAINT BARTHOLOMEW’S EVE<BR> WITH CLIVE IN INDIA<BR> WITH FREDERICK THE GREAT<BR> WULF THE SAXON<BR> THE LION OF...
| Автор | G.a. Henty Henty |
Kenneth Grahame was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908, included), one of the classics of children’s literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon (included here as part of Dream Days); both books were later adapted into Disney films. Contents:<P> THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS<BR> THE GOLDEN AGE<BR> DREAM DAYS<BR> PAGAN PAPERS<BR> THE HEADSWOMAN<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for...
| Автор | Kenneth Grahame |
They said good-bye months ago. So why can’t he walk away from her…or her twin babies?Delivering his ex-fiancée’s twins in a snowstorm is a brave new world for innovator Royce Miller. Despite the pain in their past, he’s driven to protect Naomi Steele and her babies. Will forgiveness lead to forever this time?
| Автор | Catherine Mann |
A glamorous assignment and a brooding bachelor…When journalist April Fotherington is assigned to write about handsome royal advisor Marcus Alrikson, she knows she’ll have her work cut out. After sheltering together from a thunderstorm on a desert island, who knows what will happen next!
| Автор | Nina Milne |
She felt no hesitation. She was his.Victoria Masters remembers nothing after the accident that stole her past.Now she’s living in a billionaire’s palatial home and finding the sensual stranger impossible to resist. But why is Wade’s holding back?
| Автор | Lauren Canan |
“Marry me, Maggie.”The conclusion of Maggie & Griffin’s trilogyMayor Maggie Spencer is too busy prepping Stonecreek for its holiday spectacular to pine over lost love Griffin Stone. Until he returns—this time with a son! Griffin couldn’t say no to becoming the boy’s guardian. Neither can he say goodbye to Maggie. As Christmas nears, there’s only one thing he wants to say to his first and only love: “Forever.”
| Автор | Michelle Major |
Alfred Coppel (Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel, 1921– 2004) was an American author. Born in Oakland, California, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later «slick» publishers. Though writing in a variety of...
| Автор | Alfred Coppel |
The Sir Edward Leithen series is cut from the same cloth as John Buchan's other great series, the John Hanay books. The heroes are similar, the pace breathtaking, and their adventures cross all country lines. This volume contains all 5 books in the series.<P> THE POWER HOUSE – The Power-House of the title is an international anarchist organization led by a rich Englishman named Andrew Lumley. Its plan to destroy Western civilisation is thwarted by Leithen with the assistance of a...
| Автор | Buchan John |
The following text has been drawn from Sir Richard Burton's exhaustive translation of «The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night», more commonly known as «The Arabian Nights». The story of «Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves» is one of the more popular of those found in «The Arabian Nights» collection. It tells the story of Ali Baba who while chopping wood in the forest discovers the secret hiding place for the treasure of a band of forty thieves. The treasure is sealed in a magic cave which...
| Автор | Sir Richard Burton |