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The first novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, «This Side of Paradise» is the story of Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner who leaves his home to attend boarding school and eventually Princeton. The book examines the lives and morality of the post-World War I youth through Amory's character, who has a series of romances that eventually lead to his disillusionment. This first novel by Fitzgerald was incredibly popular and would cement his position as one of America's premiere literary talents...
| Автор | Scott Fitzgerald |
William Godwin (1756-1836), the seventh of thirteen children, was raised by a dissenting minister, which accounts for his studies and work as a dissenting minister early in life. By 1782, Godwin had exposed himself to the optimism of Enlightenment philosophy through books and discussion, and so became more enthusiastic about the overthrow of all political, religious and social institutions. He turned to writing as a profession, and in the 1790s published his first of two novels: «Caleb...
| Автор | William Godwin |
James Oliver Curwood (1878-1927) was an American novelist and conservationist. He studied English and journalism in his youth, and eventually saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest. This trip would provide inspiration for his over 30 wilderness adventure stories. By 1922, Curwood was such a success that he used his new wealth to build an 18th century French chateau in Owosso, Michigan, which remains today as a museum. «Kazan» is one of Curwood's most endearing and popular...
| Автор | Джеймс Кервуд |
Set in Southern California shortly after the Mexican-American War, Helen Hunt Jackson's «Ramona» is the fictional story of its title character, a part Scottish and part Indian orphan girl who endures great discrimination while growing up in the late 1800s. Immensely popular when first published in 1884, «Ramona» is a timeless story of the discrimination that people of different cultures have endured throughout history exemplified by the conflict of cultures between Mexican, American, and...
| Автор | Helen Jackson |
"Ragged Dick is a well-told story of street-life in New York, that will, we should judge, be well received by the boy-readers, for whom it is intended. The Hero is a boot-black, who, by sharpness, industry, and honesty, makes his way in the world, and is, perhaps, somewhat more immaculate in character and manners than could naturally have been expected from his origin and training. We find in this, as in many books for boys, a certain monotony in the inculcation of the principle that...
| Автор | Alger Horatio Jr. |
A marriage of convenience…with a price!Billionaire Will Trent-Paterson has one year to get married or his father will disinherit him! So when Sophie Mitchell jokes that she’d marry him for a million pounds, a temporary marriage seems the solution! Until, Will realises walking away will be the hardest part…
| Автор | Michelle Douglas |
She’s vowed never to say ‘I do’…Can he change her mind?After a painful divorce Zoe Perkins has sworn off men. Until a car crash in Patras brings Andreas Gavras and his adorable toddler hurtling into her life! Single dad Andreas knows exactly what he wants – Zoe as his bride.Can Zoe trust this gorgeous Greek with her bruised heart and agree to walk down the aisle?
| Автор | Rebecca Winters |
What I need most right now is a wife… Solitaire Saunders will do anything to save her family’s café – even marry enigmatic billionaire, Xavier McQueen! It’s only meant to be temporary, until the pretence of being married starts to feel passionately real!
| Автор | Christy McKellen |
German writer Johann Goethe's novella «Elective Affinities» is a singular book which attracts both creative minds and pragmatic minds. Romantics at heart will be drawn to the convoluted love affair; married couple Eduard and Charlotte invite two close friends to live with them on their idyllic estate for a short time. The innocent invitation takes an unexpected turn though, as each of the spouses become attracted to their guests. Eduard falls in love with Ottilie, the young and attractive...
| Автор | Иоганн Вольфганг фон Гёте |
"This lyrical drama… is based on the following story from the Mahabharata. In the course of his wanderings, in fulfilment of a vow of penance, Arjuna came to Manipur. There he saw Chitr?ngad?, the beautiful daughter of Chitrav?hana, the king of the country. Smitten with her charms, he asked the king for the hand of his daughter in marriage. Chitrav?hana asked him who he was, and learning that he was Arjuna the Pandara, told him that Prabhanjana, one of his ancestors in the kingly line of...
| Автор | Rabindranath Tagore |
Based on Melville's own experiences in the Society Islands of the South Pacific, «Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas» is the story of an unnamed narrator who ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti. Following a mutiny, most of the crew, along with the narrator, are imprisoned on the island of Tahiti. The book follows the narrator as he makes his way around the island remarking on the way of life and customs of the natives as he goes. «Omoo: A Narrative of...
| Автор | Herman Melville |
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a novelist, poet and playwright known for his honest and affectionate portrayals of Russian serfs in the feudal system of the nineteenth century. Unlike his contemporaries Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy, whose writings focused primarily on church and religion, Turgenev believed in and advocated the need for Russia to Westernize. He criticized the provincial society and political turbulence of his time through sophisticated, focused and often emotional prose....
| Автор | Ivan Turgenev |
‘You’re mine—for as long as we have.’With six months to live, Jonathan Tarleton must secure his family’s business with a contract marriage. He convinces his beautiful assistant, Lisette Stanhope to be his bride, telling himself the proposal has nothing to do with his raw need to make Lisette his.
| Автор | Дженис Мейнард |
She only has weeks to convince him he can love again…Billionaire businessman Autry Jones swore off single mothers after the pain of losing both the woman he loved and her child when she left him. But now he’s met widowed mother of three Marissa Jones, who might change his mind – and his life – in just three weeks…
| Автор | Meg Maxwell |
A paper marriage to the billionaire boss!A marriage of convenience is decidedly inconvenient for Brianne Hanson when the groom is her sexy boss! Resisting Gabe and his baby was already tough, but now they’re sharing a bed!
| Автор | Джоанна Рок |
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, poet and critic. He founded literary journals such as «The English Review» and «The Transatlantic Review» which were instrumental in the development of early 20th century English literature. He published renowned authors such as Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, William Butler Yeats and many more in these influential journals and even collaborated with Joseph Conrad on three novels. He is now best...
| Автор | Форд Мэдокс Форд |
After a brief military career, the illustrious Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky quickly turned to writing as a profession, sparking a literary career that would eventually cement Dostoyevsky’s reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century. Early participation in a literary political group landed the writer in exile in Siberia for nearly a decade, an experience which had a profound influence on Dostoyevsky’s understanding of fate, the suffering of human beings, and which...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) was a Lithuanian-born American communalist newspaper editor, politician, and novelist. His family, who was devoutly religious, moved to Wilna, New York in 1866 where the young Cahan received the usual Jewish preparatory education for the rabbinate. He, however, was attracted by secular knowledge and secretly studied the Russian language, ultimately entering the Teachers Institute of Wilna. Four years after his arrival in New York, he quickly mastered the English...
| Автор | Abraham Cahan |
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 Aladdin, likely the most famous of all the tales of «The Arabian Nights», is the story of a poor young boy who is recruited by the sorcerer Maghreb to retrieve a wonderful oil lamp from a booby-trapped magic cave. When Aladdin is trapped in the cave he discovers the magical powers of a ring lent to him...
| Автор | Sir Richard Burton |
This royal wedding is strictly business…When Prince Stefan learns he might inherit land from his estranged family, he sees a chance to honour his late mother. However, Holly Romano, is also named in the will – and the land goes to whomever marries first. But are they ready join forces and marry each other?
| Автор | Nina Milne |
Releasing his inner cowboy!Rugged ex-Marine Brendan Tanner recently took up residence at the Stockton ranch. Could Fiona O’Reilly make him rethink his wandering ways?The sparks between those two could light up all of Rust Creek Falls, if only they weren’t so wary of falling in love…
| Автор | Teresa Southwick |
A boss falling into bed with the help is the ultimate scandal…Millionaire Linc Thurston is expected to marry well – not take up with his live-in housekeeper. But Claire Robbins is unlike any woman he’s ever known. Linc can’t resist Claire, but when her betrayals catch up with them both, will their passion hold strong?
| Автор | Cat Schield |
George Eliot, the pen named used by Mary Anne Evans, wrote popular works that epitomized the settings and ideology of contemporary Victorian England. She was brought up in the Church of England, where she developed strong moral convictions that carried over into her fiction; she often presented stories of social outsiders and small-town persecution. When «Brother Jacob» was completed in 1864, it was published together with «The Lifted Veil» (1859) as a companion piece. «The Lifted Veil» is a...
| Автор | George Eliot |
Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot makes his debut in «The Mysterious Affair at Styles.» The mystery of the novel is the one of who poisoned wealthy heiress Emily Inglethorp and how did the killer get in and out of her locked bedroom. The suspects are many and Poirot must use Holmesian deduction to discover the killer. Mystery fans will delight in the first installment of Agatha Christie's famous series of Poirot mystery novels.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |