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This is Mark Twain's first novel about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. The Mark Twain Library edition contains the only text since the first edition (1876) to be...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
While the marquis de Sade was drafting The 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novel—one equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself. Yet Sade's neighbor, the marquis de Pelleport, is almost completely unknown today, and his novel, Les Bohémiens , has nearly vanished. Only a half dozen copies are available in...
| Автор | Anne Gedeon Lafitte, Marquis de Pelleport |
Elasid kord kolm õde, kõik väga ilusad. Ühel kaunil päeval kiskusid nad tee ääres lina. Sealt juhtus mööda sõitma kuningas, kes neiusid märkas. Ta käskis hobused kinni pidada ja alustas juttu.
| Автор | Eesti muinasjutt |
Rikkaks tahtis kord saada väike Sannä, väga rikkaks, kui seisis Tähttornil ja vaatles maailma. Nüüd on ta rikas. Kuid nüüd tahaks ta jälle olla Sannä – ainult väike poiss oma unistuste mäe otsas…
| Автор | Richard Roht |
Days of Purgatory is a mystery thriller set against the backdrop of westward expansion. The action and intrigue rolls across the frontier landscape of the nineteenth century as the ensemble cast of characters is swept along on the currents of time, chance, fate, or destiny. Their lives intersect at those hard crossroads where faith meets reality. From the idealism of the River Brethren of Conoy Creek to the passions of the abolitionist movement, Deke Coburn becomes entangled in the horrors and...
| Автор | Ken R. Abell |
Echoes of Evil rejoins Deacon Coburn and company in a new adventure that picks up storylines and characters from Days of Purgatory and Shadows of Revenge. Joys and sorrows weave through this mosaic narrative, for the pursuit of justice extracts a great price as gripping scenarios unfold and secrets are confronted in the midst of upheaval. True to his sojourner outlook, the whiskey-sipping philosopher from Conoy Creek always comes to the aid of others at just the right time, embodying a theme...
| Автор | Ken R. Abell |
In Ephesian Miracle things begin on an ominous note. Two Christian priests are murdered in Istanbul shortly before Art and his fiancee Marissa are to be married in the Chora Church in that cosmopolitan city. On top of that, it appears the bones of Mary the mother of Jesus have been found in Ephesus! Art and Marissa's honeymoon plans go awry when suddenly Marissa is missing and a ransom note is found by Art under the door of his hotel room in Kushadasi. It will take a miracle, an Ephesian...
| Автор | Ann Witherington |
When Jesus offers his body as a promise to his disciples, he initiates a liturgical framework that is driven by irony and betrayal. Through these deconstructive elements, however, the promise invites the disciples into an intimate space where they anticipate the fulfillment of what is to come. This anticipatory energy provides the common thread between Donne and Dickinson, who draw specifically on the unstable story that unfolds during the Last Supper in order to develop a liturgical poetics. ...
| Автор | Jamey Heit |
Traveling in New Mexico in 1971, Will George converts to Bhakti Dharma, a new religious movement influenced by Hinduism and Sikh tradition. Returning to his home in Minnesota, he renounces his previous life, provoking a crisis for everyone in his family. Peter, Will's older brother, is a graduate student at the University of Chicago who studies early Christian asceticism partly to understand his brother's devotion. He gains insight into kundalini yoga, gender roles in the ashram, the...
| Автор | John D. Barbour |
Elas kord puusepp nimega Geppetto. Kord sattus tema kätte kummaline puutükk. Kui ta seda voolima asus, hakkas puupakk itsitama ja piiksatas: „Hei! Ära kõdista!“ Geppetto oli rabatud, avastades, et puuhalg on võlutud ja elab. Ettevaatlikult nikerdas ta välja pea, juuksed ja silmad, mis kingseppa uudishimulikult põrnitsema jäid. „Panen talle nimeks Pinocchio,“ ütles kingsepp enesele. „See nimi toob õnne.“
| Автор | Carlo Collodi |
Whether from established authors or by writers new to fiction, the short stories in this volume explore life as change, using Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 as the lens. The writers come from different backgrounds, perspectives, and levels of familiarity with the short story, but what ties them together is a willingness to creatively explore the raw and more uncomfortable dimensions of life–big events and small happenings–all bound up by a recognition of the inevitability and (dis)comfort of change....
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Time is running out for Khalil el Said, as his cancer treatments have become less and less effective. And so it is that his old friends Art West (and his new wife, Marissa) and Grace Levine plan something very special for Khalil, while there is still time– the opening of an el Said wing of the Israeli Museum of Antiquities, which includes many of the items he bequeathed to the museum over many years. All of this might be quite enough, but as the Wests and others arrive in Jerusalem, a huge...
| Автор | Ann Witherington |
It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die only fifteen months later. But his last months are made vivid by the arrival of a stranger, who comes and goes according to Freud's state of health. Who is the mysterious visitor and why has he come to tell the famed proponent of the Oedipus complex his strange story? ...
| Автор | Salley Vickers |
A lost tale of domestic nightmares This rediscovered modernist classic tells the story of a young woman who, while still traumatized by the Second World War, struggles to resign herself to domesticity and motherhood. Slowly consumed by a weight of circumstances beyond her control, Berta endures the deep hypocrisies and the abiding cruelty of everyday life, behind which bloody tragedy threatens to break free. The Weight of Things was Fritz’s debut novel and the first of her books to be...
| Автор | Marianne Fritz |
Arthur Conan Doyle´i kunagi oma lõbuks kirjutatud lood on tänapäeval klassikaks saanud. Tema kangelased Sherlock Holmes ja doktor Watson on paljudele lugejatele sedavõrd omaseks saanud, et Holmesi nimele tuleb veel praegugi kirju, kus talt palutakse abi. Käesolevas raamatus kuulete lugu «Sherlock Holmesi seiklused» Sherlock Holmesi lugude I osast. Loeb Tambet Tuisk.
| Автор | Arthur Conan Doyle |
Elas kord mees, kes oli puruvaene ja rikas samaaegselt. Tal oli nii palju lapsi, kes talle rõõmu tõid, aga ilmaski ei jõudnud ta piisavalt raha teenida, et neid kõik ära toita. Seetõttu lahkus ta kodunt, et minna tööle kauge maa kuninga teenistusse.
| Автор | Eesti muinasjutt |
Sisukord: 1. Kilpkonn ja pardid 2. Hunt ja kitsetall 3. Lind, kes ei tahtnud lennata 4. Väikese halli hiire toodud õnn 5. Väike hiireke ja koletis 6. Rebane ja vares 7. Rohutirts ja sipelgad 8. Rott ja elevant 9. Pistrik ja kana 10. Ahv ja kilpkonn (õudne muinasjutt) 11. Bunnyyarli kärbsed ja Wurrunnunnah’ mesilased
| Автор | Muinasjutukogumik |
Arthur Conan Doyle'i kunagi oma lõbuks kirjutatud lood on tänapäeval klassikaks saanud. Tema kangelased Sherlock Holmes ja doktor Watson on paljudele lugejatele sedavõrd omaseks saanud, et Holmesi nimele tuleb veel praegugi kirju, kus talt palutakse abi. Käesolevas raamatus kuulete lugu «Sherlock Holmesi memuaarid». Loeb Tambet Tuisk.
| Автор | Arthur Conan Doyle |
A stellar line-up of fiction writers envision the terrors of impending climate change. The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists are liable to live in a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional response to the deterioration of our global habitat. From T. C. Boyle’s account of early...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Ann may have been a product of her times–she was certainly, if possibly unwittingly, a product of her grandmother Isabelle. While Ann may have been molded by external forces, Isabelle was a force unto herself–a pacesetter, an indomitable woman of her times. Isabelle forged avenues that were often not taken by women of her day, even foreshadowing changes in perception that were still years away. Yet, in spite of her often avant-garde actions, her prejudices were unwavering and largely myopic....
| Автор | John Moehl |
Grief can do terrible things to us. It can hold us still in time and skew our perspective. That is the case with William Maldonado, who grieves the loss of his father as a child to war; the loss of his mother as a young adult to an illness; the loss of an opportunity to pursue a doctoral degree, and the loss of his professional reputation to an accusation of committing insurance fraud. Subterranean sorrow leads Maldonado to make wrong-minded decisions that eventually lead him to prison and then...
| Автор | Luis Reinaldo Perez Rosario |
Not everyone is surprised at the rumor suggesting that Karl Wolfe, Dean of The University School, recently told Rebecca Swingle, new professor at the school, that a promotion could be more easily attained were she to sleep with him. Certainly those least surprised were several female students who had been the target of the Dean's amorous behavior. But the question remains–who might stand and suggest that such behavior should not occur in a divinity school, of all places? The Dean's...
| Автор | Richard Fletcher |