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The House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The House of the Dead

Published in 1862 after Dostoyevsky's imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, «The House of the Dead» is a collection of memoirs, related by themes, that portrays the horrific life of convicts. The author drew on his own experiences in prison to depict the squalor, destitution, and severity of a Siberian camp with remorseless detail. Dostoyevsky reveals the characters of many of the other convicts, which includes the depravity many have come to expect through their mental and physical...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mr. and Mrs. Saturday Night

Robert F. Young

Mr. and Mrs. Saturday Night

We doubt if the real television people will ever go as far as the fictional ones in this story. But if they do—wow! Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

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Robert F. Young

Gallery

Todd Ph.D. Komarnicki

Gallery

gallery |Ë?gal…erÄ?| 1 a room or building for the display or sale of works of art – a collection of pictures. 2 a horizontal underground passage, esp. in a mine. PHRASES Play to the gallery – act in an exaggerated or theatrical manner, esp. to appeal to popular taste.

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Todd Ph.D. Komarnicki

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables

"The House of the Seven Gables" is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous works. It is the story of the Pyncheon family and the title house, the mansion where they reside. The house, which is built upon land acquired through unscrupulous circumstances, carries with it a curse on the Pyncheon family through the many generations of the family that inherit it. A classic moral tale «The House of the Seven Gables» is the story of how the wrong doings of one generation follows through to...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Though written at the beginning of the Romantic era, this remarkable French historical romance takes place in medieval Paris at the Cathedral of Notre Dame. It is there that the deformed Quasimodo has gone deaf ringing the grand church's bells for his adoptive father Dom Claude Frollo. The severe priest, though he looks after the grotesque Quasimodo, ignores the public persecution that the man suffers whenever he leaves the Cathedral, and it is at just such moment of vulnerability that the...

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Victor Hugo

The Husband Fund

Rebecca Winters

The Husband Fund

After a wonderful vacation in the Med with her sisters, Piper has come back to reality with a thud.Her sisters are now happily married – so Piper feels a little like the one left on the shelf. Worse, she can't even concentrate on work. All she can think about is a man she'd fallen for in Spain – gorgeous aristocrat Nic de Pastrano…But now it seems that Nic needs her help. In fact, his family's future depends on it. It might be the marriage proposal she was hoping for…but does he...

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Rebecca Winters

The Innocence of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown

"The Innocence of Father Brown" by G. K. Chesterton. 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...

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G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown

Gilbert Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown

"The Innocence of Father Brown" is the first in a series of Gilbert K. Chesterton's much-loved Father Brown mystery short story collections. In this volume are the following twelve tales: The Blue Cross, The Secret Garden, The Queer Feet, The Flying Stars, The Invisible Man, The Honour of Israel Gow, The Wrong Shape, The Sins of Prince Saradine, The Hammer of God, The Eye of Apollo, The Sign of the Broken Sword, The Three Tools of Death.

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Gilbert Chesterton

The Promise

P D Michaels

The Promise

The metamorphosis of a man who has lost everything, his will to survive wrapped in a promise. Once fulfilled, he moves through a mental darkness where the drastic is camouflaged as perfection. Hope arrives in a most unexpected form.

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P D Michaels

2030-

Thomas Aman

2030-

By the year 2030 quantum computers have become self aware. These machines run everything in society and have provided mankind with countless advancements. But something has just happened and an Artificial Intelligence engineer finds himself alone, unsure who to trust, and desperately searching for a way to correct a mistake that threatens our very existence.

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Thomas Aman

The Mysterious Card and The Mysteri...

Moffett Cleveland

The Mysterious Card and The Mysterious Card Unveiled

This volume collects Moffett's classic «riddle stories.» In the first, a card given to the narrator seems to bring about catastrophic events. The second story offers an explanation of paranormal interest.

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Moffett Cleveland

Always Have, Always Will

Jemma Price

Always Have, Always Will

“…And yet throughout this you still find yourself dreaming after all hope is lost…” "She then knew , this is where she belonged....Always Have, Always Will…"

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Jemma Price

The Kalliakis Crown

Мишель Смарт

The Kalliakis Crown

Prince’s scandalous night with the innocent…Talos Kalliakis, the youngest Prince of Agon, has found the perfect gift for King Astraeus’s Jubilee Gala – the talents of exquisite violinist Amalie Cartwright. This warrior Prince crossed Europe to find his perfect candidate, and he won’t take no for an answer!But rumour has it that Amalie won’t perform, and now Talos has her hidden away in his villa…where sources suggest he’s claimed the most private of performances. With tensions running high,...

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Мишель Смарт

The Kalliakis Crown

Мишель Смарт

The Kalliakis Crown

The Kalliakis CrownTalos Claims His VirginTalos Kalliakis, the youngest Prince of Agon, has found the perfect gift the King’s Jubilee gala – the talents of exquisite violinist Amalie Cartwright. But convincing Amalie to perform will require all of power and charm!Theseus Discovers His HeirPrince Theseus—second in line to the throne of Agon—is rumoured to have fathered a secret love child with royal biographer Joanne Brooks. How will Joanne react when the commanding Prince wants to claim his...

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Мишель Смарт

The Kalliakis Crown

Мишель Смарт

The Kalliakis Crown

The Prince’s secret love child!Shocking news has rocked the Mediterranean principality of Agon. Prince Theseus – second in line to the throne – is rumoured to have fathered a secret love child.Reports surfaced the moment stunning royal biographer Joanne Brooks was hired to memorialise King Astraeus’s reign. But it seems she’s brought more than pens and paper!Witnesses suggest that five years ago our one-time bad boy Prince travelled the world in disguise and met Joanne Brooks as engineer ‘Theo...

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Мишель Смарт

The King of the Golden River

John Ruskin

The King of the Golden River

John Ruskin (1819-1900) was an aesthetician, art historian, reformer and economist, who is perhaps best known for his works on social reform. One of his earliest, and most surprising, is a fairy tale called "The King of the Golden River. Ruskin wrote the story in 1841 (it was not published until 1851) for nineteen-year-old Euphenia Chalmers Gray, whom he married in 1848. The story is set in the ancient country of Stiria, in a beautiful and fertile valley called Treasure Valley, owned by brothers...

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John Ruskin

The Lady With the Dog and Other Sto...

Anton Tchekhov

The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories

IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verney's pavilion, he saw, walking on the sea-front, a fair-haired young lady of medium height, wearing a _beret_; a white Pomeranian dog was running behind her. And afterwards he met her in the public gardens and in the square...

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Anton Tchekhov

THE PHOENIX / BLACK WIDOW

Steve Harmon

THE PHOENIX / BLACK WIDOW

BASED ON A TRUE STORY A GIRL OF 11 KILLS HER FIRST MAN.BORN IN THE SLUMS OF COLOMBIA BUT WOULD RAISE TO BE THE DRUG QUEEN OF MIAMI FLORDIA MAKING MILLIONS. KILLING HUSBANDS ALONG THE WAY WHO GOT IN HER WAY.DRUG WARS AND THE ITALIAN MAFIA.ACTION AND ADVENTURE .

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Steve Harmon

Greywater

Mr David Dalby

Greywater

Gang war in Temple Caneston The Symes Brothers, Eddie and Tony, are new to Temple Caneston butthey have big plans.Their aim is topple Victor Monk and take over the city But someone is hunting them…and it's not Victor Monk.

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Mr David Dalby

A Better Tomorrow

D. C. Dalby

A Better Tomorrow

New Killer In Town Maxine Graff has come to Caneston. Working for a dying criminal who wants three men to precede him into the afterlife. Maxine is here to carry out his last wishes. The killing of a police informer brings Hazel Vernon on her trail. One step behind at every turn this might be one case Hazel can't crack.

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D. C. Dalby

The Last of the Mohicans

Джеймс Купер, James Fenimore Cooper и др.

The Last of the Mohicans

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper’s story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron...

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Джеймс Купер, James Fenimore Cooper и др.

The Last of the Mohicans

Джеймс Купер

The Last of the Mohicans

One of the most popular novels of early American literature, «The Last of the Mohicans» helped to establish James Fenimore Cooper as one of the first great and world-famous American authors. The second novel in the «Natty» Bumpo series, «The Last of the Mohicans» is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War. It concerns the rescue of two sisters, daughters of a British commander who are kidnapped following a Huron massacre of Anglo-American soldiers, by the two...

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Джеймс Купер

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist whose noble Hungarian origins afforded her an idyllic childhood and extensive education in the arts at schools in Brussels, Paris and London. In 1903, with the success of a play written by Orczy and her husband based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Orczy rewrote the story as a novel that drew huge sales. As a result, «The Scarlet Pimpernel» cemented Orczy's name in the literary world,...

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Baroness Orczy

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy. 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...

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Baroness Orczy

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