The Cash Boy, by Horatio Alger, Jr., as the name implies, is a story about a boy and for boys. Through some conspiracy, the hero of the story when a baby, was taken from his relatives and given into the care of a kind woman. Not knowing his name, she gave him her husband's name, Frank Fowler. She had one little daughter, Grace, and showing no partiality in the treatment of her...
Pride and Prejudice, 1813 Перевод с английского И. Маршака Комментарии Е. Гениевой, Н. Демуровой Текст печатается по изданию: Джейн Остен. Собрание сочинений в трех томах. М., "Художественная литература", 1988, 1989 “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s...
First published as a serial in the newspaper El Paso del Norte, in October and November of 1915, then as a book published by the same newspaper, the novel «Los de abajo» has been translated into all the main languages of the world. Mariano Azuela's masterwork came out one hundred years after José Loaquín Fernández de Lazardi's «El Periquillo Sarniento» created the genre of the...
2008. — 448 p. All's fair in love and war - especially when there's a trust fund at stake. The four beautiful Chambers girls are rolling in money, thanks to the trust fund set up by their reclusive, super-rich uncle Clem. But when he summons his nieces to his mansion in the Seychelles to announce his engagement to Bai-Ling, a woman young enough to be their baby sister, the girls...
Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley 1819. On a hot day of summer two hunters, two friends - the Marquis d'Albon and Baron Philippe de Sucy - lost in a forest in the Ile-de-France see a feminine silhouette under the foliage of a abandoned park. In this young woman, unable to do anything but mechanically repeating the single word, "Farewell", the disturbed Philippe recognizes...
Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European...
Translated By Clara Bell & James Waring. Or was it, perhaps, that at the outset of an orgy there is a certain unwonted lucidity of mind? Despite the taper light, the clamor of the senses, the gleam of gold and silver, the fumes of wine, and the exquisite beauty of the women, there may perhaps have been in the depths of the revelers' hearts some struggling glimmer of reverence for...
Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the...
1899 Edition. The Moral Principle and the Material Interest The Crimson Candle The Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermine The Ingenious Patriot Two Kings An Officer and a Thug The Conscientious Official How Leisure Came The Moral Sentiment The Politicians The Thoughtful Warden The Treasury and the Arms The Christian Serpent The Broom of the Temple The Critics The Foolish Woman...
"... the mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls 'cabin fever.'... Bud Moore, ex-cow-puncher and now owner of an auto stage that did not run in the winter, was touched with cabin fever and did not know what ailed him. His stage line ran from San Jose, California, up through Los Gatos and over the Bear Creek road across the...
Macmillan, 2009. — 128 p. Уровни: Intermediate. The latest addition to the Campaign suite of titles, this course is designed to meet the needs of law enforcement personnel, from customs officers to gendarmes and police. The Student Book covers the full range of essential law enforcement situations including vehicle identification, stop and search, crowd control and issuing...
A fierce battle rages to take control away from the rightful Prince of Mansoul. Who will be the conquering prince? Diabolus or Emmanuel? And what can the inhabitants do to resist the attacks of the evil one? Your soul is under attack from the forces of evil. Through this powerful allegory, you will learn how to build up your defenses and prepare for war. Bunyan will illuminate...
Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories composed by Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series about the title character Tarzan. Chronologically the events recounted in it occur within Chapter 11 of the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes, between Tarzan's avenging of his ape foster mother's...
As The Beasts of Tarzan begins, Tarzan -- as Lord Greystoke -- is settled in civilized London. But two of his enemies, Nikolas Rokoff and henchman Alexis Paulvitch, are on his trail. The pair abducts Jane -- and Tarzan's son, Jack. Tarzan himself is stranded on a desert island, but with the help of Sheeta the panther and Akut the great ape he makes it back to the mainland. There...
The Land That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." The sequence was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October and November 1918. The complete trilogy was later combined for publication in book form under...
Bartley Alexander, a construction engineer, is a middle-aged man torn between Winifred, his demanding American wife, and Hilda Burgoyne, his alluring British mistress. Alexander's relationship with Hilda erodes his sense of honor and eventually proves disastrous when a bridge he is constructing begins to collapse. Alexander's Bridge is an instructive, thought-provoking study of a...
Translated by John Ormsby Don Quixote is universally regarded as Cervantes' masterwork and one of the greatest novels of all time. The novel is actually two separate books that cover the adventures of Don Quixote, also known as the knight or man of La Mancha, a hero who carries his enthusiasm and self-deception to unintentional and comic ends. On one level, Don Quixote works as a...
The Seagull is a drama by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the...
A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) (after the edition of Chatto & Windus, London, 1879) Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona,...
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. — 130 p. Translated from the Italian by Carol Della Chiesa. The Adventures of Pinocchio - by C. Collodi - Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini - A Novel for Children - Translated from the Italian by Carol Della Chiesa - The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Florence. The first half...
Tales of Terror. The Horror of the Heights. The Leather Funnel. The New Catacomb. The Case of Lady Sannox. The Terror of Blue John Gap. The Brazilian Cat. Tales of Mystery. The Lost Special. The Beetle-Hunter. The Man with the Watches. The Japanned Box. The Black Doctor. The Jew's Breastplate.
Irish athletic reporter Malone narrates tale of bold squat quarrelsome Professor Challenger seeking remote Amazonian plateau where “the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended” with prehistoric creatures and ape-men. Other armed British whites are spare skeptic Professor Summerlee, and ginger dead-shot Lord John, supported by colored bearers.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The book was first published on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd and in a Colonial edition by Longmans. 30,000 copies were made of the initial print run. The US edition by McClure, Phillips & Co. added another 28,000 to the run. This was the...
Audire est operae pretium, prcedere recte Qui maechis non vultis.--HOR. Sat. i. 2, 37. - Metuat doti deprensa.--Ibid. The Way of the World is a play written by the English playwright William Congreve. It premiered in early March 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It is widely regarded as one of the best Restoration comedies and is still occasionally performed....
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and...
In "Acres of Diamonds," Russell Conwell shows success is a spiritual idea--the result of spiritual principles. Though not a "get rich guide," Conwell's book shows how to find a fortune-if you know where to look. There are as many opportunities for success today as in Conwell's time, if not more so, because they are found first and foremost in one's own conscience. Through his...
A romance of America’s nascent imperial power, Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune recounts the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. When the coup, organized by corrupt politicians and...
Take a journey into the world of China's most feared Empress. This true story was the first eyewitness account of the Imperial Court written by a Chinese aristocrat for Western readers. It provides an up-close personal view of the notorious Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi in the final years of her reign. Enhanced with rich imagery and additional historical notes, "Two Years in the...
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius...is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed...
Oliver is an orphan who lives until the age of nine in a poorhouse, where he goes hungry and suffers abuse by the Director, Mr. Bumble. The classic scene in which the half starved Oliver begs for some more food and is viciously denied by the obese Mr. Bumble exemplifies the inequity of Victorian society. Oliver is then sent to work at a funeral home. Here, too, he is treated very...
Ponte alle Grazie, 2013. — 376 p. "Nel corso dei miei viaggi ho incontrato uno scienziato che permetteva a persone non vedenti dalla nascita di iniziare a vedere; ho parlato con pazienti, dichiarati incurabili dopo aver subito un ictus decine di anni prima, che sono stati aiutati a guarire con trattamenti neuroplastici; ho conosciuto persone che hanno superato disturbi...
Pocket, 2010. — 625 p. Préface. Dans ce livre plein d’espoir, vous allez découvrir l’incroyable univers du cerveau et ses surprenantes capacités ! Chercheur en psychiatrie et en psychologie aux États-Unis, Norman Doidge s’est d’abord penché sur les « cas difficiles », les malades qui ne progressaient pas ou plus, ceux que la médecine classait comme des « échecs ». En...
Scribe Publications, 2007. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0-670-03830-5. An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve...
Scribe Publications, 2007. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0-670-03830-5. An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve transformed -...
Sphinx Publishing, An Imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc., 2006. — 284 p. Cooking is your passion. Making a living with your cuisine is your dream. Organizing your restaurant is the key to your success. The Law (In Plain English) for Restaurants is your comprehensive guide to working in the food industry. It looks at the business of running a restaurant and clarifies the laws...
Here are ten suspenseful, serpentine stories of betrayal, blackmail, murder, and revenge... all culminating in shocking twists of fate. Within these pages live a wealth of characters you will not soon forget... people whose lives become irrevocably trapped in a world of no comebacks, beyond the point of no return--from the manipulators and the manipulated to the ultra-rich capable...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — 32 p. It's a very short time ago, yesterday as it were, that one Sunday afternoon about four o'clock, the whole Quartier du Marais was in an uproar. Rumor asserted that one of the most respectable merchants in the Hue Boi-de-Sicile had disappeared, and all efforts to find him continued fruitless. The strange event was...
Wildside Press, 2003. — 372 p. The traveller who wishes to go from Poitiers to London by the shortest route will find that the simplest way is to take a seat in the stage-coach which runs to Saumur; and when you book your place, the polite clerk tells you that you must take your seat punctually at six o'clock. The next morning, therefore, the traveller has to rise from his bed...
First published 1871. There is not in all Paris a house better kept or more inviting-looking than No. 23 in Grange Street. As soon as you enter, you are struck by a minute, extreme neatness, which reminds you of Holland, and almost sets you a-laughing. The neighbors might use the brass plate on the door as a mirror to shave in; the stone floor is polished till it shines; and...
Dodo Press, 2007. Work form 19th Century French author considered a pioneer of modern detective fiction. The death of the Count de Chalusse, the theft of his will and two million francs, the false accusation of Marguerite de Chalusse, make up a mystery which is solved only after some extraordinary adventures. Followed by Baron Trigault s Vengeance... Émile Gaboriau (1832 - 1873),...
Dodo Press, 2008. Justice was a 1910 crime play by the British writer John Galsworthy. The play opens in the office of James How & Sons, solicitors. The senior clerk, Robert Cokeson, discovers that a check he had issued for nine pounds has been forged to ninety. By elimination, suspicion falls upon William Falder, the junior office clerk. The latter is in love with a married...
First published 1957. — (Perry Mason #54). Jerry Conway fights dishonest ex-employee Gifford Farrell for his Texas oil company. "Call me Rosalind" offers him a proxy list, but at the hotel a beauty clad in underwear and a face mud pack frames Jerry with a freshly fired gun. On the hotel bed, lawyer Perry Mason and PI Paul Drake find a woman shot dead by the same gun. Who does...
Дело о тонущем утенке Главные черты адвоката Перри Мейсона – эрудиция, глубокие аналитические способности, воля к победе, умение держать удар, бульдожья хватка, преданность клиенту… Эти качества ему не отказывают никогда – ни на отдыхе в отеле «Палм-Спринг», ни на судебном процессе по делу его верной помощницы Деллы Стрит, ни во время расследования преступления, совершенного...
First published 1941. — (Perry Mason #19). A spanking-new tin can, secretly placed among the rows of Mrs. Florence Gentrie's preserves, contains not a speck of food — but it does carry one very damning clue to a murder that took place right next door. Such an unsavory discovery in such an unlikely place can't help but pique the curiosity of a dedicated mystery hunter like Perry...
Дело женщины за колючей проволокой Архитектор-любитель оказался в незавидном положении. В любовно построенный им дом по странному решению суда въехала молодая фотомодель и перегородила дом и участок колючей проволокой. Если архитектор предпримет какие-то шаги или хотя бы заговорит с женщиной, то может начаться судебный процесс… Перри Мейсон берется помочь несчастному… First...
Дело женщины за колючей проволокой Архитектор-любитель оказался в незавидном положении. В любовно построенный им дом по странному решению суда въехала молодая фотомодель и перегородила дом и участок колючей проволокой. Если архитектор предпримет какие-то шаги или хотя бы заговорит с женщиной, то может начаться судебный процесс… Перри Мейсон берется помочь несчастному… Edition...
Дело о хромой канарейке Величайший адвокат литературы XX века Перри Мейсон всегда на страже клиента! Каким бы загадочным ни казался клиент, какими бы странными ни выглядели свидетели, какими бы невероятными ни выглядели обстоятельства дела – Перри Мейсон решит любые проблемы! А поможет ему в этом очаровательная секретарша Делла Стрит! First published 1937 Edition Language: English...
Did Wealthy Fremont Sabin divorce his wife before his untimely death? That’s the multimillion-dollar question. And the right answer will mean a windfall for either the deal man’s angry son or headstrong widow. Each has accused the other of destroying Sabin’s will –and murdering Sabin. But with no document declaring to whom the affable eccentric intended to leave his fortune, Perry...
Дело об отложенном убийстве» – последний, посмертный роман Гарднера про известного адвоката, обнаруженный в сейфе писателя и опубликованный его наследниками. (first published 1973) Edition Language: English Series: Perry Mason #82 When Mae Farr becomes the presumed stalking victim of wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth, she asks Perry for help. Wentworth say he merely wants her for...