The House of Pride

Jack London

“The House of Pride” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.   The House of Pride is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of seven moving and thrilling stories such as: The House of Pride, Good-bye, Jack or The Sheriff of Kona.  

The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii

Jack London

This is a small storybook. Events that mostly revolve around one person. All his life in Hawaii, Percival Ford lived in the belief that he was following the path of his father, and there was nothing better than missionary virtue and moderation. But his pride was hit by that knowledge of which he had no idea, although it had been with him since childhood.

The House of the Dead. Or, Prison Life in Siberia

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Aleksandr Petrovich lives through a spiritual re-awakening that culminates with his release from the prison camp. The narrator has been sentenced to penalty deportation to Siberia and ten years of hard labor for murdering his wife. Published in 1861, House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical work based upon Dostoevskys exile to Siberia where he was punished with hard labor after he was initially convicted to be punished by death by firing-squad for his involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts. Dostoyevsky skillfully portrays the inmates of the prison with sympathy for their plight, and admiration for their energy, ingenuity and talent. The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts, events and philosophical discussion organized by theme rather than as a continuous story.

The House of the Four Winds

John Buchan

Third and final part of the Dickson McCunn trilogy, where he and the usual sidekicks fall into a plot involving an exiled princes attempt to regain the throne despite the efforts of bad guys to keep him from it. The novel is set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia in the early 1930s. It concerns the involvement of some Scottish visitors in the overthrow of a corrupt republic and the restoration of the monarchy. It is a sequel to Castle Gay, in which some Evallonians visited Scotland on a secret mission two years before the start of this novel. The three McCunn books are best read in order as there are a number of references to events that happened in previous books. This book chronicles the methodology of a bloodless patriotic coup that might be helpful today around the world!

The House of the Schemers

Fred M. White

There were various rumors about house No.13. There were no lights, badly painted blinds were always lowered, windows were black over the years. The feeling of loneliness and secrecy permeated the interior of No.13. Surprisingly there lived a young beautiful lady, about 20 years old. However, she was very frightened. And all this darkness was displayed on it.

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the novel The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the founders of American literature, once again, after a series of short stories and the famous Scarlet Letter, addresses the Puritan past and present of his homeland, New England. Legends and legends from national and family history, animated by the authors fantasy on Gothic themes, add up to the chronicle of the age-old confrontation of two families, which is implicated in greed, perjury and a tribal curse and which can only stop the love of young heroes...

The House of the Whispering Pines

Anna Katharine Green

When a woman is found dead at The Whispering Pines, not only is everyone shocked, but murder is suspected. After all, why would such a well liked young lady put an end to things, or why would anyone want to do away with her? Her vagabond of a brother is suspected, since he has every cause to wish her out of the picture. Her fiancée Elwood Ranelagh also is suspected since he no longer wished to marry her but her sister. So perplexing is the case that the local authorities call in an ace detective from the New York City police force. Sweetwaters with his weak chin and protruding nose impresses no one, until he begins uncovering disturbing new evidence. Published in 1910, this is a good old-fashioned mystery from the Golden Era of the country house genre.

The House of Vasa and The House of Austria. Correspondence from the Years 1587 to 1668. Part I: The Times of Sigismund III, 1587-1632, Volume 2

Ed. by Ryszard Skowron in collaboration with Krzysztof Pawłowski, Aleksandra Barwicka-Makula, Miguel Conde Pazos, Paweł Duda, ...

Publikowana korespondencja ukazuje wymiar współpracy i wspólnoty interesów dynastycznych, politycznych, kulturowych i religijnych pomiędzy Domem Wazów i Domem Austrii. Stanowi bazę dla analizy wzajemnych relacji pod kątem powinowactwa, emulacji i rywalizacji. Edycja listów tworzy pewnego rodzaju katalog ukazujący rolę i tożsamość Wazów w rozległym europejskim kontekście kulturowym i politycznym i może stanowić punkt wyjścia do dalszych studiów. Jednym z najważniejszych instrumentów za pomocą którego możemy obserwować i analizować te procesy są listy jakie między sobą wymieniali członkowie obu dynastii. Listy królewskie z podpisem, pieczęcią i ich treścią są trwałym świadectwem obecności i roli Polski w europejskiej kulturze w epoce nowożytnej.

The House of Vasa and The House of Austria. Correspondence from the Years 1587 to 1668. Part II: The Times of Władysław IV, 1632-1648

ed. Ryszard Skowron in collaboration with Krzysztof Pawłowski, Aleksandra Barwicka-Makula, Miguel Conde Pazos, Paweł Duda, ...

Publikowana korespondencja ukazuje wymiar współpracy i wspólnoty interesów dynastycznych, politycznych, kulturowych i religijnych pomiędzy Domem Wazów i Domem Austrii. Stanowi bazę dla analizy wzajemnych relacji pod kątem powinowactwa, emulacji i rywalizacji. Edycja listów tworzy pewnego rodzaju katalog ukazujący rolę i tożsamość Wazów w rozległym europejskim kontekście kulturowym i politycznym i może stanowić punkt wyjścia do dalszych studiów. Jednym z najważniejszych instrumentów za pomocą którego możemy obserwować i analizować te procesy są listy jakie między sobą wymieniali członkowie obu dynastii. Listy królewskie z podpisem, pieczęcią i ich treścią są trwałym świadectwem obecności i roli Polski w europejskiej kulturze w epoce nowożytnej. Badania finansowane przez Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego w ramach Narodowego Programu Rozwoju Humanistyki Nr 12H 11 0017 80

The House of Whispers

William Le Queux

No second glance was needed to realise the pitiful truth. The man seated there in his fine library, with the summer sunset slanting across the red carpet from the open French windows, was blind. Since his daughter Gabrielle had been a pretty, prattling child of nine, nursing her dolly, he had never looked upon her fair face. But he was ever as devoted to her as she to him.

The House on the River

Fred M. White

Barnes Place the house, fascinated everyone who saw it. However, his host, Ralph Enderby, didnt care much about him and saw the house as a week-end office where he entertained his friends and weaved those business schemes which had made his name a byword amongst the City men who knew. One evening Enderby, as always was not at home. This took advantage of an attacker who tried to steal something from the safe. It turned out that it was a girl who was unhappy with the frauds of Ralph Enderby and in the safe was evidence that he wanted to ruin the life of a young woman.

The House Without a Key

Earl Derr Biggers

Charlie Chan, the first Chinese detective in literature, is modeled after Chang Apana, a real-life police detective in Honolulu. A family originally from Boston, the Winterslips, has some members living in Hawaii. You can almost feel the gentle trade winds of Hawaii during the 1920s in this classic novel by Earl Derr Biggers. One of the wealthy Winterslips living in Hawaii is murdered. A younger member of the family, John Quincy Winterslip, has been sent to Boston to check up on his Aunt Minerva and persuade her to return to Boston. He arrives in Honolulu and gets involved in the investigation and is determined to see it through to the end, before he returns to the mainland. Romantic and full of atmosphere, this is a most enjoyable read that was our first introduction to Charlie Chan.

The HTML and CSS Workshop. Learn to build your own websites and kickstart your career as a web designer or developer

Lewis Coulson, Brett Jephson, Rob Larsen, Matt Park, ...

With knowledge of CSS and HTML, you can build visually appealing, interactive websites without relying on website-building tools that come with lots of pre-packaged restrictions. The HTML and CSS Workshop takes you on a journey to learning how to create beautiful websites using your own content, understanding how they work, and how to manage them long-term.The book begins by introducing you to HTML5 and CSS3, and takes you through the process of website development with easy-to-follow steps. Exploring how the browser renders websites from code to display, you'll advance to adding a cinematic experience to your website by incorporating video and audio elements into your code. You'll also use JavaScript to add interactivity to your site, integrate HTML forms for capturing user data, incorporate animations to create slick transitions, and build stunning themes using advanced CSS. You'll also get to grips with mobile-first development using responsive design and media queries, to ensure your sites perform well on any device.Throughout the book, you'll work on engaging projects, including a video store home page that you will iteratively add functionality to as you learn new skills.By the end of this Workshop, you'll have gained the confidence to creatively tackle your own ambitious web development projects.

The Human Body - With Audio Level 3 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

Raynham, Alex

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Alex Raynham. You're fast asleep, and nothing is happening. Or is it? In fact, your body is hard at work. Your lungs are taking oxygen from the air, and your heart is pumping blood round your body. Millions of pieces of information are travelling backwards and forwards to your brain all the time. Muscles are repairing themselves, and in your lymph nodes special cells are cleaning germs and waste from the body. You may think that nothing is happening, but in the extraordinary machine that is the human body, it is very busy indeed . . .

The Human Body Level 3 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

Raynham, Alex

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Alex Raynham. You're fast asleep, and nothing is happening. Or is it? In fact, your body is hard at work. Your lungs are taking oxygen from the air, and your heart is pumping blood round your body. Millions of pieces of information are travelling backwards and forwards to your brain all the time. Muscles are repairing themselves, and in your lymph nodes special cells are cleaning germs and waste from the body. You may think that nothing is happening, but in the extraordinary machine that is the human body, it is very busy indeed . . .

The Human Chase

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The six stories in Part I of this book trace the early career of Peter Benskin. He is a public school graduate with a small private income who joins the police force in London. After an early success he transfers to Scotland Yard where he becomes a detective. He is successful in solving several difficult cases but is hampered at times by his ethical feelings towards criminals who have been coerced or forced to commit crimes. He allows the innocent to escape, while he pursues the truly guilty. Part II of the book, which also consists of six stories, chronicles Benskins pursuit of and ultimate victory over a self-conceited master-criminal known only by the sobriquet Matthew.