Intentions

Oscar Wilde

Ceci est une collection des histoires dOscar Wilde. Dans la contribution principale Critique en tant quartiste, nous organisons un dialogue en plusieurs actes entre deux esthetes, dont lun prononce des jugements complets sur toutes les ouvres dart. Lintention principale de Wilde est ici de démontrer pourquoi la critique elle-meme est un processus de création aussi fructueux que, a son avis, un véritable art.

The Tragic Muse

Henry James

The Tragic Muse is dedicated to the conflict between the artist and society. Painter Nick Dormer suffers because he does not find recognition, actress Miriam Ruth, in the name of success, makes compromises with his conscience, understanding what the rich audience expects of her. However, the greatest success of this work was the image of Gabriel Nash.

The Uttermost Farthing

R. Austin Freeman

In this tightly plotted novel, we follow the bizarre career of a man who loathes criminals. After Humphrey Challoner finds his wife killed by the bullet of a robber in his home, he vows to catch the man. Mr. Challoner is a wealthy savant, and he saved the fingerprints of the robber as well as some of the robbers strange hair which Challoners wife had in her hand. For twenty years Humphrey hunts for the killer, in the process revenging himself on Londons criminals class in a surprising and gruesome fashion. This Freeman work is not a Dr. Thorndyke mystery. Instead, it is the disturbing account of how a man wreaks vengeance on the miscreant who murdered his wife in a bungled robbery attempt. It also poses the question of how a moral society should deal with criminals.

The Law of the Just Men

Edgar Wallace

Written in 1905, this is the first of Edgar Wallaces adventures to feature the Four Just Men, a collective of European men of position who see it as their duty to execute those criminals that, for whatever reason, the law cannot or will not touch. In this adventure, the Four Just Men set their hand against the British Foreign Secretary. Concerned that an extradition bill about to be passed into law will result in the deportation of certain leading dissidents back to their home countries where they face torture and death, they tell the minister that if the bill is not stopped then he will die. The Minister tries to ignore the threats and determines to pass the bill into law. Will he evade death? Will the police track down his persecutors? Will their devilishly cunning scheme work?

Gordon of the Lost Lagoon. A Romance of the Pacific Coast

Robert Watson

Despite the severity of the life he encounters, like a little rat, Douglas Gordon, with good mood and good fortune, with calm courage, pushes his way through difficulties. And this is followed by a fairy tale full of sea fool, the enchanting beauty of the islands in the Gulf of Georgia, the color of the promenade: a boy, a girl and a dog in a human adventure on the wild sea coast life near Vancouver.

Золотой теленок (Złote cielę)

Илья Арнольдович Ильф, Евгений Петров, Ilja Arnoldowicz Ilf, Jewgienij Pietrow

Роман «Золотой теленок» 2013 продолжение изумительного произведения Ильфа и Петрова «Двенадцать стульев». В нем вас ждут новые яркие герои, великолепный виртуозный язык и, конечно же, тонкий и искрометный юмор! Это уникальный роман в своем роде. В этой книге авторыв своем фирменном стилепродолжают рассказ о приключениях великого комбинатора и гения Остапа Бендера.Здесь появляются еще более неординарные и запоминающиеся герои, бывший слепой Паниковский, сын лейтенанта Шмидта, подпольный миллионер Корейко и другие не менее яркие личности. Ну а главный герой, как и прежде, не желая зарабатывать тяжелым трудом, комбинируя событияи придерживаясь Уголовного Кодекса составляет планы по выманиваю денежных знаков из бывших и настоящий обладателей состояния.

The Untamed

Max Brand

Dan Barry is found by a cattleman footloose and wandering in the desert. He is taken in by the man and cared for by his lovely daughter. But the course of love doesnt run smoothly in this classic western Whistlin Dan Berry is one of the most interesting characters in Western fiction. Easy going, Berry proves absolutely unforgiving when physically assaulted by a feared, vicious outlaw, Jim Silent. Seemingly without any emotions, Whistlin Dan is relentless in his vengeful search for Silent and his outlaw gang. "The Untamed" is a first part of a trilogy about a mysterious gunslinger who appears to be a Casper Milquetoaste but, in concert with a powerful wolf-dog, and a murderous stallion; is able to overpower seemingly any opposing force.

Le Livre de la jungle

Rudyard Kipling

Le livre de la jungle une collection comprenant huit histoires. La loi de la jungle nous apprend a tenir parole, a négocier avec toutes les betes, a coexister pacifiquement sur le meme territoire, a respecter et honorer les personnes âgées et les enseignants, mais il enseigne également a tuer ceux qui les empechent de respecter cette loi. Lauteur décrit tres bien le gouffre qui sépare lhomme et lanimal, ce sont deux mondes différents. Le personnage principal est un garçon qui a grandi dans des conditions bestiales. Qua-t-il choisi, quel mode de vie?