Going Some

Rex Beach

Four cowboys leaned over the barbed-wire fence that marked the dividing line between the Centipede Ranch and their own, gazing mournfully into a summer night that only distant southwestern countries know. The great yellow stars hung thick and low, so low that it seemed as if an outstretched hand might rip them off, and the silent air swept over the thousands of open miles of land lying fresh and fragrant under the velvety darkness.

Юность (Młodość)

Лев Николаевич Толстой, Lew Nikołajewicz Tołstoj

Идет шестнадцатая весна Николая Иртеньева. Он готовится к экзаменам в университет, переполнен мечтаниями и размышлениями о будущем своем предназначении. Богатый эмоциональный мир героя, его мечты о большой любви, о будущем супружеском счастье, его необыкновенная нравственная чистота вызывают к нему горячий интерес и симпатию. Иртеньев стремится к самодисциплине и нравственному самосовершенствованию. Для этих целей он заводит специальную тетрадь, чтобы записывать свои жизненные принципы, которым он намерен неукоснительно следовать. 201eЮность201d 2013 третья и заключительная повесть в псевдо-автобиографической трилогии Льва Николаевича Толстого, впервые напечатана в 1857 году.

Фауст (Faust). Трагедия в двух частях

Иоганн Вольфганг фон Гёте, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Это одно из лучших литературных произведений, написанных Гете. Миф о безумном ученом, который готов заключить договор с Мефистофелем. Дьявол выполняет все его желания на Земле. Однако, расплата очевидна 2013 ученый должен служить дьяволу после смерти. Главный герой проживает и вправду прекрасный отрезок своей жизни. Он влюбляется и наслаждается прекрасным времяпровождением со своей возлюбленной. Но время сделки подходит к концу и время расплаты настало.

The Flaming Jewel

Robert W. Chambers

Its an action-packed story set deep in an American forest shortly after World War I. There are international jewel thieves, rum dealers, gruesome deaths, a couple of sweet romances, betrayal, hidden identities, and multiple plot twists.

7 to 12. A Detective Story

Anna Katharine Green

A tall, elegant middle-aged woman sat in front of a mirror, and the finishing touches of her rich toilet seat young woman were kneeling on the floor next to her. The noted picture, and this is not from belonging to the wealth and splendor observed everywhere, but from the character of two persons who, although of completely different composition, and possibly belong to the two extremes of society, were both remarkable for their strength and individuality of expression, but also the appearance of anxiety and suppressed anxiety that made them both look like the shadows of one deep dark thought

The Lovels of Arden

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Antonia Thornton is raised to be a religious skeptic by her father, but has doubts after meeting with Oxford Methodists, such as Stobard. Lord Killrush is impressed by her beauty and intelligence and suggests making her his mistress. Dying from consumption, as people did in the old days, Killrush agrees to marry her. Provided that she marries no one.

Sheila McLeod. A Heroine of the Back Blocks

Guy Boothby

It was raining a little before noon, and now, standing on the veranda of my station, looking at the blue lagoon with the edge of a boiling surf, I was lucky not only to have one of the best paintings in the South Pacific, but to clearly smell the sweet aroma of flowers jasmine and wild lime in the jungle that covered the hillside behind me. I went to one end of the veranda and stopped watching a group of local girls who were preparing a tappa at the nearest hut then to the other, and looked into my crowded copra shed and from it to the bare shelves of the large trading room opposite.

Cross Currents

Ladbroke Black

On December 26, 2004, one of the largest earthquakes in human history occurred off the coast of Indonesia, causing a series of powerful tsunamis that hit countries bordering the Indian Ocean. Koh Phi Phi is a beautiful butterfly-shaped island off the coast of Thailand, an island that has long been a favorite destination for tourists. This is a fictional account of this disaster, of what happened, of the tragedies and triumphs of that day.