Valentine

George Sand

Cest une histoire sur les calculs libres, purs et dénués damour dune jeune et riche héritiere du titre comptant Valentina, qui a donné son coeur au pauvre jeune garçon Benoît. Pour le bien dun tre cher, la jeune fille est prte rompre les liens du domaine et faire des sacrifices. Grâce lhabileté de lauteur limage dune véritable sensualité et dune analyse subtile des expériences des personnages, cette intrigue apparemment ordinaire de la plupart des histoires damour captive des les premieres pages.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Stories. MultiBook

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is this collection that includes stories that became insanely popular in the early 20th century and still remain popular. This story is about one of the greatest detectives of our time, recorded by his friend and partner. A resident of an unpretentious house on Baker Street, one after another, reveals the most difficult cases, easily transforms into bandits, booksellers, chimney sweeps. he multibook includes the most read novels of the author, such as: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.

Portrait of a Man with Red Hair

Hugh Walpole

This is a terrible story about Harkness, a timid American who travels all over Europe with his etchings as his only friends. While in London, he meets a man at the club who recommends visiting a small town during his holidays. The next 24 hours completely change his life. He made friends with a frightened young woman who is unhappily married and meets a man with red hair, a rich and sadistic man who loves to influence others by hurting them.

The Justice of Amru

Henry Bedford-Jones

Written in the cycle of tales by H. Bedford-Jones, The Justice of Amru tells how fanatic followers of Mohammed stormed out of Arabia in the seventh century to slaughter the Greek troops of the Great Eastern Empire and conquer Egypt... and again the strange Sphinx Emerald came to the scene to play its part in the unrolling historic drama.

Хаджи-Мурат (Hadżi-Murat)

Лев Николаевич Толстой, Lew Nikołajewicz Tołstoj

«Хаджи-Мурат» Льва Толстого 2013 известная историческая повесть, которая была опубликована только после смерти писателя и стала его последним произведением, а также художественным завещанием автора. Это история храброго аварца 2013 воина, отца и несгибаемого бойца 2013 Хаджи Мурата. Главный герой 2013 реальное историческое лицо, он был известным воином Кавказской войны, принимая участие в битвах против русских. В небольшую повесть Лев Толстой вкладывает десятки проблемных вопросов, заставляющих задуматься о морали, дружбе и предательстве, любви и ненависти. «Хаджи-Мурат» показывает настоящую цену счастья, описывая самые потайные уголки человеческой души, любящего жизнь, но идущего по краю пропасти. На что может пойти воин, семье которого угрожает опасность? Можно ли выйти с гордо поднятой головой на встречу со смертью и превзойти ее?

A Crime of the Under-Seas

Guy Boothby

There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but as far as this is true, very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it is almost amazing. There are people involved in trade, some of whom are very profitable, about whom the world as a whole has never heard of, and which an ordinary Englishman, in all likelihood, would refuse to believe, even if the most reliable evidence had been provided before him.

Lucias Progress

E.F. Benson

Lucias Progress, previously published in the U.S. as The Worshipful Lucia is the fifth of E. F. Bensons famous series, opening about a year after the previous story ended. In this volume both Lucia and Mapp stand for election to the Town Council, and Lucia speculates in gold shares. While re-decorating Miss Mapps house, Lucia discovers and hide the remains of a Roman Villa. Excitements ensue!

The Great Pandolfo

William J. Locke

Paula Field was a woman who happily suffered from most people. Such a gift as a gift of a song or painting or a solution to acrostic. Consequently, she had many more friends around the world who loved her than it was humanly possible to love her in return. From time to time, the jealous turned around a scorpion and stung her. They called her insincere.