In Strange Company. A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas

Guy Boothby

At Guy Booths Strange Company, Australian writer Guy Boothby put his passion for travel to work as food for his fiction. Although his first publication was a popular science story about traveling around his home country, he soon turned to fiction as an outlet for his work, focusing mainly on adventure adventures, secrets, and discovery stories. In the Strange Company was Boothby

The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series. MultiBook

Lucy Maud Montgomery

One of the most famous novels of the Canadian writer Lucy Mod Montgomery. A single brother and sister living on a farm decide to adopt a boy from a shelter in Nova Scotia so that he becomes an au pair. But due to a misunderstanding, on the island of Prince Edward, eleven-year-old Anne, a tireless inventor and a cheerful seeker of adventures, who will forever change their lives, falls. The multibook includes the most read novels of the author, such as: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Annes House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Chronicles of Avonlea, Further Chronicles of Avonlea.

The Old London Merchant. A Sketch

William Harrison Ainsworth

At that festival time, when the days are the shortest and the nights the longest, and when, therefore, it is the invariable practice of all intelligent men to turn night into day; when the ratio of business and pleasure is clearly in favor of the latter; when a magnificent carnival is held in London, and everything testifies to the predominance and influence of good humor.

Dzieci ulicy

Janusz Korczak

Powieść Janusza Korczaka opublikowana w 1901 roku. Początkowo drukowana w odcinkach w Czytelni dla Wszystkich. Powstała na bazie doświadczeń gromadzonych przez Korczaka w ciągu kilku lat obcowania z dziećmi i dorosłymi mieszkańcami Powiśla, Starego Miasta, Woli, Ochoty. Przebija z niej doskonała znajomość dzielnic, w których toczy się akcja, a także realistyczne opisy dzieci wałęsających się po mieście, szukających środków utrzymania dla siebie, rodzeństwa i rodziców.

Coming Up for Air

George Orwell

Insurance company agent George Fatty Bowling lives with his family in a featureless house among the same featureless houses in the London suburbs. When George wins some money at the races and is thinking about what to spend it on, he catches his eye on an advertising poster, and George begins to sort through his own memories memories of his childhood spent in Lower Binfield.

Interns Cant Take Money

Max Brand

Jimmy Kildare used to get away from the hospital every afternoon and go over to Tom McGuires saloon on the avenue. He always drank two beers. An interne in the accident room has to have the brains in his fingertips in good order all day long, but two beers dont get very far between a man and himself if he has a bit of head on his shoulders, and Jimmy Kildare had.

The Bait and the Trap

Max Brand

One of the greatest western authors of all time, superstar pulpsmith Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. His Westerns were always different, with complex plots and characters, and uncertain endings... But his historical adventures rank among the best stories he ever wrote. These seven stories of 16th Century Italian Renaissance swashbuckling swordsman Tizzo are tightly-plotted, action-packed adventures which were rarely equaled in quality by Brands contemporaries. It collects the final four stories: The Cat and the Perfume, Claws of the Tigress, The Bait and the Trap and The Pearls of the Bonfadini.

Воительница (Wojownik). Очерк

Николай Семёнович Лесков, Nikołaj Siemionowicz Leskow

Домна Платоновна миловидная женщина, маленького роста, крупной комплекции, и с тяжелым характером. Живет она в столице, но родом из Мценска 2013 небольшого городка Орловской губернии. Ни про кого она не могла сказать доброго слова, все у нее были подлецами и мерзавцами. Те женщины, которым она когда-то помогла в очень щекотливом деле, в будущем начинали ее ненавидеть. Но Домна Платоновна не унывала, ненавидящим ее она воздавала сторицей, и продолжала свое не легкое дело, пристраивала женщин в хорошие руки. Повесть 201eВоительница201d, как и другие работы Н. С. Лескова, а именно 201eЖитие одной бабы201d, 201eЛеди Макбет Мценского уезда201d, посвящены женским судьбам. Самобытность характеров героинь, накал страстей, роковые обстоятельства вызывают глубокое сочувствие читателя, а богатство и разнообразие языка, особая живость рассказа придают убедительность повествованию.