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Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

One of the best classic novels in world literature. Jean Valjean, Cosette, Gavrosh the names of the heroes of the novel have long become common nouns, the number of its readers for a century and a half since the publication of the book has not been reduced, the novel does not lose popularity. A kaleidoscope of people from all walks of life in French society in the first half of the 19th century, vivid, catchy characters, grotesque and romance, sentimentality and realism, a tense, exciting plot are the main reasons for the success of the Hugo book and they are also the main reasons for the frequent appeal to it of world cinema.

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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.

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The Birds

Aristophanes

Pisfeter manages to convince the birds that their mission is to rule the world. According to his idea, the bird city of Tucekukuyshchyna is being built between heaven and earth; birds give wings to Pisfeter and Evelpid, Pisfeter becomes the ruler of the new city and puts into effect a plan whose goal is to take power from the Olympic gods. Birds intercept the smoke from the sacrifices that the gods feed on, persuade people to honor the birds as new gods and promise them protection for this.

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The People of the Chasm

T.C. Bridges

As the great plane roared through the upper air, young Monty Vince sat with his eyes glued to the thick glass window of her enclosed body, and watched the sea of clouds lying like a pearly floor far below. Every nerve in his body tingled with excitement and triumph, for even he, small as was his experience, knew that this first flight of his brothers new machine was a magnificent success.

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A Matter of Millions

Anna Katharine Green

The main plot of the story is a dying man and his will. Having no relatives, the man wants to give his money to someone worthy and resembling a woman whom he loved and lost too early. Most of the book is devoted to various actions of the characters, reactions and plans for this money millions in the title. The book also has a love story.

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Flush

Virginia Woolf

Flush tells the story of the curious, determined boy Noah Underwood, his tough, persistent sister Abby and their unusual father, who defends everything that he believes is right. Papa Noah is imprisoned for drowning in the shoes of the Coral Queen Dusty Muleman casino. Noahs father did not do this for any good reason, the true reason is that he thinks that Dusty discharges sewage into the ocean, where children swim and where marine life lives.

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Driven to Sea

T.C. Bridges

Dick traveled halfway around the world to get to this particular house, and despite his pinkish-white appearance, the boy had a lot of courage. Dick saw a heavy, bloated-looking man, with a fat, flabby face and thick, black hair and eyebrows. His clothes were black, so was his tie; even his finger-nails shared in the general mourning. He looked like a funeral mute off duty.

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The Fighting Four

Max Brand

His name was Jim Silver, but they called him Silvertip. Jim Silver, the man with tufts of silver hair over each temple, the man who sometimes looked like a horned devil in the moonlight, hungered for action as most men hunger for food. And he found plenty when bank robber Jim Lovell sought his protection because, unknown to Silvertip, Lovell was packing a half-million dollars in stolen cash along with his Winchester. And the men hed double-crossed had shot their way out of jail and were riding hard on the trail of their desperate partner, ready for the bloodiest shootout the West had ever seen! Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!