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Nig-Nog and Other Humorous Stories
Edgar Wallace
Nig Nog and Other Humorous Stories is a collection of short humorous stories that include Jimmys Brother, Sentimental Simpson, Chubb of the Slipper, and many more. There are reasons worth exploring why Edgar Wallace was so successful in his writings and amongst them were his imagination, cleverness, and humor as demonstrated in these initial short stories, especially Nig- Nog (making an in-your-face patent medicine pedlar and a burglar endearing characters, and flipping the story endings upside down with nifty consequences is the work of a genius with a sense of humor). Edgar Wallace provides a humor of another sort!
George Orwell
George Orwells novel 1984 is one of the best dystopian novels. Winston Smith, male, 39, works for the Ministry of Truth. Smiths job is to change the facts. If a person objectionable to the party appears, then you need to erase information about him, and rewrite some facts properly. Society must follow the laws of the Party and support its policy. The main character only pretends that his ideals coincide with the ideas in the party, but in fact he fiercely hates her politics.
Victor Hugo
The historical novel of the famous and my beloved French writer, a fiery patriot of his homeland, a convinced democrat and great humanist. Hugo, in his novel, imbued with the spirit of freedom and humanity, shows the greatness of the revolutionary coup of the end of the 18th century, the fearlessness and heroism of the French revolutionary people, who staunchly defended their homeland from counter-revolutionary rebels and from foreign interventionists. Glorifying the courage of the French revolutionaries of the late 18th century, their patriotic devotion.
H.C. McNeile
The story of real men who sacrificed themselves for the sake of their homeland and family. McNeile pays attention to people, their psychological state. Great attention to how things are in the trenches of soldiers. About how terrifying they could be and how long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of terror could break any man after a while.
Ford Madox Hueffer
Despite his intellectual brilliance, successful career, and sizeable inheritance, Christopher Tietjens is a largely unhappy man. Tortured by his wifes open infidelity, caught up in his own heated affair, Tietjens attempts to put his past behind him by volunteering to fight for his country. Tragic and emotionally piercing, No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford, is a story of romance, war and betrayal that proves a brilliant sequel to Some Do Not.
Wilkie Collins
A tragic incident leaves a girl from an aristocratic family without the right not only to an inheritance, but even to a family name. But the talented and energetic beauty is not going to surrender to the will of fate she will throw all her ingenuity and desperate audacity into the cause of restoring justice. True, for this you have to give up a lot...
A.E.W. Mason
Mr. Mason is here at his best. While working out very deftly an extremely intricate and clever plot, he gives us excellent characterization and a remarkably vivid series of glimpses into different settings and phases of life. Beginning in the opulent lands of India, home of enchantment, color and adventure, the novel No Other Tiger becomes a mystery that begins with a tiger hunt across Asia. The story is woven skillfully around the secrets of the East and conjures a glittering history long forgotten. Although it is indeed an oldie, the author achieves all the suspense and bone chilling scenes required of a modern thriller. Give yourselves a treat, and read this short but unforgettable masterpiece.
Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins
Two foundlings from the London Educational Home received the same name, which over the years led to disastrous consequences. Two lawyers are looking for the missing heir, in order to correct the injustice. Rumors lead them from the moldy wineries of the City of London to the Mediterranean sun through the winter Swiss Alps. Lies and deceit would prevail if not the courage of a young woman