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Excerpt:'The kitchen of the Carmody home on the outskirts of a manufacturing town in Connecticut. On the left, forward, the sink. Farther back, two windows looking out on the yard. In the left corner, rear, the icebox. Immediately to the right of it, in the rear wall, a window opening on the side porch. To the right of this, a china cupboard, and a door leading into the hall where the main front entrance to the house and the stairs to the floor above are situated. On the right, to the rear, a door opening on to the dining room. Further forward, the kitchen range with scuttle, wood box, etc. In the centre of the room, a table with a red and white cloth. Four cane-bottomed chairs are pushed under the table. In front of the stove, two battered wicker rocking chairs. The floor is partly covered by linoleum strips. The walls are papered a light cheerful colour. Several old framed picture-supplement prints hang from nails. Everything has a clean, neatly-kept appearance. The supper dishes are piled in the sink ready for washing. A saucepan of water simmers on the stove.'

William Somerset Maugham was a popular British writer and playwright in the 20th century. Maugham was a prolific writer and his classic novels, Of Human Bondage and The Moon and Sixpence, are still widely read today. This edition of Jack Straw includes a table of contents.

Albion Winegar Tourgée was an American soldier, Radical Republican, lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat. Das E-Book Bricks Without Straw: A Novel wird angeboten von Krill Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: dickens; bronte; austen; classics; hawthorne; prejudice; sense

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he created and popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Contents: The Novels THIS SIDE OF PARADISE THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED THE GREAT GATSBY The Short Story Collection FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS THE OFFSHORE PIRATE THE ICEPALACE HEAD AND SHOULDERS THE CUT-GLASS BOWL BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR BENEDICTION DALYRIMPLE GOES WRONG THE FOUR FISTS TALES FROM THE JAZZ AGE INTRODUCTIONS MY LAST FLAPPERS FANTASIES UNCLASSIFIED MASTERPIECES ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN THE RICH BOY WINTER DREAMS THE BABY PARTY ABSOLUTION RAGS MARTIN-JONES AND THE PR-NCE OF W-LES THE ADJUSTER HOT AND COLD BLOOD “THE SENSIBLE THING” GRETCHEN'S FORTY WINKS MISCELLANEOUS STORIES A FREEZE-OUT A NEW LEAF A NIGHT AT THE FAIR AFTERNOON OF AN AUTHOR AN ALCOHOLIC CASE AT YOUR AGE BASIL AND CLEOPATRA THE BRIDAL PARTY THE BOWL DESIGN IN PLASTER DICE, BRASSKNUCKLES & GUITAR EMOTIONAL BANKRUPTCY FINANCING FINNEGAN FORGING AHEAD THE HOTEL CHILD “I DIDN'T GET OVER” JACOB'S LADDER THE LOST DECADE LOVE IN THE NIGHT MAGNETISM MORE THAN JUST A HOUSE NEWS OF PARIS--FIFTEEN YEARS AGO ONE TRIP ABROAD OUTSIDE THE CABINET-MAKER'S THE ROUGH CROSSING SIX OF ONE-- THE SWIMMERS THREE HOURS BETWEEN PLANES WHAT A HANDSOME PAIR! THE ORDEAL MYRA MEETS HIS FAMILY THE I.O.U. THE POPULAR GIRL TWO FOR A CENT THE PUSHER-IN-THE-FACE ONE OF MY OLDEST FRIENDS THE UNSPEAKABLE EGG PRESUMPTION YOUR WAY AND MINE LIPSTICK: A COLLEGE COMEDY THE LOVE BOAT ON YOUR OWN BETWEEN THREE AND FOUR FLIGHT AND PURSUIT A WOMAN WITH A PAST TOO CUTE FOR WORDS, STRANGE SANCTUARY INSIDE THE HOUSE LO, THE POOR PEACOCK! ON SCHEDULE, THE PASSIONATE ESKIMO IMAGE ON THE HEART A FULL LIFE SHAGGY'S MORNING THREE ACTS OF MUSIC THE ANTS AT PRINCETON IN THE HOLIDAYS THE GUEST IN ROOM NINETEEN THE LONG WAY OUT THE WOMAN FROM “21” ON AN OCEAN WAVE DEARLY BELOVED PAT AT THE FAIR REUNION AT THE FAIR THE MYSTERY OF THE RAYMOND MORTGAGE READE, SUBSTITUTE RIGHT HALF A DEBT OF HONOR THE ROOM WITH THE GREEN BLINDS A LUCKLESS SANTA CLAUS PAIN AND THE SCIENTIST THE TRAIL OF THE DUKE LITTLE MINNIE MCCLOSKEY THE OLD FRONTIERSMAN THE SPIRE AND THE GARGOYLE THE DIARY OF A SOPHOMORE THE PRINCE OF PESTS SENTIMENT — AND THE USE OF ROUGE THE PIERIAN SPRINGS AND THE LAST STRAW CEDRIC THE STOKER Play THE VEGETABLE The Poetry CLAY FEET FIRST LOVE FOOTBALL FOR A LONG ILLNESS FRAGMENT MARCHING STREETS (1919 version) MARCHING STREETS (1945 version) OH, SISTER, CAN YOU SPARE YOUR HEART LAMP IN THE WINDOW OH MISSELDINE'S PRINCETON — THE LAST DAY THE STAYING UP ALL NIGHT THOUSAND-AND-FIRST SHIP OUR APRIL LETTER SAD CATASTROPHE ONE SOUTHERN GIRL TO BOATH THE POPE AT CONFESSION RAIN BEFORE DAWN The Non-Fiction THE CLAIMS OF THE LIT CONTEMPORARY WRITERS AND THEIR WORK WHO'S WHO — AND WHY “WHAT I WAS ADVISED TO DO — AND DIDN'T” SOME STORIES THEY LIKE TO TELL AGAIN 10 BEST BOOKS I HAVE READ THE PAMPERED MEN HOW TO LIVE ON $36,000 A YEAR HOW TO LIVE ON PRACTICALLY NOTHING A YEAR HOW TO WASTE MATERIAL PRINCETON TEN YEARS IN THE ADVERTISING BUSINESS ECHOES OF THE JAZZ AGE MY LOST CITY ONE HUNDRED FALSE STARTS RING SLEEPING AND WAKING, MY TEN FAVORITE PLAYS THE CRACK-UP PASTING IT TOGETHER HANDLE WITH CARE AUTHOR'S HOUSE AFTERNOON OF AN AUTHOR EARLY SUCCESS PREFACE MY GENERATION

Excerpt:'Some time in June of the year 1800 (as privately chronicled) there came a famous evening at Whitelaw's Club in St. James's Street, off Piccadilly, London. There and then—according to the unattested evidence of an eyewitness—Mr. Ladislaw lost his head, Lord Dunlone his mistress, Sir Robert Linne his fortune, and Major Dalrymple his life. Thus it appears these four were all losers, and each of a material property, save the first, who, alone of the quartette, commuted his self-possession for a very real equivalent in hard cash. “Whitelaw's” in those days ran, of a host of gambling clubs, the deepest. It was there all heavy potations and long stakes (at which many a self-martyr burned); but the first of these were put down and the second up with an accepted solemnity of decorum that was traditional to the place and the sign of its moral endowment. Fox, in his heavier moments, had been known to hazard in its glooms occasionally, and to lose, of course; and—equally of course—to find immediate balm for his scorched fingers in the inevitable “Herodotus.” Selwyn, also, and Topham Beauclerc, and many another Georgium sidus, had played and hiccupped within its pregnant walls; but always with gravity and a weight of personal responsibility towards the foundation. “Brookes's” might have held in its time more showy revelry; “Almack's” have gambled in broad-brimmed straw hats, bedecked with flowers, and masks to hide the play of emotions. “Whitelaw's” would have none of these. It had ever stood coldly aloof from flash and notoriety, accepting Todd's definition of a club as “An association of persons subjected to particular rules,” rather than that of Johnson (the rendering has a warm personal flavour), who calls it “An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.” From first to last it remained ponderous in self-importance and rigid in exacting the observance of its unwritten codes of conduct. If its gaming operations were large, it desired the company of no feather-brain “plungers”; but rather of players of substance, to whom cards were a market, not a raffle. Therefore, when on this particular night no fewer than four of its members—like those in the fable—suddenly revolted against the central system, and, for a space of minutes, made havoc of its respectable traditions, it is no wonder that “Whitelaw's” rose at the outrage like one man, and, in the upshot, pronounced sentence of club ostracism upon the delinquents. This, as it affected three, is matter of private history. The fourth escaped the distinction there and then through the interposition of “the man with the scythe.”'

F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of America's greatest writers. No other writer is more closely associated with the roaring twenties and all of its excesses. Collected here in this omnibus edition are two novels and three short story collections for more than 400,000 words of some of the finest fiction ever written in the English language. This edition has 10 illustrations selected to enhance the reading experience. Included in this omnibus edition are: This Side of Paradise The Offshore Pirate The Ice Palace Head and Shoulders The Cut-Glass Bowl Bernice Bobs Her Hair Benediction Dalyrimple Goes Wrong The Four Fists The Beautiful and Damned The Jelly-Bean The Camel's Back May Day Porcelain and Pink The Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Tarquin of Cheapside “O Russet Witch!” The Lees of Happiness Mr. Icky Jemina, the Mountain Girl Sentiment—and the Use of Rouge The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw A Luckless Santa Claus Myra Meets His Family Winter Dreams Two for a Cent The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage Reade, Substitute Right Half A Debt of Honor The Room with the Green Blinds Pain and the Scientist The Trail of the Duke Shadow Laurels The Ordeal The Débutante (A One-Act Play) The Smilers The Popular Girl The Staying Up All Night Princeton—The Last Day Marching Streets

This book was written over 90 years ago and is set in Charles town, Carolina in 1718. The protagonist is Jack Cockrell, a young man from a good background. The tale follows his adventures and they involve Stede Bonnet & Edward'Blackbeard'Teach. Excerpt: “The year of 1718 seems very dim and far away, but the tall lad who sauntered down to the harbour of Charles Town, South Carolina, on a fine, bright morning, was much like the youngsters of this generation. His clothes were quite different, it is true, and he lived in a queer, rough world, but he detested grammar and arithmetic and loved adventure, and would have made a sturdy tackle for a modern high-school football team. He wore a peaked straw hat of Indian[8] weave, a linen shirt open at the throat, short breeches with silver buckles at the knees, and a flint-lock pistol hung from his leather belt. He passed by scattered houses and stores which were mere log huts loopholed for defence, with shutters and doors of hewn plank heavy enough to stop a musket ball. The unpaved lanes wandered between mud holes in which pigs wallowed enjoyably. Negro slaves, half-naked and bearing heavy burdens, jabbered the dialects of the African jungle from which they had been kidnapped a few months before. Yemassee Indians clad in tanned deer-skins bartered with the merchants and hid their hatred of the English. Jovial, hard-riding gentlemen galloped in from the indigo plantations and dismounted at the tavern to drink and gamble and fight duels at the smallest excuse. Young Jack Cockrell paid scant heed to these accustomed sights but walked as far as the wharf built of palmetto piling. The wide harbour and the sea that flashed beyond the outer bar were ruffled by a piping breeze out of the northeast. The only vessel at anchor was a heavily sparred brig whose bulwarks were high enough to hide the rows of cannon behind the closed ports.'

Lord Tony's Wife, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1917. The year is 1789 and Pierre Adet, a young French peasant, is incensed at the unfair treatment of the local peasantry, who are no better off than slaves to the local aristocrat. His brother-in-law is about to be hanged for poaching two pigeons from the woods belonging to the Duc de Kernogan in Nantes and this proves the final straw. After months of planning Pierre leads a mob against the Duc against the advice of his father. (Wikipedia)

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents. William Somerset Maugham was a prominent British novelist and playwright in the twentieth century. Among Maugham's most popular books are the classics Of Human Bondage and The Moon and Sixpence. This collection includes the following: NOVELS: Of Human Bondage The Moon and Sixpence The Magician Liza of Lambeth The Hero Mrs. Craddock The Explorer The Making of a Saint The Merry-go-round The Bishop's Apron SHORT STORIES: The Trembling of a Leaf (7 short stories) Orientations (6 short stories) PLAYS: Mrs. Dot The Tenth Man The Land of Promise The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts Penelope Landed Gentry Jack Straw Caesar's Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts A Man of Honour The Explorer: A Play Lady Frederick The Unknown: A Play in Three Acts East of Suez: A Play in Seven Scenes NON-FICTION: The Land of the Blessed Virgin On a Chinese Screen

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents. Eugene O'Neill was a prominent American playwright in the 20th century. O'Neill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 and he also was one of the first American writers of realism. This collection includes the following: The Straw Anna Christie The First Man The Hairy Ape Tomorrow

La señora Wagner, viuda de un comerciante, está decidida a proseguir los planes de reforma de su difunto marido: la incorporación de las mujeres al trabajo y la reeducación de «los pobres mártires del manicomio» apelando a «su dignidad». Con este propósito, y acompañada por el «loco» Jack Straw, orgulloso pero leal, viaja a Fráncfort, donde la empresa tiene una filial. Allí su socio, el señor Keller, tiene sus propios problemas: su hijo Fritz insiste contra su voluntad en casarse con Minna, hija de madame Fontaine, una viuda cargada de deudas y de dudosa reputación, pero empeñada, a toda costa, en asegurar la felicidad de su hija. Cuando el señor Keller cae misteriosamente enfermo, madame Fontaine lo atiende con devoción, echando mano de desconocidos remedios creados por su difunto marido, un investigador químico. Todo parece entonces despejado para la boda entre los dos jóvenes. Sin embargo… La hija de Jezabel (1880) enfrenta a dos viudas tenaces y poco convencionales, las dos capaces de vencer cualquier obstáculo con tal de cumplir su objetivo. Wilkie Collins alterna las comodidades de la casa burguesa con los horrores del manicomio o de la morgue en una novela excéntrica, llena de suspense y de veneno, que no duda en cruzar fronteras.

'The power that I have dreamed of all my life is mine at last!'How far is a mother prepared to go to secure her daughter's future? Madame Fontaine, widow of an eminent chemist, has both the determination and the cunning to bring young Minna's marriage plans to fruition, with dangerous consequences for anyone who dares to stand in her way. But has she met her match in Jack Straw, one-time inmate of Bedlam lunatic asylum? It will take a visit to the morgue to find out who triumphs - and who comes out alive. Reminiscent of Collins's blockbusters The Woman in White and Armadale, this suspenseful case study in villainy is set against the financial world of 1820s Frankfurt and tells the story of two widows, one of them devoted to realizing her husband's social reforms, the other equally devoted to the pursuit of her daughter's happiness. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury, in Somerset on April 22nd 1707. His early years were spent on his parents'farm in Dorset before being educated at Eton. An early romance ended disastrously and with it his removal to London and the beginnings of a glittering literary career; he published his first play, at age 21, in 1728. He was prolific, sometimes writing six plays a year, but he did like to poke fun at the authorities. His plays were thought to be the final straw for the authorities in their attempts to bring in a new law. In 1737 The Theatrical Licensing Act was passed. At a stroke political satire was almost impossible. Fielding was rendered mute. Any playwright who was viewed with suspicion by the Government now found an audience difficult to find and therefore Theatre owners now toed the Government line. Fielding was practical with the circumstances and ironically stopped writing to once again take up his career in the practice of law and became a barrister after studying at Middle Temple. By this time he had married Charlotte Craddock, his first wife, and they would go on to have five children. Charlotte died in 1744 but was immortalised as the heroine in both Tom Jones and Amelia. Fielding was put out by the success of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded. His reaction was to spur him into writing a novel. In 1741 his first novel was published; the successful Shamela, an anonymous parody of Richardson's novel. Undoubtedly the masterpiece of Fielding's career was the novel Tom Jones, published in 1749. It is a wonderfully and carefully constructed picaresque novel following the convoluted and hilarious tale of how a foundling came into a fortune. Fielding was a consistent anti-Jacobite and a keen supporter of the Church of England. This led to him now being richly rewarded with the position of London's Chief Magistrate. Fielding continued to write and his career both literary and professional continued to climb. In 1749 he joined with his younger half-brother John, to help found what was the nascent forerunner to a London police force, the Bow Street Runners. Fielding's ardent commitment to the cause of justice in the 1750s unfortunately coincided with a rapid deterioration in his health. Such was his decline that in the summer of 1754 he travelled, with Mary and his daughter, to Portugal in search of a cure. Gout, asthma, dropsy and other afflictions forced him to use crutches. His health continued to fail alarmingly. Henry Fielding died in Lisbon two months later on October 8th, 1754.

Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury, in Somerset on April 22nd 1707. His early years were spent on his parents'farm in Dorset before being educated at Eton. An early romance ended disastrously and with it his removal to London and the beginnings of a glittering literary career; he published his first play, at age 21, in 1728. He was prolific, sometimes writing six plays a year, but he did like to poke fun at the authorities. His plays were thought to be the final straw for the authorities in their attempts to bring in a new law. In 1737 The Theatrical Licensing Act was passed. At a stroke political satire was almost impossible. Fielding was rendered mute. Any playwright who was viewed with suspicion by the Government now found an audience difficult to find and therefore Theatre owners now toed the Government line. Fielding was practical with the circumstances and ironically stopped writing to once again take up his career in the practice of law and became a barrister after studying at Middle Temple. By this time he had married Charlotte Craddock, his first wife, and they would go on to have five children. Charlotte died in 1744 but was immortalised as the heroine in both Tom Jones and Amelia. Fielding was put out by the success of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded. His reaction was to spur him into writing a novel. In 1741 his first novel was published; the successful Shamela, an anonymous parody of Richardson's novel. Undoubtedly the masterpiece of Fielding's career was the novel Tom Jones, published in 1749. It is a wonderfully and carefully constructed picaresque novel following the convoluted and hilarious tale of how a foundling came into a fortune. Fielding was a consistent anti-Jacobite and a keen supporter of the Church of England. This led to him now being richly rewarded with the position of London's Chief Magistrate. Fielding continued to write and his career both literary and professional continued to climb. In 1749 he joined with his younger half-brother John, to help found what was the nascent forerunner to a London police force, the Bow Street Runners. Fielding's ardent commitment to the cause of justice in the 1750s unfortunately coincided with a rapid deterioration in his health. Such was his decline that in the summer of 1754 he travelled, with Mary and his daughter, to Portugal in search of a cure. Gout, asthma, dropsy and other afflictions forced him to use crutches. His health continued to fail alarmingly. Henry Fielding died in Lisbon two months later on October 8th, 1754.

Mrs. Pauline Manford is a busy woman, as any upstanding New York society lady should be. Parties, dinners, charity luncheons, balls, and strict exercise and beauty regimes fill her daily schedule to an exhausting degree. Her secretary can hardly keep up. To manage a modern household is to hold the family together, staying on trend with all things helpful, but her daughter has horrible taste in married men, her ex-husband is unwell, and her son is struggling to forge a career for himself while his postpartum wife refuses to settle down from lavish partying. Pauline can't decide if she should bob her hair, redecorate, or get a face lift, and she surely doesn't have time to notice her current husband's wandering eye as anything other than harmless flirtations. When a rakish Italian actor bound for Hollywood and a scandal with the local wellness guru threaten to tear her perfectly constructed life apart, Pauline moves on to new spiritually medicinal treatments, and the Manfords must navigate the fraught tensions that bind them together. Hopefully a vacation from NYC's ruthless grind to their quiet country house will deter any further worries. Twilight Sleep (1927), named for the early anesthetic that predates epidural and induces memory loss, is Edith Wharton's oft-forgotten novel of modern motherhood and the pressures that lead women to reconstruct or completely escape their lives. Sharp and humorous, it feels as relevant today as it did in the 1920s.

“No character was ever thrown into such strange relief as Gilliatt… here, indeed, the true position of man in the universe.” —Robert Louis StevensonThe Toilers of the Sea tells the tale of Gilliatt, an outcast fisherman who must rescue one of the engines from a wrecked steamship. If successful, he will win the hand of the shipowner's beautiful daughter, Deruchette. He will brave the harsh rocks, the freezing waves, and even the grasp of a sea monster to prove his worth. Both a fairytale and richly detailed study of early nineteenth-century Guernsey, The Toilers of the Sea is the oft-forgotten novel that completes Hugo's famed trilogy with The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables. It is a tribute to the drama of nature and the insignificance of man against it, to solitude in exile, and the light we choose to carry in the darkness.

When their father's death leaves them with no money and a dim future, the Madden sisters, Alice, Virginia, and Monica, must negotiate the gender roles and class constraints of Victorian London in the 1890s. Virginia and Alice have aged out of the possibility of marriage and seemingly the idea of love itself and find themselves with few prospects and little hope. Remaindered in the marriage equation, these “odd women” face a great deal of scrutiny, stigma, and social pressure—it's at this time that Rhoda Nunn, childhood friend to the Madden sisters, arrives in London to challenge accepted norms and mores around the role of women in society. Rhoda's strong feminist passion draws a sharp contrast to the middle-class respectability of the Madden sisters'upbring, as the sisters watch a new world emerge around them. Hailed as a prescient and boldly political novel of the early feminist movement, Gissing's The Odd Women captures all of the absurdity, brutality, and even comedy of Victorian attitudes around gender and class, and the brilliant women who dared to be odd and to conceive of their role in society beyond their value on the marriage market.

Fiódor Dostoiévski Mikháilovitch was born in Moscow in 1821 and died in St. Petersburg in 1881. He is recognized as one of the greatest writers in Soviet and international literature.'Notes from Underground'is Dostoevsky's darkest and strangest work. The book offers a powerful refutation of Enlightenment and idealism, as well as the promises of socialist utopianism. It boldly rejects the ideas of'development'and'higher consciousness,'preferring to describe humans as irrational, rebellious, and uncooperative. According to Nietzsche, it's a work that expresses'the voice of blood.''Notes from Underground'is a challenging and irresistible novel that deserves recognition as much more than a mere critical prelude to Dostoevsky's later and more famous works. Rightly so, the work is included in the famous collection'1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.'

Honoré de Balzac is considered the founder of Realism in modern literature. His magnum opus, La Comédie Humaine, consists of 95 novels, novellas, and short stories that seek to portray French society of his time. The Magic Skin, which is part of La Comédie Humaine, tells the story of young Raphael, who receives a piece of wild ass's skin from an old antique dealer. The skin grants Raphael's wishes, but also shortens his life. With the talisman in his possession, the protagonist fulfills all his desires, becomes wealthy, and a respected figure in society, all while living in terror as he watches the skin shrink and his life ebb away with each fulfilled wish. Like numerous other works by Balzac, The Magic Skin is a critique of a society focused solely on the accumulation of material goods and power.

Born in Russia, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) is considered the greatest Russian poet and one of the founders of modern Russian literature. He was a pioneer in the use of colloquial language, creating a narrative style that blends romance, drama, and satire. His work'The Captain's Daughter'offers a faithful portrayal of Russian life in the 18th century, as well as the popular revolt that nearly shook the imperial throne of Catherine the Great. The setting is Tsarist Russia, where the story of Andrei Pietrovich Griniov unfolds, a young nobleman from the city of Simbirsk who is sent by his father, a former military man, to a barracks to learn about discipline and responsibility before taking control of his own life. It is a work in which the writer's genius transforms historical facts into vivid fiction, and with great stories and unimaginable twists, it intensely pleases the reader.

Written in 1870,'Venus in Furs'by Leopold Sacher-Masoch, narrates the dialogues and sexual practices of the protagonists: Severin and Wanda, a couple who formally records through a contract that Severin becomes Wanda's sexual slave. In his private life, Masoch signed a similar six-month contract with his lover, Baroness Fanny de Pistor, making Severin nothing more than the author's alter ego and Wanda a kind of replica of Fanny. We invite you to delve into the intriguing world of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and explore his revolutionary work. Discover why his bold exploration of the darker aspects of sexuality and relationships has left a mark on literature and continues to challenge conventions to this day.

Natsume Soseki (1867–1916) é um dos escritores japoneses mais queridos em sua terra natal e o mais traduzido e estudado no mundo. Soseki foi o principal artista de sua geração, considerado o mais representativo intelectual de seu tempo. Pode-se dizer que sua importância na literatura japonesa equivale a importância de um Machado de Assis para a literatura brasileira. Sua obra-prima Coração'Kokoro'é um romance que capta as mudanças de mentalidade no Japão durante um período de rápida modernização no fim do século XIX. Transcorrendo em Tóquio em torno de 1910, esse romance em três partes descreve a relação entre um homem jovem, o narrador, e um senhor que ele chama de Sensei. Este é assolado por um estigma em seu passado, que paira sobre todo o romance. Na descrição do mal-estar de Sensei, o romance, além de um testemunho da rápida modernização do Japão, é também um exame de uma sensação torturada de fracasso e responsabilidade. Natsume, que criou a forma do romance em primeira pessoa, é, sem dúvida alguma, um dos maiores escritores da literatura japonesa.

Charles Dickens was an influential English writer, the most famous novelist of the Victorian era. Born in 1812 in the city of Portsmouth, even without the opportunity to receive a formal education, he became one of the great writers of world literature. Great Expectations, a classic by Charles Dickens published in 1861, is a kind of political fairy tale about'dirty money,'an exploration of memory and literature, and a disturbing portrait of identity instability. Shorter and written more quickly than the enormous social panoramas of the 1850s, Dickens is one of those writers every good reader should know, and Great Expectations is one of his literary successes. The work has been adapted several times for the screen and is part of the famous collection: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was a Ukrainian journalist and novelist, considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. The book'Job: The Story of a Simple Man'was originally published in 1930 and, along with'The Radetzky March,'is one of Joseph Roth's most well-known works. The story of Job, a simple man, begins in a Jewish village in the region that is now Ukraine. There, Mendel Singer lives his life, obeying the precepts of the Torah, when his fourth son is born weak and epileptic, seen as a punishment from God to a man who had previously been devout. In'Job: The Story of a Simple Man,'Joseph Roth presents us with the ethical and moral dilemmas of a religious man, who sees the birth of his problematic son as a divine punishment. His novel is a humanistic plea, a profound treatise on the choices we all confront throughout life. It is one of those books that, once read, is never forgotten.

A hauntingly beautiful melodrama exploring the friendship between a young man and his mentor __________'Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature'Haruki Murukami'Kokoro is exactly what you would ask a novel to be... Sōseki manipulates every detail with the same thrilling mastery'Spectator'Sparsely populated, simple but perfect... it is a melancholy but stoical study in loneliness'Sunday Telegraph __________ In this melancholy and delicately written Japanese classic, a student befriends a reclusive elder at a beach resort, who he calls Sensei. As the two grow closer, Sensei remains unwilling to share the inner pain that has consumed his life and the shameful secret behind his monthly pilgrimages to a Tokyo cemetery. But when the student writes to Sensei after his graduation to seek out advice, the past rushes unbidden to the surface, and Sensei at last reveals the tale of romantic betrayal and unresolved guilt that led to his withdrawal from the world. Set at the end of the Meiji era and rife with subtle, psychological insight, Kokoro is one of Japan's bestselling novels of all time and a stunning meditation on the essence of loneliness.

Robert William Chambers was born on 26th May 1865 in Brooklyn. Chambers was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and then the Art Students'League. From there he studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, from 1

Stella Benson was born on the 6th January 1892 in Easthope, Shropshire to parents who were landed gentry.Her early years involved frequent household moves which was difficult for the child as she suffered from ill-health. Some of her early education was spent at schools in Germany and Switzerland and by 10 she had developed a lifelong habit of keeping a diary.In the following years her parents separated, and she rarely saw her father. When she did, he encouraged to pause her writing until she had further experience and could better make sense of the world. When he died, she learned he had been an alcoholic.A winter spent in the West Indies provided material for her first novel ‘I Pose'published the following year in 1915.During the War years she became involved in the women's suffrage movement and dedicated time outside of writing to support the troops and help the poor.In 1918 she decided to travel spending much time in California, where she also tutored at the University of California, and continued to write. In China she met her future husband and after marrying in London, journeyed with him to his various Custom postings through Nanning, Beihai, and Hong Kong and the Far East.The works continued to flow novels, short stories, travel essays all helped to build a deserved and burgeoning reputation.Although her works are now in the forgotten and neglected department her writing style, characters, and narratives more than capably demonstrate her obvious talents. Stella Benson died of pneumonia on the 7th December 1933, at Hạ Long in the Vietnamese province of Tonkin. She was 40.

Robert William Chambers was born on 26th May 1865 in Brooklyn. Chambers was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and then the Art Students'League. From there he studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, from 1

Robert William Chambers was born on 26th May 1865 in Brooklyn. Chambers was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and then the Art Students'League. From there he studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, from 1

Robert William Chambers was born on 26th May 1865 in Brooklyn. Chambers was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and then the Art Students'League. From there he studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, from 1

Robert William Chambers was born on 26th May 1865 in Brooklyn. Chambers was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and then the Art Students'League. From there he studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, from 1

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys'High School before studying law at the University of Ota

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys'High School before studying law at the University of Ota

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys'High School before studying law at the University of Ota

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys'High School before studying law at the University of Ota

Alfred Lichtenstein was born on the 23rd August 1889, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. He grew up in Berlin before studying law at Erlangen in Bavaria. A writer in the Expressionist style his poems and short stories are short but beautifully honed works. His tragically short life allowed only a small part of his talents to rest with us. Undoubtedly a full life would have given the world a very gifted literary force. Alfred Lichenstein volunteered for duty in the German Army for World War I. He died on the front at the Somme in the early months of the war on 25th September 1914. He was 25.

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys'High School before studying law at the University of Ota

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys'High School before studying law at the University of Ota

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys'High School before studying law at the University of Otago. Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885. He moved to become a barrister's clerk to Melbourne and once there also began writing plays. The local theatres were not interested in his works, and it was only after one was stolen and presented as being by someone else that his stock rose at all. Hume now moved in a different direction and wrote a novel based on those that were proving popular in Melbourne at that time. The result ‘The Mystery of a Hansom Cab'with its vivid descriptions of poor urban life was initially self-published and became a great success, albeit that was only after he had sold the copyright for a mere £50. This Victorian age detective novel pre-dated Sherlock Holmes but is said to have inspired Conan Doyle. Shortly thereafter Hume returned to England and began a writing career that would eventually exceed over 130 novels as well as short story collections, plays, song lyrics and even book reviews for the plethora of literary journals of the day. Most of his output was detective stories, thrillers and mysteries.Hume was known to be deeply religious as well as intensely private and avoided almost all publicity, except in later life, when he lectured at debating societies and young people's clubs. He travelled regularly to Europe and primarily to Italy, France and Switzerland. Fergus Hume died on the 12th July 1932 at Thundersley in Essex. He was 73 and was buried in an unmarked grave.

Virginia Woolf's satirical, prescient novel Orlando, published in 1928, is a groundbreaking work that explores themes of gender, identity, and time. The narrative features a nobleman named Orlando who lives over three centuries, beginning in the Elizabethan era and ending in the twentieth century, and, remarkably, changes from man to woman at the midpoint. With its fusion of masculinity and femininity, this transformation allows Woolf to critique societal norms and expectations tied to gender and class in different periods. Through Orlando's unique life span and gender fluidity, Woolf suggests that gender is not fixed or binary, challenging the traditional concepts of gender roles and stereotypes. A complex and multilayered novel that defies easy categorization, Orlando is lauded for its rich prose and its pioneering representation of gender and queer identity. It is a work of literature that continues to resonate with readers today.

Set against the dramatic upheavals of the years after Napoleon, Alexandre Dumas's epic tale of betrayal and revenge is one of the most thrilling and enduringly popular adventure novels ever written.On the eve of his wedding, a young sailor named Edmond Dantès is wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned for life in the Château d'If, a reputedly impregnable island fortress. After a daring escape, Dantès unearths a treasure revealed to him by another prisoner and devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing the enemies who wronged him, in disguise as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo.

The only novel of the twentieth century's most acclaimed surrealist painter, a richly visual depiction of a group of eccentric aristocrats in the years preceding the Second World War __________'Start the first page and you are in the presence of an old-fashioned baroque novel, intelligent, extravagant, as photographically precise as his paintings'P. J. Kavanagh, Guardian'So full of visual invention, so witty, so charged with an almost Dickensian energy that it's difficult not to accept the author's own arrogant valuation of himself as a genius'Observer'What really strikes the reader is the abounding physical detail of objects, light, spaces, and materials'The Times __________ In swirling, surreal prose, the iconic artist Salvador Dalí portrays the intrigues and love affairs of a group of eccentric aristocrats who, in their luxury and extravagance, symbolize decadent Europe in the 1930s. In the shadow of encroaching war, their tangled lives provide a thrilling vehicle for Dalí's uniquely spirited imagination and artistic vision.

The finest work by the great Russian writer Teffi, in a new selection by the acclaimed Robert Chandler __________'Heartbreaking as well as very funny. I wish she were still alive, and I could have met her... I can't recommend her strongly enough'Guardian'Teffi is one of the great writers of early 20th century Russia, from Nicholas II's reign to the Revolution afterwards. Her writing, whether stories or reportage or memoir is witty, elegant, fantastical, yet sharp and acute and playful'Simon Sebag Montefiore'One of the great twentieth-century writers. At their best her short stories are to my mind the equal of Chekhov's'John Gray __________ Teffi's literary genius made her a star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. An extremely funny writer with a scathing critical eye, she was also capable of Chekhovian subtlety and depth of character. Ranging from humorous sketches of a vanished Russia to ironic, melancholy evocations of post-revolutionary exile, And Time Was No More showcases the full range of Teffi's gifts. A new selection by the celebrated Robert Chandler, it includes previously untranslated stories alongside more famous work, demonstrating the enduring freshness of one of the great wits of Russian literature.

Die Anthologie'Die größten britischen Klassiker'ist eine umfassende Sammlung, die das reiche literarische Erbe Großbritanniens durch die Werke seiner berühmtesten Autoren feiert. Von den dramatischen Stücken Shakespeares über die lebensnahen Romane Charles Dickens'bis hin zu den tiefgründigen Erzählungen Virginia Woolfs vereint diese Sammlung eine beeindruckende Vielfalt literarischer Stile und Epochen. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit verdient die Einbeziehung genreprägender Werke wie Mary Shelleys'Frankenstein'oder Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes-Geschichten sowie die lyrischen Beiträge Lord Byrons, die allesamt den kulturellen und literarischen Reichtum dieser Ära widerspiegeln. In den Biografien der Autoren spiegelt sich ein Querschnitt der britischen Gesellschaft und ihrer Geschichte. Von adeligen Dichtern wie Lord Byron bis zu Autodidakten wie Charles Dickens zeugen die Hintergründe dieser Schriftsteller von den sozialen Umwälzungen und kulturellen Strömungen ihrer Zeit. Gemeinsam bieten sie ein faszinierendes Panorama der britischen Literaturgeschichte, das durch persönliche und gesellschaftliche Themen wie Liebe, Identität, soziale Ungerechtigkeit und den menschlichen Drang nach Erkenntnis bereichert wird. Diese Sammlung empfiehlt sich Lesern als einzigartige Gelegenheit, die facettenreiche Welt der britischen Literatur zu entdecken.'Die größten britischen Klassiker'laden dazu ein, ein tiefgreifendes Verständnis für die literarischen Werke und Kulturen zu entwickeln, die das moderne Denken und die künstlerische Ausdrucksweise geprägt haben. Die Zusammenstellung fördert einen Dialog zwischen den verschiedenen Epochen und bietet einen umfassenden Bildungswert durch die Vielfalt der Perspektiven, Stile und Themen.

Die Anthologie'Meisterwerke der britischen Literatur'bietet eine faszinierende Reise durch die Zeit und präsentiert eine Sammlung, die von den frühen Werken Shakespeares bis zu den modernen Reflexionen Virginia Woolfs reicht. Dieses Kompendium ist eine umfassende Feier der diversen literarischen Stile und epochalen Stimmen, die die britische Literatur über Jahrhunderte geprägt haben. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Transformation der erzählerischen Formen und Themen über die Zeit gelegt, wobei jedes ausgewählte Werk tiefe Einblicke in die sozialen, kulturellen und politischen Dynamiken seiner Ära bietet. Die Autoren hinter diesen Meisterwerken gehören zu den prägendsten Figuren der englischen Literaturgeschichte. Ihre Lebenswege und literarischen Ambitionen spiegeln die Entwicklung und die Vielfalt der britischen Gesellschaft wider, von den turbulenten Zeiten der englischen Renaissance bis zu den introspektiven Momenten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Anthologie knüpft an die verschiedenartigen Hintergründe der Autoren an und bietet Lesern eine umfassende Perspektive auf die literarischen Bewegungen, die durch Werke von Charles Dickens'tiefgehenden sozialen Kommentaren bis zu Mary Shelleys bahnbrechenden Beiträgen zur Science-Fiction definiert wurden.'Meisterwerke der britischen Literatur'ist nicht nur für Literaturbegeisterte, sondern auch für all jene empfehlenswert, die die Breite und Tiefe der britischen Kultur durch ihre bedeutendsten literarischen Stimmen erkunden möchten. Diese Sammlung lädt dazu ein, die Dialoge zwischen den Epochen nachzuvollziehen und sich von der Vielfalt an Perspektiven, die diese Meisterwerke bieten, bereichern zu lassen. Die Anthologie ist eine unverzichtbare Lektüre für alle, die den Wert und die Schönheit der britischen Literatur in ihrer ganzen Vielfalt schätzen und verstehen möchten.

“The Last Vial,” written by Sam McClatchie, M.D., is a grim statement about the possibilities of biological warfare. The year was 1962. John McDonald was a veteran of the Korean War and now maintained a quiet career as a pathologist. Upon his return from a much-needed vacation, he found his co-workers struggling with the after-effects of a sudden and overwhelming flu epidemic that had struck the entire North American continent. Careful analysis showed that this was no ordinary flu virus, but a man-made mutation that was unleashed on America's West Coast and quickly distributed across the continent. Was it the communists, or someone else? Whoever it was, they had started a quiet but deadly game of germ warfare and it was up to the recently reinstated Colonel McDonald to find the perpetrators—and the antidote! (Amazon)

Interesting original mystery novel, with a quartet of amateur detectives that mess things up in a hilarious way. Synopsis: four men are golfing when one of them slices his drive. They discover a body below a railroad viaduct and set out to solve the murder.

Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day—in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. John D. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and curvived the conditions he recorded.

A Timeless Classic of Societal Customs, Cultural Disputes, and The Cost of Non-ConformityHenry James'novella Daisy Miller, features one of his greatest heroines. At first glance it seems to be a simple story of a lovely young, independent American girl traveling through Europe. But her flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to catastrophe as she disrupts the rigid social rules of the Old World, attracting and scandalizing all she meets.Her willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian has unfortunate consequences. His pursuit of Daisy is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switzerland and Italy. Her lack of understanding of the social mores of the society she so desperately wishes to enter ultimately leads to tragedy. Throughout the narrative, James expertly navigates the complexities of human nature, morality, and the consequences of one young woman's defiance of societal expectations as he portrays the clash between American innocence and European sophistication in the late nineteenth century. He contrasts American customs and values with European manners and morals in a tale which is rich in psychological and social insight. It is the clash between the old world and the new, Europe and America.This classic in American literature is a timeless analysis of societal customs, cultural disputes, and the cost of non-conformity. Daisy Miller was an immediate and widespread success upon publication and it continues to be one of Henry James'most popular works.

Utopia is a fascinating novel that tells the story of a visitor to a distant island home to a community that has established an ideal society. Based on harmony, justice, rationality, virtue, equality and the pursuit of happiness, it presents a sharp contrast with sixteenth century England. This remarkable novel is complex, insightful and far-sighted, and has, for centuries, been of great interest to scholars, politicians, writers and readers who have sought to untangle its mysteries and bring to life their own utopias.