The story of a Dildoe
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AnonymousЖанр:
Эротика и Секс;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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The Story of Baden-Powell / 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps'
Автор:
Begbie HaroldЖанр:
Старинная литература: Прочее;Серия:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle
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Hugh LoftingЖанр:
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2026-01-10Язык книги:
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle, the first installment in Hugh Lofting’s beloved Doctor Dolittle series, centers on a kindhearted British physician, John Dolittle, who has an extraordinary gift: the ability to communicate with animals.
Set in early 20th-century England, the novel begins with Dolittle’s life in the quiet town of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, where his unconventional methods and growing fascination with the animal kingdom spark curiosity and skepticism among his peers. When he discovers he can understand and converse with creatures in their own language, he’s propelled toward an adventure to...
The Story of English in 100 Words
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Crystal DavidЖанр:
Языкознание;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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The world’s foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In The Story of English in 100 Words, an entertaining history of the world’s most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word—‘roe’—was written down on the femur of a roe deer in the fifth century. Featuring ancient words (‘loaf’), cutting edge terms that relfect our world (‘twittersphere’), indispensible words that shape our tongue (‘and’, ‘what’), fanciful words (‘fopdoodle’) and even obscene expressions (the “c word”…), David...
The Story of Gösta Berling
Автор:
Selma LagerlöfЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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126
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Set in the 1820s in central Sweden, The Story of Gösta Berling follows the saga of the titular character as he falls from the priesthood and is rescued by the owner of a local estate. Joining the other saved souls in the pensioners’ wing of the mansion, he embarks upon a series of larger-than-life stories that tell of adventure, revelry, romance and sadness.
Gösta Berling was the eventual Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf’s first published novel, and was written as an entry to a magazine competition. The richly detailed landscapes of Värmland were drawn from her own upbringing there, and the local folk tales inspired many of the individual stories in the...
The Story of Ivy
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Marie Belloc LowndesЖанр:
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2024-10-24Язык книги:
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84
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Published in the United Kingdom in 1927, The Story of Ivy is a melodramatic murder mystery centered on a young woman, Ivy Lexton, who is caught up in the lifestyle of fashionable London during the Roaring Twenties. Having run through her late husband’s fortune after only a few years, Ivy chances upon a millionaire whom she seems to be able to charm—at least at first, before he refuses her further advances. Meanwhile, Ivy must also untangle herself from her devoted lover, a poor but handsome doctor.
Considered by The Spectator to be one of Marie Belloc Lowndes’s best stories, The Story of Ivy was also adapted to the screen as Ivy...
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
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Mahatma GandhiЖанр:
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2025-01-01Язык книги:
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175
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In The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi relates his life story through a series of personal reflections, described by Gandhi as his “experiments with Truth.” The autobiography provides a look at his moral and spiritual development from his birth in Gujarat in 1869 through the beginnings of his practice of “satyagraha” (nonviolent resistance) in India in the early 1900s. It explores foundational periods in his life such as his childhood in Gujarat, his arranged marriage at a young age, his education in England, and the early stages of his professional and political life in South Africa.
At a time when most notable literary works in India were composed in...
The Story of My Life
Автор:
Helen KellerЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Дата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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136
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Helen Keller was just nineteen months old when, in 1882, she was struck with an illness that rendered her deaf, blind, and unable to communicate beyond basic signs. When she was seven, the arrival of Anne Sullivan, a partially blind teacher, catalysed Helen’s learning and created a completely new way of teaching deafblind children. In The Story of My Life, written when Helen was twenty-three, Helen recounts her childhood and the wonders of a blossoming understanding of the world around her, along with her efforts to become the first deafblind person to earn a B.A. degree.
This volume also contains many of her letters, and is substantiated by Anne...
The Story of the Amulet
Автор:
E. NesbitДата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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68
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In this conclusion to the Psammead Trilogy, Cyril, Anthea, Robert, and Jane are reunited with the cantankerous Sand-fairy. While the old creature can’t grant them wishes anymore, it points them towards an old Egyptian amulet that can grant their hearts’ desire—in this case the return of their parents and baby brother. While their amulet is only half of a whole, it still acts as a time portal which they use to visit locales like Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Atlantis, and even a utopian future in search of the missing other half.
Perhaps one of E. Nesbit’s most personal works, The Story of the Amulet...
The Story of the Stone
Автор:
Hughart BarryЖанр:
Фэнтези;Серия:
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2013-11-26Язык книги:
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The abbot of a humble monastery in the Valley of Sorrows calls upon Master Li and Number Ten Ox to investigate the killing of a monk and the theft of a seemingly inconsequential manuscript from its library. Suspicion soon lands on the infamous Laughing Prince Liu Sheng—who has been dead for about 750 years. To solve this mystery and others, the incongruous duo will have to travel across China, outwit a half-barbarian king, and saunter into (and out of) Hell...
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
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E. NesbitЖанр:
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2024-10-24Язык книги:
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53
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This is the story of the six Bastable children: Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noël and little Horace Octavius, known as H. O. Due to their mother tragically passing away and their father’s business partner running away with the money, the ancient and most noble House of Bastable, as the children like to call it, has fallen. In order to restore their family fortune the resourceful siblings go on a hunt for treasure; but whether they dig for gold in the garden, or try to open up a sherry business, their treasure-hunting always ends up getting them in trouble.
The Story of the Treasure Seekers was the first novel for children written by Edith Nesbit, and...
The Story of Utopias
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Lewis MumfordЖанр:
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2024-11-30Язык книги:
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79
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The concept of an ideal society has long existed in literature. In The Story of Utopias Lewis Mumford explains how imaginative utopias can be used either as an escape from daily life, or as the beginning of an actionable path to a better society. He begins by tracing the historical evolution of the concept of utopia, from Plato’s Republic and Moore’s Utopia, through to the nineteenth and early twentieth century utopias of William Morris and H. G. Wells. Along the way Mumford discusses how...
The Stowaway
Автор:
Metz MelindaЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-10-01Язык книги:
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Micheal: He's still having flashbacks of his escape from the underground compound. Only Cameron, the mysterious girl he met behind bars, seems to understand him--and understand that the sheriff may be gone but an even more dangerous enemy is out there…Cameron: She fell for Micheal in the compound…while spying on him for Sheriff Valenti. Now she feels guilty and wishes she could tell him the truth. But how can she be honest--without losing...
The Strain
Автор:
del Toro GuillermoЖанр:
Ужасы и Мистика;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months… the world. At New York’s JFK Airport an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane… and what he finds makes his blood run cold. A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like an all-consuming wildfire—lethal, merciless, hungry… “vampiric.” And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally...
The Straits of Galahesh
Автор:
Beaulieu BradleyЖанр:
Фэнтези;Серия:
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2013-12-01Язык книги:
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The strange affair of Spring-heeled Jack
Автор:
Hodder MarkЖанр:
Детективная фантастика;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-16Язык книги:
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Robert Louis StevensonДата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
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26
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the classic novella of split personality. Stevenson wrote it in just a few days while sick and bedridden, and famously burned the first draft after his wife suggested it should be written as an allegory and not as a story. He re-wrote it in three to six days, and after a few weeks of editing and revision he published what would become one of his most famous and best-selling works.
The story follows a London lawyer as he investigates the relationship between a brilliant scientist and a misshapen misanthrope. As the link between the two becomes clearer, Jekyll and Hyde develops into an...
The Strange Case of Finley Jayne
Автор:
Cross KadyЖанр:
Любовная фантастика;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-27Язык книги:
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Finley Jayne knows she's not 'normal'. Normal girls don't lose time, or have something inside them that makes them capable of remarkably violent things. Her behavior has already cost her one job, so when she's offered the lofty position of companion to Phoebe, a debutante recently engaged to Lord Vincent, she accepts, despite having no experience. Lord Vincent is a man of science with his automatons and inventions, but Finley is suspicious of his motives where Phoebe is concerned. She will do anything to protect her new friend, but what she discovers is even more monstrous than anything she could have...
The Stranger
Автор:
Фрай МаксЖанр:
Фэнтези;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-09-27Язык книги:
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Max Frei's novels have been a literary sensation in Russia since their debut in 1996, and have swept the fantasy world over. Presented here in English for the first time, The Stranger will strike a chord with readers of all stripes. Part fantasy, part horror, part philosophy, part dark comedy, the writing is united by a sharp wit and a web of clues that will open up the imagination of every reader.
Max Frei was a twenty-something loser-a big sleeper (that is, during the day; at night he can't sleep a wink, a hardened smoker, and an uncomplicated glutton and loafer. But then he got lucky. He contacts a parallel world in his dreams, where magic is a daily practice. Once a social outcast, he's now known in his new world as the 'unequalled Sir Max.' He's a member of the Department of...
The Stranger
Автор:
King StephenЖанр:
Старинная литература: Прочее;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-25Язык книги:
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