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The Story of Doctor Dolittle

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Hugh Lofting

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2026-01-10

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English

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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..." data-title="Книга The Story of Doctor Dolittle">

Description 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...

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Conan Stories

Автор:

Robert E. Howard

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2026-01-10

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English

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172

Robert E. Howard’s world of Hyboria, slicing down enemy after enemy and trying not to fall too hard for a succession of ladies in need of rescue. Although very much a product of the pulp fantasy magazines of the 1930s, Conan has surpassed his contemporaries to become the quintessential barbarian of the fantasy genre: the muscle-bound and instinct-led hero, always willing to fight his way out of any fix.

Collected here are Howard’s Conan short stories that are in the U.S. public domain, as well as a history of Hyboria that Howard wrote as a writing guide. Nearly all of Conan’s adventures were first published in Weird..." data-title="Книга Conan Stories">

Description Conan, the Cimmerian barbarian, romps across Robert E. Howard’s world of Hyboria, slicing down enemy after enemy and trying not to fall too hard for a succession of ladies in need of rescue. Although very much a product of the pulp fantasy magazines of the 1930s, Conan has surpassed his contemporaries to become the quintessential barbarian of the fantasy genre: the muscle-bound and instinct-led hero, always willing to fight his way out of any fix. Collected here are Howard’s Conan short stories that are in the U.S. public domain, as well as a history of Hyboria that Howard wrote as a writing guide. Nearly all of Conan’s adventures were first published in Weird...

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The World Below

Автор:
S. Fowler Wright

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2026-01-08

Язык книги:
English

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104

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S. Fowler Wright originally intended to write a trilogy. The first part, The Amphibians was published in 1924, followed by the second part in 1929. The third part was never written. This edition includes both published parts, with the ending being a symptom of Wright’s having left the trilogy..." data-title="Книга The World Below">

Description Using a time machine, an unnamed narrator is sent half a million years into the future in order to investigate the whereabouts of two men previously sent to the same time period and failed to return. Upon arriving, he makes contact with the Amphibians, a telepathic humanoid race, who live in an uneasy peace with the Dwellers, the inhabitants of Earth’s subterranean territories. S. Fowler Wright originally intended to write a trilogy. The first part, The Amphibians was published in 1924, followed by the second part in 1929. The third part was never written. This edition includes both published parts, with the ending being a symptom of Wright’s having left the trilogy...

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The Haunted Hotel

Автор:
Wilkie Collins

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2026-01-06

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English

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62

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Wilkie Collins’ shorter novels, The Haunted Hotel was published in 1878 as a monthly serial in six parts in Belgravia magazine. Most of the dramatic and sensational parts of the novel are set in Venice, and feature more of an emphasis on the supernatural than is usual in Collins’ work.

The story deals with the death of the wealthy Baron Montbarry in a hotel in Venice. This follows his inexplicable breaking-off of a previous engagement to a pretty young woman and his subsequent marriage to a mysterious Countess, an unhealthy-looking widow. Montbarry’s younger brother, and the young woman he had spurned, set out to discover more about his..." data-title="Книга The Haunted Hotel">

Description One of Wilkie Collins’ shorter novels, The Haunted Hotel was published in 1878 as a monthly serial in six parts in Belgravia magazine. Most of the dramatic and sensational parts of the novel are set in Venice, and feature more of an emphasis on the supernatural than is usual in Collins’ work. The story deals with the death of the wealthy Baron Montbarry in a hotel in Venice. This follows his inexplicable breaking-off of a previous engagement to a pretty young woman and his subsequent marriage to a mysterious Countess, an unhealthy-looking widow. Montbarry’s younger brother, and the young woman he had spurned, set out to discover more about his...

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The Brooklyn Murders

Автор:
G. D. H. Cole

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2026-01-06

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English

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100

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Superintendent Wilson of Scotland Yard takes up the bizarre case, while at the same time Brooklyn’s niece Joan Cowper and her lover Robert Ellery investigate as amateurs. The two parties soon converge on a possible suspect—but can they find the killer before Brooklyn’s frail health..." data-title="Книга The Brooklyn Murders">

Description Sir Vernon Brooklyn is a successful theater impresario who, in his old age, has put together a will dividing his considerable fortune among his many descendants. But just as soon as he announces the beneficiaries, two of the men who stand to inherit the most are found murdered in separate locations—and all the clues suggest that the two murdered each other. Superintendent Wilson of Scotland Yard takes up the bizarre case, while at the same time Brooklyn’s niece Joan Cowper and her lover Robert Ellery investigate as amateurs. The two parties soon converge on a possible suspect—but can they find the killer before Brooklyn’s frail health...

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The Apple Cart

Автор:
George Bernard Shaw

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2026-01-06

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English

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36

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Description It is some time in the future, and the King of England is beset by his ministers, who want him to stop expressing political opinions; around him circle his mistress, his Queen, his secretaries, and the American ambassador. What ensues is a battle of wits over who will run the country: will it be the King, the Prime Minister, or the powerful corporation Breakages, Limited? The Apple Cart presents a view of the future that is at times prescient, extrapolating from economic trends towards labor offshoring and the privatization of public services. In the preface, Shaw expands upon some of the play’s themes, discussing the nature of democracy and the difficulties in trying to get a population to govern itself responsibly. He compares...

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Planet of the Damned

Автор:
Harry Harrison

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2026-01-05

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English

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56

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Harry Harrison was still early in his career when he wrote this story, which was originally serialized in Analog Science Fact & Fiction in 1961. It was well..." data-title="Книга Planet of the Damned">

Description The pinnacle of achievement on the planet Anvhar is winning the Twenties: their annual physical and mental games. Brion Brandd has pushed himself beyond all his limits to claim the trophy, but his post-success recuperation is interrupted by a previous Winner, named Ihelj, on a mission. Ihelj’s story about the upcoming mutual destruction of two planets in a far-flung system, combined with subtle emotional manipulation, is enough to convince Brion that in saving human life he has a hitherto unforeseen job to do. Harry Harrison was still early in his career when he wrote this story, which was originally serialized in Analog Science Fact & Fiction in 1961. It was well...

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The City of God

Автор:
Augustine of Hippo

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2026-01-03

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English

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469

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Augustine of Hippo wrote The City of God.

In the first part, comprising the first ten books, Augustine critiques pagan religion and philosophy. Utilizing sources from well-respected Roman historians and philosophers, he works to show that the Roman gods didn’t save Rome from previous calamities or moral decay, and that..." data-title="Книга The City of God">

Description In 410 CE, Rome was sacked by the Visigoths, leaving the inhabitants of the Roman Empire in a state of deep shock. Some Romans began theorizing that the calamity occurred because many in the empire had chosen to become Christian rather than participate in traditional Roman religion. In response, over the course of thirteen years the Christian bishop Augustine of Hippo wrote The City of God. In the first part, comprising the first ten books, Augustine critiques pagan religion and philosophy. Utilizing sources from well-respected Roman historians and philosophers, he works to show that the Roman gods didn’t save Rome from previous calamities or moral decay, and that...

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Short Fiction

Автор:
Daphne du Maurier

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2026-01-01

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English

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20

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Daphne du Maurier, one of the premier English novelists of the twentieth century, was also an accomplished short story writer. As with her novels, her short stories can be both humorous and dark, often with open endings. Many of them are framed around psychological themes, and feature characters who have difficulties precisely communicating.

Some of her later shorts were made into films, most famously Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. More recently her short stories have been singled out for praise by the American horror author Stephen King. Collected here are all of du Maurier’s short stories that are known to be in the public domain, arranged by first publication..." data-title="Книга Short Fiction">

Description Daphne du Maurier, one of the premier English novelists of the twentieth century, was also an accomplished short story writer. As with her novels, her short stories can be both humorous and dark, often with open endings. Many of them are framed around psychological themes, and feature characters who have difficulties precisely communicating. Some of her later shorts were made into films, most famously Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. More recently her short stories have been singled out for praise by the American horror author Stephen King. Collected here are all of du Maurier’s short stories that are known to be in the public domain, arranged by first publication...

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The Maltese Falcon

Автор:
Dashiell Hammett

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2026-01-01

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English

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66

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Hammett writes a tight and lean story in which no character, not even the hero or the police, can be said to be “good.”

It was first serialzed in Black Mask magazine in 1929, before undergoing edits for..." data-title="Книга The Maltese Falcon">

Description Sam Spade and his partner Miles are private detectives in San Francisco. When the mysterious Miss Wonderly walks into their office begging them to trail a man who has run off with her sister, Sam finds himself embroiled in a complex web of violence, greed, and deceit, all revolving around a mysterious artifact—the titular Maltese Falcon. The Maltese Falcon is a jewel in the crown of the “hardboiled” crime genre, and one its best-known works. Hammett writes a tight and lean story in which no character, not even the hero or the police, can be said to be “good.” It was first serialzed in Black Mask magazine in 1929, before undergoing edits for...

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Strong Poison

Автор:
Dorothy L. Sayers

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2026-01-01

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English

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77

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Description Lord Peter Wimsey, gentleman detective, is in love. Unfortunately, it is with a woman who has very nearly been convicted of murder. Crime novelist Harriet Vane is being tried for the murder of her ex-lover, a writer with strong views on free love and atheism who seems to have not been true to his professed beliefs. He has died by arsenic poisoning. Harriet is known to have quarreled with him; she saw him the night he was poisoned; and she has just written a manuscript describing how easy it is to poison someone by arsenic. Lord Peter believes in her innocence, though, and has mere weeks to find the actual culprit before she’s convicted and hanged. In this, the sixth ...

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Cimarron

Автор:
Edna Ferber

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2026-01-01

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English

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104

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Description Yancey Cravat is a flamboyant, large-than-life frontiersman who can kill a man with a quick draw just as easily as he can quote Milton and Shakespeare or charm a courtroom jury. He’s married to Sabra, a Kansas woman from a grand, blue-blooded Southern family. Together they decide to leave their home to claim a homestead in Oklahoma during the 1889 land rush. Together they navigate the adventures and challenges of life on the frontier; Yancey starts a newspaper and Sabra begins cultivating society. But as the town booms and their newspaper prospers, Yancey—and their son—crave adventure of the kind that small-town life can’t provide, while Sabra’s ambitions expand beyond her homestead, and eventually the town. The story chronicles...

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Miss Mole

Автор:
E. H. Young

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2026-01-01

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English

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99

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Description Hannah Mole, the child of poor farmers, is now a forty-year-old woman who spent her life working as a governess in the households of the wealthy. Not having the freedom to live life as she desires, she contents herself by making ironic comments in order to cause shock, in an effort to mask her true personality. The plot focuses on the interactions between Miss Mole and her new employers, Reverend Corder and his family, in which she assumes a motherly role. Miss Mole’s sharp wit and generous spirit help guide the growing family, but raise one of the novel’s central questions: who is taking care of Miss...

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Vile Bodies

Автор:
Evelyn Waugh

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2026-01-01

Язык книги:
English

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60

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Evelyn Waugh’s second novel, for which he seems not to have held out high hopes. It was written during a period of personal trauma—the break-up of his short-lived first marriage—and many see in the novel’s fragmentary scenes and frail relationships the effects of Waugh’s deep emotional disappointments. It’s also one of the most explicitly modernist of Waugh’s books.

In spite of this sobering context, the novel is full of humor and ironic detachment from the sometimes tragic moments which punctuate the story. The narrative thread mostly follows the fortunes of Adam Symes, his sometime fiancée, Nina Blount, and an assortment of their friends and..." data-title="Книга Vile Bodies">

Description Vile Bodies is Evelyn Waugh’s second novel, for which he seems not to have held out high hopes. It was written during a period of personal trauma—the break-up of his short-lived first marriage—and many see in the novel’s fragmentary scenes and frail relationships the effects of Waugh’s deep emotional disappointments. It’s also one of the most explicitly modernist of Waugh’s books. In spite of this sobering context, the novel is full of humor and ironic detachment from the sometimes tragic moments which punctuate the story. The narrative thread mostly follows the fortunes of Adam Symes, his sometime fiancée, Nina Blount, and an assortment of their friends and...

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The Castle

Автор:
Franz Kafka

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2026-01-01

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English

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104

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Franz Kafka’s three great novels to be published after The Trial, and it was the first to receive an..." data-title="Книга The Castle">

Description The Land Surveyor K. has received an order to work at the Castle. After a long journey through the snow he finally arrives at its surrounding village, but his welcome is considerably less than warm: his attempts to find out how he should start his job and whom he should speak to are undermined by pompous officials and a general sense of disbelief that he should even be there at all. The Castle remains stubbornly out of reach, and its structures seem almost purposefully designed to trigger K.’s spiral into a bureaucratic nightmare. The Castle was the second of Franz Kafka’s three great novels to be published after The Trial, and it was the first to receive an...

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The End of the World

Автор:
Geoffrey Dennis

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2026-01-01

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English

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39

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Geoffrey Dennis writes about the fleeting existence of the human race and how the creation and spread of prophecies and predictions can create confusion, inspire awe, and instill an odd sense of reassurance in their believers. The need to define the unknown and to control things that are uncontrollable, and the fear of uncertainty, have developed knowledge, science, and culture; but they can also serve as a means to guide the population towards the benefit of certain social and political interests.

Dennis delivers a carefully created and imaginative take on the tragic end of man and the planet he calls home, using a structure that emphasizes the..." data-title="Книга The End of the World">

Description In The End of the World, Geoffrey Dennis writes about the fleeting existence of the human race and how the creation and spread of prophecies and predictions can create confusion, inspire awe, and instill an odd sense of reassurance in their believers. The need to define the unknown and to control things that are uncontrollable, and the fear of uncertainty, have developed knowledge, science, and culture; but they can also serve as a means to guide the population towards the benefit of certain social and political interests. Dennis delivers a carefully created and imaginative take on the tragic end of man and the planet he calls home, using a structure that emphasizes the...

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Not Without Laughter

Автор:
Langston Hughes

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2026-01-01

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English

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76

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Langston Hughes, Not Without Laughter is a coming-of-age novel that depicts the adolescent years of Sandy, an African-American boy growing up in a small town in Kansas.

The novel is structured as a series of vignettes that depict Sandy’s interactions with his family and the surrounding society, including experiences of racial discrimination. It explores how social structures of race, class, and religion shape the lives of African-American families. Hughes aimed to depict “a typical Negro family in the Middle West,” drawing on his own experiences of growing up in Kansas alongside families similar to Sandy’s..." data-title="Книга Not Without Laughter">

Description The first prose novel published by Langston Hughes, Not Without Laughter is a coming-of-age novel that depicts the adolescent years of Sandy, an African-American boy growing up in a small town in Kansas. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes that depict Sandy’s interactions with his family and the surrounding society, including experiences of racial discrimination. It explores how social structures of race, class, and religion shape the lives of African-American families. Hughes aimed to depict “a typical Negro family in the Middle West,” drawing on his own experiences of growing up in Kansas alongside families similar to Sandy’s...

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Years of Grace

Автор:
Margaret Ayer Barnes

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2026-01-01

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English

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163

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Description Young Jane Ward is the young daughter of an upper middle class family living in Chicago at the end of the 19th century. She enjoys a comfortable Victorian upbringing, thoroughly inculcated with the morals and values of the age. Years of Grace follows Jane as she grows up, falls in love, attends university, and eventually settles down to raise a family of her own. At her heart, Jane is a solidly middle-of-the-road, conservative homebody: not as high-achieving or risk-taking as her friends, but rather preferring to hew closely to the traditional household values she grew up with. While she occasionally longs for a cosmopolitan, romantic life that could have been, she finds contentment in her family and joy it brings. As the...

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The Faraway Bride

Автор:
Stella Benson

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2026-01-01

Язык книги:
English

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112

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Description For unconvincing reasons Old Sergei Malinin has gone blind; the family’s woes are compounded when their shop in Chi-tao-kou, Manchuria is raided by the Red Army. They’re left relying on what little money can be scraped together from their daughter Anna’s sewing and their son Seryozha’s timberwork. Luckily, Old Sergei, ever the businessman, has remembered that ten years ago he lent his old friend Gavril Ilitch Isaev two hundred yen, a sum that, with interest, would now be immensely valuable to the Malinins. The money is in Seoul, but a three week walk through the Korean mountains to a city sounds like the perfect adventure to Seryozha, and the unexpected appearance of an English-educated Chinese lawyer who happens to know the way is enough to...

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As I Lay Dying

Автор:
William Faulkner

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2026-01-01

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English

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57

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William Faulkner’s fifth novel, on which he began to work at the end of October 1929, just a few weeks after the publication of The Sound and the Fury. At that time Faulkner had taken a job at the University of Mississippi power plant and wrote the novel during his night shifts there, over a period of only forty-seven days. Though not initially a bestseller, the book was well received by critics. It has since come to be viewed as a cornerstone of both his oeuvre and American modernism, and is consistently listed as one of the best novels of the 20th..." data-title="Книга As I Lay Dying">

Description As I Lay Dying is William Faulkner’s fifth novel, on which he began to work at the end of October 1929, just a few weeks after the publication of The Sound and the Fury. At that time Faulkner had taken a job at the University of Mississippi power plant and wrote the novel during his night shifts there, over a period of only forty-seven days. Though not initially a bestseller, the book was well received by critics. It has since come to be viewed as a cornerstone of both his oeuvre and American modernism, and is consistently listed as one of the best novels of the 20th...

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