The House of the Arrow
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A. E. W. MasonЖанр:
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2026-10-02Язык книги:
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After the apparently natural death of wealthy widow Madame Harlowe, a blackmailer accuses her niece of murder by poison—an accusation he knows to be false. The famous French detective Inspector Hanaud is called in, with Madame Harlowe’s death only an excuse to investigate a series of anonymous blackmailings the local police have been helpless to solve.
The police exhume Madame Harlowe’s body and find no trace of poison, defeating the blackmailer—yet there’s a treatise on untraceable poison in the house library. Perhaps the accusation was really...
Oberland
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Dorothy M. RichardsonЖанр:
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2026-10-02Язык книги:
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Oberland is the ninth “chapter volume” of Dorothy M. Richardson’s pioneering semi-autobiographical series, Pilgrimage.
Series protagonist Miriam Henderson spends two weeks at the Hotel Alpenstock, a resort in the the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland, mainly in the company of other English guests. In the evenings she watches how the relationships of these temporary groups emerge. During the day she explores the crisp beauty of the Alpine landscape and flings herself into winter...
Barlasch of the Guard
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Henry Seton MerrimanЖанр:
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2026-09-28Язык книги:
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One of Henry Seton Merriman’s most popular and acclaimed novels, Barlasch of the Guard explores the ideals and imperfections of people, great and small alike, under the incomprehensible strains of life under siege, beset by the destructive forces of both man and nature.
The events are those of the months before, during, and after the Grande Armée’s 1812 invasion of and catastrophic retreat from Russia, during which approximately one million soldiers and civilians died, and which marked the end of Napoleon’s campaign to conquer Europe and the...
His Royal Nibs
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Winnifred Eaton ReeveЖанр:
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2026-09-27Язык книги:
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A young man dubbed “Cheerio” for his English background, clean appearance, and well-kept suit, unexpectedly arrives at the highly regarded O Bar O ranch with one goal in mind: to offer his services as a hired hand, and thus find a new start in life in a foreign land. The ranch’s foreman, Bully Bill, surprised and irritated by the unwelcome stranger, decides to give Cheerio the job after witnessing his cool composure in the presence of a startled herd, preventing the ranch owner’s son from getting injured.
Cheerio proves his worth at every opportunity and earns the respect, both honest and begrudging, from riders and...
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
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W. H. DaviesЖанр:
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2026-09-22Язык книги:
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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, poet W. H. Davies’ autobiography, recalls spurning a youth of subsistence and squalor in England to pursue a life of travel abroad. With quiet and understated prose, Davies recounts a tramp’s life: riding railroad boxcars and evading fare collectors, cadging free meals, working as a migrant field hand, and dealing with corrupt law enforcement and judges. Each encounter gives Davies a chance to share his observations on the state of America and England at the turn of the 20th century.
Davies’ anti-authoritarianism inspired...
Contending Forces
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Pauline E. HopkinsЖанр:
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2026-09-21Язык книги:
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In response to the upcoming abolition of slavery in the British Empire, Charles Montfort, an English planter in Bermuda, decides to move his family (and his human chattel) to the southern United States in order to free his slaves on his own schedule. However, Montfort’s arrival arouses the jealousy and anger of his neighbors, who murder Montfort and capture his wife and sons as slaves.
Several decades later, Charles Montfort’s lineage survives in the Smiths, a family of Black Bostonians headed by the matriarch Ma Smith, who keeps a boarding house alongside her daughter Dora and her son Will. When a beautiful but mysterious...
Sentimental Education
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Gustave FlaubertЖанр:
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2026-09-18Язык книги:
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169
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The young Frederick Moreau sets out for Paris to start this career, holding a letter of recommendation to a banker and the address of a friend. But when his introduction is unsuccessful, he finds himself at the shop of the art dealer Jacques Arnoux, where he meets Arnoux’s wife. Thus begins Frederick’s romantic obsession with the older, unattainable Mme. Arnoux, an obsession that plays out against the backdrop of a colorful cast of characters and the Revolution of 1848.
Though staying mostly in the shadow of Madame Bovary,...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Edmund BurkeЖанр:
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2026-09-11Язык книги:
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Written in 1790 during the early stages of the French Revolution, Reflections on the Revolution in France is regarded as one of the foundational texts of conservative political theory. In it, the British philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke critiques the political program of the French Revolution, dismissing it as a political order founded on abstract principles. Instead, Burke advocates for constitutional rule based on received institutions, incremental reform, and sensitivity to the vagaries of human nature. Some of Burke’s predictions, such as the revolutionary...
Short Fiction
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Thomas MannЖанр:
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2026-09-09Язык книги:
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By the time Thomas Mann’s longer work Buddenbrooks finally established his fame, he had already been a published author of short fiction, primarily in the satirical magazine Simplicissimus.
A typical Mann short story always has some element of psychological disquiet. Earlier in his career this often manifested in his stories as behaviors that caused the protagonists to endure ridicule (“Little Louise,” “The Path to the Cemetery”), but this evolved into entire...
The Art of Illustration
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C. H. SpurgeonЖанр:
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2026-09-09Язык книги:
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Though most well-known as the “Prince of Preachers,” C. H. Spurgeon was also the founder of and a lecturer at the Pastor’s College in London, later renamed “Spurgeon’s College” in his honor. The Art of Illustration is a posthumously published series of lectures given by Spurgeon late in his life to students at the college on the subject of improving their sermons through the use of metaphors, anecdotes, and other illustrations to strengthen the understanding and retention of the sermon by its listeners. Together, the lectures form a complete guide to the use of...
Within and Without
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George MacDonaldЖанр:
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2026-09-09Язык книги:
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Brother Julian is far from an exemplary monk: he takes no joy in monastery life, feels no connection with God, and continuously dwells on the mysterious life he left behind. When he learns that a woman from his past needs his help, he must choose between his duty to the Church and his duty to his conscience.
George MacDonald’s earliest published work, and his only poetic drama, Within and Without chronicles a monk’s journey to know God as he experiences love, death, and joy. Notably, it contains one of MacDonald’s earliest works of fantasy prose: a...
The Final Count
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H. C. McNeileЖанр:
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2026-09-08Язык книги:
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Chemist Robin Gaunt believes he’s discovered the key to lasting world peace—in the form of the horrific poison gas he’s just perfected. Gaunt is certain that once the British government has the formula, no nation will ever dare start a war, for fear of the consequences. But Gaunt vanishes before can turn over the formula, and people start turning up dead—victims of some unknown poison.
It doesn’t take long for Bulldog Drummond to be on the case—and it doesn’t take long for him to realize that the man behind the kidnapping and murders is his arch enemy Carl Peterson. This leads to a final confrontation worthy of a...
Brigadier Gerard Stories
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Arthur Conan DoyleЖанр:
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2026-09-03Язык книги:
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When Arthur Conan Doyle’s gallant French cavalryman Brigadier Gerard first appeared in print, the reading public was still reeling from the “death” of Conan Doyle’s most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, the previous year. What they found in Brigadier Gerard was someone very different from the intense, emotionless consulting detective: a courageous and skilled, but vain and emotional, soldier-adventurer in search of glory for himself and for France, devoted to his elderly mother and the Emperor...
Malleus Maleficarum
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Heinrich KramerЖанр:
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2026-09-01Язык книги:
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252
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Malleus Maleficarum, often translated as The Hammer of Witches, is a treatise on witchcraft by Heinrich Kramer published in 1486. At that time, witchcraft was not widely believed to be real, and prosecutions were rare. Many churchmen considered it to be a fairly harmless superstition and any actual punishment was light. Kramer felt the danger from witches must be taken more seriously, and so he responded with this manual on witch hunting.
The first part outlines why witchcraft is a real and persistent danger, citing philosophers and church fathers from...
The Trap
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Dorothy M. RichardsonЖанр:
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2026-09-01Язык книги:
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The Trap is the eighth “chapter volume” of Dorothy M. Richardson’s pioneering semi-autobiographical series, Pilgrimage.
Series protagonist Miriam Henderson impulsively takes a flat in Flaxman Court with the very prim Selina Holland. Miriam struggles to introduce a disapproving Miss Holland to her bohemian London. Their apartment is across the way from that of a famous poet, E. W. Sayce—and Miss Holland is not impressed. (In later editions, Sayce is instead identified by Richardson as...
The Fall of Robespierre
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Samuel Taylor ColeridgeЖанр:
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2026-08-26Язык книги:
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The French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre has risen to prominence within the new French National Convention. A radical Jacobin, he oversees the draconian planning and implementation of the Reign of Terror, including mass arrests and summary executions. But as his policies result in more and more bloodshed, he begins to fear that a conspiracy is afoot—one that will eventually turn the Convention, and the very policies he champions, against him.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey wrote...
The Wheels of Chance
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H. G. WellsЖанр:
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2026-08-25Язык книги:
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The Wheels of Chance is one of H. G. Wells’ comic novels, published in 1896. It satirizes the era's craze for cycling in Britain, soon after bicycles became easily available and affordable, and before the rise of the automobile.
The novel features the experiences of a humble draper’s assistant, Mr. Hoopdriver, who buys a second-hand bicycle and sets off on a touring holiday. Partway through his trip he encounters an attractive young woman dressed in cycling gear: that is, with pants rather than a skirt. When it appears that the young lady is in trouble,...
The Mummy!
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Jane C. LoudonЖанр:
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2026-08-24Язык книги:
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161
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In the twenty-second century, under a government headed by female sovereigns, England finds itself in an age of relative tranquility after three centuries of political volatility. Edric Montagu, the younger son of a baronet, finds himself the subject of a scheme to arrange his marriage the niece of the Duke of Cornwall—a scheme in which he wants no part. Disillusioned and restless, Edric finds himself enticed by the strange theories proposed by Dr. Entwerfen, a scientist who believes that by using the power of electricity, it may be possible to reanimate a sufficiently well-preserved corpse. Defying his father, Edric sets off for Egypt to...
The Place Called Dagon
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Herbert GormanЖанр:
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2026-08-22Язык книги:
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Daniel Dreeme is a doctor who maintains a practice in the small and secluded community of Marlborough, Massachusetts. But his idyllic life takes a turn towards darkness when discovers that the town is home to an ancient cult who worships Satan as their true god.
A work of the “folk horror” genre, The Place Called Dagon derives its plot from the pseudo-historical “witch-cult hypothesis,” which posits that witchcraft was practiced in secret in the Early Modern period. The book was likely an inspiration for some of H. P. Lovecraft’s later fiction,...
Hand and Ring
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Anna Katharine GreenЖанр:
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2026-08-21Язык книги:
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141
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A conversation on the steps of a quiet courthouse in Sibley, New York turns to a chilling topic: how to commit the perfect murder. A mysterious stranger declares that the secret lies in striking a blow in a busy thoroughfare using a weapon found on the spot, allowing the tracks of innocent passersby to naturally erase those of the killer.
Then, minutes later and just yards away from where the conversation took place, a deaf widow is found brutally struck down in her dining room in the exact fashion the stranger had just described. The dying woman’s last words, “Hand! Ring! Ring! Hand!”, only confuse and misdirect the young...
