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Barnaby Rudge

Автор:

Charles Dickens

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2026-04-06

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English

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250

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Description Barnaby Rudge opens in the English village of Chigwell in 1775, where an unsolved double murder casts a long shadow over the local community, and in particular Barnaby Rudge, the son of one of the victims. Five years later, London is consumed by the Gordon Riots of 1780, when Lord George Gordon led the Protestant Association in a protest against increased rights for Catholics that descended into days of mob violence. Into this maelstrom wanders Barnaby, a guileless young man with an intellectual disability, recognized across the countryside by his eccentric dress and by Grip, the raven riding on his shoulder. Easily led and hungry for excitement, Barnaby is drawn into the riots, marching under a banner he doesn’t understand towards consequences...

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Blind Corner

Автор:

Dornford Yates

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2026-04-02

Язык книги:

English

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71

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Dornford Yates was already an established author of light comic short stories by..." data-title="Книга Blind Corner">

Description On his way back to England from an extended holiday in France, the young Richard Chandos stops his car on the side of the road for some lunch and a postprandial nap. He soon awakens to raised voices coming from the other side of the verge; an argument leads to a shot, and Chandos flees the scene with the dying man’s dog and a mysterious message. A couple of weeks later, Chandos and his hastily assembled team step onto the continent once more, on a mission to find a treasure trove hidden nearly two centuries ago. The only problem: a criminal gang, including the mysterious killer, isn’t far behind. Dornford Yates was already an established author of light comic short stories by...

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Short Fiction

Автор:

Ring Lardner

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2026-04-02

Язык книги:

English

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447

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Ring Lardner was a prolific 20th century American humorist and journalist best known for his baseball stories and reportage, whose corpus nevertheless spans a wide range of genres and styles. He bean his professional career as a sports reporter, but his literary career began in earnest in 1913 when he took over the Chicago Tribune’s popular “In the Wake of the News” column, for which he wrote daily until 1919.

His career as an author of short fiction took off when his Jack Keefe Stories became an instant hit in the Saturday Evening Post, launching his career as a magazine-first..." data-title="Книга Short Fiction">

Description Ring Lardner was a prolific 20th century American humorist and journalist best known for his baseball stories and reportage, whose corpus nevertheless spans a wide range of genres and styles. He bean his professional career as a sports reporter, but his literary career began in earnest in 1913 when he took over the Chicago Tribune’s popular “In the Wake of the News” column, for which he wrote daily until 1919. His career as an author of short fiction took off when his Jack Keefe Stories became an instant hit in the Saturday Evening Post, launching his career as a magazine-first...

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Last and First Men

Автор:

Olaf Stapledon

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2026-03-31

Язык книги:

English

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117

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Olaf Stapledon’s first..." data-title="Книга Last and First Men">

Description Last and First Men is an extended think piece about the possible future history of humankind, extending from the 1930s into the extreme far future, hundreds of millions of years from now. It’s supposedly narrated by one of the “Last Men,” and dictated to a modern-day “First Man” by a kind of time-travel telepathy. As time moves further and further into the future, Stapledon switches to overviews of vast stretches of time rather than detailing the events in the lives of individual people. As the march of time progresses over an immense period, many successive and wildly different versions of the human form evolve—or are created. This is Olaf Stapledon’s first...

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The Four Feathers

Автор:

A. E. W. Mason

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2026-03-27

Язык книги:

English

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107

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Description Recently engaged Harry Feversham, son of a soldier and descendant of a long line of soldiers, receives word that his regiment is going overseas. For complex reasons he suddenly resigns rather than be deployed. This action brands him a coward among his fellow officers and his fiancée, who present him with white feathers, a symbol of cowardice. To regain his honor, Feversham sets out for Egypt and Sudan, where he awaits opportunities to redeem himself. His daring adventures are beset with betrayal, torture, and imprisonment. Meanwhile, his fiancée is racked with regret, and tries to convince herself she no longer loves him, while simultaneously becoming romantically entangled with Feversham’s friend, a soldier in the...

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The Cruise of the Nona

Автор:

Hilaire Belloc

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2026-03-24

Язык книги:

English

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112

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Hilaire Belloc’s travelogues, similar to his previous The Path to Rome and The Four Men. The Cruise of the Nona begins in Holyhead, Wales, and finally ends in his home county of Sussex. The cruise gives Belloc the opportunity to use his experiences with sailing, the sea, and the sights on land to reflect on a variety of topics. As he sails, he writes on religious belief, public leadership, the English character, youth, fools, literature,..." data-title="Книга The Cruise of the Nona">

Description Published in 1925, The Cruise of the Nona is one of British-French writer Hilaire Belloc’s travelogues, similar to his previous The Path to Rome and The Four Men. The Cruise of the Nona begins in Holyhead, Wales, and finally ends in his home county of Sussex. The cruise gives Belloc the opportunity to use his experiences with sailing, the sea, and the sights on land to reflect on a variety of topics. As he sails, he writes on religious belief, public leadership, the English character, youth, fools, literature,...

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Jenny

Автор:

Sigrid Undset

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-24

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

95

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Description Jenny Winge, a young Norwegian painter, seeks inspiration by joining a community of artists in Rome. But her world begins to unravel with the arrival of Helge Gram, a younger Norwegian whose romantic attention she accepts despite growing evidence of a mismatch. This precipitates a series of romantic crises that explore whether artistic ambition and moral idealism can coexist with romantic...

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Chance

Автор:

Joseph Conrad

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-23

Язык книги:

English

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137

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Conrad’s favorite recurring narrator.

Chance, serialized in 1912 and published as a book the following year, is Conrad’s only novel with a female protagonist. It was also his first commercially successful novel, despite its complex narrative..." data-title="Книга Chance">

Description Flora de Barral is the daughter of a successful banker. When he’s tried and convicted of fraud, her prosperous life turns miserable. While on the brink of suicide, she meets an older sea captain and marries him as a means of escape. Her dramatic life is recounted by several characters, but mainly by Marlow, Conrad’s favorite recurring narrator. Chance, serialized in 1912 and published as a book the following year, is Conrad’s only novel with a female protagonist. It was also his first commercially successful novel, despite its complex narrative...

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The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective

Автор:

Catherine Louisa Pirkis

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-23

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

63

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Catherine Louisa Pirkis was already a successful author when she started penning the Loveday Brooke stories. Originally serialized in The Ludgate Monthly between 1893 and 1894, they were collected into this single volume later in 1894...." data-title="Книга The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective">

Description Loveday Brooke, an “altogether nondescript” woman, is one of the detective agency Lynch Court’s most able investigators. He shrewd brain and immense common sense make it easy to look past the obvious solution to get to the heart of the matter, whenever her skills are called for. In this collection of short stories, Miss Brooke solves cases that have stumped the local police, including burglaries, missing people, and even murders. Catherine Louisa Pirkis was already a successful author when she started penning the Loveday Brooke stories. Originally serialized in The Ludgate Monthly between 1893 and 1894, they were collected into this single volume later in 1894....

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The Hoosier Schoolmaster

Автор:

Edward Eggleston

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-20

Язык книги:

English

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54

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Description Ralph Hartsook has taken a teaching job in Flat Creek. It’s a rough assignment—the last few teachers quit after getting beat up, or “licked,” by the stronger pupils. Ralph meets Bud Jones, one of the biggest and toughest pupils, who warns him how tough it’ll be to keep the school in order, and Ralph quickly decides he’ll have to win Bud over to his side. As events develop, Ralph notices Hannah, a young servant who is “bound” to the Jones family. Just as he starts to take a romantic interest, there’s a midnight burglary. Circumstances—and some conniving by corrupt officials—cause suspicion to fall on Ralph, and he soon finds that he must enlist the aid of his friends to help uncover the real culprits. In this novel ...

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Short Fiction

Автор:

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-19

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

41

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Akutagawa Ryūnosuke was a respected author in pre-WWII Japan. He was well-read, and having received a Westernized education, his work blends traditional themes of Japanese culture with Western concepts. This edition collects the handful of English translations in the U.S. public domain of his nearly 200 short stories. The stories deal with a variety of themes and concepts: “The Nose” is a tale about vanity and perception of one’s image, “Rashōmon” deals with morality in the face of necessity, and “The Story of a Fallen Head” is an anti-war story. Akutagawa often ends his stories with a reflection related to the plot, spoken either by a character or by the narrator to the..." data-title="Книга Short Fiction">

Description Akutagawa Ryūnosuke was a respected author in pre-WWII Japan. He was well-read, and having received a Westernized education, his work blends traditional themes of Japanese culture with Western concepts. This edition collects the handful of English translations in the U.S. public domain of his nearly 200 short stories. The stories deal with a variety of themes and concepts: “The Nose” is a tale about vanity and perception of one’s image, “Rashōmon” deals with morality in the face of necessity, and “The Story of a Fallen Head” is an anti-war story. Akutagawa often ends his stories with a reflection related to the plot, spoken either by a character or by the narrator to the...

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Plays

Автор:

Zeami Motokiyo

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-16

Язык книги:

English

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16

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Zeami Motokiyo is the most famous playwright in the Japanese theater form of Noh. In the nearly six hundred years since his death, the exact makeup of output has become uncertain; a majority of the Noh canon has been attributed to him at one point or another, but these days scholars believe he wrote somewhere between thirty and fifty plays. While Noh was built on earlier tradition, it was Zeami and his father—both actors and playwrights—who established the basis for its long-running current form.

Zeami’s subjects are varied. They range from the historical (“Atsumori”), reinterpretation of classic fiction (“Suma Genji”), horror (“Yamanba”) or long-lasting love..." data-title="Книга Plays">

Description Zeami Motokiyo is the most famous playwright in the Japanese theater form of Noh. In the nearly six hundred years since his death, the exact makeup of output has become uncertain; a majority of the Noh canon has been attributed to him at one point or another, but these days scholars believe he wrote somewhere between thirty and fifty plays. While Noh was built on earlier tradition, it was Zeami and his father—both actors and playwrights—who established the basis for its long-running current form. Zeami’s subjects are varied. They range from the historical (“Atsumori”), reinterpretation of classic fiction (“Suma Genji”), horror (“Yamanba”) or long-lasting love...

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Cakes and Ale

Автор:

W. Somerset Maugham

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-14

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

70

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W. Somerset Maugham skillfully weaves an engaging and sometimes humorous satire of London’s literary society. Originally published as a serial, Cakes and Ale drew attention for its unflattering portrayals of London literary..." data-title="Книга Cakes and Ale">

Description When social climber Alroy Kear is given a plum commission to write the biography of recently deceased and highly regarded author Edward Driffield by Driffield’s second wife, Kear needs background on Driffield’s early years. Kear reaches out to an acquaintance, fellow author William Ashenden, who knew Driffield and his first wife Rosie while Driffield was early in his career and still largely unknown. Set in London during interwar years, W. Somerset Maugham skillfully weaves an engaging and sometimes humorous satire of London’s literary society. Originally published as a serial, Cakes and Ale drew attention for its unflattering portrayals of London literary...

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Black No More

Автор:

George Schuyler

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-14

Язык книги:

English

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53

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Description After Dr. Junius Crookman invents the “Black-No-More” process to make black people look white through a process of “electrical nutrition and glandular control,” the United States of America is swept into social upheaval. Black Americans flock to Dr. Crookman’s hospitals, wishing to escape the confines of racial stigma and segregation, while white supremacist organizations scheme to uphold the existing socioeconomic order. One of the first patients to receive Dr. Crookman’s treatment is Max Disher, a black insurance agent who pines after a haughty white woman from Atlanta who rejects his request for a dance on account of his race. A picaresque novel, Black No More follows the misadventures of Max Disher and the ways in which...

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Mary Olivier: A Life

Автор:

May Sinclair

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-12

Язык книги:

English

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116

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May Sinclair was the pen name of Mary Amelia St. Clair, a pioneer of modernist poetry and prose, with the autobiographical Mary Olivier: A Life being a particular example of the..." data-title="Книга Mary Olivier: A Life">

Description Mary Oliver’s life, interior and exterior, is presented from infancy through middle age. We watch as she forms her first impressions of her family and her place in it, and as she grapples with what she’s taught about the Anglican God and His requirements. As she grows, her insatiable curiosity and hunger for knowledge put her at odds with Victorian England’s expectations for women, its tolerance for alternative spiritual beliefs, and especially with what’s acceptable to her mother. May Sinclair was the pen name of Mary Amelia St. Clair, a pioneer of modernist poetry and prose, with the autobiographical Mary Olivier: A Life being a particular example of the...

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The Documents in the Case

Автор:

Dorothy L. Sayers

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2026-03-12

Язык книги:

English

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78

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Dorothy Sayers had already achieved fame as the creator of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels. In the Spring of 1928, she had contact with

Description The household of George Harrison and his young wife is enlivened by their new lodgers, a novelist and a painter, who nonetheless have very different effects on the Harrisons’ domestic help. Mr. Harrison’s son by his first wife, an engineer working in Central Africa, receives letters from his father (also an engineer, and a self-taught gourmet chef) which take on new significance when a fatality occurs. By the time The Documents in the Case was conceived, Dorothy Sayers had already achieved fame as the creator of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels. In the Spring of 1928, she had contact with ...

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María

Автор:

Jorge Isaacs

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-12

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

70

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Isaacs’ only novel, is one of Colombia’s most famous literary works and one of the most important works of 19th century Latin American literature. It’s held up as a paragon of the costumbrist novel, a type..." data-title="Книга María">

Description Efraín is a young man growing up on an idyllic hacienda in Colombia’s Valle de Cauca department. Among his large and loving family is María, the abandoned daughter of Efraín’s father’s cousin, raised by Efraín’s father. The two fall in love; but Maria is haunted by a condition inherited from her mother that threatens death at a young age, and Efraín is sent to faraway lands to complete his education. Will the two be able to see their love blossom? María, Isaacs’ only novel, is one of Colombia’s most famous literary works and one of the most important works of 19th century Latin American literature. It’s held up as a paragon of the costumbrist novel, a type...

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The Princess and Curdie

Автор:

George MacDonald

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-12

Язык книги:

English

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56

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The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie has returned to his provincial life of hard but satisfying work with his father in the king’s silver mines. When an act of youthful cruelty leads him to a meeting with Princess Irene’s great-great-grandmother, he’s charged with a mysterious quest—one that will require strength, wit, and courage.

Bestowed with a supernatural ability to aid him on his mission, Curdie and a ferocious new companion must journey to the capital where Princess Irene and her father, the king, face a grave threat to the entire..." data-title="Книга The Princess and Curdie">

Description Following the events of The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie has returned to his provincial life of hard but satisfying work with his father in the king’s silver mines. When an act of youthful cruelty leads him to a meeting with Princess Irene’s great-great-grandmother, he’s charged with a mysterious quest—one that will require strength, wit, and courage. Bestowed with a supernatural ability to aid him on his mission, Curdie and a ferocious new companion must journey to the capital where Princess Irene and her father, the king, face a grave threat to the entire...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

Автор:

William James

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2026-03-12

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

187

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William James’s Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which he delivered at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, between 1901 and 1902. James intended these lectures to more completely assess religion through a philosophical lens, but health problems forced him to curtail that goal, leaving the lectures largely a description of the many different ways people directly and immediately experience religion. These include ways like healthy-mindedness, saintliness, conversion, and mysticism.

This work is one of the foundational texts of the field of psychology of religion, which developed alongside modern approaches to..." data-title="Книга The Varieties of Religious Experience">

Description The Varieties of Religious Experience is the edited form of William James’s Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which he delivered at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, between 1901 and 1902. James intended these lectures to more completely assess religion through a philosophical lens, but health problems forced him to curtail that goal, leaving the lectures largely a description of the many different ways people directly and immediately experience religion. These include ways like healthy-mindedness, saintliness, conversion, and mysticism. This work is one of the foundational texts of the field of psychology of religion, which developed alongside modern approaches to...

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The Inspector General

Автор:

Nikolai Gogol

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-11

Язык книги:

English

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28

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Description A small Russian town is a corrupt mess: prisoners aren’t being fed, invalids are left to die, trash piles up against monuments, the courthouse is being used to hold livestock, and all the officials are taking bribes. But suddenly everybody is put on alert by the news that an Inspector General from the central government is due to arrive, incognito—and when it’s discovered that a suspicious young man from St. Petersburg is staying at the town inn, all is thrown into disarray. With the governor trying to bribe him, the governor’s daughter trying to woo him, and the town’s merchants trying to convince him to usurp the governor himself, is this young man—the supposed Inspector General—all that he seems? ...

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