В знаменитой новелле «The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg» («Человек, который совратил Гедлиберг») некий человек, случайно уязвленный добропорядочными гражданами маленького городка, жестоко мстит им, сооружая хитроумную интригу. Честное имя тихого Гедлиберга уничтожено – с жителей слетают маски, их грехи и пороки предстают перед читателем во всей красе. На английском языке. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
A bundle of books #1 (WATCHING) and #2 (WAITING) in Blake Pierce’s new psychological thriller series by #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose free bestseller Once Gone (Book #1) has received over 1,000 five star reviews. This bundle offers books one and two in one convenient file, with over 100,000 words of reading. In WATCHING,…
The Madman, His Parables and Poems is a book written by Kahlil Gibran, which was published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1918, with illustrations reproduced from original drawings by the author. It was Gibran’s first book in English to be published, also marking the beginning of the second phase of Gibran’s…
Out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip’s urging, the two go in – and things grow more and more curious by the minute. Counters, store fixtures, and mirrors seem to move around the room, and the shopkeeper is most mysterious of all. Gip…
“A powerful opener to a series [that] will produce a combination of feisty protagonists and challenging circumstances to thoroughly involve not just young adults, but adult fantasy fans who seek epic stories fueled by powerful friendships and adversaries.” “Morgan Rice’s imagination is limitless!” From #1 Bestselling fantasy author Morgan Rice comes a new series for…
«The Lurking Fear» is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew. The story is narrated by an unnamed seeker of “strange horrors” who is investigating the massacre of a community of some six dozen…
“When I fly among the stars and see the lights in the distance, I say to myself that this is my little Consuelo is calling me…” Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote about love for his wife. A graceful Consuelo Suncin inspired an outstanding French writer, poet and pilot to create a beautiful rose in his famous…
«The Luck of Roaring Camp» is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence. The story is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold prospecting camp. The boy’s mother, Cherokee Sal,…
«The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work’s protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form,…
Leonid Nikolaivich Andreyev was born in Orel in 1871. After his father’s death he was thrown upon his own resources, but managed to study at both Petrograd and Moscow Universities, graduating in Law in 1897. During this period he endured great hardship—often even actual hunger—and was the victim of deep melancholia. His first writings were…
«The favorite story of the Dutch settlement of Sleepy Hollow, New York, is an ominous ghost story. A headless horseman is waiting for belated travelers. Ikabod Crane, who believes in everything beyond, cares for Katharina Van Tassel, the blonde beauty, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Baltus van Tassel. Late in the autumn night, when…
The Lees of Happiness – one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald «Tales of the Jazz Age» (1922). The Lees of Happiness is a was first published in the «Chicago Tribune,» and first published in book form in. A newlywed young woman named Roxanne and…
Действительно ли существует свобода воли, или это только её видимость. Есть ли кто-то ещё, кто управляет нашими жизнями? Почему одна из главных конспирологических теорий обрастает всё больше фактами и не выходит из головы Паши? Этими вопросами задается главный герой и, пытаясь найти ответы, оказывается в психиатрической больнице. Новые условия, новая влюблённость, размышления о жизни, о…
«The Lady with the Dog» is a short story by Anton Chekhov. First published in 1899, it describes an adulterous affair between Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, an unhappily married Moscow banker, and Anna Sergeyevna Von Diderits, a young married woman, an affair which begins while both are vacationing alone in the Crimean sea resort of Yalta….
Он — частный детектив, появление которого взбудоражило маленький городок. Загадочный незнакомец, вызывающий вопросы. Она — всего лишь бармен и девушка, ищущая покоя в жизни. У каждого из них есть свои неприглядные тайны и нелегкое прошлое. Чувства, фоном которым служат кровавые развлечения серийного убийцы и опасность, острой гильотиной висящая над героями. The Kills
«The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird…
The Jelly-Bean – one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald «Tales of the Jazz Age» (1922). This is a Southern story, with the setting laid in the small Lily of Tarleton, Georgia. Fitzgerald wrote that he had «a profound affection for Tarleton, but somehow whenever…
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from…
The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson’s Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body’s refractive…
“THE ISLAND OF CHARON” is a philosophical thriller in the spirit of A. de Saint-Exupery. The lighthouse of that Island is the Wish Tree. Magicians fulfill dreams for a couple of lanterns, but Alice has nightmares about her own drowning, she is haunted by the shadow of the late beekeeper, and a strange child calls…
“TRANSMISSION is riveting, unexpected, and firmly rooted in strong psychological profiles backed with thriller and sci-fi elements: what more could readers wish for? (Just the quick publication of Book Two, Arrival.)” A bundle of the first two books in Morgan Rice’s new science fiction series THE INVASION CHRONICLES (TRANSMISSION and ARRIVAL). Here are two bestselling…
Complete and unabridged 15th century text by Thomas a Kempis and translated by William Benham in 1886. This book is a classic for comfort and understanding of living the spiritual life of Christ in a physical world. Find the path to following Christ in this treasured and timeless devotional book. Encouraging the renunciation of worldly…
Длительность записи: 28 часов и 14 минут. Текст читает искусственный интеллект. Чёткая речь и безукоризненное произношение ИИ идеально подходят для изучающих иностранный язык. Предлагаем вниманию читателей роман «Идиот». Главный герой романа, князь Лев Николаевич Мышкин, по авторскому замыслу является «по-настоящему прекрасной личностью», воплощением добра и христианской морали. И именно за его бескорыстие, доброту, честность и…
«The Hound» is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft’s fictional text the Necronomicon. The story focuses around the narrator and his friend, St. John, who have a deranged interest in robbing graves. They constantly…
«The Horror at Red Hook» is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on August 1–2, 1925. «Red Hook» is a transitional tale, situated between the author’s earlier work and the later Cthulhu Mythos. Although the story depicts a sinister cult, this cult offers a conventionally occult devil-worshipping threat, rather than the…
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England’s West Country and tells the story of an attempted…
«As part of her collection «„Christ Legends“» Selma Lagerlöf wrote the story «„The Holy Night,“» a Christmas-themed tale first published in sometime in the early 1900s but before her death in 1940. It tells the story of the author at five years old who experienced a great sadness when her grandmother passed which made her…
«Прислуга» – первый роман американской писательницы Кэтрин Стокетт, вышедший в свет в 2009 году и сразу ставший бестселлером. Дело происходит на Юге США в 1960-е годы. Скитер, которая только что окончила университет и мечтает о карьере писательницы, возвращается к себе на родину, в провинциальный Джексон, где нечего не меняется и не происходит. Рабство в Америке…
Поклонникам популярного сериала «Призраки усадьбы Блай» наверняка знакомы герои и сюжеты всех рассказов этой книги. «Поворот винта» – мистико-психологическая повесть, ставшая культовой для мирового кинематографа XX и XXI веков. В усадьбе Блай происходят необъяснимые события, заставляющие читателя сомневаться, что реально, а что нет. Пытаясь понять таинственные явления, главная героиня ищет разгадку в прошлом – в…
«The Haunter of the Dark» is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5-9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales. It was the last-written of the author’s known works, and is part of the Cthulhu Mythos. The epigraph to the story is the second…
