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Henryk Sienkiewicz was the most famous Polish author near the turn of the 20th century.  Sienkiewicz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 and his...

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The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to...

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Margaret Oliphant was a 19th century Scottish writer of historical fiction and supernatural tales.  Oliphant was a very prolific author, having written over...

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«Вечный муж» – классический любовный треугольник. Тонкий психолог Достоевский виртуозно анализирует поступки людей, проникая в самые потаенные уголки...

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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine,...

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This novel was written in 1926, almost ten years after the Russian revolution. The nature and tragedy of the Soviet revolution and the new regime are...

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Once they started a new interesting game in pseudonyms, which led to funny and curious consequences. Each time he came to London, he was convicted of...

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A wealthy young English gentleman, Louis Trevelyan, visits the fictional Mandarin Islands, a distant British possession, and becomes smitten with Emily...

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The pretty little town of Golden Friars—standing by the margin of the lake, hemmed round by an amphitheatre of purple mountain, rich in tint and furrowed by...

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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from W.W. Jacobs, ‘Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection)’. Included in this volume are Jacobs's...

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London,1920—youth stands in the center of the present, with extraordinary possibilities whirling about it, ready and eager to grasp at these possibilities,...

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Talking of the prices of birds, I've seen an ostrich that cost three hundred pounds,' said the Taxidermist, recalling his youth of travel. 'Three hundred...

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More famously known by her pen name George Eliot, Mary Anne Evans was a celebrated novelist, journalist, translator, critic and leading writer of the...

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What makes this work so unusual is that it tries to mimic the format of a legal report covering a fictional trial of Pickwick, who is accused of breaking...

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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘How I Went Out to Service’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott’. Having...

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This having happened to me I sat still on my brother Bill’s horse, because that’s the best thing you can do when a feller is p’inting a cocked.45 at your...

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The protagonist, the real adventurer Jim Maitland returns to England. There he meets a charming girl, Judy Draycott, who needs his help. She tells the...

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This is the story of a love triangle between Dick Forrest, a wealthy landowner and a great businessman, his wife Paola and friend Graham, who came to...

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A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887. It is the first story to feature the...