This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally...
One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A true literary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant and affecting...
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too...
Lucy Carroll's literary masterpiece "The Snark Hunt", in which more than a hundred years remained in the shadow of two "Alice", and modern writer's opinion was about him as a "delusional and harmless flight of fantasy." Current researchers of creativity believe that "The Snark Hunt" is not only a great triumph, but also the central work of classical English nonsense poetry. In this edition, in addition to "The Hunt for the Snark" in the best translation of G. Kruzhkov, presents the stories of Carroll, as well as a collection of articles and messages entitled "Food for the mind."...
The continuation of the famous Burroughs cycle about Mars. This time, the main character is Kartoris from Helium, the son of the commander of Mars, John Carter and Dei Toris. Cartoris is in love with Tuvia, the daughter of the Jeddah Ptars. This love is mutual, but she is the daughter of a powerful lord and promised to another. Will this circumstance be able to stop the son of an earthling, who inherited from the famous father not only the ability for giant leaps and unusual strength, but also a strong-willed character....
The year is 1793, the darkest days of the French revolution, and little Charles-Léon is ill. The delicate son of Louise and Bastien de Croissy is recommended country air, but travel permits are needed and impossible to come by. Louise's friend, Josette, believes she knows a way out. For Josette is convinced that her hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel, will come to their rescue. She refuses to believe that he only exists in her imagination. 'I say that the Scarlet Pimpernel can do anything! And I mean to get in touch with him,' she vows, and sets forth into the Paris streets....
According to legend, the ancient Greek fabulist Aesop lived in the VI century BC. er Herodotus and Plato wrote about him. Demetriy Falersky at the end of the IV century BC. E. The name of Aesop entrenched itself to the genre he created, because in the ancient world all the fables were called “Aesop's fables”. The plot of "Aesop's fables" was processed in world literature. The themes of Aesop in their own way broke Lafontaine and Krylov....
In the first novel by Lucy Montgomery, whose action unfolds in Canada at the end of the 19th century, we are familiar with the main character, Anne Shirley. An eleven-year-old girl, red-haired Ann, is brought from a orphanage to a small family on the Greengaby farm ......
Hercule Poirot receives a letter from a South American millionaire asking for help. Could not have time to save the unfortunate man in the golf course. You should have killed a millionaire....
