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Dickens talks of the joys of a quiet a Sunday afternoon and the pleasure derived from a day off for the working classes. The pampered aristocrat, whose life is one continued round of licentious pleasures and sensual gratifications; or the gloomy enthusiast, who detests the cheerful amusements he can never enjoy, and envies the healthy feelings h...

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последняя активность: 2.04.2023 21:43

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последняя активность: 1.04.2024 16:50

жанры: фэнтези

фэндом: Percy Jackson / Перси Джексон

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последняя активность: 23.04.2023 19:23

My heart is fixtThis is the sixt.—EliaThe reader enters the story in the midst of Clorinda Saviani’s courtship with her friend Teresa’s brother, Giacomo de’ Tolmei. The two young women live in a convent in Rome, Italy. Clorinda has been put there until her parents are able to find an honorable man who will marry her, despite her small dowry. How...

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This story, part of Le Fanu's earliest earliest twelve short stories, written between 1838 and 1840, purport to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell. They were published in the Dublin University Magazine and were later collected as The Purcell Papers (1880). They are mostly set in Ireland and include s...

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последняя активность: 10.07.2022 21:27

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a British writer. He went to work for his father but was unhappy working for his father and earning very little money. The theme of parental miserliness occurs in his works. At 21 he went to London to clerk for a solicitor. He then began working for a magazine called Women. When he noticed the poor material being s...

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последняя активность: 6.12.2023 13:44

All Roads Lead to Calvary is a 1919 novel by the British writer Jerome K. Jerome. It was one of the last works written by Jerome, better known for his Three Men in a Boat, and shows the influence of the First World War on him.It is a Bildungsroman in which a Cambridge University educated woman Joan Allway becomes a journalist and then a wartime ...

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последняя активность: 6.07.2022 14:50

Among the first works of fiction in English by a North American writer of Asian descent, the stories collected in Mrs. Spring Fragrance present a complex and sympathetic picture of life in American Chinese communities in the early twentieth century. Far’s seemingly simple stories of family life reveal the tensions created by cultural assimilatio...

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последняя активность: 30.06.2023 11:03

Ingeniously conceived and brilliantly rendered, and set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush, The Wreck of the Golden Mary is a masterpiece of Victorian storytelling. En route to making their fortunes, the passengers of the Golden Mary suffer a terrifying ordeal when their vessel collides with an iceberg. Now the helpless victims of ...

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последняя активность: 13.05.2022 23:52

Bram Stoker is best known for his 1897 publication, Dracula. This work – an epistolary novel weaving hypnotism, magic, the supernatural, and other elements of Gothic fiction – went on to sell over one million copies, and has never been out of print.'The Chain of Destiny', originally published in 1875 as a serial in Irish magazine The Shamrock, i...

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Heroism is merely daring andingenuity — at the age of ten —experience can come later!A thin speck appeared in the visor plate and grew with sinister and terrifying speed. Bursts of flame began to play around the rocketing spaceship, the explosions hurtling it from side to side as it twisted and turned in a frantic effort to escape. Rogue Rogan, ...

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последняя активность: 4.03.2022 13:35

         And no one can ever take it away from us. Whatever happens. There's something unfair about our luck. Think of the ones who would—and can't.        Stella has it all - looks, intelligence and an undergraduate place at Cambridge, not to mention Gemini, her fervent admirer at Oxford. Stella and Gemini, the two babes of the story, come incr...

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Chadwick’s life was balanced on a knife’s edge—his career, his marriage, his relationship with his dangerously troubled daughter. And then one autumn night, the worst possible thing happened….Now, a decade later, Chadwick’s heart is on the mend. Working for an old military buddy, he saves kids for a living, escorting troubled teens to a Texas wi...

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последняя активность: 12.04.2022 19:57

фэндом: Tres Navarre / Трес Наварра

Every member of the family will find here something suited to his years and fancy. A story for little girls, one for boy scouts, a story for grown-ups, a word of advice about giving, a meditation and some personal reminiscences of Christmas in Kansas make up the volume. The book is attractively gotten up making a fit setting for the stories, whi...

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последняя активность: 19.01.2023 14:55

'Talk Stoppers' (HW, 25 October 1856). Humorous essay about enemies to the art of conversation.  'A Journey in Search of Nothing' (HW, 5 September 1857). Reflections on the difficulty of enforced idleness.'A Queen's Revenge' (HW, 15 August 1857). Historical account of the murder at Fontainebleu in 1657 of the Marquis Monaldeschi at the instigati...

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последняя активность: 30.10.2022 18:04