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Rudyard Kipling wrote the story of the New Army or Kitchener’s Army about the new battalions created for the Great War. Kipling wrote several stories about the war and describes the routine in which recruits, officers, and other ranks passed before they were sent to battle fronts. Fans of Kipling’s writings will love this brief treatise on citizen soldiers in England.

Awakening is one of the greatest works in American literature. Brilliant beauty Edna Pontellier, together with her husband and two wonderful kids, spend the summer in the resort town of Grand Isle. Edna’s unexpected meeting with Robert, a charming young man, suddenly changes the calm and measured life of a woman. Awakening was recognized only many years later.

„Great Expectations” is one of the most famous and much-loved novels by the great master of Victorian prose, Charles Dickens, that has become one of English languages greatest and most recognized stories. Here Dickens tells the story of the growth and development of young Philip Pirrip („Pip”) who begins his life as an orphan, neglected and abused, by his sister. Through a series of chance encounters, Pip rises above his disadvantaged beginnings to become a gentleman in eve...

„Sketches by „Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People” is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people and are divided into four sections: „Our Parish”, „Scenes”, „Characters”, and „Tales”. The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction. The last section comprises fictional stories. It was Dickens’s first book, published when he was twenty-four, and in it we find him w...

Charlotte Bronte wrote „Shirley” in difficult days for her: at this time her brother Branwell and two sisters, Emily and Ann, died of tuberculosis. Another novel about Jane Eyre, who was raised in a shelter. But it did not break the girl, but only tempered her character. Jane receives an excellent education and tries to achieve everything in life herself. Having installed herself as a housekeeper in the family of the rich and mysterious Mr. Rochester, Jane not only finds he...

Le brillant roman d’Alexander Dumas «Vingt ans après» sur l’honneur et la fierté, sur le courage et l’amour, sur les lames fidèles et les cœurs fidèles a été écrit après le roman «Les Trois Mousquetaires» et en est la suite directe. Il a autant d’esprit, d’amusement et de rebondissements inattendus que dans le premier livre. Les aventures des braves mousquetaires – d’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos et Aramis – se poursuivent parmi les terribles événements historiques qui ont dispe...

Le roman d’Alexandre Dumas «Le comte de Monte-Cristo» est considéré comme l’une des œuvres les plus marquantes de l’écrivain, il peut sans aucun doute être qualifié de chef-d’œuvre littéraire. Cet ouvrage emmène les lecteurs en France au début du XIXe siècle, alors qu’il y avait de nombreuses contradictions politiques dans le pays. Les bonapartistes se sont battus secrètement pour que Napoléon règne à nouveau sur le pays, mais beaucoup avaient peur de s’opposer ouvertement ...

The rumble of merry conversation mixed with the mumble of a stream; and from time to time a piece of a sweet song broke from melodious lips, short, energetic, melodious like a bobolink, rushing up from clover heads. And before the mighty shadow, gloomily lying on the great plain on the prairies, stretching east for a thousand miles, turned into darkness, active, happy workers gave the bivouac the kind of skillful ordering that a trained group always gives to any place....

This is a short romantic romance. „The Pearl of Lima” – one of the lesser-known works of Verne, and for good reason. This is one of his short novels, with a very simplified plot – lovers with crossed stars – and a very sharp ending. This book is romantic and intended for those who love classic prose.

The wreck of the ships of the Spanish Golden Armada off the Scottish coast generates a lot of rumors and superstitions. At the invitation of his uncle, Gordon Darnaway, young Charles visits these places and, through the roar of the breakers, nicknamed the Jolly Fellows, tries to uncover the mystery of the ships „Christ-Anna” and „Espirito Santo” in order to secure the future for himself and his beloved.

This novel, according to many critics, could become one of the main masterpieces of the XIX century. However, Stevenson’s premature death from tuberculosis did not allow him to end it. Only six chapters were written, which were then published in some collected works. This is Stevenson’s attempt to write a psychological action novel, which clearly shows the confrontation between the Father and the Son. A rude, cruel judge is Lord Hermiston, however, a master of his craft, a ...

In the historical novel „"Prince Otto"”, the romance of adventure is combined with the exact recreation of local color and historical setting. This novel is about Prince Otto, who is not very concerned about government affairs and problems, and he devotes all the time to hunting and other entertainments. Once during a hunt, he stumbles upon ordinary peasants who did not recognize him and agreed to shelter him for the night. During the evening dinner, the unrecognized prince...

This is a collection of three stories, which includes small tales. So the fairy tale „The Story of a Lie” talks about how, having returned to England after a trip to Paris, young Richard Nasby quarrels with his father. He also reduces acquaintance with Esther, whom he soon falls in love with. Another tale, „The Body Snatcher,” tells how a lonely living in the small town of Fetts accidentally meets a person from his past – visiting London doctor McFerlen.

A tale of fierce internecine feud that destroyed Lord Henry Darrissdire and his older brother James, also called the ruler of Ballantre. The story of their deaths is described by a devoted servant of the clan – old Ephraim McKellar. The novel tells how easy it is to lose honor and how difficult it is to preserve what is dear to you when money and power are at stake...

The novel, which remained unfinished, was restored from the author’s drafts. The fascinating story of the French youth, who during the Napoleonic Wars was one of the many British prisoners of war. The story of his dangerous and fascinating adventures and a difficult, multifaceted political game in which he unexpectedly found himself drawn into. The book you are reading, literally holding your breath...

Readers are invited to one of the writer’s best novels, The Black Arrow. The exciting adventures of his heroes take place in the heroic times of the war of the Scarlet and White Roses. The brilliantly twisted plot is replete with everything necessary: terrible secrets, courageous love, uncompromising valor and unexpected outcomes have been attracting readers of all ages for many years.The mystery of the gloomy Tanstoll forest and deadly black arrows can captivate even the m...

Very engaging tale of the South Seas, by the author of „Mutiny on the Bounty,” who was quite familiar with the area. This book has the same seafaring merit but is set in the pearl atolls of the southwestern Pacific. Into „The Pearl Lagoon” Charles Nordhoff wove his love and knowledge of the South Pacific islands and their people. It is his only story written through the eyes of young people. It is an adventure story about a California young boy, Charlie Selden who leaves hi...

Ronald Makivor and Jack Bangles decided to find the „peacock throne” of Shah Jehan, who, as they say, Nadir Shah took away from Delhi. Their adventures begin with fleeing wide legs from the rebellious sepoys. Over time, they enter the service of the Afghan prince – a model of knightly honor – who must have been very unlike his compatriots, unless they are greatly offended by the general message. In his company, they go through amazing experience and see that they are fighti...

As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. While the three ghosts that visited Ebenezer Scrooge was Charles Dickens’ most famous apparitions, his interest in the supernatural did not end there. „Three Ghost Stories” includes three different stories that are true Gothic classics and were sensational for their time and continue to hold up well, thanks to Charles Dickens’ superb s...

A set of six amazing short stories by Joseph Conrad. However, these six stories are not in the same vein, they differ: themes and ideas. These stories do not so much illuminate anything as they tell an interesting story. The professor, a character from an earlier novel, appears briefly and tells us about his possible fate.

The novel tells the prophetic story of man’s harnessing of the newly-discovered power of the atom, how this power nearly destroys civilization in a catastrophic war and foreshadows nuclear warfare years before research began and describes the chain reactions involved and the resulting radiation. It is presented as a history of the important events of the 20th century, jumping back and forth amongst narratives of different eyewitnesses and major players in those events. „The...

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Graham’s money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the enti...

Dedicated to all schoolmasters and schoolmistresses and every teacher in the world, this re-interpretation of the Book of Job is one of the author’s finest discussion novels. Written in 1918, this is the story of Job Huss, the headmaster of a progressive school. It is saturated with the ideas of educational reform and of the teaching of world history as the basis for a common civilization and is one of his most ambitious dialogue narratives. Essentially it is a modernized p...

Bert Smallways is the unlikely protagonist, a kind of Edwardian Mod, not interested in a steady career, always looking for a good time, riding his proto-scooter down to Brighton at the weekends. When Bert is accidentally scooped up by a German fleet, on its way to launch a surprise attack on the United States, he finds himself with a front row seat to the greatest war that has ever been – the war in the air! This new war is to be a different sort of war than all the wars th...