When young doctor James Kildare and his fiancée, nurse Mary Lamont, make plans for their wedding day, brother Mary Douglas arrives at her. Douglas asks Kildare to arrange an appointment with...więcej »
„I had turned the corner at Thirty-fifth Street and was halfway down the block in my search for a number I had just taken from the telephone book when my attention was suddenly diverted by th...więcej »
Intoxicated by success, the crowd walked along the street, screaming and screaming, while broken glasses and women’s cries marked her progress. In a few minutes they will be ahead. Suddenly a...więcej »
Explore the compelling universe of Edgar Allan Poe with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 2. Immerse yourself in "Spellbinding Tales of Gothic Terror and Eerie Suspense" that will tran...więcej »
Explore the compelling universe of Edgar Allan Poe with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 5. Immerse yourself in "Spellbinding Tales of Gothic Terror and Eerie Suspense" that will tran...więcej »
Explore the compelling universe of Edgar Allan Poe with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 1. Immerse yourself in "Spellbinding Tales of Gothic Terror and Eerie Suspense" that will tran...więcej »
The main plot of the story is a dying man and his will. Having no relatives, the man wants to give his money to someone worthy and resembling a woman whom he loved and lost too early. Most of the b...więcej »
Mary Earle’s mother passed away and then her father disappeared when she was very young. Now, after many years, being „adult” and not having her own money in her youth, she receiv...więcej »
The last part of the book includes a chase that ends with a terrible snowstorm. The problem with this is that the „twist” discovered at the end is what the reader will suspect long befo...więcej »
The story of a strange, impenetrable, charming woman. Miss Hurd is certainly a very unusual person: „Miss Hurd in the garb of a working woman, and with a working woman’s bundle in her l...więcej »
Explore the compelling universe of Edgar Allan Poe with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 3. Immerse yourself in "Spellbinding Tales of Gothic Terror and Eerie Suspense" that will tran...więcej »
A tall, elegant middle-aged woman sat in front of a mirror, and the finishing touches of her rich toilet seat young woman were kneeling on the floor next to her. The noted picture, and this is not ...więcej »
”A Personal Record” is the story of the design and manuscript of „Caprice Olmeyer,” Conrad’s first novel, as well as the story of his dream about the sea, and the stor...więcej »
Correspondence with Knipper is interesting not only as a chronicle of the last years of Chekhov’s life, not only as a valuable source of information about the first years of the Art Theater. ...więcej »
The scene takes place in 1832, just 40 years after the fall of the royal family and about 15 years after the fall of Napoleon. There are we have characters who are designed to fight, perhaps for th...więcej »
Doctor Kildare approached just in time to hear Meg say to the officer, „"I heard a shot outside my apartment, then a crash. When I ran out, this man was lying on the landing... „&r...więcej »
If you like classic animal stories you will like this one for sure. Tucker Crosden bred his dogs to be champions. Yet even by frontiersman’s brutal standards, bull terrier White Wolf was spec...więcej »
„The Face and the Doctor” is another short story by Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pe...więcej »
Something natural or supernatural enters the soul of Andrew Creel, a commonplace and disaffected young man, and drives him into a swift game where death is a probability on the one side and love on...więcej »
You don’t get a much more evocative opening than that for a Western novella called „Werewolf”, and the story lives up to both its title and that opening in ways you won’t ex...więcej »