The Best American Humorous Short Stories Alexander Jessup - A Different Kind of Humor The Best American Humorous Short Stories is a collection of 19th-century and early 20th-century stories written by the likes of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, George William Curtis, Bret Harte or O. Henry. These stories aren't humorous in the sense of our modern understanding, they present a different kind of humor like jokes about men who don't wear hats and ridiculous notions about the African-Americans and about women. This Collection Includes: INTRODUCTION Alexander Jessup THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS (1839) George Pope Morris THE ANGEL OF THE ODD (1844) Edgar Allan Poe THE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS (1844) Caroline M.S. Kirkland THE WATKINSON EVENING (1846) Eliza Leslie TITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES (1854) George William Curtis MY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME (1859) Edward Everett Hale A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS (1861) Oliver Wendell Holmes THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY (1865) Mark Twain ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE (1885) Harry Stillwell Edwards THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER (1886) Richard Malcolm Johnston THE NICE PEOPLE (1890) Henry Cuyler Bunner THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT (1897) Frank Richard Stockton COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF (1901) Bret Harte THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES (1902) O. Henry BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE (1905) George Randolph Chester A CALL (1906) Grace MacGowan Cooke HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON (1911) William James Lampton GIDEON (1914) Wells Hastings
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Er ist ihr Feind, doch das hält ihr Herz nicht davon ab, immer schneller zu schlagen … Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die junge Lady Catherine ist auf der Heimreise nach England, als ihr Schiff von Piraten überfallen wird und sie in die Hände des berüchtigten Captain Jonathan Hale fällt. Der ebenso unverschämte wie attraktive Hale hat noch eine Rechnung mit der vornehmen Londoner Gesellschaft und Lady Catherines Familie offen. Und so entführt er sie in sein Versteck, auf die exotische Insel Las Palmas. Doch Catherine spürt, dass er nicht mit einer Frau wie ihr gerechnet hat. Ein Tanz mit dem Feuer beginnt, an dessen Ende sich zeigen wird, welche Macht stärker ist: die des Hasses – oder die der Liebe? Dieser historische Liebesroman vor der wunderschönen Kulisse von Las Palmas Gran Canaria wird Fans von Emily Bold und Julia Quinn zum Lesen verführen …
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #181818; background: white;">Sir James Waverly, hrabia Winterton, zawsze dbał o reputację i unikał skandali. Dlatego niechętnie zgadza się wyświadczyć przysługę młodszemu kuzynowi i przywieźć jego kochankę do majątku pod Londynem.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #181818; background: white;">O umówionej porze sir James zjawia się w Hyde Parku i podchodzi do kobiety w czerwieni, która odpowiada opisowi podanemu przez kuzyna. </span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;">Nieznajoma nie zamierza jednak skorzystać z zaproszenia do powozu. Waverly zgodnie z instrukcjami kuzyna zabiera ją siłą i odjeżdża. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; background: white;">Szybko okazuje się, że porwał niewłaściwą osobę. <span style="color: #181818;">Zamiast damy lekkich obyczajów James uprowadził lady Florentinę Hale-Burton i sprowadził na siebie nie lada kłopoty…</span></span></p>
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Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas to you all! This festive season, we are playing the Santa, and offering you our own Christmas basket of holiday goodies: the greatest Christmas novels and magical Christmas Tales: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter) The Ice Queen (Ernest Ingersoll) A Merry Christmas (Louisa May Alcott) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Fir Tree (Hans Christian Andersen) The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) The Elves and the Shoemaker (Brothers Grimm) Mother Holle (Brothers Grimm) A Kidnapped Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Shepherds and the Angels (Bible) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) A Russian Christmas Party (Leo Tolstoy) Vanka (Anton Chekhov) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Chimes (Charles Dickens) The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Robinson Perrault) The Blue Bird (Madame d'Aulnoy) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express (William Dean Howells) The Pumpkin Glory (William Dean Howells) Christmas Eve & Christmas Day (Edward Everett Hale) A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore) Christmas - A Story (Zona Gale) The Story of the Other Wise Man (Henry van Dyke) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) Christmas Roses (Anne Douglas Sedgwick)....
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( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result. Eliot worked for one year with William A. Neilson, a professor of English; Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes. Each volume had 400–450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies." The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's and elsewhere, with great success. Eight years later Eliot added a further 20 volumes as a sub-collection titled 'The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction', offering some of the greatest novels and short stories of world literature. The exhaustive anthology of the 'The Harvard Classics' comprises every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject up to the twentieth century. The Harvard Classics: . 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne 4: John Milton 5: R. W. Emerson 6: Robert Burns 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis 8: Nine Greek Dramas 9: Cicero and Pliny 10: The Wealth of Nations 11: The Origin of Species 12: Plutarchs 13: Æneid 14: Don Quixote 15: Bunyan & Walton 16: 1001 Nights 17: Folklore & Fable 18: Modern English Drama 19: Goethe & Marlowe 20: The Divine Comedy 21: I Promessi Sposi 22: The Odyssey 23: Two Years Before the Mast 24: Edmund Burke 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle 26: Continental Drama 27 & 28: English & American Essays 29: The Voyage of the Beagle 30: Scientific Papers 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays 33: Voyages & Travels 34: French & English Philosophers 35: Chronicle and Romance 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur 39: Prologues 40–42: English Poetry 43: American Historical Documents 44 & 45: Sacred Writings 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama 48: Blaise Pascal 49: Saga 50: Reader's Guide 51: Lectures The Shelf of Fiction: 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice 4: Guy Mannering 5 & 6: Vanity Fair 7 & 8: David Copperfield 9: The Mill on the Floss 10: Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale 11: The Portrait of a Lady 12: Notre Dame de Paris 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, St...
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Anfang 19. Jahrhundert in Gretna Green, Südschottland. Julia und Thomas sind bis über beide Ohren verliebt, reißen Hals über Kopf aus und heiraten heimlich gegen den Willen ihrer Familien. Nur kurze Zeit später ist Julia allein - und hat keine Ahnung, wo ihr frischangetrauter Ehemann inzwischen steckt und ob er jemals zu ihr zurückkommen wird. Als alles Ersparte aufgebraucht ist, bleibt ihr keine Wahl: Sie muss zu ihrer Familie nach London zurückkehren und hoffen, dass sie ihr vergeben werden. Besonders jetzt, da sie ein Baby hat. In welche dunklen Machenschaften ist Thomas verstrickt? Wird er den Weg zu ihr zurückfinden - und werden sie sich wieder lieben und vergeben können?
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'A chilling exploration of power, love and grief' - JULIA ARMFIELD 'I am in awe of this wonderful book' - EDWARD CAREY 'Terrifyingly brilliant . . . intoxicating and beautiful' - CAMILLA GRUDOVA Wilhelm von Tore is dying. As he looks back on his life, he reflects on his upbringing in Dresden, his beloved grandmother, and his medical career during the Second World War. But mostly, he remembers his darling Luci, the great love of his life, his dark-haired beauty promised to him in a dream years before they met. Though only together for a few months in her first life, their love is written in the stars. Using scientific research compiled over decades, Wilhelm ensures that, for him and his beloved, death is only the beginning. But through the cracks in Wilhelm's story, there is another voice - that of Gabriela, and she will not let this version of events go unchallenged. She tells the story of her sister Luciana, fearless and full of life, and the madman who robbed her from her grave. FURTHER PRAISE: 'Heather Parry is a literary star of the future' - Kirsty Logan 'Strangely beautiful . . . an intensely gripping debut' - Alice Ash 'A wild, creepy, compelling read' - Jan Carson 'Sumptuously written and impossible to step away from' - Katie Hale 'Disturbing and compelling in equal measure' - The Big Issue
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<p>Nowożeńcy Tricia i Ethan w poszukiwaniu idealnego miejsca do życia trafiają do położonego na odludziu domu. Dawniej należał do doktor Adrienne Hale – znanej psychiatrki, która zniknęła bez śladu cztery lata temu. Gdy nadciąga gwałtowna śnieżyca i odcina im drogę powrotu, para zostaje uwięziona w posiadłości.</p> <p>Znudzona Tricia zaczyna badać zakamarki budynku i przypadkiem odkrywa ukryty pokój. W środku znajduje kasety z nagraniami sesji terapeutycznych doktor Hale. Każda kolejna taśma ukazuje szokujące szczegóły, a sieć kłamstw zaczyna się rozpadać.</p> <p>W końcu Tricia dociera do ostatniej kasety.</p> <p>Kasety, która zmienia wszystko.</p>
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