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111Vampire, Interrupted , Lynsay Sands (2008)
After seven hundred years of life, Marguerite Argeneau finally has a career. Well, the start of one, anyway. She's training to be a private investigator, and her first assignment is to find an… 607 руб112Cranford , Elizabeth Gaskell (1892)
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come tosettle in the town, somehow the gentleman… 1546 руб113The Aspirations Of Jean Servien , Anatole France (1912)
Shut up in his room, he was filled with a great pity for himself and longed to recover the peace of mind, the calm of the senses, the happy life that had vanished along with the leaf he had abandoned… 1308 руб114The Dream , Emile Zola (1924)
When she held her in her arms pressed against her breast, she felt that she was trembling. She almost seemed to avoid her usual evening kiss. Looking anxiously in her face, Hubertine read in her eyes… 360 руб115The Little Red Foot , Robert W. Chambers (1921)
1921. Chambers, American artist and writer, later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates, Chambers had oneof the most successful literary careers of his… 1775 руб116One Summer , Blanche Willis Howard (1900)
Blanche Willis Howard (1847- October 7, 1898) (aka Blanche Willis Howard von Teufel) was a best-selling American novelist who lived most of her productive years in southern Germany. Born and raised… 1308 руб117The Dark Forest , Hugh Walpole (1916)
1916. Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. The book begins: His was the first figure to catch my eye… 1311 руб118The Silent Isle , Arthur Christopher Benson (1891)
I have been spending some days in town, on business; I have been sitting on two committees, I have given a lecture, I have attended a public dinner;and now I have come back gratefully to my… 1318 руб119To Have and To Hold , Mary Johnston (1900)
1900. Johnston, an American novelist, wrote books that combine romance with history. She is chiefly remembered for To Have and to Hold, a story of colonial Virginia, and its successor, Audrey. The… 1317 руб120Great Expectations , Charles Dickens (2007)
One bleak and windy evening, 8-year-old Pip meets an escaped convict on the marshes. Shortly afterwards, he is summoned to Satis House, the derelict, gloomy home of the strange, reclusive Miss… 688 руб
