Editora: Charles River Editors
Herman Melville was one of the greatest writers during the American Renaissance. Melville’s unique style helped produce classics in many different genres. This edition of Jimmy Rose includes a table of contents.
The new managing director of Schemes Ltd. has an elegant London office and a theatrically dressed assistant. However Bones, as he is better known, is bored. Luckily there is a slump in the shipping market and it is not long before Joe and Fred Pole pay Bones a visit. They are totally unprepared for Bones' unnerving style of doing business, unprepared for his unique style of innocent and endearing mischief.Ver livro
"The Sign of the Broken Sword" is a short story by G. K. Chesterton featuring his famous characters Father Brown and former criminal Flambeau. In the centre of a story is a mysterious death of General Sir Arthur St. Clare, who was hanged on a tree with his broken sword hung round his neck. It is a detective story and throughout it Father Brown reveals to us the mystery of General St. Clare.Ver livro
Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer. The End of a Show is a poignant tale of a quack showman and seller of dubious stomach pills who carries out what he believes to be his first-ever act of kindness - an act which horrifies and saddens in equal measure.Ver livro
One would think that after the momentous events of 1969 H.G Wells’ science fiction adventure “The First Men in The Moon” would have lost any fascination for the modern reader. Yet of course, Wells is never concerned merely with the mechanics of science fiction. It is surely the human reaction to these events that grips us and causes us to return again and again to this story. Narrated by Simon Hester, with original music.Ver livro
Ernest William Hornung(1866-1921) was born in Middlesborough, England and educated at Uppingham School, Rutland. He spent two years in Australia for his health, returning to England in 1886. In 1893 he married Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sister Constance and five years later the first of his stories of “Raffles” the gentleman burglar appeared in Cassell's Magazine. More stories followed and proved extremely popular. The first collection of the exploits of A.J. Raffles and his friend Bunny Manders was published as “The Amateur Cracksman” in 1899.The characters of Raffles and Bunny were possibly inspired by his brother-in-law's creations, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, although they are on the opposite side of the law.The activities of the gentleman cricketer and his associate are highly questionable but “he never steals from his hosts and he helps his old friends in trouble”.The stories are: “The Ides of March”“A Costume Piece”“Gentleman and Players”“Le Premier Pas”“Wilful Murder”“Nine Points of the Law”“The Return Match”“The Gift of the Emperor”Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy MacreadyVer livro
The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking Glass (1871).Ver livro
