Maison d'édition: Wildside Press
Gunslinger Charlie Rizdal was wanted dead or alive—eight thousand alive or five thousand dead. Jim Pleasant took him in alive and collected the eight thousand dollar bounty. But then Jim learned that Rizdal’s brother, Long Tom, has put a price on his own head. Now, Jim is fair game for every outlaw around...preferably dead!
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "Little Women" is one of the most widely-read novels in American literature, following the four March sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy — and their passage from childhood into womanhood. "Little Women" is a classic novel originally published in 1868 which tells the story of four sisters and their coming of age during the American Civil War. With the help of their beloved mother and their neighbor, Mr. Laurence, the girls learn valuable lessons about love, family and the importance of giving back to the community. Along the way, they learn the importance of resilience and self-determination, as they face various hardships and struggles. This timeless classic is an inspiring and heart-warming story about the power of family, friendship and the importance of chasing your dreams. It is loosely based on the lives of the author, Louisa May Alcott, and her own three sisters.Voir livre
Undoubtedly, this story is cute, touching, heartwarming, tear-jerking. In other words, a classic for anyone! Anne is a young woman beautifully flawed and full of resilient grace. She's a master portrait of living and loving in the everyday. Montgomery's writing is wonderfully expressive, the characters are drawn with tremendous insight and humor. The poignant messages throughout this book are completely necessary for today's world and it teaches a lot of important things. Anne of Green Gables is a masterpiece that will make every person – man, woman, child – better for having read it.Voir livre
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog". The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.[citation needed]. Following the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels, 1900). Famous works of the author Jerome K. Jerome: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men in a Boat, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Three Men on the Bummel, Paul Kelver, All Roads Lead to Calvary.Voir livre
"I am no longer a man. I am a gambler." Set in the fictional European spa town of Roulettenburg, The Gambler follows Alexei Ivanovich, a young tutor serving a dysfunctional aristocratic family. Alexei is consumed by two equally destructive passions: his unrequited love for the enigmatic Polina and his growing obsession with the roulette table. As the family awaits the death of their wealthy "Grandmother" to inherit her fortune, the old woman arrives in town—only to discover the thrill of the game herself. Dostoevsky provides a terrifyingly visceral look at the mechanics of addiction, where the spin of the wheel becomes the only thing that makes a man feel truly alive. The Psychology of the Spin: Dostoevsky, a lifelong gambler himself, captures the "fever" with haunting accuracy. He explores the gambler's fallacy—the irrational belief that one can master chance through sheer will. Through Alexei's eyes, we see how the casino floor levels all social distinctions, turning princes and paupers alike into slaves of the "zero." A Tragedy of Character: While the plot is a frantic "whodunit" of financial and romantic ruin, the core is a character study of a man losing his soul. Alexei begins the novel as a cynical observer of the upper class, but ends as a man who has traded his dignity, his love, and his future for one more turn of the wheel. It is a cautionary tale that remains startlingly relevant in an age of modern speculation. Place your bets on a masterpiece. Purchase "The Gambler" today and experience Dostoevsky's most fast-paced and personal work.Voir livre
The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 34 Arsène Lupin stories, including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (1-15) - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (16-25) - The Hollow Needle 26-37) - 813 (38-56) - The Crystal Stopper (57-71) - The Confessions of Arsène Lupin (72-91) - The Teeth of The Tiger (92-128) - The Woman of Mystery (129-150) - The Eight Strokes of The Clock (151-160) - The Secret Tomb (161-180)Voir livre
Sir Lulworth Quayne discusses with his nephew the threat posed by the suffragette movement in this satirical short story by Saki. This collection of stories also includes "Tea", "The Wolves of Cernogratz" and "The Penance", which were first published in 1919 in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers.Voir livre
