Maison d'édition: Booklassic
The Iron Man was written in the year 1930 by Robert Ervin Howard. This book is one of the most popular novels of Robert Ervin Howard, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this decade life on both sides of the Atlantic relied on territorial expansion and the gathering of industrial muscle. The people who live there merely cogs in a vast machine. Our authors illuminate these times with words that bring humanity and life to these literary gems. 01 - The Top Ten - The 1850's - An Introduction 02 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot 03 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot 04 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville 05 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville 06 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 07 - Master Zacharius - Part 1 by Jules Verne 08 - Master Zacharius - Part 2 by Jules Verne 09 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 10 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins 11 - Psyche's Art by Louisa May Alcott 12 -The Lake Gun by James Fenimore Cooper 13 - Two Offers by Frances Watkins Harper 14 - Gods in Exile by Heinrich HeineVoir livre
John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, editor and satirist. 'The Ghost Club' is a lighthearted ghost story told by a prisoner who has been found guilty of burglary and the theft of a set of ornate silver teaspoons. His improbable story of how he came to be in possession of the spoons is extraordinary and charmingly engaging.Voir livre
A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life is thrown, when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire. At first, he struggles to resist and remain focused upon his familiar political, personal and social life. But as he soon learns, it is harder than he could have imagined to turn his back on love.Voir livre
London’s East End has over the centuries been a magnet for immigration, innovation, culture, crime and a vast spectrum of other things. It is often seen as both part of and yet very distinct from the vast metropolis of London. Today it has been transformed from the often grimy, derelict and overcrowded area, that many of these stories describe, into a landscape of gentrification, sleek and shiny buildings and a booming economy. But here such noted talents as Arthur Morrison, Henry W. Nevinson, William Pett Ridge and Thomas Burke show The East End as it really was.Voir livre
'The Flying Fish' is unfinished but tells the story of an Englishman, Gethin Day, returning home after years in South America. There is a hint of the home-sickness Lawrence may have felt during his long exile. The bulk of the story is the time spent on the ship which is taking Day back to England. It is a ship of fools, a 'plague ship' and the only positive note is the joy Day sees in the play of the flying fish and porpoises around the ship. It is tantalising to speculate how Day would have adapted to English life again, confined to an old house in an old country.Voir livre
USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone has been a leading writer of Western fiction for more than 25 years. With over 10 million copies in print, the popular Last Gunfighter series chronicles the old West and the men who defined it with their bravado, six-shooters, and fists. Frank Morgan returns for another blazing tale of frontier justice. The sheriff in Parker County has issued an arrest warrant for Morgan for murder. Now, a lone manhunter has ridden far and hard to take him down.Voir livre
