Editora: Bu Classics Books
A talented artist faces a tragic race against time as his eyesight fades, forcing him to confront the shattering loss of his passion and his independence.
Bernard Edward Joseph Capes was born on the 30th August 1854 in London. He was one of 11 children. His early work was as a journalist and this developed into writing many short stories for the periodicals of the time including Blackwood's, Cassell's, Cornhill Magazine, Illustrated London News, Macmillan's Magazine, Mall Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, The Idler, and The Queen. It took him many years to decide that writing full-time could be a sustainable career path. His initial success came with ‘The Mill of Silence’. As well as being published it garnered second prize at a competition sponsored by the Chicago Record. He exceeded that by winning it the following year with ‘The Lake of Wine’. Capes quickly became both prolific and popular. As well as his stories and articles for the periodicals he wrote around 40 volumes across novels, poetry, history as well as romance and mystery novels. Bernard Capes died on 2nd November 1918 in the flu epidemic.Ver livro
Stories of an English public school as the boys tell them: the football matches, the boat races, the paper-chases, the bullying and the quarrels that take a term to settle. Talbot Baines Reed wrote for "The Boy's Own Paper" and was a typefounder by trade — he also wrote the standard history of English letter-founding. His schoolboys argue about justice more than about games, and the argument is the point. Fifty-nine plates bring the wider nineteenth-century world to these school stories, from Wilkie's crowded gatherings to Holland's river and street scenes.Ver livro
What is everyone willing to kill for? First published in 1930, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is the novel that reshaped detective fiction forever. Set in a shadowy world of deception and greed, the story follows private investigator Sam Spade as he is drawn into a dangerous hunt for a legendary jeweled statue—and the truth behind it. With sharp dialogue, moral ambiguity, and relentless tension, Hammett strips the detective story down to its toughest elements. Sam Spade is neither hero nor villain, but a man navigating lies, betrayal, and violence with cold intelligence and personal code. This landmark novel established the hard-boiled style and laid the foundation for modern crime fiction and film noir. Inside this eBook, you'll experience: One of the most influential detective novels ever written The iconic character of Sam Spade Fast-paced action and razor-sharp dialogue A defining work of American noir fiction Adapted into one of the most famous films in cinema history and studied worldwide, The Maltese Falcon remains essential reading for fans of classic mysteries and crime literature. Enter the world where trust is deadly and truth has a price. Buy now and experience the novel that defined noir.Ver livro
"I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being." On the bleak and wind-swept Yorkshire moors, a storm of human passion rages. When the orphan Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights, he forms an unbreakable, primal bond with Catherine Earnshaw. But when social ambition and betrayal tear them apart, Heathcliff's love curdles into a decades-long vendetta. Emily Brontë's only novel is a wild, elemental force of nature that defies the conventions of Victorian morality and romance. A Study in Duality and Conflict: The novel is structured around the stark opposition between two households: the chaotic, ancient Wuthering Heights and the sheltered, civilized Thrushcross Grange. As the story descends through two generations, readers witness the devastating effects of inherited trauma and the relentless pursuit of vengeance that threatens to consume both families. The Ultimate Anti-Hero: In Heathcliff, Brontë created literature's most enduring and polarizing figure—a Byronic hero driven by a love so absolute it becomes a curse. Haunted by ghosts both literal and figurative, the characters of Wuthering Heights exist in a world where the boundary between the living and the dead is as thin as the mist on the moors. It is a masterpiece of psychological intensity and Gothic horror. An unfiltered cry of the soul. Purchase "Wuthering Heights" today and experience the most haunting romance ever written.Ver livro
Three passions in one man's life — in youth, in the prime of life and in middle age — each with its own season, each ruinous, and none of them the marriage he is in. Galsworthy published this in 1913 and his admirers were shocked; it is the most naked thing he wrote, and the structure, three novellas making one life, is why it survives while his plays do not. Sixty plates of painting by Millais and Arthur Hughes follow the same arc of desire and consequence, from Fair Rosamund to a boy on a hobby horse.Ver livro
The buccaneer who circumnavigated three times, described the trade winds, piloted the ship that took Alexander Selkirk off Juan Fernandez and wrote the best sea narrative of his age. William Clark Russell, himself a sailor and a novelist of the sea, wrote this life for the Men of Action series. He is admiring of the navigator and honest about the pirate, which most nineteenth-century accounts were not. Sixty plates by painters including William Hodges and J. M. W. Turner carry the sea, ships and far harbours of Dampier's voyages across two centuries of marine art.Ver livro
