To Rosamund, chief among those for whom these tales are told, The Book of Dragons is dedicated in the confident hope that she, one of these days, will dedicate a book of her very own making to the one who now bids eight dreadful dragons crouch in all humbleness at those little brown feet. ? To Rosamund, chief among those for whom these tales are told, The Book of Dragons is dedicated in the confident hope that she, one of these days, will dedicate a book of her very own making to the one who now bids eight dreadful dragons crouch in all humbleness at those little brown feet. The Book of Beasts: He happened to be building a Palace when the news came, and he left all the bricks kicking about the floor for Nurse to clear up—but then the news was rather remarkable news. You see, there was a knock at the front door and voices talking downstairs, and Lionel thought it was the man come to see about the gas, which had not been allowed to be lighted since the day when Lionel made a swing by tying his skipping rope to the gas bracket. And then, quite suddenly, Nurse came in and said, "Master Lionel, dear, they've come to fetch you to go and be King." Then she made haste to change his smock and to wash his face and hands and brush his hair, and all the time she was doing it Lionel kept wriggling and fidgeting and saying, "Oh, don't, Nurse," and, "I'm sure my ears are quite clean," or, "Never mind my hair, it's all right," and, "That'll do." "You're going on as if you was going to be an eel instead of a King," said Nurse. The minute Nurse let go for a moment Lionel bolted off without waiting for his clean handkerchief, and in the drawing room there were two very grave-looking gentlemen in red robes with fur, and gold coronets with velvet sticking up out of the middle like the cream in the very expensive jam tarts. They bowed low to Lionel, and the gravest one said: "Sire, your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, the King of this country, is dead, and now you have got to come and be King." "Yes, please, sir," said Lionel, "when does it begin?" "You will be crowned this afternoon," said the grave gentleman who was not quite so grave-looking as the other. "Would you like me to bring Nurse, or what time would you like me to be fetched, and hadn't I better put on my velvet suit with the lace collar?" said Lionel, who had often been out to tea. "Your Nurse will be removed to the Palace later. No, never mind about changing your suit; the Royal robes will cover all that up." The grave gentlemen led the way to a coach with eight white horses, which was drawn up in front of the house where Lionel lived. It was No. 7, on the left-hand side of the street as you go up. Lionel ran upstairs at the last minute, and he kissed Nurse and said: "Thank you for washing me. I wish I'd let you do the other ear. No—there's no time now. Give me the hanky. Good-bye, Nurse."

There is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do want to explain. Unfortunately, I do not know her name, much less her present address. If her eyes should chance upon these lines, I hope she will write to me.It was in Reno, Nevada, in the summer of 1892. Also, it was fair-time, and the town was filled with petty crooks and tin-horns, to say nothing of a vast and hungry horde of hoboes. It was the hungry hoboes that made the town a "hungry" town. They "battered" the back doors of the homes of the citizens until the back doors became unresponsive.A hard town for "scoffings," was what the hoboes called it at that time. I know that I missed many a meal, in spite of the fact that I could "throw my feet" with the next one when it came to "slamming a gate for a "poke-out" or a "set-down," "or hitting for a light piece" on the street. Why, I was so hard put in that town, one day, that I gave the porter the slip and invaded the private car of some itinerant millionnaire. The train started as I made the platform, and I headed for the aforesaid millionnaire with the porter one jump behind and reaching for me. It was a dead heat, for I reached the millionnaire at the same instant that the porter reached me. I had no time for formalities. "Gimme a quarter to eat on," I blurted out. And as I live, that millionnaire dipped into his pocket and gave me ... just ... precisely ... a quarter. It is my conviction that he was so flabbergasted that he obeyed automatically, and it has been a matter of keen regret ever since, on my part, that I didn't ask him for a dollar. I know that I'd have got it. I swung off the platform of that private car with the porter manoeuvering to kick me in the face. He missed me. One is at a terrible disadvantage when trying to swing off the lowest step of a car and not break his neck on the right of way, with, at the same time, an irate Ethiopian on the platform above trying to land him in the face with a number eleven. But I got the quarter! I got it!But to return to the woman to whom I so shamelessly lied. It was in the evening of my last day in Reno. I had been out to the race-track watching the ponies run, and had missed my dinner (i.e. the midday meal). I was hungry, and, furthermore, a committee of public safety had just been organized to rid the town of just such hungry mortals as I. Already a lot of my brother hoboes had been gathered in by John Law, and I could hear the sunny valleys of California calling to me over the cold crests of the Sierras. Two acts remained for me to perform before I shook the dust of Reno from my feet. One was to catch the blind baggage on the westbound overland that night. The other was first to get something to eat. Even youth will hesitate at an all-night ride, on an empty stomach, outside a train that is tearing the atmosphere through the snow-sheds, tunnels, and eternal snows of heaven-aspiring mountains.But that something to eat was a hard proposition. I was "turned down" at a dozen houses. Sometimes I received insulting remarks and was informed of the barred domicile that should be mine if I had my just deserts. The worst of it was that such assertions were only too true. That was why I was pulling west that night. John Law was abroad in the town, seeking eagerly for the hungry and homeless, for by such was his barred domicile tenanted.At other houses the doors were slammed in my face, cutting short my politely and humbly couched request for something to eat. At one house they did not open the door. I stood on the porch and knocked, and they looked out at me through the window. They even held one sturdy little boy aloft so that he could see over the shoulders of his elders the tramp who wasn't going to get anything to eat at their house.

THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few of us realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was to us. The reader will be amused to find that here it is put off until the year 1956. He may naturally want to know the reason for what will seem now a quite extraordinary delay. As a prophet, the author must confess he has always been inclined to be rather a slow prophet. The war aeroplane in the world of reality, for example, beat the forecast in Anticipations by about twenty years or so. I suppose a desire not to shock the sceptical reader's sense of use and wont and perhaps a less creditable disposition to hedge, have something to do with this dating forward of one's main events, but in the particular case of The World Set Free there was, I think, another motive in holding the Great War back, and that was to allow the chemist to get well forward with his discovery of the release of atomic energy. 1956—or for that matter 2056—may be none too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this procrastination of over forty years, the guess at the opening phase of the war was fairly lucky; the forecast of an alliance of the Central Empires, the opening campaign through the Netherlands, and the despatch of the British Expeditionary Force were all justified before the book had been published six months. And the opening section of Chapter the Second remains now, after the reality has happened, a fairly adequate diagnosis of the essentials of the matter. One happy hit (in Chapter the Second, Section 2), on which the writer may congratulate himself, is the forecast that under modern conditions it would be quite impossible for any great general to emerge to supremacy and concentrate the enthusiasm of the armies of either side. There could be no Alexanders or Napoleons. And we soon heard the scientific corps muttering, 'These old fools,' exactly as it is here foretold. These, however, are small details, and the misses in the story far outnumber the hits. It is the main thesis which is still of interest now; the thesis that because of the development of scientific knowledge, separate sovereign states and separate sovereign empires are no longer possible in the world, that to attempt to keep on with the old system is to heap disaster upon disaster for mankind and perhaps to destroy our race altogether. The remaining interest of this book now is the sustained validity of this thesis and the discussion of the possible ending of war on the earth.

ONCE upon a time there was a village shop. The name over the window was "Ginger and Pickles."??It was a little small shop just the right size for Dolls??”Lucinda and Jane Doll-cook always bought their groceries at Ginger and Pickles.??The counter inside was a convenient height for rabbits. Ginger and Pickles sold red spotty pocket-handkerchiefs at a penny three farthings.??They also sold sugar, and snuff and galoshes.?In fact, although it was such a small shop it sold nearly everything -except a few things that you want in a hurry like bootlaces-, hair-pins and mutton chops.?Ginger and Pickles were the people who kept the shop. Ginger was a yellow tom-cat, and Pickles was a terrier.??The rabbits were always a little bit afraid of Pickles.

Sembrad en los ni?os la idea, aunque no la entiendan: los a?os se encargarán de descifrarla en su entendimiento y hacerla florecer en su corazón.??Entre la muerte del rey que rabió y el advenimiento al trono de la reina Mari-Casta?a existe un largo y obscuro período en las crónicas, de que quedan pocas memorias. Consta, sin embargo, que floreció en aquella época un rey Buby I, grande amigo de los ni?os pobres y protector decidido de los ratones.??Fundó una fábrica de mu?ecos y caballos de cartón para los primeros, y sábese de cierto, que de esta fábrica procedían los tres caballitos cuatralbos, que regaló el rey D. Bermudo el Diácono á los ni?os de Hissén I, después de la batalla de Bureva. ? AUTOR: Luis Coloma Roldán (1851 - 1915), conocido también como el padre Coloma, fue un escritor, periodista y jesuita espa?ol. En su faceta de autor de literatura infantil y juvenil creó el personaje del Ratoncito Pérez. ? Biografía:Fue hijo de un célebre médico, Ramón Co-loma Garcés casado en segundas nupcias con Concepción Roldán. A los doce a?os entró en la Escuela Naval preparatoria de San Fernando (1863), pero lo dejó para licenciarse en Derecho en la Universidad de Sevilla coincidiendo con la trascenden-tal revolución de 1868, hacia la cual el joven jerezano mantuvo una actitud hostil que reflejaría en sus escritos. De esta época data su amistad con Fernán Caballero, ya anciana entonces, sobre la que escribiría unos Recuerdos. Luego se trasladó a Madrid, donde trabaja como pasante en el bufete del abogado Hilario Pina. Empezó a frecuentar tertulias elegantes y a colaborar en distintos periódicos defendiendo la Restauración de los Borbones (El Tiempo. Periódico político de la tarde de Madrid y El Porvenir de Jerez).

'Küük Kara Balk' kitab, yediden yetmie herkesin okuyup bir eyler bulabilecei 'dünyaca ünlü' klasik bir masal kitabdr. Masal kitab deyip gemeyin. Zira bu kitapta adalet, sorgulama, eitlik ve direnme gibi insanla ait temel temalar baaryla ilenmitir. Bu temalar siyasi adan tehlikeli olarak grüldüü iin, Kitap Türkiye’de 12 Eylül darbesi ile yasaklanr, ran’da isehala okunmas yasakl kitaplar listesinde yer alr. Hatta bu masal kitaplar gencecik yanda Samed Behrengi’nin hayatna mal olur. Yazar, 28 yanda hayatn kaybeder. Aras Irma’nn kar kysnda lü olarak bulunur. Küük Kara Balk kitabnn zeti u ekildedir: Bir zamanlar küük bir kara balk vardr. Küük kara balk bir sabah erkenden uyanr ve annesini de uyandrr. Sabah sabah ne olduunu anlayamayan anne balk yavrusuna kendisini neden uyandrdn sorar. Küük kara balk ise annesine yuvasna uzak olan bir yere gitmek istediini syler. Annesi yavrusunun byle bir fikirden vazgemesini ister. Küük kara balk ok kararldr fikrinden vazgemez. Küük kara baln annesiyle konumalarn duyan komular da gelir. Küük kara baln fikrini duyan komular kzar. Farkl akarsular, denizleri, okyanuslar kefetmek de ne demektir. Bilinmeyen yerlere gitmemek gerekir. Komular küük kara bala buradan gitmemesini eer giderse de buraya tekrar dnemeyeceini dnerse de onu ldüreceklerini sylerler. Küük kara balk her eye ramen yola kar. Bakalarn korkutan bu plan onu heyecanlandrr, mutlu eder. Küük kara balk yüzerek alayann en ucuna gelir ve kendini aaya brakr. Bir bakar ki bir glün iindedir. Etrafna baknca bir sürü küük kara balkklarn suyun iinde olduunu grür. Kurbaalar kendilerini ok üstün ve güzel grür. Küük kara bal küümserler. Küük kara balk balkklara kendilerini bu kadar beenmemeleri gerektiini, daha bir sürü güzel baln olduunu syler. Kocaman bir kurbaa gelir ve küük kara bal uyarr. Balkklarla bu ekilde konumamasn syler ve onu kovalar. Küük kara balk kaar ve kendini bir dere yatanda bulur. Burada da bir yenge ve kertenkele ile tanr. Yengeten uzak durmaya alr; ünkü yenge her an kskala onu yakalamaya alr. Kertenkele ile sohbete balayan küük kara balk ona pelikanlar, testerebalklar ve balkllar hakknda bildiklerini sorar. Kertenkele bunlar hakknda bilgi sahibi olmadn sylemekle birlikte eer bir pelikana yakalanrsa onun kesesini yrtabilecei bir bak hediye eder. Küük kara balk teekkür ederek yola kar. nce bir rmaa urar sonra da denize ular. Yolculuu srasnda ok farkl canllarla karlar. Küük kara balk Kepeli Ku’a rastlar. Kepeli ku korkun bir kutur. Küük kara bal yutar. Küük kara balk yanndaki bakla kepeli kuu en zayf yerinden bakla deler ve onun iinden kar, yani kepeli kutan kurtulmu olur. O günden sonra da küük kara bal gren olmaz.

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted with a functional and detailed table of contents.Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.This collection contains the following works:- Uncle Tom's Cabin- Uncle Tom's Cabin. Young Folks' Edition- Queer Little Folks- The Chimney-Corner- The First Christmas of New England- The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House- The Minister's Wooing- The Tea Rose- Poetry: The Other World / The Twelve Months: A New Year's Dream / Lines... / Knocking / The Crocus / Consolation / Mary at the Cross / The Old Psalm Tune- Letters: Letter to her friend, Georgiana May / Letters to her husband, Calvin / Letter to congressman Horace Mann / Letter to William Lloyd Garrison

Ce ar fi dac? to?i cei patru pre?edin?i americani asasina?i de-a lungul timpului ar fi fost uci?i din acela?i motiv ?ocant: o clauz? din Constitu?ia Statelor Unite? C?nd pre?edintele Danny Daniels este ?inta unui atentat ?n inima Manhattan-ului, Cotton Malone, fost agent secret al Departamentului de Justi?ie, ??i risc? via?a pentru a-l salva ?i intr? astfel ?n conflict cu Commonwealth, o organiza?ie secret? ?nfiin?at? ?n vremea Revolu?iei Americane. Malone ?i Cassiopeia Vitt str?bat ?ara ?n lung ?i ?n lat ca s? sparg? cifrul secret al lui Thomas Jefferson, s? dezlege puzzle-ul lui Andrew Jackson ?i s? dezgroape un document semnat de ?n?i?i P?rin?ii Fondatori ai na?iei ?i suficient de puternic pentru a face din Commonwealth o for?? de neoprit. ?O intrig? ingenioas?, plin? de r?sturn?ri de situa?ie ?i scene de ac?iune, pe un fundal istoric care st?rne?te imagina?ia cititorilor.“ – Publishers Weekly ?Constitu?ia american?, coduri secrete, istorie c?t cuprinde ?i, ?n plus, pira?i! Ce altceva ?i-ai mai putea dori? Codul Jefferson te va b?ntui nu numai c?teva nop?i, ci toat? via?a. Cotton Malone se ?ntoarce ?n cel mai ?nfrico??tor loc de pe p?m?nt: acas?.“ – Brad Meltzer

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted with a functional and detailed table of contents.Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary as well as her acclaimed plots have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. From her teenage years into her thirties she experimented with various literary forms, including an epistolary novel which she then abandoned, wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of "Sense and Sensibility" (1811), "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), "Mansfield Park" (1814) and "Emma" (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion", both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled "Sanditon", but died before completing it. Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her works, though usually popular, were first published anonymously and brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew's "A Memoir of Jane Austen" introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture.This collection contains the following works:- Sense and Sensibility- Pride and Prejudice- Mansfield Park- Emma- Northanger Abbey- Persuasion- Cancelled Chapter of 'Persuasion'- Lady Susan- The Watsons- Plan of a Novel- Sandition- Poems: Happy the Lab'rer / I've a Pain in my Head / Miss Lloyd has now went to Miss Green / Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend / My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy / Ode to Pity / Of A Ministry Pitiful, Angry, Mean / Oh! Mr Best You're Very Bad / See they come, post haste from Thanet / This Little Bag / To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy / When Stretch'd on One's Bed / When Winchester races- Prayers

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering among the pots and dods. He is an old man, well past the prime of life, no longer young, From the fact that there is a burr in his speech and that he has absent-mindedly put on his coat wrongside out, we surmise that he is either above or below the ordinary superficialities of life. Near him on the grass lies PETER, a little boy. PETER, of course, has his chin on his palm like the pictures of the young Sir Walter Raleigh. He has a complete set of features, including serious, sombre, even funereal, gray eyes—and radiates that alluring air of never having eaten food. This air can best be radiated during the afterglow of a beef dinner. Be is looking at MR. ICKY, fascinated. SILENCE… . The song of BIRDS.. .

Fraude en rojo - relatoCuando la auditora contable e investigadora de fraudes Katerina Carter y novio periodista Jace Burton aceptan una invitación extemporánea a una fiesta, el crimen es la última cosa que pasa por sus mentes. Pronto, una inversión exitosa en vino dejará un regusto amargo en la boca de Kat, al tiempo que se verá enfrentada a una estafa de un millón de dólares en vinos. ¡Y todo esto antes de la cena!Sobre la autoraColleen Cross es la autora de los la serie de misterio Katerina Carter Fraude y de su homóloga Katerina Carter Color of Money. Sus dos populares series de misterio giran en torno al mismo personaje. Katerina Carter es contable forense e investigadora de fraudes, con un buen conocimiento de las calles. Siempre hace lo correcto, aunque sus métodos poco ortodoxos con frecuencia ponen los pelos de punta y el corazón en la garganta.Colleen también es contable forense e investigadora de fraudes, así como autora de libros sobre crímenes reales. En  Anatomy of a Ponzi: Scams Past and Present desenmascara a los mayores perpetradores de la estafa Ponzi de la historia y explica cómo consiguieron llevar a cabo sus crímenes sin ser condenados. Colleen predice el lugar y el momento exactos en el que se descubrirá el mayor fraude de Ponzi de la historia, y nos da las pistas necesarias para estar sobreaviso.Enlaces de Colleen en las redes sociales:Facebook: www.facebook.com/colleenxcrossTwitter: @colleenxcrosso también en GoodreadsPara conocer las novedades literarias de Colleen, por favor visita su sitio web: http://www.colleencross.com.¡Inscríbete su boletín para estar al tanto de sus nuevos lanzamientos!

Biri var idi, biri yox idi. Bir yoxsul ?eher var idi. Bu ?eherin insanlari ?ox mehriban v? k?m?ksever idil?r. Amma pad?ah ??h?rd?ki insanlarin bütün var-d?vl?tl?rini ?l? kecirmi?di .Bu k?ndd? bir sirrli ma?ara var idi.?fsan?l?r? g?r? bu ma?ara 3 qarda? div t?r?find?n qorunurdu. Ora getmeye he? k?sin hün?ri ?atmirdi.Bir gün ??h?r ?halisinin yarisi s?zü bir yere qoydular ki,bu ma?araya gedey. Onlar yaraqlanin-yasaqlanib yola dü?dül?r. N?hay?t ma?araya g?lib ?atdilar. Ma?aranin sahibi 3 divin burada olmad???n? g?r?n ??h?rlil?r ma?araya girdil?r. Ancaq bunlardan biri ma?araya girm?yib da??n arxas?nda gizl?ndi. ??h?rlil?r ala bil?c?kl?ri q?d?r q?z?l g?türüb ma?aradan ?ixmaq ist?y?nd? divl?r g?ldi. Ma?aran?n ??x???n? b?yük da?la ba?ladilar v? ??h?rlil?r i??rid? qald?. Da??n arxas?nda gizl?n?n ??h?rli divl?r? g?rünm?d?n buradan getdi. O tez g?lib ??h?rin dig?r yar?s?na ?hvalat? na??l etdi. ??h?rlil?r silahlan?b ma?araya getdil?r ve 3 divl? mübariz? apard?lar. ?

At nine o'clock on the morning of the first of May, 1919, a young man spoke to the room clerk at the Bilt-more Hotel, asking if Mr. Philip Dean were registered there, and if so, could he be connected with Mr. Dean's rooms. The inquirer was dressed in a well-cut, shabby suit. He was small, slender, and darkly handsome; his eyes were framed above with unusually long eyelashes and below with the blue semicircle of ill health, this latter effect heightened by an unnatural glow which colored his face like a low, incessant fever. Mr. Dean was staying there. The young man was directed to a telephone at the side. After a second his connection was made; a sleepy voice hello'd from somewhere above.

"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6).Styles was Christie's first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When the woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery. This is also the setting of "Curtain", Poirot's last case.The book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will. The true first publication of the novel was as a weekly serial in the "The Times", including the maps of the house and other illustrations included in the book. This novel was one of the first ten books published by Penguin Books when it began in 1935.

"The Secret Adversary" is the second published detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $1.75.The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christie's writing career. The Great War is over, and jobs are scarce. Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley meet and agree to start their own business as The Young Adventurers. They are hired for a job that leads them both to many dangerous situations, meeting allies as well, including an American millionaire in search of his cousin.

Samson and Delilah was written in the year 1917 by David Herbert Lawrence. This book is one of the most popular novels of David Herbert Lawrence, 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.

Three Lines of Old French was written in the year 1919 by Abraham Merritt. This book is one of the most popular novels of Abraham Merritt, 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.

It was the writing guy who drew this story out of Captain Shreve. He talked so much I think the Old Man spun the yarn just to shut him up. He had talked ever since his arrival on board, early that morning, with a letter from the owners' agent, and the announcement he intended making the voyage with us. He had weak lungs, he said, and was in search of mild, tropical breezes. Also, he was seeking local color, and whatever information he could pick up about "King" Waldon. He had heard of the death of "King" Waldon, down in Samoa—Waldon, the trader, of the vanishing race of island adventurers—and he expected to travel about the south seas investigating the "king's" past, so he could write a book about the old viking. He had heard that Captain Shreve had known Waldon. Hence, he was honoring a cargo carrier with his presence instead of taking his ease upon a mail-boat. Captain Shreve must tell him all he knew about the "king." He was intensely interested in the subject. Splendid material, you know. That romantic legend of Waldon's arrival in the islands—too good to be true, and certainly too good not to put into a book. Was Captain Shreve familiar with the tale How this fellow, Waldon, sailed into a Samoan harbor in an open boat, his only companion his beautiful young wife Imagine—this man and woman coming from nowhere, sailing in from the open sea in a small boat, never telling whence they came!He said this was the stuff to go into his book. Romance, mystery! It was quite as important as the later and better known incidents in the "king's" life. That was why Captain Shreve must tell him all he knew about the fellow. If he could only get at the beginning of the "king's" career in the islands. Where did the fellow come from Why should a man bring his bride into an uncivilized and lawless section of the world, and settle down for life There must be a story in that. Ah, yes, and he was the man who could properly do it.

Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows.Some of the passengers by this particular train were returning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various occupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations nearer town. All of them seemed weary, and most of them had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their complexions generally appeared to have taken on the colour of the fog outside. When day dawned, two passengers in one of the third-class carriages found themselves opposite each other. Both were young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation. If they had but known why, at this particular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third-class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company. One of them was a young fellow of about twenty-seven, not tall, with black curling hair, and small, grey, fiery eyes. His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical—it might almost be called a malicious—smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face. A special feature of this physiognomy was its death-like pallor, which gave to the whole man an indescribably emaciated appearance in spite of his hard look, and at the same time a sort of passionate and suffering expression which did not harmonize with his impudent, sarcastic smile and keen, self-satisfied bearing. He wore a large fur—or rather astrachan—overcoat, which had kept him warm all night, while his neighbour had been obliged to bear the full severity of a Russian November night entirely unprepared. His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it—the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Switzerland or North Italy—was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg. Copyright, Illustrated version of "the Idiot" by e-Kitap Projesi, 2014

The first published novel by Leo Tolstoy released in November 1852. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Well-worth reading if you are interested in 19th century literature. Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 – 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist today regarded as one of the greatest of all time. He is best known for War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). He first achieved literary acclaim in his 20s with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His new-found asceticism and determination to renounce his considerable wealth tipped his marriage into bitter turmoil, which continued right up to his death at the age of 82 in the waiting room of an, until then, obscure Russian railway station. Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Bevel.

Madame Bovary takes place in provincial northern France, near the town of Rouen in Normandy. The story begins and ends with Charles Bovary, a stolid, kindhearted man without much ability or ambition. As the novel opens, Charles is a shy, oddly dressed teenager arriving at a new school amidst the ridicule of his new classmates. Later, Charles struggles his way to a second-rate medical degree and becomes an officier de santé in the Public Health Service. His mother chooses a wife for him, an unpleasant but supposedly rich widow named Heloise Dubuc, and Charles sets out to build a practice in the village of Tostes (now T?tes). One day, Charles visits a local farm to set the owner's broken leg, and meets his client's daughter, Emma Rouault. Emma is a beautiful, daintily dressed young woman who has received a "good education" in a convent and who has a latent but powerful yearning for luxury and romance imbibed from the popular novels she has read. Charles is immediately attracted to her, and begins checking on his patient far more often than necessary until Heloise's jealousy puts a stop to the visits. When Heloise dies, Charles waits a decent interval, then begins courting Emma in earnest. Her father gives his consent, and Emma and Charles are married. ABOUT AUTHOR: Gustave Flaubert (French: December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was an influential French writer widely considered one of the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert. Early life and education:Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen, in the Seine-Maritime department of Upper Normandy, in northern France. He was the second son of Anne Justine Caroline (née Fleuriot; 1793–1872) and Achille-Cléophas Flaubert (1784–1846), a surgeon. He began writing at an early age, as early as eight according to some sources.He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, and did not leave until 1840, when he went to Paris to study law. In Paris, he was an indifferent student and found the city distasteful. He made a few acquaintances, including Victor Hugo. Toward the end of 1840, he traveled in the Pyrenees and Corsica. In 1846, after an attack of epilepsy, he left Paris and abandoned the study of law. Writing career:His first finished work was November, a novella, which was completed in 1842.In September 1849, Flaubert completed the first version of a novel, The Temptation of Saint Anthony. He read the novel aloud to Louis Bouilhet and Maxime Du Camp over the course of four days, not allowing them to interrupt or give any opinions. At the end of the reading, his friends told him to throw the manuscript in the fire, suggesting instead that he focus on day-to-day life rather than fantastic subjects.In 1850, after returning from Egypt, Flaubert began work on Madame Bovary. The novel, which took five years to write, was serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856. The government brought an action against the publisher and author on the charge of immorality, which was heard during the following year, but both were acquitted. When Madame Bovary appeared in book form, it met with a warm reception.In 1858, Flaubert traveled to Carthage to gather material for his next novel, Salammb?. The novel was completed in 1862 after four years of work.Drawing on his youth, Flaubert next wrote L'?ducation sentimentale (Sentimental Education), an effort that took seven years. This was his last complete novel, published in the year 1869.He wrote an unsuccessful drama, Le Candidat, and published a reworked version of Temptation of Saint Anthony.