The heroine of the story of the famous American writer Francis Burnett, Sarah Crewe, is a girl from a wealthy family. She gets all the best - the best toys, the most beautiful clothes, the most delicious goodies. But suddenly the luxurious life of little Sarah ends, and a new one begins, full of suffering and deprivation. But Sarah Crewe - a noble girl with a kind and loving heart - courageously and patiently copes with the difficulties that fell to her lot....
Francis Lynde (November 12, 1856 – May 16, 1930) was an American author. He was born in Lewiston, New York, and wrote adventure novels set in the American West in the early 20th century. The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library has a collection of his papers. His novels were set in the mountains of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Railroading and mining provided settings for his storylines. The main characters were often mining or railroad engineers. His collection of detective stories was titled Scientific Sprague. His story Moonshiner of Fact is set in the Appalachian Mountains of...
Miss Susan Cushing, a secluded lifestyle, received a small bag wrapped in paper — a cardboard box with coarse salt. After pouring out salt, Miss Cushing, in horror, discovered two unpaired human ears, male and female. They are cut off recently. Inspector Lestrade invites Holmes to investigate. Starting by examining the twine, packaging, and address on the box, Holmes begins the investigation....
In the small town of Ezeldorf, in Austria, three friends meet a stranger. The stranger captivates the guys with his unusual tricks, stories and during the conversation it suddenly turns out that the stranger is ... an angel. The story “The Mysterious Stranger” was conceived by Mark Twain in three different versions, but he did not finish any of them....
American writer and illustrator Howard Pyle (1853-1911) collected and crafted many legends and ballads about Robin Hood. None of these stories was invented by Pail, he only connected them together - a fascinating story full of medieval color and folk English humor turned out about a noble robber and his cheerful friends-yomen living under the canopy of Sherwood Forest....
An excellent representative of the post-war genre, when the public is tired of cruelty and wants a little tenderness and lightness. The book tells the continuation of the story of two girls - the sisters Mavis and Merle, and their family, but the story is independent and can be read separately....
“The Wind in the Willows” is a children's story that children and adults read with equal pleasure. Written and published at the beginning of the last century in England, it has spread around the world, translated into many languages. Readers fell in love with her heroes - the rational and kind Mole, the hospitable, reasonable Water Rat, the conceited Toad, the severe, reliable friendship Badger and other inhabitants of the River Bank and the inhospitable Wild Thicket. Their adventures, funny, and sometimes dangerous, end well only because they are all ready to come to each other's rescue....
In the collection “Sketches New and Old”, which includes short stories written at the turn of the 70s, the satirical denunciation of the glaring contradictions of American society and the ruthless and fierce competition in it continues. In a satirically sharpened, contrasting picture, the writer characterizes, in his own words, "the gap between the due and the existing." He created a whole gallery of satirical portraits of American "businessmen of the church" selling oil, cotton, speculators on the grain exchange, figures of the American Bible Society, accomplices of bankers Morgan and Dupon....
Once in the Land of Oz, where there are neither rich nor poor, no enmity or envy, and life there is just a celebration of sociability and friendliness, a misfortune happened - the Skizers declared war on the Flat-headed! Obedient to the call of duty, armed with a magic wand, the Great Sorceress Ozma, the ruler of the Land of Oz, hurries to them. Along the way, she is accompanied by a friend, Princess Dorothy, a girl from Kansas. Their life is in mortal danger, but in the Magic Land of Good Evil is always punishable. And friendly help comes on time. “Glinda from the Land of Oz” is the last...
The Dog's Story is one of the most sentimental works in world literature. You have to have a really callous heart so that your eyes do not get wet when reading this small piece. Told on behalf of the dog, this story is about the love and devotion of a defenseless animal, which the human race does not justify and does not deserve....
"Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet" is a fairy tale by an Italian writer born in Florence. Pinocchio in translation from the Tuscan dialect means "pine nut". The wooden little man is known for his nose, which is enlarged every time Pinocchio tries to lie. “The Adventures of Pinocchio. The Story of a Wooden Doll ”introduces you to Fox and the Cat, the dad of the wooden boy - Jeppetto, a talking cricket, a beautiful girl with azure hair and many other characters of this unique fairy tale, full of adventure and magic....
It is the story of a young woman who impulsively marries an idealistic but impractical writer and becomes a novelist and playwright herself. Its humor and witty dialogue quickly made it a readers' favorite and commercial success, with the first edition selling out two weeks before publication....
Sherlock Holmes gets down to business again. One after another, the Great Detective reveals the most difficult things ... And he understands that someone is behind their organization. Someone with tremendous power and influence in the underworld. Someone wishing for Sherlock to die. Someone with whom Detective will meet in faraway Switzerland, at the Reichenbach Falls... It is there that the fate of Holmes will be decided......
Guy de Maupassant is often called the master of erotic prose. But the novel “Bel Ami” (1885) goes beyond the scope of this genre. The history of the career of the ordinary seducer and playboy Georges Durois, developing in the spirit of an adventure novel, becomes a symbolic reflection of the spiritual impoverishment of the hero and society. Time passes, but readers are still interested in the image of a cynical adventurer and womanizer, a seducer of secular beauties who do not disdain anything to break out of poverty and obscurity in high society. Not possessing special talents, except the...
In Venice, in a dilapidated, dusty palazzo, lives old Miss Bordero and her niece, zealously guarding her treasure, a bundle of letters written to her in her youth by the famous poet Jeffrey Aspern, who fell in love with her. The narrator, a literary critic, enters the palace under a fictitious name, renting rooms in it. He is determined to seize Asperno's legacy at any cost ... The novella "Asperno's Letters" constantly keeps the reader in suspense, this work is considered one of the best in the work of Henry James....
