Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.53 | Fiction literature | 24 August 2010
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These stories, written between the early 1920s to the mid-1950s, reveal the fascinating progress of Nabokov's early development as they remind us that we are in the presence of a magnificent original, a genuine master. Edited by his son and translator, Dmitri Nabokov, this volume is a literary event.
Aussie Rules is a light and fun contemporary romance that’s perfect for the summer. Shalvis does a wonderful job of creating a realistic airport setting and populates the story with memorable secondary characters. Oftentimes contemporary romances have suspenseful subplots that detract from the main romance, but this fast-paced romance is thoroughly enjoyable.
Added by: ella_sabe | Karma: 85.27 | Fiction literature | 22 August 2010
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Leonato, a kindly, respectable nobleman, lives in the idyllic Italian town of Messina. Leonato shares his house with his lovely young daughter, Hero, his playful, clever niece, Beatrice, and his elderly brother, Antonio. As the play begins, Leonato prepares to welcome some friends home from a war. The friends include Don Pedro, a prince who is a close friend of Leonato, and two fellow soldiers:..
Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 20 August 2010
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Mosses From an Old Manse is a book consisting of following stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Old Manse, The Birthmark, A Select Party, Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini’s Daughter, Mrs. Bullfrog, Fire Worship, Buds and Bird-Voices, Monsieur du Miroir, The Hall of Fantasy, The Celestial Rail-road, The Procession of Life, Feathertop, The New Adam and Eve, Egotism; or,The Bosom-Serpent 1, The Christmas Banquet, Drowne’s Wooden Image, The Intelligence Office, Roger Malvin’s Burial, P.’s Correspondence, Earth’s Holocaust, Passages from a Relinquished Work
Time Machine books are just like the Choose your own adventure books. You read the page and at the end you will find two or three options from which you choose what to do next. Depending on your choice you will go to the page indicated to follow the story. Because of this you may read the boo