Aldous Huxley"Brave New World"
PDF | ISBN not applicable | Year 1932 | 170 pages | English | 1.18MB
Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World" is both one of the best science fiction books and one of the most brilliant pieces of satire ever written. BNW takes place on a future Earth where human beings are mass-produced and conditioned for lives in a rigid caste system. As the story progresses, we learn some of the disturbing secrets that lie underneath the bright, shiny facade of this highly-ordered world.
Illustrated story of the legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. King Arthur and his knights fought, endured, and toiled in the sixth century, when the Saxons were overrunning Britain. His legend has lived on through many generations.
In Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days—and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot- blooded French manservant, Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks, and the dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard to win the extraordinary wager. Combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time, Around the World in Eighty Days gripped audiences upon its publication and remains hugely popular to this day.
Where are my heroes? Whenever I'm reading a book by one of my
favorite authors I find I'm falling for the wrong guy -- not the hero,
but the other man -- and what I really want is for him to have his own
story.
Like Jake Linley, from Someone to Watch Over Me by Lisa Kleypas…that doctor could sit by my bedside if I ever got sick. And Ned Blydon in Splendid by Julia Quinn...he makes me want to learn to waltz! I never thought living in a drafty castle would be much fun until Simon of Ravenswood in Master of Desire by Kinley MacGregor came along.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that these are my men -- when do they get their stories?
With
those words, Lara's life turned upside down. Hunter, Earl of
Hawksworth, had been lost at sea. Or so she'd been told. Their unhappy
marriage—with its cold caresses and passionless kisses—was over. But
now a powerful, virile man stood before her, telling secrets only a
husband could know, and vowing she would once again be his wife in
every way. While Lara couldn't deny that this man with smoldering dark
eyes resembled Hunter, he was attentive and loving in ways he never was
before. Soon she desperately wanted to believe, with every beat of her
heart, that this stranger was truly her husband. But had this rake
reformed—or was Lara being seduced by a cunning stranger?
