Added by: rhea | Karma: 11.91 | Fiction literature, Other | 19 February 2008
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So succinct are the author's insights that these writings have
outlasted the dissolution of the samurai class to come down to the present
and be read for guidance and inspiration by the captains of business and
industry, as well as those devoted to the practice of the martial arts in
their modern form.
Added by: Terra_Incognita | Karma: 126.47 | Fiction literature | 19 February 2008
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A pleasant, cosy style and thrilling adventures make books by L. Frank Baum really special. His imagination populated the land of Oz with amazingly unusual creatures and even whole peoples with very interesting habits. The stories are humorous, witty and action-packed. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is just the beginning of the series consisting of 14 books, each more amusing than the previous one. Besides, in this collection we included other as much fascinating stories by this author.
Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s. This the story of Dirk Stuan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading comapny in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men.
When Mr Hiram B. Otis decides to buy Canterville Chase, everyone tells him that he is crazy because the house is haunted by a ghost. And when the American family comes to live there, strange things begin to happen: a bloodstain that changes colour, mysterious noises in the night, a journey to the Garden of Death…
The Canterville Ghost 
