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101The Head Of The House Of Coombe , Frances Hodgson Burnett (1922)
""Good gracious, Andrews!""she said.""He was the'shock'! How perfectly ridiculous! Robin had never played with a boy before and she fell in love with him. The little thing's actually pining away for… 1315 руб102Tremendous Trifles , G. K. Chesterton (1909)
So it was, certainly, with the Bastille. The destruction of the Bastille was not a reform; it was something more important than a reform. It was aniconoclasm; it was the breaking of a stone image… 1775 руб103The Crushed Flower And Other Stories , Leonid Andreyev (1916)
But that same evening, and perhaps it was another evening, he noticed his father crying. It happened in the following way: He was passing his father's study, and the door was half open; he heard a… 1314 руб104The Eve Of The French Revolution , Edward J. Lowell (1891)
There is perhaps no great country inhabited by civilized man more favored by nature than France. Possessing every variety of surface from the sublime mountain to the shifting sand-dune, from the… 1317 руб105The Palmy Days Of Nance Oldfield , Edward Robins (1898)
""How sparklingly is Miss Smith acting Lady Teazle to-night!""we say, elegantly pressing our hands together in token of august favour. We are entranced, and it follows, therefore, that the actress… 1311 руб106The Upton Letters , Arthur Christopher Benson (1905)
1905. Son of the hymnist Edward Benson, A. C. Benson was a well-known poet. He wrote the Coronation Ode for Edward VII's coronation in 1902. Told in epistolary form, The Upton Letters begins: My Dear… 1314 руб107The Whirlpool , George Gissing (1911)
After a stare and a frown, Harvey woke the echoes with boisterous laughter. It was long since any passage in writing had so irresistibly tickled hissense of humour. Well, he must let Abbott know of… 1318 руб108The Murder of King Tut , James Patterson (2010)
Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3, 000-year-old tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of disease, or perhaps an accident, such as a chariot fall. But what if… 621 руб109The Runaway Wife , Susy McPhee (2009)
Marion Bishop's life has fallen apart. Her daughter Hope was killed in a hit-and-run accident six months ago, and now Sam, her beloved husband, has walked out. Left alone with her grief, Marion has… 621 руб110Deep Six , Clive Cussler (2006)
A ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific... A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral pyre... And the U. S. President's yacht is heading for disaster... Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a… 823 руб
