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71Virgile's Vineyard: A Year in the Languedoc Wine Country , Patrick Moon (2004)
During his year of exploration, Patrick meets a rich cast of characters. Among them is a young local wine-maker called Virgile, who offers to initiate Patrick into the mysteries of each season's work… 709 руб72In the Heart of a Fool , William Allen White (1919)
1919. White was both small-town newspaperman and national celebrity, a journalist, editor and author, and popular commentator. In his fiction, Whitefrequently used the idealized, middle-western small… 1325 руб73Aucassin And Nicolette , Eugene Mason (1911)
Aucassin was the name of the lad. Fair he was, and pleasant to look upon, tall and shapely of body in every whit of him. His hair was golden, and curled in little rings about his head; he had grey… 689 руб74Greifenstein , F. Marion Crawford (1893)
Greifenstein saw before him a tall man, with abundant white hair and a snowy beard, of bronzed complexion, evidently strong in spite of his years, chiefly remarkable for the heavy black eyebrows that… 1315 руб75Essays Of Travel , Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)
We have come here for the river. And no sooner have we all bathed than we board the two shallops and push off gaily, and go gliding under the treesand gathering a great treasure of water-lilies. Some… 1310 руб76The Aspirations Of Jean Servien , Anatole France (1912)
Shut up in his room, he was filled with a great pity for himself and longed to recover the peace of mind, the calm of the senses, the happy life that had vanished along with the leaf he had abandoned… 1308 руб77My Friends At Brook Farm , John Van Der Zee Sears (1913)
Dr. Ripley gained my confidence by claiming old acquaintance, recalling a former meeting that I had quite forgotten. Several years previous, when Iwas a very small boy indeed, my father had taken me… 689 руб78Nedra , George Barr McCutcheon (1905)
1905. The American newspaperman and novelist begins this novel: A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues… 1314 руб79Stalin's Children , Owen Matthews (2009)
On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner in Moscow at the height of… 481 руб80Some Girls Bite: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel , Chloe Neill (2010)
Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn't exactly glamorous, but it was mine. I was doing fine until Chicago's vampires announced their existence to the world - and then a rogue vampire attacked… 532 руб
