Wang Lung, rising from humble Chinese farmer to wealthy landowner, gloried in the soil he worked. He held it above his family, even above his gods. But soon, between Wang Lung and the kindly soil that sustained him, came flood and drought,...
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Лучшая гостиница Лондона, «Великий Вавилон», где часто останавливаются члены королевских и других знатных семей Европы, переходит в...
The Greater Inclination was the earliest collection of short fiction from Edith Wharton. It was published by Charles Scribner's Sons on the 25th of March, 1899. The first edition printing of 1,250 sold out by June of the same year. The collection...
Like all good coaching inns, the Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to have killed his wife. However, the landlord, Maurice...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell née Stevenson (1810–1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte...
The Grim Smile of the Five...
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The grotesques: François Villon, Théophile de Viau, Saint-Amant, Cyrano de Bergerac, George de Scudéry, Paul Scarron
The grotesques: François Villon, Théophile de Viau, Saint-Amant, Cyrano de Bergerac, George de Scudéry, Paul...
The Hand That Riles the...
The Hand That Riles the...