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"The World's Greatest Books - Volume 06 - Fiction" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal...

The Tale of the Heike is one of the masterworks of Japanese literature, ranking with The Tal of Genji in quality and prestige. This new translation is not only far more readable than earlier ones, it is also much more faithful to the content and style of the original. Intended for the general audience as well as the specialist, this edition is highly annotated.

Friendly Sins is a powerful tale of romantic suspense filled with daring encounters, betrayals and mystery. Four friends, together by destiny and entwined by fate, struggle to maintain friendships. A Florida socialite ignores the sixties womens movement and fights all obstacles while searching for love. A Greek entrepreneur, whose face graces magazines, is a master of deceit who wouldnt rest until the voices in his head demanded action. A renowned...

Lords of the Housetops is a carefully chosen collection of thirteen tales about the beloved, clever and charismatic cat. We see the cat through the eyes of thirteen authors, including such famous writers as Mark Twain, Booth Tarkington and Edgar Allen Poe.

Savor classic erotic literature from throughout the ages with Erotic Classics I and II. Erotic Classics II includes the anonymously-written The Lustful Turk, The Romance of Lust, and The Way of a Man with a Maid, as well as My Secret Life Vol. 1-3 by "Walter," Venus in India by Charles Devereaux, and A Night in a Moorish Harem by Lord George Herbert.

A trilogy of difficult years for our world softened by beautiful stories, lovely poems, and the everlasting connection and thread of hope, welcome to The 2022 Annual. As our world continues to witness war destroy cities, families, livelihoods, historical monuments, as we watch famine spread far and wide, affecting more people than ever before, while humans empower political powers to overtake and alter existing agreements and entities, and as we all...

Six writers from five nations with stories set in four countries form the pillars of this second anthology of the Saigon Writers Club. These writers share a love of words and a compelling need to tell a story. Their stories are set in southern Vietnam of the early 1900s, Malaysia in the 1970s, the Netherlands and Vietnam during the time of Covid, and contemporary life in America. Writers write, and that's what these writers have done.

Resumen de la novela Abismos. Mara Martha Calvo Parecera que la vida se ha empeado en empujarlas hasta el mismo borde, pero su inquebrantable unin salva, en mltiples ocasiones, de caer en las profundidades del abismo a las hermanas Queta y Tula. El hbito de tomarse de las manos desarrollado desde el vientre materno y comunicarse con palabras solo conocidas por ellas les proporciona la fuerza necesaria para enfrentar las situaciones angustiosas, poniendo...

"The World's Greatest Books - Volume 01". An enterprise such as THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS is to be judged from two different standpoints. It may be judged with respect to its specific achievement--the material of which it consists; or it may be judged with regard to its general utility in the scheme of literature to which it belongs. In an age which is sometimes ironically called "remarkable" for its commercialism, nothing has been more truly remarkable...

Excerpt: "Carols are still sung in almost numberless churches, lights glow on altars bound and wreathed with spruce and holly, trees are set up in innumerable homes, and mobs of merry children sing and dance around them, stockings take on grotesque shapes and hang gaping with treasures for early marauders on Christmas morning, and hosts of men and women keep the day in their hearts in all peace and piety. The festival, dear to the heart of sixty generations,...