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Three of Them is a 1901 novel by Maxim Gorky. The plot concerns Ilya Lunyev, a boy from an urban slum, who enters the middle-class milieu only to be disillusioned to find the same moral corruption. Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's most famous works are his early short stories, written in the 1890s, play...

My heart raced in my chest and butterflies filled my stomach. I was nervous, excited, afraid, and giddy all at once. My parents finally listened to me and I would go to a public high school this year." With so many things on this earth to learn, why stop at just the knowledge in the library or on the computer? Why not go out into the world, talk to people, and grow? These are the thoughts Lucia Trinity Rose often thinks about in her spare time...

Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in action on the Western Front, his reputation as a writer continued to grow long after his death. The stories are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, full of eccentric wit and unconventional situations. With his gr...

Anthea Durham My past and now. The future that could be. Can I get past the trauma of my experiences at the hands of my disgusting uncle? All I could think about and dream of was freedom. I begged and pleaded for it, wanting to run as far from my past as I could. Would I be able to escape the nightmares of what I've done to achieve that freedom? Maybe the person I need to forgive isn't my uncle, but myself as well. Zakaria McCann I often find ...

It is an 1899 novel by Maxim Gorky. His hero an atypical figure in the context of Russian merchant community. "It is supposed to present the broad and true picture of the contemporary life, while featuring the figure of an energetic, healthy man, craving for space to realize his power's potential. He feels restricted. Life smothers him. He realizes that there is no place for heroes in it, they apt to being defeated by small things, like Hercul...

Mother is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. Gorky portrays the life of a woman who works in a Russian factory doing hard manual labour and combating poverty and hunger, among other hardships. Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova is the real protagonist, her husband, a heavy drunkard, physically assaults her and leaves all the responsibility for raising their son, Pavel Vlasov, to her, but unexpectedly dies. Pavel ...

A collection of short stories by one of the most eminent Russian author, Maxim Gorky. Born as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, this great man was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's most famous works are his early short stories, written in the 1890s, plays The Philistines (1901), The Lower Depths (1902) and Children of the Sun (1905), a poem, "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" ...

Roger Michells faszinierende Dokumentation dieses fantastischen Lebens ist eine cineastische Achterbahnfahrt durch Elizabeths und damit auch unsere eigene kollektive Biografie: Verspielt, poetisch, empathisch und emotional, aber auch ungehorsam, unangepasst und augenzwinkernd. Kurzum: Ganz so wie Queen Elizabeth selbst.

Create Space is a second collection of words and photos from the artist Dr. Robert Dillon. He looks to link the beauty of nature and words into a hopeful healing journey that comes through from being with each moment of holding the book.

This story book uses a fun, proven new method to teach your child Hebrew vocabulary while reading fun Bible stories! By the author of the bestselling books for Hebrew instruction - Miiko Shaffier How it works: As you read the story in English, you will find Hebrew words embedded in the text. Sound out the words and try to guess their meaning from the context. Check the key in the back of the book to see if you were right. By the time you fin...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921. Styles was Christie's first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. ...

The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking' is a volume that aspires at making its readers pro speakers, who can easily converse with people around them and make them, clearly understand their viewpoints and in turn, become capable of also making others alter their respective viewpoints. This is known as the 'convincing power.' This book puts forward some very handy and useful tips for its readers, which with regular practice can make their ...

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