New Classics

This collection of short stories includes the works of three famous American writers who contributed a great deal to world literature.

In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. Portia is most remembered for her disguise as a lawyer, Balthazar, especially the speech in which she urges Shylock to show mercy that "[D]roppeth as the gentle rain from heaven". Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by American author Washington Irving. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

One photograph is all it takes for me to become obsessed. She's the prettiest little thing I've seen. I'll stop at nothing to make her mine. Even if it means moving clean across the country to find her. I'm going to do whatever it takes to make her mine.

Shakespeare's Sonnets cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. The first 17 poems, traditionally called the procreation sonnets, are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation. Other sonnets brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; seem to criticize the young man for preferring a rival poet; and more. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

The coffin-maker Yakov is shocked by his wife's illness, with whom he lived for 52 years. An understanding suddenly came to him that the woman had never seen love or affection from him for the entire time of family life. But only accusations and abuse. The husband, who fell into extreme stinginess, forbade her to drink tea, and the unfortunate woman was forced to drink empty boiling water. Her whole life was spent in work and utmost need in the tiny hut where Yakov stored, ready for sale, coffins.

Ophelia I’ve always played it safe. I find happiness in my job as a dog walker, where I spend my days with furry companions who never fail to bring a smile to my face. But my bestie is pushing me to get out of my comfort zone and try something new, so she signs her up for a gym membership for my birthday. Okay, I do this. No biggie. Just lots of sweat and…well, sweat. Still, there are lots of benefits to exercising, right? Starting with the super hot personal trainer I meet on day one. Ty One look at Ophelia, and I’m obsessed. She’s the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen, I’ll do...

¿Cómo puedes aprender a reclamar y ejercer realmente tu poder? ¿Cómo puedes convertir las situaciones negativas en positivas? Este libro de jugadas paso a paso es en parte espiritual, en parte informativo y en su totalidad motivacional. Lleno de historias de la vida real, citas bíblicas, consejos reflexivos y sugerencias significativas, este libro es una guía perspicaz e inspiradora para las personas que están tratando de transformar su mentalidad y atraer mayores oportunidades a sus vidas.

This book includes: "Rothschild's Violin", "The Man in a Case", "A Conversation of a Drunk with a Sober Imp", "Life in Questions and Exclamations".

Möchten Sie wissen, wie ein gewöhnlicher Mensch wie Sie außergewöhnliche Ergebnisse erzielen kann? Wie können Sie negative Situationen in positive Situationen umwandeln? In Wie man denkt beantwortet Patrick J. Dailey diese Fragen und mehr. Durch tief bewegende Geschichten, provokante neue Argumente, lebensverändernde Zitate und die Neuinterpretation von James Allens As a Man Thinketh präsentiert er ein kraftvolles Manifest, wie Sie das Steuer Ihres Lebens in die Hand nehmen und eine großartige Zukunft für sich schaffen können.

Ein sinnlicher Hörweg durch die inneren und äußeren Pflanzungen von Goethes frühen Garten in Weimar...

Am 5. Juni 1799 brechen Alexander von Humboldt und sein Begleiter zu ihrer Expedition auf...

Leskov's story is a dramatic portrayal of the amoral, ambiguous, elemental force of sexual passion, as intense in its heat as in its coldness. In stylistic directness and narrative concentration, it is unique among his works. He wrote it while visiting relatives in Kiev, where he was given space in the university's punishment room. He later described how his hair stood on end as he worked on it alone in that unlikely place and swore he would never describe such horrors again.

The plot of Poor Liza – the seduction by a young nobleman of a girl of lower social origins – was among the most conventional in European sentimentalism. What is characteristic of Karamzin's treatment of it is the subordination of the element of social conflict to the ethical problem and the avoidance of a completely negative character in the young man, Erast.

The Tinderbox is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a soldier who acquires a magic tinderbox capable of summoning three powerful dogs to do his bidding. When the soldier has one of the dogs transport a sleeping princess to his room, he is sentenced to death but cunningly summons the dogs to save his life. The tinderbox - a box to kindle a flame - is the equivalent of the wonderful lamp, the witch is the evil magician, and the dogs with swirling eyes take the place of the two genies of the lamps.

Die Märchen der Brüder Grimm faszinieren seit Generationen Kinder und Erwachsene gleichermaßen. Das klassische Märchen Rotkäppchen ist lehrreich und zeitlos zugleich, sie regt die Fantasie an und vermittelt wichtige Werte.

Paul Jameson is a doctor who’s always prided himself on his professionalism. But when he meets Britney Bailey, one of his young patients, he finds himself drawn to her in ways he never imagined possible. She's only eighteen, barely an adult, but there's something about her that sets his heart racing. Britney is young, innocent, and vulnerable. She's been through a lot in her short life, and Paul wants nothing more than to protect her from the world. He knows that their relationship is forbidden, that it goes against all the rules of his profession, but he can't help himself. He becomes ...

It all started out so simple, rob a bank and spend the ill gotten gains. Now Logan and Max find themselves fighting an entire town not just for their lives but the lives of innocent bystanders to their crime. Worst part about being a hero? You don't get paid for it.

What a coincidence. The mummies wake up once a millennium, and who should stumble into the pyramid but our hero? This is a fun little story about a British ne'er-do-well who has found possible wealth and prosperity by becoming engaged to the rather plain - and plain is a nice word for it - daughter of a new English nobleman. But wait. He wanders into the pyramid when the mummies have their 24 hours of life once a millennium, and he falls madly in love with the Pharaoh's daughter, who is some 6,000 years old.

I’m a simple working class man. I don’t need much to get by, and I’m content with my life. Until I see her. One look is all it takes for me to become completely and irrevocably obsessed. I’m convinced she’s an angel sent down straight from heaven, but my little angel looks so sad, and I’m on a mission to find out why. She might not know me—yet—but I’m going to scoop her up and take care of her. I’ll put all her broken pieces back together. After all, I’m a builder, and building something together with the girl I know is meant to be mine will be my life’s greatest ...