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What is the perfect place to find true love? Most likely it’s not a question you’ve pondered, and yet you probably do have a pretty clear idea of the scenario. You’ll meet your man in a gorgeously romantic setting while you’re looking your best and feeling on top of your game. Certainly you don’t think of finding true love in your kitchen at the end of a terrible day at work, or when you’re a passenger in a semi-truck being driven by a handsome stud – and you’re vomiting because you’re pregnant with another man’s baby! And yet, IT happens. You can stumble into true love in the most decidedly unromantic places and under some pretty shocking conditions – as you are about to discover through the stories in this collection.True love – thank goodness! – has also been found when you decide to literally escape from a twisted “love” – such as a stalker’s crazed obsession or a father’s incestuous possession. The genuine love these women eventually found was all the more glorious when juxtaposed against the terror of their past. Then there’s the failure of merely good-enough love, which can lead you to despair of ever finding true love. To protect your fragile heart, you might play mind games by telling yourself that you don’t care about true love or that you aren’t looking for it or that you don’t need it to be happy. You will read stories here, however, where that ruse eventually just didn’t hold up in the face of a beckoning true love. Ultimately you have to risk shedding your defenses – and the disappointments of your romantic past – in order to slip into true love.So if you enjoy asking couples, “How did you two meet?” be prepared for a wild ride of answers to that question in these stories. Spoiler Alert: True love is going to find you no matter how down and dirty you look or feel about yourself, how unglamorous the setting, how traumatic your past or present is. True love, as it turns out, writes a new story for every couple. Получить ссылку |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Автор: Роберт Льюис Стивенсон
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Роберт Луис Стивенсон – английский писатель шотландского происхождения. Широко известен как автор романа «Остров сокровищ». Обладал поистине уникальным литературным дарованием: он писал на самые разные темы и в самых разных жанрах. Что могло бы связать добропорядочного Генри Джекиля с порочным уродливым карликом Эдвардом Хайдом? И где вообще обитает этот злодей и убийца Хайд? Эти два вопроса и странные события, разворачивающиеся при участии этих двух персон, никого не оставят равнодушным. Безотчетный ужас навевают запутанные происшествия повести «Странный случай с доктором Джекилем и мистером Хайдом». В заключении дневник Джекиля, полный жутких подробностей, прояснит трагическую гибель своего автора. Сам же Стивенсон писал о своем произведении, отправляя экземпляр американскому художнику Уильяму Г.Лоу: «Посылаю Вам готического карлика… думаю, что этот карлик небезынтересен, он вышел из глубины моего существа, где сторожит фонтан слез». Аудиокнига прочитана Бенджамином Сарджентом в оригинале и представляет интерес для всех изучающих английский язык.
The Strange High House in the Mist
Автор: Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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Thomas Olney, a "philosopher" visiting the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts with his family, is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. It is unaccountably high and old and the locals have a generations-long dread of the place which no one is known to have visited. With great difficulty, Olney climbs the crag, approaches the house, and meets the mysterious man who lives there. The only door opens directly onto a sheer cliff, giving access only to mist and "the abyss". The transmittal of archaic lore and a life-altering encounter with the supernatural ensue, as Olney is not the only visitor that day. He returns to Kingsport the next day, but seems to have left his spirit behind in the strange, remote dwelling.
The negociator's magazine, or the most authentick account yet published of the monies, weights, and measures of the principal places of trade in the world
Автор: Richard Hayes
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Полный вариант заголовка: «The negociator's magazine, or the most authentick account yet published of the monies, weights, and measures of the principal places of trade in the world / by Richard Hayes».
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Автор: Роберт Льюис Стивенсон
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Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
Автор: Harry Collingwood
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