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A Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain’s most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as «one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race.» The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to «boss the whole country inside of three weeks.» And so he does. Emerging as «The Boss,» he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot—with unexpected results.


Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

Автор: Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт

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The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman. His great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Wade Jermyn, had been an early explorer of the Congo region, whose books on a mysterious white civilization there had been ridiculed. He had been confined to an asylum in 1765. Lovecraft describes how the Jermyn family has a peculiar physical appearance that began to appear in the children of Wade Jermyn and his mysterious and reclusive wife, who Wade claimed was Portuguese.


Кентервильское привидение. Преступление лорда Артура Сэвиля / The Canterville Ghost. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (+MP3) Кентервильское привидение. Преступление лорда Артура Сэвиля / The Canterville Ghost. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (+MP3)

Автор: Оскар Уайльд

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Автор: Эдгар Аллан По

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This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two boys, who find themselves repeatedly on the brink of discovery or death, witness many hair-raising events, including mutiny, savagery, cannibalism, and frantic pursuits.


Journal of a residence in the Burmham empire, and more particularly at the court of Amarapoorah Journal of a residence in the Burmham empire, and more particularly at the court of Amarapoorah

Автор: Hiram Cox

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Journal of a residence in the Burmham empire, and more particularly at the court of Amarapoorah / by Capt. Hiram Cox».


George the Third, his court, and family. Vol. 2 George the Third, his court, and family. Vol. 2

Автор: John Galt

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Полный вариант заголовка: «George the Third, his court, and family. Vol. 2».