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Анонимно изданный в 1729 году сатирический памфлет Джонатана Свифта с предложением продавать детей ирландских бедняков для употребления в пищу представителями высших слоёв английского общества.

The IdiotJohn Kendrick Bangs The Idiot I For some weeks after the happy event which transformed the popular Mrs. Smithers into the charming Mrs. John Pedagog all went well at that lady's select home for single gentlemen. It was only proper that during the honey-moon, at least, of the happy couple...

The "Goldfish"Arthur Cheney Train The «Goldfish» / Being the Confessions af a Successful Man "We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. We have lost the power of even imagining what the ancient idealization of...

The Mayor's WifeAnna Katharine Green The Mayor's Wife CHAPTER I. A SPY’S DUTY I am not without self-control, yet when Miss Davies entered the room with that air of importance she invariably assumes when she has an unusually fine position to offer, I could not hide all traces of my anxiety.I neede...

BonesEdgar Wallace Bones / Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country PROLOGUE SANDERS—C.M.G I You will never know from the perusal of the Blue Book the true inwardness of the happenings in the Ochori country in the spring of the year of Wish. Nor all the facts associated with ...

In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in ColoradoG. A. Henty In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado PREFACEMY DEAR LADS,Until comparatively lately that portion of the United States in which I have laid this story was wholly unexplored. The marvellous cañons of t...

Adventures of Sherlock HolmesA. Conan Doyle Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Adventure I A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA I TO Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he fel...

Московия в представлении иностранцев XVI-XVII в.Pavel Nikolayevich Apostol Moscovia v predstavlenii inostrantsev XVI-XVII v Предисловіе IМосковія! Въ понятіи иностранцевъ, отправлявшихся въ этотъ далекій, загадочный, снѣжный край – центральная ли только Россія? Или и Югъ съ златоглавымъ Кіевомъ, ...

Uwięziona to piąta część cyklu powieściowego W poszukiwaniu straconego czasu Marcela Prousta, ostatnia z przetłumaczonych przez Tadeusza Boya Żeleńskiego. Jej tematem są przeżycia głównego bohatera związane ze zrealizowaną wreszcie miłością do Albertyny.Zebrane wcześniej obserwacje dotyczące roma...

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