Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories - formato ePub

Publicada por primera vez en 1862, Padres e hijos es, según los críticos de varias generaciones, la mejor novela de este autor, quien reflejó en su obras, y en especial en esta, la cotidianidad y la esencia...

A nobleman and landowner named Ivan Lavretsky returns to Russia after leaving his faithless wife in France, only to fall in love with a beautiful and pious cousin, Elizaveta Kalitin. When Ivan learns...

A sequel to Rudin, this novel is about Russian society, idealism, innocence and disillusionment. It is set amidst the green fields owned by bourgeois Russians and pivots around the character of Lisa,...

On the Eve is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. Turgenev embellishes this love story with observations on middle...

VIRGIN SOIL by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) is his last and longest novel. In it he finally says everything yet unsaid on the subject of social change, idealism and yet futility of revolutions,...

VIRGIN SOIL by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) is his last and longest novel. In it he finally says everything yet unsaid on the subject of social change, idealism and yet futility of revolutions,...

Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most...

A DESPERATE CHARACTER AND OTHER TALES is a collection of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev's stories that spans his career. The six tales were written between 1847 and 1881. "Pyetushkov" (1847), "The Brigadier"...

Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most...

I was then five-and-twenty, -that was a sufficient indication that I had a past, said he, beginning. My own master for some little time, I resolved to travel, -not to complete my education, as they said...

Lieutenant Tyeglev belonged precisely to the class of those "fatal" individuals, though he did not possess the exterior commonly associated with them; he was not, for instance, in the least like Lermontov's...

A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major...

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a great Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of major works of 19th-century fiction. After the standard schooling for...

Turgenev embellishes this love story with observations on middle class life and interposes some art and philosophy. In his essay "When Will the Real Day Come?", Nikolay Dobrolyubov analyzed On the Eve...

Bazarov - a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man - has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov's outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches...

On the Eve is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. Turgenev embellishes this love story with observations on middle...

Four red hot romances from Mills & Boon! Baby Worth Billions Lynne Graham Pregnant…and marrying the world’s richest...

Four red-hot romances from Mills & Boon! Heir Ultimatum Michelle Smart Her demand: five million. His counter-offer:...

Two military school cadets, one a junior and the other a senior, compete in an important academic competition before the entire academy. When the junior cadet wins, the senior cadet vergally attacks and...

Tidelands is an ongoing sci-fi and fantasy serial. Set some years in the future, it is a dystopian blend of cyberpunk, first contact, Lovecraftian horror and dark humour. In a flooded city on the brink...

An elegant, melancholic novella about memory, family and the meaning of home. This is the tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy, a glamorous American divorcée, and her daughter, Flor....

Stories are spells. Healers have long recognised the need to travel to psychic realms, from heaven to Hesperides, to effect cures. Ancient medicinal manuscripts pair myth and magical incantation with...

Two lonely strangers. One chance encounter. Six winning numbers. Dot is a lonely pensioner. Max is a young offender. But a chance meeting in their local park changes everything for this unlikely duo....

An irresistibly romantic historical adventure, set in medieval Japan, tinged with fantasy and revolving around the art of waka poetry__________'A charming, magical, picaresque journey through medieval...

'An enthralling page-turner' DILLY COURT'A heart-warming WW2 love story' ROSIE GOODWIN'A great new series from the queen of East End sagas' ELAINE EVEREST*1941. Whilst London is battered by air raids,...

To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community in Puritan New England. One disciple, Dr Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister's...

Set in the buried streets of Georgian London and the outrageous underworld of the molly houses, a carpenter hiding a double life searches for a traitor who is betraying the secrets of the mollies. The...

'Can you come round?' Dad says tremulously. 'Of course. Are you OK? Is it Mum?''No!' He almost shouts it. 'Just come quickly. The garden...the...body... we need you, Penny.'For women of Penny's generation,...

Bryony doesn't actually mind being single. So she doesn't understand why she keeps seeing (ok, sleeping with) Ed, who is perfectly fine, but also only okay. After developing the ick on their fifth date,...

'Eerie, atmospheric' Louise Jensen'A haunting tale of intrigue' Emily Freud'Ruth Ware fans will eat this up' Publishers WeeklyIf beauty is in the eye of the beholder, how much can you trust what you see?...

A look back at everything every character from the series has been through since the last time you heard from them.

A town under fire. A detective with something to prove. A killer hiding in plain sight. The small town of Rislake in the picturesque Blue Mountains is about to be engulfed by a major bushfire. The order...

Vorok knows the rules of the Red District. Bust heads. Take names. And never cross the boss. But when the boss's daughter tries to run away from an unwanted engagement, Vorok has a choice to make: send...

So it was all real after all… I had a sneaking suspicion most of the customer's at Kenny's diner were supernatural creatures. That was until my memory was wiped by a witch, thanks to Mac, the other night-shift...

Autumn, AD 672. While out walking, Abbot Brocc was shocked to encounter the sinister apparition of a young woman, cloaked entirely in grey, who foretold his impending death. Dismissing the soothsayer's...

'An expansive novel reminiscent of the literary breadth, humanity, and historical depth found in Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate' Christophe Boltanski, winner of the 2015 Prix Femina for The Safe House'A...

'Few people can write the way Jendella does' - Kelechi Okafor, author of Edge of Here'All That We've Got is simply brilliant' - Dorothy Koomson, author of Every Smile You Fake'A heartwarming story about...

BY THE AUTHOR OF STANDING HEAVY - SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in Cote d'Ivoire....

A misfiring prop leads Amy and Ambrose into a complicated case.  When Amy and Ambrose are called to a suspicious death at a theatre, they find themselves having to deal with a series of strange connections...

How much pain are you willing to endure for someone you love?Bold, charismatic, and charming Blu Henderson wears a fake smile every day, pushing through life because she has to - not because she wants...

In a world where fairytales keep coming to life, there's a bureau dedicated to helping the victims caught up in the Grimm Effect. But sometimes even those investigators fall prey to a happily ever after…The...

The new enemies-to-lovers romcom from Lindsey Kelk – pre-order now! 'Lindsey Kelk is the Taylor Swift of romance writing – she makes me PROUD to be a romance reader!'...

We’ve all met a nosey parker – but have you met the Parker Sisters – the private detectives who’ve turned being curious into a way of life… A jilted wife, a jealous...

Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart.TJ Devlin is the charming...

Torn between tradition and rebellion, Nyokabi finds love amidst the flames of colonial Kenya's Mau Mau uprising. But tragedy strikes, leaving her scarred. Seeking a new life in the US, she finds solace...