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In a world where emotions are disappearing, selling the tears containing these emotions has become a thriving industry. Alongside this enterprise and its harvested tears, a black market offers wild tears culled from unsuspecting donors for very personal use. Baldassario, the tear thief, is a virtuoso...

Cet ouvrage présente le début du poème géant d'un kilomètre de long. Ce poème acrostiche fut composé par Patrick Huet sur le texte complet de la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l'Homme. Chaque lettre de cette Déclaration représente l'initiale d'un vers. On peut donc découvrir tout le...

Here, a commissioner is working with the new department on a case that has a lot of tact and psychology. Commissar Dare works the way that every day and every night offers a chance to solve his case in the style you can muster. A woman had made a Noah's Ark, which soon afterwards was her ruin and...

This edition contains 71 short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers...

Guido [Taking a letter from his pocket and reading it.] "The hour noon; the city, Padua; the place, the market; and the day, Saint Philip's Day." Ascanio And what of the man, how shall we know him? Guido [reading still] "I will wear a violet cloak with a silver falcon broidered on the...

Perhaps no other great poet in English Literature has been so differently judged at different times as Alexander Pope. Accepted almost on his first appearance as one of the leading poets of the day, he rapidly became recognized as the foremost man of letters of his age. He held this position throughout...

Who knows but some of the ideas in the books may get you inspired to do that thing you always wanted to do, even if this comes in a very small way, to make your corner of this world a better place to be in. Who knows but you may realize your little corner is a really nice place to be in after all. It's all about life, if at times expressing life "outside the box" as the saying goes.

Few realize that even at the present stage of civilization in this world, there are souls who, like the priests of the ancient temples, walk the earth and watch and guard the sacred fires that burn upon the altar of humanity. Purified ones they are, who have renounced the life of this sphere in order...

"...The Kayans dislike and discourage all magical practices, with the exception of those which are publicly practised for beneficent purposes and have the sanction of custom. In the old days they used to kill those suspected of working any evil by magic. There are no recognised magicians among...

It is in the middle of the1970s in a Swedish university city. Kicki and Eva-Lena, who have been best friends since school time, approach the age of thirty and try to live adult life as good as they can. Eva-Lena is married, while Kicki is still looking for a man to share her life with. The meeting...

In trying to train the mind to judge of works of architecture, one can never be too patient. It is very easy to hinder one's growth in knowledge by being too ready to decide. The student of art who is much under the influence of one teacher, one writer, or one body of fellow-students, is hampered...

Renate Younis invites you to completely take the lead in your life and your being human again. With meditative texts and illustrations you receive a step by step guide to listen deeper within to fathom your inner wisdom, in order to be the best guide for yourself. How can you let yourself speak again?...

The opening scene of this tale took place in a little village on the southern coast of Cornwall. Treby (by that name we choose to designate a spot, whose true one, for several reasons, will not be given,) was, indeed, rather a hamlet than a village, although, being at the sea-side, there were two...

What’s more chaotic than a house with a canary, two hungry cats, and a yappy poodle with elimination issues? Answer: Barbara Marr on a murder investigation. That’s right, when Barb attends her first movie review screening, film director Kurt Baugh dies within twenty minutes of meeting her. If...