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North of Boston is Robert Frost’s second collection of poetry. It includes some of his more famous poems, like “Mending Wall,” “Home Burial,” and “After Apple-Picking.”

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Treasure Island isn’t just one of the most famous coming-of-age tales in modern storytelling, it’s also the book that invented everything you know about pirates: Peg legs, parrots, treasure chests, tropical islands, Long John Silver, maps marked with an “X,” swashbuckling adventure, and “Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.”

Its brisk pace and easy tone have stood the test of the time—Treasure Island is as readable, enjoyable, and memorable today as it ever was.

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Stanley Weinbaum was an influential science fiction writer who died at an early age. His short story “A Martian Odyssey,” included in this collection, was praised by science fiction luminaries like Isaac Asimov, who said the story “had the effect on the field of an exploding grenade. With this single story, Weinbaum was instantly recognized as the world’s best living science fiction writer, and at once almost every writer in the field tried to imitate him.”

This collection includes all of Weinbaum’s short stories that are believed to be in the public domain.

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Mary Shelley (then Godwin) and Percy Bysshe Shelley were visiting their friend Lord Byron in Geneva one rainy summer. With the weather against them, they decided to spend their time writing ghost stories for each other. Frankenstein is Mary Shelley’s submission to their contest, later published anonymously in 1818.

Victor Frankenstein, a strange but brilliant scientist, discovers a method of imparting life to inanimate matter. The Monster is thus born: a hideous, 8-foot-tall creature of muscle, speed, and intellect. Frankenstein’s rejection of his appalling creation sends it into a spiral of despair, and Frankenstein’s life is never the same.

Considered by many to be the first science fiction novel, Frankenstein is a powerful narrative that explores complex themes of belonging, morality, and the consequences of the power over life and death.

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One of the great American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of Huck Finn and his travels with Jim, an escaped slave. Roundly criticised by contemporary reviewers for its colorful and literal language and even banned by several libraries, it sealed its historical importance in part by being one of the first novels to be written entirely in American vernacular.

While Huck Finn is, on its face, an adventure tale for younger readers, it’s also a cutting satire and a nuanced examination of racism and morality. Hemingway called it “the best book we’ve had.”

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the classic novella of split personality. Stevenson wrote it in just a few days while sick and bedridden, and famously burned the first draft after his wife suggested it should be written as an allegory and not as a story. He re-wrote it in three to six days, and after a few weeks of editing and revision he published what would become one of his most famous and best-selling works.

The story follows a London lawyer as he investigates the relationship between a brilliant scientist and a misshapen misanthrope. As the link between the two becomes clearer, Jekyll and Hyde develops into an allegory on the nature of good and evil.

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Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha during a period in his life in which he suffered what he described as a “sickness with life.” He claimed to be unable to complete the book because he had not experienced the kind of nirvana that Siddhartha, the main character, wants to achieve—so Hesse surrounded himself with sacred Buddhist and Hindu teachings and lived as a recluse in order to complete this work.

Siddhartha is a short, simple tale of a man’s quest to achieve enlightenment and happiness. Over twelve short chapters the reader follows Siddhartha through his time as a young adult, to his exploration of spirituality as a traveling ascetic, to his delvings in lust, business, and greed, to his time as an old man. At each stage of his life Siddhartha yearns for nirvana, finally achieving it only after realizing that it’s all of life’s experiences that form it, not the teachings of any one man.

Today Siddhartha remains an influential text in new Western spirituality.

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Like many of Dickens’ works, David Copperfield was published serially, then as a complete novel for the first time in 1850. Dickens himself thought of it as his favorite novel, writing in the preface that of all his works Copperfield was his favorite child. This isn’t surprising, considering that many of the events in the novel are semi-autobiographical accounts from Dickens’ own life.

In David Copperfield we follow the life of the titular character as he makes a life for himself in England. He finds himself in the care of a cold stepfather who sends him to boarding school, and from there embarks on a journey filled with characters and events that can only be called “Dickensian” in their colorful and just-barely-probable portrayals.

Дэниел Киз всегда интересовался пограничными состояниями, герои с раздвоением личности, с психическими расстройствами занимали его всегда – начиная с «Таинственной истории Билли Миллигана».

«Хроники лечебницы» – одна из таких книг.

День Рэйвен начинается в психбольнице. У нее диссоциативное расстройство личности, и ей предстоит прийти в себя после очередной попытки самоубийства.

Теперь у Рэйвен есть секрет, который может спасти тысячи невинных жизней. Глубоко в ее раздробленном подсознании схоронены детали готовящегося террористического акта против Соединенных Штатов – детали, которые похитители не могут позволить ей раскрыть. В то время как Рэйвен собирает все силы, чтобы дать отпор своим похитителям, американский агент мчится через весь земной шар, чтобы спасти несчастную девушку и найти ключ, который откроет ее запертые воспоминания, пока не стало слишком поздно.

Любимый автор пользователей TikTok, более 435 млн упоминаний.

«Трудно признать, что браку пришел конец, когда любовь еще не ушла. Люди привыкли считать, что брак заканчивается только с утратой любви. Когда на место счастья приходит злость.

Но мы с Грэмом не злимся друг на друга. Мы просто стали другими.

Мы с Грэмом так давно смотрим в противоположные стороны, что я даже не могу вспомнить, какие у него глаза, когда он внутри меня.

Зато уверена, что он помнит, как выглядит каждый волосок на моем затылке, когда я отворачиваюсь от него по ночам».

Совершенной любви Квинн и Грэмма угрожает их несовершенный брак.

Они познакомились при сложных обстоятельствах. Драматичное, но красивое начало. Сейчас же близится конец. Что может спасти их отношения?

Квинн уверена, что должна забеременеть. Но ее уверенность становится и тем, что ведет их брак к концу.

Сколько секретов, недосказанностей и боли могут скрывать друг от друга любящие люди? И обратим ли этот процесс?

«Восхитительный, но и буквально выворачивающий наизнанку роман. Убедительная история о том, как ожидания счастливой жизни не оправдываются… и что с этим делать». – Library Journal

«Душераздирающе… Еще один потрясающий роман от Колин Гувер». – Bustle

«Пронзительная история любви». – Booklist

«Совершенное изображение несовершенного брака». – Kirkus

Колин Гувер – троекратная обладательница премии Goodreads Choice Award в номинации «Любовный роман». Автор бестселлеров «Уродливая любовь» и многих других. Ее произведения переведены на множество языков и постоянно попадают в списки бестселлеров по версии New York Times и Amazon.com. Сильные, эмоциональные истории Колин Гувер покорили сердца миллионов читательниц по всему миру, ведь они посвящены лучшему чувству на земле.