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Interns Can’t Take Money – ebook
Max Brand
Jimmy Kildare used to get away from the hospital every afternoon and go over to Tom McGuire’s saloon on the avenue. He always drank two beers. An interne in the accident room has to have the brains in his fingertips in good order all day long, but two beers don’t get very far between a man and himself if he has a bit of head on his shoulders, and Jimmy Kildare had.Data dostępności:
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The Steppe – ebook
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The story of a boy Egor, who goes from his home to a gymnasium located in another city. This trip is the last event before the start of a new life away from mother and familiar places. Nothing unexpected happens on the way, but at the same time, there is a constant change of landscapes and moons of Egor, meetings with new people, both ordinary and of noble origin. The boy is a witness to the life of...Data dostępności:
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Peace – ebook
An elderly wine grower Trigay, tired of the war and strife between the Greek cities, on a giant dung beetle goes to heaven to talk with Zeus. Arriving there, Trigay learns from Hermes that Zeus and the other gods are away, and instead of them, Polemos settled in the house of the gods. Polemos threw the goddess of peace Eiren into the cave and stoned him; together with the Horror that is serving him,...Data dostępności:
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The Maker of Moons and Other Short Stories – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
Ain is a place where the great River flows under a thousand bridges, the gardens are full of fragrant flowers, and the air is filled with the melody of silver bells. This is the place where the Moon Elder rules. The lunar elder has the right to give whatever he wants, equally he can take away whatever he sees fit. He is the creator of terrible monsters from hundreds of thousands of different bodie...Data dostępności:
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The Adventures of a Modest Man – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
The narrator is a widower with two daughters, living happily into a rather troubling middle age and pushing away his daughter’s suitors so that his daughters would live with him a little longer. A younger neighbor persuades him to buy a pig and then bets that the boredom of life has so eclipsed his intelligence that he won’t be smart enough to stop someone from stealing it. If the narrator loses the...Data dostępności:
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From a Surgeon’s Diary – ebook
Cliffford Ashdown
Meet the widow anxious to bury her husband before the autopsy, the artist who’s brushes have never been used, the bedridden drunk who contracts lead poisoning from a pub miles away. These strange stories are designed to baffle the mind and entertain the crime buff and newcomer alike. Set in the early days of the nineteenth century, the six tales here take place in various parts of rural England --...Data dostępności:
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The Ne’er-Do-Well – ebook
Rex Beach
Father often asked Kirk Anthony to do a real job. But Anthony, despite almost idolizing his strong, successful father, just can’t stop having a good time with his father’s money. He goes to fancy dinners, drives the latest cars, and treats his friends to sumptuous meals. Then a man steps in trying to get away from the law. At dinner, he persuades one of Anthony’s drunken friends to „play a terrible...Data dostępności:
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The Crater, or, Vulcan’s Peak – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
Two surviving American sailors, Mark and Bob, found themselves on a bare volcanic rock in the middle of the ocean. Gradually, they manage to form a soil layer using silt, guano and algae. As a result of a storm, Bob is carried away on a boat to the ocean, but he manages to get to America, from where, after stories about adventures, a party of their 9 relatives and friends of sailors arrives.Data dostępności:
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The Dutchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death – ebook
Hugh Walpole
An energetic girl enters society and must choose between her rebellious and exiled cousin or an ordinary young man. Rachel chooses an ordinary young man, but when their marriage begins to degenerate, she again comes into contact with her cousin. She falls in love with him – will she leave her husband and run away with her romantic but weak lover?Data dostępności:
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Dutch Courage and Other Stories – ebook
Jack London
The young man dreams of the sea, runs away from home, hides in the hold of the ship, with the help of a friend is supplied with food. Then the terrible happens – the robinsonade of a man locked in a hold! The food spoils, the young man cannot leave his shelter for many reasons, he suffocates, suffers from hunger... The agony of body and soul begins, only at the very end comes salvation.Data dostępności:
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