three lives ebook

“Soldiers Three” is a series of fascinating stories by the great English writer and poet Joseph Rudyard Kipling. A collection of short stories written in 1888 provides a glimpse into the life of “tommies,” as the English soldiers called it, in Afghanistan. They fool around, complain and talk about their daily lives - against the backdrop of the war and sunset of colonial England.

"„Three Lives” to pierwsza książka wydana przez Gertrudę Stein, amerykańską powieściopisarkę żydowskiego pochodzenia. Książka przyniosła jej dużą popularność, uznano ją za arcydzieło, gdyż była nowatorska zarówno pod względem treściowym, jak i językowym. Dzieło składa się z trzech części stanowiących historie przeciętnych kobiet i ich nie koniecznie przeciętnych losów. Dzięki tej i wielu...

This collection includes three short novels from „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” Max Brand (Frederick Faust). The stories here are character studies of outlaws, the lives they lead and the lies and myths that spring up about them. The title novel, „Peter Blue”, is an excellent character study. Blue, wounded in a gunfight, has lost the use of his gun hand and is desperately trying...

„Castle Gay” is the second of Buchan’s three Dickson McCunn books and is set in south west Scotland in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the 1920s. The plot revolves around the self-discovery of a media mogul named Craw, who is firstly the subject of mistaken identity and then the target of Balkan extremists who wish to use his newspapers to influence their political cause. Mr. Craw’s journey is...