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e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited thriller collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt from Content: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men P.-C. Lee The Angel of Terror…...

Amid all the eulogies and all the slanders that are lavished upon the English character, very few people would appear to take any real trouble to obtain a sincere view of it. Rhetorical phrases about its inarticulate strength and nobility do not commonly bring us very much further, for it may be...

Dying in the desert—stretched, limp and helpless, in the darkening waste—poured out like water on the tawny sand—two specks poised high above him in the deeper orange of the upper sky—a wide-winged vulture hovering and wheeling between the stricken lion and the setting sun. Dying in the desert—grim,...

"Pequod" adlı bir balina gemisinin son yolculuğunu, balinaların nasıl avlandıklarını, geminin sonunda nasıl battığını anlatan Moby Dick, ilk bakışta denizlerde geçen bir serüven romanı sanılabilir. Ne var ki insan Moby Dick'i okudukça, okuduklarını düşündükçe, kitabın derinliğini,...

"Yapmamayı tercih ederim."On dokuzuncu yüzyıl ortalarında, Wall Street'teki bir hukuk bürosunda çalışan az rastlanır kişilikteki bir kâtibin ağzından çıkan ve onun hayat felsefesini dile getiren bu ünlü cümle, o günden beri tekrarlanıp duruyor.Kâtip Bartleby, kendisine verilen görevleri...

"With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele—" When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza—a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness...

A compelling life story and shrewd analysis of King George III, who ascended the throne with his mother’s advice, “Be King, George” ringing in his ears. His scheming belied his nickname, “Farmer George;” this was a name George was given by satirists—a tribute to his seeming simple mindedness, but later George used the name to identify himself with the people.

The life of a hardened soldier and prosecutor for South Africa's Apartheid government was transformed when he accepted God's calling and became a peacemaker.Can God really protect you in these troubled times; provide for you in a weak economy and does he have a destiny and purpose for your life?...

Through a Glass Darkly tells the story of Ron Hennessey, an Iowa farmer who returned from the Korean War to discover that farming no longer held much allure. Hennessey joined a Catholic missionary society and after nine years of study was ordained a priest and sent to Guatemala. The book describes...

This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story...

According to Wikipedia: "John Gay (30 June 1685 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names."

A compelling life story and shrewd analysis of King George III, who ascended the throne with his mother’s advice, “Be King, George” ringing in his ears. His scheming belied his nickname, “Farmer George;” this was a name George was given by satirists—a tribute to his seeming simple mindedness, but later George used the name to identify himself with the people.