📗 Missiya, the Wild One
👤 Vijita Fernando
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
This is an unusual story of a beautiful young girl. Her name was Missiya. There was something special and charming about her. No wonder that from a very young age Missiya attracted a lot of men. She started meeting them in the woods. The girl was poor and had to sell the only thing she had - her beauty. Missiya was keeping a dark secret: in desperation she had committed a terrible crime.
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👤 Vijita Fernando
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
This is an unusual story of a beautiful young girl. Her name was Missiya. There was something special and charming about her. No wonder that from a very young age Missiya attracted a lot of men. She started meeting them in the woods. The girl was poor and had to sell the only thing she had - her beauty. Missiya was keeping a dark secret: in desperation she had committed a terrible crime.
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📗 Wicked and Humorous Tales
👤 Saki
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
This is a collection of six incredible stories from the master of sarcasm Hector Hugh Munro, who is more famous as Saki.The book starts from the story "The opened window". A young man comes to his sister to the countryside, where he wants to improve his health. He goes to his neighbors and gets into a strange situation.
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👤 Saki
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
This is a collection of six incredible stories from the master of sarcasm Hector Hugh Munro, who is more famous as Saki.The book starts from the story "The opened window". A young man comes to his sister to the countryside, where he wants to improve his health. He goes to his neighbors and gets into a strange situation.
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📗 Why Didn't They Ask Evans
👤 Agatha Christie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Bobby and his fellow doctor are playing golf together. From the top of the hill, he sees a man lying on the ground. The man dies, but before death, he says a mysterious phrase: "Why did not they ask Evans?" In his pocket, Bobby finds a photo of a beautiful woman. These are the only two keys to understand, who that late man was. Bobby and his friend Frankie are starting their own investigation.
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👤 Agatha Christie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Bobby and his fellow doctor are playing golf together. From the top of the hill, he sees a man lying on the ground. The man dies, but before death, he says a mysterious phrase: "Why did not they ask Evans?" In his pocket, Bobby finds a photo of a beautiful woman. These are the only two keys to understand, who that late man was. Bobby and his friend Frankie are starting their own investigation.
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📗 Time Machine
👤 H. G. Wells
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Story starts with the time traveler telling his friends he has invited to dinner that the mathematics he is about to explain is much different from the usual ideas. The book is written from one of the guests’ viewpoint. He claims that as soon as he presses the lever, the time machine will disappear into the future. He presses the lever shortly thereafter, and the machine does disappear…
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👤 H. G. Wells
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Story starts with the time traveler telling his friends he has invited to dinner that the mathematics he is about to explain is much different from the usual ideas. The book is written from one of the guests’ viewpoint. He claims that as soon as he presses the lever, the time machine will disappear into the future. He presses the lever shortly thereafter, and the machine does disappear…
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📗 The Monkey King
👤 Wu Cheng
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
China's most popular traditional novel, Journey to the West is the thrilling story of the Monkey King and his epic quest, with his trusted companions, to redeem himself. They face fantastic foes, demons and monsters during their amazing adventures traveling to the Western paradise.
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👤 Wu Cheng
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
China's most popular traditional novel, Journey to the West is the thrilling story of the Monkey King and his epic quest, with his trusted companions, to redeem himself. They face fantastic foes, demons and monsters during their amazing adventures traveling to the Western paradise.
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📗 The Thames Murderer
👤 Allsworth Anne
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
The police inspector James Hudson discovered, that the dead woman had been the second victim of a serial maniac. The first one was killed four weeks ago, when the moon was full. The murderer sent to the police the weapon of his crime – a belt from the dress, which he used to strangle the girl. He also sent a note with a sign "Jack the Skipper". In that note he was laughing at the helpless policemen.
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👤 Allsworth Anne
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
The police inspector James Hudson discovered, that the dead woman had been the second victim of a serial maniac. The first one was killed four weeks ago, when the moon was full. The murderer sent to the police the weapon of his crime – a belt from the dress, which he used to strangle the girl. He also sent a note with a sign "Jack the Skipper". In that note he was laughing at the helpless policemen.
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📗 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
👤 Christopher Marlowe
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Immortal story about the eternal. Humanity has been fighting against sin from the immemorial times. Doctor Faustus is a gripping play based on the German story Faust, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.
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👤 Christopher Marlowe
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Immortal story about the eternal. Humanity has been fighting against sin from the immemorial times. Doctor Faustus is a gripping play based on the German story Faust, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.
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📗 Ethan Frome
👤 Edith Wharton
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
When it's the beginning of the twentieth century on the street - life on a farm in Massachusetts just does not seem easy to you. The life of a simple farmer, Ethan, is hard. He has to work much to survive. He likes looking at the bright stars in the night winter sky. He is not entirely alone on his small farm. There are pleasant people around with whom he can share the difficulties of this endless winter.
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👤 Edith Wharton
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
When it's the beginning of the twentieth century on the street - life on a farm in Massachusetts just does not seem easy to you. The life of a simple farmer, Ethan, is hard. He has to work much to survive. He likes looking at the bright stars in the night winter sky. He is not entirely alone on his small farm. There are pleasant people around with whom he can share the difficulties of this endless winter.
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📗 4:50 from Paddington
👤 Agatha Christie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Elspeth was travelling by train and when she suddenly woke up at midnight, she unexpectedly saw a horrible scene – a man was strangling a woman in the train that was passing by. Witnesses started to call for help, but a conductor didn't believe her and just thought that crazy woman had a nightmare.
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👤 Agatha Christie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Elspeth was travelling by train and when she suddenly woke up at midnight, she unexpectedly saw a horrible scene – a man was strangling a woman in the train that was passing by. Witnesses started to call for help, but a conductor didn't believe her and just thought that crazy woman had a nightmare.
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📗 Nicholas Nickleby
👤 Charles Dickens
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
A boy named Nicholas Nickleby was a happy carefree kid. Unfortunately, some time later his father passed away. After the tragedy Nicholas, his mother and sister went to London to ask their rich uncle Ralph Nickleby for help. The uncle sends Nicholas to a private school in Yorkshire. Nicholas discovers that this school is a terrible place.
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👤 Charles Dickens
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
A boy named Nicholas Nickleby was a happy carefree kid. Unfortunately, some time later his father passed away. After the tragedy Nicholas, his mother and sister went to London to ask their rich uncle Ralph Nickleby for help. The uncle sends Nicholas to a private school in Yorkshire. Nicholas discovers that this school is a terrible place.
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