Books published in 1928
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A Night At The Fair
[english | 1928]Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Excerpts: [... place in the Grand Concourse every night. At the late afternoon of a hot September day two boys of fifteen, somewhat replete with food and pop, and fatigued ...... that even though he was going East to school, he was too small for long trousers. He had countered by growing an inch and a half in a fortnight, which ...... at the car. After several minutes a young man with a very pink ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 237
Armageddon Ad
[english | 1928]Philip Francis Nowlan
Summary: [In Armageddon - 2419 A.D. Buck a victim of accidental suspended animation awakens five hundred years later to discover America groaning under the tyranny of the villainous Han ruling from the safety of their armored machine-cities. Falling in love with one of Americas new warrior-women Wilma Deering Rogers soon become a central figure in using newly-developed scientific weapons - disintegrators ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 199
Armance
[english | 1928]Stendhal
Excerpts: [... has been shown to the authors of the comedy, Les Trois Quartiers. They have held up a mirror to the public is it their fault if ugly people have passed ...... give me daylight! said his mother in a tone of vivacity. Come here, look at me, she added, in the same tone, and, without replying to her husband, ...... de Malivert's anxiety. What had alarmed her most of all at the time of ...]
Genres: [fiction | romance] Downloads: 238
As A Thief In The Night
[english | 1928]R Austin Freeman
Summary: [A Thief in The Night is a 1989 book British historian and journalist John Cornwell on Pope John Paul I conspiracy theories in which the author challenges previous writings on the subject by David Yallop.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 213
Basil The Freshest Boy
[english | 1928]Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Summary: [Includes bibliographical references (xxv-xxvi).]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 163
Cool Air
[english | 1928]Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Summary: [When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School is Sam Kashners autobiographical account of his experience as the first student at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poeticshttp://www. naropa. edu/wp/ which was founded by Allen Ginsberg in honor of his late friend Jack Kerouac. As he describes in his book Kashner was a disgruntled Long Island teenager in the 1970s who was obsessed with ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 59
El Horror De Dunwich
[spanish | 1928]Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Excerpts: [... piedras. Las vertientes de aquellas monta~nas son tan escarpadas y sombr'ias que uno desear'ia que se mantuviesen a distancia, pero tiene que seguir ...... en tanto que las ruinas del molino que hay en la cascada, construido en 1806, constituyen la pieza arquitect'onica m'as reciente de la localidad. La ...... en una criatura de su edad, y pr'acticamente nadie se asombr'o cuando, a ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 413
Exciting Adventures Of Mister Robert Robin
[english | 1928]Ben Field
Summary: [Exciting Adventures Of Mister Robert Robin by Ben Field. EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MR. TOM SQUIRREL EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER JIM CROW EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER GERALD FOX EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER MELANCTHON COON EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER ROBERT ROBIN EXCITING ADVENTURES OF MISTER BOB WHITE]
Genres: [nature | young readers | fiction and literature] Downloads: 94
He Thinks Hes Wonderful
[english | 1928]Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Summary: [Lang A. and Pollock W. H. He.--De Morgan J. He.--De Morgan J. It.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 227
Kings Of The Talkies
[english | 1928]Alva Johnston
Excerpts: [... you make a change in the ebook (other than alteration for different display devices), or (2) you are making commercial use of the ebook. If either of ...... but the Warners were the first to make the public listen. The modern talking-picture mechanism was developed in the laboratories of the American ...... was in February, 1925. In March another man was the biggest man in the ...]
Genres: [biography | essays] Downloads: 94
La Machine A Desintegrer
[french | 1928]Arthur Conan Doyle
Summary: [Nous retrouvons dans cette courte nouvelle le Pr Challenger et le journaliste Malone. Celui-ci la demande de son journal sollicite le concours du professeur pour rencontrer linventeur dune machine dsintgrer. Seul le Pr Challenger est capable de trouver la rponse la menace que fait peser sur lhumanit lexistence dune telle machine...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 319
La Vallee Du Desespoir
[french | 1928]Gustave Le Rouge
Summary: [Martial Norbert as de laviation pendant la premire guerre mondiale et fianc de la belle Rosy fille de lingnieur Wilcox spcialiste des terrains miniers part la recherche de son futur beau-pre disparu depuis trois ans alors quil tait parti exploiter une concession minire. Cette concession englobe la valle du dsespoir nom donn par les indiens une valle daccs trs difficile enchsse par de trs hautes ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 283
Lady Chatterleys Lover
[english | 1928]David Herbert Lawrence
Summary: [Apple Hill Chamber Players.]
Genres: [fiction | erotica] Downloads: 337
Laffaire Charles Dexter Ward
[french | 1928]Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Summary: [Providence tats-Unis 1918. Charles Dexter Ward est un jeune homme passionn darchologie dhistoire et de gnalogie. Cest par le biais de cette dernire que Ward se dcouvre un anctre nomm Joseph Curwen qui avait fui la ville de Salem lors de la grande chasse aux sorciers au cours du XVIIIe sicle et qui vint stablir Providence o il dcda en 1771. Cette dcouverte sera le dbut dun drame au cours duquel ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 151
Le Bacille
[french | 1928]Arnould Galopin
Summary: [Martial Procas est un scientifique reconnu spcialiste des microbes pathognes. De plus il est beau et le tout-Paris en particulier fminin accourt ses confrences universitaires. Un jour une belle Amricaine attire son regard et il tombe perdument amoureux de cette femme qui se rvle une aventurire et le quitte quelques semaines peine aprs leur mariage. Quand il sen rend compte Procas est victime ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 438
Le Gouffre Maracot Ou Le Monde Perdu Sous La Mer
[french | 1928]Arthur Conan Doyle
Summary: [La passion dun savant le professeur Maracot est porte son comble quand lexpdition quil a organise pour explorer une fosse abyssale de lAtlantique aboutit suite un accident de plonge une dcouverte incroyable sur les anciennes civilisations de lAtlantide et en particulier dtres extraordinaires qui ont prserv leur mode de vie antique...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | science fiction] Downloads: 467
Le Moine Noir
[french | 1928]Anton Pavlovitch Tchekhov
Summary: [Le Moine noir - Un philosophe obsd par une lgende refuse la mdiocrit des gens raisonnables et sombre dans la folie. LEffroi - Dautres intellectuels brisent comme lui leur vie familiale trouvant la vie incomprhensible. La Vieille Maison - On se noie dans lalcool dans lattente dun avenir meilleur. Le Mendiant - On se tire parfois de la misre grce au travail. Le Pari - Un pari fou mne une rflexion ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 72
Les Mohicans De Babel
[french | 1928]Gaston Leroux
Summary: [Dans le Paris dbrid des anne folles alors que le gouvernement est aux abois on ne parle que dun mystrieux malfaiteur tout-puissant le Grand X. Un riche banquier et homme politique Milion-Lauenbourg est le pre dune trs jolie fille Sylvie amoureuse dun dput adversaire de son pre Claude Corbires. Celui-ci dirige la ligue anti parlementaire. Milion-Lauenbourg dirige ses affaires grce laide ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 130
Magnetism
[english | 1928]Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Excerpts: [... stimulus of American life, she had irresistible impulses towards violence. The nurse escaped, however. Her blue cape faded haughtily into the distance ...... inside, and Dolores, who was not hurt and thought quickly, suddenly contemplated having a love affair with him. She looked at herself several times ...... San Francisco???last Thursday night.' 'I'm sorry,' objected George. ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 391
Moments Of Being Slaters Pins Have No Points
[english | 1928]Virginia Woolf
Excerpts: [... full of the music, to look for the pin on the floor. The words gave her an extraordinary shock, as Miss Craye struck the last chord of the Bach fugue. ...... admiration for her in every way. Miss Craye was left badly off, Miss Kingston was afraid, at her brother's death. Oh, they used to have such lovely ...... this on the first day of term while she received cheques and wrote out ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 297