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This book was written by a husband and a wife Samuel Marinus Zwemer and Amy E. Zwemer. They both were missionaries and travelers, with their interest focused on the Arabian countries. Samuel Zwemer often called The Apostle to Islam lived for quite a long time (1891-1905) at Busrah, Bahrein and in other places in the Middle East doing research there and missionary work as well. He also became a member of the Royal Geographical Society of London and on its behalf traveled to Asia. During the last years of his life he served as a professor of missions and the history of religion as the Princeton Theological Seminary. Samuel Zwemer is known as the author of many books devoted to the Arabs and Arabian countries. For instance, he was an editor of the famous publication The Moslem World. Also he encouraged many outstanding researches to travel to the Middle East as missionaries and study this region. His wife Amy Zwemer was an American missionary as well working in the Arabian countries where she met and married her co-worker. She created Two Young Arabs including The Travels of Noorah and Jameel and co-authored various books with her husband, among them we can name Topsy-Turvy Land (1902), and Moslem Women (1926).

The Big Bow Mystery is known as the first detective story in which the door closes and the game begins. The text of the novel is full of the keys and clues to the solution that makes the reading even more interesting as the reader is faced a mystery which is to be discovered. It is possible to find many solutions and quite difficult to choose the right one. The novel uses a classic approach according to which the least suspected person turns out to be miscreant. The Big Bow Mystery narrates about a murder of a famous union agitator. Somebody has cut his throat in his apartment in East End in Bow Street. There was nobody inside because the door was locked from inside and the windows were bolted. As there is no weapon nearby, we cannot state that this was a suicide. We run across one suspected person but he has a really good alibi. The police seems to be completely lost that can be told from their words: "It seems clear that the deceased did not commit suicide. It seems equally clear that the deceased was not murdered." The novel is recommended to all lovers of detective stories.

This story was published for the first time more than a century ago and after its almost immediate popularity it was forgotten for some year. This edition is the first translation of The Dream during a century and it is a great attempt to recall the wonderful plot of the novel and the talent of its author. The book is devoted to love which appears despite social disapproval and it goes further analyzing the reasons why sooner or later love will die. The main character Anglique whose family deserted him enters a new family of Hubert and Hubertine and influences their relationship and the atmosphere in their family a lot. The couple influenced her a lot as well bringing purity into the child's life. And she gets interested in the lives of saints and legends devoted to them. So she creates her dream: a world full of kindness and love. However, it turns out to be just an illusion. Later on when she wants to married, her dream gets ruined by some people who were more powerful than Hubert and Hubertine. This becomes a real trial for her, her dream and her real life.

This is a Victorian novella. A snob musician who is part of the British nobility toils away his days in poverty trying to create great art. He avoids money and wealth and hates America as the land of excess. Somehow, he becomes friends with his chamber maid Mary Ann and slowly loses some of his elitist attitudes. There's a scene in Gosford Park where the rich guests sit around bored as a character plays the piano. Meanwhile, the servants are outside listening to the music with rapt attention. There is a similar scene in this book in which Lancelot understands that all the "common" music that he's disdained has a value if only for Mary Ann.

An account of legendary events of the Armenian history. From the author: The book does not claim to represent Armenian poetry adequately. Many gifted and well-known authors have been omitted, partly from considerations of space, and partly because of the scope of the work. For instance, I should have liked to include some of the Sharakans (rows of gems) of Nerses Shnorhali; but the impossibility of reproducing their characteristic forms in another language, and doing them any justice, made me decide not to translate any of them. I have only given a few typical legends and poems, endeavouring, as far as possible, to convey the local colouring by adhering closely to the form, rhythm, and imagery of the originals in my translations.