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У молодой купеческой дочери таинственным образом один за другим умирают перед свадьбой шесть ее женихов. Седьмой бросает вызов судьбе, решив разгадать эту тайну. Приподнять таинственную завесу, раскрыть все эти преступления помогает несравненный Мефодий Кобылкин, всесведущий и вездесущий, "ищейка по призванию", как и англичанин Шерлок Холмс; француз Мегрэ, бельгиец Пуаро и другие знаменитые сыщики.БиографияАлекса́ндр Ива́нович Красни́цкий (10 сентября [29 августа] 1866, Москва - 29 января [16 января] 1917, Санкт-Петербург) - российский писатель и журналист. Имел более 50 псевдонимов, но больше известен как Александр Лавров. Единственный сын художника Императорской Академии Художеств - Ивана Яковлевича Красницкого, родился в Москве. Раннее детство Александра прошло в имении родителей в селе Махерово Ржевского уезда Тверской губернии, а затем в разъездах с отцом по Московской, Тверской, Новгородской губерниям, древности которых фотографировал отец. Самостоятельно научившись читать в 5 лет читал без разбора все, что находил в огромной отцовской библиотеке.Не прошло мимо Александра и то, что его отец воспитывался с семьей Алексея Хомякова и встречался со всеми выдающимися деятелями того времени. Иван Яковлевич был лично знаком с Гоголем, Белинским, князем Петром Вяземским, Иваном Аксаковым и многими другими известными людьми своего времени. ... (ru.wikipedia.org)

In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand it as reactionary. While Mencken did not champion women's rights, he described women as wiser in many novel and observable ways, while demeaning average men.According to Mencken's biographer, Fred Hobson: "Depending on the position of the reader, he was either a great defender of women's rights or, as a critic labelled him in 1916, 'the greatest misogynist since Schopenhauer', 'the country's high-priest of woman-haters.'" The original title for Defense was A Book for Men Only, but other working titles included The Eternal Feminine as well as The Infernal Feminine. The book was originally published by Philip Goodman in 1918, but Mencken released a new edition in 1922 in an attempt to bring the book to a wider audience. This second edition, published by Alfred Knopf, was both much longer and milder. In general, biographers describe Defense as "ironic" it was not so much a defense of women as a critique of the relationship between the sexes. Topics covered by the book included "Woman's Equipment," "Compulsory Marriage," "The Emancipated Housewife," and "Women as Martyrs." Women were gaining rights, according to Mencken-the ability to partake in adultery without lasting public disgrace, the ability to divorce men, and even some escape from the notion of virginity as sacred, which remained as "one of the hollow conventions of Christianity." Women nonetheless remained restrained by social conventions in many capacities. Mencken's love of women was driven in part by the sympathy he had for female literary characters (especially those brought to life by his friend Theodore Dreiser), as well as his almost fanatical love of his mother. Mencken supported women's rights, even if he had no affection for the suffragist.Although he originally intended to be ironic when he proclaimed that women were the superior gender, many of the qualities he assigned to them were qualities he deeply admired - realism and skepticism among them, but also manipulative skill and a detached view of humankind. The book was reviewed very well: according to Carl Bode, there were four times as many favorable reviews as unfavorable.The first edition of the book sold fewer than 900 copies, a disappointing showing. The second edition sold much better, during the more progressive Roaring Twenties. (wikipedia.org)

The Story Girl is a novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The book is narrated by Beverley, who together with his brother Felix, has come to live with his Aunt Janet and Uncle Alec King on their farm while their father travels for business. They spend their leisure time with their cousins Dan, Felicity and Cecily King, hired boy Peter Craig, neighbor Sara Ray and another cousin, Sara Stanley. The latter is the Story Girl of the title, and she entertains the group with fascinating tales including various events in the King family history. "I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it," once said Sara Stanley, also known as the Story Girl. She is enlightening and brings about a glow to the reader's heart. ...

William Thomas Stead (July 5, 1849 - April 15, 1912) was a British journalist. He was born in Embleton, Northumberland, the son of a Congregational minister. He died on the RMS Titanic when it struck an iceberg and sank. Excerpts from the title:...But what with the superstitious credulity of the one age and the equally superstitious unbelief of another, it is necessary to begin from the beginning and to convince a skeptical world that apparitions really appear. In order to do this it is necessary to insist that your ghost should no longer be ignored as a phenomenon of Nature. He has a right, equal to that of any other natural phenomenon, to be examined and observed, studied and defined. It is true that he is a rather difficult phenomenon; his comings and goings are rather intermittent and fitful, his substance is too shadowy to be handled, and he has avoided hitherto equally the obtrusive inquisitiveness of the microscope and telescope.