North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: , by Walter Scott, , and . I like...
Большинство книг в нашей библиотеке хранится в формате FB2 (FictionBook). Этот формат отличается от других малым весом и возможностью форматирования текста. Также FB2 может содержать изображения и обложку, что делает его самым распространенным форматом книг. Но этот формат имеет один недостаток - книги в FB2 нельзя открыть обычным блокнотом, нужна специальная программа.