A Pulpit in the Grill Room

E. Phillips Oppenheim

In 1914, after seven years of service in the most famous room in the Grill Room in London, he dropped his very favorable position and went to France. In 1919, he came from a war with two crutches and many medals. He came to Paris and looked enviously at the funny scenes in the cafe, and thought that it was all over for him.

A Queen of Atlantis

Frank Aubrey

Frank Aubrey, the author of The Devil Tree of Eldorado, has ventured again to write a wild and romantic tale of adventure. A Queen of Atlantis is the second of his trilogy of novels. This story relates the discovery of a telepathic race living in the Sargasso Sea. A wonderful tale of the mythical continent, told with outstanding imaginative ingenuity, chronicling the adventures of the near-immortal Monella. The readers interest is sustained from the start and the experiences are thrilling!

A Queen of Atlantis. A Romance of the Caribbean

Frank Aubrey

There is a long tradition among the romances of the 19th and early 20th century of the lost race novel concerning explorers who stumble onto a culture exists hidden from the outside world. A Queen of Atlantis: A Romance of the Caribbean is a novel among the most famous lost race novels written by Frank Aubrey. This story relates the discovery of a telepathic race living in the Sargasso Sea. A wonderful tale of the mythical continent, told with outstanding imaginative ingenuity, chronicling the adventures of the near-immortal Monella. Most desirable, all the expected thrills of an Atlantean thriller plus some: flying damsels; immortals; a satisfying variety of monsters including the frightful shape, with its maddening leer and its blood-curdling scream that welcomes us to the book.

A Queen of the Stage

Fred M. White

The story of A Queen of the Stage about a lonely woman Elsie Wayne, who is alone in London. She gets a fake theater role. The stranger throws her a note. It reads: Be brave and patient. If your friend does not let you down, be today under the portico of the Regency Theater.

A Rogues Life

Wilkie Collins

This is a charming and highly readable novel written in the middle of the 19th century. This novel also combines the adventure and twists of a novel with a moderately upper-class protagonist. Frank sees work life as a problem, and by his 25th birthday, he has failed in medicine, portraiture, caricature, and even forgery. Disillusioned with life, he despaired of finding something to do until he met Alicia Dulcifer.

A Romance of Two Worlds

Marie Corelli

The main character, who is fond of music, being under the heavy pressure of a creative crisis, goes on a journey with her friends to improve her mental and physical health. There she meets an artist who once also became very discouraged, but who was lucky enough to be treated by a mysterious healer with fantastic abilities. In the midst of an ignorant society, a rumor has already been very successfully circulating about the doctor, as if he communicates with evil spirits, which is why his extraordinary skills. However, as it turns out later, the doctor is not at all a sorcerer and not a servant of Satan, but, on the contrary, a man of deep scientific interests and, even, achievements, to which he came purely thanks to sincere faith in God and the after life.

A Room of Ones Own

Virginia Woolf

The beauty of A Room of Ones Own is that it serves as an example of peace of mind, which, as Wooolf insists, is the defining quality of all great artists. Her transparent and elegant essay is devoted not only to the necessary material conditions of writing, but also to the self-overcoming of the creator. Virginia Woolf, in her essay, talks about a womans right to work. The writer considers a centuries-old story during which a woman was only a silent shadow of a man.

A Royal Wrong

Fred M. White

A story that quite often happens in the modern world. Dorchester Gardens were filled with guests gathered in honour of the engagement between Lady Letty and Stephen Du Cros, the South African millionaire. Of course, it was a marriage of convenience they all admitted. Earl, her father, was in need of money.

A Russian Proprietor and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

In this work, the main character is Vasily Andreevich Brekhunov, this is the owner. And the worker, a man of about fifty, named Nikita, is from a neighboring village. The relationship of the owner with the workers is one of the most difficult topics not only in literature, but also in life. Leo Tolstoy in his story describes the characters of these people, comparing them. One miser, because the author is not in vain, gave this name to Vasily Andreevich. The second hero is not afraid of any work, flexible, but in his life, too, not everything is so smooth...

A Scream in Soho

John G. Brandon

Detective Inspector McCarthy is a daredevil who investigates a murder at a site in Soho. Electricity is cut off throughout London and the mysterious murder of a woman takes place on the same day. Although the corpse was not there when the detective came to the cry. However, he found a clue that would lead to the killer.

A Second Home

Honoré de Balzac

In a dark, narrow street in Paris lives an old widow and her pretty young daughter, sit by the window most days. They share a poor but contented existence, supporting themselves through embroidery work. They see a gentleman in a brown coat pass by in the mornings and return in the evenings. The mother always remarks that he appears either over-worked or in delicate health. The daughter ignores most of her remarks as her mother sees every passer-by as a possible protector for the daughter. But soon the gentleman begins to exchange glances with the daughter. A Second Home is a classic French romance novel by the great French novelist, Honoré de Balzac. It is an interesting investigation of a relationship between a normal person and a religious nutter.

A Secret Service

Fred M. White

A Secret Service is a spy story. Detective Moore fights with Russian seducers and German spies. All events take place before the Second World War. The plot, as always, is obsolete, but interesting for readers.

A Secret Society

Talbot Mundy

William Hulbert Footner was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. He was once described as one of the most charming men who was ever on earth. His love for his family, travelling and writing is reflected in his stories, many of which are in the crime fiction genre. At the same time Footner began to write detective fiction; his first series detective character being Madame Rosika Storey. This novel featuring Madame Rosika Storey psychologist and criminal investigator. Dangerous Cargo (1934) sees her take to the high seas in a millionaires yacht in order to prevent a suspected murder.

A Self-Made Thief

Hulbert Footner

A strange and inescapable force lures Frank Heberdon, socially prominent young lawyer, on to life of crime, and he finds his lovely rescuer in a denizen of the underworld where they join forces. The development of Franks criminal career and the way he goes from theft and blackmail to drugs and finally murder makes as thrilling and absorbing a tale as Hulbert Footner ever wrote with a smashing surprise at the very end.

A Set of Six

Joseph Conrad

A set of six amazing short stories by Joseph Conrad. However, these six stories are not in the same vein, they differ: themes and ideas. These stories do not so much illuminate anything as they tell an interesting story. The professor, a character from an earlier novel, appears briefly and tells us about his possible fate.

A Shadowed Love

Fred M. White

Molly and Dick are two adventurers who came to London to earn money. Molly was an artist and Dick was a writer. Things went well. However, after 2 years they were frustrated, they became poor. Molly and Dick were faced with big troubles, through which they needed to go.