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.