The Evil Shepherd

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Welcome to 1922 and E. P. Oppenheims The Evil Shepherd. A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch, a cold-eyed fellow with a paper-thin alibi. Francis Ledsam is a defense barrister and is congratulating himself on a brilliant performance which has just seen Oliver Hilditch acquitted of murder. His ego is pricked by Margaret Hilditch confessing to him that Hilditch was guilty of crimes far more monstrous than murder. Ledsam vows never again to defend a guilty man. But when his newfound principles run up against the harsh reality of real-world justice, he finds himself trapped between his love for a beautiful woman and a powerful desire to do the right thing no matter the cost.

When Rogues Fall Out

R. Austin Freeman

"When Rogues Fall Out incorporates some wonderful conundrums to hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers. This book contains three interconnected stories. In the first, a respectable collector of antiques falls victim to temptation. In the second a police inspector is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a railway tunnel. This section includes an interesting essay on the early use of fingerprint evidence. The third is a classic locked room mystery where someone has been making use of a sealed room in a remote country house. All three are resolved together in the last few pages. The rogues of the title include three very different men engaged in stealing and fencing high-quality jewelry. One is a working-class robber; one a refined antiques dealer turned fence; and one a mysterious middleman with the appearance of a gentleman.

Youth

Leo Tolstoy

This work is about how black stripes always alternate with white. About how a child learns his mind, for the first time experiences one of the most terrible events of his life the death of his mother, about how he first feels one of the most beautiful and bright feelings his first love, about how he feels affection, grief. In the first part, we begin our acquaintance with the family of Nicholas, as well as himself. Here we will see all the joyful and sad events of his childhood, get acquainted with his brothers, parents, grandmother. We will also be able to observe how Nikolai will overcome grievances, tears. We will become his faithful and invisible friend.

The Professor

Charlotte Brontë

Written two years before Jane Eyre, The Professor was Charlotte Brontes first novel and was based on her experiences in Brussels. The story is one of love and doubt, as the hero, William Crimsworth, seeks his fortune as a teacher in Brussels and finds his love for the good Anglo-Swiss girl, Frances Henri, severely tested by the sensuously beguiling and manipulative headmistress, Zoroade Reuter. On the other hand, the social protest sounded distinctly in this novel that is typical for mature works of Charlotte Bronte. In particular, this protest is expressed in the image of a soulless, prudent businessman, the factory owner Edward Crimsworth who devoided of basic humanity in dealing with workers and their families.

Wampir

Władysław Stanisław Reymont

Akcja tej powieści grozy rozgrywa się na początku XX wieku w Londynie. Zenon główna postać utworu jest emigrantem z Polski. Odnosi sukcesy literackie. Szczęści mu się także w życiu osobistym. Właśnie zaręczył się z piękną Betsy. Jego życie komplikuje się niespodziewanie w momencie, gdy za namową przyjaciela postanawia pójść na seans spirytystyczny. Tajemny świat okultyzmu wciąga go bardzo szybko. Podczas jednego z seansów poznaje hinduskiego guru oraz piękną i tajemniczą Daisy. Zafascynowany rudowłosą pięknością coraz bardziej ulega jej urokowi. Za jej pośrednictwem kontaktuje się z duchami oraz staje się świadkiem satanistycznych rytuałów. Jego sytuacja jeszcze bardziej się komplikuje, gdy do Londynu przybywa dawna jego ukochana Ada. Wampir to powieść niepokojąca, pełna zjawisk paranormalnych. Znakomicie oddaje ducha tej pełnej spirytyzmu epoki. Jest również świadectwem głębokiego zainteresowaniu pisarza okultyzmem.

Black Light

Talbot Mundy

Madame Rosika Storey was one of the most celebrated fictional female private investigators during the Golden Age of the mystery (1920-40). The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection calls her, a stunningly beautiful young woman who describes herself as a practical psychologist specializing in the feminine. This one is the best private detective of England, but her stories are international. Her way to resolve the mystery is original and bring you in a new world. So we are introduced to the fascinating Madame Rosika Storey, fearless and intelligent, who plays cat-and-mouse with killers, goes undercover to break up criminal gangs, and unravels deadly mysteries.

The Black Arrow. A Tale of the Two Roses

Robert Louis Stevenson

Readers are invited to one of the writers best novels, The Black Arrow. The exciting adventures of his heroes take place in the heroic times of the war of the Scarlet and White Roses. The brilliantly twisted plot is replete with everything necessary: terrible secrets, courageous love, uncompromising valor and unexpected outcomes have been attracting readers of all ages for many years.The mystery of the gloomy Tanstoll forest and deadly black arrows can captivate even the most fastidious lover of adventure literature.

Dziurdziowie

Eliza Orzeszkowa

Dziurdiowie to powieść o ludziach, którzy za sprawą przesądów, głupoty i wiary w zabobony dopuszczają się samosądów, krzywdząc przy tym niewinnych ludzi. Wszystko to opisane w konwencji mrocznego kryminału, od którego nie sposób się oderwać.

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.

Topper

Thorne Smith

Thorne Smith best-remembered for humorous novels, many turning on some fantastic plot device which thrusts the protagonist into grotesque predicaments, often via unwitting transformation. The 1926 publication of Topper brought the author immediate acclaim. Elegant, fun-loving George and Marion Kerby are the toast of the town, until they wreck their flashy car and discover theyve become, well, ghosts. Making the best of a bad situation, they decide that being dead is the perfect opportunity to liven up stuffy Cosmo Topper. The capricious ghosts make it their mission to rescue the law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager from the staid summer of suburban Sundays that is his life. With their ectoplasmic reappearances and whimsically insane actions, they leave Topper, and anyone else who crosses their path, in a whirlwind of discomfiture and delight.

A Study in Scarlet. Illustrated Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle

Illustrated edition with original illustrations by Richard Gutschmidt, a famous German painter, book illustrator and graphic artist. A Study in Scarlet is the first Sherlock Holmes book written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr John H. Watson meets the great detective Sherlock Holmes and together they solve a case of murder, in which Watson is amazed at Holmes science of deduction. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccios Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall.

LUscoque

George Sand

Ceci est un roman historique. Les événements tournent autour de trois gars. Laccent est mis sur les pirates qui ont navigué en Croatie, o les événements vont se dérouler. Cette histoire sera appréciée par les lecteurs de tout âge. Ils trouveront quelque chose de nouveau et dintéressant pour eux-mmes.

Śmierć urzędnika i inne opowiadania

Antoni Czechow

Śmierć urzędnika i inne opowiadania to książka wybitnego rosyjskiego pisarza drugiej połowy XIX wieku, w których carska Rosja została przedstawiona w krzywym zwierciadle humoru podszytego ironią i sarkazmem. Choć jest to XIX-wieczna Rosja, to jednak tematy są uniwersalne. Czechow śmieje się z rozbudowanej biurokracji regulującej każdą sferę życia Rosjan. Drwi zwłaszcza z tych swoich rodaków, którzy tworzą urzędniczą machinę, a sami nie potrafią podjąć samodzielnie żadnej decyzji. I chociaż przedstawione typy ludzkie są często przerysowane, nie na tyle jednak, żeby nie móc wyobrazić ich sobie w realnym życiu. W tomie znalazły się następujące opowiadania: Śmierć urzędnika, Bezbronna istota, Przesolił, Po ciemku, Córa Albionu, Potwarz, Szczęśliwy, Dyrektor pod kanapą. Zakulisowa historia, Damy, Wańka, Malcy, W razurze, Dramat, Wykrzyknik, Nie udało się, Długi język, Złoczyńca, Zemsta, Order, Podrzutek, Dzieło sztuki, Szydło w worku, W biurze pocztowym, W złym humorze, Zagadkowa natura, Kameleon, Żarcik, Syrena, Aptekarzowa.

Andy Blakes Comet Coaster

Leo Edwards

Andy was an industrious young entrepreneur who grew increasingly rich from book to book, working as he did in advertising, in his airplane, the Comet Coaster, and looking for gold and helping erect profitable buildings. Blake meets new friends, three young men struggling to save an old carriage business from going to the wall. Will advertising help? Andy is enthusiastically hopeful. The later trickery of a junior employer puts the young advertising man in a bad hole. Things seem darker than ever for the tottering business. Then comes the idea of dropping carriages for coaster wagons.

Curate and Fiend

E. Phillips Oppenheim

It was a brilliant good Saturday morning before the harvest, and the large market and curves of the streets in Norwich proceed with a continuous crowd of farmers, livestock, dealers, county ladies with opinions that are adhering to shopping. Frantsinin on the London Street is filled up quickly: a very nice sight for worshiping a small owner who is standing in the upper corner of the room, managing his midridons operations, rubbing his hands and smiling, kindly begging each beginner. Without a doubt, he is keen to see this market day come up a little more than once a week, and that every Saturday was as wonderful as today.

Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, often considered his masterpiece. Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband Charles Bovary in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating... Flauberts novel scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857, and it remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. Flauberts legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatched ability to convey a mental world through the careful selection of telling details, shine on every page of this marvelous work.