Prillilgirl

Carolyn Wells

From that famous foundry of fiction, fact and frivolity, author Carolyn Wells, comes another Fleming Stone detective story. When a popular playwright is found stabbed with his own pen made from a medieval dagger, suspicion fall on Mrs. Guy Thorndike, wife of a prominent actor. Fleming Stone finally turns up to solve the case. In the room, unheeded by police and sleuths, is a clue upon which Fleming Stone constructs a daring solution. The yarn is skillfully woven and splendidly told. The Fleming Stone Mysteries is a collection of 17 baffling detective novels in which Fleming Stone, the great American Detective, displays his remarkable ingenuity for unravelling mysteries.

The Black Opal. A Romance of Thrilling Adventure

Fenton Ash

The Black Opal: A Romance of Thrilling Adventure was written by Fenton Ash and was first published in 1906. It is a lost race adventure novel set in a medieval kingdom in the Sargasso Sea. Fenton Ash is the first and main pseudonym of UK civil engineer and author Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927) who was a writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers. He was involved in a scandal at the turn of the century and sentenced to nine months imprisonment for obtaining money by deception. After leaving prison he dropped the name Frank Aubrey and in his early 60s, following a three-year hiatus began writing as Fenton Ash.

Niebezpieczne związki

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Historia wielkich namiętności, intryg i romansów. Bohaterowie powieści markiza de Mertenil i jej dawny kochanek wicehrabia de Valmont prowadzą niebezpieczną grę o zabarwieniu erotycznym. Powieść pełna zmysłowych opisów i zaskakujących zwrotów akcji. Książka wywołała skandal obyczajowy. Powstało wiele ekranizacji powieści.

In Search of the Castaways. Or, The Children of Captain Grant

Jules Verne

Children of Captain Grant is one of the best novels of the outstanding French writer Jules Verne, a wonderful example of a classic work of youthful literature. From the book, the reader learns about the amazing adventures that occurred with the heroes of the novel during their extraordinary journeys in South America, Australia and other places where they find themselves in search of Captain Grant.

The Passenger from Calais

Arthur Griffiths

Thrilling detective novel taking place in the Engadine Express from Calais to Lucerne. It is a well-planned, logical detective story of the better sort, free from cheap sensationalism and improbability, developing surely and steadily by means of exciting situations to an unforeseen and satisfactory ending. A mysterious woman, followed by two detectives, shows up at the last minute to book a compartment for her servant, an infant and herself. The lady is afraid that someone is following her. What is her secret and who is she? And is she a criminal or a victim? Find the answers to these questions and others on a thrilling railway journey spanning Europe.

Queen Elizabeth

Jacob Abbott

What else can impress in the history of Queen Elizabeth? However, Jacob Abbott was able to show us the other secret aspects of the queens life. The author is doing a tremendous job describing the area in which she lived, as well as a thorough description of the people who formed her. She was a queen to be admired.

La Femme au collier de velours

Alexandre Dumas pere

Lhistoire que nous avons lu, cest Nodier qui me la racontée. Charles Nodier, quand il sentait sa fin, a raconté cette histoire Dumas et il la publie. Cette histoire est tres travaillée et est truffée de références. Ce récit est plein de contes fantastiques et tableaux effrayantes de cette période historique o la folie et le réel parviennent se confondre.

Der Rächer. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Ein offensichtlich geisteskranker Serienmörder übt an vermeintlichen Verbrechern, die mangels Beweisen nicht verurteilt werden konnten, gnadenlose Selbstjustiz. Er enthauptet seine Opfer, ihre Köpfe schickt er mit einem Begleitschreiben in Kartons verpackt an Scotland Yard. Als ein Beamter des Außenministeriums umgebracht wird, beauftragt Geheimdienst-Chef Major George Staines den fähigen Detektiv Michael Brixan, die Ermittlungen aufzunehmen. Die Spuren führen ihn in den kleinen Ort Chichester. Mr. Longvale wohnt in Dover House einem alten, geräumigen Haus mit verwildertem Garten. Eines Tages hat Mr. Longvale Leute vom Film zu Gast. Er bewirtet sie aufmerksam, und er hat auch einige Überraschungen für sie. Zum Beispiel eine Guillotine...

Der Mann, der alles wußte. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Diese Geschichte von den erstaunlichen Abenteuern, die in das Leben eines pensionierten Diamantenhändler kommen, der aus den Minen von Südafrika nach London kommt, ist clever in Handlung und effektiv im Stil. John Minute hat es weit gebracht. Vom Goldschürfer in Afrika zum Bankier und Multimillionär die Karriere des John Minute ist nicht nur mit guten Taten gepflastert. Doch sein Aufstieg hat auch seine dunklen Seiten. So finster sind seine Geheimnisse, dass Minute Schweigegelder zahlen muss, um sein Leben nicht zu verlieren.

Le Capitaine Paul

Alexandre Dumas pere

Le Capitaine Paul est un des premiers livres dAlexandre Dumas, qui nous montre, que lauteur est un grand écrivain et mme ses débuts. On peut voir son talent avec ses intrigues et sa passion de laventure. Cette fois-ci, il raconte de labordage, du prisonnier Lusignan et du capitaine de bateau Paul, qui écoute sa histoire. Il découvre apres plusieurs années la vérité de ses parents...

Wild Geese Calling

Stewart Edward White

Great story about the Alaskan border. This is a heartbreaking story that shows the relationship of the main characters Sally, John and Blackie. A story about a young man and his bride and their journey to Alaska by sea, as well as about many bright men and women whom they met along the way. This is a wonderful fun adventure reading.

The Evil That Men Do

M.P. Shiel

The Evil That Men Do is a classic story of horror and unbelievable cruelty by British writer Matthew Phipps Shiel. This novel of mystery about Hartwell from birth, does he inherit his fathers traits? Do great men have great sons and how much does ones own lifes experiences cause variance to this question? To the ordinary reader there will seem very little in point of morality to choose between Robert Hartwell and the villainous millionaire whom a strange facial resemblance enables him to impersonate. Mr. Shiel does not, and probably does not aspire to, draw pictures of everyday life as it is. But there is always something ingenious in his situations, and in this book, at any rate, he has contrived to avoid the developments which disfigured at least one of his earlier novels.

Love And Mr Lewisham. The Story of a Very Young Couple

Herbert George Wells

Mr. Lewisham is an ambitious young teacher who has grand plans for his future. Indeed he has written up a Plan or Schema as he calls it and has committed himself to daily study to improve himself. We follow him as he moves to London and becomes a student. He also gets married and the later part of the novel is about how his naive beliefs about himself and the world survive this transition. Love and Mr. Lewisham is the story of a young man who seeks to better himself and achieve glory through educational achievements. His love life, however, derails this ambition in several different ways. This is Wells exploration of the dilemmas of the young man torn between career and relationship, between duty and pleasure, between social responsibility and individual needs.

Cham

Eliza Orzeszkowa

Tytułowy cham to prosty rybak, Paweł Kobycki, który poznaje Frankę, dziewczynę z dobrego domu. Ta, uwiedziona i porzucona przez pana domu, w którym niegdyś służyła, schodzi na niemoralną ścieżkę. Aby uratować ją przed upadkiem, Paweł postanawia ją poślubić.

The Countess of Charny. Or, The Execution of King Louis XVI

Alexandre Dumas

This swashbuckling yarn is the continuation of the story in Memoirs of a physician, The Queens necklace, and Six Years Later. The Countess of Charny or, The Execution of King Louis XVI is the seventh in Dumas series on the retelling of the French Revolution. Known as one of the important early figures in the burgeoning genre of historical fiction, Alexandre Dumas spent much of his life chronicling the social and political unrest that utterly transformed France and by extension, the rest of the world -- in the eighteenth century. This sweeping epic focuses on several parallel plot lines, all leading up to the death by beheading of the king in 1793, marking him with the dubious distinction of being the only French king to be executed. Highly recommended for fans of Dumass historical work, and is not to be missed by the discerning collector.

Sekrety księżnej de Cadignan

Honoriusz Balzak

Powieść Sekrety księżnej de Cadignan Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Scen z życia paryskiego cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Księżna Diana de Cadignan de Mafrigneuse złamała ogromną liczbę męskich serc. Nieraz przy okazji niszczyła również fortuny swych adoratorów. Pewnego dnia postanawia się wycofać z życia wielkiego świata paryskiego. Utrzymuje jedynie kontakt ze swą dawną przyjaciółką, markizą dEspard. Wkrótce markiza przedstawia księżnej barona Daniela dArtheza. Człowiek ten mimo iż odziedziczył ogromną fortunę nadal pracuje i odmawia uczestnictwa w wielkoświatowych intrygach. Pani de Cadignan postanawia go uwieść...