A Chicago Princess

Robert Barr

The Chicago Princess is a historical novel with a romantic line, written by Robert Barr. Robert Barr (1849-1912) was a British-Canadian short story writer and novelist, who published the first Holmes parody, The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs in 1892. A novel The Chicago Princess first published in 1904. After working several years in foreign affairs, and after winning and then losing a fortune, Rupert Tremorne is stranded in Nagasaki, at the end of his wits and in some debt. His only chance is to take the post as private secretary to the Millionaire Mr. Hemster, and to sail on with him on his yacht. Sailing around Asia is big adventure for anyone, but it is a special one for Tremorne, because besides Mr. Hemster and his staff, there are the beautiful Miss Gertrude Hemster and her companion Hilda Stretton on board. And suddenly, Tremorne has his hands full with those two ladies.

The Broken Trail

Harold Bindloss

Construction master Cassidy was popular with the people around him. Although he was a strict employer, everyone was pleased with his work. He did a lot of difficult railway work in western Canada. But how will his character affect his reputation and performance?

Xerxes

Jacob Abbott

The story mainly concerns the invasion of Xerxes in Greece and the burning of Athens, which was the main event in his career. The author emphasized how the war destroyed the population and productivity of the lands through which Xerxes had led his army, and also how it affected the prosperity of his own Median country. Most of the book is devoted to the campaign on the war. A brief history that contains many events.

Moon-Face and Other Stories

Jack London

An amazing story about human hatred, an obsession with revenge. The action takes place in a circus, a young man, a fearless lion tamer, sticking his head in the jaws of the lions laid eyes on the wife of the juggler and sword-swallower. The heroes of the stories of London are simple, courageous people, ready to fight difficulties, boldly looking into the eyes of danger. All of them are united by a thirst for action, a desire to take an active part in current events.

The Canon in Residence

Victor L. Whitechurch

The Reverend John Smith is an ordinary cleric who learns during his vacation that he was promoted to canon at the residence of Frattenbury Cathedral. During his stay at the hotel he meets an Englishman who tells him that the clergy is too divorced from reality. This is an interesting mystery involving a clergyman who defends his faith and moral values in solving a crime.

Edith Percival. A Novel

May Agnes Fleming

The day was very hot. The crew lay in groups, idly, near the deck. The captain a stately man of about forty or so stepped up and down a quarter of the deck now letting his eyes wander around his people or give them some order. His companion was young, three to four years younger than him, with a frank beautiful face and laughing brown eyes. His look of careless ease was very different from the proud stock of his companion, but some secret connection of sympathy bound the two together.

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

In the early years of the 20th century, life on a farm in Massachusetts is not easy. The New England winters are hard; snow and ice cover the fields for months, and the nights are long and cold. For a poor farmer like Ethan Frome, life has few bright moments. He works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeenas young and beautiful cousin Mattie Silver enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. Edith Whartons Ethan Frome is a classic of American Literature, with compelling characters trapped in circumstances from which they seem unable to escape.

Tik-Tok of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum penned fourteen novels in his famous Oz chronology. For the second time a little girl from the United States comes to Oz. The story begins in a faraway corner of Oz, in the small country of Oogaboo. There, Queen Ann Soforth musters an unlikely army and sets off to conquer the rest of Oz. Meanwhile, a girl Betsy Bobbin from Oklahoma and her companion, Hank the mule, are shipwrecked in the Nonestic Ocean. The two drift to shore in the Rose Kingdom, a magical land of talking roses, on a fragment of wreckage. There they meet the Shaggy Man, who is on a quest to rescue his brother from the clutches of the evil Nome King. Betsy, Hank, and the Rose Princess join the Shaggy Man on his journey, and before long they meet up with Polychrome, the Rainbows Daughter; Tik-Tok; and Queen Ann with her army. Join Tik-Tok and friends on an exciting, imaginative journey through the thrilling world of Oz, complete with hairbreadth escapes, wild puns, and mystifying magic. An enduring favorite!

Der Schut

Karl May

Die Verfolgten sind an ihrem Ziel angekommen. Durch seine Unvorsichtigkeit wird Halef gefangen genommen, kann aber von Kara Ben Nemsi befreit werden. Kara Ben Nemsi gelingt es am Anfang der Handlung Halef zu befreien jetzt aber sollen sie in die angebliche Juwelenhöhle in der Teufelsschlucht gelockt werden. Nach Abenteuern in der Teufelsschlucht und bei der Juwelenhöhle treffen Kara Ben Nemsi und seine Begleiter auf das Oberhaupt der Verbrecher, den sogenannten Schut. Manche gefährliche Situation wird heraufbeschworen, ehe die Jagd, die in der tunesischen Wüste begann und während der viele Abenteuer überstanden werden mussten, endlich in Albanien zu Ende geht.

The Battle of Basinghall Street

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The story of a young man, Lord Sandbrook, who takes revenge against the directors of a company he holds responsible for the deaths of his father and mother. The battlefield is Basinghall Street, where the offices of Woolito, Limited, are situated. A textile business is the center of strange machinations suicides, failures, conflagrations, disaster to various directors, finally a raid on the stock, and the president is a ruined man. In this story Mr. Oppenheim takes a vacation from international intrigue in a Monte Carlo setting and devotes himself to describing a big business battle in London. The story is told with the usual Oppenheim flourish, a great deal of action, many details of personality and adventures.

Biały Kapitan

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

Witeź to norweski kapitan, który wyruszył wraz ze swoją załogą na wyprawę ze Skandynawii do krainy Samojedów i Tunguzów po złoto i cenne skóry. Po drodze przyjmuje na pokład nowego marynarza, który skrywa tajemnice. W czasie podróży okazuje się, że nikomu tak naprawdę nie można ufać.

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

The storys heroine is Catherine Morland, an innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austens Gothic parody.

Miranda

Antoni Lange

Ostatnia powieść Antoniego Langego. Książka ma charakter antyutopijny, nawiązuje do tradycji, religii i kultury Dalekiego Wschodu. Główny bohater, Jan Podobłoczny, ucieka z Polski i trafia na nieznaną wyspę na Oceanie Indyjskim. Zamieszkuje ją społeczeństwo oddające się braminizmowi. Rozwijają kulturę ducha i wykorzystują zdolności ludzkiego mózgu nieznane w Europie. Jan zakochuje się w zjawie. Metafizyka, mistycyzm, liczne alegorie to niewątpliwe atuty tej powieści.

Boon

Herbert George Wells

Wellss satire on literature, Boon was originally published under the pseudonym Reginald Bliss; a follow-up to the Fabian-savaging The New Machiavelli. It purports, however, to be by the fictional character Reginald Bliss, and for some time after publication Wells denied authorship. Boon is best known for its part in Wellss debate on the nature of literature with Henry James, who is caricatured in the book. But in Boon Wells also mocks himself, calling into question and ridiculing a notion he held dear that of humanitys collective consciousness. Among these pieces is the infamous parody of the late style of Henry James, all the more effective for being so distinctive a target. Describing James as the culmination of the superficial type, it is not surprising that the indiscreet, ill-advised content of Boon, as Wells describes it in his Introduction, put a serious strain on the relationship between the two authors.

Diabeł. Powieść z czasów Stanisława Augusta

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Ignacy Kraszewski opisuje dzieje Michała Ordyńskiego, młodego magnata z Polesia, który przybywa do stolicy i podbija warszawskie salony. Życie w wielkim mieście zmienia jednak bohatera i wpływa destrukcyjnie na jego postawę. Walkę o niego podejmują dwie wrogie siły uosobione w postaci młodej kobiety i tajemniczego markiza o rysach twarzy znanych z portretu... diabła.

The Blonde Lady. Being a Record of the Duel of Wits Between Arsene Lupin and the English Detective

Maurice Leblanc

If you enjoy the Sherlock Holmes series, then Arsene Lupin will be another detective series for your library. Leblanc was a French novelist and short story writer known for creating the character Arsene Lupin, who is the French counterpart to the English Sherlock Holmes. In The Blonde Lady: Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsene Lupin and the English Detective the great French gentleman thief and the formidable English unofficial consulting detective go head-to-head in a series of Alien vs Predator-style skirmishes. If in the last story of Arsene Lupin, gentleman-burglar Sherlock Holmes arrives too late, in the two stories that compose The Blonde Lady these two great intellects are bound in opposite directions. Where one chooses to abide to the law, the other uses his power and wits to crime and who is going to win?