The Master Mummer

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Arnold (a writer), Allan (an artist) and Arthur (works in finance) all live together. Once their attention is caught by a middle age man and a young girl about sixteen who seems frightened. They overhear where they are eating and continue to watch the couple and Arnold even goes over to offer her assistance. Then a surprising thing happens, his acquaintance shoots the man shes with and disappears. Amid all the confusion and hospital and police, Arnold stays with the young woman and brings her home. The three men become her guardians for the next couple of years. The mysterious man comes to see them and asks them to take care of her and not let her go to anyone. Why do so many people want her? Does Arnold get his real story?

The Dark Road

Harold Bindloss

Once Welland wanted to be rich, but it so happened that life linked him to an officers position. Now he has become an avid adventurer. Welland realized that his main occupation was hunting Canadian elk and sailing on a yacht in the Great Lakes. This life seemed boring to him and he wanted to change something on his way.

The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown is an 1896 novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. Following the apparent murder of a man, a novelist comes under suspicion. Very enjoyable period piece with lovely descriptions and intense love between hero and heroine. He has to clear his name, as main suspect in a murder and he had sworn revenge and had taken an assumed name. Flashbacks to Italy. Full of rich and influential people with touch of Dickens with Benjamin Levy, the private sleuth who is obsessed with money. The author has acquired an admirable technique of the sort demanded by this novel of intrigue and mystery. Readers of Mr. Oppenheims novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship.

Greatheart

Ethel M. Dell

First published in 1918. Ethel M. Dell was an English writer of popular romance novels. You will find some fascinating glimpses of the period in her books, as well as a substantial dose of romance and adventure. There were two of them as unlike as two men could be. Sir Eustace, big, domineering, haughty, used to sweeping all before him with the power of his personality. The other was Stumpy, small, insignificant, quiet, with a little limp. They clashed over the greatest question that may come to men the love of a girl. This story opens in a pleasing resort in the Swiss Alps, the heroine is sweet and charmingly naive. Did she choose wisely? Is Greatheart more to be desired than great riches? The answer is the most vivid and charming story that Ethel M. Dell has written in a long time.

The Author of Beltraffio

Henry James

In this story, a mother allows her only child, a seven-year-old boy, to die of diphtheria only so that he will never be subjected to the corrupting influence of the books written by his father, which she deeply condemns. Anyone who imagines motherly love and at least once saw the torment of a child restlessly darting in his crib, fighting for every breath, would never have invented such a monstrous story. The French call it litterature. By this word they denote works created on the basis of a cheap literary effect, devoid of any likelihood.

Wreckers of the Star Patrol and Other Tales

Malcolm Jameson

Malcolm Jameson was an American Golden Age science fiction author who began writing only seven years before his death. Drawing from his experiences of navy and warfare he gave a personal touch to all of his stories. He is now chiefly remembered for his Captain Bullard stories which chronicles the journey of a young officer into a fleet admiral of space ship and to most critics seem like a precursor of the modern day space exploration series like Star Trek. Wreckers of the Star Patrol gathers together four classic science fiction novelettes that have not appeared in print anywhere for almost a half century. It includes: Sorcerers Apprentice, Tricky Tonnage, Children of the Betsy B. Fans of Jamesons Bullard tales will love the short novel of space adventure, Wreckers of the Star Patrol.

The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories

Zane Grey

A collection of stories about the start of baseball by Zein Gray captures the spirit of American baseball during the First World War. Includes stories such as The Redheaded Outfield and The Rubes Pennant.

The Mayor of Casterbridge. The Life and Death of a Man of Character

Thomas Hardy

The novel tells about a man with character and unusual fate. The life story of Michael Henchard, first a homeless worker, a haymaker, then the mayor of Casterbridge and a local rich man and again a farm laborer, involuntarily arouses interest in the intensity of events.

The Hillman

E. Phillips Oppenheim

John Strangeways lives the life of a country Gentleman farmer with his puritan brother in the hills of Cumberland. Far from the world of cities and noise he lived the clean, healthy, out-of-door life. When actress Louise Maurels car breaks down near their farm, she is forced to seek refuge with the misogynist brothers. Love ensues. Life no longer was quite the same to him, and in a short time he followed her to London. The coming of an unsophisticated though well educated, handsome young man into the semi-Bohemian circle brings about dramatic situations which the author knows well how to handle. Some wonderful minor characters aid the story also.

Madame and Her Twelve Virgins

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The two men hesitated upon the tee, gazing down the glade towards the distant-green. Their caddies were still pointing in excitement to a motionless object stretched upon the smooth turf close to the flag. Look there! Its a man! He is dead! The players paused to consider the situation. They were oddly contrasted combatantsone, Mr. Edgar Franks, elderly, large and florid, with a mass of flaxen hair only slightly streaked with grey, a transatlantic millionaire, and owner of the finest villa in the neighbourhood of Antibes the other tall and slim, a mere lad, whose name was Armand Toyes, and who motored down occasionally from his home somewhere in the hills behind Cagnes.

His Name His Fortune

Max Brand

Max Brand (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was killed while serving in Italy. This is one of his work. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists.

Kandyd, czyli optymizm

Voltaire

Kandyd, czyli optymizm oświeceniowa satyryczna powiastka filozoficzna francuskiego filozofa Voltairea opowiada o wymuszonych wygnaniem podróżach młodzieńca imieniem Kandyd. Przemierzając lądy i morza, przeżywa on nieprawdopodobne przygody, które wystawiają na próbę jego wiarę w to, że żyjemy w najlepszym ze światów. Utwór stanowi dialog z oświeceniowymi poglądami filozoficznymi.

Królowa Margot

Aleksander Dumas ojciec

Emocjonująca powieść płaszcza i szpady, osnuta na tle autentycznych wydarzeń z historii XVI-wiecznej Francji. Przedstawia sławną rzeź hugenotów w noc św. Bartłomieja oraz okoliczności wymarcia dynastii Walezjuszy i wstąpienia na tron dynastii Burbonów. Zbliża się dzień zaślubin królewny francuskiej Małgorzaty z królem hugenockiej Nawarry, Henrykiem. Stara królowa Katarzyna, zagorzała katoliczka, zezwoliła na ślub z powodów politycznych, ale wcale nie zamierza dotrzymać umowy. Wraz z synem Karolem IX, królem Francji, i jego braćmi planuje krwawą łaźnię dla wszystkich hugenockich gości weselnych. Pragnie zmusić króla Nawarry do przejścia na katolicyzm, grożąc mu, że podzieli los swoich poddanych. Intrygi dworskie, sympatie i antypatie, spiski i romanse, polityka i uczucia, miłość i nienawiść wszystko to miesza się ze sobą w powieści Królowa Margot Dumasa i wciąga czytelnika w świat XVI-wiecznej Francji.

Syzyfowe prace

Stefan Żeromski

Królestwo Polskie, lata dziewięćdziesiąte XIX wieku. Trwa okres wzmożonej rusyfikacji. Marcin, syn szlachcica, daje się wciągnąć przez nauczycieli i dyrekcję gimnazjum w działalność propagującą ideę panslawizmu ukrytą formę rusyfikacji. Swoje zniewolenie dostrzega dopiero w atmosferze działań patriotycznych inspirowanych przez nowego kolegę, Bernarda Zygiera, wyrzuconego ze szkoły w Warszawie za działalność w konspiracyjnych kołach młodzieżowych. Swoistym przełomem w życiu Borowicza jest spotkanie z Andrzejem Radkiem, chłopskim synem, który z uporem zdobywa wiedzę. Zdarzenia, w których chłopcy wzajemnie sobie pomagają, stają się początkiem ich przyjaźni. W utworze Syzyfowe prace nie brak też wątku pierwszej miłości. Marcin zakochuje się w pięknej pensjonarce Birucie. Po maturze ich uczucie wystawione jest na ciężką próbę. Okazuje się bowiem, że dziewczyna wraz z całą rodziną wyjechała w głąb Rosji.

A House of Pomegranates

Oscar Wilde

A House of Pomegranates is the second collection of fairy tales by the brilliant writer, master of European aesthetics Oscar Wilde, author of the novel Portrait of Dorian Gray, plays Salome, Fan Lady Windermere and Ideal Husband, letters of confession De profundis, and also numerous short stories, short stories, poems and essays about art. The text is published in two languages, which allows you to fully appreciate the unique originality of the works belonging to the pen of one of the most sophisticated British writers and stylists.

Jerry Todds Poodle Parlor

Leo Edwards

This story begins with a summer vacation in the small town of Tutter, Illinois, where the protagonist was born and raised. These are the adventures of the boys during their summer holidays. Many events revolve around the Woodlawn Bay Hotel and the old Windmere House, which stood side by side on the south bank of the river, each with about fifty acres of forested land around it. It was a new hotel, with its modern amenities, which put the old Hotel out of business. Now, after many years of idleness, the old hotel was demolished and its lumber and equipment were sold.