The Prison-Breakers and Other Stories

Edgar Wallace

A collection of short stories from the British Mysteries master Edgar Wallace, directly from the Golden Era of the genre. This includes the following The Prison-Breakers, Findings Are Keepings, The Jewel Box, The Undisclosed Client, Via Madeira, The Complete Criminal, Red Beard, Bulfox Asleep. Have a lot of fun! Edgar Wallace was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist who produced popular detective and suspense stories and was in his time the king of the modern thriller. Wallaces literary output 175 books, 24 plays, and countless articles and review sketches have undermined his reputation as a fresh and original writer. In England, in the 1920s, Wallace was said to be the second biggest seller after the Bible.

The Green Pearl

Aidan de Brune

The Green Pearl (1930) is the second adventure in the Dr. Night trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). Aidan De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who settled in Australia. This second story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end (gravity powered aircraft without engines...) and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine: a small, colorless man of uncertain central Asian origin whose principal obsession is raising money by any means possible (invariably criminal) to recreate a long-dead central Asian kingdom of which his distant ancestors were kings. Most of the stories take place in and around Sydney, although the earliest known is set in Perth Western Australia and one of the novelettes in north Queenslan.

Rok 1809. Powieść historyczna z epoki napoleońskiej

Wacław Gąsiorowski

Rok 1809 Wacława Gąsiorowskiego stanowi kontynuację powieści Huragan tego samego autora. Opowiada o losach Tadeusza Zabielskiego, burmistrza małego miasteczka w zaborze austriackim. Tadeusz przypadkowo pozyskuje tajne informacje o planowanej inwazji austriackiej na ziemie Księstwa Warszawskiego i za wszelką cenę stara się uprzedzić władze. Te jednak nie dają mu wiary. Tadeusz wplątuje się w bardzo niebezpieczną sytuację.

The Teeth of the Tiger

Maurice Leblanc

The Teeth of the Tiger was written in the year 1914 by Maurice Leblanc (translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos). 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. This is one of three novels about Lupin written in World War 1. Complicated murder mystery in which Arsene Lupin, in his guise as a Spanish nobleman, gets embroiled in an inheritance mystery involving a beautiful woman. Lupin is s sincere hero who has failings, which ender him to the reader. This romance and adventure/thriller is by far the best of the Lupin series and is one of the most popular novels of Maurice Leblanc, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

Popioły. Powieść z końca XVIII i początku XIX wieku

Stefan Żeromski

Popioły to powieść opisująca okres wojen napoleońskich. Młody polski szlachcic Rafał Olbromski szuka swojej drogi życiowej. Początkowo zostaje sekretarzem bogatego arystokraty Gintułta. Podróżuje z nim po kraju. Pod wpływem księcia wchodzi w kręgi masonerii. Zostaje jej członkiem. Nawiązuje tragiczny romans z żoną dostojnika loży. Przeżywa też inne romanse z pięknymi kobietami. Wkrótce wraz z przyjacielem Krzysztofem Cedrą wstępuje do armii Napoleona. Wierzą w wolność niesioną przez cesarza Polsce i innym zniewolonym narodom Europy. Los rozdziela obu przyjaciół. Rafał zostaje w Polsce i walczy w bitwie pod Raszynem. Krzysztof trafia do polskiej armii w Hiszpanii oblega Saragossę, bije się pod Somosierrą. Z czasem Rafał zniechęca się do wojaczki, zrzuca mundur i osiada w swoim majątku. Nieoczekiwanie spotyka Krzysztofa w 1812 roku w przededniu wielkiej wojny z Rosją. Krzysztof namawia przyjaciela, by jeszcze raz zaciągnął się w szeregi napoleońskiej armii...

Oceania. Historia zaginionego kontynentu

Mór Jókai

Wielki filozof klasycznej Grecji, Platon, wspomina w swoich pismach o osobnej części świata, której historycy i geografowie szukali gdzieś na morzu między Wyspą Świętej Heleny a brzegami Afryki. Poeci i filozofowie nazywali ją w starożytności Atlantydą, Oceanią, Szczęśliwymi Wyspami, Ziemią Hiperborejską. Do dziś owa mityczna kraina, która miała być miejscem istnienia rozwiniętej cywilizacji zniszczonej przez serię trzęsień ziemi i zatopionej przez wody morskie, rozpala emocje wielu. O zagładzie tego mitycznego lądu opowiada właśnie znakomita powieść popularnego węgierskiego pisarza Móra Jókaiego.

Ronicky Doones Treasure

Max Brand

Western Hero, Ronicky Doone, Provides His Own Brand of Justice. Ronicky Doone overhears Jack Moons gang plotting the murder of ex-member Hugh Dawn. While Ronicky doesnt know Hugh Dawn or Jack Moon, he is always ready for adventure. With the aid of his trusty, well-trained horse, Lou, he outraces Moons gang and races off to warn Hugh and they flee along with Hughs daughter, Jerry. Great read with Max Brands leading off to unexpected places with characters you come to know personally. Max leads the reader to characters bigger than life. They come to life as people we wish we knew personally.

To London Town

Arthur Morrison

A widow and her two children struggle to make ends meet in East London after their grandfather and provider is killed. First they are threatened by a sponging uncle and his friend Mr. Butson, a cadger of suppers, then by their new landlord Mr. Dunkin, a man who exudes a wealth of sympathy, a wealth that Mr. Dunkin squandered with no restraint but this, that it carried no other sort of wealth with it. To London Town novel was intended to provide a picture of working-class life in the East End of London at the end of the nineteenth century. Arthur Morrison, (1863-1945), English writer noted for realist novels and short stories describing slum life in Londons East End at the end of the Victorian era. A Child of the Jago and To London Town completed this East End trilogy.

A Debt Discharged

Edgar Wallace

Thomas Maple lives on Crystal Palace Road with his niece Verity. He works for a firm of bank note engravers. However, the dollar bills he shows Wentworth Gold are forgeries perfect except for the missing Treasury sign. When Verity meets her new employer she develops serious misgivings, and arriving back home she can hear a menacing voice. "A Debt Discharged" is a novel about forged dollar bills and a young girls investigations into her suspicious new employer. These were largely adventure narratives with elements of crime or mystery, and usually combined a bombastic sensationalism with hammy violence.

The Law of the Land

Fred M. White

A week ago, Ralph Kingsmill, a poor, struggling author, with one or two minor successes on his account, lived a miserable life. He had his debts, hunger looked into his face. However, suddenly life brought him everything that a person could want. But how could such a miracle happen?

The Bull Moose

Ridgwell Cullum

The story of the difficulties faced by residents in northern Canada. Everybody had a mad desire to get more gold, so the gold rush came. Mysterious guy robbed gold miners. All people are in a panic, all their gold disappears sharply.

By Order of the League

Fred M. White

Frederick Merrick White wrote a number of short stories, including By Order of the League. The story of the Order By the Order of the League begins with a cozy room, where there is a cozy atmosphere. Frederic Maxwell was an English art enthusiast, and, no doubt, if he had to earn his living with his brush, it would have caused some shock in the world. However, being born with a traditional silver spoon in his mouth, his flirtation with art never threatened to become serious.

Mr. and Mrs. Sen

Louise Jordan Miln

At the core of the oldest state, civil war destroyed or wrested from them all the possessions of the town-sands. But Rosehill remained the widow of the southern general, and now she came with two children left by her war, and lived in it bitterly until the hour of her death, but retained her state of Virginia as much as she could, and in no way case without changing her lifestyle.

Петербургские повести (Petersburskie opowiadania)

Николай Васильевич Гоголь, Nikołaj Wasiljewicz Gogol

В сборник вошли такие повести Николая Гоголя, как «Невский проспект», «Нос», «Портрет», «Шинель», «Записки сумасшедшего», «Коляска». Их объединяет не только место действия 2013 красочные картины северной столицы России первой половины 19-го века, но и тема «маленького человека» в городе на Неве, его бесправие и угнетенность. Языком сатиры и тонкого юмора автор показывает социальные противоречия, нравы и быт различных слоев общества того времени.

The Tragedy of Coriolanus

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Coriolan the tragedy of Shakespeare, based on the ancient biographies of the semi-legendary Roman leader of the times of the Republic of Gnay Marcia Coriolanus. Heroes are alive and you can not even read who said what: everyones speech is easily distinguished. The images of the tragedy are complex and multifaceted, the problems raised in the play are deep and serious. Reading and re-reading Shakespeare you always find something new that you missed during the previous reading.

Les Milliards dArsene Lupin

Maurice Leblanc

Lorganisation secrete, que sappele Maffia, les pires crimes, les meurtres, les tournures des événements, une jolie femme avec sa histoire tragique, un jeu du chat et de la souris entre Lupin et policiers... Rien ne manque le sujet qui fait le héros exceptionnel. Lupin, il est amoureaux, il avait courtisé la jolie femme isolée et séduisante. Quelques mois de bonheur, et puis la rupture déchirante... Pourquoi nous sommes moins sr dArsene Lupin dans laction?