The Bright Pavilions

Hugh Walpole

Bright pavilions the fifth book of a series of six volumes of The Chronicles of Harris. As a historical background, the stormy Elizabethan England, including her enemy Queen of Scots. The story tells how one family shared fidelity and frustrated love. If you like to plunge into history, then this book is for you.

In Pawn

Ellis Parker Butler

Excerpt from In Pawn: Lem Redding had a dimple in his cheek that appeared when he smiled. For a boy with a faceful of freckles he was pretty. He had dear, bright gray eyes, and his smile, aided by the dimple, made most folks love him at sight. His hair was brown, as his dead mothers had been; in fact he was much like that mother in more ways than one-far more like her than he was like Harvey Redding, his father. Lem was quick, agile, lively, and Harvey was plumb lazy. This book presents In Pawn (1921), from Ellis Parker Butler. Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, is most famous for his short story Pigs is Pigs.

Wildfire

Zane Grey

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his best selling book. This is one of his stories. The story revolves around Lucy Bostil, a stable owners daughter who one day happens upon an unconscious Lin Slone. He never wants anything more than the wild stallion he calls Wildfire. When he comes to, Lin convinces Lucy to rise his horse, Wildfire in an impeding race. However, there are others who would see that the pair fail in their endeavour to win. A classic tale of adventure and daring-do, Wildfire constitutes a must-read for lovers of Western fiction.

The Life of Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare

A very instructive story about not doing good is not getting evil. The main character is a tragic personality. At first he loved people with all his soul, who was eager to help them selflessly and ruined as a result of this, in one day he would know all human ingratitude, self-interest and anger. In anger, Timon of Athens kills one of his insulters, for which he is expelled from Athens.

The Staying Guest

Carolyn Wells

Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet. Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. She was a well known author of childrens stories, until she began reading mystery stories written by Anna Katherine Green, and from then on she devoted her writings to puzzling mysteries in a similar vein. A new book by this popular author, and written in her best and most interest-compelling style. Ladybird Lovell, the staying guest, is a quaint and startling but loving and lovable child, who comes unbidden into the home of her supposed aunts Priscilla and Dorinda. How she wins her way is the story. The Staying Guest is an enjoyable read that will surely leave you glad for having picked it up!

The Million Pound Deposit

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This 1929 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim neatly describes some of the frothy financial dealings of the late stage of the roaring 20s in England and centered around a commercial chemical formula. The formula for the process is carefully guarded from its own employees, but is stolen one night by a band of five adventurers who plan to ransom it for 1 million pounds. Two men are killed during the robbery. Plans to ransom the process are put on hold, and the documents are deposited in a London Safe Deposit company. Meanwhile, the managing director of Boothroyds, Sir Matthew Parkinson, has been forced to sell some of his shares to cover debts. His lovely daughter Grace is the only person who seems concerned about the welfare of the company and its workers.

La Comédie humaine. Volume VI. Scenes de la vie de Province. Tome II

Honoré de Balzac

Lhistoire dramatique de Lucien de Rübampre, un gentil jeune provincial qui fait ses premiers pas Paris. Dans une ville o tout est vendu et tout est acheté carriere et succes, position dans la société, patronage, confiance, amour et amitié. Et une sorte de symbole de ce Paris joyeux, cruel, trompeur et corrompu, sont les déesses de la demi lumiere de belles courtisanes, des dompteurs et des hommes ruineux...

Rod of the Lone Patrol

H.A. Cody

The lone patrol is a boy scout squad, and the boys willingly participate in many adventures. Rodney had to leave his mother unattended. And it had its consequences. However, we are used to Codys works that end well. Is this an exception?

That Affair Next Door

Anna Katharine Green

That Affair Next Door focuses on a mysterious murder that has occurred in a quiet neighborhood, incidentally in the house next door to the home of the curious middle-aged amateur sleuth Miss Butterworth. One night around midnight Miss Butterworth sees a man and woman enter the Van Burnam mansion, which is supposed to be empty. The man leaves soon after, but the woman does not. On the following day, Miss Butterworth and a policeman find the body of a woman crushed to death under a cabinet in the parlor. There are way too many coincidences to be realistic, but the competitive sleuthing of Miss Butterworth and Detective Gryce keep the story moving along with seemingly definitive evidence pulling the reader to believe one person after another must be the actual murderer.

Head in Green Bronze and Other Stories

Hugh Walpole

In Walpole style, an excellent collection of short story bedside tables in the guest room, for recovering or reading aloud. There is nothing modern cynicism; the stories seem somewhat outdated but in the end it often reassures. One group may be left alone, Let the storm tremble, built on the fascinating idea of business to rid society of boring ones.

Rome

Émile Zola

Le roman Rome est inclus dans la série Trois villes. A Rome, les lecteurs peuvent voir la beauté de cette ville: rues étonnantes, monuments antiques. Tout rappelle la grandeur passée de Rome, sa gloire. Mais cette grandeur a un autre aspect: le désir de pouvoir et la domination dinnombrables papes, la cruauté des puissants et les souffrances des opprimés.

Ann Veronica. A Modern Love Story

Herbert George Wells

First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, Ann Veronica, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science, or control her own life in any way. One Wednesday, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She has to fend off unwelcome advances from men who want to enslave her, and evade a different sort of imprisonment from an over-protective family. Ann Veronica herself strikes out, makes men friends, joins militant suffragette action... Its also a fascinating novel for what it says about the times, and its insights into contemporary social and scientific thought.

Czarny chleb. Opowiadania

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Tom opowiadań Marii Rodziewiczówny, w którym znalazły się takie utwory jak: Czarny chleb, Jezioro, Kolega Szoll, Pierścień, Starzec, Złota dola, Znachor, Pierwsza kula, W noc grudniową i Jedna droga.

White Fang

Jack London

The main conflict of the story is dog-nature vs. wolf-nature, or nature vs. man. What happens to White fang, and how he goes through the many troubles that he has to. Growing up in the Yukon territory of Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush, he learned the law of the Wild at an early age: kill, or be killed, eat, or be eaten. Separated from his mother and traded from master to master, White Fang never grasped the concept of love, and violence was all that he knew. Having no teacher, he learned the rules of survival by experience. Then, a cruel man buys White Fang and turns him into a pit dog forced to fight for money. He save one day, a mixed dogwolf from the hands of a cruel man, and a brave friendship develops between the two. With beautifully realistic details of the harsh realities of life in the Yukon, White Fang is a grippingly original tale about morality and redemption that still stands as an American classic.

Inselwelt. Band III

Friedrich Gerstäcker

Der Weltenbummler Gerstäcker, dessen ausgedehnte Reisen ihn durch Nord- und Südamerika führten, gehört zusammen mit Karl Mai zu den populärsten Autoren von Abenteuerromanen seiner Zeit. Friedrich Gerstäcker führte von der Wiege bis zur Bahre ein bewegtes Leben. Als Sohn eines gefeierten Tenors wurde ihm die Reiselust quasi in die Wiege gelegt. Er war ein Erzähler von außerordentlich spannenden und farbenprächtigen Abenteuerromanen, die jedoch stets belehrende Momente in der Landschafts- und Kulturschilderung beinhalten. Inselwelt bestehen aus zwei Bänden. Der erste Band Inselwelt. Indische Skizzen und der zweite Band Inselwelt. Australische Skizzen.

The Council of Justice

Edgar Wallace

The Council of Justice is the sequel to much-lauded The Four Just Men, a novel which caused a sensation way back in 1905 by encouraging readers to guess the mystery ending. The Four Just Men, in this second of Wallaces ingenious series of thrillers, pit themselves against The Red Hundred, an organization dedicated to international anarchy, led by the charismatic and beautiful assassin, the Woman of Gratz. As always, the avengers methods are meticulously planned and ruthlessly executed. Edgar Wallaces prolific pen was never more successful than with the creation of these timeless stories which remain relevant in every way. Edgar Wallace provides a thrill of another sort!