Whispering Death

Aidan de Brune

Whispering Death (1931) is the third adventure in the Dr. Night trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). This third story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end 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 to recreate a long-dead central Asian kingdom of which his distant ancestors were kings. Most of the stories in the Dr. Night trilogy take place in and around Sydney, although the earliest known is set in Perth Western Australia and one of the novelettes in north Queenslan. Aidan de Brune was a big name in Australian literature but is forgotten today. He was a prolific author who wrote in a variety of genres.

The Betrayal

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Guy Ducaine is a recent graduate of Oxford University. Through a series of unfortunate events he is penniless and starving in the rural town of Brasters. Seeking to make a few shillings, he schedules a lecture on local history. On the same time, Lord Rowchester invites the officer and explorer Colonel Mostyn Ray to the village to speak. Ducaines lecture fails and he returns to his small house and collapses from hunger. Found there by Ray, and Rowchesters lovely daughter, Lady Angela, they revive him and set in motion a complicated, entertaining, and devious plot. With many twists and turns Ducaine eventually works as secretary to a War Preparations Committee which is chronically leaking plans to the enemy and saves the nation!

The New Adam

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Edmund Hall, born a mutant with too many joints in his fingers and a double mind, tries to find a purpose in a society of humans. This superman is no caped crusader fighting for justice though. Rather, he is a dual-brained super-intellect with an IQ so far off the charts that normal human beings appear as Neanderthals next to him. In this story, our evolved human is born into modern society without anyone knowing his nature. While pondering whether hes a superman or the devil, he explores pleasure, power, and passion. Slowly he realizes the differences between himself and contemporary humans, and therein lies a fascinating story.

The Exploits of Pudgy Pete

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Exploits of Pudgy Pete story was written in 1927 by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Peter Bragg and his tormentor from school days George Angus, join forces to run a modern Enguiry Agency in London. The cases which come to them are complex, romantic, dangerous, humorous, and clever. Together the two solve social and criminal problems, and find their romantic mates. These short story collection by Mr. Oppenheim containing also: Drama in the Dolls House, A Comedy in Divorce, Lady Katherines Better Nature, Three to Four, The Ninety-Ninth Thread and others. These stories were originally written as separate magazine stories, then published together.

Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 6). Ród Rodrigandów. Pantera Południa

Karol May

Pantera Południa stanowi kontynuację wydarzeń z powieści Ku Mapimi. Dopiero co uwolnieni z piramidy bohaterowie stają się mimowolnymi uczestnikami bitwy między Apaczami a Komanczami. Bohaterom dzięki pomocy Apaczów udaje się uciec tajnym korytarzem przez piramidę. Wsiadają na statek, lecz za sprawą pirata Landoli zamiast do wytyczonego celu trafiają na bezludną wyspę...

Bissula. A.D. 378

Felix Dahn

Felix Dahn (1834-1912) war ein deutscher Professor für Rechtswissenschaften, Schriftsteller und Historiker. Zwischen 1882 und 1901 verfaßte er die 13-bändige Serie Kleine Romane aus der Völkerwanderung, alle angesiedelt in den ersten Jahrhunderten nach Christus. Bissula ist der zweite Band der historischen Romane aus den Zeiten der Völkerwanderung.

Zagłada domu Usherów i inne opowiadania

Edgar Allan Poe

Zbiór swoistych nowel kryminalnych. Niektóre zabawne, sarkastyczne i finezyjne, inne mroczne i przerażające. Plastyczne opisy zbrodni, mnogość zagadek i pułapek logicznych, w połączeniu ze stopniowo budowanym przez narratora napięciem, tworzą niepowtarzalny zestaw.

The Kidnapping of Madame Storey

Hulbert Footner

Love humor writing? Cant get enough of classic adventure tales? First published in 1902, The Adventures of Gerard are the autobiographical reminiscences of an old fictional brigadier soldier who served under Napoleon. He never hesitates to embellish his own bravado, importance, and attractiveness to the ladies, to such an extent that it cant help but be humorous. Etienne Gerard, a hussar of the French Army, is dashing, flamboyant, and unbelievably full of himself. The book is divided into chapters containing different segments of his life as a soldier under the leadership of Napoleon together with his personal exploits and the romance that swept his way in between. These short stories are historically interesting, the action is cleverly done and exciting, and the hero and his comic comportment are very entertaining.

The Tragedie of Macbeth

William Shakespeare

The focus of the great tragedy of William Shakespeare Macbeth is unreasonable ambition that turns a brave warrior and a recognized hero into an ominous killer who seized power in his hands at the cost of bloody atrocity. The play Macbeth is worth reading if only to enjoy the beautiful poetic language of the great playwright here evil, intrigue, deceit and the most base vices of humanity are served under the sauce of beautiful poetry.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 8). Collected Short Stories. Volume 8

Arthur Conan Doyle

The eighth issue features the usual assortment of stories and non-fiction. These are the next to last of the series of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. Some are set before the Great War, the last takes place in 1914. Holmes is retired and refused to take on any more cases, preferring to live out his years in a small rural village. His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in some editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, plus the one-off title story, also called A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes under Reminiscences of Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The Adventure of Wistaria Lodge was originally in two parts: The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles and The Tiger of San Pedro. Each story has a completely different plot which goes on smoothly till the end.

Lilla Weneda. Tragedia w 5 aktach

Juliusz Słowacki

Dramat historiozoficzny wykorzystujący stylistykę mitologiczną. Pokazuje tragedię podbitego narodu Wenedów, metaforycznie odnosząc się do dziejów Polski. Autor wykorzystuje maskę czasów przedhistorycznych i najazd plemienia Lechitów na Wenedów, aby wyjaśnić naturę narodu polskiego i ukazać sens dziejów narodowych. Tłumaczy też poniekąd przyczyny klęski powstania listopadowego.

Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 15). Ród Rodrigandów. Klasztor della Barbara

Karol May

W kontynuacji wydarzeń z tomu Grobowiec Rodrigandów Kurt Unger, Sępi Dziób i oficer marynarki Peters usiłują schwytać Corteja i Landolę. Akcja odnosi połowiczny skutek. Jednocześnie doktor Hilario z klasztoru della Barbara knuje spisek przeciwko księciu Maksymilianowi oraz Juarezowi. W paradę wchodzą mu Cortejo z Landolą. Mieszkańcy hacjendy del Erina znów są w niebezpieczeństwie.

Winnetou. Band IIV

Karl May

Jeder im Wilden Westen kennt seinen Namen: Winnetou, der Häuptling der Apatschen, ist berühmt für seinen Mut. Old Shatterhand will mit ihm Freundschaft schließen. Anfangs aufgrund der Umstände Feinde werden sie nach einigen Querelen Blutsbrüder und Freunde. Winnetou aber misstraut den Bleichgesichtern bis Old Shatterhand ihm das Leben rettet. Winnetou bildet das junge Greenhorn zum Superwestmann aus, im Ausgleich dazu vermittelt Old Shatterhand seinem indianischen Bruder die ersten christlichen Ideale. Zwischen Silberbüchse und Henrystutzen, Marterpfahl und Friedenspfeife entfaltet Karl May vier Winnetou-Bände hindurch ein gewaltiges Wildwest-Panorama. Es steckt voller Abenteuer, übler Schurken und liebenswerter Gefährten von Sam Hawkens bis Nscho-tschi.

The Cooks Wedding and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Many stories from this collection about animals and children. This is perhaps the cutest collection, with unusual animals and kittens. This story you can live and feel through the eyes of a child. The choice of the main character leaves a lot of question in the future, but we ourselves can guess the reason for this choice.

Tanglewood Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This is a fun collection, the second of Hawthorne, Greek myths slightly rethought and retold for children. These are famous stories with a rather friendly perception. Antey has some friends who are called pygmies, but it seems that their height is about six inches. But they are going to avenge him after Hercules killed him, and Big X good-naturedly accepts the loss. Theseus still kills the Minotaur, although the beast seems to be a kind of miserable soul, but does not leave Ariadne rather, she refuses to leave her father, despite all his flaws.

The Mouthpiece

Edgar Wallace, Robert Curtis

The novel of Edgar Wallaces famous play told by Robert Curtis in story form with all the dramatic excitement and suspense. In the shady setting of a solicitors office on the East End waterfront a plan is evolved all quite legal to get hold of a large American legacy bequeathed to an English girl. Murder is planned and tried: kidnapping, incarceration in a London barge, a dash for freedom, the intervention of the river police and knock-out drops all play their part in the unfolding of the tale which keeps its suspense to the last in as swift-moving a sequence of events as ever Edgar Wallace at his best devised. It is a case where the Yard was best not to call them in for reasons best known to the characters in the story as the reader will find for himself.