Under Sealed Orders

H.A. Cody

The protagonist, nicknamed mad David, was auctioned off as a beggar for $ 100; then Davids life changed dramatically. He began to earn a lot and came to glory. Betty Bean is a feisty fifteen-year-old girl who has a maternal interest in Mad David.

Straszny dziadunio

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Petersburg, koniec XIX wieku. Polikarp Białopiotrowicz jest właścicielem rozległego majątku Tepeniec w powiecie mozyrskim i osobą niezwykle majętną. Stroni od ludzi. Obaj jego synowie już nie żyją. Straszny dziadunio ma dwóch wnuków: Alberta, zwanego Wojcieszkiem i Hieronima, zwanego Ruciem. Pierwszy z nich prowadzi w Petersburgu rozrzutne życie za pieniądze dziadka. Drugi studiuje na petersburskiej politechnice. Obaj są szpiegowani przez służących Polikarpa Białopiotrowicza, który otrzymuje regularne sprawozdania z tego, co robią wnuki. Niepewny charakteru swoich spadkobierców dziadek poddaje ich najrozmaitszym próbom. Bezwzględne eksperymenty niemal doprowadzają do śmierci Hieronima...

Ta trzecia

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Ta trzecia to satyra na środowisko burżuazji oraz interesująca charakterystyka przedstawicieli cyganerii artystycznej. Magórski jest ubogim artystą malarzem. Zaręczył się z panną z dobrego domu. Został jednak odrzucony z powodu ekscentrycznego zachowania. Jego życie zmienia się, kiedy jeden z jego obrazów Żydzi nad rzekami Babilonu otrzymuje nagrodę w konkursie paryskim. Nagroda przynosi malarzowi sławę i pieniądze, a także powodzenie u kobiet. Ostatecznie artysta znajduje szczęście w małżeństwie z zakochaną w nim od dawna uroczą aktorką.

Prince Zaleski

M.P. Shiel

Prince Zaleski (1895) represents Shiels contribution to the mystery genre, and is his answer to Sherlock Holmes. This is a set of three short detective mysteries but the stories are clever and even wonderfully creepy at times which can only be solved by Prince Zaleski the worlds greatest historian! It includes the following mysteries: The Race of Orven, The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks, The S.S.. Prince Zaleski is an eccentric gentleman detective who suffers from ennui but might sometimes be induced to take an absorbing interest in questions that had proved themselves too profound, or too intricate, for ordinary solution. Those who like mystery/detective fiction and weird fiction with fin-de-siecle British Decadence will enjoy this blend of the genres.

Circumstantial Evidence

Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals. One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives. He was known for the The Four Just Men, the Ringer, and for creating the Green Archer character during his lifetime. Over 160 films have been made of his novels. This volume contains 11 short stories with surprises and twists. Courtroom drama from the master of crime and creator of King Kong!

The Kingdom of Earth

E. Phillips Oppenheim

John Peters is the dissolute Crown Prince of Bergeland. The nephew of the rapacious and immoral King. Grace Pellisier is an English American actress who meets a thoughtful, serious, hiker in the mountains of Switzerland. Bernhardt is the energetic Chief of the Secret Service, protecting the aging King, and constantly searching for The Watcher, the leader of the revolutionary republicans. Written during a period of intense anti-monarchy which saw the end of the Russian Tzar, Oppenheim is using the politics of Europe to imagine an alternative path to bloody revolution. And so on, and with the material of conspiracies, love and adventure the story is woven around the Prince with that peculiar polish in dialogue and fascinating coloring characteristic of the popular author.

Przygody młodych Bastablów

Edith Nesbit

Przygody Młodych Bastablów to trzeci tom sagi o sześciorgu rodzeństwa, które w poprzednich tomach szukało skarbu i pisało złotą księgę dobrych uczynków. Dzieci nadal nie mogą narzekać na brak przygód. Ich wrażliwość nie pozwala im przejść obojętnie obok żadnego nieszczęścia każdemu z wielką ochotą pomagają, co rodzi wiele zabawnych, nieprzewidywalnych sytuacji.

Colonel Chabert

Honoré de Balzac

In 1807 Colonel Chabert, Napoleons beloved commander, is severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau. Taken for dead and buried in a mass grave, he manages to escape and wanders in poverty through Europe for 10 years, torn between life and death, oblivion and consciousness. Finally recovering his memories, he sets out for Paris to search for his wife who had been a prostitute before he married her and to reclaim his possessions. In the several years while he had been gone, his wife thinking he was dead had remarried and had two new children. She had also collected his existing fortune. In all, she was pretty happy the way things were. How could our colonel prove who he was? What arguments could he use against his former wife? The story has a surprising number of twists, and poses a number of questions about how our society really works and the analysis of human behavior, character and emotions, is, as usual in Balzac, sublime.

The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Sir Joseph is a brilliant surgeon from Australia who went mad after operating on vast numbers of soldiers during World War 1. His terrible hobby is cutting peoples heads open to steal bits of their brains. His wife is a former nurse who went mad alongside him. They are pursued across England and the continent by Mr. Daniel Rocke, codebreaker of the Foreign service: Miss Ann Lancaster, daughter of one of Londes victims, and Sir Francis Worton, known as Q20, head of the secret service. Londe adopts many disguises, and plots brilliant escapes. This short story collection also containing: The Scarlet Patch, The Terror of Elton Lodge, The House on Salisbury Plain, The Shaftesbury Avenue Murder and others.

The Light Shines in Darkness. Drama

Leo Tolstoy

The drama The Light Shines reflects the events of Tolstoys life in the broadest, most typified generalizations. Therefore, it would be a gross mistake to fully identify the content of the drama with the life of Tolstoy, his family and those around him. Nevertheless, there is a close relationship between them. So, the drama of Nikolai Ivanovich Saryntsev is, of course, the drama of Tolstoy himself. In the person of Maria Ivanovna Saryntseva, some characteristic features of S. A. Tolstoy are outlined. The same should be said of the other characters in the play, which are very reminiscent of either Tolstoys family or those who came into close contact with his family. And the drunk Alexander Petrovich who appears in the fourth act is taken from real life. This is Tolstoys scribe, Alexander Petrovich Ivanov, a former officer who became trampless, an inhabitant of Rzhanovs house.

Der Mann im Hintergrund

Edgar Wallace

Ein paar Wochen nachdem ein Gefangener aus dem Gefängnis Sing-Sing entflieht, gibt es plötzlich mehrere Unterschlagungen im großen Stil. Ein Bankangestellter schenkt seiner Verlobten teuren Schmuck und schickt ihr ein dickes Bündel Dollarnoten. Zwei Fälle, die nur der berühmte Privatdetektiv Reeder lösen kann. Dort ist er der Spezialist für das Bankenwesen. Als in London eine Bank nach der andern durch Unterschlagungen im größeren Stil geschädigt wird, ist er es, der beigezogen wird.

Rogue Herries

Hugh Walpole

This chronicle tells of several generations of a family that lives in the Lake District in England, dating back to the late seventeen hundred. Hughs descriptions of this area are excellent. He had such a great love for him that he conveyed a great sense of his presence throughout all four novels. His characters also become so alive for the reader, because, I think, he is completely immersed in them.

The Ancient Allan

H. Rider Haggard

Many readers of the novels of Henry Rider Haggard like his main character Allan Quatermain. He goes back to the past. This adventure promises to be exciting. After all, there will be many exciting events on the way of the main character: hunting for lions, fighting a crocodile and a battle between different armies.

Domestic Peace

Honoré de Balzac

Domestic Peace, a short story by Honoré de Balzac, was originally published in 1831 under the French title of La Paix du Ménage and can be found in Scenes from private life (Scenes de la vie privee) in La Comedie Humaine. It takes place in November of 1809 at the height of Napoleons empire, a time of great splendor and decadence. Everyone whos anyone in the Parisian aristocracy is gathered at a grand ball at the home of the Comte de Gondreville. Two guys Martial and Comte de Montcornet are looking to engage into a romantic happening with Madame de Vaudremont and they find they are not the only ones, being that she has a tremendous fortune. Another girl appear who shades Madame de Baudremont. To complicate matters, Colonel Soulanges, one of Napoleons favorite military men, also shows an interest in the mystery woman, and angrily declares hell kill Martial if he so much as goes near her.

Old Shatterhand. Powieść z Dzikiego Zachodu

Karol May

Tytułowy Old Shatterhand, czyli Grzmocąca Ręka, to najbliższy przyjaciel Winnetou i towarzysz jego licznych przygód. Jako młody, niedoświadczony człowiek przybywa z Europy na Dziki Zachód, gdzie styka się z Indianami. Początkowo budzi ich nieufność czy wręcz wrogość. Jednak dzielnymi czynami i mężną postawą zaskarbia sobie ich przyjaźń. Wspólnie z Indianami żyje, poluje i walczy z wrogami.

Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories

Anna Katharine Green

A beautiful young woman is interviewed by Coroner Golden and new Deputy sheriff Mr. Hammersmith. Her mother has been found dead in the nearby forest but the woman alleges they both rented rooms in Three Forks Tavern. The landlord Mr. Quimby deny her story. She describes the room her mother was in but a search reveals no room that matches it. But the sheriff believes her and he insists on staying in the tavern overnight while the coroner goes to collect his jury. He has a vague recollection of more than a few odd happenings at this very tavern. This collection brings together a diverse array of Greens mystery and detective stories. It includes: Midnight in Beauchamp Row, The Ruby and the Caldron, The Little Steel Coils, The Staircase at Hearts Delight and more.