The Flying Squad

Edgar Wallace

The creek between the canal and the river flows under Ladys Stairs, a crazy wooden house inhabited by Li Yoseph known to the police as a smuggler. The neighborhood suspects he is rich, and knows he is mad. Inspector Bradley is out to break a drug-smuggling gang which operates from an old house overhanging the Thames; the gang is headed by a criminal called Mark McGill. The disappearance of young Ron Perryman whom McGill has murdered and dumped in the river gives the Inspector his ideal opportunity to begin asking questions... Edgar Wallace established his reputation as a writer of detective thrillers, a genre in which he wrote more than 170 books, with the publication of The Four Just Men.

Война и мир (Wojna i pokój)

Lew Tołstoj

Самый известный во всем мире роман русского писателя Льва Толстого. Этот, поистине шедевр мировой литературы, из разряда вечных 2013 в нем раскрыты основные составляющие человеческого бытия: жизнь и смерть, любовь и измена, подвиг и малодушие, война и мир. В романе на примере хроники жизни нескольких семейств 2013 Болконских, Ростовых, Курагиных показана жизнь тех времен, где мир тесно соседствует с войной, где есть место как любви, так и предательству. Сцены мирной, семейной жизни сменяются картинами военных будней, имеющими значение для хода всей мировой истории. Но для Толстого они одинаково ценны, связаны в едином потоке времени. Каждый эпизод важен не только для развития сюжета, но и как одно из бесчисленных проявлений жизни, которую нас учит любить автор. Роман о великой русской душе, о русском укладе жизни, о вечных вопросах, которые приходится решать каждому человеку наедине с собой. Все жизненные перипетии героев, происходящие на фоне исторических событий, произошедших в начале 19 века с Россией, на фоне кровавых событий войны 1812 года, обретают емкий философский смысл.

The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America, received praise for her accurate, well plotted stories. Her novels have always been one of the groundworks of mystery and detective fiction and The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow is a great example of the ingenious and thrilling story. In this novel, a young woman is killed by an arrow in the middle of the museum, so all of the other visitors are closed inside while the crime is investigated! A good classic mystery that we recommend very highly!

Horace

George Sand

Dans le roman Horace de George Sand, le personnage principal est confronté de nombreuses épreuves. Malheureusement, il ne tire pas une leçon juste de son expérience. Le protagoniste, passant dune romance douteuse, affichant ses idées avant-gardistes, un simple carriere, qui spécule sur ces idées.

Jacobs Ladder

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Jacobs Ladder begins: Seated at breakfast on that memorable July morning, Jacob Pratt presented all the appearance of a disconsolate man. His little country sitting-room was as neat and tidy as the capable hands of the inimitable Mrs. Harris could make it. His coffee was hot and his eggs were perfectly boiled. Through the open windows stretched a little vista of the many rows of standard roses which had been the joy of his life. Yet blank misery dwelt in the soul of this erstwhile cheerful little man, and the spirit of degradation hung like a gloomy pall over his thoughts and being. Only the day before he had filed his petition in bankruptcy.

The Iron Grip

Edgar Wallace

1929 short story collection by Edgar Wallace revolving around the demobbed soldier (WWI) Jack Wireless Bryce and his engagement by the law firm Hemmer & Hemmer. Operating on the fringes of lawlessness, Bryce uses his brains and brawn to protect a range of the firms more vulnerable and downright gullible clients. His new career as a detective creates a compelling tale of adventure. Most of his adventures involve rescuing various damsels in distress from the clutches of men who are far from gentle. The tales are told with real zip, with a dash of grit and humor. Eventually, however, he is overpowered caught in the tender grip of love from which he has no desire to escape.

The Way of an Eagle

Ethel M. Dell

The Way of an Eagle novel (1919) opens in India, as scapegrace Nick Ratcliffe rescues Muriel, the generals daughter, from dire peril. Between starvation and attack, death is almost certain. Nick is small, odd-looking, and unpredictable. But he has somehow won the generals unconditional confidence. Not so with Muriel. Repelled yet fascinated by his mockery and ferocity his way of an eagle she agrees to a betrothal, then breaks it off for clean-cut Blake Grange. Back in England, Muriel gradually learns the truth of her feelings and of Blakes. But when she returns to India Nick, now maimed in his countrys service, is nowhere to be seen until new peril strikes. True love prevails. This is an old-fashioned adventure/romance and its impossible to put down.

They See in Darkness

Ethel Lina White

The Elephant Never Forgets is a more psychological story. The main character, Anna, a young Englishwoman, wants to visit Russia because of her interest in a proletarian experiment and a faithless newspaper editor. The trip is delayed. Anna fell into a trap, stunned by the terrifying atmosphere of suspicion and the crazy tactic of postponing the Soviet Union...

The Twister

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallaces The Twister, published in 1928, is a tale of murder, high finance, and intrigue. Lord Frensham knows exactly whos swindling him in the stock market Anthony Tony Braid, who many call The Twister. And hes not about to believe Braids crazy notion that his own nephew, his flesh and blood, is behind the embezzlement... Then Frensham is found dead in his office, but Inspector Elk of the Scotland Yard knows its not suicide, no matter the elaborate scheme the murderer invented. But who is the murderer? It is a highly entertaining little thriller. The characters are broadly drawn but vivid, the plot movers along at a breakneck pace, and its rather luridly sensationalistic for its era.

The Stretelli Case and Other Mystery Stories

Edgar Wallace

This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1930. The Stretelli Case and Other Mystery Stories is a collection of short stories, some also published in other collections of Wallaces works. This volume includes: Code No. 2, Red Beard, The Man Who Killed Himself, The Mediaeval Mind, and many more. This is a nice collection of eleven short stories loosely classified as mysteries; while thriller elements are certainly present in most of them, the stories, with one exception, are indeed mysteries of one sort or another. Several stories feature detectives per se; most of them have people under pressure who must decipher baffling situations in order to correct deformations in the social structure.

Pieśni. Wybór

Horacy

Pieśni ( carmina), znane także jako Ody ( odes), zostały wydane w czterech księgach. Trzy pierwsze ukazały się w 23 r. jako oddzielny zbiór, zawierający 88 utworów lirycznych. Około 13 r. Horacy opublikował ostatnią, czwartą księgę liczącą 15 pieśni. Tematyka ód związana jest z życiem poety, jego wspomnieniami. Wiele ód to utwory okazyjne, skierowane do przyjaciół i znajomych autora. Wielokrotnie Horacy zabiera też głos w sprawach publicznych. Charakterystyczną cechą pieśni jest rozpoczynanie wiersza od jakiegoś konkretnego wydarzenia, niekiedy opowiedzianego szczegółowo, częściej ledwie wspomnianego. Wychodząc od tego wydarzenia, poeta przechodzi do refleksji natury ogólnej praktycznej lub filozoficznej.

Król-Duch

Juliusz Słowacki

Król-Duch to koronne dzieło Juliusza Słowackiego, stanowiące summę jego poglądów. Ma formę poematu historiozoficznego, powstawało do ostatnich lat życia wieszcza, nie zostało jednak ukończone. Rzecz, zwana czasem eposem wszechsłowiańskim, rozgrywa się u zarania dziejów państwa polskiego. Omawia wędrówki niszczycielskiego Ducha, który wraz z grozą niesie zmianę...

La Jangada

Jules Verne

Le roman Jangada se déroule en Amérique du Sud sur les rivages pittoresques mais dangereux de lAmazone. Le héros, qui a caché de nombreuses années aux autorités brésiliennes sous un nom demprunt, est accusé dun crime grave: le vol de diamants, pour lequel il nétait pas impliqué. Par une fatale concidence, il ne peut pas prouver son innocence. La peine de mort a déj été signée. Seule la solution du message crypté dun véritable criminel peut lui sauver la vie.

The Double

Edgar Wallace

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. The Double is a story about a man who encounters his unknown double and the trouble that arises. When Dick Staines joined the police force the big case of the day had been the Staines murder. The only clue was an unknown thumb-print, the case was never solved. Ten years later and Detective Inspector Staines investigating a curious burglary in fashionable Belgravia finds a thumb-print on a glass. The strangest of murders with surgical overtones confronts Dick Staines our Cambridge educated detective.

Smoke Bellew

Jack London

The famous cycle of novels and short stories by the American writer Jack London is a peculiar and unique painting of life in inhuman conditions, where people still manage to remain human beings. The story is about a man who found the courage, courage and power to exchange the clerks prosperous, but dull and boring life for danger, the exciting and fascinating fate of an adventurer in the wild lands of the Northern Way. The whole North knew him under the name Smoke Bellew.

The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

With a strong spirit and body, people who are ready to endure all sorts of hardships and difficulties for the sake of the cause of their whole life, their blood, their feats inscribing their names in the history of mankind, also end up being tested, which turn out to be stronger than them. And for the sake of this, a person is able to erase his entire former life overnight. This happens with Anthony, an honorary Roman who fell in love with the proud queen of Egypt. For his sake he forgot Rome and the family, and Caesar.