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A. Merritt
Originally published in 1932, Burn, Witch, Burn! is a classic fantasy/horror and mystery novel by A. Merritt. In it, we meet Dr. Lowell, an eminent neurologist who becomes curious when a series of mysterious deaths comes to his attention. Men and women in the NYC area have been dying of no apparent cause, but with horrible grimaces on their faces and with very rapid onsets of rigor mortis. The trail of bizarre deaths leads to one Madame Mandilip and her doll shop, and before long the reader is immersed in a world of supernaturalism and escalating tension. Combining folklore with modern science, Merritt weaves a wonderfully haunting tale about what happens when the world around us, grounded in science, ends up failing us. Recommended for lovers of the offbeat.
Jack London
Elam Harnish is by nature a player to whom his whole life seems to be a game. Skillfully and cynically playing, Harnish makes millions. A successful businessman lives by the laws of the jungle until he meets the stenographer Didon Mason. From this moment, his life under the beneficial influence of love changes, he becomes a spiritual person. Once he finds a gold mine, and the former excitement lights up in his eyes.
William Shakespeare
Na skutek intryg i zawiści Prospero, prawowity książę Mediolanu, zostaje pozbawiony przez swojego brata tronu i wraz z córką Mirandą wyprawiony na morze w łodzi. Trafiają oni na niemal bezludną wyspę, na której spędzają wiele lat. Aż nagle u wybrzeży wyspy pojawia się statek. Dzięki swoim umiejętnościom magicznym Prospero wywołuje burzę, która sprowadza załogę statku na wyspę...
Bruno Jasieński
But w butonierce. Poezje futurystyczne to tom wierszy Brunona Jasieńskiego z 1921 roku. Stanowi sztandarowe dzieło futuryzmu awangardowego nurtu zrywającego z tradycyjnym postrzeganiem twórczości. Futuryzm miał swoje ulubione tematy, takie jak miasto, cywilizacja, postęp, kultura masowa, a także tworzył charakterystyczne dla siebie rozwiązania formalne, wykorzystujące zabawę słowem czy konwencję antyestetyzmu.
Fenton Ash
Dated 1928. By Airship to Ophir, written by Fenton Ash, tells the story of an airship and two aircraft meander round central Africa picking up an assortment of natives in a search for the fabled land of Ophir, which is eventually reached and found to be inhabited by a race of people of Arab/Hebrew mien. This fantasy adventure would suit anyone interested in old fantasy novels for children and young people. Fenton Ash is the first and main pseudonym of UK civil engineer and author Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927) who was a writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers. He wrote under the pseudonyms Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash.
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.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Marys mother was from New England and her conscience was abnormally active. Her father was from New Jersey, and his conscience, although no one would dare to say that she was flawed, did not prevent him from enjoying life in the least.
Maria Rodziewiczówna
Byli i będą to panorama społeczeństwa polskiego po upadku powstania styczniowego. W tej wielowątkowej powieści poznajemy różne grupy społeczne i środowiska arystokrację, ziemiaństwo kresowe, zagrodową szlachtę krośniańską, młodzież, życiowych rozbitków itd. Akcja rozgrywa się na Litwie oraz w Warszawie, gdzie pozbawieni swej ziemi kresowiacy nie marzą o niczym innym, jak tylko o powrocie w swoje rodzinne strony, podczas gdy lojalna wobec zaborcy arystokracja, nie gardząc przejmowaniem w zarząd zarekwirowanych na Litwie majątków ziemskich, prowadzi wystawny tryb życia i bawi się doskonale.Po upadku powstania 1863 roku mieszkający na Litwie Polacy ponieśli ogromne straty nie tylko osobowe i materialne, lecz także moralne. Wielu gwałtem zmuszono do przyjęcia prawosławia, co zdegradowało ich społecznie w oczach patriotów polskich. Ci, którzy przetrwali, próbują wszelkimi sposobami utrzymać ziemię pozostałą w ich rękach, a przy tym wspomagać się wzajem, jak również dbać o odradzanie się ducha patriotycznego.Doskonałym przykładem takiego postępowania jest matka powstańca Stefana Hrehorowicza. Jego majątek w Kozarach został po jego śmierci zarekwirowany przez zaborcę. Starsza pani Hrehorowiczowa po przeniesieniu się do dworu w Grelach jedynego majątku, który jej pozostał staje się ostoją nie tylko dla swych wnuków, których rodzice zostali zesłani na Sybir, lecz także dla będących w potrzebie sąsiadów. Z ogromnym trudem udaje jej się utrzymać tę ziemię dla jedynego syna Stefana, który wychowywany w Warszawie przez matkę i jej ojca na panicza długo nie wie, czyim jest synem, i nie utrzymuje żadnych kontaktów z babką. Dopiero gdy dowiaduje się, kim był jego ojciec, w jego życiu następuje diametralna zmiana, która doprowadza do zerwania z rodziną matki i zbliżenia się do babki.
O. Henry
Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious country. A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town called the Republic of Anchuria while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. This work is O. Henrys first published volume and is considered to be his only novel. The plot is composed of several short stories, which were inspired by the authors six-month stay in Honduras in the late 1890s. In this book, O. Henry coined the term banana republic.
B.M. Bower
A classic tale of the Old West by B.M. Bower. This one is one of her earliest (1918). This was an interesting story about a man who quarrels with his young wife and goes out into the world to try to forget her. Cabin Fever gets Bud Moore into a peck of trouble now and then. Bud is a bit too trustful of strangers and before he knows it, he has injected himself into a situation that could prove to be disastrous. Bud then heads for the hills and meets up with another stranger. Then, one day, Bud finds a child who has been stolen by an Indian squaw and takes him in. How will the childs presence change the two hardened men? The surprise ending is a nice touch, by the author.
Fenton Ash
Welcome to the important and meaningful boys adventure novel of Francis Henry Atkins which is The Cadets of the Dolphin. Aubrey, Frank (pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins) was a British writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers. Despite his commercial success at the time, little is known about Atkins personal life.
Talbot Mundy
Putting Crime Over by Hulbert Footner. When Madame Roska Storey and her secretary are robbed, a plan is put in place to catch the robbers as well as their leader. She is the best private detective of England, but her stories are international. Her way to resolve the mystery is original and bring you in a new world. So we are introduced to the fascinating Madame Rosika Storey, fearless and intelligent, who plays cat-and-mouse with killers, goes undercover to break up criminal gangs, and unravels deadly mysteries. A strange, yet interesting tale that was actually written in the 1920s.
California Joe. The Mysterious Plainsman
Prentiss Ingraham
"California Joe, the Mysterious Plainsman" is a book first published in 1900 written by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham who was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a professional military officer throughout the 1860s, and a prolific author of books on the American West. It is a dime novel, a very short novel, about the life of a young man who acts as if he is immortal. At first, many characters in the book think that Joe is a ghost or a "spook" because of his all black clothes and solid white horse. Soon, however, Joe introduces himself to a group of people who are laying train tracks across the prairie. He guides them and saves them from Indians on many occasions. Throughout the entire book, Joe is saving somebody from Indians or capturing thieves. He is the stereotypical cowboy who saves the day and rides off into the sunset. This book is a wonderful light novel and is also important for what it reveal about American cultural history at the time of its publication.
Friedrich Gerstäcker
Friedrich Gerstäcker veröffentlichte eine Vielzahl von Erzählungen, Romanen und vor allem Berichte über seine verschiedenen Reisen, die ihn zu einem der meistgelesenen und bekanntesten Autoren Deutschlands machten. So war Gerstäcker in Amerika unter anderem als Holzfäller, Viehtreiber, Heizer und Koch auf einem Mississippidampfer, Lehrer und vor allem als (Großwild-) Jäger unterwegs. Er durchstreifte Nord- und Südamerika, die Inselwelt des Stillen Ozeans, Australien. Californische Skizze ist eine klassische deutsche literarische Arbeit, das die frühen Tage in Kalifornien beschreibt. Aufregendes Detail und Humor machen das zu einem außergewöhnlichen Interesse.
Max Brand
In Calling Dr. Kildare, Dr. Kildare has left his family home to work in a metropolitan hospital with the brilliant Dr. Gillespie who is slowly dying. Kildare has been chosen to work under the irascible Doctor and receive his vast knowledge. On his first case, young Dr. Kildare defies his chief-of -staff, and faces danger and scandal... It is the second in the Dr. Kildare series, written by Max Brand, which was the pen name of prolific author Frederick Faust. He is best known for his hundreds of Western novels, the most popular being Destry Rides Again. There were eight novels in the Dr. Kildare series beginning in 1940 with Young Dr. Kildare and finishing in 1943. This series is about the many exploits of Dr. Kildare, who starts out the series as a medical intern as he works to try and become a doctor.
Voltaire
Candide, who grew up in a rich mans family, who absorbed real mentor sermons on the fact that everything in the world happens for the better, serves its purposes and in general is accomplished in the best of all possible worlds, despite all the misfortunes that have happened to people this is also for the better. By the will of fate, Candide sets off on a round-the-world trip, where everyone literally screams that the world is unfair, misfortunes are often meaningless and lead only to great misfortunes, and people everywhere do not shy away from bribes, anger and self-interest. Besides the semi-mythical Eldorado, of course. But its not so easy to get into it. And its not so easy to get out of it.