Allans Wife and Other Tales

H. Rider Haggard

Allans Wife and Other Tales talks about the times of Allan Quatermain in South Africa. After all, there happened the most terrible events in the life of the main character. He lost his father there. Ultimately, we will know the fate of his wife. This will be one of the most challenging travels of Allan Quatermain.

Rung Ho!

Talbot Mundy

This is the very first novel of Talbot Mundi. This is a very well written adventure story that is very easy to read and keeps the readers attention from first to last page. This is a magnificent reproduction of India since 1857. Works like this can become addicted to the reader.

The Island of Terror

H.C. McNeile

The protagonist, the real adventurer Jim Maitland returns to England. There he meets a charming girl, Judy Draycott, who needs his help. She tells the story of her brother Arthur, who knew where the treasures were hidden, but he was killed. Judy decides to first get to the treasure and asks Jim to help her.

Tales of Breckinridge Elkins

Robert E. Howard

Breck Elkins is a hillbilly from Bear Creek, a fictional location in the Humboldt Mountains of Nevada. He is mighty of stature and small of brain"a physically huge and imposing figure, and his reputation as a short-tempered and ferocious fighter often precedes him throughout the Southwest. He is usually found in the company of Capn Kidd, his equally fierce and cantankerous horse.

Moses and Mrs. Aintree

Talbot Mundy

The story tells of the discovery of a set of thirty-two golden plaques depicting the organizers and rituals of the occult group, whose member was the biblical Moses. Moses is actually depicted on one of the plates, and his portrait, most notably depicted not by an Egyptian artist, with his miserable skill, but a talented Indian hand.

A Broken Memory

Fred M. White

Fred M. White gives us the opportunity to plunge into the past of Gladys Brooke. The book begins with the perfect life of Gladys in a small town. Then we come back three years ago, where we find out that she has a brother. And they, too, then lived well, but in another place. The main character begins to notice the strange behavior of her brother. At one point, a calm and perfect life ends.

The Bostonians. A Novel

Henry James

The action revolves around three characters: a young and beautiful maiden who travels around America with fiery speeches about the importance of women; her mentor, a lonely and cold lady who despises the whole male race. Different ideals are presented by the rivalry of Olive Chancellor and her cousin Basel Ransom for influencing the young girl Vera Tarrant, who has a strong oratorical gift. The social plan of this novel is concluded in the struggle of the conservative views of the southerner Ransom with the irreconcilable supporter and active participant in the movement for womens emancipation. Olive found in her young protege a strong instrument of influencing public opinion through her oratorical abilities.

Przeklęte szczęście

Bolesław Prus

Humoreska Przeklęte szczęście została napisana przez Bolesława Prusa podczas jego współpracy z satyrycznymi pismami Mucha oraz Kolce. Bolesław Prus - polski powieściopisarz, nowelista i publicysta okresu pozytywizmu. Jest autorem siedmiu powieści oraz kilkunastu nowel i opowiadań. Jego twórczość prozatorska należy do największych osiągnięć literatury polskiej. Popularność przyniosły mu powieści realistyczne Placówka, Lalka i Emancypantki oraz powieść historyczna rozgrywająca się w starożytnym Egipcie Faraon.

Agent policyjny. Z papierów po Hektorze Blau

Kazimierz Laskowski

Agent policyjny Kazimierza Laskowskiego nie jest typowym kryminałem, mimo iż zaczyna się od znalezienia zwłok. Zamordowanym mężczyzną jest słynny warszawskie komisarz policji Hektor Blau. Zwłoki komisarza ubranego w stalową koszulę (kamizelkę kuloodporną) zostają wyłowione z Wisły... Ostatnie sprawy kryminalne prowadzone przez komisarza są rekonstruowane na podstawie znalezionych przypadkiem notatek zabitego policjanta. I tak dowiadujemy się, że komisarz rozpracowywał siatkę fałszerzy pieniędzy, rozwiązywał sprawę kradzieży czterdziestu tysięcy rubli, jak również brał udział w akcji wymierzonej przeciw rewolucjonistom.

Frank Merriwells Triumph

Burt L. Standish

In Frank Merriwells Triumph, we see our heros determination. As he without hesitation solves problems with bad guys who are older than him. This is another story about Franks bold actions. He never ceases to amaze everyone by going to insane deeds.

Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes

R. Austin Freeman

This is a delightful Thorndyke mystery full of suspicious happenings, like the ugly human head found in a box checked at a railway station cloakroom. Other peculiar things are afoot too. A rich American gentleman has come to London to make a claim for an earldom, based on some far-fetched evidence. His lawyers seem particularly unsavory. And theres been a daring robbery of precious platinum, with a British vessel somehow implicated. The plot evolves around all these suspicious goings-on. It takes the clever Dr. Thorndyke to discover how they interrelate. The good doctor must solve these seemingly unrelated cases using his usual bag of forensic tricks and a few new ones for good measure. The crooks involved are unusually clever, but as usual, justice is served when... Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes!

Robur the Conqueror

Jules Verne

The stolen trinity of American heroes flies around the globe on a screw machine heavier than air: from Philadelphia through Canada and the Far West to Japan, China, India; through Russia, Europe, Africa and the South Pole to the Pacific Ocean. Due to the fact that the ship Albatross moves at breakneck speed, terrestrial landscapes are flashed before the reader in passing. The work has an intrigue that unfolds in a rather interesting way, as well as a very unpredictable ending.

El Dorado. An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel. In Eldorado, Sir Percy becomes involved in one of the most famous plots of the French Revolution, the attempt to rescue the child heir (son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette) to the French throne from imprisonment in Paris and spirits him away to Holland. He willingly walks into an ambush in an attempt to rescue his brother-in-law. When a certain member of the League (who also happens to be related to our hero) falls in love with a French actress, Percy is caught by archenemy hauvelin. His ultimate fate is one of the unknowns of history, though it is almost certain that he died in prison. The main character in reality in the various plots which centred around him was the Austrian-financed agitator, the Baron de Batz.

Czerwony Krąg

Edgar Wallace

Detektywi ze Scotland Yardu próbują wyśledzić członków tajnego stowarzyszenia szantażystów o nazwie Czerwony Krąg. Dynamiczny rozwój akcji, żywe dialogi, umiejętność utrzymania czytelnika w napięciu oraz oddany z wielką precyzją klimat Londynu lat dwudziestych minionego wieku to wszystko znajdziemy w tym klasycznym kryminale Edgara Wallacea, autora wielu bardzo poczytnych powieści awanturniczo-przygodowych, sztuk teatralnych oraz scenariuszy hollywoodzkich przebojów kinowych, m.in. słynnego King Konga.

The Lady With The Dog and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

No, this is not a banal story about a resort romance. Spiritually, her heroes escaped beyond the boundaries of the nineteenth century, but are forced to live in its choking conditions and foundations. The stands that will soon be brought down by World War I with an explosion of revolution. In the meantime, two loving hearts are torn in a world in which they will never be together.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 9). Collected Short Stories. Volume 9

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional consulting detective in London 1880-1914 created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes, master of disguise, reasoned logically to deduce clients background from their first appearance. He used fingerprints, chemical analysis, and forensic science. This volume contains the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watsons point of view. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice.

Emily Climbs

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The second book in the Emily novels, Emily Climbs tells the story of Emily moving to a high school in Shrewsbury and beginning her career as a writer with the local newspaper. Shrewsbury brings new friends, new adventures, and new enemies, and the town is scandalized by some of Emilys exploits. Perhaps the hardest trial is having to board with her Aunt Ruth. Or is it her promise to Aunt Elizabeth? But Emilys troubles are only the beginning of her climb to success... and perhaps romance. Then Emily is offered a fabulous opportunity, and she must decide if she wants to change her life forever.

The Trail Horde

Charles Alden Seltzer

If you enjoy the works of Charles Alden Seltzer then we highly recommend The Trail Horde for your book collection. A classic story that is considered to be Seltzers best work with action and romance trailing at every turn. After losing a ranch, a lone man battles against the rustlers and cattle thievin sidewinders who had grabbed the spread. Plot twists and detailed explanations of characters thoughts and motivations. Charles Alden Seltzer was one of the most successful and prolific Western writers of his day. His books are now lauded for their authenticity, and were widely reprinted and translated during his lifetime, and for several decades after. A number of his novels were adapted for the screen beginning in the silent-film era.

Zig-Zags at the Zoo

Arthur Morrison

Arthur Morrison was a prolific journalist and author best known for his detective fiction that featured the lawyer-detective Martin Hewitt, who was the most successful rival to Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes. His realistic novels and stories are sober in tone, but the characters are portrayed with a Dickensian colorfulness. His attitude toward the people he described was paternalist, rather than radical, and he opposed socialism and the trades-union movement. This was one of a series of humorous articles about the different types of animals at London Zoo, such as a bear, lion, camel, simian, and fish, with the overall title Zig-Zags at the Zoo; all were profusely illustrated with cartoons. Zig Zags at the Zoo was a lighthearted illustrated feature that appeared in Londons Strand Magazine in the 1890s.

Boot-Hill Payoff

Robert E. Howard

San Leon lay as if slumbering in the desert heat as the five brothers rode up to the doors of the Cattlemens Bank. None noted their coming; the Red Lode saloon, favorite rendezvous for the masculine element of San Leon, stood at the other end of the town, and out of sight around a slight bend in the street.

Aus dem Matrosenleben

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. Als Sohn eines gefeierten Tenors wurde ihm die Reiselust quasi in die Wiege gelegt. Friedrich Gerstäcker veröffentlichte eine Vielzahl von Erzählungen, Romanen und vor allem Berichte über seine verschiedenen Reisen. 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. Aus dem Matrosenleben ist einer dieser Abenteuerromane. Vorwärts zum Abenteuer mit Gerstäcker!

The Woman of Mystery

Maurice Leblanc

A chance encounter irrevocably alters the course of one mans life, and the tensions between France and Germany boil over... In The Woman of Mystery, Leblanc paints a wonderful tale of WWI in France, twined together with the mystery surrounding the murder of main character Pauls father. Maurice Leblanc became famous for the creation of Arsene Lupin, a gentleman thief and master of disguise. Leblanc was born to a wealthy family, studied law, worked as a police reporter for a time, then found his career as a fiction writer. While LeBlanc wrote much other fiction, it was the Lupin series which made him internationally famous, the French equivalent of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Skull-Face

Robert E. Howard

The horror first took concrete form amid that most unconcrete of all thingsa hashish dream. I was off on a timeless, spaceless journey through the strange lands that belong to this state of being, a million miles away from earth and all things earthly; yet I became cognizant that something was reaching across the unknown voidssomething that tore ruthlessly at the separating curtains of my illusions and intruded itself into my visions.

Szatan i Judasz (Tom 11). Szatan i Judasz. Śmierć Judasza

Karol May

Szatan i Judasz. Śmierć Judasza to ostatnia część z 11-tomowego cyklu przygodowego autorstwa Karola Maya. Zamyka serię opowieści, w której bohaterowie przemierzają świat wzdłuż i wszerz są zawsze tam, gdzie coś się dzieje i gdzie potrzebna ich pomoc. Dzięki ich bohaterskim działaniom plany niegodziwców zostają zawsze udaremnione, a sprawiedliwość zwycięża.