You Cant Be Too Careful

Herbert George Wells

You Cant be Too Careful is a sketch of one way of life the life path, cowardly man, in fear, made a lot of dirty tricks. He never forgot that necessary caution, and helped unleash the Second world war. He believed everything he was told, he did what he was told. Not it is done by world Affairs, he was only a humble and law-abiding. But he relied all those who would, in the words of wells, to increase the amount of the worlds evil. He was one of the men who developed mass support for fascism and reaction. You Cant Be Too Careful is a novel written by H. G. Wells and first published in 1941. It is a satirical novel of one Englishman, a Mr. Edward Albert Tewler, from cradle to grave.

Good Evans

Edgar Wallace

One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author. The Educated Evans stories combine Wallaces talent for humor with his hallmark detective story themes. His story of Evans is full of amusing incidents of love and adventure set amidst the bustle and excitement of the racecourse. This continues the life of Evans, Edgar Wallaces? cockney tipster and "the wizard of Camden Town". Follow the loves, predictions and calamities of this likeable hero of the Turf in the seventeen tales of this book. It is not only race-lovers who will love Evans, but lovers of life itself.

The Vanished Messenger

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Mystery novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim involving a handicapped art collector. The book concerns recently demobbed and down on his luck Major Owston, who becomes the bodyguard of the deformed amoral art collector Martin Hews. Enabled by his enormous wealth to buy the worlds most beautiful works of art. Hews is plunged into a bitter rivalry with a gang leader simply known as Joseph. This is a thrilling and tense story of a struggle between master brains, of gang wars, of deceit, of murder, while the sinister Martin Hews sits in his fortified treasure house, and the love story of Beatrice lends romance and beauty. It presents a fascinating picture of unexpected turns and twists.

Le Docteur Pascal

Émile Zola

Le Docteur Pascal est louvre finale de Zola du cycle Rugon-McCara. Le docteur Pascal est un personnage tres gentil, pensant bien et brillant, qui prend la vie telle quelle, sans fioritures ni idéalisation. Zola a mis ses idées, ses conceptions philosophiques du monde, sa compréhension du sens de la vie dans la bouche du héros. Il résume toute la vie agitée de la famille Rugon-Makkarov, qui, malgré tout, a laissé une marque notable sur lhistoire du Second Empire.

Nicholas Goade, Detective

E. Phillips Oppenheim

E. Phillips Oppenheim was a popular 20th century writer best known for penning suspenseful thriller novels like The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown. Many of his more than 100 novels are still read today. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions. Nicholas Goade, Detective is a collection of short mysteries about a Scotland Yard detective on holiday. As he travels across England with his dog in his old car, he keeps stumbling across little mysteries. Its a cross between a classic police procedural and a 1930s update of Sherlock Holmes, with Goade solving odd cases through a combination of careful detective work, leaps of intuition, and his ability to understand and communicate with people.

The Eternal Feminine

Carolyn Wells

A collection of short sketches by the prolific American author which was first published in 1913. Carolyn Wells was an early 20th century poet and author best known for mysteries like The Gold Bag and Fleming Stone Detective Stories. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and childrens books. After 1910, she devoted herself to the mystery genre. The book contains: At the lost-and-found desk, Tootie at the bank, The dressmaker in the house, The night before Christmas, A new recruit, Shopping for postage stamps, At the bridge table, She goes shopping, A quiet afternoon, Taking care of uncle, In the department store and others.

Bones of the River

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. For his series set in the highly evocative world of West Africa he created two of his most beloved and enduring characters, Colonial Administrator Sanders and his eccentric companion Lieutenant Tibbetts, known to all as Bones. It is a time when the worlds most powerful nations are vying for colonial honor, a time of trading steamers and tribal chiefs. In the mysterious African territories administered by Commissioner Sanders, Bones persistently manages to create his own unique style of innocent and endearing mischief.

The Marriage Contract

Honoré de Balzac

Just a plain old story told by a superb story teller. A Marriage Contract (French: Le Contrat de marriage) is an 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the Scenes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Bordeaux, the marriage between an elegant but weak young Parisian gentleman, Paul de Manerville, and the beautiful but spoiled daughter of a Spanish heiress, Natalie Evangélista, is undermined from the beginning by a fight over the contract of marriage and the financial arrangements, which causes the mother-in-law to seek revenge against Paul. The story is told in a typical Balzac prose style, a forthright narrative sprinkled with witty adages and life lessons, a swift change in emotions running in his characters such that its difficult to decipher the true nature of each character but only to gratify ones curiosity by admitting that inherent fallacy of human character its multi-faced nature.

An Outcast of the Islands

Joseph Conrad

This book is somewhere morally difficult to read. It describes the travails of women. Peter Willems, a Dutchman by birth, a poor boy, leaves his miserable, joyless home in order to seek a better, more prosperous future. The sea will be a salvation for the boy. on the ship, he will find his home and his comrades in life.

Gambles with Destiny

George Griffiths

George Griffith became famous for his fantastic stories. The main character decided to fight with Destiny. The hero is the symbol of all nations, he combines the interests of all nations. The author conceived an interesting idea and in the end will surprise readers.

Sergeant Silk. The Prairie Scout

Robert Leighton

As long as the lone red-coated equestrian policemen of the Northwest, tracking cattle thieves across uninhabited prairies and fighting hordes of warriors, have something to do with the boy approaching his teens, Mr. Leightons frank tales will be in demand. Wolves, carbines, bags of gold and logging run through its pages, and Sergeant Silk meets them all a combination of Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Sherlock Holmes in a red military jacket.

LÉclat dobus

Maurice Leblanc

quelques kilometres de la frontiere allemande, non loin de la petite cité lorraine de Corvingy il y a un château d Ornequin. En juillet 1914 les jeunes mariés Paul et Elisabeth Delroze arrivent l. Depuis la mort de la comtesse Hermine, la femme du comte dAndeville et la mere dElisabeth, ce château est abandonné. Pendant le séjour dans le château Paul fait une découverte, qui va bouleverser sa vie. Et cest le défi. Cest une histoire pasionnante et extraordinaire de la persécution et de la guerre.

Kobiety w życiu wielkich ludzi

Stanisław Antoni Wotowski

Książka Kobiety w życiu wielkich ludzi Stanisława Wotowskiego opisuje życie kilku kobiet żyjących w otoczeniu ważnych postaci historycznych z różnych epok. Gdy do takiego tematu zabiera się przedwojenny prywatny detektyw, specjalizujący się w skandalach towarzysko-obyczajowych, możemy być pewni, że spotkamy pełnokrwistych bohaterów, których losy przedstawiono w sposób ekscytujący i szczególnie wciągający.

Room 13

Edgar Wallace

With Room 13 in 1924 Edgar Wallace introduced readers to Mr. J. G. Reeder, one of the least glamorous of all fictional detectives. Mr. J. G. Reeder is neither a police detective nor an amateur crime-fighter, nor is he a private detective. In fact he is employed by the Bank of England, and acts as a kind of consultant to Scotland Yard. This time Edgar Wallaces unassuming investigator shares the limelight with a young and vigorous ex-con called John Gray. John Gray, a moderately wealthy gentleman who was set up for having supposedly cheated riding in a horse race and sent to Dartmoor, comes out seeking vengeance on the man who sent him there and finds himself aided in his quest by the seemingly innocuous J.G. Reeder.

Work. A Story of Experience

Louisa May Alcott

A story about a nineteenth-century womans search for a meaningful life through work outside the family sphere, Work: A Story of Experience is at once Alcotts exploration of her personal challenges and a social critique of America, examining womens independence, the moral significance of labor, and the goals to which a woman can aspire. The story depicts the struggles of a young woman trying to support herself. The main character, Christie Devon, a New England orphan, works outside the home in a variety of different jobs, but the end of her story marks the beginning of a new career as a voice and activist for other working women. Influenced by Transcendentalism and by the womens rights movement, it affirms the possibility of a feminized utopian society.

The Gringos

B.M. Bower

The Gringos recounts the massive clash of cultures that arose when European-American prospectors streamed into California in pursuit of gold and other natural resources. Dade Hunter and Jack Allen are two cowboys who got caught up in the 1849 California Gold Rush, and had a good fortune in the gold fields. They decide to spend a winter in San Francisco, where Jack gets hooked on gambling, while Dade quickly gets tired of it and moves on. Dade meets Andres, a Spanish Don who owns a large ranch, and tries to persuade Jack to move there with him, but Jack is involved way over his head.

Szatan i Judasz (Tom 6). Szatan i Judasz. Dżebel Magraham

Karol May

Szatan i Judasz. Dżebel Magraham to szósta część z 11-tomowego cyklu przygodowego autorstwa Karola Maya. Grupa dzielnych bohaterów odbywa wspólnie szalone podróże, aby mierzyć się z wszelkiej maści niegodziwcami, walczyć o sprawiedliwość i odnajdywać zaginione skarby. Dzięki pracy zespołowej, zaufaniu i wzajemnej pomocy udaje im się wyjść obronną ręką z najgorszych opresji.

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.

Das Erbe der Uraniden

Hans Dominik

Im Entscheidungskampf auf der Insel Coiba wird ein Atombrand verursacht. Trotz aller Versuche kann er nicht gelöscht werden. Vom Planeten Venus werden verschlüsselte Signale von deren ehemaligen Siedlern den Uraniden empfangen. Diese enthalten wertvolle Informationen über Techniken und Innovationen, die weit über das menschliche Wissen hinausgehen. Der letzte Uranide, der mit seinem Wissen die Erde noch retten könnte, ist jedoch tot. Die Suche nach dem Erbe beginnt.

Tytus Andronikus

William Shakespeare

Tytułowy Tytus Andronikus to zwycięski wódz, który dopiero co powrócił do Rzymu z zakończonej sukcesem wyprawy przeciw barbarzyńcom. W senacie trwa właśnie dyskusja na temat sukcesji po zmarłym cesarzu. Tytus staje się jednym z pretendentów do tronu, jednak odmawia przyjęcia stanowiska. Nowy cesarz bierze za żonę córkę Tytusa Lawinię. Jednak później sytuacja mocno się komplikuje...

Pierścień i róża. Czyli historia Lulejki i Bulby

William Makepeace Thackeray

Powieść fantastyczna dla najmłodszych. Losy władców dwóch państw Pawlagonii i Krymtatarii. Książę Lulejko mimo iż powinien zasiadać na tronie wiedzie beztroski żywot. Jest narzeczonym pięknej Angeliki, córki uzurpatora. O względy dziewczyny walczy też przystojny książę Bulbo. Miłość, magia i przygoda.

The Man Who Knew

Fred M. White

Philip Lashbrook a conscientious sergeant, the best in the business. As always, he returned home, but decided not to remove the officers badge. He is called by some stranger who discovered the corpse. The officers suspicions immediately fall on a stranger who sharply denies that he is the murderer. But will the officers suspicions be correct?

Hawks and Eagles

Max Brand

Hawks and Eagles is the authors classic. The brand is a great storyteller who shows his enthusiasm for humans and animals, such characters as a professor, a small dog, and Mole. Joe Good, the protagonist, hes twenty years old. His father was killed by the richest man in the city, because he wants a good ranch not to be. A good, lazy, prickly guy who lacks a sense of respect and respect for everyone in the city. The only thing he can do is to handle a whip with such skill that he becomes almost alive. This story is also a story of the growth of kindness to become the most respected person in his community.

The Holy Terror

Herbert George Wells

A fictional biography of Rudolf Rud Whitlow, who builds a political party that slowly becomes a world dominant dictatorship. Wells wrote the work just before World War II as Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany. Rud, is a baby boy, and later, grew to be a young man who had a remarkable talent of oratory: the gift of gab. He is eventually encouraged to perform public speaking, lecturing and finally, revolutionary speeches. Through this character, Wells creates a platform for long discourses of his usual themes of social engineering. Rud eventually gets involved in socialist activism, and a group strategizing for world revolution. The revolution fails, revealing the cowardice underlying Ruds aggressiveness. The ability of new weapons to decapitate the command structure of any regional power becomes the plot device that allows Rud to make himself world leader, destroying parts of the world which do not submit to the most destructive superpower.