Georges

Alexandre Dumas pere

Lannée 1810. Sur lIle île Maurice (France), il y a une bataille entre les Français qui la possedent et les Anglais qui la convoitent. Commencé sur mer, le conflit se poursuit sur terre o, suite un débarquement massif, les Anglais finiront par lemporter. Cest la conqute aux colonies! Une île, des bateaux, des batailles, la vie des différentes castes dans les colonies; préjugés, esclavage, révolte... Georges est un passionant roman et en effet étonnamment!

Bomba, the Jungle Boy on Terror Trail

Roy Rockwood

Bomba, the Jungle Boy on Terror Trail? 6 in the Bomba series, by Roy Rockwood, was published in 1928. Bomba is making the treacherous journey back to his home with the Araos tribe. On the way, he encounters poisonous plant life and battles snakes and alligators. Surviving these natural enemies, he is attacked by cannibals but is rescued by Spaniards in a plane. Bombas luck doesnt hold out, though; he is soon recaptured and now faces a terrible death at the hands of cannibals and their blood-thirsty chief Gonibobo. It is an exciting story of a journey filled with dangers: human, beast, and even plant life. The fearless jungle boy takes them all on and emerges the victor every time. A highly entertaining literature being written for young readers in post-dime-novel America.

The Root of All Evil

Joseph Smith Fletcher

Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 30 January 1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. Jackie Farnish has grown up in a grindingly poor household, and as she reaches adulthood she resolves to do whatever is necessary to claw her way out of poverty. She is loved by her childhood playmate Joe Bartle, but takes him for granted and feels that he lacks the spark or ambition to match her determination to make something of herself. Instead she pursues Albert Grice, son of a wealthy grocery store owner, and believes they have an understanding. She is horrified when Albert goes on holiday, and returns newly married to another woman.

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 Flying Fifty-five

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace was an English novelist, journalist and playwright, who was an enormously popular writer of detective, suspense stories, and practically invented the modern thriller. His popularity at the time was comparable to that of Charles Dickens one of Wallaces publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. The Flying Fifty-Five is a novel set in the horse racing community and follows the ups and downs of turf life. Its all great fun and Wallace keeps the action moving along swiftly, as he always did. Although he takes us into some of the intricacies of betting in the horse racing arena, it is not so tedious that you cant get through those sections, but otherwise a wonderfully written, funny and happy ending.

The Fortune-Telling House

Aidan de Brune

Another breathtaking novel by the master of mystery Aidan de Brune. What is the secret of the derelict mansion in the Australian countryside? The Fortune-Telling House is a fast-paced mystery, with good twists and turns where you can find the answer. Aidan de Brune provides a thrill of another sort! The author has acquired an admirable technique of the sort demanded by the novel of intrigue and mystery. De Brune is one of those thriller writers who were in their day wildly popular, but are today little read. He was a prolific author who wrote in a variety of genres.

South Sea Tales

Jack London

Among the vast expanses of the vast Pacific Ocean, like tiny pieces of mosaics, thousands of tiny islands are scattered. Proud people live on these islands: pearl catchers throwing themselves into the depths of the sea, rebellious natives who believe only in the god of the sea and sharks these are the heroes of Tales of the Southern Seas. White colonialists live on these islands with them, trying with all their might to tame the free spirit of the island people.

Heu-Heu. Or the Monster

H. Rider Haggard

In this story, the already familiar hero, Allan Quatermain, tries to explain the mysteries of Africa. Here Quatermain unearths and destroys the cult of the priest, exploiting the remnants of a dying civilization. Allan proves their fraud. The main character, as always, is rational in his actions.

Midnight House

Ethel Lina White

The story Midnight House about the mysterious house. The owners, who went abroad. However, neighbors claim that they saw them in the city. This house is associated with ill-fated love and early death. For a long time, it was closed, but soon reopened...

Expiation

E. Phillips Oppenheim

A solitary cabin stood far away in the backwoods of Canada, outside all tracks of civilization, in a region which only the native Indians and a few daring trappers cared to penetrate. Rudely built of pine logs, it was ill-calculated to withstand the piercing cold and frost which, for nine months out of the twelve, holds this region in an iron grip. Around it, a small clearing had been effected, but the ground was many feet thick in snow, which, save where in front of the door it had been cut away, surrounded the frail little building, and reached up to the rude window.

Crooks in the Sunshine

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This is another great collection of short stories by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers and spy novels, and who wrote over a 100 of them. He was the self-styled prince of storytellers., generally regarded as the earliest writer of spy fiction as we know it today, and invented the Rogue Male school of adventure thrillers. This volume is a collection of 10 mystery and investigation short stories of Commodore Jensen, a beloved Oppenheim character.

The First Time He Died

Ethel Lina White

The main character, Sir Benjamin Watson, created a private zoo in the countryside on the territory of his country house. Ganges is an exotic jungle filled with snakes, elephants, tigers and lions. One summer day, Ann Sherborne arrives at Ganges for meeting friends from the university. There are strange events: a series of accidents involving the zoo animals. Who is involved in this?

Bank Nucingena

Honoriusz Balzak

Francja, rok 1833. Świat paryskiej arystokracji i finansjery. Eugeniusz de Rastignak zrobił szybką i błyskotliwą karierę. Jeszcze kilka lat wcześniej jako młody student przybyły z Angouleme zamieszkiwał w nędznym pensjonacie w Dzielnicy Łacińskiej i w ogóle nie liczył się w życiu wyższych sfer. Szybko jednak wzbogacił się i uzyskał tytuł para Francji. Kluczem do sukcesu tego prowincjusza był romans z Delfiną de Nucingen, żoną jednego z najbogatszych i najbardziej wpływowych finansistów Francji. Chociaż po czternastu latach związek ten się rozpadł, Rastignac w dalszym ciągu prowadzi półlegalne interesy z jej mężem... Bank Nucingena to znakomity obraz XIX-wiecznej francuskiej arystokracji i chciwych bankierów. Całość napisana w typowym balzakowskim stylu. Autor ani nie potępia, ani nie pochwala zachowania swoich bohaterów. Po prostu opowiada frapującą historię.

Historical Adventures

Robert E. Howard

The immortal legacy of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Cimmerian, continues with this latest compendium of Howards fiction and poetry. He will always be best remembered for his sword and sorcery tales but his work was extraordinarily varied. Unlike most of his better known works such as Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, etc., these stories are all historically based adventure stories. These adventures, set in medieval-era Europe and the Near East, are among the most gripping Howard ever wrote, full of pageantry, romance, and battle scenes worthy of Tolstoy himself. Lots of swashbuckling adventure here but no magic or supernatural elements. Historical Adventures is a must-have for every fan of Robert E. Howard, who, in a career spanning just twelve years, won a place in the pantheon of great American writers.

Frank Merriwells Return to Yale

Burt L. Standish

After a long adventure, Frank Merriwell finally returns to his second home, Yale University. His friends are so alarmed by this unexpected appearance that they simply do not know what to do. This story conveys such warmth. And the next few hours you spend, not looking up from the book.

Na zgliszczach Zakonu. Powieść historyczna z XV wieku

Zuzanna Morawska

Powieść historyczna Morawskiej opiera się na dawnych przekazach, dzięki czemu znakomicie oddaje realia i atmosferę początku XV wieku. Opowiada o konflikcie pomiędzy połączonymi siłami polsko-litewskimi a krzyżackimi. Ukazuje go przez pryzmat codzienności i cech charakterologicznych głównych bohaterów: Jagiełły i Witolda. Tło stanowią aspekty nie tylko wojenne, ale również kulturowe, religijne, obyczajowe.

Смерть Ивана Ильича (Śmierć Iwana Ilicza)

Лев Николаевич Толстой, Lew Nikołajewicz Tołstoj

Всвоем произведении «Смерть Ивана Ильича» Лев Толстой рассказывает историю обыкновенного человека, напороге смерти ощутившего бессмысленность своей жизни. Умирание тела Ивана Ильича обернулось пробуждением его души. О чем думает человек, находясь на полпути в небытие? А что подумают о нем его товарищи, когда его не станет? В чем смысл жизни и что есть смерть? Толстой ставит вопросы, ответы на которые каждый должен найти для себя сам. Это повесть о процессе умирания человека. Наверное, нет более страшной книги, но гений Толстого позволяет не только ощутить ужас неизбежной гибели, но и помогает понять главное 2013 то, что почувствовал главный герой за секунду до смерти.

The Devil-Tree of El Dorado. A Romance of British Guiana

Frank Aubrey

Frank Aubrey was a pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-science fiction pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. The first and most successful of the three was The Devil Tree of El Dorado: A Romance of British Guiana, which capitalized on the contemporary interest in the Roraima Plateau lying athwart the disputed border between Venezuela and the British colony; Monella, the mysterious giant who leads Europeans to their goal, turns out to be the 2000 year old ex-king of all they now survey, and a kind of Wandering Jew.

Frank Merriwells Son

Burt L. Standish

This is one of the final stories about Frank Merriwell. It would seem that we still may not know about our hero. We already live his life and know enough. However, Burt L. Standish left the most interesting thing at the end. The intriguing development of the plot. Read to the end.

The Road to London

Edgar Wallace

Best remembered for penning the screenplay for the classic film King Kong, author Edgar Wallace was an astoundingly popular luminary in the action-adventure genre in the early twentieth century. Wallace was a very prolific writer despite his sudden death at age 56. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays. Wallaces works have been turned into well over 100 films. This traditional mystery features a girl with an unusual name, some mysterious tramps, gangsters and villainous members of British upper class. The Road to London is a story packed with intrigue, treachery, assassinations, and machinations, and it highlights Wallaces unmatched skill in setting a pulse-pounding pace. Highly recommended!

The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Mr. Roger Ferrison has just returned to London after several years of living rough in Canada. He takes a small room in the boarding house run by Mrs. Dewar. There he meets the bewitching invalid Fiona Quayne who rapidly develops a consuming passion for Ferrison. Meanwhile, back at the Boarding House, Colonel Dennett is murdered. One suspects from the very beginning that not all of the boarders at Mrs. Dewars establishment in Palace Crescent are what they appear to be, and Mr. Oppenheim does not attempt to hide for long the existence of some secret and probably criminal bond between Mrs. Dewar and some of her boarders. The sensational theft of a Jewelry collection, missing Indian rubies, and the lackadaisical intervention of Scotland Yard all contribute to the plot.

Captains of Souls

Edgar Wallace

Ambrose Sault finds a quasi-scientific way to insert his soul into another mans body before he is hanged for murder. The murder of Moropulos by Sault is a mystery in motive and deed. Twice a murderer, Sault is nevertheless a commanding figure and an appealing character. He is the center of a tragedy... The novel is long and breezy and a bit confusing, a comedy of manners at some points, a melodrama at others. This story from 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 Judgment Books. A Story

E.F. Benson

The poets career is always full of pitfalls and difficulties. On the one hand, there is a danger of gaining popularity too easily, and on the other, the discouraging effect of a lack of audience. Mrs Greenock is in danger. Some of her poems, which from time to time appeared in a local newspaper, attracted a lot of undeserved attention. The book is about high art.

Perfumy Czarnej Damy

Gaston Leroux

Powieść sensacyjna z cyklu przygód uroczego i błyskotliwego reportera-detektywa Józefa Rouletabilla. Jaką zagadkę musi rozwiązać on tym razem? Kim jest tajemnicza Czarna Dama? Zapraszamy do lektury...