The Case for the Crown

Fred M. White

Fred M. White is famous for mystical, sometimes difficult to understand little stories. One of these stories is "A Case For the Crown". Almost from the very beginning, the author gives us such an intriguing description of events: From the mouth of a tortured person came a strange, terrible whistling cry, a mans cry on the verge of epilepsy. His eyes were full of nameless horror, sweat running down his face. Many questions appear in our story first.

Aziyadé

Pierre Loti

Aziyade semi-autobiographique, basé sur le journal de Loti, persiste pendant trois mois. En automne et en hiver 1876, un officier de la marine française en Grece et Istanbul parle de lamour illégal de Loti, 27 ans, légard du harem circassien nommé. Dans ce roman, Loti décrit également son amour pour la culture turque, devenue un élément central de son personnage exotique.

The Road to Oz

L. Frank Baum

Meet Dorothys new friends, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright and Polychrome, as you travel with them to the Emerald City. Share their adventures with the Musicker and the Scoodlers. See how they escape from the Soup-Kettle and what they found at the Truth Pond. Their adventures include: the secret behind the love magnet, entering the town of Foxville, the queen of the Scoodlers, the Truth Pond, Ozmas birthday party, why the way to Butterfield got split 7 ways, etc.... Find out how they are able to cross the Deadly Desert and finally get to the Emerald City of Oz. The Road to Oz invite you to make an amazing trip to the magical land of Oz, which was born as a result of the irrepressible imagination of the great American writer Lyman Frank Baum, whose books were beloved by more than one generation of children around the world. The fifth story of Oz and the fourth detailing the magical travels of Dorothy.

La Maison vapeur

Jules Verne

Un bon roman daventure fantastique, généreusement parfumé avec des excursions dans lhistoire de lInde. La maison vapeur differe de la plupart des uvres de Jules Verne en ce que lauteur ne se concentre pas tant sur les faits saillants géographiques et les inventions fantastiques que sur lhistoire du territoire létude. Jules Verne raconte au lecteur le regne de lAngleterre en Inde, lhistoire dun massacre grandiose, un soulevement de sepoyah au cours duquel les Britanniques ont presque perdu leur colonie.

Sevastopol

Leo Tolstoy

Three short stories about the everyday life of besieged Sevastopol a century and a half ago. There are no main characters as such, or rather, each participant, whether an officer or a soldier, at one point or another is in the sight of the authors attention. It is felt that the essays were written by a participant in the events, an eyewitness. In the first part of the work, the writer introduces us to the military situation of that time, the faces of the military through a description of the life of the soldiers, some episodes in my imagination merge into one face of a Russian soldier, who may have to die here.

Germinal

Emil Zola

Akcja powieści Germinal Zoli rozgrywa się w latach 60. XIX wieku i opowiada o losach francuskich górników. Początkujący górnik Stefan Lantier próbuje się odnaleźć w górniczej społeczności i podołać trudnym warunkom pracy. Wsparcia szuka w rozwijających się ideach socjalistycznych, pod wpływem których próbuje wzniecić w kopalni strajk. Sytuacja wymyka się spod kontroli.

Winnetou. Tom IIII. MultiBook

Karol May

Winnetou to kultowa postać stworzona przez Karola Maya. Młody i szlachetny wódz Apaczów stanowił wzór dla wielu pokoleń młodych czytelników, których zachwycał dzielnością, godnością i umiejętnościami strzeleckimi. Historie o Winnetou to poruszające opowieści o przyjaźni, odwadze i honorze, a także znakomite przygody rozgrywające się na Dzikim Zachodzie.

Face au drapeau

Jules Verne

Dans le roman Face au drapeau, raconte le destin de Tom Rock, linventeur des moyens destructeurs dun pouvoir énorme. Le désir de tirer profit de son invention amene Rock la folie et son fulgurateur devient la propriété des pirates internationaux. Basé sur ce roman, le célebre film de Karl Zeman Le mystere de la banquise insulaire.

Die geheimnisvollen Zimmer

Sven Elvestad

An einem Winterabend vor etwa drei Jahren saß der norwegische Ex-Polizist und nun erfolgreicher Detektiv Asbjörn Krag in seinem Arbeitszimmer am Kamin und blätterte in einem dicken Dokumentenstoß, den er soeben von einem seiner Klienten erhalten hatte. Als Asbjörn Krag eines Abends Besuch von einem befreundeten Arzt bekommt wird er schnell hellhörig. Was stimmt nicht auf Gut Kvamberg? Dort gab es mysteriöse Todesfälle und der Eigentümer verhält sich mehr als merkwürdig...

The Sentence of the Court

Fred M. White

The title of the story is misleading. There is no court, and no one is convicted, although the eminent specialist of Harley Street who essays the role of villain richly deserves to be. We meet some pretty charming people, as well as two extremely unpleasant people, and if the web of mystery is held together in places by a somewhat generous share of obtuseness on the part of the persons concerned it is not for us to complain, since we become aware of the defect only after the affair is over.

Romeo i Julia

William Shakespeare

Romeo i Julia to dramat angielskiego pisarza Williama Szekspira, napisany we wczesnym stadium jego kariery, a wydany w 1597 r. Historia dzieje się w Weronie i Mantui. Członkowie dwóch zwaśnionych rodzin, zakochują się w sobie. Pewnego dnia Romeo Montecchi dowiaduje się o balu w domu rodziny Capuletich, gdzie ma pojawić się jego wybranka. Udaje się tam wraz z grupą przyjaciół i poznaje Julię. Wkrótce dochodzi do pierwszych pocałunków tych dwojga. Pod osłoną nocy Romeo udaje się pod balkon Julii i wyznaje jej miłość. Ta jednak ze względu na mrok nie wie, kto czeka pod balkonem. Odpowiada więc, że jedyną osobą, którą kocha, jest członek zwaśnionego rodu, Romeo Montecchi. Słysząc to młodzieniec postanawia ujawnić swoją tożsamość. Następnego dnia nastolatkowie biorą ślub w celi ojca Laurentego... Romeo i Julia przedstawia historię tragicznej miłości dwojga młodych ludzi, którzy stali się wzorcami romantycznych kochanków.

Eine ägyptische Königstochter

Georg Ebers

Pharao Amasis will einen dauerhaften Frieden in seinem Reich am Nil erhalten. Um den Frieden mit den immer mächtiger werdenden Persern zu besiegeln, will Amasis seine hübsche Tochter Nitetis dem persischen Thronfolger zur Frau geben. Der ägyptischen Prinzessin Nitetis, die den babylonischen Fürsten Cambyses II heiraten soll. Doch einer Eunuchen Cambyses einflüstert, dass Nitesis eigentlich seinen Bruder Bartja liebe. Der Sohn von Amasis, den die Priester um den kleinen Finger gewickelt haben um ihre Ziele zu erreichen, arbeitet gegen den Plan seines Vaters. Weiß er doch dass Nitetis in Wahrheit gar nicht die Tochter seines Vaters ist. Der Anfang verhängnisvoller Geschehnisse.

Trailin!

Max Brand

Trailin is a classic Western tale of vengeance meted out by six-guns. It tells the story of Anthony Bard, a motherless young man raised among the aristocracy of the East, who possesses a desperate hunger for the adventure that only the Western life could bring him. One day he sees his father murdered in the yard of their home. This starts young Anthony on a trail of vengeance that leads him to the far west. Here, Anthony, a tenderfoot with a knack for survival must track down a legendary outlaw who waits for him, not with a gun, but with a story. Along the way he braves the elements, resists a band of cold-blooded killers and finds love. It is a moving and emotional story of loves and lives lost in a time of lawlessness and turmoil.

The Price a Woman Pays

Edgar Wallace

Dr. Beechington knew how difficult it was to live in genteel poverty. He was determined his daughter Mary should marry a wealthy man but Mary wasnt so sure. Should she obey her father or follow her heart? 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. The Price a Woman Pays is a story packed with great fun and Wallace keeps the action moving along swiftly, as he always did, and it highlights Wallaces unmatched skill in setting a pulse-pounding pace. Wonderful entertainment and highly entertaining.

Miss Mapp

E.F. Benson

Miss Mapp came to the village of Tilling to expose many of the inhabitants there. Mappa must defeat the small and sad curious villagers. People have many questions about the Royal Family. Though there are superstitions that only young people can live in Tilling. However, our main character breaks these stereotypes. After all, she is old, but very smart.

Night and Day

Virginia Woolf

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is her second novel and was published in 1919. But the novel is very forward-looking in its examination of relationships under the stress of the culture shift was occurring in the early 20th century. The story takes place in pre-war England and involves four characters and their relationships. Kathryn Hillbery the middle class privileged girl whose idea of success is marriage. Ralph Denham the middle class lawyer who supports his whole family and looks for his own peace of mind. William Rodney the mediocre poet and the suffragette, looking for the kind of romanticism one finds in books. Mary round out the main characters, involved in womens rights, who regards work as her precept of living. Also in the mix is Kathryns slightly ditzy mother who while working on a book seems to be easily distracted. The characters all work well together.

Młodość i inne opowiadania

Joseph Conrad

Tytułowa Młodość to opowieść znanego z Lorda Jima Charlesa Marlowa, opisująca dramatyczny rejs statku Judea, na którym Malow zdobywał pierwsze morskie szlify jako kapitan okrętu. Ponadto w skład tomu wchodzą dwie inne morskie opowieści Josepha Conrada Jądro ciemności oraz U kresu sił.

The Incredulity of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton

The Incredulity of Father Brown is the third collection of short mysteries by G.K. Chesterton about that character. In The Incredulity of Father Brown, all the stories involve murders and conflicts between Catholicism and atheism and spiritualism. We find the usual Chesterton moral landscape -- in which the author paints a picture of nature somehow mirroring the fact that something is very wrong. In The Incredulity of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton treats us to another set of bizarre crimes that only his stumpy Roman Catholic prelate has the wisdom and mindset to solve. As usual, Chesterton loves playing with early twentieth-century class distinctions, common-sense assumptions, and the often anti-Catholic biases of his characters.

The Riddle of the Mysterious Light

Thomas W. Hanshew

In The Riddle of the Mysterious Light, consulting detective Hamilton Cleek is en route to meet with Scotland Yard detective Narkom when hes intercepted by a roving gang of nefarious neer-do-wells. Can he muster his mighty intellect and physical prowess and hatch a plan to escape his captors? Hamilton Cleek is the central figure in dozens of short stories that began to appear in 1910 and were subsequently collected in a series of books. Cleek is a detective as remarkable as Sherlock Holmes. He has, however, the prime quality of always being in an apparently hopeless tangle of circumstances, and he has also the genius of getting out. The Cleek stories were written by Thomas W. Hanshew, until his death in 1914. His wife, Mary E. Hanshew, then took over this popular pulp mystery series.

Masters of the Wheat-Lands

Harold Bindloss

In the Spartan simplicity on the prairie there were many young Englishmen. They are looking for some elegance of culture or sophistication in the woman they marry. And few of these women are willing to do hard work to help a man. At the heart of the plot is a love story, where the main characters have to prove that they can do anything for their second half.

Mr. Billingham, the Marquis and Madelon

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Mr. Samuel T. Billingham of New York, recently landed from the great liner anchored a few miles out, walked along the Terrace at Monte Carlo, serene, light-hearted, beatifically content. His yellow shoes and his variegated socks might be described as a trifle vivid, but the rest of his attirehis well-pressed grey suit, his irreproachable linen, and his well- shaped grey Homburg hat was beyond criticism. He was a man of medium height, thick-set, inclined a little, perhaps, to embonpoint. His complexion was pink, his flaxen hair only slightly streaked with grey, his eyes filled with the light of good-humour.

When the Sleeper Wakes

Herbert George Wells

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Grahams money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the entire planet. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. This struggle is the main focus of the larger part of the novel. The novel proposes that whatever is done officially for the good of society, individual ambition is unlikely to address the failure of capitalist structures to create a good standard of living for those whose work supports the system.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 10). Collected Short Stories. Volume 10

Arthur Conan Doyle

The collection includes the famous stories about Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective. Sherlock Holmes, the common man, often lying around, rereading favorite books, the best detective in England. Sherlock Holmes, possessor of an incredible mind, and strength, will surprise you not once, not giving you time to realize the complexity and mystery of the crime and the quickness of its opening. There are 4 Novels and 43 Short Stories. When Sherlock Holmes begins investigating the mystery of a dropped hat and Christmas goose, little does he suspect that such a trivial thing will lead to a much larger mystery. When the goose is cleaned, its crop is found to contain the Blue Carbuncle, a recently stolen gemstone of great value. So, what Holmes needs to find out is how the stone got from its rightful owner to the goose, and who took it. The game is afoot once again!

The Fighting Scouts

Edgar Wallace

The second of Edgar Wallaces two short story collections about Scottish airman Tam during World War I. In this book Tam is joined by a new young American protégé Billy Best. The stories of Tam the pilot are not mysteries. They are the entertaining stories of the exploits of a cockney aviator who supposedly was Charles Lindberghs childhood inspiration to fly. Tam is a real person, and all the adventures set forth have actually happened, though names and places are necessarily fictitious. In these stories Mr. Wallace describes a rare character, a Glasgow mechanic who becomes a Royal Flying Corps pilot. Wonderful entertainment and highly entertaining.