The Emily Emmins Papers

Carolyn Wells

A humorous account of a trip to London and brief sojourn in that city and its vicinity. It includes: A Ticket to Europe, Crossing the Atlantic, In EnglandNow! , Mayfair in the Fair Month of May, A Hostess at Home, The Light on Burnss Brow, Certain Social Uncertainties, A Sentimental Journey, All in a Garden Fair, I Went and Ranged about to Many Churches, Piccadilly Circus and its Environs, The Game of Going On, A French Week-End. Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was a well known author of childrens stories, until she began reading mystery stories written by Anna Katherine Green, and from then on she devoted her writings to puzzling mysteries in a similar vein, best known for her Fleming Stone Detective Stories.

Pamiętnik egotysty

Stendhal

Powieść autobiograficzna. Książka pełna przemyśleń autora i jego wewnętrznych dialogów. Stendhal na sobie dokonuje szczegółowej psychoanalizy. Stawia pytania, a odpowiedzi na nie zawierają ocenę nie tylko jego dotychczasowego życia, ale też sytuacji politycznej kraju.

The Little Grey Woman

Aidan de Brune

At Sydneys scandalous Artists Ball... a gunshot... a falling body... Call Inspector Knox of the CIB. The Little Grey Woman is rather short story and moves along very quickly but theres plenty of tension and some genuinely creepy moments. Recommended for lovers of the offbeat. The Artists Ball was a real, and occasionally scandalous, costume ball held in Sydney for many years. Aidan de Brune walked round Australia in two years, and so he is able to give a thoroughly Australian setting and sentiment to this yarn full of thrills. These problems are raised in the opening chapters of the book. Lovers of a clever detective yarn will need to be certain of the delivery of their papers.

Affair in Araby

Talbot Mundy

Hulbert Footner (1879 1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser River. He also wrote a series of northwest adventures during the period 1911 through 1920. That is why the novel Jack Chanty is based on his canoe adventures in the great northwest. Also, Footner wrote several other adventure books set in the Canadian northwest after he had relocated to Maryland in 1913.

The Stoneware Monkey

R. Austin Freeman

First, there are two seemingly unrelated events: the murder of a constable in pursuit of a diamond thief and the attempt to poison a potter by using arsenic. The connection lies in the presence of Dr. Oldfield, a Dr. Thorndykes former student, who happened to find the constable body and served as the consulting physician of the potter. Dr. Oldfield once again found a trace of murder: ashes of cremated human human body in the dustbin at the potters studio. The police tries to chase the supposedly real villain, but end up in vain. Facing with these puzzling events, Dr. Thorndyke has his own hypotheses. His inquiries results in the discovery of the real felon while the secret is concealed in the hideous figurine of a stoneware monkey. The Stoneware Monkey has everything that weve come to expect from a Thorndyke novel a highly complex and creative murder, a damsel in distress, telltale fingerprints, chemical analysis, brilliant theorizing by Thorndyke, faulty thinking by everyone else, and a dramatic surprise ending.

Der unheimliche Mönch. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Nacht für Nacht Im Herrenhaus von Monks Hall hört man Orgelmusik. Über das Anwesen geistert eine Gestalt in einer schwarzen Mönchskutte. Nachts, wenn der unheimliche Mönch umgeht und sich seine Opfer sucht. Doch wer ist der unheimliche Mönch, der nachts im Herrenhaus umherschweift und seine Opfer sucht? Wird Inspektor Elk noch rechtzeitig eingreifen können?

The Dream

Herbert George Wells

The Dream by H.G Wells follows the character, Sarnac, who lives a whole other life as Harry Mortimer Smith. Sarnac is at the height of his career as a scientist by discovering new research. Sarnac goes with his friends including his girlfriend, Sunray to escape for the holidays. Little does Sarnac know that he would be dreaming a whole new life as a different person. His dream world is peculiar rules and what is socially acceptable than reality. The roles of each member in this society is more conservative, yet relaxed at other situations. However, he finds that his dreams and the reality he has lived have become so entangled that he is no longer able to distinguish between them. The Dream is a 1924 novel by H. G. Wells about a man from a Utopian future who dreams the entire life of an Englishman from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Harry Mortimer Smith.

The Safety Curtain and Other Stories

Ethel M. Dell

A set of melodramatic love stories, first published in 1917 by the hugely successful English writer of popular romances. This collection contains five of Ethel M. Dells best short stories: The Safety Curtain, The Experiment, Those Who Wait, The Eleventh Hour, The Place of Honor. In The Safety Curtain, a dragonfly-like dancing girl is rescued by a subaltern when he offers her a marriage of convenience and takes her to his station in India. But she hides a mysterious past and eventually it catches up. Will love be able to conquer all? If you enjoy the works of Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Kobieta trzydziestoletnia

Honoriusz Balzak

Powieść Kobieta trzydziestoletnia Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Scen z życia prywatnego cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Główna bohaterka utworu, Julia, wyszła za Wiktora w przekonaniu, iż go ogromnie kocha. Dość szybko jednak okazało się, że było to tylko zauroczenie. Jak sama twierdzi, jej małżeństwo przemieniło się w legalną prostytucję. Z jednej strony nie potrafi kochać już swego męża, z drugiej zaś nie umie go zdradzić, by być szczęśliwą przy innym...

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare showed us the plays in the play. In the introduction, we see that the Lord decided to play a cruel joke on a drunken brazier. They brought him to the lords house, dressed him beautifully, and assured him that past life was only a dream. And at this moment there is a troupe of actors who show the main part of the play. Unfortunately, the author did not finish the whole thing.

The Greater Trumps

Charles Williams

Great trump cards a novel, brilliantly built on the basis of an ancient deck of tarot cards. This novel is filled with secrets, there are various signs, symbols, riddles. Everyone has different opinions about these secrets, no one can come to a common opinion. Witchcraft can still kill, and the supernatural must be defeated by the supernatural.

Walka z szatanem

Stefan Żeromski

Trzeci tom trylogii Stefana Żeromskiego Walka z szatanem , obejmującej panoramę życia polskiego w okresie przedwojennym i w latach pierwszej wojny światowej. Ciąg dalszy walki z szatanem o sprawiedliwszy świat. Ryszard Nienaski i jego ukochana żona Xenia nie żyją. On zginął z rąk członków organizacji z pogranicza podziemia anarchistycznego i bandytyzmu. Ona umarła na tyfus. Ich majątek oraz obowiązek wykonania testamentu spada na ojca Xeni, aferzystę i oszusta. Musi on stoczyć walkę o zachowanie tego łupu z niebezpiecznym pretendentem do udziału w bogactwie, malarzem Śnicą. Niektóre części utworu utrzymane są w poetyce drapieżnego naturalizmu. Wyróżniają się także obrazy życia czy to wielkomiejskiego Paryża, czy prowincjonalnej galicyjskiej Posuchy oraz obrazy wojny, kreślone z pasją wyrażającą antywojenny protest pisarza.

The Code of the West

Zane Grey

Georgianna Stockwell, a free-spirited young woman from the East, moves to the wilds of the Tonto Basin in Arizona and she creates a violent culture clash. She has been sent there by her parents and doctor for a change of scenery. It seems Georgianna had gotten herself lung problems due to all of her dancing and gadding about. Fortunately, her sister, Mary Stockwell is on the scene ready to take care of her younger sister and to show her how life should really be lived. But it seems Georgianna has realized something perhaps Mary has not. Men and women did not/do not stand on equal terms and this is something Zane Grey lets on that he was aware of as well by writing Georgiannas character. Cal Thurman is the love that is set aside as Georgiannas suitor. Mary and Enoch also come together in Code of the West, although without all of the bumps of Cal and Georgiannas relationship.

Fred Fearnots Revenge

Hal Standish

Fred usually travels. Returning from the West, where Fred Firno rescued Terry Olcott from a group of pastoralists who were going to lynch him by mistake, he found letters from the manager of his small investments in Dedham Lake that gave him a bit of anxiety. The reader undoubtedly remembers that during a visit to the upper part of the state he discovered a beautiful lake, covering about three hundred acres.

The Drum

A.E.W. Mason

Best known for The Four Feathers and the Hanaud detective novels, A.E.W. Mason wrote many novels. The Drum is an adventure novel by this British writer which was first published in 1937. This story is a rousing, Kipling-like adventure set in contemporary India, dealing with uprising and rebellion and a native prince caught between two worlds and forced into hiding. In it, murder and intrigue in a princely state on the Northwest Frontier of British India. A fairy drum no one must see beaten. A secret mission across the Hindu Kush and friendship between an Indian Prince and an English drummer-boy. All these are elements of The Drum which is one of two novels by A.E.W. Mason set in India. A pukka adventure in the days of the Raj.

The Stray Lamb

Thorne Smith

In The Stray Lamb, author Thorne Smith draws inspiration from his most famous works, the beloved Topper series. It follows mild-mannered investment banker, cuckold, ordinary, faithful, and dipsomaniac T. Lawrence Lamb. He is given a new perspective on life through the eyes of many different animals as he assumes the shape of many including a stallion, goldfish, dog, lion and many others. Mr. Lamb gains wisdom, fresh insight, and a new much needed exuberance for life as he exchanges the mundane for the slightly insane. Thorne Smith again shows his mastery of the comic fantasy tale as Lamb lurches from one mishap to another, reeling from his wifes abandonment and the actions of his headstrong daughter and reveling in the new opportunities that his excursions into animal form provide.

Le Bouchon de cristal

Maurice Leblanc

Laventure suivant du gentleman-cambrioleur. Ce fois insaisissable Lupin doit se rencontrer face face avec un adversaire dangereux, habile et tres artificieux. Les sortes des nombreaux gens et, avant tout, la vie de son compagnon et copin, qui est condamné la peine capitale. Peut-il, le plus grand voleur dans le monde, sauver Gilbert de la guillotine? Est-il asses agile pour rétablir son honneur?

Die gefiederte Schlange

Edgar Wallace

Leicester Crewe bekommt als Erster eine Visitenkarte mit einer gefiederten Schlange und der Nachricht Damit sie es nicht vergessen! . Ella Creed schlendert langsam durch den nächtlichen Garten auf ihr Haus. Wenn Sie schreien, drehe ich Ihnen den Hals um! zischt eine Stimme. Ella fährt jäh zusammen. Sie taumelt zurück... Als sie wieder zu sich kommt, ist ihr wertvoller Schmuck verschwunden. Statt dessen findet sie eine Karte mit dem Bild einer gefiederten Schlange. Während Leicester Crewe eine Art Drohung dahinter vermutet, machen sich die anderen Empfänger einer solchen Karte keine großen Gedanken darüber. Das ändert sich jedoch, als kurze Zeit später ein Adressat dieser Visitenkarte auf offener Straße erschossen wird.

Old Surehand (Tom I-III). Old Surehand. Tom I-III

Karol May

Dwaj przyjaciele Old Shatterhand i Winnetou stają w obronie osady Bloody Foxa, zaatakowanej przez Komanczów. Gdy zmierzają na ratunek, poznają tajemniczego myśliwego Old Surehanda. Okazuje się, że jemu także mogą pomóc w rozwikłaniu rodzinnej tajemnicy. Sprawa nie jest prosta, muszą zmierzyć się z niebezpiecznymi Indianami i jeszcze groźniejszymi niedźwiedziami grizzly.

The Third Eye

Ethel Lina White

The Third Eye refers more to the thriller, not the detective novel. In the main events, Carolyn Watts is a young and intelligent middle-class teacher, who has just accepted a post as a games mistress at an exclusive school for girls. What she doesnt know is that her predecessor was found dead in bed from heart failure. and that rumor has it that she was scared to death.

The Last Miracle

M.P. Shiel

This volume contains Matthew Phipps Shiels 1906 novel, The Last Miracle. It is original, nicely written, and with good character studies that is recommended for fans of supernatural and science fiction, and is a must-have for collectors of Shiels work. The Last Miracle (1906) very loose thematic sequence of apocalyptic tales concerns a plot to discredit Christianity with fake miraculous visions created by gigantic hologram-like devices and the terrible crucifixions which are part of that plot. Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865 1947) also known as M. P. Shiel was a seminal British writer best remembered for his supernatural and scientific romances.

The Bitterness in the Cup

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The elderly Mrs. Barry had one son, Mark, whom she passionately hoped to marry Lois Wilbur, his childhood friend. Nevertheless, Mark went to the city of Queens, where he fell in love and became engaged to actress Beatrice, much to Mrs. Barrys dismay. Great story, easy and laid back.

Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven

Mark Twain

The old godless captain Stormfield believed neither in God, nor in hell, nor in paradise, nor in hell. Imagine his surprise when, after his death, flying through the bottomless depths of space, he nevertheless arrived in paradise. He was even more surprised when he became acquainted with the local order it was too painfully different from the stories about the paradise of priests on Earth...

The Vanishing American

Zane Grey

Here is the great romance of the American Indian, revealing in the swift march of its events the tragedy and the glory of a whole race, and the true essence of the West, as only Zane Grey can express it. It tells the story of the love between Nophaie, a young Native American (or American Indian) man and his love for and with a woman by the name of Marian Warner. Also Indian warrior Nophaie strives to maintain ancient and honorable customs among his people in the face of abuse and exploitation by whites in the early 20th century. The Vanishing American is about Nophaies struggle to find a place in society. On a larger scale it is about all Native Americans and their future in America.