Charlie Chan Carries On

Earl Derr Biggers

The fifth of the Earl Derr Biggers Charlie Chan books books involves the Honolulu detective in a case of murder that stretches around the world, as members of a tour group are dying, one by one. Charlies old friend Chief Inspector Duff from Scotland Yard comes to his rescue in this book. Duff is investigating the murder of Hugh Morris Drake, a sweet old man strangled in Londons famous and exclusive hotel, Broomes. Drake is with a tour group encircling the globe. While Duffs ship is docked in Honolulu, the detective is shot and wounded by his quarry; though he survives, he is unable to continue with the cruise, and Chan takes his place on the ship to San Francisco, where finally the mystery is solved.

The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth

William Shakespeare

The play of W. Shakespeare King Henry VI was written in 1590-1592. Its events take place during the war of England with France and at the beginning of the war of the Scarlet and White Roses, which led to a feudal anarchy and untold misfortunes. The limp, unable to rule the country, King Henry becomes a toy in the hands of his power-hungry wife Queen Margarita and her lover the Duke of Suffolk...

Tajemnice Krakowa

Michał Bałucki

Powieść z początków twórczości Michała Bałuckiego. Autor przedstawia w utworze swoje miasto rodzinne i jego mieszkańców. Skupia się głównie na charakterystyce mieszczan ukochanego Krakowa.

Преступление и наказание (Zbrodnia i kara)

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fiodor Michajłowicz Dostojewski

Роман «Преступление и наказание» Федора Достоевского 2013 несравненное произведение великого русского писателя. Главный герой романа 2013 Радион Раскольников, так называемый «убийца-теоретик». Непонятно почему, мужчина возомнил себя правым вмешиваться в судьбы других людей и наказывать их за свершенное. По итогу, Радион решается на жестокое убийство, тем самым обрекая себя на душевные страдания и совестные муки. Это и глубокий философский роман, и тонкая психологическая драма, и захватывающий детектив, и величественная картина мрачного города, в недрах которого герои грешат и ищут прощения, жертвуют собой и отрекаются от себя ради ближних и находят успокоение в смирении, покаянии и вере.

The Pawns Count

E. Phillips Oppenheim

E. Phillips Oppenheim was a British writer known for his thriller novels. He is credited with writing over 100 novels including suspense, international intrigue, romance, parables, and comedies. His protagonists are known for their love of luxury, gourmet meals, and their enjoyment of criminal activities. The Pawns Count is a novel during World War I and intrigue. German, Japanese, British and Americans play roles in this novel. A chemist, Sandy Graham, has discovered a new powerful explosive, but he lets it slip in a London restaurant that he has made the discovery. So it should come as no surprise, really, when he goes to the lavatory to clean up and never comes back out. Several highly cultured spies from different governments set out to find him and the formula. Read this rather short book to find the answers.

Le roman dun enfant

Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti parle de son enfance ici. Lenfance est pleine de tendresse, damitié et de secrets. Lenfance dun petit garçon pensif vivant dans un monde dirréalités, dans lequel léducation ne distrait pas, forme constamment mille rves grandioses et impossibles, mais grâce laquelle une double vocation se réveille...

Horace

George Sand

Dans le roman Horace de George Sand, le personnage principal est confronté de nombreuses épreuves. Malheureusement, il ne tire pas une leçon juste de son expérience. Le protagoniste, passant dune romance douteuse, affichant ses idées avant-gardistes, un simple carriere, qui spécule sur ces idées.

Wisdoms Daughter. The Life and Love Story of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed

H. Rider Haggard

The beauty of Ayesha was the only reason for the conflict in many countries. Her father was very jealous of his daughter for the pretenders for her heart. Ayesha helps the goddess Isis, and as a reward Isis leads her to the hidden kingdom of Kôr in Africa to usher in the new Golden Age. The kingdom of Kôr hides many secrets, including the Flame of Eternal Life, where in the end Ayeshas obsession, obsession and desire lead to her fall.

The Brethren

H. Rider Haggard

This is a classic love and chivalry story. As always, in the tales of Henry Rider Haggard, the topic of a love triangle remains relevant. The story of two English knights in love with the same girl. The loyalty of these people is questioned. Will love be a barrier for knights?

Leśna Różyczka (Tom 7). Leśna Różyczka. Czarny Gerard

Karol May

Czarny Gerard to siódmy tom przygód z cyklu Leśna Różyczka, czyli prześladowania dookoła świata. Grupa ciekawych świata bohaterów podróżuje po różnych krajach i kontynentach. Mierzą się przy tym z nowymi wyzwaniami, stawiają czoła niebezpieczeństwom, odkrywają tajemnice i podejmują walkę z różnej maści opryszkami, stając w obronie dobra i sprawiedliwości.

Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 13). Ród Rodrigandów. Maskarada w Moguncji

Karol May

Kurta Ungera spotyka niesamowite szczęście. Przed laty jego ojciec wysłał z Meksyku spadek, który niestety zaginął. Teraz podczas pobytu Kurta w Moguncji spadek niespodziewanie się odnajduje. W aferę zamieszany jest snujący szpiegowskie plany Landola. Następnie Unger i Sępi Dziób, po wizycie u Bismarcka, wyjeżdżają do Meksyku, by odszukać zaginionych bohaterów.

Gabriel Lambert

Alexandre Dumas pere

Cest un exellent petit roman, qui nest pas moins intéressant, que ses grands freres. Un recit intrigant des nombreuses histoires. Un personnage principal, Gabriel Lambert, par moyens malhonntes a tenté de sélever au-dessus de sa condition. Qui est Gabriel Lambert? A-t-il réellement fait partie de la bonne société parisienne? Comment est-il passé de la Chaussée-dAntin au bagne? On se laisse emporter par un conduit psychologique tres instable de ce personnage, on le voit dabord intrépide au bagne, ensuite un enfant fragile dans sa contrée, un espiegle jeune apprenti, un impertinent faussaire, un brave imposteur et enfin un froussard face la justice, la mort, un déséquilibré choisissant de noyer sa honte dans le suicide!

Found Dead

Fred M. White

Found Dead is the story of Sir John Mortmain, who was a bum. He was a rich man, owning one of the best estates in North Devon. He was also one of the best novlist in his early years and almost made a name for himself. In a sense, he was quite popular, and yet there was a strange sensation of the abyss between him and the locals.

Tajemnica torpedy

Sven Elvestad

Tajemnica torpedy Svena Elvestada to znakomita dawka kryminalnych emocji. Niezależny detektyw Asbjrn Krag otrzymuje pozornie niezobowiązujące zaproszenie od starego przyjaciela. Rusza do willi za miastem, aby przekonać się, że spokój przyjaciela zakłócają dziwne wydarzenia w sąsiedztwie. Co kryje się za tajemniczym krzykiem w domu starego dziwaka, paraliżującym okolicę?

Fortunes Christmas

Max Brand

Fortunes Christmas is a short story by Max Brand originally published in December 20, 1924. Brand was an American author best known for his thoughtful Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres, he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. Fortunes Christmas is a Christmas story, told from the perspective of Anthony Hazzard, a miser to end all misers. Anthony Hazzard is money lender to the desparate, a man with a dark secret. When Harry Fortune busts out of prison, he comes gunning for Hazzard, and worlds collide...

Le Côté de Guermantes

Marcel Proust

Il a déj une certaine expérience des affaires sinceres et est maintenant prt se consacrer pleinement la socialisation lâge adulte. Le prototype des germanites devint la famille française remarquable du Redway. Le nom de famille Germants a été choisi par Proust non par hasard. Cela semble rappeler le début du Moyen Âge en France

Une femme

Maurice Leblanc

Une femme nest pas comme les autres romans de Maurice Leblanc. Il ny a pas des meutres, dénigmes, des voleurs et des affaires. Cette une histoire simple, qui raconte du mariage bourgeois au début du siecle dernier. Celle de Lucie qui est mariée Robert Chalmin. Elle découvre en mme temps les joies et les affres de la vie avec lui. Cest le livre, qui fait quelque bruit sa sortie, le livre de la jeunesse de Maurice Leblanc.

A Mad Marriage. A Novel

May Agnes Fleming

Mr. Gordon Carill marries Miss Rosamond Lovell, and then discovers that she is not the daughter of Colonel Lovell, but a girl with a low birth rate and a bad reputation, who was a concert singer. She is unusually beautiful, she is only eighteen years old, and the dark experiences of her past life, to put it mildly, had to hurry. In horror, she leaves her husband, who then pursues her.

The Fair God. Or The Last of the Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico

Lewis Wallace

Lewis Wallace writes a very credible account of the fall of the Aztec Empire. The account is penned by the fictional Viceroy Mendoza to the Emperor. The main character talks about his respect for the Aztec nation. This is a story about the conflict between the Spanish and the Aztecs.

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) war ein irischer Schriftsteller. Bekannt ist Wilde neben seinen hervorragenden Werken auch für seinen schwarzen Humor, den er nie verlor, auch in schweren Zeiten nicht. Oscar Wildes Dorian Gray ist eine der berühmtesten Figuren der Weltliteratur. Der elegant-zynische Dandy Dorian Gray hat sich ganz der Ästhetisierung seines Lebens verschrieben, ohne sich von moralischen Vorbehalten behindern zu lassen. Dorian stürzt sich haltlos ins lüsterne Londoner Nachtleben. Ausschweifung und Genuss wecken in ihm den innigen Wunsch nach unvergänglicher Jugend und auf wundersame Weise altert fortan nicht mehr er selbst, sondern ein Porträt von ihm. Schließlich zeigt das Gemälde die verzerrte Fratze eines alten Wüstlings ein Spiegelbild seines Inneren, dem der von Gewissensbissen gequälte Dorian nicht länger standzuhalten vermag.

The Victors. A Romance of Yesterday Morning and This Afternoon

Robert Barr

This greatest political novel of Robert Barrs most beloved books has been written in years. Barr was a Scottish-Canadian author who relocated to London in 1881 where he founded the magazine The Idler in 1892 in collaboration with Jerome K Jerome. In 1895 he retired from its co-editorship and became a prolific novelist. The Victors: A Romance Of Yesterday Morning & This Afternoon... is a stirring story of a boss and others. Patrick Maguire, big, brawny, and smooth of tongue, early decides that there is a good thing for him in the big city, and he starts after it. How he succeeds becoming the big boss by methods that are known to be practical and practiced by the initiated is Mr. Barrs theme. Another live issue treated by Mr. Barr is that of Christian Science. The work has a climax whose strength has rarely been equaled in modern fiction.

Hira Singhs Tale. When India Came to Fight in Flanders

Talbot Mundy

This story continues the picturesque and interesting novels of Munda about Raj and the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. If you like to read the British thriller of the early 1900s, you will surely be content with this novel. As you read it, you will understand how Mundi relates to the ancient world of harlots, Greeks, Romans and Cleopatra.

Trois contes. Un cur simple, La Légende de saint Julien lHospitalier, Hérodias

Gustave Flaubert

Au centre de lhistoire se trouve une âme modeste, bienveillante et pure, on pourrait dire sainte. Cependant, tous humilient la fille et en profitent. Une fille avec une telle âme simple, bien sr, avec sa gentillesse et sa douceur se ruiner elle-mme.Il est tres difficile de lire de telles choses notre époque difficile.

LArgent des autres

Émile Gaboriau

Cest une histoire dune famille typique de la bourgeoisie du Second Empire qui vive la vie tranquille. Un fois, pendant un dîner avec plusieurs de leurs amis, le banquier Thaller fait irruption chez eux et laccuse publiquement le pere (qui est un caissier principal du Comptoir de Crédit mutuel dont il est le directeur) davoir détourné une grande somme dargent. Quelle obscure machination se cache derriere cette stupéfaction? Pourquoi Thaller ne livre-t-il pas le coupable la police?