Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley is an orphan girl in need of a family and the novel follows her adventures over the next five years. She may be scrawny and freckled with red hair but shes also loving and bright with imagination, smart, dutiful and hardworking. When shes mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, elderly siblings who plan to adopt a young boy to help around their farm in Canadas Prince Edward Island, Anne faces the prospect of securing a home and a loving family if she can prove shes worth keeping. Time will demand adult choices at a critical moment, choices that will change her life and affect those around her. First published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has spawned a slew of sequels and other related novels.

The Tragedy of a Week

E. Phillips Oppenheim

British author E. Phillips Oppenheim achieved worldwide fame with his thrilling novels and short stories concerning international espionage and intrigue, but including romances, comedies, and parables of everyday life. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions. Readers of Mr. Oppenheims novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship. The Tragedy of a Week is an entertaining tale with lots of unexpected turns and twists, published in 1984. If you havent discovered the joys of Oppenheims mysteries there is a good place to start.

Again Sanders

Edgar Wallace

Again Sanders is a collection of twelve short stories written by Edgar Wallace. The situation appears calm in the colonial area of the Sanders. But dark clouds are gathering on the horizon and the Captain Hamilton and the inexperienced Lieutenant Bones need to pass some exciting adventure before you can enjoy life on the power again. The tales are all loosely connected and center on Lt. Augustus Bones Tibbetts. Part of his famous African novels (Sanders of the River series), this volume is highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed others in the series, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection.

Ein Dichter. Eine Erzählung aus den Vereinigten Staaten

Karl May

Eine Erzählung aus den Vereinigten Staaten ist eine frühe Abenteuergeschichte Karl Mays. Im Llano estakado treffen der Dichter Richard Forster und der Jäger Tim Summerland aufeinander. Sie können sich vor dem Tod retten, indem Forster Kojoten erschießt und beide das Blut trinken. Glücklich entronnen treffen sie am Rande der Wüste auf Stakemen. Nach einem Kampf hat Summerland sein geraubtes Eigentum zurück und der Oberschurke wurde durch einen Tomahawkschlag gekennzeichnet. Als der Schurke sich später in Stenton bei dem reichen Bankier Olbers und dessen Tochter Marga unter dem falschen Namen Tom Wilson einschleicht, wird er von Forster entlarvt und muss seinen üblen Plan ändern. Zwar misslingen die Anschläge auf Summerland und Forster, aber der Schurke kann mit 50.000 ergaunerten Dollar fliehen. Wilson flieht mit einem Schiff, wird aber vom Kapitän erkannt und auf einer unbewohnten Insel ausgesetzt. Die ihn verfolgenden Helden, Summerland und Forster, sammeln ihn dort auf. Als Wilson Forster angreift, kommt er zu Tode. Die Helden werden von Graf Hernando reich beschenkt und kehren nach Stenton zurück, wo Forster sich mit Marga Olbers verlobt.

Rok 1809. Powieść historyczna z epoki napoleońskiej

Wacław Gąsiorowski

Rok 1809 Wacława Gąsiorowskiego stanowi kontynuację powieści Huragan tego samego autora. Opowiada o losach Tadeusza Zabielskiego, burmistrza małego miasteczka w zaborze austriackim. Tadeusz przypadkowo pozyskuje tajne informacje o planowanej inwazji austriackiej na ziemie Księstwa Warszawskiego i za wszelką cenę stara się uprzedzić władze. Te jednak nie dają mu wiary. Tadeusz wplątuje się w bardzo niebezpieczną sytuację.

Iron Shadows in the Moon

Robert E. Howard

Shadows in the Moonlight is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in April 1934. Howard originally named his story Iron Shadows in the Moon. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan escaping to a remote island in the Vilayet Sea where he encounters the Red Brotherhood, a skulking creature, and mysterious iron statues.

The Strange Lapses of Larry Loman

Edgar Wallace

Larry Loman is a member of the Criminal Investigation Department of New Scotland Yard. While on a special assignment in Asia he contracts a form of malaria that causes him to suffer character-changing bouts of amnesia for up to eight hours at a stretch. When Larry is assigned to deal with the Crime Trust, a syndicate which has gathered just about every crook in England into one organization, his periodic blackouts result in all sorts of unforeseen complications. However, he eventually breaks the Trust, and his disease goes into remission. The Strange Lapses of Larry Loman is an enjoyable mystery short story by Edgar Wallace with some surprising twists, well written and great to read.

The Millionaire Baby

Anna Katharine Green

Was the little girl, who appears to have been everybodys darling, kidnapped for money? Nobody comes forward asking for a ransom. Did she sneak down to the river and drown? In The Millionaire Baby, a young detective Mr. Trevitt has more than one reason for desperately wanting to solve the mysterious case of little Gwendolen, a millionaires daughter who missed since the afternoon of August the 16th from right under the nose of her nurse. Our detective soon meets the widow living next door, a close friend of the bereft mother. Something does not quite add up with neither mother nor neighbor but then there are several other characters offering clues. Or are they red herrings?

Królowa Margot

Aleksander Dumas ojciec

Emocjonująca powieść płaszcza i szpady, osnuta na tle autentycznych wydarzeń z historii XVI-wiecznej Francji. Przedstawia sławną rzeź hugenotów w noc św. Bartłomieja oraz okoliczności wymarcia dynastii Walezjuszy i wstąpienia na tron dynastii Burbonów. Zbliża się dzień zaślubin królewny francuskiej Małgorzaty z królem hugenockiej Nawarry, Henrykiem. Stara królowa Katarzyna, zagorzała katoliczka, zezwoliła na ślub z powodów politycznych, ale wcale nie zamierza dotrzymać umowy. Wraz z synem Karolem IX, królem Francji, i jego braćmi planuje krwawą łaźnię dla wszystkich hugenockich gości weselnych. Pragnie zmusić króla Nawarry do przejścia na katolicyzm, grożąc mu, że podzieli los swoich poddanych. Intrygi dworskie, sympatie i antypatie, spiski i romanse, polityka i uczucia, miłość i nienawiść wszystko to miesza się ze sobą w powieści Królowa Margot Dumasa i wciąga czytelnika w świat XVI-wiecznej Francji.

Arsene Lupin. Based on Play by Maurice Leblanc and Francis De Croisset

Edgar Jepson

This early work was originally a four-act play written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset in 1908, and subsequently novelized by Leblanc and then translated by Edgar Jepson into English and published in 1909. Leblancs creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat witty, charming, brilliant, sly and possibly the greatest thief in the world. In this classic tale, Lupin plans to steal priceless objects of art and jewelry from a collector for his own private collection. His brilliant effrontery in the face of the police dares them to catch him with spectacular results! Theres romance, deception, and always something strange going on with all of the characters, really just an overall great read.

The Prison-Breakers and Other Stories

Edgar Wallace

A collection of short stories from the British Mysteries master Edgar Wallace, directly from the Golden Era of the genre. This includes the following The Prison-Breakers, Findings Are Keepings, The Jewel Box, The Undisclosed Client, Via Madeira, The Complete Criminal, Red Beard, Bulfox Asleep. Have a lot of fun! Edgar Wallace was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist who produced popular detective and suspense stories and was in his time the king of the modern thriller. Wallaces literary output 175 books, 24 plays, and countless articles and review sketches have undermined his reputation as a fresh and original writer. In England, in the 1920s, Wallace was said to be the second biggest seller after the Bible.

Edisons Conquest of Mars

Garrett P. Serviss

Every person is interested to know whether there is life on Mars. Garrett Putman Servissis one of the first writers who touched on this topic. This story contains everything unimaginable: the invasion of people on Mars, ingenious inventions, the first space battle, alien abduction. This should be read to each.

Tiger Eye

B.M. Bower

B.M Bower had a gift for writing Westerns, weaving tales of adventure, intrigue, mystery, and romance often with surprise endings. Her gift for creating engaging, human characters is just as evident in Tiger Eye, a book with a much tougher, more serious plot than some of her early works. The main character, nicknamed Tiger Eye because of his one yellow eye, is a young Texan who has left home to escape being drawn into an old feud. Arriving in Montana, he literally wanders into the middle of a vicious range war between a big cattle outfit and a community of small ranchers and farmers, or nesters. He soon finds himself working for the cattle outfit, but without a very clear idea of whats expected from him.

Murder Runs in the Family

Hulbert Footner

Lance McCrea lived in a boarding house. There he met a girl he fell in love with. But their relationship is hampered by a powerful person. Lance tries to find out why this powerful man has some kind of hold over her. When he faces the man down, he finds he has been murdered. Of course, he is not the murderer but is a prime suspect anyway.

The Invaders and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

A fantastic collection of stories written by the master Leo Tolstoy himself. The war of Russia with foreign invaders is depicted in the novel as a peoples war, fair. The people defended their national independence, their historical right to decide their own destinies.

Keeper of the Keys

Earl Derr Biggers

In this last written adventure, the plot unfolds with an intriguing scenario. Wealthy and hospitible Dudley Ward gathers together Charlie Chan along with Ellens three later husbands to his large house on Lake Tahoe. After hearing his former wife, Ellen Landini, may have been pregnant when she left him, Dudley Ward is determined to find his son. There are four ex-husbands, including Ward, all of them angry with Landini, who is about to marry a fifth husband, also present, with his sister, at this bizarre gathering. Landini herself arrives on the scene to complete the madness, and is promptly murdered. Her servants, entourage and husbands all come under suspicion. Keeper of the Keys was the final book written by Earl Derr Biggers before his passing a year later.

The Disintegration Machine

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Disintegration Machine is a story featuring Doyles famous character Professor Challenger. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in January 1929. The story centers on the discovery of a machine capable of disintegrating objects and reforming them as they were. This short story is a part of the Challenger series, a collection of stories about the wealthy eccentric adventurer Professor Challenger. Unlike Conan Doyles laid-back, analytic character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is an aggressive, dominating figure. The professor is described as a lion of a man with a full beard and a rotund physique. One day, he is interrupted by the young journalist, Malone, to go investigate a machine designed by Latvian inventor, Theodore Nemor.

The Star Rover

Jack London

Sentenced to execution a prisoner of solitary confinement travels in time, according to his past incarnations on Earth. From the primeval world to the nearest history. And we participate with him in certain events, experience ups and downs, love earthly and unearthly love, enjoy and experience humiliation, approaching the One Man whom the author tried to introduce to us.

Up and Down

E.F. Benson

This is another work of art from Benson. The novel describes many events in England: the First World War, the mentality of that time, the life of the British and visitors there. The first half of the book describes reflections on war. The denouement we can see more sentimental.

Wiersze. Wybór

Daniel Naborowski

Tom zawiera wybór utworów poetyckich Daniela Naborowskiego, polskiego poety barokowego, dyplomaty i tłumacza. Tworzył w nurcie poezji metafizycznej. W swoich utworach godził wartości sprzeczne. Renesansowej pochwale rozsądku i życia statecznego towarzyszy przekonanie o marności świata i nieuchronnym przemijaniu wszelkich zjawisk.

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Lewis Carroll

If you think that the story about Alice is the most fantastic, then you are mistaken. Sylvie and Bruno are proof of that. There are many hidden gems here, mostly sweet, sentimental stories of the fabulous children of Sylvie and Bruno. The second half of the story is not much different from the first, only it came to a conclusion.

Boon

Herbert George Wells

Wellss satire on literature, Boon was originally published under the pseudonym Reginald Bliss; a follow-up to the Fabian-savaging The New Machiavelli. It purports, however, to be by the fictional character Reginald Bliss, and for some time after publication Wells denied authorship. Boon is best known for its part in Wellss debate on the nature of literature with Henry James, who is caricatured in the book. But in Boon Wells also mocks himself, calling into question and ridiculing a notion he held dear that of humanitys collective consciousness. Among these pieces is the infamous parody of the late style of Henry James, all the more effective for being so distinctive a target. Describing James as the culmination of the superficial type, it is not surprising that the indiscreet, ill-advised content of Boon, as Wells describes it in his Introduction, put a serious strain on the relationship between the two authors.

Those Extraordinary Twins

Mark Twain

Siamese twins twins Chang and Eng Bunker, who were born with fused bodies. They lived 63 years, had good health, were married, had normal children. In 1829 they were brought to America, then they were taken and shown in Europe. Knowing the twins personally, the author took the liberty of telling about the curious details of their private life, which never penetrated the press.

Jacobs Room

Virginia Woolf

Jacobs Room is an impressionistic novel in which there is no defined plot; rather, random circumstances in the central characters life, Jacob Flanders, are portrayed as observations of the people who come in contact with him. Set in early 20th century England, Jacobs Room is simply the story of a young man who dies in the first world war, Jacob Flanderrs, as told in fleeting recollections by his mother and his close friends. The novel follows Jacobs life, but he is seen mainly at a distance, through the eyes of women who knew him more or less well, and the narrative itself is quite fragmentary, so that the reader experiences the same problem faced by Jacobs survivors how to piece together his life. Jacobs Room marks the beginning of Woolfs experimental literary techniques, stream of consciousness and interior monologue. Also, this novel defies the traditional style of time sequence by moving from the present to the future and back to the past.