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Wizard Will. The Wonder Worker

Prentiss Ingraham

After a military career that ended with a stint as a colonel in the Confederate Army, Prentiss Ingraham turned to writing, penning hundreds of books over the course of several decades. This charming novel centers on a remarkable young man named Will who has a run-in with a mysterious figure that leads to Will honing his skills as an amateur detective, investigator and go-between. Wizard Will Wonder-Worker; or, The Boy Ferret of New York is a romance of mysteries in metropolitan life. Originally published as a dime novel Wizard Will is the first in a series of adventure tales about a boy detective and his enemies the fearsome Land Sharks. This is a wonderful adventure story is sure to please long-time fans and first-time readers alike.

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Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories are usually devoted to how a particular animal changed its initial appearance as a result of the actions of a person or a fairy creature. For example, Keith cannot swallow a person because he once swallowed a Sailor, who secured a wooden lattice inside, which prevents him from swallowing other people. The camel acquired a hump as a punishment from Gene, Lord of All Deserts, for refusing to work. Ethiop painted Leopard spots. Powerful hind legs, a long tail and a jumping manner of movement appeared at the Kangaroo after he had been running away from Dingo all day.

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Marriage

Herbert George Wells

Marriage is a surprising story about relationships and people by science fiction legend, H.G. Wells. It features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer whose business has been ruined by the advent of the automobile, and R. A. G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family at the age of 21. The novel traces the history of their relationship, which begins when an early airplane Trafford is piloting crashes into the garden of a house Marjories family is renting for the summer. The plot followed the meeting of the couple, their marriage, their failures and success and eventually their trip to the wilderness of the snowy norths to get away from it all and find out what really mattered.

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The Wistaria Scarf

J.U. Giesy, Junius B Smith

Sheldon, who was sentenced many times to imprisonment, has long been free. There were no rumors about him. However, his daughter is married and is going to the honeymoon, which paid for her father. The detective gets a phone call saying Sheldon has taken up the old business. And the detective goes to Sheldons daughter, whom he was in love with. The pursuit of Sheldon will never stop. However, maybe this time he is still not guilty?

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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and Other the Randolph Carter Stories

H.P. Lovecraft

The Dream Quest is one of his most significant stories. This is the bridge and the key to his two greatest periods and his most revealing personal work. This complex fantasy of a dream, which strangely brought the protagonist closer to the solution. Lovecraft stories are full of nightmares ruled by evil gods.

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Tales and Fantasies

Robert Louis Stevenson

This is a collection of three stories, which includes small tales. So the fairy tale The Story of a Lie talks about how, having returned to England after a trip to Paris, young Richard Nasby quarrels with his father. He also reduces acquaintance with Esther, whom he soon falls in love with. Another tale, The Body Snatcher, tells how a lonely living in the small town of Fetts accidentally meets a person from his past visiting London doctor McFerlen.

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The Elusive Dud

Edgar Wallace

During and after the First World War, Edgar Wallace wrote several story and article series for the Glasgow Sunday Post, a weekly newspaper founded in 1915 by the Scottish shipping and media magnate David Couper Thomson. Some of these series were published under Wallaces own name, others including the present work under the house-author name of John Anstruther. The story The Elusive Dud is fast-paced with some surprising twists, well written and great to read. 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.

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Brandon of the Engineers

Harold Bindloss

Our hero is one hundred percent faithful to work. His goal was to build high-quality bridges and move up the career ladder. Brandon was already close to his goal. However, on his way there is Claire Kenwardin, who changes the course of his life. Secrets lay the foundation for their relationship.

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Annes House of Dreams

Lucy Maud Montgomery

A chronicle of Annes early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together in the little house of dreams in the picturesque, lonely and sometimes wild seascapes of Four Winds Harbour. A tale uniting the much-loved characters also brings a farewell to Anne Shirley and officially welcomes Anne Blythe. It also introduces intriguing and entertaining new characters Captain Jim, the tragic Lesley, the outspoken and warmhearted Miss Cornelia and homely Susan. While Annes days are filled with triumphs and tragedies, her imagination, spirit, and sense of humor guide her as she navigates this next chapter in her extraordinary life. Montgomerys fifth installment changes its perception of Anne adding a new tone of sadness to the series which differs from that of the previous books.

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The Woman of Mystery

Maurice Leblanc

A chance encounter irrevocably alters the course of one mans life, and the tensions between France and Germany boil over... In The Woman of Mystery, Leblanc paints a wonderful tale of WWI in France, twined together with the mystery surrounding the murder of main character Pauls father. Maurice Leblanc became famous for the creation of Arsene Lupin, a gentleman thief and master of disguise. Leblanc was born to a wealthy family, studied law, worked as a police reporter for a time, then found his career as a fiction writer. While LeBlanc wrote much other fiction, it was the Lupin series which made him internationally famous, the French equivalent of Arthur Conan Doyle.

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For the Queen

E. Phillips Oppenheim

A novel written in 1912. These are good Victorian or Edward tales about representatives of the English upper class who are engaged in uncovering crimes, espionage, good deeds and shrouded by secrets. Some of these stories Oppenheim continued to develop in full novels. Others are short master classes with sketches, character and description. Unlike many of his stories, the ending for a couple of them is more acute or sad than usual.

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A Prince of Sinners

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Elegantly written novel, which tells about a young man who can not forgive his newly found father, because he left him and his mother. But after many living trials in many ways teach them both, they realize that there are other more important priorities and forces. A pleasant, easy-to-read, and thought-out essay.

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C.I.D

Talbot Mundy

Author Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) brought the excitement of the 1920s and 1930s to Madame Storeys cosmopolitan adventures, moving away from Edwardian and Victorian flavors of the mystery genre. Beautiful and aloof. Her secretary/narrator/companion is Bella Brickley. Rosika lives near Gramercy Park in NYC and has a pet monkey. She seems to solve cases by use of good guesswork, practical psychology and fortuitous prior knowledge of certain facts or people. So we are introduced to the fascinating Madame Rosika Storey, fearless and intelligent, who plays cat-and-mouse with killers, goes undercover to break up criminal gangs, and unravels deadly mysteries.

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The Two-Gun Man

Charles Alden Seltzer

Along with Zane Grey and William MacLeod Raine, Charles Alden Seltzer is remembered today as an originator of whats often called the formula western. In it, a cowboy hero, who is fast with a gun, meets and subdues a vicious villain and who also wins the heart and hand of a pretty sweetheart. The Two-Gun Man has all these elements firmly in place. It is set at an unspecified time in the open ranges of the Southwest, somewhere in the neighborhood of Raton and Cimarron, New Mexico. Rustlers are stealing Two Diamond cattle, and the manager is fit to be tied. The range boss claims its the neighbor, but theres no proof. Everyone finds the neighbors sister desirable, but she finds everyone tedious. Will lies, jealousy, double dealing, and maybe even a cold-blooded killing keep Ned Ferguson from uncovering the truth?

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Seven Footprints to Satan

A. Merritt

A jungle explorer back home in New York gets kidnapped by a part-Chinese man claiming to be Satan. Satan has set up a complicated game of chance, which is played by some of the most wealthy and powerful people in the world. Some have come to suspect that the game might be rigged. Seven Footprint to Satan is A. Merritts most famous mystery novel and Merritts Satan remains one of the most memorable super-villains in pulp literature, and the complexity which the author endows his creation raises him, and the book, far above the standards of ordinary escapist literature. A masterpiece of colorful drama, a tour-de-force of crime and cunning, a fantasy of great power, it has received the acclaim of that vast audience who made the of the author of The Moon Pool, The Metal Monster and others, world famous.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle

Illustrated edition with original illustrations by Sidney Edward Paget, a famous British illustrator, best known for his illustrations that accompanied Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand magazine. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of eleven Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes, his friend Watson (or his brother Mycroft) work to solve the mysteries of three gables, the dying detective, a golden pince-nez, the red circle, a mazarin stone, and a cardboard box.

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The Frontiersman. A Tale of the Yukon

H.A. Cody

This story is not only about wealth, but also about love. The protagonist is eager to get more money, gold and is ready to go to great lengths to do this. But is it possible that a thirst for possession will take hold of a man and he will be able to take even the most extreme actions?

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A Trip to Mars

Fenton Ash

An exciting science fiction adventure, in which two Edwardian schoolboys Gerald Wilton and Jack Lawford journey on a trip to Mars, where they have various adventures and help to suppress a revolt. The story opens in the Southern Seas with the fall of what is at first taken for an immense meteorite, but really is a Martian airship. The heroes, in company with a few other denizens of this earth, are invited to return to Mars, and what they do and see there, make a tale well worth reading. This story is a simple variation on the theme of A Son of the Stars, but it is not a sequel thereto. Its most original feature is the spaceship used to transport the heroes, a compound or the organic and inorganic that qualifies as an early cyborg.

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The Sleeper Awakes

Herbert George Wells

This is a short novel about a nineteen century Englishman who falls in a deep sleep only to awake over two hundred years later. The World has changed beyond recognition, and The Sleeper finds himself in a remarkable predicament he has become the owner of the entire planet. However, his awakening profoundly shakes this state of affairs, and he suddenly finds himself at the very center of revolutionary social upheavals and a struggle for the ultimate power. 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.

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Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane. Or Daring Adventures over the Great Lakes

Roy Rockwood

Running an airship took nerve, steadiness of purpose, a definite, concrete way of looking at things. Dave knew in his own mind that the Drifter was each hour speeding farther and farther away from the haunts of men. He recalled the old adage, however, which says the more haste the less speed, and he determined to stick to the plan he had mentally outlined at the start. In Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane, Dave is called in to assist in the recovery of a hydro-aeroplane, or as we would know it, a seaplane. Criminals have already figured out how to use this exciting new invention for evil, and Dave must nip it in the bud! This second volume of the series shows how Dave continued his career as a birdman and had many adventures over the Great Lakes, and how he foiled the plans of some Canadian smugglers.

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Jasnowłosa piratka

Paweł Staśko

Powieść wydana w końcowej fazie twórczości Staśki. Jedna z wielu powieści czołowego pisarza przedwojennej Polski. Jak potoczy się płomienny romans bohaterów? W tle powieści urokliwa puszczańska natura.

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Allan Quatermain

H. Rider Haggard

Quatermain has lost his only son and is eager to return to the wilderness. He persuaded Captain John Good and the Zulu chief Umbopa to accompany him, they set off from the coast of East Africa, this time in search of a white race that lives north of Mount Kenya. They encounter a fierce battle with the Masai warriors, undergo a terrible underground journey and discover a lost civilization. As a result, a terrible underground journey takes place and reveal a lost civilization.

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Идиот (Idiota)

Fiodor Dostojewski

«Идиот» 2013 роман, в котором Достоевский впервые ярко и полно воплотил образ положительного героя, каким его представлял. В князе Мышкине соединились черты образа Христа и одновременно ребенка, умиротворенность, граничащая с беспечностью, и невозможность пройти мимо беды ближнего. В «нормальном» обществе людей, одержимых корыстью и разрушительными страстями, князь Мышкин 2013 идиот. В мире, где красота очернена нечистыми помыслами людей, такой герой беспомощен, хотя и прекрасен. Но 201eкрасота спасет мир! 201e 2013 уверяет читателя князь Мышкин, и в мире становится светлей.

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Miss Ludingtons Sister

Edward Bellamy

There is a little mystery and a little romance in this novel. This is a study of a certain type of character, a type of character that is fixated on the past and not on the present. The plot is full of mysteries that the reader will want to solve. The author delves into the psychology of the protagonist.