Von Bagdad nach Stambul

Karl May

Von Bagdad nach Stambul ist ein Abenteuerroman von Karl May. Von Bagdad nach Stambul zieht sich der Reiseweg unserer Helden. In der Nähe der persischen Grenze treffen die Gefährten auf einen Turkmenen-Stamm, welcher die Bebbeh-Kurden überfallen will, werden dann aber zuerst angegriffen. Kara Ben Nemsi mit seinen Freunden kann aber entkommen. Wenig später werden sie wieder von den Bebbeh-Kurden angegriffen, nehmen aber deren Scheik Gasahl Gaboya als Geisel. Dies gefällt Mohammed Emin, dem Scheik der Haddedihn, gar nicht und wendet sich von Kara Ben Nemsi ab. Scheik Mohammed Emin stirbt bei einem Kurden-Überfall, sein Sohn trennt sich von den Reisegefährten, um die Täter zu verfolgen. Im Pesthauch der Todeskarawane werden Kara Ben Nemsi und Halef von schwerer Krankheit befallen und erreichen Damaskus. Bei den Ruinen von Baalbek begegnen sie einem alten Widersacher. Spannungsgeladenes und ereignisreiches Reise-Abenteuer von Karl May.

Cynthia Wakehams Money

Anna Katharine Green

A melodramatic mystery, in which a young lawyer is called to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. While searching for her legal heirs, meets a beautiful woman with a mysterious scar. The lawyer soon finds that his search for the heirs leads to some very unusual occurrences. Events then take a very sinister turn... As ever, with Anna Katherine Green, this early novel features love-struck young men; high-minded ladies with a propensity to faint, and whose reticence is essential to the plot; plus detailed legal knowledge. This one also has a particularly melodramatic villain. Greens stories are full of mystery and written in an elegant manner, true to the time period in which the story is set.

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.

The Ivory Trail

Talbot Mundy

Sometimes a big and dangerous adventure is fabulous wealth. There were hundred million pounds of ivory in those places that just waited for them! But, of course, the ivory was hidden in the darkest heart of Africa, and if they came out of the continent, they would certainly have to deal with the colonial government. But what a wonderful adventure without danger and call?

Craven Fortune

Fred M. White

The moral of this story is clear to all, because it is relevant envy. It was a large, beautifully furnished room, filled with priceless paintings, bronze and old furniture. It was the mansion of a rich Stephen Morrison, a wise man. He hired an artist and gave him a check so that he could settle in the city. Everyone was jealous of Stephen.

Allans Wife and Other Tales

H. Rider Haggard

Allans Wife and Other Tales talks about the times of Allan Quatermain in South Africa. After all, there happened the most terrible events in the life of the main character. He lost his father there. Ultimately, we will know the fate of his wife. This will be one of the most challenging travels of Allan Quatermain.

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy

Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz

Bezrobotny urzędnik pocztowy z prowincji, Nikodem Dyzma, przybywa do Warszawy w poszukiwaniu zarobku. Jedynym jego majątkiem jest frak, który ma mu ułatwić uzyskanie pracy fordansera w jednym z nocnych lokali. Zrządzeniem losu znajduje na ulicy zaproszenie na wytworny raut. Idzie tam, by je oddać. Liczy na sowity napiwek. Wzięty jednak zostaje za jednego z gości. Awantura zrobiona dyrektorowi gabinetu premiera sprawia, że staje się bohaterem wieczoru. Szybko wkupia się w łaski środowiska rządzącej krajem elity. Doradza ministrom w sprawach gospodarczych. Jest ulubieńcem salonów, ma ogromne powodzenie u kobiet. Zostaje mianowany prezesem Państwowego Banku Zbożowego, wkrótce czekają go też inne zaszczyty... Książka Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy stanowi niezwykle odważną i celną satyrę na skorumpowane i cyniczne elity polityczne i gospodarcze końca lat dwudziestych minionego wieku, a jej bohater stał się symbolem prostaka i ignoranta bezwzględnie pnącego się na wyżyny społeczne po szczeblach kariery.

Atlantis

Hans Dominik

Atlantis ist ein Science-Fiction-Roman (oder auch utopisch-technischer Roman) des Autors Hans Dominik. Atlantis wurde erstmals 1925 veröffentlicht. Man schreibt das Jahr 2000. die politische Lage ist gespannt: Das vereinigte Europa steht amerikanischen und afrikanischen Machtblöcken gegenüber, ein kühnes Projekt soll durchgeführt werden, um einen breiten Seeweg zwischen dem Atlantischen und dem Pazifischen Ozean zu schaffen. Die amerikanische Gesellschaft New Canal Cy. beabsichtigt, die Landenge von Panama zu sprengen. Ein Gutachten eines geheimnisvollen, anonymen J. H. beweist, dass als schreckliche Folge davon der Golfstrom umgeleitet würde und ganz Nordeuropa vereisen würde, Millionen Europäer sterben würden ein bewusster Plan der Amerikaner, die europäische Konkurrenz auf dem Weltmarkt zu schwächen. Doch die Sprengung wird durchgeführt. Die Azoren beginnen sich zu heben, und aus dem Atlantik taucht der vor 13000 Jahren versunkene Kontinent Atlantis.

Behind the Throne

William Le Queux

Of course the transaction is a purely private one. There is, I suppose, no chance of the truth leaking out? If so, it might be very awkward, you know. None whatever. Your Excellency may rely upon me to deal with these people cautiously. Besides, they have their own reputation to consideras well as ours. And how much do you say they offer? asked His Excellency in Italian, so that the English servants, if they were listening, should not understand. If you accept their conditions as they stand, they pay one hundred thousand francsfour thousand pounds sterlinginto your account at the Pall Mall branch of the Credit Lyonnais on Monday next, replied the other in the same language.

Dave Dashaway, the Young Aviator. Or in the Clouds for Fame and Fortune

Roy Rockwood

In the tradition of the Bobbsey Twins and the Hardy Boys, Dave Dashaways adventures continue with a race around the world! Created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and issued under their popular house name Roy Rockwood from 1913 to 1915, Dave Dashaway is a five volume series of aviation adventure tales for boys. Never was there a more clever young aviator than Dave Dashaway, and all up-to-date lads will surely wish to make his acquaintance. In his very first story we find out how the hero ran away from his miserly and cruel guardian, met, befriended and fell in with a successful airman, and became a young aviator of note. Its a good old fashioned tale about an adventurous boy at the dawn of the aviation age. Theres impossible coincidences, dastardly villains, and a young hero determined to do right.

Aesops Fables

Autor anonimowy

Aesops Fables have been around for two thousand five hundred years. Aesops Fables are loved pretty much everywhere and their morals apply to real life. As a genre fables are close to the artistic atmosphere of fairy tales about animals. Observing the life and characteristics of animals, the fabulist makes a comparison between them and the moral characteristics of men. Aesops Fables may be short, but offer a wise lesson in the end. It is up to us to discover ourselves what is hidden behind the images presented by the author. Aesops Fables needs to be known and read many, many times by everybody from childhood up. These are life values that, when learned early, will be in good stead for a life time

Tros of Samothrace

Talbot Mundy

The cable that Julius Caesar has made in helping find the best way to attack Britain is to play a double game. He must save his father and encourage the resistance of the British leaders to remove Rome from its legions that are ready to conquer the land of Gaul. Offenses, intrigue, and many murders pose a threat to accompaniment by Caesars Caesar in his amphibian landings and battles.

Pride and Prejudice. A Novel

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice a novel about Elizabeth Bennet, who is a witty and independent young girl, lives in England with her four sisters, her mother, and her father. When Mr. Bingley, a handsome, rich, young bachelor, arrives to stay briefly in Hartfordshire (where the Bennets live), Mrs. Bennet immediately tries to get one of her daughters to marry him. Bingley is a charming young man and quickly falls in love with the eldest Bennet sister, the beautiful Jane. It is a guarded relationship, so Jane and Bingley dont express outright their mutual feelings for each other, though Bingley obviously shows favor to Jane. Meanwhile, Bingleys proud friend Darcy meets Elizabeth. Elizabeth loathes Mr. Darcy, and avoids him as much as possible. Though Darcy is proud and reserved at first, it becomes obvious of his fondness for Elizabeth.

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.

Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories

Nathaniel Hawthorne

An early collection of fairy tales. Some of the subtle, almost subconscious problems that Hawthorne faces with female sexuality. Like the stories, these plays often do not follow the traditional dramatic arcs that can disappoint, but Hawthorne is always more interested in character than plot, so you just need to abandon any expectations of high drama and sometimes enjoy the amazing revelations that come from his attention to atmospheric details.

Erotyki

Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński

Tom zawiera wiersze miłosne Mikołaja Sępa Szarzyńskiego, polskiego poety przełomu epok renesansu i baroku, najznakomitszego obok Jana Kochanowskiego twórcy literatury staropolskiej. W swoich Erotykach autor składa hołdy czterem kobietom: Zosi, Kasi, Anusi (przypuszczalnie Annie Sławskiej) i Jadwidze Tarłównie. Najwięcej wierszy pisze do Kasi i są to wiersze najbardziej zmysłowe. Na erotyki Sępa Szarzyńskiego wpływ miały przede wszystkim utwory miłosne Petrarki, ale także Horacego, Owidiusza i Katullusa.

The Blithedale Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A group of people is a powerful mixture of competing ambitions, and its idealism finds little satisfaction in agriculture. Instead of changing the world, Blithedale community members individually follow selfish paths that ultimately lead to tragedy. Hawthornes tale simultaneously mourns and saturates a rural idyll, not unlike the history of America in the 19th century as a whole.

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard is a volume collecting 8 short stories about a courier and cavalryman in the personal service of Napoleon Bonaparte. The stories in The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard are all told in the first person by an aged Gerard looking back on his military endeavours in the early 1800s when there was no man prouder to serve the Emperor Napoleon. Etienne Gerard is a dashing, chivalrous, and stalwart French officer who becomes involved various suspenseful and often comical political intrigues. He battles outlaws, Englishmen and Cossacks and always maintains a his honor and his style. However, despite his ludicrous self-adoration, Gerard is a hugely likeable figure owing to the fact that he does display the commendable traits of loyalty and bravery that he cannot disguise.

The Whisperer in Darkness

H.P. Lovecraft

The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. An Arkham university professor is contacted by a farmer living in a remote part of Vermont, who claims to have evidence of aliens living in the hills and mining a mysterious metal. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics. After visiting, the professor becomes alarmed at the mysterious change in the behavior of the farmer, including his assertion that the aliens can extract a human brain and keep it alive in jar for eternity. Wilmarth uncovers old legends about monsters living in the uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture or settle too close to their territory.

The Blanket of the Dark

John Buchan

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown is a time-tested adage that suits Peter Pentecost, a young monk and legitimate claimant to Englands Throne. But he is not alone as others are vying for power too. Soon a plot is hatched against the present King Henry VIII and Peter is sucked into the intrigue... Buchans description of the ruthless king is compelling. His knowledge of the time of Henrys reign and his love of the Oxfordshire countryside are apparent. This historical novel set in the time of Henry VIII vividly depicting both high life and low in the society of that time. A grand, sweeping historical drama. Set in Mediaeval England during a tense time as a the country waits for the new king to be crowned. A enthralling, richly detailed story of intrigue and passion.

Seven For A Secret. A Love Story

Mary Webb

Seven For A Secret is the story of a young girl who turns into a compassionate, passionate, loving woman, who is visible through the eyes of a shepherd poet who loves her. Gillian is nineteen when the romance opens, and she is a romantic star who wants to flirt with men to fall in love with her. Gillian, in many ways, still behaves like a child, and she is selfish, narcissistic, and stupid with others in her life. A kind and simple shepherd named Robert, working with her father, often becomes the goal of her coquetry.

The House Without a Key

Earl Derr Biggers

Charlie Chan, the first Chinese detective in literature, is modeled after Chang Apana, a real-life police detective in Honolulu. A family originally from Boston, the Winterslips, has some members living in Hawaii. You can almost feel the gentle trade winds of Hawaii during the 1920s in this classic novel by Earl Derr Biggers. One of the wealthy Winterslips living in Hawaii is murdered. A younger member of the family, John Quincy Winterslip, has been sent to Boston to check up on his Aunt Minerva and persuade her to return to Boston. He arrives in Honolulu and gets involved in the investigation and is determined to see it through to the end, before he returns to the mainland. Romantic and full of atmosphere, this is a most enjoyable read that was our first introduction to Charlie Chan.

Black Heart and White Heart and Other Stories

H. Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard loves to focus on adventure stories in Africa. In this story, he paid attention to love, magic and faith. At the heart of the story is the father who lost his daughter, due to the attack of the barbarians. The author well emphasizes the fact that faith can defeat savagery in this world and save from death.

The DArblay Mystery

R. Austin Freeman

In this novel, Dr. Thorndyke builds a card house of wild speculations to solve a perplexing murder case, astonishing all observers, including the police. The victim is Julius D Arblay, an artist highly skilled at the rare French art of making wax-work figures and portrait masks. DArblay has a beautiful daughter, which leads to a romance with a young Dr. Grey who discovers the fathers body and brings the case to Dr. Thorndykes attention. Before the end of the story, the young doctor and his love will each have survived two murder attempts by an increasingly frantic killer. There are lots of great scenes: stalking scenes, vicious attacks on Dr. Gray and Marion with various weapons, a sinister scene in a dense yellow London fog, a humorous exhumation of a dead man of dubious identity, and very funny vignettes with a tippler of an old doctor advising Gray on how to handle troublesome patients. Thorndykes lovable lab assistant Polton has a starring role in this novel.