Tales of El Borak

Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such hero as Francis Xavier Gordon. Texas gunfighter F. X. Gordon traveled the world before settling in 1920s Afghanistan. The Afghans dubbed him El Borak for his quick thinking and skill with a sword and gun. The respected Gordon frequently mitigated tribal wars and conflict through guile or, barring that, violence. Contrary to Howards reputation, these were straight adventure stories with no supernatural elements. Every fan of Robert E. Howard and aficionados of great adventure writing will want to own this collection of the best of Howards desert tales.

Tales of Cthulhu

Robert E. Howard

Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard is a collection of Cthulhu Mythos short stories by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in the US in 2001 by Chaosium Press. All of these stories had been published previously, between 1929 and 1985, in Weird Tales, From Beyond the Dark Gateway, Strange Tales, Weirdbook, Fantasy Crosswinds, Coven, Fantasy Book, Dark Things, and The Fantasy Magazine. The collection includes an introduction by Robert M. Price called Raven, Son of Morn. Prices introduction gives a short sketch of Howards overall writing and a more detailed overview of his Cthulhu Mythos work and its relation to that of other mythos writers.

Teverino

George Sand

Événements se déroulant en Italie. Sabina et Leonza sont deux jeunes personnes qui ont une relation incompréhensible. Entre amour et amitié Une conversation entre eux aura une incidence sur leur relation future. Cette histoire enseignera beaucoup de choses aux adultes et aux enfants.

Antygona

Sofokles

Tragedia Antygona była głosem w dyskusji, jaka toczyła się w Atenach w kręgu sofistów, a dotyczyła prawa boskiego i władzy. Próbowano rozstrzygnąć ponadczasowy problem, które prawo jest ważniejsze: zwyczajowe, boskie czy ustawowe. Akcja tragedii rozgrywa się w Tebach. Mieszkańcy miasta właśnie wygrali wojnę z wrogimi wojskami. W walkach zginęło dwóch braci z królewskiego rodu Eteokles i Polinejkes. Pierwszy poniósł śmierć jako bohater, drugi jako tchórz. Antygona, siostra Polinejkesa i Eteoklesa, łamie zakaz aktualnego władcy Teb, Kreona, i dokonuje symbolicznego pogrzebu brata zdrajcy państwa Polinejkesa. Zostaje za to skazana na śmierć... Zgodnie z zasadą tragedii antycznej bohaterowie utworu Sofoklesa Antygona i Kreon stają przed tragicznymi wyborami. Jakiejkolwiek decyzji nie podejmą, ich losy zakończą się tragicznie.

Upiorny dom. Powieść sensacyjna

Stanisław Antoni Wotowski

Ród Podbereskich zamieszkuje pałac na Kresach. Posiadłość jest mroczna, a na piętrze domu słychać nocą jęki i brzęk łańcuchów. W głębi pokoju widać przerażające zielone ślepia, a złe moce są wręcz namacalne. Jaką tajemnicę skrywa upiorny dom? Detektyw Dan przybywa z Warszawy, by wyjasnić tę łamigłówkę... Powieść kryminalna inspirowana losem rodu Potockich.

Der Brigant. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Anthony Newton, der nach vielen Versuchen, nach dem Krieg wieder Fuß zu fassen, sein Auskommen mit Verbrechen verdient. Er hatte den Grundsatz, seine Räubereien auf möglichst höfliche Weise auszuführen. Nur einmal musste er davon abweichen, als er in das Haus des Millionärs Poltue einbricht und diesen erstochen in seinem Bett findet...

Maza of the Moon

Otis Adelbert Kline

A missile is fired from earth to hit the surface of the moon. It is successful and the missilemen are heroes, until... THE MOON FIRES BACK! Terrible lunar missiles blast New York, London, and Paris. And an ultimatum is delivered from the unsuspected civilization of our satellite: You have attacked us! You will pay the penalty! . The Otis Adelbert Klines second book who was an adventure and science-fiction novelist of the pulp era. He is best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics. A rousing space opera, first published as a four-part serial in ARGOSY, in which earth is threatened with destruction by the inhabitants of the moon. Maza of the Moon is doing all of those things you expect and want a classic pulp sci-fi to do, not the least of which being to put a smile on your face.

The People of the Black Circle

Robert E. Howard

The king of vendhya was dying. Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared. Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold- domed chamber where Bhunda Chand struggled on the velvet-cushioned dais. Beads of sweat glistened on his dark skin; his fingers twisted the gold-worked fabric beneath him. He was young; no spear had touched him, no poison lurked in his wine.

The Old Secretaire

Fred M. White

In Woodside Manor, there was an old servant a terrible man, almost ninety years old, with thick white eyebrows and sharp black eyes who recalled the tragedy Silas Brooks, the valet of the unfortunate Arundel Secretan. But even he never spoke about it, but only listened when the story was mentioned with suspicion and hatred, flashing in his evil dark eyes. The servants said he was crazy that the recollection had turned his brain. One day, many years ago, he told this story, and never heard of mentioning it again. Arundel Secretan had too much of a swashbuckler in his blood...

Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes

R. Austin Freeman

This is a delightful Thorndyke mystery full of suspicious happenings, like the ugly human head found in a box checked at a railway station cloakroom. Other peculiar things are afoot too. A rich American gentleman has come to London to make a claim for an earldom, based on some far-fetched evidence. His lawyers seem particularly unsavory. And theres been a daring robbery of precious platinum, with a British vessel somehow implicated. The plot evolves around all these suspicious goings-on. It takes the clever Dr. Thorndyke to discover how they interrelate. The good doctor must solve these seemingly unrelated cases using his usual bag of forensic tricks and a few new ones for good measure. The crooks involved are unusually clever, but as usual, justice is served when... Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes!

Powracająca fala

Bolesław Prus

Utwór Powracająca fala ukazuje rozwój przemysłu włókienniczego w Królestwie Kongresowym przy udziale kapitału zagranicznego, głównie niemieckiego. Miejsce akcji nie zostało dokładnie określone, ale można śmiało przypuszczać, że są to okolice Łodzi, gdzie rozwijała się ta gałąź przemysłu. Pastor Marcin Böhme i fabrykant Gotlieb Adler przyjaźnili się jeszcze w czasach szkolnych. Po ukończeniu szkoły Adler rozpoczął pracę w fabryce jako robotnik. Bardzo szybko zorientował się, że pragnie zdobyć ogromny majątek, by móc wydawać pieniądze na zabawy i hulanki. Żył nadzwyczaj oszczędnie i zajmował się lichwą. Kiedy zarobił wystarczającą sumę, z Prus przeniósł się do Polski, gdzie założył własną fabrykę włókienniczą i gdzie spotkał niewidzianego od wielu lat Böhmego. Adler miał talent do pomnażania pieniędzy i dość szybko stał się bogaczem. Ożenił się i miał syna Ferdynanda. Jednak niedługo po urodzeniu dziecka żona Adlera zmarła, a ten postanowił synowi wynagrodzić stratę matki. I odtąd spełniał absolutnie wszystkie kaprysy syna, który dorastał i miał coraz większe potrzeby. Ferdynand nie miał ochoty ani uczyć się, ani pracować. Uwielbiał za to rozrywkowe życie, kobiety, alkohol, gry w karty. Jeżdżąc po Europie, wydał w ciągu kilku lat ogromną sumę pieniędzy ojca...

The Lion of Tiberias

Robert E. Howard

The battle in the meadowlands of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the Caliph of Bagdad and his Turkish allies had broken the onrushing power of Doubeys ibn Sadaka of Hilla and the desert, the steel-clad bodies lay strewn like the drift of a storm. The great canal men called the Nile, which connected the Euphrates with the distant Tigris, was choked with the bodies of the tribesmen, and survivors were panting in flight toward the white walls of Hilla which shimmered in the distance above the placid waters of the nearer river.

The Million Dollar Suitcase

Alice MacGowan, Perry Newberry

Present-day San Francisco in a good detective story The Million Dollar Suitcase (1922). Jeremiah Jerry Boyne, head of the Bankers Security Agency is hired to investigate the mysterious theft from inside a bank of a suitcase filled with nearly a million dollars in cash. Turns out to be a high spirited man with extraordinary powers of observation and logical deduction from observed facts. The case involves not one, but two locked room mysteries and a murder disguised as a suicide. Rapid action; tense excitement; nicely plotted; satisfying romance one of the best of this seasons crop of puzzle yarns. American writers Alice L. MacGowan and Perry Newberry takes you on a chase around familiar and fictional areas of California and keeps you wondering all the way to the end.

Szatan i Judasz (Tom 10). Szatan i Judasz. Ocalone miliony

Karol May

Szatan i Judasz. Ocalone miliony to dziesiąta część z 11-tomowego cyklu przygodowego autorstwa Karola Maya. Znani z innych serii bohaterowie przemierzają świat wzdłuż i wszerz są zawsze tam, gdzie coś się dzieje i gdzie potrzebna ich pomoc. Znakomicie radzą sobie w najtrudniejszych sytuacjach, dzięki czemu udaje im się ocalić wiele istnień. Nagrodą często bywają odnalezione skarby.

The Amazing Partnership

E. Phillips Oppenheim

E. Phillips Oppenheim wrote most famously of secret agents and duplicitous diplomats, secret treaties and international conspiracies, moonlit Riviera casinos, Swiss hotel suites, perilous yacht trips, and glamorous trans-European express trains. Known in his time as the Prince of Storytellers, Oppenheim, like the brand names of todays best seller lists, offered readers in the first half of the 20th century a steady, predictable, and entertaining supply of pop fiction. The Amazing Partnership is one of E. Phillips Oppenheims most intriguing stories. This story deals with a young man and a young woman who make an informal partnership in criminal investigation.

Child of Storm

H. Rider Haggard

Allan Quatermain helps his friend from Zulu Saduko win 100 cattle to buy his real love for Mameena. However, Mameena wants to marry another man Allan Quatermain. This is a first-class adventure with increasing intrigue that will interest the reader. The story, where everything is combined: war, politics and sex.

Der leuchtende Schlüssel. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Der Ganove Horace Tom Tickler war tot. Er wurde in einem fremden Auto gefunden, vor dem eleganten Gesandschafts-Klub in London. Wenn Sie wissen wollen, wer den armen Mr. Tickler ermordet hat, erkundigen Sie sich am besten bei Mr. L. Moran.... Das stand auf einer Karte, die an Chefinspektor Smith adressiert war. Der Inspektor hielt Mr. Moran schon immer für eine dunkle Persönlichkeit.

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 Eight Strokes of the Clock

Maurice Leblanc

Prince Renine alias Arsene Lupin is an amateur detective who teams up with a lady named Hortense Daniel. The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc (Alexander Teixeira De Mottos translation). The stories have his most famous creation, Arsene Lupin, gentleman-thief, as main character. While exploring an old tower, Renine and Hortense discover a clock that strikes eight after Renine removes a telescope from inside it. So Renine asks Hortense to assist him in eight adventures, ranging from a stolen piece of jewelry to an insane murderer that almost kills Hortense. Renine cleverly solves all of the mysteries, though he often resorts to less lawful methods such as using false evidence to get a confession from a criminal.

Ann Veronica. A Modern Love Story

Herbert George Wells

First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, Ann Veronica, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science, or control her own life in any way. One Wednesday, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She has to fend off unwelcome advances from men who want to enslave her, and evade a different sort of imprisonment from an over-protective family. Ann Veronica herself strikes out, makes men friends, joins militant suffragette action... Its also a fascinating novel for what it says about the times, and its insights into contemporary social and scientific thought.

The Silver Thorn. A Book of Stories

Hugh Walpole

This is an exciting collection of 15 stories. Indeed, there are some who are very good there is a sad and exciting Silly old fool about a canon who believes that a woman cares for him, and Engraving sees how an obsessed husband goes against his wifes desires, collecting engravings. Other great stories are Little Donkeys with Raspberry Saddles, gentle Chinese Horses about two women and a man, and Major Wilbraham sees a World War I major go crazy. This is a wide genre collection, including sad and tender to the point of horror.

Lady Barbarina and Other Tales

Henry James

Isabel, the main character of the story, knows the charm of marriage with a worthless person. Her fate the confluence of fatal circumstances. Being a dowry and finding herself in Europe, she refuses to be quite worthy applicants for a hand, and having received a fortune, connects life with the rogue Osmond.

The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance

Herbert George Wells

Depicting one mans transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wellss The Invisible Man is a riveting exploration of sciences power to corrupt. In this tale of psychological terror, a young scientist must live in the personal hell created by his own experiments. Using himself as the subject, the scientist discovers the key to invisibility; yet, he is unable to reverse the results. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but begins to become mentally unstable as a result... Wells had created a gripping masterpiece on the destructive effects the invisibility has on the scientist and the insane and murderous chaos left in his malicious wake. Notable for its sheer invention, suspense, and psychological nuance, The Invisible Man continues to enthrall science-fiction fans today as it did the reading public nearly 100 years ago.

Out of the Blue

H.C. McNeile

The motive in the case of murder this is the first thing that draws the attention of the police. No one except a madman commits murder for no reason. Passion, hatred, money as soon as the motive is established, it, as a rule, unmistakably points to someone. That is why Pender took the club with Sinclairs arm and walked with him part of the way to his house on Brook Street. A very normal phenomenon on the part of one of Sinclairs best friends. He was damn smart about that. No one knew, no one even had a ghost of suspicion of the deadly hatred he was experiencing. Everyone thought they were friends: even Sinclair himself thought so. Tomorrow it will be a little shock for him when he realizes the truth.