Middlemarch

George Eliot

Set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 182932, and widely considered the greatest of Victorian novels. It comprises several distinct (though intersecting) stories and a large cast of characters: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincy and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novels rich comic vein. Significant themes include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. It is a fantastic story where the destinies of several locals meet and where from the very first pages we embark in a great adventure!

Der Mann, der alles wußte. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Diese Geschichte von den erstaunlichen Abenteuern, die in das Leben eines pensionierten Diamantenhändler kommen, der aus den Minen von Südafrika nach London kommt, ist clever in Handlung und effektiv im Stil. John Minute hat es weit gebracht. Vom Goldschürfer in Afrika zum Bankier und Multimillionär die Karriere des John Minute ist nicht nur mit guten Taten gepflastert. Doch sein Aufstieg hat auch seine dunklen Seiten. So finster sind seine Geheimnisse, dass Minute Schweigegelder zahlen muss, um sein Leben nicht zu verlieren.

The Phantom Herd

B.M. Bower

In The Phantom Herd from 1916 we follow a film director Luck Lindsay who wants to make an authentic western, therefore using the Happy Family boys and some of their friends as actors instead of professional actors. There are many difficulties along the way, some of which bid fair to be insurmountable and they are up against big problems, mostly the weather and deadline. The story is absolutely thrilling and at the same time Bower, with the help from a real western actor, has made a great research on how you made films in those early silent film days. One of many recommended works by this prolific author.

Transakcja wojny chocimskiej

Wacław Potocki

Epos Wacława Potockiego powstał na bazie dziennika Jakuba Sobieskiego i opiewa doniosłe polskie zwycięstwo nad Turkami odniesione pod Chocimiem w 1621 roku. Autor nadał zapiskom ojca króla Jana III formę wierszowaną i uzupełnił je własnymi komentarzami. Dążył do pokrzepienia polskich serc i gloryfikacji heroicznej przeszłości, ale nie stronił też od krytyki ustroju Rzeczpospolitej magnackiej.

Hard Pressed

Fred M. White

Fielden and May happy married couple. One fine day, Fielden gets an autocatastrophe and disappears. May pretends that nothing has happened and everything is in order. She continues to move on. However, is everything so good? Has Fielden disappeared forever?

The Red Ledger

Frank L. Packard

Ewen Stranway answers an advertisement to meet an old gentleman Henri Raoul Charlebois who has told him that he is in debt. At his flat, he removes from his safe a large book bound in red morocco in which it lists his debts. When he was very poor, Stranways father had given him a dime. Now, fabulously wealthy, he desires to pay back all those who helped him as well as those who did not and he recruits Stranway to continue when he is too old to handle it himself. All those who done him well, will be protected and secured, but those who done him wrong will live to regret it... Frank Packard (1877-1942) authored many popular novels, several of which were made into movies, including a series in which he originated the idea of a heroic crime fighter with a secret double identity.

Aziyadé

Pierre Loti

Aziyade semi-autobiographique, basé sur le journal de Loti, persiste pendant trois mois. En automne et en hiver 1876, un officier de la marine française en Grece et Istanbul parle de lamour illégal de Loti, 27 ans, légard du harem circassien nommé. Dans ce roman, Loti décrit également son amour pour la culture turque, devenue un élément central de son personnage exotique.

The Cheerful Smugglers

Ellis Parker Butler

Ellis Parker Butler was an American author in the first half of the 20th century. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, and is most famous for his short story Pigs is Pigs. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. More of this popular authors fun, a bundle of absurd complications and ridiculous situations arising from a young married couples scheme to provide funds for their year-old sons education. They decide to finance their babys college education by collecting a toll on any goods brought into their home by friends or family members. The Cheerful Smugglers is a veritable Stocktonian story, as delightfully absurd in theme as it is realistic in characterization.