The Range Boss

Charles Alden Seltzer

In this 1916 western by American writer Charles Alden Seltzer, Ruth Harkness inherits a western ranch from her uncle. Rex Randerson plays the central role as her range boss and rescuer. Randerson meets her on her arrival, rescues her from a mired buckboard and is devotedly in love with her from that moment. Ruth however is engaged to Willard Masten who comes west as a member of her party. Masten who is a double dyed villain finds companions of his own caliber in Chavis and Pickett two typical bad men and there is much gun play before the story comes to an end with Ruth and her range boss happy in their mutual love and understanding. Seltzers Western novels are jam-packed with action, adventure, and romance.

Star Begotten

Herbert George Wells

The story centers on Joseph Davis, a popular writer of romanticized histories, who comes to believe that some people differ fundamentally from most of us. They are more rational, possibly more talented and intelligent. His wife has increasingly become a stranger, the imminent birth of his first child has left him in a panicked state, and his rosy-tinted histories have lately begun to strike him as so much bosh. And then he overhears a conversation at his Planetarium Club, in which several of the learned members discuss the possibility of mankinds increasing intelligence being the result of the cosmic rays that are constantly bombarding us. That is what Davis and two of his cronies, obstetrician Holdman Stedding and philosophy professor Ernest Keppel, endeavor to riddle out, in this thoroughly engaging and passionate piece of work.

The Cattle-Barons Daughter

Harold Bindloss

The basis of the plot is the inherent love of people of the upper and lower class. So our heroes had such love. Larry Grant works on a farm and he realizes that he falls in love with the daughter of a baron. Our main character has a worthy contender, but unfair. After all, he is also a baron and wants to lure the girl with his wealth, stating that he can give her more. Our main character will give real courageous resistance.

Green Ginger

Arthur Morrison

Green Ginger is one of the humorous story from mixed collection of sixteen short stories by the author of the Martin Hewitt, Investigator series. Collects several mysteries, including a Cunning Murrell tale, also The Seller of Hate, a deal-with-the-Devil story, and The Chamber of Light, a humorous ghost story of psychic investigator driving the poor spectres to distraction. The stories are well written and definitely a product of their time and place. Arthur George Morrison, a famous English writer, journalist and author of mystery genre, is also known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in Londons East End, A Child of the Jago being the best known.

The Marriage of Meldrum Strange

Talbot Mundy

This is an immoral story. Ommony Cottwolves is inaccurate in the report. The report is incorrect. They say that the press is saying this, and with it it can be learned that Maddrum String is a billionaire with brains, but without a heart; that his heart, if he has it, is made of iron sheets; that his stomach is of bronze, and the feet of clay; that his friendship is imaginary, but his enmity is a bitter and terrible truth; that he lacks repentance, but he has crazy ambitions; and that his superficial external resemblance to General Ulysses Grant was manifestly devised by Satan to bring the memory of this gallant soldier to bad weather.

Kroniki włoskie

Stendhal

Zbiór opowiadań, dla których inspiracją były stare włoskie manuskrypty znalezione przez autora podczas konsulatury. Opowieści zawarte w Kronikach włoskich pełne są namiętności, przemocy, mroku i renesansowego klimatu. Bohaterkami zbioru są kobiety, które przeżywają wewnętrzne rozterki, a w ich losy wpisują się romantyczne uniesienia i tragicznie zdarzenia.

The Old Man in the Corner

Emmuska Orczy

The late nineteenth and early twentienth century were a fecund period for classical mystery writers. Among the most popular was Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Old Man in the Corner contains twelve of the stories by Baroness Orczy featuring the mysterious man who sits in the corner of the ABC tea shop fiddling with a piece of string whilst working our the solutions to crimes that have baffled the police. Each case is unfolded during the course of a conversation between the man in the corner and a lady journalist, an ingenious method that avoids the necessity of a clumsy tacked-on explanation of the crime. Relying solely on his vast Holmesian powers of deduction, the strange looking sleuth never deigns to visit the scene of the crime, question a suspect, or examine clues. Nor does he have much faith in conventional police methods and crime solving capabilities.

Dave Dashaway around the World. Or a Young Yankee Aviator among Many Nations

Roy Rockwood

Weldon J. Cobb was a staff writer for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book packaging company that specialized in juvenile fiction. Under the pseudonym Roy Rockwood, Cobb authored the Dave Dashaway series of books that appeared between the years 1913 and 1915. In the tradition of the Bobbsey Twins and the Hardy Boys, Dave Dashaway continues to explore new horizons and to stay one step ahead of his nemesis! In this fourth volume of the series, Dave Dashaway and his friends are off on a race around the world. What heroic adventures will they find this time? An absorbing tale of a great air flight around the world, of adventures in Alaska, Siberia and elsewhere. A nostalgic picture of how the imaginations of children in the early twentieth century anticipated the accomplishments of the future.