Jankes na dworze króla Artura

Mark Twain

Na skutek tragicznego wypadku tajemnicze moce przenoszą Amerykanina Hanka Martina, z zawodu kowala, na dwór legendarnego króla Artura. Z miejsca popada w tarapaty. Uwięziony przez sir Sagramora zostaje uznany za ludożercę i wtrącony do lochu, gdzie oczekuje na wykonanie wyroku śmierci. Hank nie byłby jednak sobą ani tym bardziej sprytnym Jankesem, gdyby nie próbował wyjść cało z tarapatów. Szybko wkrada się w łaski króla i zostaje pasowany na rycerza. Naraża się jednak porywczemu sir Lancelotowi, któremu odbija narzeczoną... Jankes na dworze króla Artura to jedna z wazniejszych powieści autora.

Han dIslande

Victor Hugo

Han dislande est un roman fantastique de Victor Hugo ou mlent gothique et romantisme, le roman se ménage une place confortable. Caveaux funéraires, apprentis savants disséquant les morts, géant sanguinaire se jouant de la justice des hommes, ours polaire domestiqué... et Han, qui vit avec un ours et qui boit du sang humain. Un monstre, une révolte populaire, une ligne damours. Ce roman se semble dtre plein dinattendus!

LAffaire Lerouge

Émile Gaboriau

Célestine Lerouge, veuve, est retrouvée égorgée avec une sauvagerie effroyable. Tous les indices conduisent un jeune homme de bonne famille. Mais quelle est la vérité? Laffaire Lerouge est le premier roman judiciaire français. Son auteur, Émile Gaboriau, crée une intrigue policiere o se mlent la construction astucieuse et lhistoire amoureuse.

Drag Harlan

Charles Alden Seltzer

Drag Harlan is a gunfighter with a fearsome reputation. He is known for his quickness with his guns. A mean, hard country man, he comes quite accidently by a dying man, Morgan. Morgan is cattleman and has left his ranch to his only daughter, Barbara. Seeing honesty in Harlans eyes, Morgan asks him to go to his daughter and protect her from fortune hunters. Thereafter Harlan establishes himself as the protector of Barbara Morgan and deals out punishment to the girls enemies through the lightning flash of drawn guns. A story filled with hard action, toughened cowboys, and sweeping romance from an American author of Westerns Charles Alden Seltzer who also wrote under the pseudonym Hiram Hopkins.

The Daughters of the Night

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallaces novels always have an endearing quality about them that is not so easy to define. Daughters of the Night is hard to explain in a few words, but there are the usual Edgar Wallace characters: the hero, the heroine, the suspicious but beautiful woman who is somehow involved in the whole plot, the hard-faced and fiendish villain and a chivalrous one. Jim Bartholomew is a young manager of a branch of the South Devon Farmers Bank with a love of hunting, horses and a dislike of routine. What does he have in common with Margot, the beautiful Mrs. Markham and a handsome American? And what do the Daughters of the Night the three Roman deities who brought punishment to evil-doers have to do with this tale?

The Vultures of Whapeton

Robert E. Howard

This is a good book of four Western stories. The title story, however, is the longest. The Vultures of Whapeton suffers from a protagonist who is just a bit too manly and effective to be believed. Everyone who meets Steve Corcoran seems to instantly know hell just prevail in any kind of gunfight, no matter how outnumbered he is -- and then, of course, Corcoran goes on to do use that.

Silvertips Trap

Max Brand

At 30, Bill Naylor had spent half his life behind bars. Free again, and while looking for a new job, he saves a man from drowning. For Bill Naylor, there are all the others in the world, when it comes to being an outlaw, and there is Barry Christian. For Bill, Christian is the best, and the two wind up together, so Bill is all too ready to do the toughest thing that Christian has to throw his way. It involves killing Silvertip. It is Naylors chance to prove himself, and he know Christians plan cant fail. Something that Christians plan did not take into account will determine Naylors fate. "Silvertips Trap" by Max Brand is the seventh novel in the Silver Tip series that came out in 1943.

A Crime on Canvas

Fred M. White

Frederick Merrick White has written many novels or short stories, many related to London. Modest stories in his spirit. A Clue in Wax is a simple, kind story. The story that even in a dark London place a bright life can occur.