The Sheriff Rides

Max Brand

Ernest Pontifex, son of a clergyman, leads a life of disarray. Ernest struggles with orthodoxy, lives in the slums, is thrown into prison, and eventually marries Ellen. Saved by the discovery that Ellen is already married, Ernest received an inheritance, and is able to devote his life to literature, finally winning self-respect and success. One of many recommended Westerns by this prolific author. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!

All Hallows Eve

Charles Williams

The novels of Charles Williams are fascinating. The novels are strange behind the plot. For example, All Hallows Eve is about a couple in love who are in danger. Strange things happen to lovers.

Andy Blakes Comet Coaster

Leo Edwards

Andy was an industrious young entrepreneur who grew increasingly rich from book to book, working as he did in advertising, in his airplane, the Comet Coaster, and looking for gold and helping erect profitable buildings. Blake meets new friends, three young men struggling to save an old carriage business from going to the wall. Will advertising help? Andy is enthusiastically hopeful. The later trickery of a junior employer puts the young advertising man in a bad hole. Things seem darker than ever for the tottering business. Then comes the idea of dropping carriages for coaster wagons.

César Cascabel

Jules Verne

Dans le roman César Cascabel, il est décrit les dangers complets liés au voyage de la famille dun artiste itinérant travers les États occidentaux dAmérique, le Canada, lAlaska, la Sibérie, la Russie européenne dans leur pays dorigine, la Normandie française. Le roman parle de la famille Cascabel et de son chef, César, qui ont décidé de se rendre dAmérique en France en passant par lAlaska et la Russie. Le lecteur se familiarisera avec la morale des peuples habitant ces pays et sera ravi de la débrouillardise des héros qui se débrouillent dans des situations difficiles.

Przedwiośnie

Stefan Żeromski

Cezary Baryka mieszka wraz z rodzicami w Baku w Imperium Rosyjskim. Chce być inżynierem naftowym. Wybuch pierwszej wojny światowej powoduje powołanie jego ojca do wojska. Do Baku dociera rewolucja. Cezary jest w pierwszym okresie zafascynowany rewolucją i manifestacjami. Wkrótce giną jednak jego przyjaciele i dziewczyna. Matka z trudem zdobywa środki do życia. Niedługo potem zostaje aresztowana i umiera. Cezary cudem odnajduje ojca, wraz z którym udaje się w długą i trudną podróż do Polski. Ojciec umiera w drodze. Cezary dociera do Warszawy i odnajduje Szymona Gajowca, dawną miłość swej matki. Bohater książki Przedwiośnie jest zdziwiony widokiem biedy i ubóstwa zamiast szklanych domów, o których opowiadał mu ojciec, gdy wyruszyli w podróż do Polski.

Whispering Death

Aidan de Brune

Whispering Death (1931) is the third adventure in the Dr. Night trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). This third story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine: a small, colorless man of uncertain central Asian origin whose principal obsession is raising money by any means possible to recreate a long-dead central Asian kingdom of which his distant ancestors were kings. Most of the stories in the Dr. Night trilogy take place in and around Sydney, although the earliest known is set in Perth Western Australia and one of the novelettes in north Queenslan. Aidan de Brune was a big name in Australian literature but is forgotten today. He was a prolific author who wrote in a variety of genres.

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

In this work you can see the obsession with money, vindictiveness and even nationalism. There are two Venetian merchants, Bassanio and Antonio, in an extremely difficult financial situation. Bassanio, as a way out of this situation, decides to go to woo the rich heiress Portia, but he has no money for it. Antonio also has no money, but he borrows a large amount from a Jew Shylock under his honest name.

Blood of the Gods

Robert E. Howard

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Croms realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimers Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.