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.

Curate and Fiend

E. Phillips Oppenheim

It was a brilliant good Saturday morning before the harvest, and the large market and curves of the streets in Norwich proceed with a continuous crowd of farmers, livestock, dealers, county ladies with opinions that are adhering to shopping. Frantsinin on the London Street is filled up quickly: a very nice sight for worshiping a small owner who is standing in the upper corner of the room, managing his midridons operations, rubbing his hands and smiling, kindly begging each beginner. Without a doubt, he is keen to see this market day come up a little more than once a week, and that every Saturday was as wonderful as today.

Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, often considered his masterpiece. Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband Charles Bovary in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating... Flauberts novel scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857, and it remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. Flauberts legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatched ability to convey a mental world through the careful selection of telling details, shine on every page of this marvelous work.

Ubu Król, czyli Polacy

Alfred Jarry

Dramat autorstwa Alfreda Jarryego osadzony w konwencji teatru absurdu, sięgający do surrealizmu oraz groteski. Opowiada o losach pochodzącego z Francji Ubu, byłego króla Aragonii. Rusza on do Polski, gdzie zostaje rotmistrzem dragonów króla Wacława. Za namową żony zawiązuje spisek i dokonuje w Polsce zamachu stanu, wprowadzając okrutne i niesprawiedliwe rządy.

Großfuß. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Kurz vor Hanna Shaw Tod konnte sie noch einen verzweifelten Hilferuf absenden. Die Haushälterin des Anwalts Gordon Cardew Hanna Shaw wird in einem von innen verschlossenen Raum gefunden wurde."Hanna Shaw hat mich gerufen! Miß Leigh zeigt Oberinspektor Minter von Scotland Yard ein Telegramm: Bitte helfen Sie mir. Kommen Sie sofort. Es geht um mein Leben. Was hat die mysteriöse Botschaft von Hanna Shaw an Miß Leigh kurz vor Ihrem Tod zu bedeuten? Eine spannende Jagd auf den Mörder beginnt.

Murder at Monte Carlo

E. Phillips Oppenheim

One of many great works by E. Phillips Oppenheim, who styled himself as the prince of storytellers, and is credited with creating the rogue male genre of adventure thrillers and was one of the earliest writers of spy fiction from the late 19th and early 20th Century England. The hero in this one is Roger Sloane, a well-off American bon vivant who decides to blow the whistle on a gang of transplanted American gangsters who have abandoned New York and set up a sophisticated crime syndicate on the French Riviera and in Monaco. Robbery, murder, secret hideouts, fast cars, and beautiful women all figure in this tale of roaring 20s. Roger meets a wild and beautiful child of the hills, Jeannine, who reappears as the protege of his Aunt, and the belle of the casino.

Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey

Riders of the Purple Sage is Zane Greys best-known novel. Originally published in 1912, it was one of the earliest works of Western fiction and played a significant role in popularizing that genre. The story uses a third person narrator to tell the story from the point of view of two main characters Bern Venter and Jane Withersteen and a few minor characters. Jane Withersteen, Mormon-born Utah native, goes against her church when she befriends a young Gentile rider, Venters. He is trailing the mysterious Masked Rider through the Old West. Both Venters and a notorious gunman named Lassiter bring adventure, intrigue, and romance to the Withersteen ranch. The story is also somewhat complex, with several plots unfolding that eventually come together at the end of the story, and conveniently leave open the certainty of a sequel.

In den Schluchten des Balkan

Karl May

Kara Ben Nemsi und sein Gefährte Hadschi Halef jagen den Verbrechern nun in Osteuropa nach. Dabei begegnen sie einem alten Bekannten, den sie aber nicht erkennen. Unterwegs kommt es zu zahlreichen Begegnungen mit allerlei düsteren Gestalten, die die Schluchten des Balkan bevölkern und entweder Schmuggler sind oder zur Bande des Schut gehören. Aber es gibt auch Männer wie den bärenstarken Schimin, den Schmied, der Kara Ben Nemsi ein treuer Bundesgenosse im Kampf gegen Banditen wie Boschak, den Färber und Bäcker, Saban, den Bettler, Mübarek, den seltsamen Heiligen, oder Busra, den Krüppel, wird. Die Verbrecher sind ihnen immer wieder einen Schritt voraus. Zwar gelangen die gesuchten Verbrecher schließlich in die Hände ihrer Verfolger, doch sind noch lange nicht alle Rätsel gelöst...