Jan of the Jungle

Otis Adelbert Kline

Led to believe that his natural mother is a chimpanzee Chicma, a young boy knows only the savage ways of the great apes. Kept in a cage, he is systematically trained to become a savage killer by the fiendish Dr. Bracken. But the young boy, Jan, is clever enough to escape from the lab and make it out into the surrounding swamp with his chimp mentor at his side and emerge near the Lost Empire of Mu. The swamplands offer Jan has his first taste of freedom. He grows up fast, and has several run-ins with the wildlife of the swamps-crocodiles, snakes, bears, etc.... With all his fighting skill, there remained only one challenge to Jan: trace his origins and locate his man-parents. Full of intrigue and adventure, this classic from Otis Adelbert Kline is a must for adventure-pulp literature fans!

Topper

Thorne Smith

Thorne Smith best-remembered for humorous novels, many turning on some fantastic plot device which thrusts the protagonist into grotesque predicaments, often via unwitting transformation. The 1926 publication of Topper brought the author immediate acclaim. Elegant, fun-loving George and Marion Kerby are the toast of the town, until they wreck their flashy car and discover theyve become, well, ghosts. Making the best of a bad situation, they decide that being dead is the perfect opportunity to liven up stuffy Cosmo Topper. The capricious ghosts make it their mission to rescue the law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager from the staid summer of suburban Sundays that is his life. With their ectoplasmic reappearances and whimsically insane actions, they leave Topper, and anyone else who crosses their path, in a whirlwind of discomfiture and delight.

Ozma of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Dorothy Gale returns in this third entry in L. Frank Baums Oz series, after her notable absence in the second volume, The Marvelous Land of Oz. Here you will meet such beloved old friends as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion. Dorothy is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of a fairy country that adjoins Oz, the land of Ev. There she meets that oozy marvel: Tiktok, a wind-up mechanical man; a talking chicken, Billina; the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is never quite satisfied; and Ozma, the girl Ruler of Oz who is leading a quest to rescue the royal family of Ev from their captivity by the Nome King. She also meets some strange people too: Princess Langwidere who wears a different head a day and strange Wheelers with wheels for hands and feet. But even Ozma is no match for the clever king, and its up to Dorothy to save everyone from terrible danger. But will the Nome Kings enchantments be too much even for the plucky little girl from Kansas?

Бедные люди (Biedni ludzie)

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fiodor Michajłowicz Dostojewski

Это уникальное произведение гениального писателя. На первый взгляд, это обыкновенная переписка двух людей, которые оказались в непростых жизненных обстоятельствах, на самом деле 2013 феноменальный рассказ о человеческой сущности, о жизненных ценностях и каким образом выжить в мире, который абсолютно не приспособлен под «бедных людей». В основе романа 2013 история несчастной любви мелкого чиновника Макара Девушкина и Вареньки Доброселовой. Оба они 2013 удивительно трогательные, яркие, живые и светлые персонажи. Развивая извечно российскую тему 2013 тему «маленького человека», не способного переломить обстоятельства и систему, автор искренне сочувствует своим обездоленным героям, чья внутренняя красота и благородство души безмерны, но это никак не может помочь им в мире, наполненном несправедливостью, страданиями и жестокостью.

The Wrong Box

Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne

Adventure awaits the heroes of the story Absolute Baggage too, but of a completely different kind rather funny than dangerous. The book has a certain charm, which cannot but rejoice. After all, she was read thanks to this rather vividly and with great interest. In the preface and annotation, however, it is said that the novel is full of humor. In principle, this is so, but the humor is quite specific.

The Adventures of Captain Hex

Edgar Wallace

The hero, the discharged Army Captain Reginald Hex, was the prototype for Anthony Newland, whose adventures were related several years later in The Brigand (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1927). The first two Hex stories were revised and published as Anthony Newland stories in that collection under the titles Buried Treasure and A Contribution to Charity. The stories are adventurous and well written but definitely a product of their time and place. Edgar Wallace was a British author who is best known for creating King Kong. Wallace was a very prolific writer despite his sudden death at age 56. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays. Wallaces works have been turned into well over 100 films.

Die geheimnisvollen Zimmer

Sven Elvestad

An einem Winterabend vor etwa drei Jahren saß der norwegische Ex-Polizist und nun erfolgreicher Detektiv Asbjörn Krag in seinem Arbeitszimmer am Kamin und blätterte in einem dicken Dokumentenstoß, den er soeben von einem seiner Klienten erhalten hatte. Als Asbjörn Krag eines Abends Besuch von einem befreundeten Arzt bekommt wird er schnell hellhörig. Was stimmt nicht auf Gut Kvamberg? Dort gab es mysteriöse Todesfälle und der Eigentümer verhält sich mehr als merkwürdig...

The Spoils of Poynton

Henry James

Mrs. Gareth has been collecting works of art in her Pointon manor all her life, and now, after her husbands death, she must, according to English customs, hand over the manor to her son Owen. The trouble is that the limp Owen is under the influence of his bride, Mona Brixton, who dreams of taking up Poyntons hands and closing access for Mrs Goret forever. And Mrs. Gareth decides to fight for her treasures.