Edith Percival. A Novel

May Agnes Fleming

The day was very hot. The crew lay in groups, idly, near the deck. The captain a stately man of about forty or so stepped up and down a quarter of the deck now letting his eyes wander around his people or give them some order. His companion was young, three to four years younger than him, with a frank beautiful face and laughing brown eyes. His look of careless ease was very different from the proud stock of his companion, but some secret connection of sympathy bound the two together.

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

In the early years of the 20th century, life on a farm in Massachusetts is not easy. The New England winters are hard; snow and ice cover the fields for months, and the nights are long and cold. For a poor farmer like Ethan Frome, life has few bright moments. He works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeenas young and beautiful cousin Mattie Silver enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. Edith Whartons Ethan Frome is a classic of American Literature, with compelling characters trapped in circumstances from which they seem unable to escape.

Tik-Tok of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum penned fourteen novels in his famous Oz chronology. For the second time a little girl from the United States comes to Oz. The story begins in a faraway corner of Oz, in the small country of Oogaboo. There, Queen Ann Soforth musters an unlikely army and sets off to conquer the rest of Oz. Meanwhile, a girl Betsy Bobbin from Oklahoma and her companion, Hank the mule, are shipwrecked in the Nonestic Ocean. The two drift to shore in the Rose Kingdom, a magical land of talking roses, on a fragment of wreckage. There they meet the Shaggy Man, who is on a quest to rescue his brother from the clutches of the evil Nome King. Betsy, Hank, and the Rose Princess join the Shaggy Man on his journey, and before long they meet up with Polychrome, the Rainbows Daughter; Tik-Tok; and Queen Ann with her army. Join Tik-Tok and friends on an exciting, imaginative journey through the thrilling world of Oz, complete with hairbreadth escapes, wild puns, and mystifying magic. An enduring favorite!

Der Schut

Karl May

Die Verfolgten sind an ihrem Ziel angekommen. Durch seine Unvorsichtigkeit wird Halef gefangen genommen, kann aber von Kara Ben Nemsi befreit werden. Kara Ben Nemsi gelingt es am Anfang der Handlung Halef zu befreien jetzt aber sollen sie in die angebliche Juwelenhöhle in der Teufelsschlucht gelockt werden. Nach Abenteuern in der Teufelsschlucht und bei der Juwelenhöhle treffen Kara Ben Nemsi und seine Begleiter auf das Oberhaupt der Verbrecher, den sogenannten Schut. Manche gefährliche Situation wird heraufbeschworen, ehe die Jagd, die in der tunesischen Wüste begann und während der viele Abenteuer überstanden werden mussten, endlich in Albanien zu Ende geht.

The Battle of Basinghall Street

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The story of a young man, Lord Sandbrook, who takes revenge against the directors of a company he holds responsible for the deaths of his father and mother. The battlefield is Basinghall Street, where the offices of Woolito, Limited, are situated. A textile business is the center of strange machinations suicides, failures, conflagrations, disaster to various directors, finally a raid on the stock, and the president is a ruined man. In this story Mr. Oppenheim takes a vacation from international intrigue in a Monte Carlo setting and devotes himself to describing a big business battle in London. The story is told with the usual Oppenheim flourish, a great deal of action, many details of personality and adventures.

Biały Kapitan

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

Witeź to norweski kapitan, który wyruszył wraz ze swoją załogą na wyprawę ze Skandynawii do krainy Samojedów i Tunguzów po złoto i cenne skóry. Po drodze przyjmuje na pokład nowego marynarza, który skrywa tajemnice. W czasie podróży okazuje się, że nikomu tak naprawdę nie można ufać.

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

The storys heroine is Catherine Morland, an innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austens Gothic parody.

Miranda

Antoni Lange

Ostatnia powieść Antoniego Langego. Książka ma charakter antyutopijny, nawiązuje do tradycji, religii i kultury Dalekiego Wschodu. Główny bohater, Jan Podobłoczny, ucieka z Polski i trafia na nieznaną wyspę na Oceanie Indyjskim. Zamieszkuje ją społeczeństwo oddające się braminizmowi. Rozwijają kulturę ducha i wykorzystują zdolności ludzkiego mózgu nieznane w Europie. Jan zakochuje się w zjawie. Metafizyka, mistycyzm, liczne alegorie to niewątpliwe atuty tej powieści.