An Eye for an Eye

William Le Queux

An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, which states that some Jews in Eastern Europe took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1,000 concentration camps in Poland for German civilians. The book provides details of the imprisonment of 200,000 Germans many of them starved, beaten and tortured and estimates that more than 60,000 died at the hands of a largely Jewish-run security organisation.

Men Like Gods

Herbert George Wells

Towards the end of his career, Wells write this book, in which he outlined his vision of Utopia. This is the story of a Mr. Barnstaple, an everyday man, who finds himself propelled into a parallel universe with a group of famous politicians, aristocrats, and their chauffeurs. The world they find themselves in has abolished all disease, and everyone only works at what takes their fancy. The inhabitants of this world speak telepathically, and recognise that the Earth is currently going through a phase akin to a part of their history called the age of confusion which happened some 3000 years before. But despite being surrounded by such beauty and elegance, some of the earthlings rebel and attempt to conquer this new world.

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...

The Red One

Jack London

The plots of the stories of the collection The Red One (1918) unfold in various parts of the globe from the Solomon Islands and Ecuador to Nebraska and Klondike. When Bassett conducted scientific research in the jungle, he was attacked by the natives and became their captive. It was then that the scientist first heard the strange voice of the Red deity, which drove into his soul an irresistible desire to see the idol with his own eyes, even at the cost of his own life.

Sergeant Sir Peter

Edgar Wallace

One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives. Wallaces Sergeant Sir Peter is a collection of stories about an aristocratic young man who becomes a Police Sergeant. Despite this conceit, this collection is much more realistic about life in Britain than many Golden Age works. The stories deal sympathetically with people who are discriminated against in British society: Indians, women, and the working poor. Wallace bluntly shows discrimination against racial minorities, and the oppression of women. He also delights in exposing the flaws of the rich and there is also an emphasis on the financial needs of workers.

The Golden Road

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Golden Road, written by legendary author Lucy Maud Montgomery is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. Introduced in The Story Girl, Sara Stanley is L.M. Montgomerys most enchanting heroine since Anne of Green Gables. When she returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up with a great idea. To help them through the dreary months ahead, she, Felicity, Cecily and Dan will publish a magazine. Published in 1913, the novel explores themes of childhood innocence and its transience, while highlighting the value of intangible things which prove to be the very essence of life.

The Top of the World

Ethel M. Dell

This is another Ethel Dell novel. Sylvia Ingleton is left motherless at an early age. Her father remarried a woman who is not happy to share her household with Sylvia. Soon, Sylvia is entangled in webs of deceit to get her married off. Boldly, she announces to her father and would be suitor that she will rejoin her fiancé of five years in South Africa. The backdrop of South Africas wilderness, drought, cloud bursts and love triangles leaves Sylvia in a struggle to survive. In this thrilling adventure, she finds her way like a lost child to her Top of the World. It is an astonishingly melodramatic novel, with a plot that moves with such gusto from one strong emotional situation to another that you only occasionally pause to consider how very exaggerated and improbable it is.

Les Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick

Charles Dickens

Ceci est une histoire sur le club de voyageurs en Angleterre. Ce club comprend de drôles de Britanniques, qui se considerent comme ceux qui ne le sont pas vraiment. La chose principale dans ce club était un Pickwick romantique. Il a essayé décrire chacune de ses observations dans un cahier spécial. Dickens a réussi a créer une bonne et détaillée histoire sur un petit club de vrais hommes anglais.