The Mysterious Mr. Miller

William Le Queux

We were standing together in the small shabby bedroom of the boarding-house wherein I lived in Granville Gardens, facing the recreation ground close to Shepherds Bush Railway Station. The stifling July day was at an end, and the narrow room was lit by the soft hazy glow of the fast-fading London sunset. Through the open window came the shouts of children at play upon the green opposite, mingled with the chatter of the passers-by and the ever-increasing whirr of the electric trams. Within that faded, smoke-grimed chamber of the dead was silence. Upon the bed between us lay the dead strangerthe man who was a mystery.

A Queen of the Stage

Fred M. White

The story of A Queen of the Stage about a lonely woman Elsie Wayne, who is alone in London. She gets a fake theater role. The stranger throws her a note. It reads: Be brave and patient. If your friend does not let you down, be today under the portico of the Regency Theater.

Cunning Murrell

Arthur Morrison

Spirit of Old Essex draws together Arthur Morrisons lost treasure of a novel Cunning Murrell, a jocular tale of witchcraft, old salts, pugilists, smuggling and country life long lost, together with additional background information on Morrisons research and inspiration. Cunning Murrell is a fictionalized biography of James Murrell, also known as Cunning Murrell, who was an English cunning man, or professional folk magician. In this capacity, he reportedly employed magical means to aid in healing both humans and animals, exorcising malevolent spirits, countering witches, and restoring lost or stolen property to its owner.

Kate Plus Ten

Edgar Wallace

This is the story of a young female criminal mastermind who leads a gang in a series of exceptionally daring and very profitable robberies but works as secretary to keep her cover story intact. When she picks up information from her boss, an aristocrat, the police soon suspect her of wrongdoing. But she meets a handsome police officer who very much against her will softens her hearts. She and the gang become alienated from one another. Naturally she just has something in her system, which eventually is found to be eradicable, as you will discover when you reach the end of this exciting book.

Nach Amerika!. Band IVI

Friedrich Gerstäcker

Friedrich Gerstäcker wurde am 10.05.1816 in Hamburg geboren. 1837 wanderte er nach Amerika aus, wo er ein abwechslungsreiches und abenteuerliches Leben als Matrose, Heizer, Jager, Farmer, Koch, Silberschmied, Holzfaller, Fabrikant und Hotelier fuhrte. Nach einigen Jahren jedoch führte ihn sein Weg zurück nach Deutschland, wo er seine Erfahrungen, die er im fremden Land gemacht hatte, niederschrieb und sehr schnell zu einem beliebten Autor avancierte. In den darauffolgenden Jahren unternahm er weitere Reisen, unter anderem nach Afrika, Südamerika und in die Goldsucher-Regionen rund um Kalifornien. Dieses Buch in sechs Bänden ist eine Auswanderersaga und erzählt vom Leben der Neuankömmlinge in Amerika. In seiner unnachahmlichen Art erzählt der deutsche Reiseschriftstellers von seinen Erlebnissen in der neuen Welt.

Odyssée

Homer

Odyssée est lune des plus grandes ouvres de la littérature mondiale, une création riche en événements vivants et en beauté poétique. Les aventures dangereuses de Odyssée rusée et qui souffre depuis longtemps. Il devait se battre avec Poséidon pour visiter le pays des cannibales et des sorciers. Cest le poeme que vous voulez relire.

Michel Strogoff

Jules Verne, Jules Verne

Le héros du roman, le courrier Mikhail Strogov, sur les instructions de lempereur, entreprend un long voyage de Moscou Irkoutsk travers toute la Sibérie, englouti dans le soulevement des Tatars, pour sauver le frere du roi. Le voyage extraordinaire Irkoutsk, créé par le fantasme dun romancier français, sest avéré si fascinant que la mode pour tout ce qui est russe est apparue en France et que plusieurs générations lisaient ce livre.

Forlorn River

Zane Grey

In Forlorn River, young Ben Ide is cast out by his rich dad, branded a wild horse hunter and possible rustler. Ide befriends a wounded man, whom he nicknames Nevada. Ide does the same for Modoc, an Indian he pulls out of a saloon. All three men form bonds of loyalty in their isolated state as they hunt wild horses in the California wilderness. Then the love of Bens youth returns after being away at college and an evil man has become his fathers partner and has spread lies about Ben. To win his lady love, he must clear his name and make good of his life. Many people believe in him and that is essential to his belief in himself. A wonderful, classic western romance. Beautiful descriptions of the American West, written in 1927, for people who had never seen or experienced its beauty and majesty.