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.

The Golden Bat

Fred M. White

Fred M. Whites hobby is to confuse the reader from the very first pages. The same happens in The Golden Bat, from the very first phrases we learn about a real confident man, Lytton Barle. He was the head of the Secret Squad at New Scotland. His friend, Ray, came to London to find a man who stole $ 40,000 from him. Ray joins the Secret Squad. Together, two comrades are going to make noise and punish those responsible.

Pat of Silver Bush

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Pat of Silver Bus (1933) portrays a girl named Patricia Gardiner, who hates changes of any kind and loves her home, Silver Bush, more than anything else in the world. The book begins when Pat is 7 years old and ends when she is 18. She is very devoted to her family: her father and mother, her brothers Joe and Sid, and her sisters Winnie and Rachel. If it were up to her, nothing there would ever change. But of course if nothing changed, shed never get a new baby sister, see her Aunt Hazels wedding, or meet the only boy who truly understands her. Yes, there is change coming for Pat some of it joyous and some of it heartbreaking. But no matter what, he favorite house in the world will always be waiting for her...