Germinal

Emil Zola

Akcja powieści Germinal Zoli rozgrywa się w latach 60. XIX wieku i opowiada o losach francuskich górników. Początkujący górnik Stefan Lantier próbuje się odnaleźć w górniczej społeczności i podołać trudnym warunkom pracy. Wsparcia szuka w rozwijających się ideach socjalistycznych, pod wpływem których próbuje wzniecić w kopalni strajk. Sytuacja wymyka się spod kontroli.

Colonel Chabert

Honoré de Balzac

In 1807 Colonel Chabert, Napoleons beloved commander, is severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau. Taken for dead and buried in a mass grave, he manages to escape and wanders in poverty through Europe for 10 years, torn between life and death, oblivion and consciousness. Finally recovering his memories, he sets out for Paris to search for his wife who had been a prostitute before he married her and to reclaim his possessions. In the several years while he had been gone, his wife thinking he was dead had remarried and had two new children. She had also collected his existing fortune. In all, she was pretty happy the way things were. How could our colonel prove who he was? What arguments could he use against his former wife? The story has a surprising number of twists, and poses a number of questions about how our society really works and the analysis of human behavior, character and emotions, is, as usual in Balzac, sublime.

Up the Ladder of Gold

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The secretive financier and Press baron Warren Rand is working to bring about Global Peace and Disarmament, against the plotting of England, France, Germany, and Russia. The story expands to include the chief characters in Rands life: his security chief a British officer Tellesom who falls in love with Rands estranged daughter, the financier John Glynde and a large cast of evil Russian and German spies. His machinations of the gold market and international sabotage bring the major players to the table. The book shows the interesting attitudes of Europeans towards America, the failure of the Revolution in Russia, the plotting of Germany for a second war and how millionaire corners the gold market and tries bribing the most powerful nations to maintain peace for forty years.

Dave Dashaway And His Giant Airship. Or a Marvellous Trip Across the Atlantic

Roy Rockwood

Roy Rockwood was a house pseudonym used for boys adventure books, including Bomba the Jungle Boy. The Dave Dashaway series focused on aerial adventures. Dave Dashaway continues to explore new horizons and to stay one step ahead of his nemesis! In Dave Dashaway and His Giant Airship or A Marvelous Trip Across the Atlantic Dave Dashaway is back, this time trying to beat Jerry Dawson in an airship race across the Atlantic Ocean, avoiding armed gunmen, fire, sharks, and all of the dangers of the open skies. From ghosts to stowaways, you wont want to stop until Daves feet are safely on solid ground. How the giant airship was constructed and how the daring young aviator and his friends made the hazardous journey through the clouds from the new world to the old, is told in a way to hold the reader spellbound.

LÎle aux trente cercueils

Maurice Leblanc

Une atmosphere sombre des légendes celtes, le présage sanglant, le comte Vorski sans-cur, voil de quoi frissonner dangoisse et de terreur. Les gens superstitieux appellent ce lieu Lîle aux trente cercueils. La raison est simple: il y a une terrible prophétie, que dit trente victimes doivent mourir dont quatre femmes en croix. Quelle est la destinee de la jeune femme de bonne famille Véronique, qui est impliqué dans cette histoire? Quel est le fin de lamour impossible entre un fou psychopathe et cette belle ingénue? Est-ce que Arsene Lupin peut affronter la malédiction?

Ambitions Slave

Fred M. White

The life of Beatrice Darryll seemed perfect. It was calm without any trouble. The woman was young and energetic, many friends said she was charming. After her words: The woman suffers most. Life is full of problems.

Collected Short Stories

A. Merritt

The Collected Short Stories is a collection of Abraham Merritts shorter works, and contains eight stories and two fragments. Included are: The People of the Pit, Through the Dragon Glass, The Drone, The Last Poet and the Robots and others. These short stories span the entire career of the man who has been called Americas foremost adventure fantasist of the 1920s and 30s. The collection kicks off with one of its strongest tales, The Fox Woman, a tale of revenge in a remote part of 20th century China. This is a mix of complete short stories and beginnings of novels that Abraham Merritt left unfinished before he died, the title story in the latter camp.

The Four Faces. A Mystery

William Le Queux

Michael Berrington is a bachelor leading a quiet life in London. Overhearing a conversation at his club one day, he becomes interested in a discussion regarding a man named Gastrell. Gastrell is somewhat of a mystery to the club members in spite of his renting a house from one of them. Berringtons interest in Gastrell intensifies as his fiancé, Dulcie Challoner, befriends a wealthy widow, Mrs. Connie Stapleton who evidently has some type of relationship with Gastrell. As the plot progresses, Berrington finds himself involved with sensational robberies, brutal murders, coded messages, and even mind control! As in many Le Queux books, there are twists and turns as new characters and locations are introduced.