The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories

Rudyard Kipling

The world of Kiplings stories is complex and rich, representing essentially an encyclopedia of the plot experience of the best English and American storytellers of the XIX century. They are characterized by psychology, innovation, which consists in introducing new layers of life into the fabric of narration, and a kind of naturalism. The lazy tourists demanding communication with people have already somewhat dulled this feeling of complacency and wide hospitality.

LÎle mystérieuse

Jules Verne

Le mystérieux capitaine Nemo et, bien sr, lhistoire de la survie sur un bout de terre dans locéan: des héros pleins de ressources lancés par un ouragan sur une île inhabitée, transformant en sucre et en acier, fabriquent des briques, de la laine, de lacide sulfurique et nitrique, de la nitroglycérine et de la dynamite, construisent un télégraphe et une machine filer. Lun des romans les plus fascinants de Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island une histoire daventures fascinante des habitants de lîle. Jules Verne sest efforcé de montrer ce dont un petit groupe de personnes est capable, se retrouvant dans les conditions de Robinson, se distinguant par leur activité, leur détermination et lutilisation des connaissances scientifiques pour leur survie.

Die Gräfin von Ascot. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Neugier breitet sich in der kleinen Ortschaft Ascot aus, als sich eine wohlhabende Gräfin dort niederlässt. Eine Gräfin taucht in Ascot auf, und bezieht dort eine Villa. Ein Einbrecher sucht die Villen in Ascot heim. Immer wieder erbeutet er Schmuck. Die Gräfin engagiert als Beschützer den Privatdetektiv John Morlay und stellt ihn vor eine äußerst schwierige Aufgabe.

The Hunchback of Westminster

William Le Queux

Up to that time, I remember, my big brass plate, with the legend Mr Hugh Glynn, Secret Investigator, had only succeeded in drawing a very average and ordinary amount of business. True, I had had several profitable cases in which wives wanted to know what happened to their husbands when they didnt come home at the usual hours, and employers were anxious to discover certain leakages through which had disappeared a percentage of their cash; but for the most part my work had been shockingly humdrum, and already I had begun to regret the whim that had prompted me, after reading certain latter-day romances, to throw up my career as a barrister in Grays Inn to emulate the romancers heroes in real life.

Collected Short Fiction

H.P. Lovecraft

This is a collection of classic Lovecraft stories. What readers like about him is how he can terribly make everything seem, a feeling of fear and foreboding that his thick prose can create. These early works of H.P. Lovecraft were originally published in the first half of the 20th century. The Dunwich Horror and The Call of Cthulhu, which subsequently brought him a place as one of the most influential authors of the horrors of the 20th century.

Obrona Sokratesa

Platon

Obrona Sokratesa to dzieło Platona, greckiego filozofa, twórcy systemu filozoficznego zwanego obecnie idealizmem platońskim, który był uczniem Sokratesa. Platon przedstawia w nim treść trzech mów, jakie Sokrates wygłosił na procesie w 399 r. p.n.e., na którym został skazany na karę śmierci. Obrona Sokratesa jest źródłem historycznym, dziełem literackim, lecz nade wszystko dziełem filozoficznym w najgłębszym sensie tego słowa.

Madame de Treymes

Edith Wharton

Even a short novel like Madame de Treymes shows you what a masterful writer Edith Wharton was. It is a captivating portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. Inspired by Whartons own entré into Parisian society in 1906 and reminiscent of the works of Henry James, it tells the story of two young innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive, and John Durham, her childhood friend who arrives in Paris intent on convincing Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead. In hopes of finding a solution, Durham meets with Fannys sister-in-law, the enigmatic Madame de Treymes, who suggests that she might be willing to appeal to her brother on his behalf if, that is, he will help settle her illicit lovers gambling debts. Such a proposition surely wont have a catch...

Cabbages and Kings

O. Henry

Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious country. A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town called the Republic of Anchuria while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. This work is O. Henrys first published volume and is considered to be his only novel. The plot is composed of several short stories, which were inspired by the authors six-month stay in Honduras in the late 1890s. In this book, O. Henry coined the term banana republic.