Les Révoltés de la Bounty

Jules Verne

Lhistoire raconte la rébellion du commandement du navire anglais Bounty survenu dans le Pacifique Sud. Léquipe dirigée par le second capitaine Christian sest rebellée contre la tyrannie du capitaine cruel Bly et la atterri avec des supporters sur le bateau, laissant derriere elle pour se défendre. De retour Tahiti, Christian emmene plusieurs autochtones dans le bateau afin de créer une colonie sur une île éloignée. Pendant ce temps, Bly, qui parvient atteindre lAngleterre, lance une expédition pour prendre le navire rebelle.

Tunel śmierci

Otto Stemin

Powieść kryminalna z elementami thrillera. Akcja rozgrywa się wokół dramatu głównego bohatera. Jest nim mężczyzna, który wyprodukował bardzo niebezpieczną broń. Nie byłoby w tym nic zaskakującego, gdyby nie to, że odbiorcą broni są Niemcy, a ów mężczyzna jest Polakiem. Powieść ukazująca dylematy moralne bohatera i nawiązująca do konfliktu polsko-niemieckiego.

Gabriel Samara, Peacemaker

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Miss Sadie Loyes, the manageress of the Hotel Weltmore Typewriting and Secretarial Bureau, set down the receiver of the telephone which had its place upon her desk and looked thoughtfully around at the eleven young ladies who comprised her present staff. She stood there, an angular, untidy-looking person, tapping a pencil against her teeth, unconscious arbitress, not only of the fate of two very interesting people, but also of the fate of a great nation. Portentous events depended upon her decision. A mans life in this teeming city of New York was a small enough matter of itself.

Die Juweleninsel

Karl May

Die Juweleninsel ist die Fortsetzung von Zepter und Hammer. Noch in bedeutend größerem Ausmaß als beim ersten Teil (Zepter und Hammer) gilt hier, dass die Handlung kaum nacherzählt werden kann. Zehn Jahre sind seit den Ereignissen aus Zepter und Hammer vergangen. Die Angehörigen eines Verschollenen erhalten durch sein Tagebuch Kunde von der Vernichtung eines indischen Fürstenhofs und vom Schatz des Maharadscha, der auf eine einsame Insel gerettet wurde.

The Planet of Peril

Otis Adelbert Kline

Otis Adelbert Kline is best known for his purported novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1929, long before planetary romance became a conventional genre, he wrote Planet of Peril, a novel set on the planet Venus and written in the storytelling form of Burroughs Martian novels. He followed this with two sequels. This novel is a science-fiction adventure on a world of semi-barbaric nations, ferocious beasts, gigantic reptiles, and maidens in distress. In it, Robert Grandon of Earth exchanges his body with that of a captive Prince of the planet Venus. Of course being a earthmen he doesnt stay captive very long. Battles, swordfights, monsters, whirlwind of intrigue, danger, desperation and beautiful Queens vie for your attention as this story unfolds.

Real Dramas. Being Some Leaves from the Notebook of a Late Theatrical Agent

Fred M. White

Frederick Merrick White (18591935) wrote a number of novels and short stories under the name Fred M. White including the six Doom of London science-fiction stories, in which various catastrophes beset London. These include The Four Days Night, in which London is beset by a massive killer smog; The Dust of Death, in which diphtheria infects the city, spreading from refuse tips and sewers; and The Four White Days, in which a sudden and deep winter paralyses the city under snow and ice. Fred M. White is mostly known for mysteries and is considered also as one of the pioneers of the spy story. Real Drama (1909) is a series of stories published under the subtitle Being Some Leaves From The Notebook Of A Late Theatrical Agent. It includes: His Second Self, An Extra Turn, Not In The Bill, The Plagiarist, The Man In Possession, A Pair Of Handcuffs.

The Fruit of the Tree

Edith Wharton

Published in 1907, this little novel by the author of The Age of Innocence was considered controversial for its frank treatment of labor and industrial conditions, drug addiction, mercy killing, divorce, and second marriages. Clever, idealistic and poor John Amherst, the assistant manager of the cotton mill, is fed up with the deplorable working and living conditions of the workers in his charge. While visiting a worker in hospital he encounters a young nurse, Justine, compassionate and principled, a woman who shares his dreams and aims. But Amherst is fatally distracted when he meets a wealthy and charming widow Bessy who is a new owner of the mill. The lives of all three become strangely interwoven as Amherst is forced to choose between sense and sentiment, between his care for the working classes and his infatuation with Bessy a woman made for passion, but not for its aftermath.

The Whispering Outlaw

George Owen Baxter

Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable Western "The Whispering Outlaw". The Whisperer, a mysterious frontier bandit who never shows his face or speaks in his own voice, recruits a ragtag band of outlaws to assist him in a series of daring robberies designed to make them all rich. Who was this whispering outlaw who could so easily slip through the hand of the lawmen Kenworthy and even baffle the seasoned and brutal gunman Lew Borgen, whom he drew to his ranks? What dark vengeance choreographed the far-flung criminal schemes of such a mysterious and evil genius? Find out in Max Brands masterful classic Western "The Whispering Outlaw".