Four-Square Jane

Edgar Wallace

Four-Square Jane is a daring and successful crook, created by the pen of Edgar Wallace, a famous British author of mystery genre. Her resourcefulness is boundless and she employs outstanding cunning to get away with a series of risky crimes performed with admirable cleverness, which cannot but evoke admiration. Four-Square Jane is not even a typical love story though there is a marriage in it. Often the women in this era detective novel start out strong but end up falling in love with someone and being controlled by some man. Jane takes life on her own terms and doesnt let anyone push her around.

The Splendor of Asia

Elizabeth Louisa Moresby

The Splendor of Asia (1926) is the Story and Teaching of the Buddha. Elizabeth Louisa Moresby was already sixty years old by the time she started writing her novels, which commonly had an oriental setting, and then became a prolific author. She wrote under various pseudonyms, depending on the genre. As Louis Moresby, she wrote nonfiction, including a history of Egypt. As E. Barrington, she wrote historical romances, including a tale of Napoleon and Josephine (1927). As Lily Adams Beck, she wrote stories set in Asia and influenced by Oriental philosophy and religion. She was also known as Elizabeth Louisa Beck, Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck and Lily Moresby Adams. She was a staunch Buddhist and strict vegetarian, highly critical of the materialism of the West.

Captain Paul

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumass 1846 novel, Captain Paul is based on life of John Paul Jones, a captain in the American Navy during the revolutionary war. This epic adventure is written in best traditions of Dumas work featuring numerous desperate battles, true love, brave heroes, devious villains, and intrigue. This tale of high adventure and daring-do is highly recommended for fans of Dumass work, and would make for a fantastic addition to any bookshelf! One of the most widely read French authors in history, Alexandre Dumas is best-known for his iconic classic The Three Musketeers, as well as for The Count of Monte Cristo, and the two Musketeer sequels Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelome: Ten Years Later. Dumas began his writing career as a successful playwright, and later evolved to writing magazine articles and travel books, before extending his talents to fiction.

The Stark Munro Letters

Arthur Conan Doyle

This is the story of a young doctor in Victorian Britain. In this collection of letters written to an American friend, Stark Munro tells of the trials and tribulations that face him as he tries to build his practice. Each letter contains two elements: one part is the narrative of events in the life of a young medical graduate in his efforts to set up a practice, as his own man, with a very little assistance from anyone else; the other part of each letter is didactic, presented as his friendly arguments with his close friend Swanborough. The hyper-rational side of his personality that Arthur Conan Doyle aired in his Sherlock Holmes series of detective tales was only one piece of the puzzle. Conan Doyle also had a mystical side, and he was fascinated by the supernatural and the occult. In the epistolary stories collected in The Stark Munro Letters, he masterfully combines both of his passions, exploring supernatural themes from the perspective of a master detective.

Blakes Burden

Harold Bindloss

This is a story about a young guy who failed at the front. He believes the whole failure is due to him. Blake returns from India to England. There is some disagreement about whether Blake is really guilty or not. But Blake keeps silence in order to preserve the idyll in the family and not to betray his father and brother.

Tamaris

George Sand

Tamaris est une histoire damour dans laquelle tout le spectre des passions humaines est présent. Grâce cette histoire, nous nous souvenons de lamour sincere de deux jeunes gens le médecin et le lieutenant du navire La Florade amoureux de la jeune veuve Marquis Elmeval, qui était venue soccuper de son fils la Villa Tamaris. Cette histoire romantique ne laissera personne indifférent.

Złota dola i inne opowiadania

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Zbiór opowiadań Marii Rodziewiczówny, w których ujawnia się zamiłowanie autorki do dusz rogatych oraz uroku włóczęgi po szerokim gościńcu świata. W tytułowym opowiadaniu zbioru została znakomicie ukazana postać wiejskiej piękności, Marynki, którą cechuje niepohamowana wręcz żywiołowość zmysłów. Surowość życia i charakterów wiejskich ma tu zresztą i poza tym barwy niemal naturalistyczne. Zbiór zawiera utwory: Złota dola, Znachor, Myśl, Południca, Czarny chleb, Jezioro, Kolega Szoll, Pierścień, Starzec, Pierwsza kula i Jedna noga.

Lourdes

Émile Zola

Lourdes est une petite ville banale du département des Hautes-Pyrénées. La fille Bernalette a imaginé lapparition de la Vierge. Les pelerins ont commencé a affluer vers la ville. Les ecclésiastiques utiliserent tres habilement la popularité sans cesse croissante de la ville. Lidée que les gens trompés par la foi est facile a exploiter et a ravager est centrale dans le roman.