The Way of These Women

E. Phillips Oppenheim

England has not been invited to attend a conference of European nations in the Hague. Some think war is about to break out. The Vanished Messenger presents the international intrigue and conspiracy of the Powers against England to separate her from her colonies. Mr. John P. Dunster, an American, is traveling to the Hague with an important document that may prevent the outbreak of war when he mysteriously disappears after a train wreck in England. Richard Hamel is asked by the British government to attempt to solve the mystery of Dunsters disappearance and prevent the outbreak of war in Europe. Intriguing spy novel with a murder, espionage and dramatic denouement nicely plotted and fully developed characters.

Love and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This is a collection of many outstanding stories of Chekhov. There is a pleasant and patient satire in all Chekovs stories, most of which are tragic, some are political, and all of them are revealed in many complex topics. The stories in this anthology bring back memories of a different time and place when life was completely different. These stories will hook everyone.

The New Machiavelli

Herbert George Wells

About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure. A successful author and Liberal MP Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life is thrown when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire. At first, he struggles to resist and remain focused upon his familiar political, personal and social life. But as he soon learns, it is harder than he could have imagined to turn his back on love. In the character of Richard Remington, Wells created a damning portrait of an insufferable, egoistic, pontificating windbag whose attempts to set an agenda to improve society whether to uphold the British Empire or allow women to play a greater part in social life pays no attention to the effects on the people he is supposed to represent.

Who Killed the Husband

Hulbert Footner

Mappin is a wealthy New York criminologist and author who is highly valued by the police and high society. He participates only in those crimes that really interest him. And in Who Killed the Husband he investigates solely because all the people around him beg him to take action. In this story, a detective investigates the murder of a banker. The killer who, according to the police have already found.

Im Schillingshof

Eugenie Marlitt

Im Schillingshof leben zwei Familien eine adlig, die andere bürgerlich. Eine bürgerliche und eine altadlige Familie geraten aneinander. Die Konflikte resultieren aus einem kriminellen Fall von Wirtschaftsspionage. Doch es geht auch um Gefühle wie Hass, Hochmut, Stolz, Liebe und Eifersucht... Der Bestseller Im Schillingshof zählt zu den wichtigten Büchern im umfangreichen Werk von Eugenie Marlitt. Eugenie Marlitts Bestseller Im Schillingshof bringt Spannung und historische Bildung auf unterhaltsame Art. Als Meisterin des Spannungsaufbaus versteht es Marlitt, die Leserin mit vielen vagen Andeutungen und plötzlichen abgebrochenen Gesprächen lange im Ungewißen zu lassen.

Trzy serca

Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz

W majątku Prudy należącym hrabiostwa Tynieckich panuje wielka radość. Hrabina została szczęśliwą mamą Goga. Stan zdrowia nie pozwala jej jednak samodzielnie karmić maleństwa. Ponieważ w tym samym czasie Michalina, żona lokaja, również urodziła chłopca, zostaje mamką panicza. Gdy okazuje się, że życie jej własnego synka Maćka jest zagrożone, Michalina postanawia zamienić dzieci, które są do siebie łudząco podobne. Gogo i Maciek wychowują się w skrajnie odmiennych warunkach. Spotykają się jednak ze sobą, a także z wychowanicą hrabiny Kate. Wkrótce Gogo zostaje wysłany za granicę do szkoły. Wraca po latach do majątku w Prudach i zakochuje się w pięknej Kate. Podkochuje się w niej także skromny pomocnik ekonoma Maciek. Tymczasem Michalina na łożu śmierci wyjawia szokującą prawdę o zamianie dzieci. Czy obaj młodzieńcy potrafią dostosować się do zaskakującej dla każdego z nich nowej sytuacji życiowej i społecznej? Jak potoczą się losy Kate? Jest to czas ciężkiej próby dla trójki młodych ludzi znających się od dzieciństwa. Trzy serca to lektura warta polecenia.

The Shadow-Line. A Confession

Joseph Conrad

This book is about a young captain who is hastily given his first command of a ghost ship. Its about a first mate who will lose his mind to madness as the malaria sickness spreads without medicine. This book is about a calm sea with not a sigh of a wind to move the ship. The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad describes that demarcation line in the journey of life that divides the happy, bright, fantastic and irresponsible youth with the darker ages of manhood. Conrad goes on to delineate this vision as being beyond the charm and innocence of illusions. It isnt an elaborate story, but one that explores that moment, that shadow-line between youth and adulthood. It is a story about maturity, wisdom, experience. And, even though Conrad himself tells us this story is not about the supernatural, a curse and the first captain who died before Conrad took command, tells us otherwise.

Soldier Stories

Rudyard Kipling

Three Soldiers is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Three soldiers of this title - Leroid, Mulvani and Orteris, who also previously appeared in the collection "Simple Tales from the Hills." Books reveal the side of British Tommy in Afghanistan, rarely seen in the Twilight of the British Empire. The soldiers comment on their improvements, act fools, but right against the backdrop of the wars in the Middle East, when the British began to weaken their imperial possessions, they begin to act directly.