Those Other Days

E. Phillips Oppenheim

A collection of nineteen stories, by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, mostly from the 1890s and early 1900s, published in magazines, and collected in 1913. Ghost stories, bizarre adventures, strange appearances and disappearances, and improbable love are the themes of these very enjoyable stories by the master storyteller. Young men courting women, psychic phenomena, and humorous characters abound. Those Other Days stories are almost Victorian in their diction and flavor, with some of the fascination of the period for supernatural events. If you havent discovered the joys of Oppenheims stories, which are clearly written and literary there is a good place to start. Highly recommended!

The Old Stone House and Other Stories

Anna Katharine Green

A young girl named Juliet, draws the boys in a small village after her, and along the way a rich Colonel, whose love for her reaches farther than anyone would have expected. She also hooks a fiery, unstable man named Orrin. The Colonel gets her to swear she will marry him as soon as he finishes a stone house for her, while Orrin tries something secretive to win his love. The narrator is a former lover of Juliet, and what he tells of is a twisted tale of a selfish woman and an evil man, decide for yourself which man is the villain... Short stories written by Anna Katharine Green. This well-written collection also includes: A Memorable Night, The Black Cross, A Mysterious Case, Shall He Wed Her? . Each one contains a mystery and a romantic involvement in the plot, and some have a twist ending.

The Master Mind

J.U. Giesy, Junius B Smith

The story of an undercover detective who works to capture the thief of the Bank. It would seem that he had already caught him. After all, he pressed a button that signaled a patrol garage, and another one that called the inspector and several other officers from the next room. Before the side door of the bank there was a big car in a limousine, which had two entrances, facing two streets. It was clearly a personal car of a rich man, because he was the latest model and luxurious in all respects. These were intelligent criminals who are not so easy to catch.

The Maracot Deep

Arthur Conan Doyle

This is one of the works of fiction published during Doyles life. Published in 1929, only a year before the authors death, this short novel amply demonstrates that Doyle still retained all his great abilities as a spinner of riveting yarns, even in his twilight years. The book concerns Maracots exploration of the world beneath the sea. Maracot and his companions find themselves stranded on the ocean floor, and discover a very unexpected world, in fact a civilisation, deep beneath the waves. They are introduced to a remarkable and ancient society that expands their knowledge of human civilizations history and then even more so, their understanding of planes of existence.Their visions of the future of humanity possess an optimism and a romance that simply isnt possible to writers today.

Biały murzyn

Michał Bałucki

Antoni, student medycyny, przyjeżdża na wakacje do rodzinnej miejscowości. Ojciec przyjmuje go jednak dość chłodno, stale też strofuje syna. Pewnego dnia Antoni przypadkiem ratuje w lesie hrabiankę Jadwigę. Ta nie okazuje żadnej wdzięczności, traktuje go arogancko i z wyższością. Mimo to Antoni zakochuje się w dziedziczce. Kiedy dowiaduje się, że jest już zaręczona, wpada w apatię. Tymczasem narzeczony Jadzi ginie w wypadku samochodowym. Jadwiga natomiast spodziewa się dziecka. Aby bronić honoru rodziny, hrabia postanawia wydać ją za Antoniego, a po przyjściu na świat dziecka opłacić rozwód. Początkowo Antoni odmawia. Zmienia zdanie, gdy Jadwiga próbuje popełnić samobójstwo. W końcu godzi się na małżeństwo z dziedziczką. Ta jednak przyjmuje jego szlachetność jako upokorzenie i stara się go poniżyć. Antoni zapowiada jej, że nie zgodzi się na rozwód, dopóki nie zrozumie, jak bardzo go skrzywdziła i nie zmieni się. Wkrótce wyjeżdża do Warszawy, gdzie kończy studia z wyróżnieniem. Zostaje wybitnym pediatrą. Pewnego dnia w szpitalu, w którym pracuje, zjawia się Jadwiga z synkiem dotkniętym paraliżem... Biały murzyn to lektura godna polecenia.

In The Mayors Parlour

Joseph Smith Fletcher

This is a story of graft and corruption set in one of Fletchers favoured Northern towns. The mayor who is on a clean-up campaign is found dead in his parlour and our hero, his younger cousin, is determined to find out who killed him. Was he eliminated for this reason? There are entanglements involving city officials and his proposed reforms plus jealousy related to relationships. Lots of twists with a surprise murderer. The plot is cleverly centered around the inquest, which keeps being adjourned in hope of new evidence.

Winston of the Prairie

Harold Bindloss

This is a story about good and evil. Before each person in life is a difficult choice. And he decides which way to choose. So our main character made a choice that changed his whole life. Farmer Witham worked like a dog for about six years. Corthorne offers Witham a $ 1000 deal. As a result of which a small number of people suffered. The deal ends badly. At the end of the main character regretted it.

The Pike Bearfield Stories

Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard turned to writing comic and dialect Western tales only late in his career, but he found an immediate and continuously successful market for them, and they are in many respects his most accomplished and polished works. The Pike Bearfield Stories is a collection of stories in the western genre, featuring Pike Bearfield the character who lead well-intentioned lives of perpetual confusion, mischance, and outright catastrophe. It includes: While the Smoke Rolled, A Gent from the Pecos Shave That Hawg! , Gents on the Lynch, The riot at Bucksnort. They are reminiscent of traditional southwestern tall tales, told in dialect, featuring larger-than-life characters, swift action, broad satire, and wry humor. All stories are fast-paced with simple yet effective plots that have a few surprises thrown in for good measure.