A Diversity of Creatures

Rudyard Kipling

Despite the fact that, as the name implies, they are diverse in nature, most of these stories are affectionate satires with the participation of the social strata into which he belonged and who knew best of all a class of officers from a public school. The Honor of the War was a funny story of hooliganism in which Kipling seemed to fully endorse this practice; Regulus removes the lid from the can; while the Marines were a carefully crafted soldiers practical joke involving a horse and some fireworks

A Detectives Triumphs

Dick Donovan

A Detectives Triumphs (1891) by Dick Donovan eleven intriguing detective short stories including: The Mystery of Surgeon-Major Palmer; The Great Ruby Robbery; The Abduction, etc. Dick Donovan is the pseudonym of British author James Edward Preston Muddock (28 May 1843 23 January 1934) who created a private detective, also named Dick Donovan, in the 1890s. Dick Donovan achieved an international reputation as the master sleuth, and is reputedly responsible for American detectives being known popularly as Dicks.

The Young Enchanted

Hugh Walpole

The Young Changed Book is a book that takes the year 1920 and makes it seem like a disguise. London in 1920 and young people, standing in the center of the present, with extraordinary opportunities circling around her, ready and eager to take advantage of these opportunities, eager to draw conclusions in the world made.

The Streets of Ascalon

Robert W. Chambers

With the exception of Westgard, all other employees began migrating to the monthly conference, returning one by one from the mysterious financial jungle, popularly known as Downtown. This is a fascinating story that will keep you in suspense until the very end.

Tajemnica żółtego pokoju

Gaston Leroux

Tajemnica żółtego pokoju to powieść w odcinkach autorstwa Gastona Leroux (18681927) francuskiego pisarza i reportera. Zasłynął jako autor powieści detektywistycznych oraz tzw. literatury weird fiction, z której największą sławę przyniósł mu Upiór w operze. W Tajemnicy żółtego pokoju po raz pierwszy pojawił się sympatyczny reporter-detektyw Joseph Rouletabille, którego postać podbiła serca szerokiej rzeszy czytelników.

Ardath

Marie Corelli

Theos Olwyn, a poet and a lost man, travels to a secluded monastery in search of a man who can take his soul. He finds him in Heliobas, a seer who has given up his parlor sessions for the sake of isolation and worship of God. A night of thinking and talking leads to Alwyn writing an epic poem for free, which he packages and mails to his publisher. He also meets an angel named Edris who tells him to look for Ardat.

Innocent. Her Fancy and His Fact

Marie Corelli

This is the story of a young woman from England at the turn of the 20th century who learns the truth about her parents, and this knowledge sets her life on a path she is not ready for and those around her are powerless to stop.

The Return of Don Quixote

G.K. Chesterton

Chestertons last novel is a reflection of his first novel. Michael Herne, the librarian at Seawood Abbey, is asked to play the part of a medieval king. He not only takes his role seriously by thoroughly researching the Middle Ages, when the play is concluded, he refuses to take off the costume... Set in the early 20th Century, this is the intriguing story of the rise of a new Don Quixote who introduces a medieval government into the world of big business.