Almuric and Other Fantasies

Robert E. Howard

An Earthman transported to Almuric, a remote alien world where he must contend with apelike humans, winged monsters, and other sinister forces. Robert E. Howards collection of fantastic fantasy science fiction short stories will not fail to entertain!

Eugenie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac

Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honoré de Balzacs Eugénie Grandet (1833) is one of the earliest and most famous novels in his Comedie humaine cycle, which portrays a society consumed by the struggle to amass wealth and achieve power. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenies cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenies emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel that results in tragedy for all. This classic work of social satire, carnal desire, greed, and obsession is both an exquisitely drawn portrayal of private life and an extraordinary document of post-revolutionary France.

LArgent

Émile Zola

LArgent est le dix-huitieme roman de lécrivain français. Le jeu, la spéculation sur la propriété fonciere et les valeurs mobilieres, leffondrement de la pyramide financiere sont brillamment décrits dans le roman. Un roman sur lamour et sur lamour de largent. En ce qui concerne le pouvoir global de largent et comment, au détriment deux, une personne peut sélever au ciel et seffondrer dans la boue, il en résultera des actes terribles.

The Dutchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death

Hugh Walpole

An energetic girl enters society and must choose between her rebellious and exiled cousin or an ordinary young man. Rachel chooses an ordinary young man, but when their marriage begins to degenerate, she again comes into contact with her cousin. She falls in love with him will she leave her husband and run away with her romantic but weak lover?

Nowele i opowiadania

Bolesław Prus

Zbiór dziewiętnastu najznakomitszych nowel i opowiadań Bolesława Prusa. Małe formy narracyjne nowele i opowiadania to trzeci po felietonistyce i powieściopisarstwie dział twórczości Prusa, wysoko notowany przez współczesnych i potomnych. Atutem tych utworów są wnikliwe, psychologicznie zarysowanie, sylwetek bohaterów. Ich przygody nie kojarzą się nam z tradycją awanturniczą i nie zadziwiają przypadkami nadzwyczajnymi. Przykuwają jednak naszą uwagę treściami społecznymi, problematyką moralną, delikatnością rysunku życia wewnętrznego, sugestywnością wymowy parabolicznej i starannością konstrukcji. W tomie zamieszczono następujące utwory: Filozof i prostak, Pod szychtami, Ogród saski, Konkurs żniwiarek, Doktor filozofii na prowincji, Szkatułka babki, Nawrócony, On, Milknące głosy, Pleśń świata, Przy księżycu, Na wakacjach, Żywy telegraf, Cienie, W górach, Z legend dawnego Egiptu, Sen, Opowiadanie lekarza i Widziadła.

Points West

B.M. Bower

B.M Bower had a gift for writing Westerns, weaving tales of adventure, intrigue, mystery, and romance often with surprise endings. They are historical reminiscences of pioneers among the sage and bush, clearing the way for a new America. She wrote about working cowboys usually on western ranches, with the occasional visit of an eastern types. Her books were known for their factual attention to detail such as cattle branding. Cole is the son of wealth, but through no fault of his own this wealth has disappeared. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre.

Find This Man

Aidan de Brune

A photograph and a message: "Find this man". Theres a fortune at stake. Find This Man novel is one of mystery by Aidan de Brune (Herbert Charles CULL). As the novel is rather short and quite fast-paced with a lot of scenery-changes and adventures, this nice. Aidan de Brune provides a thrill of another sort! Readers of Aidan de Brunes novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship. Wonderful entertainment and highly entertaining.

Les Compagnons de Jéhu

Alexandre Dumas pere

Les Compagnons de Jehu est la suite des Blancs et les Bleus et précede Le Chevalier de Saint-Hermine. Comme toujours, quand on ouvre un livre, que est écrit par Dumas, on ne peut pas sarrter. Lhistoire nous prend immédiatement, le narrateur nous raconte les subtilités historiques. Ici on retrouve tous les themes, des gens dhonneur, que ce soit Roland de Montrevel, aide de camp de Bonaparte pas encore Napoléon 1er, ou Charles de Saint-Hermine, chef des compagnons de Jehu sous le nom de Morgan, un amour impossible, batailles et duels et la composition de fiction et histoire.