Роковые яйца (Fatalne jaja)

Михаил Афанасиевич Булгаков, Michaił Afanasjewicz Bułhakow

«Роковые яйца» Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова 2013 фантастическая повесть, но история, рассказанная в ней, ужасно реалистичная. История о том, как череда нелепых ошибок приводит порой к трагическим последствиям. Действие происходит на фоне извечных спутников человеческого общества: бюрократизма, халатности, зависти. Профессор Персиков разрабатывает уникальный красный луч, ускоряющий процесс развития живых организмов. Заведующий совхозом Александр Рокк решает воспользоваться этим открытием для быстрого восстановления поголовья кур, гибнущих от неизвестной болезни. Он похищает установку и выписывает из-за границы ящики куриных яиц. Но роковая ошибка приводит к тому, что в птичник привозят яйца страусов, анаконд и крокодилов, которые расплодились, выросли до невероятных размеров и двинулись на Москву...

The Marriage of Esther. A Torres Straits Sketch

Guy Boothby

The Marriage of Esther, surrounded by a messy community of settlers on a remote island off the coast of Australia, combines the best qualities of a classic action-adventure film with an ingeniously crafted riddle and right in the middle of all this is a heartbreaking novel.

The Moon of Much Gladness

Ernest Bramah

This early work by Ernest Bramah Smith was originally published in 1911. The Moon of Much Gladness Related by Kai Lung is the fourth book in the Kai Lung series. The China which Kai Lung inhabits has numerous features of the fantasy Land of Fable, and many of the embedded tales are fantasy; all are told in an ornate manner which ironically, often hilariously, exaggerates the old Chinese tradition of understatement and politesse. Ernest Bramah was born was near Manchester in 1868. He was a poor student, and dropped out of the Manchester Grammar School when sixteen years old to go into the farming business. Bramah found commercial and critical success with his first novel, The Wallet of Kai Lung, but it was his later stories of detective Max Carrados that assured him lasting fame.

A Hidden Enemy

Fenton Ash

We are surrounded by hidden enemies many of them deadly creatures... Meet another short science fiction novel from a British writer of pulp fiction Francis Henry Frank Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-sf Pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. He wrote under the pseudonyms Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash.

Wyspa węży

Jim Poker

Jim Poker to jeden z pseudonimów literackich Juliana Mieczysława Ginsberta (18921948), używany obok Inż. J.G. i Kpt. Nemo. Ginsbert był polskim inżynierem mechanikiem, porucznikiem Wojska Polskiego i komandorem porucznik Marynarki Wojennej. Brał udział w obu wojnach światowych. Pracował jako dziennikarz, pisarz, publicysta oraz reżyser w dziedzinie marynistyki. Pisał powieści przygodowe, podróżnicze i marynistyczne. Stworzył typ powieści historyczno-awanturniczej, zrodzony z bogatej fantazji autora podpartej gruntowną wiedzą techniczną i wojskową.

Between the Acts

Virginia Woolf

The author describes us only one day. One summer day of 1939. England. Between the Acts plays devoted to the history of England and presented on the stage of the amateur theater, a drama of misunderstanding and alienation in real life of the main characters of the novel is played. Between acts, the ideals and hopes of people standing on the threshold of World War II are crumbling, the whole world is crumbling.

A Fight for Fortune. Or, The Tiger of Batol

T.C. Bridges

A pair of seventeen-year-old boys leaves the house to make their way to fate in the Far Eastern seas. It must be my hands that are at fault, then, replied Clive. Ive been trying everywhere for the past three weeks, and cant get taken on. I came down here to look up Captain Brereton, an old friend of my fathers. Hes skipper and part owner of a tramp steamer, the Sphinx. I hoped to cadge a passage to Australia, where I thought I might find a job.

Old Saint Pauls

William Harrison Ainsworth

This is a historical novel describing the events of the Great Plague in London and the Great Fire of London. The protagonist is Leonard Holt, apprentice of our grocer Stephen Blundel, he is madly in love with the grocers daughter Annabelle, who is not madly in love with him, she is madly in love with Lord Rochester.