Paul Clifford

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Paul Clifford is a novel published in 1830 by Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) who was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. It tells the life of Paul Clifford, a man who leads a dual life as both a criminal and an upscale gentleman. Paul Clifford tells the story of a chivalrous highwayman in the time of the French Revolution. This is the novel that first used the opening line It was a dark and stormy night...

Sleeper Turns Horse-Thief

Max Brand

Another Sleeper story, featuring Sleeper, a gunslinger turned horse-thief, from the collection More Tales of the Wild West. Six action-packed stories of the Old West, filled with unforgettable characters, includes A Lucky Dog, in which mans best friend helps a would-be killer and thief find salvation, along with A First Blooding, Inverness, (aka Sleeper Turns Horse-Thief) and Death in Alkali Flat. In this story Sleeper is hired to break a horse and turns horse-thief. No pulp writer was more prolific than Frederick Faust, who wrote nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. Brand has been labeled one of the top three Western novelists of all time so western fans will be in for a treat.

Trouble for Lucia

E.F. Benson

Lucia is now rich, happily married, and Mayor of Tilling but the village gossip is in full swing and Lucias arch-rival Miss Elizabeth Mapp is out for revenge. Their epic collisions rock their small society and provide the narrative engines for Bensons gloriously farcical masterpieces. Will Lucia fall at the final hurdle? Delightfully witty and shamelessly entertaining, this is a fitting finale to the series E.F. Bensons au reservoir!

Twelve Men

Theodore Dreiser

Twelve Men biographical stories. Each story individually is an autobiographical essay, a portrait of an individual. If we consider the works as a whole, as a collection, then we can trace the history of the authors life: adolescence in Indiana, work as a newspaper reporter, freelance writer, worker at a railway station, magazine editor.

Swanns Way

Marcel Proust

Swanns Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood a sensitive boys impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition Swanns Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past recreated through memory.

Arsene Lupin. 12 romans et recueils de nouvelles. MultiBook

Maurice Leblanc

Arsene Lupin est un personnage de fiction français créé par Maurice Leblanc. Ce gentleman cambrioleur est particulierement connu pour son talent user de déguisements et changer didentité pour commettre ses délits. Le livre comprend les ouvrages suivants: Arsene Lupin gentleman-cambrioleur; Arsene Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes; LAiguille creuse; 813; Le Bouchon de cristal; Les Confidences dArsene Lupin; LÉclat dobus; Le Triangle dOr; LÎle aux trente cercueils; Les Dents du tigre; Les Huit coups de lhorloge; La Comtesse de Cagliostro.

From a Surgeons Diary

Cliffford Ashdown

Meet the widow anxious to bury her husband before the autopsy, the artist whos brushes have never been used, the bedridden drunk who contracts lead poisoning from a pub miles away. These strange stories are designed to baffle the mind and entertain the crime buff and newcomer alike. Set in the early days of the nineteenth century, the six tales here take place in various parts of rural England -- wherever the young physician-detectives assignments take him.

The Provincial Lady Goes Further

E.M. Delafield

A sequel to extremely popular, largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, by E. M. Delafield (also known as Mrs Henry de la Pasture), about her life in England in the early 20th century. Provincial Lady lives in a country house with her husband, two children, the childrens French governess, Cook and a few assorted helpers. A delightful see-youselves-as-others-see-you view that challenges the American sense of humor.