Face au drapeau

Jules Verne

Dans le roman Face au drapeau, raconte le destin de Tom Rock, linventeur des moyens destructeurs dun pouvoir énorme. Le désir de tirer profit de son invention amene Rock la folie et son fulgurateur devient la propriété des pirates internationaux. Basé sur ce roman, le célebre film de Karl Zeman Le mystere de la banquise insulaire.

Eine ägyptische Königstochter

Georg Ebers

Pharao Amasis will einen dauerhaften Frieden in seinem Reich am Nil erhalten. Um den Frieden mit den immer mächtiger werdenden Persern zu besiegeln, will Amasis seine hübsche Tochter Nitetis dem persischen Thronfolger zur Frau geben. Der ägyptischen Prinzessin Nitetis, die den babylonischen Fürsten Cambyses II heiraten soll. Doch einer Eunuchen Cambyses einflüstert, dass Nitesis eigentlich seinen Bruder Bartja liebe. Der Sohn von Amasis, den die Priester um den kleinen Finger gewickelt haben um ihre Ziele zu erreichen, arbeitet gegen den Plan seines Vaters. Weiß er doch dass Nitetis in Wahrheit gar nicht die Tochter seines Vaters ist. Der Anfang verhängnisvoller Geschehnisse.

The Price a Woman Pays

Edgar Wallace

Dr. Beechington knew how difficult it was to live in genteel poverty. He was determined his daughter Mary should marry a wealthy man but Mary wasnt so sure. Should she obey her father or follow her heart? Best remembered for penning the screenplay for the classic film King Kong, author Edgar Wallace was an astoundingly popular luminary in the action-adventure genre in the early twentieth century. The Price a Woman Pays is a story packed with great fun and Wallace keeps the action moving along swiftly, as he always did, and it highlights Wallaces unmatched skill in setting a pulse-pounding pace. Wonderful entertainment and highly entertaining.

Miss Mapp

E.F. Benson

Miss Mapp came to the village of Tilling to expose many of the inhabitants there. Mappa must defeat the small and sad curious villagers. People have many questions about the Royal Family. Though there are superstitions that only young people can live in Tilling. However, our main character breaks these stereotypes. After all, she is old, but very smart.

Night and Day

Virginia Woolf

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is her second novel and was published in 1919. But the novel is very forward-looking in its examination of relationships under the stress of the culture shift was occurring in the early 20th century. The story takes place in pre-war England and involves four characters and their relationships. Kathryn Hillbery the middle class privileged girl whose idea of success is marriage. Ralph Denham the middle class lawyer who supports his whole family and looks for his own peace of mind. William Rodney the mediocre poet and the suffragette, looking for the kind of romanticism one finds in books. Mary round out the main characters, involved in womens rights, who regards work as her precept of living. Also in the mix is Kathryns slightly ditzy mother who while working on a book seems to be easily distracted. The characters all work well together.

The Incredulity of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton

The Incredulity of Father Brown is the third collection of short mysteries by G.K. Chesterton about that character. In The Incredulity of Father Brown, all the stories involve murders and conflicts between Catholicism and atheism and spiritualism. We find the usual Chesterton moral landscape -- in which the author paints a picture of nature somehow mirroring the fact that something is very wrong. In The Incredulity of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton treats us to another set of bizarre crimes that only his stumpy Roman Catholic prelate has the wisdom and mindset to solve. As usual, Chesterton loves playing with early twentieth-century class distinctions, common-sense assumptions, and the often anti-Catholic biases of his characters.

Masters of the Wheat-Lands

Harold Bindloss

In the Spartan simplicity on the prairie there were many young Englishmen. They are looking for some elegance of culture or sophistication in the woman they marry. And few of these women are willing to do hard work to help a man. At the heart of the plot is a love story, where the main characters have to prove that they can do anything for their second half.

Mr. Billingham, the Marquis and Madelon

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Mr. Samuel T. Billingham of New York, recently landed from the great liner anchored a few miles out, walked along the Terrace at Monte Carlo, serene, light-hearted, beatifically content. His yellow shoes and his variegated socks might be described as a trifle vivid, but the rest of his attirehis well-pressed grey suit, his irreproachable linen, and his well- shaped grey Homburg hat was beyond criticism. He was a man of medium height, thick-set, inclined a little, perhaps, to embonpoint. His complexion was pink, his flaxen hair only slightly streaked with grey, his eyes filled with the light of good-humour.