Men of the Mist

T.C. Bridges

The TEA at the Wasperton School was nothing more than thick slices of bread and margarine and an ominous black mixture served in huge metal teapots. The food was so bad that the boys could hardly eat it, but they did not dare to complain, at least as long as they were under the gaze of their master, Mr. Silas Craishaw. Because his eyes were no less rigid than his cane, and not a day passed, but some of them felt a prick of it. Among the forty or so boys who were sitting at two long tables, there was a couple that was somehow different from the rest. Despite their worn clothes and patched boots, an atmosphere of reproduction reigned around Clem and Billy Ballard.

The Fifth Queen

Ford Madox Hueffer

The first book in the triology, The Fifth Queen recounts Katharines arrival at court and the early stages of her relationship with England king Henry VIII. Growning up far from court, she is wholly unused to the corruption and intrigue that now surround her. Soon Katharine is locked in a vicious battle with Thomas Cromwell, the Lord Privy Seal, as she fights for political and religious change. The book details a battle for power between Katharine, Throckmorton, and Cromwell.

The Doctors Wife

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Isabelle Sliford is a young girl who dreams of the books she reads and lives to read them. She sees life through the eyes of Brion, Shelley, Shakespeare and Dickens. George Gilbert, a handsome young doctor, sees that she and she are so different from the girls he knows, falling in love with her. He is pragmatic, and she is a dreamer of all that is beautiful, which causes the gulf between them.

Pillar Mountain

Max Brand

Loafer was a big dog who looked like a buffalo wolf; he was gray against one background and pale yellow against another; like a buffalo wolf, he had a great leonine body covered with a loose hide which humped in a wave above his shoulders at every lurch of his gallop. Strangers always said Wolf! when they saw him, and no one said Good dog! except his master.

Les Aventures dArsene Lupin. LAiguille creuse

Maurice Leblanc

Arsene Lupin le charmant héros des romans policiers de lécrivain français Maurice Leblanc. Lupin révele des crimes enchevetrés, vole habilement des bijoux, laissant la police dans le froid. Lupin choquant, rusé, mais rien de plus. Nous comprenons quil y aura un crime, que Lupin le commet, il nest pas toujours vrai de savoir comment il peut le faire. Il entre en concurrence avec le détective, essayant de se cacher de lui.

Fantôme dOrient

Pierre Loti

Fantôme dOrient est le titre de la petite nouvelle qui ouvre le recueil o il raconte lune de ses escapades stanbouliote la recherche de la sépulture dun amour passé. Ce texte larmoyant et nostalgique est suivie dune description tres intéressante de Constantinople en 1890 pour le compte

Red Shadows

Robert E. Howard

The moonlight shimmered hazily, making silvery mists of illusion among the shadowy trees. A faint breeze whispered down the valley, bearing a shadow that was not of the moon-mist. A faint scent of smoke was apparent. The man whose long, swinging strides, unhurried yet unswerving, had carried him for many a mile since sunrise, stopped suddenly. A movement in the trees had caught his attention, and he moved silently toward the shadows, a hand resting lightly on the hilt of his long, slim rapier.

Cleopatra. Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis

H. Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard relies on adventure and exotic concepts. This story unfolds in the era of the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history. The line of the dynasty defended by the priesthood of Isis is trying to survive in difficult circumstances. The main character Harmachis must overthrow Cleopatra, banish the Romans and return to Egypt its former status.