In Search of the Unknown

Robert W. Chambers

The protagonist narrator serves as a common thread for stories that also feature humor. A young scientist travels the world in the footsteps of mysterious animals. This is an ironic and fantastic adventure of a self-confident biologist.

Baron Olson och andra historier

Sigge Strömberg

Baron Olsson och andra historier är en samling korta, blandade kserier om klurigheter, drskaper, ffänga, girighet mm.                                        

The New Magdalen

Wilkie Collins

The adopted daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is a beauty who is waiting for a profitable marriage. What is her past hiding? Will the Princess have the courage to turn into Cinderella, to sacrifice love and wealth?

Henry Dunbar. The Story of an Outcast

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Dunbar is the heir to a large English banking firm, but makes a serious mistake in his youth. His father and uncle expel him to India for his sins. Of course, everything is not so serious, since its isolation includes the leadership of their Indian branch. Then, after the death of his father, he returns to England. All this happens in the first few chapters!

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Little Kim meets an amazing man, a Tibetan llama, who descended from the mountains to the plains of India in search of a wonderful river. The Lama is kind, modest, but full of knowledge and driven by the idea of the Way and Wheel of life. Kim immediately becomes sympathetic to him and joins the llama on his journey. Kim feels that he would like to understand this man, to know him, "to appropriate him." Kipling very accurately expresses complex feelings, so on each page you can wait for the phrase phrase.

Tekturowy człowiek. Powieść

Aleksander Błażejowski

Tekturowy człowiek, ostatni tom trylogii osnutej wokół sekretów zaginionej walizki, przynosi wreszcie upragnione odpowiedzi. Romans baronowej Teitelberg zostaje nagle przerwany za sprawą ujawnienia prawdziwej tożsamości jej kochanka. Ten uporczywie usiłuje odnaleźć ukochaną. Jednak na jego drodze staje zagadkowa i przerażająca postać tekturowego człowieka. Bieg zdarzeń znów prowadzi do dawnej zbrodni w berlińskiej willi... Aleksander Błażejowski (18901940) polski pisarz i dziennikarz, zapisał się w historii jako autor pierwszej polskiej powieści kryminalnej.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court

Mark Twain

A chance meeting in the Warwick Castle leads to an unusual acquaintance. An American who was born and raised in Connecticut shares his diary, which describes in detail his journey to England in the VI century. Darkness and horror, hunger and poverty the main companions of the time. Wild laws, the incredible power of the church and the nobility, unlimited faith in words. Absolutely implausible, but quite quickly the American becomes an important person at the court of King Arthur, and four years later even pulls him on a dangerous journey.

Le Morne-au-diable ou lAventurier

Eugene Sue

Laventurier Lugarto lun des personnages démoniaques les plus colorés de Sue. Il a 22 ou 23 ans, cest un mulâtre qui a hérité dune énorme fortune et on ignore comment il a obtenu le titre de comte et son blason. Sue souligne la maturation prématurée du héros, lépuisement de sa vie. En ce sens, il est proche des personnages romantiques.