The Hash Knife Outfit

Zane Grey

The sequel to The Drift Fence, featuring the continuing story of Jim Traft and Molly Dunn and introducing Jims sister Glorianna, who finds more than she bargained for in the West. When Gloriana Traft came to Arizona to visit her tenderfoot brother Jim, trouble was rampant in Yellow Jacket. The notorious Hash Knife Outfit of rustlers and gunmen were stealing the ranchers cattle and terrorizing the beautiful valley. Guns would blaze and blood would run hot and red before Goloriana and her brother became true and valiant citizens of the frontier West. Zane Grey paints a pretty picture of the land, the men and women who settled it, and they danger of cowboy life.

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Maria Rodziewiczówna

Maria Rodziewiczówna (18631944) jedna z najpopularniejszych polskich autorek tworzyła powieści psychologiczno-obyczajowe z życia polskiej inteligencji ziemiańskiej i mieszczańskiej XIX i XX wieku. Poruszała w swej twórczości temat cywilizacyjnego oddziaływania kultury polskiej na Kresach Wschodnich, w tym religijność, patriotyzm, tradycję i kult przyrody ojczystej. W multibooku znalazło się 20 najpiękniejszych powieści autorki, takich jak: Dewajtis Kwiat lotosu Między ustami a brzegiem pucharu Błękitni Hrywda Anima vilis Pożary i zgliszcza Jerychonka Ryngraf Barcikowscy Magnat Nieoswojone ptaki Wrzos Czahary Ragnarök Byli i będą Atma Barbara Tryźnianka Lato leśnych ludzi Florian z Wielkiej Hłuszy

A Prince of Sinners

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Elegantly written novel, which tells about a young man who can not forgive his newly found father, because he left him and his mother. But after many living trials in many ways teach them both, they realize that there are other more important priorities and forces. A pleasant, easy-to-read, and thought-out essay.

Sind Götter?. Die Halfred Sigskaldsaga

Felix Dahn

Felix Dahn (1834-1912) war ein deutscher Professor für Rechtswissenschaften, Schriftsteller und Historiker. Zwischen 1882 und 1901 ließ Dahn in 13 Bänden Kleine Romane aus der Völkerwanderung, zwischen 1890 und 1895 ebenfalls in mehreren Bänden eine etwa dreitausendseitige Autobiografie folgen. Sind Götter? Die Halfred Sigskaldsaga eine nordische Erzählung aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert, 1874.

Lady Barbarina and Other Tales

Henry James

Isabel, the main character of the story, knows the charm of marriage with a worthless person. Her fate the confluence of fatal circumstances. Being a dowry and finding herself in Europe, she refuses to be quite worthy applicants for a hand, and having received a fortune, connects life with the rogue Osmond.

The Interloper

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Oppenheim was famous for his hundreds of spy and espionage novels. This is not one of them. Its billed as a novel of social intrigue and as a story of revenge without violence and moves quickly. Duke Henry Chatfield with his family, and family lawyer Sir Stephen are riding through central Italy when the car breaks down in Pellini, where, 20 years earlier, the Dukes brother had a mistress and illegitimate child. Dukes daughter Monica is intrigued by a young Englishman named Francis taking his vows before disappearing into a monastery. She tries to convince him not to shut himself away but fails. Three years later, the family lawyer discovers that Francis is in fact the legitimate Duke, and encourages him to return to England. How Francis treats his relations, and his new found wealth and position form the plot of this 1927 novel.

Room 13

Edgar Wallace

With Room 13 in 1924 Edgar Wallace introduced readers to Mr. J. G. Reeder, one of the least glamorous of all fictional detectives. Mr. J. G. Reeder is neither a police detective nor an amateur crime-fighter, nor is he a private detective. In fact he is employed by the Bank of England, and acts as a kind of consultant to Scotland Yard. This time Edgar Wallaces unassuming investigator shares the limelight with a young and vigorous ex-con called John Gray. John Gray, a moderately wealthy gentleman who was set up for having supposedly cheated riding in a horse race and sent to Dartmoor, comes out seeking vengeance on the man who sent him there and finds himself aided in his quest by the seemingly innocuous J.G. Reeder.

The Lone Hand

Harold Bindloss

Mark was an engineer and is currently out of work. The landscape was colorless and dreary, but Mark was young, and after the pulsating workshop he liked the space and tranquility. The Croziers owned the soil they cultivated on the hills. They held tenaciously everything that belongs to them