The Protector

Harold Bindloss

Vayne was 27 years old. And nine of which he spent on scott, canoeing, chopping trees and searching for minerals. He and his friend discovered valuable mineral property several months earlier. They were aiming for a better life and wanted to grow their business. However, not everything is so easy.

The Great Court Scandal

William Le Queux

The Ladybird will refuse to have anything to do with the affair, my dear fellow. It touches a womans honour, and I know her too well. Bah! Well compel her to help us. She must. She wouldnt risk it, declared Harry Kinder, shaking his head. Risk it! Well, well have to risk something! Were in a nice hole just now! Our traps at the Grand, with a bill of two thousand seven hundred francs to pay, and the Ladybird coolly sends us from London a postal order for twenty-seven shillings and sixpenceall she has!

The Lord of the Sea

M.P. Shiel

The story is of Richard Hogarth, a man of lofty spirit who on discovering a cache of giant diamonds inside a fallen meteor undertakes a bold project to re-shape the human condition on a global scale. He builds huge steel forts with his wealth, places diamonds at the cross-roads of the earths oceans to control all sea-traffic for tribute to benefit the citizens of his mammoth iron islands. The Lord of the Sea (1901) develops a network of mid-19th-century motifs incredible coincidences, swapped babies, hidden identities, chance-found incredible wealth, documents in a trunk, festering revenges, elaborate prison escapes, frustrated romance, Napoleonic megalomania yet, though written to an aesthetic outdated for its time, in embodies that aesthetic with enormous elan and vitality.

The Outlaws of the Air

George Griffiths

George Griffiths is a lover of classic adventure novels. The Outlaws of the Air tells the story of the future of air battles and the creation of a utopian colony in the Pacific. Here, as always, there are many unusual things: Utopians, Anarchists, War Ships of the Air, ultra fast Sea Vessels and even the hokey-named Anarchite super-explosive. This story captures readers from the front pages.

Kriminalgeschichten

Edgar Wallace

Dieses Buch ist eine Sammlung von Edgar Wallace schönsten Geschichten: Der Fall Stretelli, Das Diamantenklavier, Doktor Kay, Der Selbstmörder, Indizienbeweis. Edgar Wallace hat zeigte einmal mehr seine Fähigkeiten als großer Schriftsteller.

When the Gangs Came to London

Edgar Wallace

Set in the late 1920s-early 1930s, When the Gangs Came to London is rated as one of Edgar Wallaces best work by fans of his genre of crime fiction. Two rival gangs from Chicago coming to London and competing to blackmail rich men into paying up to prevent being killed. When a lull ensues, Captain Jiggs Allermain of the Chicago Detective Bureau suspects the rival gangs of forming an uneasy alliance. Suddenly a shot rings through the House of Commons, unleashing an outburst of terror even more bloody. Wallace wrote this one towards the end of his life, he may even have been in Hollywood when he wrote it which could explain the very old school Hollywood gangsters!

Dziewczę ze Słonecznego Wzgórza

Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson

Opowieść Bjrnstjerne Bjrnsona przenosi nas do norweskiej wioski połowy XIX wieku, gdzie splatają się losy dziewczyny o imieniu Synnve tytułowego dziewczęcia ze Słoneczego Wzgórza i chłopca o imieniu Torbjrn. Ich młodzieńcza miłość oraz towarzyszące jej perturbacje ukazane są na tle wiejskich zwyczajów, kultury ludowej Norwegii i działań sekty Haugego, która determinuje ich życie.

Madame Bovary. Murs de province

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary un grand roman de lécrivain français Gustave Flaubert. Le personnage principal, Emma Bovary, souffre de lincapacité de réaliser ses rves dune vie sociale brillante et pleine de passions romantiques. Au lieu de cela, elle mene la vie monotone de la femme dun pauvre médecin de province. Mais toutes ses tentatives pour sortir du monde sombre sont vouées léchec.