The Dolliver Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dr. Dolliver, a worthy character of great antiquity. A persons desire for an immortal existence, an attempt to satisfy which would be stated in various ways: first, through the selfish old sensualist, Colonel Dabni, who greedily grabbed the mysterious elixir and took his draft so that he died on the spot; then, through the plain old Grandir, longing to live for Pansy; and, perhaps, through Pansy herself, who, having come to enjoy some kind of ennobling love, would like to defeat death so that she can always maintain the perfection of her worldly happiness all these forms of desire to be united are higher, a play of shadows that should direct our mind to true immortality outside of this world.

The Secret of the Sands

Fred M. White

Sir Devereuxs name had stood deservedly high in the annals of the Indian Army. He was more than a soldier and a strategist, his name was known everywhere where good work was done. Sometimes he was tough and strict, his code of honor was simple and sincere. He never considered his people fighting vehicles, but treated them like members of his family. The horror that has arrived, will soon change everything.

Graveyard Rats

Robert E. Howard

Despite an aversion to the detective formula, he wrote the tales in Graveyard Rats during the same years he chronicled the adventures of Conan. This collection features a new introduction by scholar Don Herron, editor of The Dark Barbarian, the definitive look at the life and work of Robert E. Howard.

Death at the Inn

R. Austin Freeman

John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the bank official after meeting him at the scene of a murder near the bank. He mentions in conversation that he felt suicide was a very understandable option to someone who had lost everything. When Gillums body is found, the inquest duly returns a verdict of suicide and blackmail is suspected of being a contributory factor. However Gillums cousin is so convinced that he would never have killed himself, he engages Thorndyke to try to find the blackmailers and bring all the issues to light. The problem is, no one knows who the blackmailers are or even what the man was being blackmailed for.

Anne of Ingleside

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne, now Mrs. Doctor Blythe, is still sometimes as impetuous as when she was the girl from Green Gables. But with six lively children and hard-worked Gilbert to look after not to mention Gilberts disapproving aunt, Anne has to be practical too. She suddenly began to worry that perhaps her adored Gilbert no longer loved her. But how could he not? After all, she may have been older, but she was still the lively, irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, grown up. Shes ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again. Anne of Ingleside is the sixth book in the Anne Shirley chronology, and Montgomerys final published novel.

The Nine Bears

Edgar Wallace

With the stealing of the fat Englishmans wallet by Gregory Silinski, commences this extraordinary story of crime. Who are the Nine Bears? Who is Hyatt and the Man of the Eiffel Tower? And where is LOLO the secret rendezvous of the Nine? These are only a few of the facers that confront T. B. Smith, Assistant Commissioner from Scotland Yard, until the final dramatic scene aboard the mad battleship. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edgar Wallace, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. Novelist, playwright and journalist, Edgar Wallace, is best known for his popular detective and suspense stories which, in his lifetime, earned him the title, King of the Modern Thriller.

Listy z Afryki

Henryk Sienkiewicz

W 1890 r. 40-letni wówczas Henryk Sienkiewicz wyruszył w podróż do Afryki. Była to wyprawa myśliwska na południe Czarnego Lądu. Pisarz zapowiedział cykl korespondencji z podróży. Wiadomość ta spotkała się z wielkim zainteresowaniem czytelników. Sienkiewicz wyruszył z Neapolu 25 grudnia 1890 r. Zaopatrzony był w liczne listy polecające, m.in. od lorda Roberta Arthura Salisburyego, wybitnego polityka angielskiego, kardynała Lavigerie, prymasa Afryki, i Arthura Silva Whitea, szkockiego podróżnika i geografa. Trzonem wyprawy miała być miesięczna wycieczka myśliwska w głąb lądu. Punkt wyjścia był Zanzibar. Tom Listów z Afryki obejmuje dwadzieścia trzy szkice. Tylko dwa z nich powstały w czasie samej podróży. Resztę spisał autor po powrocie po kraju. Są to więc raczej wspomnienia niż listy z Afryki. Wyprawa do Afryki miała być dla pisarza chwilową ucieczką od dręczących go problemów obrzydłej codzienności. Tymczasem jak czytamy na kartach wspomnień afrykańskich pisarzowi towarzyszyła stale nostalgia oraz przygnębienie związane z oddaleniem się od rodziny.

Angel Esquire

Edgar Wallace

Angel Esquire (1919) is a great crime story by one of the masters of the genre. This novella revolves around the hunt for an inheritance, or rather the word to unlock the safe where the inheritance is safely stored. A nasty old millionaire dies, leaving clues to the combination of his safe where all his fortune is hidden, to several people, and the race is on! Will the beautiful innocent young girl whose father was swindled by the millionaire get to it first? Or will the criminal associates of said millionaire beat her? Its up to Angel Esquire, the famous and unorthodox detective to be sure that youth and innocence win!