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When God Laughs and Other Stories
Jack London
A very wise story from the cycle about love. An inexhaustible topic, do not talk about it. No one has yet managed to beat the gods. Although Karkines met people who almost succeeded: Marvin Fisk and Ethel Baird. But the punishment of the gods overtook them at the end.
R. Austin Freeman
"When Rogues Fall Out incorporates some wonderful conundrums to hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers. This book contains three interconnected stories. In the first, a respectable collector of antiques falls victim to temptation. In the second a police inspector is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a railway tunnel. This section includes an interesting essay on the early use of fingerprint evidence. The third is a classic locked room mystery where someone has been making use of a sealed room in a remote country house. All three are resolved together in the last few pages. The rogues of the title include three very different men engaged in stealing and fencing high-quality jewelry. One is a working-class robber; one a refined antiques dealer turned fence; and one a mysterious middleman with the appearance of a gentleman.
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!
Herbert George Wells
This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Grahams money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the entire planet. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. This struggle is the main focus of the larger part of the novel. The novel proposes that whatever is done officially for the good of society, individual ambition is unlikely to address the failure of capitalist structures to create a good standard of living for those whose work supports the system.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The final, and certainly climactic, adventure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Professor George Edward Challenger is 1928s When the World Screamed. It is another Professor Challenger story where a new craziness pressures him to make the earth feel the existence of human being on its surface. Professor says the earth is a giant creature and it doesnt even care or know that we the human being exist on its surface. Professor believes that by drilling into the center of the earth, he will be the first person to let the planet know that there are people on its surface. He begins a very expensive experiment and one day his dreams come true. The majority of the story, like others in the story, is about the build-up to the event. Its narrated by a new character, Peerless Jones, who is an expert on drilling.
H. Rider Haggard
When the World Shook is a classic story, written by H. Rider Haggard, telling about the horror of a ghost town. The plot revolves around three friends one absolutely unshakable skeptic, the other an absolutely believer, and the third and central character is a person who is looking for meaning in life. A hurricane shipwrecks them on an unknown island in the Pacific inhabited by a degenerating people who worship an ancient god called Oro. Three men experience all sorts of difficulties and find all kinds of miracles on the island.
Ewelina Nawara
Nowe miasto. Nowy start. Dawne uczucia, które nigdy nie zniknęły. Ivy wszystko zaplanowała - wyjazd z rodzinnej miejscowości na studia, zostawienie przeszłości za sobą i w końcu złapanie oddechu pełną piersią. Cade miał jeden cel - skupić się na futbolu i nie pozwolić, by cokolwiek stanęło mu na drodze do miejsca w NFL. Oboje się nie spodziewali, że ich drogi znów się skrzyżują... I to tam, gdzie każde z nich miało budować nowe życie. Choć na kampusie widzą się tylko przez chwilę, wspomnienia wracają z siłą, której nie potrafią zignorować. Gdy jednak ona w ramach niewinnej zabawy godzi się na zakład... wszystko zaczyna się komplikować. On nie może przestać o niej myśleć... ale to przecież siostra jego największego rywala. Czy w grze o tak wysoką stawkę wygrana przewyższa ryzyko? "When We Fall" to historia o niegasnących uczuciach, o nowych przyjaźniach i o drugiej szansie, na którą być może nikt nie jest gotowy.
Ewelina Nawara
Nowe miasto. Nowy start. Dawne uczucia, które nigdy nie zniknęły. Ivy wszystko zaplanowała - wyjazd z rodzinnej miejscowości na studia, zostawienie przeszłości za sobą i w końcu złapanie oddechu pełną piersią. Cade miał jeden cel - skupić się na futbolu i nie pozwolić, by cokolwiek stanęło mu na drodze do miejsca w NFL. Oboje się nie spodziewali, że ich drogi znów się skrzyżują... I to tam, gdzie każde z nich miało budować nowe życie. Choć na kampusie widzą się tylko przez chwilę, wspomnienia wracają z siłą, której nie potrafią zignorować. Gdy jednak ona w ramach niewinnej zabawy godzi się na zakład... wszystko zaczyna się komplikować. On nie może przestać o niej myśleć... ale to przecież siostra jego największego rywala. Czy w grze o tak wysoką stawkę wygrana przewyższa ryzyko? "When We Fall" to historia o niegasnących uczuciach, o nowych przyjaźniach i o drugiej szansie, na którą być może nikt nie jest gotowy.