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Sara Jeannette Duncan
This story begins with the termination of the protagonists engagement to his daughter-in-law. narrator with a fiancee who does not approve of the change. The protagonist decides to travel to Europe, to Italy and France. Travel provides an opportunity for witty observation of people and places, and by the end, romance has re-entered the storytellers life.
Robert E. Howard
Taramis, Queen of Khauran, awakened from a dream-haunted slumber to a silence that seemed more like the stillness of nighted catacombs than the normal quiet of a sleeping place. She lay staring into the darkness, wondering why the candles in their golden candelabra had gone out. A flecking of stars marked a gold-barred casement that lent no illumination to the interior of the chamber.
A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories
Robert W. Chambers
This novel is for lovers of romance novels. The author describes how a man meets a woman and their relationship develops. This romance will put you in a good mood as the love line will place you in pleasant memories.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Aaron Rodd, who was a shy and awkward being, felt unexpectedly at his ease. He was even anxious for further conversation. He had a rather long, pale face, with deep-set eyes and rugged features. He was soberly, even sombrely dressed in dismal black. He had the air of a recluse. Perhaps that was why the young lady smiled upon him with such confidence.
Jules Verne
The whaling schooner with an incomplete crew returns to America, after not very successful trades. On board is the owners wife with the child, their cousin Benedict, an analogue of Paganel and Jung Dick Send, fifteen turbulent years. Next comes the rescue of blacks from an abandoned flooded ship and a bloody scene of a whale hunt. This episode, although it did not greatly excite me as a child, having been forgotten, now seemed completely disgusting, especially the realization that the whalers had attacked a nursing mother with a kitten, who now also became doomed to die, but was already starving to death.
John Retcliffe
Sir John Retcliffe, der eigentlich Herrmann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche heißt, war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, aber er war auch bei der Preußischen Geheimpolizeit tätig, arbeitete für Redaktionen, war Herausgeber und Kriegsberichterstatter. Sir John Retcliffes historisch-politische Romane sind im ureigensten Sinn mit Abenteuern angereicherte Tendenzromane, die das gesamte politische Geschehen seiner Zeit zum Inhalt haben. Abenteuer in Sibirien ist eine autonome Episode aus dem 13-bändigen Riesenroman Biarritz. Hier präsentiert der Autor einen historischen Abenteuerroman aus den Weiten der sibirischen Tundra.
Hugh Walpole
This novel is served with a psychological detective dressing. In reality, this is a mixture of experiences, feelings and thoughts of the protagonist, describing events that in any case should end in tragedy. This is not hidden from the very beginning. Everything that happens is written very atmospheric, gradually thickening events to an inevitable outcome.
Max Brand
Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author best known for his thoughtful Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres, he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. In his first western tale, Above the Law... Max Brand, villain, the bandit Black Jim, has the books of Scott, Shakespeare, Poe, Byron, Malory at his bunk. Poetic passages are found in practically every Max story. Black Jim loses his heart when he discovers love and a new identity in the Old West. Brands first western story is a timeless tale of new identity and love in the Old West.
Stanisław Wyspiański
Dramat Stanisława Wyspiańskiego, oparty na motywach Iliady, wydany w roku 1903. Skupia się na wydarzeniach, które rozegrały się podczas oblężenia Troi. Składa się z luźno powiązanych ze sobą scen i stanowi wyraz młodzieńczych zainteresowań autora dotyczących starożytności. Utwór charakteryzuje podkreślenie konfliktu w obu obozach greckim (spór Achillesa z Agamemnonem) oraz trojańskim (konflikt Hektora i Parysa).
Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski
Aciaki z pierwszej A zawierają opowiadania przedstawiające historie z życia szkolnego dwóch synów Juliusza Kadena-Bendrowskiego, publikowane na łamach Gazety Polskiej w latach 19301931. Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski (18851944) to polski pisarz, kapitan piechoty Wojska Polskiego oraz członek masonerii. Jego powieści charakteryzują się przede wszystkich dużą wnikliwością i wiernością faktom historycznym, a także wyrafinowanym językiem oraz połączeniem stylów i środków literackich. Do czasu odwilży po śmierci Stalina większość jego powieści objęta była cenzurą i wycofana z bibliotek.
Max Brand
The Hale brothers, both successful ranchers, had a disagreement: Ross believed that with a fine education his son Peter would become even more successful than he was himself: Andy believed the opposite. Peter returns from college to his fathers ranch after an accident has left him physically crippled but not without ability or enterprise. Max Brand, was the pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust. He was a prolific American author best known for his classic western novels. Brand also created the famous character Dr. Kildare which became the basis of many films and television shows.
E.F. Benson
A mixture of romance and paranormal. The story of a child who belongs to the upper class. The main character, Archie, saw something strange in women. They wore skirts that might have hidden some kind of abnormality that would be scary to contemplate. Men were a true example of courage.
Rudyard Kipling
This is a scatter shot collection of short stories and poems that really have nothing to do with each other. Most of them come from Kiplings early years, so some stories are good. Night Mail is the only science fiction; then there is a fantastic story about a haunted house, almost made up as a detective story, and in the less haunted genre, the couple moves to an old estate and finds that the bonds of earth and blood are stronger than human travels.
Eliza Orzeszkowa, Tadeusz Garbowski
Powieść Elizy Orzeszkowej, przybiera formę listownego dwugłosu korespondencji między Seweryną Zdrojowską oraz Tomaszem Rodowskim. Listy Tomasza pisał początkowo Tadeusz Garbowski, jednak nie ukończył swojej części Orzeszkowa sama dokończyła dzieło. Korespondencja dotyczy sporów światopoglądowych bohaterowie prezentują różne stanowiska w kwestii religii, moralności czy stosunku do świata. W tle rysuje się też wątek miłosny.
George Eliot
George Eliots (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) first full-length novel, Adam Bede paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, self-deception and redemption. First published in 1859, this innovative novel carried its readers back sixty years to a time of impending change for England and the wider world. The story follows the rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. Adam Bede is a carpenter who falls in love with Hetty Sorrel, a vain, self-seeking country maid-girl who lives with the Poysers, uncle and aunt of Adam. In reality, the plot involves the love story among the four main characters: Adam, Hetty Sorrel, Arthur Donnithorne, a young squire who seduces Hetty, and Dinah Morris, Hettys cousin and an itinerant Methodist preacher. After have been seduced by Arthur, Hettys life become a turmoil of tragic events...
Jack London
The novel Adventure in an acute, exciting form tells about the life of American and European settlers on the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean. The main characters are no less pathos than villains who are so colorful in their villainy that they set their teeth together. Jack London, in the preface, writes that this book came out of the movie script. And truly, it is full of adventure, changing locations, colorful descriptions of snow-white beaches.