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Harold Bindloss
The story of the imitation of man. After all, everyone has a person to whom you want to strive. There is a murder and a chase in Western Canada a few days before the advent of cars or even telegraph lines in much of the country. Great attention to the landscape. The author does not regret the descriptions of landscapes.
John Buchan
South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds and treacherous intrigues are afoot all bound up with the mysterious primeval kingdom of Prester John. Laputa is a charismatic leader of an incipient native uprising, secretly preaching the incendiary creed of Africa for the Africans, and proclaiming himself heir to the mantle of Prester John, a legendary 15th-century Christian king of Ethiopia. We participate in many thrilling adventure chases in the wild country, deal with nasty villains, narrow escapes, impossible climbs up rock walks, a secret cave of massive proportions with a hidden switch to open a boulder door, stores of diamonds to fund the uprising, a valuable and ancient ruby necklace and the courageous love of a gigantic dog.
Preston Fight. Or, The Insurrection of 1715
William Harrison Ainsworth
This is a historical novel. The story revolves around the Jacobite rising and the invasion of Preston. The book is considered one of the authors Lancashire novels.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice a novel about Elizabeth Bennet, who is a witty and independent young girl, lives in England with her four sisters, her mother, and her father. When Mr. Bingley, a handsome, rich, young bachelor, arrives to stay briefly in Hartfordshire (where the Bennets live), Mrs. Bennet immediately tries to get one of her daughters to marry him. Bingley is a charming young man and quickly falls in love with the eldest Bennet sister, the beautiful Jane. It is a guarded relationship, so Jane and Bingley dont express outright their mutual feelings for each other, though Bingley obviously shows favor to Jane. Meanwhile, Bingleys proud friend Darcy meets Elizabeth. Elizabeth loathes Mr. Darcy, and avoids him as much as possible. Though Darcy is proud and reserved at first, it becomes obvious of his fondness for Elizabeth.
Carolyn Wells
From that famous foundry of fiction, fact and frivolity, author Carolyn Wells, comes another Fleming Stone detective story. When a popular playwright is found stabbed with his own pen made from a medieval dagger, suspicion fall on Mrs. Guy Thorndike, wife of a prominent actor. Fleming Stone finally turns up to solve the case. In the room, unheeded by police and sleuths, is a clue upon which Fleming Stone constructs a daring solution. The yarn is skillfully woven and splendidly told. The Fleming Stone Mysteries is a collection of 17 baffling detective novels in which Fleming Stone, the great American Detective, displays his remarkable ingenuity for unravelling mysteries.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In the historical novel "Prince Otto", the romance of adventure is combined with the exact recreation of local color and historical setting. This novel is about Prince Otto, who is not very concerned about government affairs and problems, and he devotes all the time to hunting and other entertainments. Once during a hunt, he stumbles upon ordinary peasants who did not recognize him and agreed to shelter him for the night. During the evening dinner, the unrecognized prince tries to find out from the peasants what they think about their ruler, and those, as ordinary people, told him everything they think about Prince Otto.
Joseph Conrad
Prince Roman is a Pole who relinquishes his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as an unknown soldier, resisting Russian oppression. In captivity, he has every opportunity to avoid punishment, but he declares his unconditional commitment to the liberation of Poland. As a result, he suffers a quarter century in the imperial equivalent of the Gulag Siberian mines in the ninth century, before returning to live in modest conditions in what should have been his own property, before devoting his life to helping other people.
M.P. Shiel
Prince Zaleski (1895) represents Shiels contribution to the mystery genre, and is his answer to Sherlock Holmes. This is a set of three short detective mysteries but the stories are clever and even wonderfully creepy at times which can only be solved by Prince Zaleski the worlds greatest historian! It includes the following mysteries: The Race of Orven, The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks, The S.S.. Prince Zaleski is an eccentric gentleman detective who suffers from ennui but might sometimes be induced to take an absorbing interest in questions that had proved themselves too profound, or too intricate, for ordinary solution. Those who like mystery/detective fiction and weird fiction with fin-de-siecle British Decadence will enjoy this blend of the genres.
Mary Cholmondeley
In this magnificent novel, love and death intertwine and dissolve into each other. But the characters are the perfect product of the best Victorian literature.
Edgar Wallace
As a prophecy of modern warfare, this book, written before the Great War, is distinctly remarkable, as well as having the genuine Edgar Wallace sense of thrilling narrative. The centre of the plot is the invasion of Britain in 1909. It could be a crime story, as it opens in the mean streets of working class Deptford in the opening years of the 20th century, and includes criminals petty and not so petty. It is also a war story, and includes a balloon air raid over London; and finally the love story of Private Selby and his dream girl, the Brown Lady, also known as O.C. An interesting small novel which changes rather abruptly from a crime novel to a military drama and finally an early alternative history-meller describing a conflict.
Ford Madox Hueffer
Ford Madox Ford was a prolific English novelist and poet in the early 20th century. Ford wrote the best-selling novel The Good Soldier, as well as the Parades End series. Privy Seal is the second novel in the well-known Fifth Queen trilogy that recreates Tudor England in a masterful story of court intrigue, romance, and betrayal. Here Ford focuses on the figure of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful advisor to the King who comes to see Katharine as a rival whose good nature threatens his ambitious political agenda.
Honoriusz Balzak
Powieść Proboszcz z Tours Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Scen z życia prowincji cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Ksiądz Franciszek Birotteau jest jednym z księży katedry Świętego Gracjana w Tours. Oczekuje właśnie nominacji na kanonika katedralnego. Wynajął niedawno piękny pokój u starej panny Zofii Gamard. Nie wie, że mieszkający wcześniej u Gamard kanonik Troubert zazdrości mu wpływowych przyjaciół i bywania w towarzystwie. Nie wie również, iż swym mimowolnym postępowaniem uraził pannę Gamard. Kanonik Troubert oraz panna Gamard wspólnie organizują intrygę przeciw niepodejrzewającemu niczego ojcu Birotteau...
Franz Kafka
Józef K. jest prokurentem bankowym. Pewnego dnia w jego mieszkaniu zjawiają się urzędnicy państwowi. Oświadczają mu, że jest aresztowany, mimo iż nie popełnił żadnego przestępstwa. Na przesłuchaniach K. nieudolnie protestuje przeciwko osaczeniu go przez władzę sądową. Nie udaje mu się jednak zmienić tej sytuacji. Zaczyna więc szukać pomocy u innych: żony woźnego sądowego, wuja Karola, prawnika Hulda, malarza sądowego Titorelliego, innego oskarżonego Blocka, w końcu u więziennego kapelana. Uzyskane od nich informacje są jednak niepełne i niespójne. Życie Józefa K. staje się pasmem absurdalnych zdarzeń. Siłą opowieści Proces jest jej niezwykła atmosfera. Nieokreśloność winy Józefa K. pozakazuje, że każdy z nas może być osądzony. Autor wyraźnie nawiązuje do procesów inkwizycyjnych. Jest to też niewątpliwie opowieść o totalitaryzmie. Przy czym instytucją totalitarną staje się sąd, który odbiera bohaterowi prawo do obrony.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
He might be almost forgotten now, but Mr. Oppenheim wrote an amazing 116 novels, including many bestsellers. Several are set amid the glamour of Monte Carlo, including this 1920s romantic thriller. The novel has an intriguing start, as handsome and charming Sir Hargrave Wendever gets a nasty shock from the doctor. Wealthy, handsome, intelligent, single, with the world at his feet suddenly he finds his world crumbling. What will he do? He decides to do some good with his money in the time he has left, and offers a penniless young woman a free holiday at his villa, with no strings attached. The reader is transported from the grey fogs of London to the sunshine of Monte Carlo, where, along with the hero and some new friends, the real adventures begin.
Jerzy Żuławski
Profesor Butryn to drugi tom dylogii Laus feminae. Butrynowie uchodzą w środowisku krakowskiej śmietanki towarzyskiej I połowy XX wieku za szczęśliwą i spełnioną parę. Prawda jest niestety bardzo bolesna. Gdy para znajduje się w zaciszu swojego domu, uruchamia się fala wzajemnych oskarżeń, żali, niespełnionych oczekiwań oraz braku porozumienia. Profesor Butryn i jego żona Zośka to dobrzy znajomi Romana Turskiego oraz księżnej Heleny głównych bohaterów pierwszej części cyklu. Jaki wpływ na ich związek będzie miała owiana już legendą historia miłosna Turskiego i księżnej?
Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
Dalsze losy bohatera powieści Znachor profesora Rafała Wilczura, wybitnego warszawskiego chirurga. Po kilkunastu latach pracy jako wiejski znachor bohater ponownie zostaje naczelnym lekarzem renomowanej stołecznej kliniki. Nie wszystkich jednak cieszy jego powrót. Doktor Dobraniecki, który przez lata nieobecności profesora pełnił jego funkcję, czuje się zagrożony. Prowadzi zakulisową walkę z Wilczurem. Kiedy dochodzi do niezawinionej przez nikogo śmierci pacjenta, którego operował Wilczur, rozpętuje przeciwko swemu zwierzchnikowi nagonkę prasową. Rozgoryczony i załamany profesor ponownie tym razem już w pełni świadomie opuszcza Warszawę. Wraca do wioski, w której spędził ostatnie lata i znów jak dawniej leczy biednych ludzi. Razem z Wilczurem osiedla się tam zakochana w nim młoda lekarka Łucja... Czy życie z dala od wielkomiejskich intryg stanie się dla Rafała Wilczura skutecznym lekiem na jego depresję i pozwoli mu odnaleźć utracony sens życia? Profesor Wilczur to znakomita sensacyjno-obyczajowa historia z wątkami miłosnymi.