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Ethel Lina White
Ethel Lina White is a lover of intriguing stories. One of these is Put Out the Light. This is a terrible, exciting story of love, disappointment and jealousy, bred in a gloomy house on a hill. Florence Pye read in the cards, Death to an old woman. Her prophesy came true, silently and violently in the depths of the night. What Miss Pie didnt foresee was that she would find the body first.
Hulbert Footner
A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1899. The novel features the story of a happily married couple which is threatened by a previous lover of the husband. Also, the novel tells the adventures of a young couple, starting from their wedding preparation and ending with the birth of their first child. They are funny and cute, love each other, passionate and want always to be together. They make rules for family life, travel, keep the house and just live. The novel, set in Conan Doyles own time, written partly in the epistolary form he sought to revive after a century of disuse and which was also related to the self-conscious textuality of the late-Victorian urban Gothic.
Victor Hugo
Lanéé 1793, Bretagne du nord. Quatre-vingt-treize est un récit de lépoque de la Révolution française et aussi une histoire de trois personnages symboliques: un vieil aristocrate, le marquis de Lantenac, son neveu, Gauvain, un noble rattaché aux humbles Cimourdain, pere adoptif de Gauvain. Ici il y a les situations angoissantes et beaucoup de rebondissements. Pris en presse entre la loi et la raison, que décident Tellmarch, Gauvin, Cimourdain? Suis je hors la loi? Je nen sais rien. Mourir de faim, est ce tre dans la loi?
Talbot Mundy
Queen Cleopatra and Julius Caesar this is probably the most famous majestic love story with the calculation of all time, which changed the entire course of ancient history! Cleopatra was a brave, charming beauty of a cruel and courageous ruler who preferred to save Egypt at all costs, even if one had to challenge the most powerful ruler whom the world knew. Julius Caesar had absolute power and authority, the glory of being a skilful lover and an insistence on leaving Rome the most powerful city. The clash of these two great historical figures is mentioned in this book.
Jacob Abbott
What else can impress in the history of Queen Elizabeth? However, Jacob Abbott was able to show us the other secret aspects of the queens life. The author is doing a tremendous job describing the area in which she lived, as well as a thorough description of the people who formed her. She was a queen to be admired.
E.F. Benson
The village of Rieseholm worships Queen Lucia. She completely commands the village, the ever-benevolent dictator of all things that really matter. However, someone had the pleasure of overthrowing a queen so great. And it was Olga Braisley, an opera singer from London. She is a real celebrity, not at all like that queen. Can she do it?
Fred M. White
Loving woman possesses charms. And not every man can resist them. So our hero, Tom Gilchrist, was fascinated by the beauty of the girl. His uncle, Sir Walter Vanguard warns that this is a bad idea. Perhaps he is right.
Robert E. Howard
Hoofs drummed down the street that sloped to the wharfs. The folk that yelled and scattered had only a fleeting glimpse of a mailed figure on a black stallion, a wide scarlet cloak flowing out on the wind. Far up the street came the shout and clatter of pursuit, but the horseman did not look back. He swept out onto the wharfs and jerked the plunging stallion back on its haunches at the very lip of the pier.
Queen of the Dawn. A Love Tale of Old Egypt
H. Rider Haggard
Queen of the Dawn is an ancient Egyptian fantasy. The beginning of the story is very rapidly developing, from the very beginning the pharaon dies. And the daughter of Pharaoh is forced to hide. She meets and falls in love with the usurpers disguised son. The end is full of adventures and bright battles.
H. Rider Haggard
All events take place in Africa, in the imaginary kingdom, or perhaps one should say queendom of Mur, ruled by Maqueda, a descendant King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. This time Rider tells about two more lost tribes of Africa. Due to the contradictions between them, one of them faces death. The ring of Queen Sheba given to Dr. Richard Adams is a sign of well-deserved reward for the salvation of the people and the destruction of the main enemy.
Queen Zixi of Ix. Or, The Story of the Magic Cloak
L. Frank Baum
Another enchanting tale of juvenile literature from the creator of The Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum dedicated the book Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak to his oldest son, Frank Joslyn Baum. In it, the queen of fairies creates a magic cloak which grants its wearer a single wish. Meanwhile, an orphan boy becomes the new king of Noland and his sister gains the cloak which is stolen by the Queen of Zixi, who wishes her mirror to show her as the beautiful young woman she appears instead of showing her appearance at her true age of 683 years. Adventures ensue, armies attack and retreat, and good wins out when the fairy queen takes back the magic cloak. The cloak turns out to be a source of trouble as well as a blessing. Baum packs this adventure with his customary humor, inventive fantasies, and captivating characters.
Quelques aspects du vertige mondial
Pierre Loti
Dans ce livre publié en 1917, Pierre Loti, le célebre écrivain français de la grande époque et grand voyageur, décrit certains aspects de la Premiere Guerre mondiale. Si vous voulez vous sortir de limage déformée de Loti, exotique et non juif, il vous suffit de lire ces textes qui donnent un éclairage différent et completent la tres bonne édition de Soldats bleus.
Robert W. Chambers
This is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers. Green challenges his friend, the adventure novelist, to show him what can happen to him, that indeed romance is all around us, just waiting for us to notice it. This is the only story that dives into fantasy when Green discovers a girl trying to avoid a fortune tellers prediction.
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
Uznawany za czwartego polskiego wieszcza romantycznego, niezrozumiany za życia, zapomniany po śmierci. Ponownie odkrył go dopiero Zenon Przesmycki-Miriam w okresie Młodej Polski. Zajmował się wieloma dziedzinami sztuki: pisał poezje, formy prozatorskie, dramaty, eseje, był też grafikiem, rzeźbiarzem, malarzem i filozofem. Quidam ma formę przypowieści osadzonej w starożytności, pełnej wieloznacznych odniesień do literatury, religii i kultury.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Quo vadis opisuje wydarzenia z pierwszego wieku naszej ery, Imperium Rzymskim rządzi despotyczny cesarz Neron. Na jego dwór zostaje sprowadzona niewolnica Ligia, córka króla Ligów, chrześcijanka. W pięknej niewolnicy zakochuje się jeden z pretorianów Nerona Marek Winicjusz. Chce uczynić z dziewczyny swoją nałożnicę. Z opresji wybawia Ligię jej przyjaciel, potężny Ursus. Winicjusz jednak nie ustępuje. Wkrótce dowiaduje się, gdzie mieszka Ligia. Postanawia ją porwać. Pod osłoną nocy udaje się wraz z gladiatorem Krotonem do domu dziewczyny. Po raz drugi Ligię ratuje dzielny Ursus, który zabija Krotona i ciężko rani Winicjusza. Ligia opatruje rany swojego krzywdziciela. Wyznaje mu przy tym, że jest w nim zakochana. Marek postanawia zostać mężem Ligii. Przyjmuje chrześcijaństwo. Tymczasem Neron podpala Rzym. Za radą głównego dowódcy armii Tygellina oraz swojej kochanki Poppei Sabiny winą za spalenie miasta obarcza chrześcijan. Rozpoczynają się masowe prześladowania ludzi wyznających wiarę w Chrystusa. Są oni krzyżowani, paleni na stosie, rzucani lwom na pożarcie a wszystko na oczach uradowanego rzymskiego tłumu...
Quo Vadis. A Narrative of the Time of Nero
Henryk Sienkiewicz
During the reign of Nero, Rome was famous for great holidays, tournaments for poets, as well as exciting games and circus performances that lasted day and night. Petronius of Rome, was generous and noble, a faithful man at the court of Nero. Intrigued by an interesting story about his nephew Mark Winnie, who met with a mysterious young woman, who was called Ligia and whom he loved, is now a foster child of noble Roman economy. She is a Christian. The author wrote a narrative with the utmost caution and his vision of Ancient Rome and early Christianity. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1905.