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Sergeant Silk. The Prairie Scout
Robert Leighton
As long as the lone red-coated equestrian policemen of the Northwest, tracking cattle thieves across uninhabited prairies and fighting hordes of warriors, have something to do with the boy approaching his teens, Mr. Leightons frank tales will be in demand. Wolves, carbines, bags of gold and logging run through its pages, and Sergeant Silk meets them all a combination of Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Sherlock Holmes in a red military jacket.
Edgar Wallace
One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives. Wallaces Sergeant Sir Peter is a collection of stories about an aristocratic young man who becomes a Police Sergeant. Despite this conceit, this collection is much more realistic about life in Britain than many Golden Age works. The stories deal sympathetically with people who are discriminated against in British society: Indians, women, and the working poor. Wallace bluntly shows discrimination against racial minorities, and the oppression of women. He also delights in exposing the flaws of the rich and there is also an emphasis on the financial needs of workers.
Leo Tolstoy
Three short stories about the everyday life of besieged Sevastopol a century and a half ago. There are no main characters as such, or rather, each participant, whether an officer or a soldier, at one point or another is in the sight of the authors attention. It is felt that the essays were written by a participant in the events, an eyewitness. In the first part of the work, the writer introduces us to the military situation of that time, the faces of the military through a description of the life of the soldiers, some episodes in my imagination merge into one face of a Russian soldier, who may have to die here.
Max Brand
Rival police detectives Angus Campbell and Patrick ORourke find themselves working together to locate the millionaire who disappeared while under their protection on a train bound for Chicago. Manhattan millionaire John Cobb has been receiving threatening letters, and so leaves for Chicago, hoping that by hopping the night-train hell escape from his anonymous ill-wisher. Assigned as guards, Campbell and ORourke go along. When, after signing his $15 million will over to his cousin, Cobb disappears from his Pullman, Campbell and ORourke must check the train for their missing charge. Hes not on the train, though, and not in Buffalo, so they scour Chicago - and, as it happens, mean old Cobb has enemies galore from some slick deals hes pulled.
A. Merritt
A jungle explorer back home in New York gets kidnapped by a part-Chinese man claiming to be Satan. Satan has set up a complicated game of chance, which is played by some of the most wealthy and powerful people in the world. Some have come to suspect that the game might be rigged. Seven Footprint to Satan is A. Merritts most famous mystery novel and Merritts Satan remains one of the most memorable super-villains in pulp literature, and the complexity which the author endows his creation raises him, and the book, far above the standards of ordinary escapist literature. A masterpiece of colorful drama, a tour-de-force of crime and cunning, a fantasy of great power, it has received the acclaim of that vast audience who made the of the author of The Moon Pool, The Metal Monster and others, world famous.
Seven For A Secret. A Love Story
Mary Webb
Seven For A Secret is the story of a young girl who turns into a compassionate, passionate, loving woman, who is visible through the eyes of a shepherd poet who loves her. Gillian is nineteen when the romance opens, and she is a romantic star who wants to flirt with men to fall in love with her. Gillian, in many ways, still behaves like a child, and she is selfish, narcissistic, and stupid with others in her life. A kind and simple shepherd named Robert, working with her father, often becomes the goal of her coquetry.
Earl Derr Biggers
One of the most thrilling novel ever, this is a medley of mystery, farce and intrigue an especially fine example of the American mystery play and one of the outstanding dramatic successes of modern times. A hotel closed for the winter, a snowy night, our hero and a key begin this delightful mystery. As we soon learn, our hero looking only for solitude, isnt the only one with a key. Other colorful characters arrive one by one... men and women with stories of love, loss, and flight... none of them telling the truth. Before the week is out, there will be gunfire, bribery, fights in the snow, and hidden truths unmasked. Biggers descriptions and snappy writing style promises a wonderful read.
Max Brand
If you enjoy a fast moving Western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, youll like "The Seven Mile House" by Max Brand. Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Brands remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest Western authors of all time. Max Brand leads the reader on a very authentic tale of the old west the way it was. Brands action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world. Brand penned over 200 full-length Westerns in his career, including "Destry Rides Again" and Montana Rides Again".
Gabriela Zapolska
Co się stanie, gdy znudzona życiem, nieco zblazowana żona urzędnika uda się dla kuracji do Zakopanego i spotka tam młodego, przystojnego aktora? Czy tak właśnie zaczyna się sezonowa miłość? Historia romansu na tle polskich Tatr dziś również zadziwia celnością obserwacji zachowań ludzkich i znajomością charakterów, które Zapolska mistrzowsko wykorzystuje w powieści.
Józef Bohdan Dziekoński
Józef Bohdan Dziekoński to polski prozaik okresu romantyzmu. Powieści Dziekońskiego w dużej mierze inspirowane były literaturą Hoffmanna, a skupiały się na sferze duchowych zmagań bohaterów, całkowicie oddanych poszukiwaniu prawdy absolutnej, wiecznej miłości i urzeczywistnianiu metafizycznych tęsknot. Za największe dzieło Dziekońskiego uznaje się powieść Sędziwoj. Jednak większość dzieł Dziekońskiego jest nieznana. Po śmierci autora wszystkie niepublikowane rękopisy spalono zgodnie z jego testamentem, przez co popadł w zapomnienie.
Sępy skalne. Powieść z Dzikiego Zachodu
Karol May
Karol May powraca na swój ulubiony Dziki Zachód, aby kontynuować opowieść o Old Shatterhandzie. Po raz kolejny spotykamy legendarnego wodza indiańskiego Winnetou i jego lojalnego przyjaciela, którzy wspólnie ruszają na pomoc tym, którzy akurat ich pomocy potrzebują. Ponownie przekonujemy się też o potędze przyjaźni, dzięki której można pokonać największe trudności.
Helena Mniszkówna
Sfinks to powieść, która powstała w pierwszych latach po odzyskaniu przez Polskę niepodległości. Zawiera gorzką krytykę pierwszych lat wolności. Głównymi bohaterami powieści są związani uczuciem Halina Strzemska i Aleksy Mgławicz oraz stary Sybirak Jacek. Różnymi drogami zmierzają ku odrodzonej Polsce. Tu jednak następuje zderzenie wielkich ideałów z prozą życia.
Robert E. Howard
Shadows in Zamboula is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in November, 1935. Its original title was The Man-Eaters of Zamboula. The story takes place over the course of a night in the desert city of Zamboula, with political intrigue amidst streets filled with roaming cannibals. It features the character Baal-pteor, one of the few humans in the Conan stories to be a physical challenge for the main Cimmerian character himself.
Charles Williams
The plot of Shadows of Ecstasy is based on the fact that the madman decided to destroy Western civilization. The author could easily punish such a madman. However, as in many of his stories, a person receives forgiveness from God. The plot of the novel is tense, supporters of paganism are trying to protect their world.
Willa Cather
This is a historical fiction book depicting the French colonization of Canada and life in Quebec in the late 1600s. Euclid Auclair is a father and a widower. The little daughter took over the running of their home after the death of her beloved mother two years ago. She is twelve. Euclid and his family, wife and daughter, had come to Quebec eight years earlier, hired by the Governor General to be his physician.
Shapes in the Fire. Being a Mid-Winters Nights Entertainment in Two Parts and an Interlude
M.P. Shiel
M.P. Shiel, who wrote science fiction, mystery, and other genre fiction from the 1890s through 1930s, first established himself as a member of a Decadent movement in England. He was influenced by the Decadent movement lastingly than most of his contemporaries, in part because the tenets of Decadence resonated with his own personal history and racial views. As the movement faded, Shiel built on the underlying logic of Decadence to create adventure novels involving race-based conflict. Shiels racism is disturbing but complex, ultimately leading toward a vision of union between Self and Other. Shiels developing views are evident in five of his works from 1895-1901. Shapes in the Fire: Being a Mid-Winter-Nights Entertainment in Two Parts and an Interlude is one of these works that highly recommended for reading!