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Talbot Mundy
Madame Rosika Storey was one of the most celebrated fictional female private investigators during the Golden Age of the mystery (1920-40). The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection calls her, a stunningly beautiful young woman who describes herself as a practical psychologist specializing in the feminine. This one is the best private detective of England, but her stories are international. Her way to resolve the mystery is original and bring you in a new world. So we are introduced to the fascinating Madame Rosika Storey, fearless and intelligent, who plays cat-and-mouse with killers, goes undercover to break up criminal gangs, and unravels deadly mysteries.
Robert E. Howard
Pulp adventure, seemingly a bit crude and dashed off quickly, but good storytelling none the less. Pirates and lost cities a bit of Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones rolled into one, but also with echoes of one of Howards best known tales of piracy, the Conan story Queen of the Black Coast a superior story. The writing here is okay, entertaining enough, and even manages a little character exposition, but Howard could do and did do better work.
Robert E. Howard
In Black Wind Blowing, Howard lays it on so thick I half suspected he was trying to do a spoof on the genre. But then, his normal storytelling was always full of bizarre images, hyperactive violence and heavy use of adjectives so this story is probably just an extreme example. It helps too, that Black Wind Blowing has enough wild premises to build at least two or three effective horror stories on. If youre not moved by whats going on at the moment, by the next page the story has shifted gears in a weirder direction.
Fred M. White
Fred M. White gives us the opportunity to feel in high society. Many distinguished guests gathered at the Sir George apartment. Everything shone with real silver and gold. One of the guests hooked expensive mahogany thing. From now on, real disassembly begins.
Harold Bindloss
This is a story about a young guy who failed at the front. He believes the whole failure is due to him. Blake returns from India to England. There is some disagreement about whether Blake is really guilty or not. But Blake keeps silence in order to preserve the idyll in the family and not to betray his father and brother.
Charles Dickens
Money often changes peoples lives. If you inherited a substantial amount of money would it change yours? Would you work or quit your job? Would you feel entitled to various privileges because of your wealth? Would you behave differently? These and other issues are the subject of the English novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Bleak House, like many of Dickens writings, is about various social issues. Bleak House is a satirical story about Dickens view of the British judiciary system. Both Esther Summerson, one of the characters in the story, and a separate third person narrator, tell the story. Esther speaks about the experiences of her life, and the third person narrator speaks about the experiences of some of the people of the town.
Wilkie Collins, Walter Besant
The loving heart of the protagonist of the novel, Iris, remains faithful to the master of her destiny. The conflict with the father does not prevent the lovers from connecting, but how does this story end?
David Wright OBrien
After a short, dumpy bald-headed guy in civvies installs an invention a time transfer device in a tank that proceeds into the Georgia wilderness on maneuvers, a lightning bolt send the tank and its three operators backward in time. Shortly afterward they notice a single three-toes dinosaur footprint and disturbingly they hear the bloodthirsty scream of a very strange bird. Blitzkrieg in the Past is a science fiction from American fantasy and science fiction writer David Wright OBrien. He had more than fifty-seven stories published in pulp magazines like Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures, most of them written under the different pen names.
Robert E. Howard
I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Croms realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimers Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.
Edgar Wallace
This is a typical Walla? e sensational story, and no one needs a better recommendation that. Lady Mary Danton and her infant daughter disappeared when Jim Steele, Mr. Salters legal assistant, was five. Almost 20 years later, the Danton fortune is about to be distributed to Digby Groat and his mother. But Jim is uneasy. Can he solve the mystery? The mystery surrounding the mark of the blue hand and Eunices birth, the schemes and plots of the evil Digby Groat, murder, and the courage and courtship of Jim Steele make up this exciting novel. A fairly routine book for Wallace, though fans will want to add it to their collection.
Robert W. Chambers
Another romantic family adventure thriller by Robert W. Chambers about a young man who comes to an island with a gun he owns to hunt waterfowl. He meets the man who runs the club and falls in love. Everything is going well until he meets his daughters father.
Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle
Franz Kafka
Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle ist eine Erzählung von Franz Kafka. Sie behandelt die skurrilen Schwierigkeiten eines Junggesellen in seinem Privat- und Berufsleben. Blumfeld, ein älterer Jungsgeselle handelt von einem Junggesellen, der beschrieben mit einer sehr ironischer Wortwahl Kafkas mit den Mühen des Alltags in seinem Leben klar kommen muss... Mit Ironie wird die Kollision eines Sonderlings mit der Realität geschildert.
Maria Rodziewiczówna
W powieści Błękitni splatają się losy polskiej arystokracji i szlachty ziemiańskiej. Młody książę Leon, zwany również Lwem, otrzymuje tytuł i majątek w wyniku tragicznej śmierci starszego brata. Nie jest zupełnie przygotowany do roli właściciela potężnych dóbr. Pozbawiony wsparcia rodziny osuwa się w bierność i apatię. Wytrąca go z niej dopiero niespodziewany wstrząs. Książkę przepełnia wiara w podstawowe cnoty lojalność i przyzwoitość. Cechy, które były niezwykle ważne również dla samej autorki, wielkiej społecznicy, czynnej w organizacjach kobiecych i ziemiańskich, przekonanej do ostatnich chwil życia, że dobra strona natury ludzkiej zawsze zwycięża.
Błękitno-purpurowy Matuzalem. Powieść chińska
Karol May
Karol May rzadko zabiera czytelników do Chin, więc tym bardziej warto skorzystać z nadarzającej się okazji i odwiedzić z grupą podróżników ten niezwykły kraj. Emocji i ekscytujących przygód jak zwykle nie zabraknie, a dodatkową atrakcją będzie specyficzna sceneria Państwa Środka. Wraz z podróżnikami zanurzymy się w chińskiej kulturze i religii oraz zachwycimy chińskimi krajobrazami.
Błyskawice. Powieść historyczna z czasów rewolucji francuskiej
Teodor Jeske-Choiński
Błyskawice to powieść historyczna Teodora Jeske-Choińskiego, której tło stanowi zbliżająca się rewolucja w XVIII-wiecznej Francji. W trakcie burzliwych wydarzeń na próbę wystawiona zostaje miłość pomiędzy szlachcicem Gastonem de Clarac, konserwatystą oraz wielkim patriotą, a Zofią de Laval, zwolenniczką postępu i oświecenia. Połączyła ich miłość, pozycja społeczna oraz wspomnienia z dzieciństwa. Czy różne wizje świata zdołają ich rozdzielić?
Janusz Korczak
Książka o dziecku i młodzieży ale nie dla młodzieży. Wydana w 1914 roku. Korczak kwestionuje w niej legendę beztroskiej szczęśliwości dziecka, podkreśla trudy i niepokoje dzieciństwa, antagonizmy między dziećmi a rodzicami. Janusz Korczak, właśc. Henryk Goldszmit (18781942), polsko-żydowski lekarz i pedagog, pisarz i publicysta. W swoich utworach propagował prawa dziecka oraz nowoczesne metody wychowawcze. Materiały do twórczości literackiej czerpał z bezpośredniej pracy dziećmi.