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Buffalo Bills Spy Trailer. Or The Stranger in Camp
Prentiss Ingraham
By the author of the celebrated Buffalo Bill stories. Colonel Prentiss Ingraham was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a professional military officer throughout the 1860s and a fiction writer. As well as writing under his own name, he published under pseudonyms including Dr. Noel Dunbar, Dangerfield Burr, Major Henry B. Stoddard, Colonel Leon Lafitte, Frank Powell, Harry Dennies Perry, Midshipman Tom W. Hall, and Lieut. Preston Graham. Buffalo Bills Spy Trailer: The Stranger in Camp was first published in 1908. In it, a legendary figure of the Wild West who was canny enough to capitalize off of his own notoriety, William Cody was a renowned soldier and hunter. This action-packed tale parlays some of the historical facts surrounding Buffalo Bills life into a larger-than-life, thrill-a-minute Western.
Max Brand
Another great Max Brand western, first written in 1921. The story follows a cousin who was taken in by his uncle and his two sons. They make fun of him, and use his size and strength to do the hard chores they cant do. The huge, lumbering outlaw Bull Hunter intends to hunt down and kill the men responsible for his uncles death. When he finds out that the ringleader is already behind bars, he devises a clever plot to spring his nemesis in order to dispense his comeuppance, street justice-style. Enjoyable story that would appeal to those who like to see someone whos been bullied get a chance to rise above self doubt and circumstances.
H.C. McNeile
In Bulldog Drummond, we meet with Captain Hugh Drummond, who lives boringly. Therefore, he places an ad in the newspaper, offering his services in any adventure, regardless of their legality or danger. Most answers are hopeless, but then one sentence is found the real girl in need. This adventure will surely be interesting.
H.C. McNeile
Bulldog Drummond At Bay is another story from the famous series of Herman Cyril McNeile. This story is full of mysteries for the reader. Drummond hears cries near his yard, then notices traces of blood there. He meets two guys who claim to be after a madman. The main character is determined to explore in his unique style, but discovers a mysterious message.
Edith Wharton
Originally published in 1916, but actually written in 1890, Bunner Sisters is a compelling, heartbreaking little novella about two sisters, who have never been apart, struggling to eek an existence as small shopkeepers on the margins of late nineteenth-century society in New York. They barely make enough money to live on. But when Ann Eliza the elder buys Evelina the younger a clock that does not work for her birthday, the sisters commence a relationship with Herbert Ramy, who operates a queer little shop, setting in motion a series of events that will prove to be everyones undoing. Edith Wharton provides a vivid description of the life of shop keepers and their friends in the poorer urban areas of New York City.
George Orwell
Burmese Days is an early novel by Orwell, in which the future great English writer enters into a kind of literary confrontation with his no less brilliant predecessor, Kipling. The life of the British colonists in Burma, united in a sense of superiority over the natives, but internally divided, exhausted by snobbery and petty strife. The fate of the local inhabitants, who seem to have become Europeanized, but who have preserved deep inside the eastern mentality, inaccessible to the understanding of the British.
A. Merritt
Originally published in 1932, Burn, Witch, Burn! is a classic fantasy/horror and mystery novel by A. Merritt. In it, we meet Dr. Lowell, an eminent neurologist who becomes curious when a series of mysterious deaths comes to his attention. Men and women in the NYC area have been dying of no apparent cause, but with horrible grimaces on their faces and with very rapid onsets of rigor mortis. The trail of bizarre deaths leads to one Madame Mandilip and her doll shop, and before long the reader is immersed in a world of supernaturalism and escalating tension. Combining folklore with modern science, Merritt weaves a wonderfully haunting tale about what happens when the world around us, grounded in science, ends up failing us. Recommended for lovers of the offbeat.
Jack London
Elam Harnish is by nature a player to whom his whole life seems to be a game. Skillfully and cynically playing, Harnish makes millions. A successful businessman lives by the laws of the jungle until he meets the stenographer Didon Mason. From this moment, his life under the beneficial influence of love changes, he becomes a spiritual person. Once he finds a gold mine, and the former excitement lights up in his eyes.
William Shakespeare
Na skutek intryg i zawiści Prospero, prawowity książę Mediolanu, zostaje pozbawiony przez swojego brata tronu i wraz z córką Mirandą wyprawiony na morze w łodzi. Trafiają oni na niemal bezludną wyspę, na której spędzają wiele lat. Aż nagle u wybrzeży wyspy pojawia się statek. Dzięki swoim umiejętnościom magicznym Prospero wywołuje burzę, która sprowadza załogę statku na wyspę...
Bruno Jasieński
But w butonierce. Poezje futurystyczne to tom wierszy Brunona Jasieńskiego z 1921 roku. Stanowi sztandarowe dzieło futuryzmu awangardowego nurtu zrywającego z tradycyjnym postrzeganiem twórczości. Futuryzm miał swoje ulubione tematy, takie jak miasto, cywilizacja, postęp, kultura masowa, a także tworzył charakterystyczne dla siebie rozwiązania formalne, wykorzystujące zabawę słowem czy konwencję antyestetyzmu.
Fenton Ash
Dated 1928. By Airship to Ophir, written by Fenton Ash, tells the story of an airship and two aircraft meander round central Africa picking up an assortment of natives in a search for the fabled land of Ophir, which is eventually reached and found to be inhabited by a race of people of Arab/Hebrew mien. This fantasy adventure would suit anyone interested in old fantasy novels for children and young people. Fenton Ash is the first and main pseudonym of UK civil engineer and author Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927) who was a writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers. He wrote under the pseudonyms Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash.
Fred M. White
Frederick Merrick White wrote a number of short stories, including By Order of the League. The story of the Order By the Order of the League begins with a cozy room, where there is a cozy atmosphere. Frederic Maxwell was an English art enthusiast, and, no doubt, if he had to earn his living with his brush, it would have caused some shock in the world. However, being born with a traditional silver spoon in his mouth, his flirtation with art never threatened to become serious.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Marys mother was from New England and her conscience was abnormally active. Her father was from New Jersey, and his conscience, although no one would dare to say that she was flawed, did not prevent him from enjoying life in the least.
Maria Rodziewiczówna
Byli i będą to panorama społeczeństwa polskiego po upadku powstania styczniowego. W tej wielowątkowej powieści poznajemy różne grupy społeczne i środowiska arystokrację, ziemiaństwo kresowe, zagrodową szlachtę krośniańską, młodzież, życiowych rozbitków itd. Akcja rozgrywa się na Litwie oraz w Warszawie, gdzie pozbawieni swej ziemi kresowiacy nie marzą o niczym innym, jak tylko o powrocie w swoje rodzinne strony, podczas gdy lojalna wobec zaborcy arystokracja, nie gardząc przejmowaniem w zarząd zarekwirowanych na Litwie majątków ziemskich, prowadzi wystawny tryb życia i bawi się doskonale.Po upadku powstania 1863 roku mieszkający na Litwie Polacy ponieśli ogromne straty nie tylko osobowe i materialne, lecz także moralne. Wielu gwałtem zmuszono do przyjęcia prawosławia, co zdegradowało ich społecznie w oczach patriotów polskich. Ci, którzy przetrwali, próbują wszelkimi sposobami utrzymać ziemię pozostałą w ich rękach, a przy tym wspomagać się wzajem, jak również dbać o odradzanie się ducha patriotycznego.Doskonałym przykładem takiego postępowania jest matka powstańca Stefana Hrehorowicza. Jego majątek w Kozarach został po jego śmierci zarekwirowany przez zaborcę. Starsza pani Hrehorowiczowa po przeniesieniu się do dworu w Grelach jedynego majątku, który jej pozostał staje się ostoją nie tylko dla swych wnuków, których rodzice zostali zesłani na Sybir, lecz także dla będących w potrzebie sąsiadów. Z ogromnym trudem udaje jej się utrzymać tę ziemię dla jedynego syna Stefana, który wychowywany w Warszawie przez matkę i jej ojca na panicza długo nie wie, czyim jest synem, i nie utrzymuje żadnych kontaktów z babką. Dopiero gdy dowiaduje się, kim był jego ojciec, w jego życiu następuje diametralna zmiana, która doprowadza do zerwania z rodziną matki i zbliżenia się do babki.
O. Henry
Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious country. A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town called the Republic of Anchuria while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. This work is O. Henrys first published volume and is considered to be his only novel. The plot is composed of several short stories, which were inspired by the authors six-month stay in Honduras in the late 1890s. In this book, O. Henry coined the term banana republic.
B.M. Bower
A classic tale of the Old West by B.M. Bower. This one is one of her earliest (1918). This was an interesting story about a man who quarrels with his young wife and goes out into the world to try to forget her. Cabin Fever gets Bud Moore into a peck of trouble now and then. Bud is a bit too trustful of strangers and before he knows it, he has injected himself into a situation that could prove to be disastrous. Bud then heads for the hills and meets up with another stranger. Then, one day, Bud finds a child who has been stolen by an Indian squaw and takes him in. How will the childs presence change the two hardened men? The surprise ending is a nice touch, by the author.