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Robert E. Howard
Professor John Kirowan is a fictional character from Robert E. Howards contributions to H.P. Lovecrafts story cycle the Cthulhu Mythos. Kirowan is often partnered with the character John Conrad, to the extent that these stories are often referred to under the group title Conrad & Kirowan. Professor Kirowan is a younger son of a titled Irish family and a scholar of the Mythos who travelled widely in search of forbidden knowledge. His ancestor, Sir Michael Kirowan was a medieval knight famous for killing a particularly fierce and notorious villain, whose ghost Kirowan will meet and escape from.
Arthur B. Reeve
A charming thief rescues the not-so-innocent in this delightful crime novel from the creator of the Craig Kennedy detective series. Constance Dunlap is a young woman who turns amateur criminal in order to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest. When this sadly doesnt work out exactly as planned, Constance goes on to embrace a new life. More antiheroine than heroine, she uses her photographic memory and her sharp wit to help amateur criminals get back on the right track. From one escapade to the next, Dunlap eludes Drummond, a crooked private detective who preys on the weak and unfortunate. Even he cant help but admire the pluck and intelligence of this irresistible scofflaw.
George Sand
George Sand le pseudonyme de lécrivain français Aurora Dupin-Dyudevan. Dans ses nombreuses uvres, les idées de libération de la personnalité se combinent une recréation psychologique de talent de personnages idéalement sublimes, de conflits damour complexes. Le roman Consuelo est une histoire fascinante de la vie dun jeune chanteur qui doit surmonter des épreuves difficiles en donnant son art aux gens. Il sagit dun livre sur le destin dun véritable artiste, sur le lourd fardeau du talent accordé par le destin, sur le choix difficile et parfois mme tragique entre la gloire et le bonheur personnel.
Émile Zola
Ceci est une collection de nouvelles, contes de fées, cherts. Ils sont adressés a Ninon, la femme bien-aimée du narrateur. Les ouvres sont consacrées a lamour entre un homme et une femme, cette derniere parle de lamour pour son prochain, de sa capacité a sympathiser. Les héros de tous les romans sont romantiques: un prince tombé amoureux dun nénuphar, une fille qui pense confusément a sa bien-aimée.
Valentine Williams
Perhaps Valentine Williams finest mystery thriller. Set in WW2, folk singer and guitarist Andrea Hallam gets caught up in a Nazi spy ring while travelling alone in Morocco. Kidnapped by Nazis who believe she holds a dossier on Hitler, the tale travels from entertaining wartime banter to sinister suspense and back again. She is swept into a plot to destroy or blackmail Hitler with some secret documents. But that enterprising villain Clubfoot (Dr. Grundt), wants to retrieve these documents. An exciting and emotional book from beginning to end. Courier to Marrakesh is the last entry in the seven book series about the evil Dr. Adolph Grundt. There are 7 books in the Clubfoot series of secret agent action novels, featuring Dr Grundt, an agent of the German government as the baddie.
Honoré de Balzac
Cousin Pons is one of the last and greatest of Balzacs novels of French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature. The book tells the story of Sylvain Pons, a poor moderately successful musician who is swindled by his wealthy relatives when they learn that his collection of art and antiques is worth a fortune. In contrast to his counterpart Cousin Bette, who seeks revenge against those who have humiliated her, Cousin Pons suffers passively as his health deteriorates and he eventually dies. The forces that come into play as Pons end approaches reveal the worst sides of the people around him, and give Balzac ample room to show the rougher side of his Parisians. The author shows how a person without means can be crushed by a society that has no values except material ones.
B.M. Bower
This is a solid, basic cowboy story from B. M. Bower, an early work of hers on the standard ranching setting she writes many more times. This is one of her stories. This follows the life of a boy from very early youth until he finds his own way and establishes his name. Through hazards, difficulties and dangers, Bob sets out to discover life for himself. With awfully wild terrain and red-Indians around him, he has to find his way. More than the threats posed by nature are those that are created by other humans. A tale of swashbuckling adventures! B.M Bower had a gift for writing Westerns, weaving tales of adventure, intrigue, mystery, and romance often with surprise endings.
Honoriusz Balzak
Powieść Córka Ewy Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Scen z życia prywatnego cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Opowiada losy hrabiny Marii de Vandenesse. Kobieta została wydana za mąż ze względów finansowych. Nie żywi jakichkolwiek uczuć wobec męża. Chcąc ożywić nudę codziennego życia, nawiązuje romans z poetą Natanem. Ten postanawia wykorzystać jej pozycję materialną do realizacji własnych planów...
Fred M. White
The moral of this story is clear to all, because it is relevant envy. It was a large, beautifully furnished room, filled with priceless paintings, bronze and old furniture. It was the mansion of a rich Stephen Morrison, a wise man. He hired an artist and gave him a check so that he could settle in the city. Everyone was jealous of Stephen.
Max Brand
After 8 years in prison for murder, Jimmy Geary returns to his town Yellow Creek, and his past, and an ambush. Jimmy was very happy to see town again. But there are three men who arent happy to see Jimmy Geary return, and they conspire to make his stay this time very short... Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Max Brands remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest western authors of all time, Frederick Faust wrote under sixteen different pseudonyms, including the best known being Max Brand. Although he wrote under many genres, westerns were his forte. Max Brand leads the reader on a very authentic tale of the old west the way it was.
Alexandre Dumas pere
Cétait une nature de Dieu, incapable daimer un tre quil naurait point créé lui-mme. Aussi, seul et triste au milieu de la foule pour laquelle il navait pas de regards, ou navait que des regards distraits, il payait cher lambition de ses désirs. Comme le Seigneur avant la création du monde, il sennuyait. Ce jour-l, Jacques Mérey était assez content de la maniere dont se comportait dans la cornue la dissolution dun certain sel dont il étudiait les plus heureuses vertus curatives, quand trois coups précipités retentirent la porte de la rue. Ces trois coups éveillerent les miaulements furieux dun chat noir, que les mauvaises langues de la ville, les dévotes surtout, prétendaient tre le génie familier du docteur...
Creatures That Once Were Men and Other Stories
Maxim Gorky
A collection of short stories by a popular and influential Russian author, the founder of the literary method of socialist realism and, possibly, the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote short stories, plays, memoirs and novels that touched the imagination of the Russian people, and was the first Russian author to sympathize sympathetically with characters such as tramps and thieves, emphasizing their daily struggle with insurmountable difficulties.
A. Merritt
Creep, Shadow! is the second novel in the Dr. Lowell series, preceded by Burn, Witch, Burn! . Its short and it moves along very quickly but theres plenty of tension and some genuinely creepy moments. Doctor Alan Carnac returns to the commonplace world of New York from the jungles of Africa, only to meet there a menace more mysterious and appalling than the savage magic of the witch doctors his best friend has inexplicably committed suicide and Carnac begins a frantic investigation which will lead him to come across charming but sinister women and into the horror of obscure sacrificial rites... A masterpiece of horror, mystery and paranormal, A. Merritts novel will make even the hottest blood run cold.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Is murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose? Meet Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. His struggle with himself and those around him becomes a battle of the individual against society, radicalism against tradition, and ultimately the will of man against the mysteries of divine providence. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption. The best known of Dostoevskys masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
This is another great collection of short stories by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers and spy novels, and who wrote over a 100 of them. He was the self-styled prince of storytellers., generally regarded as the earliest writer of spy fiction as we know it today, and invented the Rogue Male school of adventure thrillers. This volume is a collection of 10 mystery and investigation short stories of Commodore Jensen, a beloved Oppenheim character.
Ladbroke Black
On December 26, 2004, one of the largest earthquakes in human history occurred off the coast of Indonesia, causing a series of powerful tsunamis that hit countries bordering the Indian Ocean. Koh Phi Phi is a beautiful butterfly-shaped island off the coast of Thailand, an island that has long been a favorite destination for tourists. This is a fictional account of this disaster, of what happened, of the tragedies and triumphs of that day.