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Charles Dickens
David Copperfield is the story of a young mans adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literatures great comic creations.
Karol Dickens
David Copperfield to ósma powieść Charlesa Dickensa. Po raz pierwszy została ona wydana jako seria w latach 184950, a w 1850 roku jako książka. Napisana w pierwszej osobie powieść przedstawia postać Davida Copperfielda, jego życie, przygody oraz ludzi, których spotykał na swojej drodze. Jest to jego droga zmian i rozwoju od niemowlęcia do dojrzałości. Książkę okrzyknięto arcydziełem, triumfem sztuki Dickensa. Był to też jego ulubiony utwór. We wstępie do wydania z 1867 roku Dickens napisał: Jak wielu kochających rodziców, mam w sercu ulubione dziecko. Nazywa się David Copperfield.
H. Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard knows how to interest the reader from the very first pages. The story Dawn is a good confirmation of this. It all starts with the fact that the young man has deceived his inheritance with his lying cousin and secret marriage. The author shows on his characters that readers should not imitate others and follow their example.
Dawn of Flame. The Stanley G. Weinbaum Memorial Volume
Stanley G. Weinbaum
After a worldwide plague breaks civilization, Joaquin Smith and his sister build an empire up the Mississippi Valley. Who would be brave or foolish enough to stand in their way? Who but a young backwoodsman named Hull Tarvish? Dawn of Flame was written in the year 1939 by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum. This book is one of the most popular novels of Stanley Grauman Weinbaum, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. After his death, Weinbaum became science fictions first cult author; Dawn of Flame appeared as the title piece of a 1936 memorial story collection, while The Black Flame was the lead feature in the January 1939 debut issue of Startling Stories.
Jules Verne
Ceci est le premier roman de la série daventures du Cannon Club. Les événements se déroulent immédiatement apres la fin de la guerre civile aux États-Unis. Un groupe de personnes passionnées par leur métier forment le Gun Club. Cela inclut ceux qui développent, qui font des cast, qui peuvent aider avec du matériel ou qui sont plus quutiles pour les intérts du club. Mais la guerre est finie et personne na besoin de leurs inventions, et il ny a pas de place pour les tester. Tous les membres du club ont besoin de la guerre.
Maurice Leblanc
Une atmosphere intrigante de lhistoire, qui se déroule pendant le plus mystique temps de la nuit. Gérard le héros tres habile, charmant et aventurier, Baratof le rival russe, qui est tres riche, la concurrence pour la jeune femme, belle et séduisante... Est-ce que une jeune fille peut perdre son honneur et sa respectabilité? Quest-ce que Maurice Leblanc nous offre dans ce roman?
Valentine Williams
There is a secret surrounding the abandoned local manuar and the death of the local miller. When a lawyer on vacation is found slaughtered, the law enters into force. One area of interest for the British reader is the different legal system and methodology used by Sergeant Biguri, who is conducting an official investigation. His personality perfectly complements and contrasts with the personality of Tredgold. The love interest between Dr. Wood and Adrienne de Saint-Remy is well maintained, and the villagers, including the mayor, priest and notary, come alive.
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Another fast-paced murder mystery by J.S. Fletcher told in the first person. He wrote about 200 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Golden Age. It was first published in 1920, and has just the right stock of truly good characters, balanced by a couple of nasties. A young apprentice solicitor in a rural English town bordering Scotland, is riding his bike through lonely stretches of countryside very late in the evening, to run a strange errand for a mysterious lodger at his mothers house. He finds a recently murdered body at the end of his ride, and the mysteries keep piling up from there.
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Dead Souls is a unique novel that has become a unique standard of ironic prose for Russian literature. The story of the ingenious businessman Chichikov, buying up the dead souls of serfs in a remote province, still impresses with its modernity and subtle humor.
Deadwood Dick Jr. Branded. or Red Rover at Powder Pocket
Edward Lytton Wheeler
Deadwood Dick is a fictional character who appears in a series of stories, or dime novels, published between 1877 and 1897 by Edward Lytton Wheeler. His stories are well plotted adventures and his slang and dialect heavy narration is funny as hell. Deadwood Dick was an orphan who was adopted, mistreated and then ran away from home to become a notorious outlaw. Originally from New England, he moved to the town of Deadwood, where he became the leader of a gang of highway men, wanted dead or alive for a $500 bounty. He is handsome, valiant, charming and sarcastic and sees himself as a defender of the weak. Deadwood Dick Jr. Branded or Red Rover at Powder Pocket is a fast-paced thriller. With its colorful narrative and surprising twists, the story will keep you hooked till the very end.
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road. or The Black Rider of the Black Hills
Edward Lytton Wheeler
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or The Black Rider of the Black Hills is a fun shoot-em-up-cowboy book, rather than a serious western but the entertainment value is just as high. They called him Deadwood Dick, the Prince of The Road, the Black Rider of the Black Hills of Dakota. He was as famous for a time as Wild Bill Hickok or Buffalo Bill. It is the story of gold-seekers, settlers and criminals who all come together in a small area of the Black Hills. Theres Fearless Frank, a young man who saves Alice Terry, a damsel in distress, from Sitting Bull and his warriors. There is also The General, Geoffrey Walsingham Nix, an old man with a vision of gold. And naturally, there is young Deadwood Dick, first spotted gunning down a man offering a reward for his arrest.
Deadwood Dicks Doom. or Calamity Janes Last Adventure
Edward Lytton Wheeler
Deadwood Dicks Doom or Calamity Janes Last Adventure is a fast-paced thriller by popular dime-novelist Edward Lytton Wheeler who wrote 33 Deadwood Dick novels between 1878 and 1885. His stories are well plotted adventures and his slang and dialect heavy narration is funny as hell. He wrote a lot of tales with female protagonists, maybe influenced by the New Woman of the 1890s. Deadwood Dick is a fictional character. He was as famous for a time as Wild Bill Hickok or Buffalo Bill. There was a 500 dollar reward out for him, dead or alive. With its colorful narrative and surprising twists, the story will keep you hooked till the very end. Brimming with suspense and action, it is a must-read!
R. Austin Freeman
John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the bank official after meeting him at the scene of a murder near the bank. He mentions in conversation that he felt suicide was a very understandable option to someone who had lost everything. When Gillums body is found, the inquest duly returns a verdict of suicide and blackmail is suspected of being a contributory factor. However Gillums cousin is so convinced that he would never have killed himself, he engages Thorndyke to try to find the blackmailers and bring all the issues to light. The problem is, no one knows who the blackmailers are or even what the man was being blackmailed for.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
The novel tells about the life of a French missionary in the southwestern United States. In the center of the novel are two Frenchmen, Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Veillant, who left Europe and devoted their entire adult lives to creating a new Catholic parish in Santa Fe after the Mexican War.
Hulbert Footner
Many guys wanted the playwright, Gavin Dordress, to die. Especially on the night of his party. Gail Garrett and Bea Townley openly quarreled for the main role in the play. The next morning Gavin Dordress was found shot to death, a chessman imprinted on his forehead, and nearby a letter of farewell that sounded suspiciously like one of his stage characters speaking. Then a new and amazing hint hastened the seemingly hopeless hunt.
Christopher St. John Sprigg
When George Furnace, instructor of the Baston Aero Club, is found dead in the wreck of his crashed plane, everyone assumes it was a tragic accident, even though he was a skilled airman. An Australian visitor to the Aero Club, Edwin Marriott, Bishop of Cootamundra, suspects that the true story is more complicated. Could this be a dramatic suicide or even murder? The intrepid Bishop and Inspector Bray of Scotland Yard make an appealing pair of detectives, and ultimately a cunning criminal scheme is uncovered. Death of an Airman is an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations.