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H. Rider Haggard
A love story taking place in Mexico at the end of the 18th century. The beautiful Indian princess and the Englishman fall in love, but suffer because of their feelings and her Indian origin. Also, the novel touches on the theme of the division of the Indians into two groups, after the conquest of Cortes. One group runs north and the other south and remains separate until the events of this novel unite them.
Jules Verne
Roman daventures du grand écrivain Jules Verne sur le capitaine des troupes françaises Hector Servadac et ses amis qui, la suite dune catastrophe sans précédent, se sont retrouvés dans une comete survolant la Terre, capturant une petite partie de la terre et de locéan. Lintrigue du roman la maniere de Jules Verne est pleine dévénements qui menacent la vie des héros. Mais, comme toujours, le dévouement, le sens commun et lérudition menent les héros la fin heureuse dun extraordinaire voyage dans lespace.
Eliza Orzeszkowa
Hekuba to nowela, w której Eliza Orzeszkowa podjęła temat powstania styczniowego, oddając jednocześnie hołd wszystkim powstańcom. Lektura historyczna, patriotyczna i godna polecenia.
R. Austin Freeman
Helen Vardon narrates her own story and one in which Dr. Thorndyke barely features until the final chapters. Helen Vardon contracts to a marriage without full knowledge of the circumstances regarding her fathers financial status. This leads to a dastardly trail of intrigue and deception and ends in murder. Dr. Thorndyke appears at the eleventh hour but does he save the day? Dr. Thornedyke is left to piece together the clues in this enticing mystery. This novel is a departure from the previous Dr. Thornedyke mysteries in narrator choice, form, and eventual resolution, with much less of the medical and scientific reasoning of prior volumes.
Henry Dunbar. The Story of an Outcast
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dunbar is the heir to a large English banking firm, but makes a serious mistake in his youth. His father and uncle expel him to India for his sins. Of course, everything is not so serious, since its isolation includes the leadership of their Indian branch. Then, after the death of his father, he returns to England. All this happens in the first few chapters!
Novalis
Novalis to pseudonim niemieckiego poety i prozaika, jednego z najważniejszych przedstawicieli wczesnego romantyzmu. Studiował on prawo, filozofię i nauki przyrodnicze, pracował jako urzędnik. W poglądach przeciwstawiał się racjonalizmowi, wartości upatrywał w uczuciowości i wierze. W twórczości literackiej stosował charakterystyczną dla późniejszych okresów kompozycję otwartą, stąd często nazywano go wielkim artystą fragmentu. Henryk Ofterdingen zalicza się do powieści edukacyjnych, zanurza się w mistyce i kreuje bohatera, którego przeznaczenie stanowi pouczająca wędrówka.
William Le Queux
The Ambassadors office was indeed a very thankless one, while my own position as second secretary of the Paris Embassy was a post not to be envied, even though it is popularly supposed to be one of the plums of the diplomatic service. With Paris full of spies endeavouring to discover our secrets and divine our instructions from Downing Street, and the cabinet noir ever at work upon our correspondence, it behoved us to be always on the alert, and to have resort to all manner of ingenious subterfuges in order to combat our persistent enemies.
Mary Cholmondeley
A mysterious story of a murder, which, by the name, makes it clear that in tension the plot will hold on to the end. A phrase that makes you immediately pay attention to a sharp plot: I could not be really happy with a husband whose hands were red with gore.
B.M. Bower
Eastern society girl Beatrice Lansell, on a visit to her brothers Montana ranch, is being pressured by her social-climbing mother to accept her English nobleman suitor, Sir Redmond Hayes. She fills her days with coquetry, leisure and meaningless flirtations, but she has never found true love. The staunchly independent Beatrice finds herself equally annoyed and attracted by mysterious cowboy Keith Cameron. Will this improbable romance last? Theres plenty of conflict as corporations start buying up the free range, plenty of excitement and danger from the elements and criminals, and of course, plenty of romance as a New York socialite and a ruggedly noble cowpuncher fall in love.
Talbot Mundy
There are hours of promises, and zero hour; promises initially, which are sometimes even sweeter than their execution. Jacqueline Lanier did not fully realize the time of heyday, and therefore contours of young charm were not tempered by the usual self-affirmation. Therefore, when she was under the care of Desmoe, she knew that between the emotions of gratitude, the philosophy that comes later in life when we are forced to try to explain their mistakes is not very accessible.
Her Royal Highness. A Romance of the Chancelleries of Europe
William Le Queux
A large, square wooden veranda covered by a red and white awning, above a wide silent sweep of flowing river, whose huge rocks, worn smooth through a thousand ages, raised their backs about the stream, a glimpse of green feathery palms and flaming scarlet poinsettias on the island opposite, and beyond the great drab desert, the illimitable waste of stony, undulating sands stretching away to the infinite, and bathed in the blood-red light of the dying day.
Lew N. Tolstoi
Mit seiner bildgewaltigen Meistererzählung Herr und Knecht (1895) schuf der große russische Dichter und Humanist Leo Tolstoi eine zeitlose Parabel auf die Macht der Mitmenschlichkeit. Der Kaufmann Brechunow, dessen Leben bis dahin dem Zusammenraffen von Reichtümern gewidmet war, gerät mit seinem Knecht Nikita auf dem Pferdeschlitten in einen furchtbaren Schneesturm. Wassilij ist ungeduldig und möchte die Stadt schnell erreichen, um dort vor anderen Interessenten ein Stück Wald zu kaufen. Doch im Tosen des Unwetters verirren sie sich heillos und angesichts des nahen Todes beginnen die Standesunterschiede zwischen den beiden ungleichen Gefährten auf wundersame Weise zu verschwinden. Tolstoi erzählt hier in meisterlichem Realismus von der Wandlung eines Menschen.
Herrn Mahlhubers Reiseabenteuer
Friedrich Gerstäcker
Friedrich Gerstäcker veröffentlichte eine Vielzahl von Erzählungen, Romanen und vor allem Berichte über seine verschiedenen Reisen, die ihn zu einem der meistgelesenen und bekanntesten Autoren Deutschlands machten. Gerstäcker gehört zusammen mit Karl Mai zu den populärsten Autoren von Abenteuerromanen seiner Zeit. Eine biedermeierlich heitere, skurril komische Erzählung um den bayerischen Kommerzienrat Mahlhuber. Kommerzienrat Hieronymus Mahlhuber bildet sich ein, schwer krank zu sein. Auf ärztlichem Anraten soll er deshalb eine längere Reise unternehmen. Augenblicklich in die tollsten Verwickelungen gelangend, gerät sie zu einer wahren Tortur für den Armen.
H. Rider Haggard
In this story, the already familiar hero, Allan Quatermain, tries to explain the mysteries of Africa. Here Quatermain unearths and destroys the cult of the priest, exploiting the remnants of a dying civilization. Allan proves their fraud. The main character, as always, is rational in his actions.
Wilkie Collins
Hide and Seek is a story about love, betrayal, hardship and forgiveness. Mr. Valentine Blyth is an artist. While working in the countryside, painting portraits of babies and sometimes portraits of horses, he meets a deaf-mute girl named Mary.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
This book is about an actress and her growing up in a country full of secrets and strange people. Duff Lindsay faces a strange situation when he falls in love with Laura Filbert.