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Jan Grabowski
Jan Antoni Grabowski (18821950) był pedagogiem, pisarzem i znawcą sztuki. Zasłynął twórczością dla dzieci i młodzieży, w której umiejętnie łączył różnorodne emocje i wciągające zdarzenia. Chętnie sięgał też po postaci zwierząt, których ciepłe i zabawne historie wzruszały kilka pokoleń dzieci. Oprócz literatury dziecięcej pisał podręczniki geometrii, monografie zabytków, przewodniki po Warmii i Mazurach. Odegrał istotną rolę w ratowaniu zabytków i dzieł sztuki zdewastowanych w czasie II wojny światowej.
Karl May
In den Cordilleren ist der Fortsetzung des Südamerika-Romans Am Rio de la Plata. Die Reisegesellschaft ist nun auf dem Weg in die Pampa de Salinas. Unterwegs treffen sie auf Pena, der für eine Gruppe von Siedlern um Hilfe bittet, die auf dem Gebiet der Aripones in Gefahr geraten sind, und endlich auf den Sendador, der an der Gefahr für die Siedler keinesfalls unschuldig ist. Er wird gefangen genommen und die Siedler gerettet. Nach seiner heimlichen Befreiung, hetzt der Sendador die Indianer auf die Reisegruppe. Senor Charley und Pena können fliehen und treffen unterwegs auf den geheimnisvollen alten Desierto. Spannungsgeladener und dramatischer Roman Karl Mays um eine ereignisreiche Reise.
Karl May
Kara Ben Nemsi und sein Gefährte Hadschi Halef jagen den Verbrechern nun in Osteuropa nach. Dabei begegnen sie einem alten Bekannten, den sie aber nicht erkennen. Unterwegs kommt es zu zahlreichen Begegnungen mit allerlei düsteren Gestalten, die die Schluchten des Balkan bevölkern und entweder Schmuggler sind oder zur Bande des Schut gehören. Aber es gibt auch Männer wie den bärenstarken Schimin, den Schmied, der Kara Ben Nemsi ein treuer Bundesgenosse im Kampf gegen Banditen wie Boschak, den Färber und Bäcker, Saban, den Bettler, Mübarek, den seltsamen Heiligen, oder Busra, den Krüppel, wird. Die Verbrecher sind ihnen immer wieder einen Schritt voraus. Zwar gelangen die gesuchten Verbrecher schließlich in die Hände ihrer Verfolger, doch sind noch lange nicht alle Rätsel gelöst...
Edgar Wallace
Chicago während der Prohibition. Tony Perelli ist der Schmugglerkönig, doch geht er mit Erpressung, Schießereien und der Liquidierung unbequemer Leute zu weit? Er bekam Besuch in seinem Dachgarten hoch über den Lichtern von Chicago. Einer seiner Leute beschwerte sich darüber, dass man seinen Freund liquidiert hat. Die Folge: eine Hinrichtung ein Polizeieinsatz Maschinengewehrsalven am Stadtrand und mindestens ein Toter mehr als geplant...
Franz Kafka
Kafkas berühmte Erzählung über einen eigentümlichen Apparat. Ein Reisender kommt in eine Strafkolonie, um mehr über die dortigen Zustände zu erfahren. Man zeigt ihm eine grausame Bestrafungsmaschine, die den Angeklagten ihr Urteil mit einer Nadel in den Körper ritzt immer tiefer, zwölf Stunden lang, bis der verurteilte die Bedeutung des Schriftzugs erkennt und schließlich getötet wird. Die Wesensbeschreibung des ausführenden Technokraten wirkt dabei wie eine hellsischtige Vorausschau auf die dreißiger und vierziger Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Kafkas Erzählung thematisiert das problematische Verhältnis von Macht und Gerechtigkeit.
In New York with the Tucker Twins
Emma Speed Sampson
In New York with the Tucker Twins is a sixth book in the Tucker Twins series, written by an American author of juvenile fiction and a movie censor Emma Speed Sampson and published between 1915 and 1924. Nominally its a boarding school series, but actually only two of the books are set at school. Our heroine is 15 year-old Page Allison, a doctors daughter, raised in a rural Virginia community where she has no companionship with girls her own age. On her way to school for the first time, she meets the Tucker family, a set of twins nicknamed Dee and Dum who will be her best friends, and their startlingly young and sprightly widowed father. In it, Page Allison and the Tucker Twins head to New York City for a great adventure...
Ellis Parker Butler
Excerpt from In Pawn: Lem Redding had a dimple in his cheek that appeared when he smiled. For a boy with a faceful of freckles he was pretty. He had dear, bright gray eyes, and his smile, aided by the dimple, made most folks love him at sight. His hair was brown, as his dead mothers had been; in fact he was much like that mother in more ways than one-far more like her than he was like Harvey Redding, his father. Lem was quick, agile, lively, and Harvey was plumb lazy. This book presents In Pawn (1921), from Ellis Parker Butler. Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, is most famous for his short story Pigs is Pigs.
Fenton Ash
The works of Fenton Ash are highly prized among bibliophile collectors of classic sci-fi and fantasy. Fenton Ash was a pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-science fiction pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. In Polar Seas is a romance of adventure in the frozen North, targeted mainly at juvenile readers but billed as being for readers of all ages, it describes the adventures of a team of British explorers who discover a lost Viking civilization in a hitherto unknown temperate zone near the North Pole. If you havent discovered the joys of Fenton Ashs adventures there is a good place to start. Highly recommended!
In Praise of a Suffolk Cottage
Mary Cholmondeley
Most of the stories were written in a cottage in Suffolk. Everyone now has a so-called cottage. This is a story about how a seemingly simple cottage won the heart of the protagonist and it happened for a reason.
In Search of the Castaways. Or, The Children of Captain Grant
Jules Verne
Children of Captain Grant is one of the best novels of the outstanding French writer Jules Verne, a wonderful example of a classic work of youthful literature. From the book, the reader learns about the amazing adventures that occurred with the heroes of the novel during their extraordinary journeys in South America, Australia and other places where they find themselves in search of Captain Grant.
Robert W. Chambers
The protagonist narrator serves as a common thread for stories that also feature humor. A young scientist travels the world in the footsteps of mysterious animals. This is an ironic and fantastic adventure of a self-confident biologist.
Robert W. Chambers
The main character landed in New York that very morning. At that moment, he was standing in the bar of the Astor Hotel, sober enough not to tell the bartenders everything he knew, and drunk enough to talk too much in a place where the enemy is always listening.
In Strange Company. A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas
Guy Boothby
At Guy Booths Strange Company, Australian writer Guy Boothby put his passion for travel to work as food for his fiction. Although his first publication was a popular science story about traveling around his home country, he soon turned to fiction as an outlet for his work, focusing mainly on adventure adventures, secrets, and discovery stories. In the Strange Company was Boothby
Joseph Smith Fletcher
This is a short story about a young English boy whose cousin is kidnapped by a Spanish nobleman. He ends up in Mexico and finds himself on a galley bound for Spain. Francis Drake raids a galley and rescues British slaves, bringing them back to England.
Herbert George Wells
In the Days of the Comet is set in early 20th century England and covers Willie, a socialist who is angry and frustrated with everything to do with the world he lives in. The only thing Willie finds beautiful and tranquil is the love of his life, Nettie. The story follows Willie and his lust for Nettie as he finds himself perplexed by what the love of his life decides to do. The comet is referred back to quite often and eventually, when it hits, it brings some sort of cleansing gas with it, ridding the world of hatred and jealousy. People can finally see the world for what beauty it really is. A fantastic tale of the worlds beauty and unity after the Great Change occurs. The novel is divided into three parts: Book I: The Comet; Book II: The Green Vapours; and Book III: The New World and each are distinctive in style, tone and mood.
Joseph Smith Fletcher
This is a story of graft and corruption set in one of Fletchers favoured Northern towns. The mayor who is on a clean-up campaign is found dead in his parlour and our hero, his younger cousin, is determined to find out who killed him. Was he eliminated for this reason? There are entanglements involving city officials and his proposed reforms plus jealousy related to relationships. Lots of twists with a surprise murderer. The plot is cleverly centered around the inquest, which keeps being adjourned in hope of new evidence.