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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Birds of Prey is the first part of the story of Charlotte and her family and friends. At first, the birds of prey are a little confusing, since each of the first few chapters is a separate vignette about one of the characters, without any visible links to the others. The main plot theme revolves around the hunt for the legitimate descendant of a wealthy man whose great legacy awaited the gift. And in this context, there are several more or less unscrupulous people who trace this genealogy.
Kurd Lasswitz
Der Autor beschreibt Zukunft und Raum, technische Möglichkeiten und deren Auswirkungen, Katastrophen der spezifischen Wissenschaftsglauben und innere Kraft des Menschen, die bei der Überlebung eine bedeutende Rolle spielt. In seinen Zukunftserzählungen wird jedoch trotz allen technischen Fortschritts immer wieder deutlich, dass die Menschen ihrem Naturell treu bleiben und dass die Liebe nie an Bedeutung verliert. Es ist das Jahr 2371. Die Menschheit nutzt Luftdroschken um sich fort zu bewegen. Jedes Stück Land für die Nahrungsversorgung gebraucht.
Felix Dahn
Felix Dahn (1834-1912) war ein deutscher Professor für Rechtswissenschaften, Schriftsteller und Historiker. Zwischen 1882 und 1901 verfaßte er die 13-bändige Serie Kleine Romane aus der Völkerwanderung, alle angesiedelt in den ersten Jahrhunderten nach Christus. Bissula ist der zweite Band der historischen Romane aus den Zeiten der Völkerwanderung.
Robert E. Howard
Good collection of stories. Black Canaan is a favorite of mine. I have some doubts that REH would have finished The House with the suicide of John Conrad, but it is a Lovecraftian ending (Augest Derleth finished the REH fragment in this volume).
Robert E. Howard
A powerful wizard named Thugra Khotan is awoken from his three-thousand year sleep by an audacious yet unlucky Zamoran thief named Shevatas. Thugra wakes with dreams of world domination. He assumes the name Natohk, the Veiled One, gathers an army of desert tribes and sets out to conquer the Hyborian nations.
Black Heart and White Heart and Other Stories
H. Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard loves to focus on adventure stories in Africa. In this story, he paid attention to love, magic and faith. At the heart of the story is the father who lost his daughter, due to the attack of the barbarians. The author well emphasizes the fact that faith can defeat savagery in this world and save from death.
Robert E. Howard
Some such thoughts flitted vaguely through my mind that night as I groped along the narrow trail that wound through the deep pinelands. Such thoughts are likely to keep company with any man who dares invade, in the night, that lonely stretch of densely timbered river-country which the black people call Egypt, for some obscurely racial reason.
Max Brand
"Black Jack" is a grand western adventure story told by a masterful storyteller Max Brand about the son of a murdered bad guy who is raised as a fine gentleman. But, in truth, Terry is the son of the outlaw Black Jack Hollis. The story is about a bet between sister and brother whether genetics is stronger and the child will turn bad like his father or environment shall prove stronger and the child will become an outstanding citizen. As usual, Brands West is peopled with characters from mythology grander and much more eloquent than average dime-novel heroes.
Talbot Mundy
Madame Rosika Storey was one of the most celebrated fictional female private investigators during the Golden Age of the mystery (1920-40). The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection calls her, a stunningly beautiful young woman who describes herself as a practical psychologist specializing in the feminine. This one is the best private detective of England, but her stories are international. Her way to resolve the mystery is original and bring you in a new world. So we are introduced to the fascinating Madame Rosika Storey, fearless and intelligent, who plays cat-and-mouse with killers, goes undercover to break up criminal gangs, and unravels deadly mysteries.
Robert E. Howard
Pulp adventure, seemingly a bit crude and dashed off quickly, but good storytelling none the less. Pirates and lost cities a bit of Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones rolled into one, but also with echoes of one of Howards best known tales of piracy, the Conan story Queen of the Black Coast a superior story. The writing here is okay, entertaining enough, and even manages a little character exposition, but Howard could do and did do better work.
Robert E. Howard
In Black Wind Blowing, Howard lays it on so thick I half suspected he was trying to do a spoof on the genre. But then, his normal storytelling was always full of bizarre images, hyperactive violence and heavy use of adjectives so this story is probably just an extreme example. It helps too, that Black Wind Blowing has enough wild premises to build at least two or three effective horror stories on. If youre not moved by whats going on at the moment, by the next page the story has shifted gears in a weirder direction.
Fred M. White
Fred M. White gives us the opportunity to feel in high society. Many distinguished guests gathered at the Sir George apartment. Everything shone with real silver and gold. One of the guests hooked expensive mahogany thing. From now on, real disassembly begins.
Harold Bindloss
This is a story about a young guy who failed at the front. He believes the whole failure is due to him. Blake returns from India to England. There is some disagreement about whether Blake is really guilty or not. But Blake keeps silence in order to preserve the idyll in the family and not to betray his father and brother.
Charles Dickens
Money often changes peoples lives. If you inherited a substantial amount of money would it change yours? Would you work or quit your job? Would you feel entitled to various privileges because of your wealth? Would you behave differently? These and other issues are the subject of the English novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Bleak House, like many of Dickens writings, is about various social issues. Bleak House is a satirical story about Dickens view of the British judiciary system. Both Esther Summerson, one of the characters in the story, and a separate third person narrator, tell the story. Esther speaks about the experiences of her life, and the third person narrator speaks about the experiences of some of the people of the town.
Wilkie Collins, Walter Besant
The loving heart of the protagonist of the novel, Iris, remains faithful to the master of her destiny. The conflict with the father does not prevent the lovers from connecting, but how does this story end?
David Wright OBrien
After a short, dumpy bald-headed guy in civvies installs an invention a time transfer device in a tank that proceeds into the Georgia wilderness on maneuvers, a lightning bolt send the tank and its three operators backward in time. Shortly afterward they notice a single three-toes dinosaur footprint and disturbingly they hear the bloodthirsty scream of a very strange bird. Blitzkrieg in the Past is a science fiction from American fantasy and science fiction writer David Wright OBrien. He had more than fifty-seven stories published in pulp magazines like Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures, most of them written under the different pen names.
Robert E. Howard
I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Croms realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimers Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.
Edgar Wallace
This is a typical Walla? e sensational story, and no one needs a better recommendation that. Lady Mary Danton and her infant daughter disappeared when Jim Steele, Mr. Salters legal assistant, was five. Almost 20 years later, the Danton fortune is about to be distributed to Digby Groat and his mother. But Jim is uneasy. Can he solve the mystery? The mystery surrounding the mark of the blue hand and Eunices birth, the schemes and plots of the evil Digby Groat, murder, and the courage and courtship of Jim Steele make up this exciting novel. A fairly routine book for Wallace, though fans will want to add it to their collection.
Robert W. Chambers
Another romantic family adventure thriller by Robert W. Chambers about a young man who comes to an island with a gun he owns to hunt waterfowl. He meets the man who runs the club and falls in love. Everything is going well until he meets his daughters father.
Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle
Franz Kafka
Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle ist eine Erzählung von Franz Kafka. Sie behandelt die skurrilen Schwierigkeiten eines Junggesellen in seinem Privat- und Berufsleben. Blumfeld, ein älterer Jungsgeselle handelt von einem Junggesellen, der beschrieben mit einer sehr ironischer Wortwahl Kafkas mit den Mühen des Alltags in seinem Leben klar kommen muss... Mit Ironie wird die Kollision eines Sonderlings mit der Realität geschildert.
Maria Rodziewiczówna
W powieści Błękitni splatają się losy polskiej arystokracji i szlachty ziemiańskiej. Młody książę Leon, zwany również Lwem, otrzymuje tytuł i majątek w wyniku tragicznej śmierci starszego brata. Nie jest zupełnie przygotowany do roli właściciela potężnych dóbr. Pozbawiony wsparcia rodziny osuwa się w bierność i apatię. Wytrąca go z niej dopiero niespodziewany wstrząs. Książkę przepełnia wiara w podstawowe cnoty lojalność i przyzwoitość. Cechy, które były niezwykle ważne również dla samej autorki, wielkiej społecznicy, czynnej w organizacjach kobiecych i ziemiańskich, przekonanej do ostatnich chwil życia, że dobra strona natury ludzkiej zawsze zwycięża.
Błękitno-purpurowy Matuzalem. Powieść chińska
Karol May
Karol May rzadko zabiera czytelników do Chin, więc tym bardziej warto skorzystać z nadarzającej się okazji i odwiedzić z grupą podróżników ten niezwykły kraj. Emocji i ekscytujących przygód jak zwykle nie zabraknie, a dodatkową atrakcją będzie specyficzna sceneria Państwa Środka. Wraz z podróżnikami zanurzymy się w chińskiej kulturze i religii oraz zachwycimy chińskimi krajobrazami.
Błyskawice. Powieść historyczna z czasów rewolucji francuskiej
Teodor Jeske-Choiński
Błyskawice to powieść historyczna Teodora Jeske-Choińskiego, której tło stanowi zbliżająca się rewolucja w XVIII-wiecznej Francji. W trakcie burzliwych wydarzeń na próbę wystawiona zostaje miłość pomiędzy szlachcicem Gastonem de Clarac, konserwatystą oraz wielkim patriotą, a Zofią de Laval, zwolenniczką postępu i oświecenia. Połączyła ich miłość, pozycja społeczna oraz wspomnienia z dzieciństwa. Czy różne wizje świata zdołają ich rozdzielić?
Janusz Korczak
Książka o dziecku i młodzieży ale nie dla młodzieży. Wydana w 1914 roku. Korczak kwestionuje w niej legendę beztroskiej szczęśliwości dziecka, podkreśla trudy i niepokoje dzieciństwa, antagonizmy między dziećmi a rodzicami. Janusz Korczak, właśc. Henryk Goldszmit (18781942), polsko-żydowski lekarz i pedagog, pisarz i publicysta. W swoich utworach propagował prawa dziecka oraz nowoczesne metody wychowawcze. Materiały do twórczości literackiej czerpał z bezpośredniej pracy dziećmi.