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"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, Brand’s West is peopled with ch...

Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. This is one of his work. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre. Also Brand w...

Another great Max Brand western, first written in 1921. The story follows a cousin who was taken in by his uncle and his two sons. They make fun of him, and use his size and strength to do the hard chores they can’t do. The huge, lumbering outlaw Bull Hunter intends to hunt down and kill the men responsible for his uncle’s death. When he finds out that the ringleader is already behind bars, he devises a clever plot to spring his nemesis in order to dispense his comeuppance,...

Transfuzja ciemności czyli Joseph Conrad piszący w głowie Jacka Dukaja Heart of Darkness Najważniejszy i najodważniejszy projekt literacki roku! Kiedy czytamy w 2017 roku Serce ciemności, czytamy inną książkę niż Brytyjczycy w roku 1899. Te same zdania otwierają w nas inne przeżycia. Inne słowa klucze pasują bowiem do czytelników coraz odleglejszych od świata i kultury oryginału. Wszystko trzeba zmienić, aby najważniejsze – przeżycie zadane przez autora – pozost...

«Les Quarante-cinq» est le troisième tome de la trilogie des Guerres de Religion d’Alexandre Dumas. La période historique décrite est fascinante, style du romancier est comme toujours intrigant, Dumas veut tout décrire et tout montrer. Henri III est le roi treize ans après le bain de sang de la Saint-Barthélemy en une triste année de 1585. Il est le roi dans une France plus que jamais écartelée par les conflits religieux. Le destin de la France tient parfois à un fil capric...

«Han d’islande» est un roman fantastique de Victor Hugo ou mêlent gothique et romantisme, le roman se ménage une place confortable. Caveaux funéraires, apprentis savants disséquant les morts, géant sanguinaire se jouant de la justice des hommes, ours polaire domestiqué... et Han, qui vit avec un ours et qui boit du sang humain. Un monstre, une révolte populaire, une ligne d’amours. Ce roman se semble d’être plein d’inattendus!

Ah! Dumas, Alexandre Dumas, le père d’histoires exellentes! Cette fois-ci, il nous transporte en Hollande au XVIIème siècle, le siècle que l’on sait être là-bas, celui de la tulipomanie, sorte de frénésie spectaculaire autour d’un type floral du Proche-Orient récemment introduit dans le nord-ouest de l’Europe, la tulipe. C’est mielleux, mais ce côté suranné du romantisme qui allie le sang, l’honneur, la justice à grande échelle et l’amour le plus ras-des-pâquerettes....

Faites la connaissance: la grenouille mademoiselle Camargo, la tortue Gazelle, les singes Jacques I et Jacques II, l’ours Tom et la chatte Michette. L’histoire, qui se semble comme le conte pour les enfants, est le récit humoristique s’adresse plutôt aux. Ces bêtes sont le jouet de leurs passions bien humaines et les victimes de la cruauté et de la bêtise des hommes. Outre les péripéties rocambolesques, les drôles événements, ici il y a une ironie mordante, qui vise une cla...

La «Dame de Monsoreau» est la suite à «La Reine Margot». C’est la fin du XVI siècle. Nous avons la possibilité de déguster la vie des rois et reines des siècles précédents, la vie ces gentilshommes célébrés par leur bravoure. L’histoire d’amour, bien qu’agréable à suivre, est sans grande originalité, mais elle est soutenue par une intrigue historique particulièrement réussie et passionnante. En meme temps nous côtoyons le règne du roi Henri III, sa vie, sa cour, ses faibles...

Dans ce roman Dumas réussit là à développer franchement les relations humaines et le thème de la trahison pour aborder regrets, détermination et autres hantises de l’esprit humain. À grands coups de trésors, de secrets et de machinations, il nous conduit au gré des soubresauts du destin d’Edmond Dantès! La magie et la dissimulation, la tromperie, l’art du déguisement et les faux-semblants, et... la vengeance. Est-elle juste et facile à vivre une fois accomplie?...

«Le Vicomte de Bragelonne» est le dernier volume de la trilogie des trois mousquetaires. Véritablement c’est un des meilleurs, le plus vibrants et le plus émouvants romans de Dumas. L’ atmosphère est plus sombre que dans le premier volume de la série. Les amis ne sont pas dans le même camp, els mettent des bâtons dans les roues l’un l’autre. Mais, aucun des personnages n’est vraiment bon, aucun n’est totalement mauvais. Chacun lutte pour ses ambitions, et essaie de placer s...

Le roman «Le chevalier de maison rouge» fait partie d’une série des romans d’Aleksandre Dumas de la Révolution française. L’histoire, aventures, beaux ou mauvais sentiments, nobles hommes ou immondes humains nous entraînent dans la France de la terreur. La description d’une terrible époque, quand Louis XVI a été guillotiné, Le Tribunal révolutionnaire institué et Marie-Antoinette, enfermée au temple, attend son procès. Et enfin le mystérieux Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, qui a...

Un exellent roman où se mêlent l’aventure et l’amour. Il nous plonge dans l’époque de la guerre entre les princes héritiers de la couronne de France après la mort de Louis XIV. Raoul d’Harmental est un jeune homme qui va faire partie d’une conspiration dans laquelle il devra enlever le régent Philippe d’Orléans. Utilisant un capitaine un peu particulier Roquefinette, d’Harmental se rendra vite compte que comploter contre le pouvoir n’est pas sans difficulté... surtout lorsq...

«Le Capitaine Paul» est un des premiers livres d’Alexandre Dumas, qui nous montre, que l’auteur est un grand écrivain et même à ses débuts. On peut voir son talent avec ses intrigues et sa passion de l’aventure. Cette fois-ci, il raconte de l’abordage, du prisonnier Lusignan et du capitaine de bateau Paul, qui écoute sa histoire. Il découvre après plusieurs années la vérité de ses parents...

«Vingt ans après» c’est imposant volume et une suite du premier opus «Les trois mousquetaires» et le dernier chapitre de cette grande fresque littéraire est «Le vicomte de Bragelonne». Vingt ans ont passé et les temps ont bien changé. Paris est secoué par les soubresauts de la Fronde. Si D’Artagnan parvient à retrouver et à rallier ses quatre amis, nul doute que la Fronde entière sera forcée de plier le genou devant eux...

«Les trois mousquetaires» considéré comme chef-d’œuvre d’Alexandre Dumas et en même temps c’est un des livres les plus connu dans le monde entier. Pouvez-vous trouver quelqu’un, qui ne sait pas les noms des trois gentilshommes mousquetaires Athos, Porthos, Aramis et de jeune garçon d’Artagnan? Le nom du Cardinal de Richelieu? Cette histoire est le mélange de l’intrigue politique, de l’amour et du grand courage, que nous prend immédiatement.

«Les Compagnons de Jehu» est la suite des «Blancs et les Bleus» et précède «Le Chevalier de Saint-Hermine». Comme toujours, quand on ouvre un livre, que est écrit par Dumas, on ne peut pas s’arrêter. L’histoire nous prend immédiatement, le narrateur nous raconte les subtilités historiques. Ici on retrouve tous les thèmes, des gens d’honneur, que ce soit Roland de Montrevel, aide de camp de Bonaparte pas encore Napoléon 1er, ou Charles de Saint-Hermine, chef des compagnons d...

C’est un exellent petit roman, qui n‘est pas moins intéressant, que ses grands frères. Un recit intrigant des nombreuses histoires. Un personnage principal, Gabriel Lambert, par moyens malhonnêtes a tenté de s’élever au-dessus de sa condition. Qui est Gabriel Lambert? A-t-il réellement fait partie de la bonne société parisienne? Comment est-il passé de la Chaussée-d’Antin au bagne? On se laisse emporter par un conduit psychologique très instable de ce personnage, on le voit...

« Le soir même de notre arrivée à Naples, nous courûmes sur le port, Jadin et moi, pour nous informer si par hasard quelque bâtiment, soit à vapeur, soit à voiles, ne partait pas le lendemain pour la Sicile. Comme il n’est pas dans les habitudes ordinaires des voyageurs d’aller à Naples pour y rester quelques heures seulement, disons un mot des circonstances qui nous forçaient de hâter notre départ...»

Il semble que tout le monde connaît cette belle histoire d’amour, dans ce monde de brutes. Marguerite était séduisante, capricieuse et jeune, arborant ses camélias; Armand Duval, un homme avec un statut élevé, il ne devait s’éprendre d’une de demi-mondaines. L’amour entre Armand, le bourgeois, et Marguerite, la courtisane, s’exprime et tire son essence de toutes ces confrontations: le vice et la vertu, la luxure et l’amour, le plaisir et le devoir, la jeunesse et la vieille...

L’année 1810. Sur l’Ile île Maurice (France), il y a une bataille entre les Français qui la possèdent et les Anglais qui la convoitent. Commencé sur mer, le conflit se poursuit sur terre où, suite à un débarquement massif, les Anglais finiront par l’emporter. C’est la conquête aux colonies! Une île, des bateaux, des batailles, la vie des différentes castes dans les colonies; préjugés, esclavage, révolte... Georges est un passionant roman et en effet étonnamment!...

«L’histoire que nous avons lu, c’est Nodier qui me l’a racontée.” Charles Nodier, quand il sentait sa fin, a raconté cette histoire à Dumas et il la publie. Cette histoire est très travaillée et est truffée de références. Ce récit est plein de contes fantastiques et tableaux effrayantes de cette période historique où la folie et le réel parviennent à se confondre.

«C’était une nature de Dieu, incapable d’aimer un être qu’il n’aurait point créé lui-même. Aussi, seul et triste au milieu de la foule pour laquelle il n’avait pas de regards, ou n’avait que des regards distraits, il payait cher l’ambition de ses désirs. Comme le Seigneur avant la création du monde, il s’ennuyait. Ce jour-là, Jacques Mérey était assez content de la manière dont se comportait dans la cornue la dissolution d’un certain sel dont il étudiait les plus heureuses ...

Gloire à Dieu, gloire à la France! En cet heureux jour de la Saint-Barthélemy Marguerite de Valois, qui est la soeur de sa Majesté Charles IX, a épousé en justes noces Henri de Navarre, qui est prince des huguenots français. Alors, est-ce que les batailles entre catholiques et protestants viennent de prendre fin? C’est l’heure est aux réjouissances, à la fraternisation, au bon vin coulant à flots dans les auberges de la capitale! Mais quelques sombres événements dans les ru...

Jest lipiec. Świeżo po przeprowadzce do nowego domu, znudzony, dziesięcioletni Marcel rysuje na kartce bloku rysunkowego wymyślonego kumpla. Dopiero co przeglądał encyklopedię dla dzieci i nie miał się z kim podzielić wrażeniami po przeczytaniu informacji na temat egipskich piramid. Bardzo go zaintrygowały i przepełniły swoją tajemniczością. Poczuł ogromną chęć zobaczenia ich na własne oczy i rozwiązać największą zagadkę tysiącleci - Co tak na prawdę w sobie kryją?&nbs...

Georgianna Stockwell, a free-spirited young woman from the East, moves to the wilds of the Tonto Basin in Arizona and she creates a violent culture clash. She has been sent there by her parents and doctor for a change of scenery. It seems Georgianna had gotten herself lung problems due to all of her dancing and gadding about. Fortunately, her sister, Mary Stockwell is on the scene ready to take care of her younger sister and to show her how life should really be lived. But ...

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his best selling book. This is one of his stories. The story revolves around Lucy Bostil, a stable owner’s daughter who one day happens upon an unconscious Lin Slone. He never wants anything more than the wild stallion he calls Wildfire. When h...

A novel of honor lost, redemption found, and rip-roaring wild adventure from the original master of the American Western. Falsely accused of murdering Allen Neece, cowboy Brazos Keene had narrowly escaped a lynch mob. With his name at last cleared, Keene discovered that Neece’s twin sisters had being forced off their ranch after the death of their brother, something that honorable cowboy Brazos Keene couldn’t allow to happen. Brazos made a pledge to track down their brother...

Imagine if Romeo and Juliet were set among the sheep ranching families of Arizona. Add in a heavy dash of frontier action and adventure, and that neatly sums up the plot of Zane Grey’s „To the Last Man”, which follows a blossoming romance among members of feuding clans in the vast open plains of the Wild West. „To the Last Man” is the story of Arizona’s Pleasant Valley War, one of the most legendary conflicts of the Old West. Son of a cattleman, Jean Isbel tests family loya...

From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story. It is the story of Terrill Lambert, a young girl who disguises herself as a boy, at first to please her father’s dream for a son and second to protect herself in wild west Texas when her father is murdered. Young Terrill Lambeth could ride and shoot with the best men of the south. When her widowed father parks a caravan and drives towards Texas, she gets the chance to test her skills and...

Over 30 million Zane Grey paperbacks sold since 1954. Lucy Watson has finally escaped from the town where she grew up. She takes a job as a state welfare worker and travels to distant Cedar Ridge to help „primitive” backwoods families improve their lives. She quickly overcomes their fears, and achieves popularity by the practical results of her work. From the grandeur of the old forests, loomed over by the immense Rim Rock, to the love of the children whose lives she can ma...

This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories, the novel is the second in a trilogy. It deals with historical characters and incidents in the Ohio Valley in the late 18th century, especially with the foundation of Gnaddenhutten, a missionary village intended to bring Christianity to the Indians of Ohio, despite the violent opposition of both Indians and white renegades. The story deals with the attempt by Moravian Churc...

Zane Grey’s big Australian novel. American cowboy, Stirling Haselton, taking the blame for a shooting committed by a friend, is exiled to Australia and with one loyal follower, joins a party of ranchers and drovers making the long wilderness journey to the Elaberleys. Through the eyes of two cowboys, Australia comes alive for the reader – the flora, the fauna, the heat, the dust, the water, or lack there of, the strange and the exotic are all displayed. There are rustlers, ...

„Wanderer of the Wasteland”, Zane Grey’s 1923 novel of two brothers, one an honest cowpoke, the other a gambler. Adam Larey was betrayed by his older brother, Guerd, a gambler and wastrel, so he ran away to a mining town. Guerd, in the company of a vicious and unscrupulous sheriff, tracked him down, and in a confrontation, Adam shot his brother and assaulted the sheriff. A distraught Adam, believing he has killed his own brother. Adam seeks refuge in the desert, where life ...

This is a classic story of the Wild West, a story of reinvention, of justice, of right makes might. Panhandle Smith develops a wild free life as a cowboy until homesickness and a longing for his childhood sweetheart, Lucy, leads him to find them moved to Marco, a town in New Mexico. His childhood enemy Dick Hardman is ensconced there with his grasping father and their power seems invincible. Smith has a plan. Fighting down his past as a gunman, he prepared to start a new li...

Here is the great romance of the American Indian, revealing in the swift march of its events the tragedy and the glory of a whole race, and the true essence of the West, as only Zane Grey can express it. It tells the story of the love between Nophaie, a young Native American (or American Indian) man and his love for and with a woman by the name of Marian Warner. Also Indian warrior Nophaie strives to maintain ancient and honorable customs among his people in the face of abu...

„The U. P. Trail” takes place in the late 1860’s during the building of the Union Pacific Railroad, the first to connect the east coast to the west. Our protagonist is Warren Neale, a civil engineer on the railroad. His girlfriend, Allie Lee, seems to be always in need of recusing. One of the most interesting characters is Neale’s best friend Larry „"Red"” King, a rough gun toting Texan cowboy. The heroes must battle the human challenges of greed, ruthlessness, and ambition...

A great story by „the greatest novelist of the American West”. This one is about the tough men and women who made their living by obtaining herds of cattle and driving them across large territories to be sold. Driving forty-five hundred longhorns is hard enough, but in addition to leading the biggest cattle drive in the history of the Chisholm Trail, Adam Brite and his ten trail-hardened partners have to contend with the fury of nature and man. They were going all the way f...

In this breathless tale of bravery and battle, of white mans courage and red mans daring, Zane Grey has written one of his finest novels. The great western writer’s story of the buffalo hunters, and the passing of the great herds of buffalo. „The Thundering Herd” is the story of the buffalo and of their near extinction when hide hunters swarmed the plains killing them by the tens of thousands, and at the same time helping to eliminate the Indians by killing their food suppl...

Zane Grey was one of the first millionaire authors. With his veracity and emotional intensity, he connected with millions of readers worldwide, during peacetime and war, and inspired many Western writers who followed him. That work is widely considered the greatest Western ever written, and Grey remains one of the most famous authors of the genre. Cattle rustling was on the rise in the town of Randall, Wyoming and the new people Martha and Andrew join the ranchers in their ...

One of the bestselling novelists of the American West brings us a gripping tale of gold, greed, and vengeance. Three brothers find a lode of gold at Thunder Mountain. But instead of finding peace and prosperity, Jake, Kalispel, and Sam Emerson find more treachery than any normal men could hope to survive. Before they can get the claim registered, one of the brothers is killed by a claim jumper and the other is beaten and robbed of his ore sample. A boom town rises around th...

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier. This is one of his stories. Loner Milt Dale seeks solitude in the wild mountains of Arizona, and instead finds himself rescuing two young women from a kidnapping plot. He must lead the timid Helen and her wild hearted sister Bo away from danger, and try not to fall in love along the way. Le...

Readers with a taste for classic Westerns will appreciate this story’s spirited, well-drawn characters and its evocative descriptions of the frontier’s natural beauty. Hell-Bent Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. The plot centers around this young woman, an orphan named Columbine, who is entrapped by her allegiances into considering marriage to the drunkard son of her adopted father. Columbine is torn between her feel...

Originally published in 1915, „The Rainbow Trail” is the sequel to „Riders of the Purple Sage”. At the end of that famous novel, a huge boulder had rolled down to shut off the entrance to Surprise Valley, leaving Lassiter, Jane Withersteen, and little Fay Larkin to a singular fate. Twelve years later a young, disillusioned, ex-preacher in Illinois, hears about the wonderful secret canyon where a couple with their young foster daughter had fled to for safety, knowing they co...

„The Shepherd of Guadaloupe” is not a traditional Western: the story begins in 1919 and there are no gunslingers, rustlers, Indians, or stagecoaches. Cliff Forest returns from the war to find that his parents’ home has been taken over by the brutal Lundeen, whose own lovely daughter is terrified of him. To break the feud, save his parents, and win the woman who loves him, Cliff will have to defeat death itself. Virginia knows of the injustice done to his family by her fathe...

„The Rustlers of Pecos County” is another fantastic example of Western fiction by the master of the genre, American Author Zane Grey. The town of Linrock, located in Pecos Couty is south Texas has fallen under the control of a gang of rustlers. Two Texas Rangers, one undercover as a reckless cowboy, the other right out in the open, drawing the fire and wrath of outlaws, have been sent to bring law to a rustler gang’s town. In order to do it they risk losing the love of the ...

„The Last Trail” is the 3rd and final instalment to the Frontier Trilogy by Zane Grey. The American Revolution is over, but the violence continues in the Ohio Valley. A woman is kidnapped from Fort Henry by a band of renegades and hostile Ohio Valley Indians. She’s fortunate to have protectors who will go to any length to rescue her. Now, Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane take pursuit. With no hope of survival, they follow the trail into the unknown wilderness, vowing it to be...

Unlike many of Grey’s fictional novels of the old west, this is an account of a trip made to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon about 1908, for the purpose of tracking and capturing mountain lions. Buffalo Jones was the last of the famous plainsmen who rode the trails of the old West. In a continuing quest to establish dominion over wild animals, Jones leads his men on a journey to capture untamed cougars and bring them back alive. After several run-ins with Navajo, Commanch...

„The Lone Star Ranger” is a 1915 Western novel by American author Zane Grey. Set in Texas, the story revolves around the exploits of a band of Texas Rangers and Buck Duane, an outlaw on a quest for redemption. A captain of the Texas Rangers offers him a pardon and a ranger’s badge if he will infiltrate the gang of the shadowy figure known as „Cheseldine” who wields vast power in West Texas, and make it possible for the Rangers to break the gang’s hold on the region’s towns....

Zane Grey evokes the atmosphere, hardships and possibilities of the Old West like nobody else. Leaving Missouri with no knowledge of cattle ranching, Jim Traft of Missouri is put in charge of building one hundred miles of fence on his uncle’s western ranch to prevent cattle from drifting. The job puts him in conflict with the local community and he must find a balance. There’s also the lovely Molly Dunn to distract him; but how can he hope to woo the sister of his chief ene...

Madeline Hammond wanted more out of life than the superficial glitter of New York society. So she bought a ranch near the turbulent Mexican frontier and ended up getting more than she’d ever bargained for-and most of it trouble! She has a lot to learn about running a ranch in frontier New Mexico, but there is no question in her mind that she has to intervene when Gene Stewart, a cowhand who risked his life to save her honor, is scheduled to be hanged. And Madeline Hammond r...

The novel begins in the desert of southern Utah. It is the 1870s. John Hare is a young cowboy who was rescued from sure death by a Mormon rancher by the name of August Naab. Naab puts him to work with an adopted daughter, Mescal, who tends his herd of sheep. Out in the open air, Hare not only recovers his health; he falls for Mescal in a big way. The greatest danger Hare faces though, is over Mescal, a half-Navajo shepherdess who is already promised in marriage to Naab’s fi...

The sequel to „The Drift Fence”, featuring the continuing story of Jim Traft and Molly Dunn and introducing Jim’s sister Glorianna, who finds more than she bargained for in the West. When Gloriana Traft came to Arizona to visit her tenderfoot brother Jim, trouble was rampant in Yellow Jacket. The notorious Hash Knife Outfit of rustlers and gunmen were stealing the ranchers’ cattle and terrorizing the beautiful valley. Guns would blaze and blood would run hot and red before ...

A classic story of imperiled love on the western frontiers of nineteenth-century America. Jim Tex Wall is searching for three men who killed his wife and stole his horses and finds them working for a gang of cattle rustlers engaged in a turf war with a rival gang of outlaws. Finding his horses he joins the gang that are now riding them. Caught in the battle between the gangs when one double-crosses the other, he now finds the man he is looking for. „Robbers’ Roost” tells th...

„Riders of the Purple Sage” is Zane Grey’s best-known novel. Originally published in 1912, it was one of the earliest works of Western fiction and played a significant role in popularizing that genre. The story uses a third person narrator to tell the story from the point of view of two main characters Bern Venter and Jane Withersteen and a few minor characters. Jane Withersteen, Mormon-born Utah native, goes against her church when she befriends a young Gentile rider, Vent...

When the train pulls into Wagontongue, the reader becomes Trueman Rock, returning to town after killing a man six years earlier. Now he returns to find trouble again, but this time his trouble is caused by love. Rock has fallen in love with Ash Preston’s woman, Thiry, and no man in the valley will let him get away with this. But Rock has faced harder men for lesser prizes, and he is willing to pay any price to win Thiry’s love. As with Romeo and Juliet, this undying love is...

Only the love of the young Miss Joan Randle can melt the cold heart of Jack Kells, ruthless leader of a gang of desperados terrorizing the American borderlands. His cold eyes filled her with fear, but her goodness made something happen deep within him. Kells had a price on his head and on his heels. Now loving this woman could cost him his life...or it could make him a hero in this wild, dangerous land. There are classic Western elements: likable outlaws, the wild frontier,...

First published in 1926 and 1927, „Nevada”, the suspenseful sequel to „Forlorn River”, continues to be one of Zane Grey’s most beloved novels. Four years after Nevada had killed three men to clear his friend’s name, Ben and Nevada are reunited, but fate again plays a mean trick, and Nevada becomes Jim Lacy again – killer, thief, rustler, and notorious gunman – in order to save Ben from financial ruin. In Nevada, another romantic couple comes along, Marvie Blaine, and the da...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a German in America and Canada during World War 1? Young farmer Kurt Dorn is torn between going to France to fight the Germans or staying in America to be with the woman he loves and to protect his wheat crop against saboteurs who question his loyalties. He struggles to come to terms with his deepest beliefs and his place in the world. A passionate novel of patriotic and anti-union propaganda, it portrays the anxieties of t...

Laramie Nelson and partners Lonesome Mulhall and Ted „Tracks” Williams work their way out to eastern Colorado to Spanish Peaks Ranch. There they meet a family from Ohio that has come west to start a new life and hopefully allow the husband and father to get well in the high and dryer climate. They purchase a ranch and then are in the process of loosing everything. As they soon find out, though, this deserted fort is equally suited for both protection and imprisonment. In fa...

From the master of the western novel comes a tale full of romance and adventure. This is the story of Carley Burch, a young wealthy socialite living in New York City. As the story begins soldiers are coming home from the trenches of WWI, many of them damaged physically and emotionally. Among them is Carley’s fiancé, Glenn Kilbourne. He goes West to find his health and himself, with the idea that he’ll return when all is well. They correspond until she eventually heads West ...

„Majesty’s Rancho” is the sequel to „The Light of Western Stars”, both by Zane Grey. Here we meet the next generation at the ranch. It is wild with college age fun and a mix of gangsters meeting the old west. After Lance Sidway comes to the defense of beautiful Madge Stewart and ends up on the wrong side of the law, he escapes to Arizona and finds work on her father’s ranch. Fate certainly seems to want these two together! However, gangsters are rustling cattle from Stewart...

„The Day of the Beast” is the story of Daren Lane and hundreds of thousands like him in the years immediately after the conclusion of WWI, disabled soldiers returning home to an America that simply didn’t want to be reminded of what just took place. His fiancée has forgotten him, his job has been filled, and his poor health is failing quickly. But Lane is not one to be kept down, and with the true love of a strong woman, Lane will overcome every tragedy. It is set in Middle...

In „Forlorn River”, young Ben Ide is cast out by his rich dad, branded a wild horse hunter and possible rustler. Ide befriends a wounded man, whom he nicknames „Nevada.” Ide does the same for „Modoc,” an Indian he pulls out of a saloon. All three men form bonds of loyalty in their isolated state as they hunt wild horses in the California wilderness. Then the love of Ben’s youth returns after being away at college and an evil man has become his fathers partner and has spread...

A true legend, Zane Grey has thrilled a generation of readers with his great stories of the American West. Holly Ripple, a young, headstrong woman, brought up in the upscale boarding schools of the east, has inherited her family’s cattle ranch in 1870s New Mexico, after the sudden death of her father. With the help of the ranch foreman and Renn Frayne, a newly hired hand; a outlaw seeking redemption, they organize a assorted group of cowboys to protect the herd, and the saf...

Which is the true treasure, love or money? Prospecting in an Arizona border town, Richard Gale sees the possibilities of passion and gold when he finds himself trying to save a beautiful Spanish heiress. Love, adventure, and more wait in the Old West of Zane Grey’s western classic „Desert Gold”. When Richard Gale arrives in the border country of Arizona, he hopes for a brand new start. He soon finds himself embroiled in local trouble, however, when he and an old friend – a ...

Zane Grey is unrivalled in his mastery of the western scene... this is a charming and vintage story. Rich easterner Janey Endicott comes to Arizona with her father, where she is bored until she meets archeologist Phillip Randolph, who is investigating ancient Indian pueblos in the midst of the West’s wild culture. The distinct differences of personalities – she free and easy and wild, and he, quiet, reserved, „old fashioned” – is cause for quite interesting circumstances to...

This late-period Zane Grey is one of the best of his novels. Rich Ames didn’t set out to be a gunslinger – it was forced on him. After the bad guys try to „ruin” his twin sister Nesta, Ames grabs his pistols and the bloody gunfight follows. Unfortunately, his criminal actions forces him to flee from his beloved Nesta and his happy Tonto Rim home, pursued by the law and vengeful family members. Rich soon acquired the name „Arizona Ames” and for years after that fateful day h...

The western novels by Zane Grey have been a source of imagery about the American West for almost the entire twentieth century. The plots and characterizations of Grey’s popular novels set in the American West have been thoroughly examined and it is clear that his works acquired a fundamental role in the creation of western imagery. Gunslinger Smoke Bellows leaves behind a violent past in Arizona to begin a new life in Utah, where he finds a ranch that needs the touch of a s...

Zane Grey’s first trilogy – „Betty Zane”, „The Last Trail”, and „The Spirit of the Border” together in one volume. „Betty Zane” is an „Eastern” real life adventure story by Zane Grey based upon diaries kept by his great grandmother, Betty Zane, describing her life and adventures after she joined her brother’s family near what is now Wheeling, WV in the late 1700’s. It is the story of the last battle of the American Revolution, in which the heroine was a young, spunky, and b...

Pearl Zane Grey (1872 – 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier. Zane Grey is the author of 86 books, he is today considered the father of the Western genre, with its heady romances and mysterious outlaws. Raised together in the wild country of the Tonto basin, Jake and Verde grew up closer than brothers. But when they both fell in love with the same fickle woman, their f...

Frontier story of Logan Hewitt and his wife Lucinda and their trials and travails as a pioneer family in Arizona. Story proceeds through development of the automobile and World War I. This is a tale of a single family, told mostly from the point of view of the woman who left comfort to move west and marry her sweetheart. It is also a very nice lens by which we can see the growth and change in this country. Through the Huetts’ eyes we see the world grow and change, while the...