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First published in 1860, „Brother Jacob” is a short story about deception, imperial venture, and self-interest by George Eliot in which she explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centered, and ambitious David Faux and his simple-hearted and naif brother, Jacob. It is Eliot’s literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading.

Welcome to the important and meaningful boys’ adventure novel of Francis Henry Atkins which is „The Cadets of the Dolphin”. Aubrey, Frank (pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins) was a British writer of „pulp fiction”, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers. Despite his commercial success at the time, little is known about Atkins’ personal life.

„A Detective’s Triumphs” (1891) by Dick Donovan – eleven intriguing detective short stories including: The Mystery of Surgeon-Major Palmer; The Great Ruby Robbery; The Abduction, etc. Dick Donovan is the pseudonym of British author James Edward Preston Muddock (28 May 1843 – 23 January 1934) who created a private detective, also named Dick Donovan, in the 1890s. Dick Donovan achieved an international reputation as the master sleuth, and is reputedly responsible for American d...

Count Fabio Romani, whom everyone considers one of the victims of the cholera epidemic that raged in Naples at the end of the 19th century, „rises from the dead”... However, when he returns home, he realizes with horror: no one is waiting for him there... The beautiful wife Nina and Guido’s best friend, who has been in a secret relationship for a long time, is planning a wedding and counting the days until the end of mourning.

‟Votes for Men” by Mary Cholmondeley, a tribute to the famous suffragist play „Votes for Women”. It begins with „in two hundred years, maybe less,” which tells you everything you need to know about this suffrage era suffrage allegory.

The action of the novel refers us to the events that took place on the eve of the struggle for the independence of the North American colonies. The heroes of the novel will have to face the distrust of their compatriots, survive their betrayal, withstand the pressure of a gang of Indians, courageously overcome all hardships.

Young Lucretia Raymond lives with her strict aunts Lucretia and Maria. During Christmas time, Lucretia is invited by other schoolchildren to cut the Christmas tree in the school building in preparation for the Christmas celebration.

Cairo is a city where European aristocrats come in winter to relax and admire the monuments of a great ancient civilization. And in the new season, the fabulously rich and mysterious beauty Princess Ziska becomes the main topic of all conversations. She doesn’t seem to have a past. Her eccentric antics shock society. Her knowledge of the history of Ancient Egypt delights even scientists. She is surrounded by a crowd of fans, but nevertheless does not get close to anyone....

Beach is at his best as an action adventure writer. You can feel the chill of the northwest glaciers and shudder at the threats of nature and unscrupulous people. Along with the „man vs. nature” plot, there’s a tender romance off the beaten path.

This book focuses on the social exclusion and marginalization of respectable women in the context of their response to risk. Of the four stories included in the collection, three deal with crime, deviance, or both.

The Magic Casket – Thorndike solves the mystery of the box in order to locate a jewel stolen from a client and get rid of the dastardly Japanese who are after them in every way.

Marie’s skill lies in her powers of observation. She sees how men behave with women, how the rich behave with the poor, how power is based on political machinations, how actors bow to virtuous people, how easily every person dissolves gossip and ruins lives. How easily a man turns into a murderer, how genius is diminished if a woman possesses it.

‟Monikins” is a serious and caustic satire on the social mores of England and America at that time. Cooper ridicules both the aristocratic monarchy and the bourgeois republic with equal vigor. The first part of „Monikins” depicts the early years of John Goldencalf. John Goldencalf, by coincidence, is one of the wealthiest people in Europe of the nineteenth century.

Father often asked Kirk Anthony to do a real job. But Anthony, despite almost idolizing his strong, successful father, just can’t stop having a good time with his father’s money. He goes to fancy dinners, drives the latest cars, and treats his friends to sumptuous meals. Then a man steps in trying to get away from the law. At dinner, he persuades one of Anthony’s drunken friends to „play a terrible joke on him.”

In this book you will find a description of the life and way of life of the indigenous inhabitants of the country – Indians and white settlers; numerous hunting scenes. The novel will not leave indifferent either those who appreciate the sharp, constantly in suspense plot, or those who are interested in the conditions under which the development of the American continent was carried out at the beginning of the last century.

This novel is for those who are looking for a quick and easy read. The Flowers family lived in a small house in a wide grassy meadow that descended a few branches from the front door to a gentle silvery river. Directly across the river stood a lovely dark green mountain, and when a rainbow fell, as it often did, nothing could look more charming than it rose from the opposite bank of the stream against the backdrop of a wet, shady mountain.

A gang of jewel thieves has come to the attention of the police. Will Dr. Thorndike be able to find the leader and the jewels? It would seem that the jewel merchant has a strong room with a puzzle lock where there are too many combinations to solve. But can it be done.

The unfolding struggle for land in North America prompted Cooper to write a series of novels about the life and fate of large landowners. The main character, American Hedges Littlepage, and his elderly uncle have been living in Europe for a long time. But suddenly events begin in America that force them to go on a long journey, to their homeland.

There are eight unrelated shorts in this book. The author tells us about the cottage she lives in and the memorable experience she had during the war.

This is a gripping maritime story about two whaling ships on a long and cold journey to the shores of Antarctica in search of dangerous goods. Two Sea Lions – two ships, two captains, two crews! Will they become enemies or friends in the prickly ice that threatens to crush them all. And only the scarlet blood of whales, majestic animals, mixes with the white waves of the ocean in the silence of snowy cliffs.

Morgana Royal is a beautiful, rich female fairy, endowed with a powerful mind, has a personal flying ship, communicates wirelessly with representatives of a superior race and reveals the secret of eternal life. But the wild beauty Manella becomes her rival in the fight for the heart of a selfish scientist who dreams of subduing the whole world with his destructive discovery.

A slow paced story of love and self-sacrifice with thoughtful character development. In this novel, the heroine Sylvia is on the verge of receiving a large and unexpected inheritance. But soon an unexpected discovery leads to unexpected consequences as Sylvia dives deeper into family secrets.

In this collection of short stories, the reader learns the killer’s identity long before the brilliant medical detective takes the stage. These are brilliant early examples of open secrets where the question is not who, but how will they be caught?

Gertrude was a great astrologer and spoke in astrological terms. She told the protagonist (after the wedding) that when she discovered that Jimmy’s moon in the house of marriage was in a semi-sextile with her Venus, she knew from the very beginning that their union was inevitable. The stars are rarely wrong.