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Originally published in 1931, „The Metal Monster” is a classic science-fiction novel by Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946), best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mar. When the most powerful artillery, deadly bacteria and explosives known, and the most destructive methods...

„Mr. Justice Maxell” follows the story of two business partners, Maxell and Cartwright, one of whom becomes a judge and sentences the other to prison, the woman they both marry, and their respective cousins whom they take on as their own wards. Spanning roughly a decade, the plot hinges on multiple...

Le héros du roman, le courrier Mikhail Strogov, sur les instructions de l’empereur, entreprend un long voyage de Moscou à Irkoutsk à travers toute la Sibérie, englouti dans le „soulèvement des Tatars”, pour sauver le frère du roi. Le voyage extraordinaire à Irkoutsk, créé par le fantasme...

Le scientifique-physiologiste Ox arrive à Kikandon, en Flandre occidentale, avec son assistant. Comme il l’a dit, son objectif est d’illuminer complètement la ville avec du gaz oxhydrique émis par l’air. Seulement, personne ne savait si c’était vrai. Bientôt, dans une ville paisible et...

Claudius Bombarnak, journaliste au journal Twentieth Century, a pour mission de décrire un voyage le long du grand chemin de fer transasiatique qui commence à Uzun-Ada, traverse le Turkestan russe et chinois et se termine à Beijing. En chemin, il rencontre des personnes intéressantes de différentes...

Le thème principal de l’œuvre est l’histoire touchante de l’amour romantique d’un homme et d’une femme vivant en Norvège. Ils s’appellent Gulda Hansen et Ole Camp. Ole va nager après les fiançailles et Gulda reste dans son village natal, Telemark Daal. Ole écrit une lettre à sa...

Le roman „La famille sans nom” emmène le lecteur européen à l’étranger, dans les étendues du continent nord-américain, jusqu’à la partie du continent appelée le Canada, et raconte le soulèvement des colons français au Québec. Les Canadiens cherchent à se libérer du contrôle de...

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...

A young pianist falls in love with a rich banker’s sixteen year old daughter after she requests to meet him in mildly mysterious circumstances. Her father will only let her marry someone with lots of money and, would you know it, hates music. The pianist decides to stop tickling the ivories and...

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...

Haggard’s story about greed and selfishness. This is the story of the dastardly Mr. Meeson, the rich owner of the publishing house. The only brave human who wants to stop his atrocities is Augusta. However, he leaves a mark on her spine before death, which leads further to battle.

This is another Haggard novel in which the characters lived their lives in anticipation of love after death. A history of pain, supernatural and love that survives death. In the book, the reader meets a young man named Rupert Ullershaw. When we first meet him, he is in a difficult situation, he enters...

William Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser River. He also wrote a series of northwest adventures...

On this particular morning, about ten o’clock, the seafront was already full of men in flannels and lounge-suits, and women in garments of muslin and other such flimsy materials usually affected at the seaside, for stifled and jaded Londoners had flocked down there, as usual, to enjoy the sea air and all the varied attractions which Southport never fails to offer.