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Boothby's Nikola may be the world's first modern super villain: he is a master of hypnotism and mind control, a telepathic adept, and an astral projectionist. He can cause ordinary men to see images in pools of liquid, and prophesy into the future. It's said that he knows the hour, moment, and method of his own demise. (Goodreads)

There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but how true this is very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it amounts almost to the marvellous. There are men engaged in trades there, some of them highly lucrative, of which the world in general...

Boothby's Nikola may be the world's first modern super villain: he is a master of hypnotism and mind control, a telepathic adept, and an astral projectionist. He can cause ordinary men to see images in pools of liquid, and prophesy into the future. It's said that he knows the hour, moment, and method of his own demise. (Goodreads)

A collection of short stories of the many and varied forms of revenge, some of them more inventive than others.

Ralph Bathurst, the hero of the story has fallen in love with a girl captured by a wicked Rajah in India. The story starts with a Juggler, Rujub. We find out what the juggler does and how his life intertwines with the life of the 'hero', a man who is too nervous to fire a gun. Set in an eng community...

Excerpt: "Our readers are to suppose the Reverend Philemy M'Guirk, parish priest of Tir-neer, to be standing upon the altar of the chapel, facing the congregation, after having gone through the canon of the Mass; and having nothing more of the service to perform, than the usual prayers with which...

A three volume series of books describing events of the WW I. This is part two.

A three volume series of books describing events of the WW I. This is part three.

Excerpt: "He was a man approaching sixty, but in perfect health, and with no painful physical reminders that he had already accomplished the greater part of life’s journey. He was a successful man, who had attained at a comparatively early age the heights of his profession, and gained a name for...

Excerpt: "The country with which one is most apt to compare it is, naturally, Switzerland. But there is no place where one can see a complete circle of snowy mountains surrounding a plain of anything like the length and breadth of the Kashmir valley, for the main valleys of Switzerland are like the...

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1. Baron Lytton (* 25. Mai 1803 in London; † 18. Januar 1873 in Torquay) war ein englischer Romanautor und Politiker des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1. Baron Lytton (* 25. Mai 1803 in London; † 18. Januar 1873 in Torquay) war ein englischer Romanautor und Politiker des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1. Baron Lytton (* 25. Mai 1803 in London; † 18. Januar 1873 in Torquay) war ein englischer Romanautor und Politiker des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1. Baron Lytton (* 25. Mai 1803 in London; † 18. Januar 1873 in Torquay) war ein englischer Romanautor und Politiker des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)