Sin Libris Digital: 75 books

Pourquoi le capital et le travail, deux alliés inséparables par nature, sont-ils éternellement en défiance pour ne pas dire en guerre ? Pourquoi les plus honnêtes gens du monde s’accusent-ils réciproquement de crimes épouvantables, les uns criant qu’on veut leur prendre ce qu’ils ont,...

That malign and magic jewel the Sphinx Emerald comes on the scene to play its part in a stirring drama of the Crusades.

Alexander of Macedon had conquered most of the world, and his legions were rolling toward Carthage when—a wily little priest strangely presented to him the Sphinx Emerald.

These Sphinx Emerald stories are a veritable Outline of History. Here the tragic young Caesarion dominates the scene.

The incomparable Leonardo da Vinci had great plans for the magic Sphinx Emerald—but though the King of France was his friend, he had also made a bitter enemy.

Are the things we love ever ours? The old Moor thought not: “I bought them! They were given me! They are mine!” he mocked. “Yet when you die—what? They are just so much gravel to you, then.”

In the Twelfth Century an intrigue at the court of the great Sultan Saladin brings forth the Sphinx Emerald to play its strange magic role.

The Sphinx Emerald passed into other hands—to reappear centuries later when conquering Cambyses came storming into Egypt with his Persian legions…

Fanatic followers of Mohammed stormed out of Arabia in the seventh century to slaughter the Greek troops of the Great Eastern Empire and conquer Egypt… and again the strange Sphinx Emerald came to the scene to play its part in the unrolling historic drama.

That strange bewitching jewel, the Sphinx Emerald, plays another part in world drama when a Mata Hari betrays the Egyptians, and Artaxerxes of Persia storms up the Nile to take over the ancient kingdom of the Pharaohs.

Vincent Connor wondered why a Russian countess should invite his friend to dinner in the French concession at Tientsin; and the answer was sudden and grim.

To manage a Far East business in spite of Chinese intrigues takes both courage and brains; and Vincent Connor’s friends never guessed he had either.

The malign magic of the Sphinx Emerald works its spell anew in one of the famous dramas of history.

All China was buzzing with talk about the theft of the priceless Han jades when Connor, free-lance of Oriental politics, took a hand in the risky game.