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The name Howard Phillips Lovecraft thundered to the whole world as a standard of horror literature. Gifted with the art of exquisite literature, he wrote...

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In this tightly plotted novel, we follow the bizarre career of a man who loathes criminals. After Humphrey Challoner finds his wife killed by the bullet...

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The basic plot of this book is built around the reputation the Lloyds of London insurance firm had for ensuring all manner of unlikely propositions. Lord...

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Edgar Wallace was an English novelist, journalist and playwright, who was an enormously popular writer of detective, suspense stories, and practically...

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„Das Schloß”, der letzte große Roman von Franz Kafka, erzählt vom Kampf des Landvermessers K. gegen die allgegenwärtige, groteske Bürokratie einer...

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Pierre Loti parle de son enfance ici. L’enfance est pleine de tendresse, d’amitié et de secrets. L’enfance d’un petit garçon pensif vivant dans un monde...

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An international criminal arrives in London. Basically there’s the typical foreign bad guy, Caesar Valentine, who is suspected of many shady things but...

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The heroes of this novel became victims of intrigue with the tuned arms of a golden-haired beauty who knew how good she wanted only luxury and honors....

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Warm, brilliant, and cloudless was the July noon. Beneath the summer sun the broad, shallow waters of the Meuse sparkled as they rippled swiftly onward...

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The main characters of this story are a wealthy lawyer named Jim Gourdon and his tanned, adventurous friend Gerald Wenner traveling the world who amazes...

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The Tibetan lama, with a great sense of joy, leads two people from the west to enlightenment, fighting with enemies in Tibet in this interesting story of...

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This is another collection of interlinked short stories about the good life in Monte Carlo and Beausoleil after the first World War. Ten stories about...

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I am a Veiled Man. Openly, I confess myself a vagabond and a brigand. Living here, in the heart of the Great Desert, six moons march from Algiers, and a...

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„The Forty-Five Guardsmen”, by Alexandre Dumas (1894), the most celebrated of French romance writers, is in two volumes, and is the third of a series...

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Mr. Samuel T. Billingham of New York, recently landed from the great liner anchored a few miles out, walked along the Terrace at Monte Carlo, serene,...

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, writing as Anthony Partridge, in 1912. A curious tale in three parts. „The Court of St. Simon”, by E. Phillips Oppenheim tells the...

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Dédié à ses compagnons du Redoutable, La Troisième Jeunesse de madame Prune est un merveilleux badinage de Pierre Loti sur le Japon. Mais c’est surtout...

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Maybe it’s true, he said, and maybe a lie, it is unknown, maybe, India is going to go to blood, as these fakors believe, and maybe it’s not at all. There...

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1912. Ethel May Dell (1881-1939), British writer, began writing at a young age. Most of her stories were stories of passion and love set in India and...