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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique Rafael Sabatini collection, formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels: Scaramouche Captain Blood The Lovers of Yvonne The Tavern Knight Bardelys the Magnificent The Trampling of the Lilies Love-at-Arms The Shame of Motley St. Martin's Summer Mistress Wilding The Lion's Skin The Strolling Saint The Gates of Doom The Sea Hawk The Snare Fortune's Fool The Carolinian Short Stories: ...
| Автор | Rafael Sabatini |
Musaicum Books present to you a collection of the greatest gothic & macabre classics of all time: Content: Frankenstein The Orphan of the Rhine Nightmare Abbey The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Castle of Otranto Vathek The Castle of Wolfenbach Caleb Williams The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian The Monk Wieland Northanger Abbey The Black Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Vampyre The Legend of...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
This eBook collection has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Novels: A Gentleman's Gentleman The Diamond Ship The Sea Wolves The Lady Evelyn Aladdin of London White Motley Short Stories: Jewel Mysteries I Have Known; From a Dealer's Note Book: The Opal of Carmalovitch The Necklace of Green Diamonds The Comedy of the Jewelled Links Treasure of White Creek The Accursed Gems The Watch and the Scimitar The Seven...
| Автор | Pemberton Max |
Jewel Mysteries, from a Dealer's Note is a collection of mystery stories featuring jewel dealer Bernard Sutton. Sutton is a smart, hard-headed Victorian gentleman and a client's money buys his jewels, but not his companionship or respect. His profession leads him down some captivating trails and he often finds it necessary to solve a puzzle or a crime in order to protect his business or a valuable client. Table of Contents: The Opal of Carmalovitch The Necklace of Green Diamonds ...
| Автор | Pemberton Max |
Vampires and werewolves have existed alongside humans since antiquity, or at least the tales of them. Reawaken the fear, the dread and the obsession with the creatures of the night with this meticulously edited collection of the greatest horror classics of all time: Vampires: The Vampyre (John William Polidori) Dracula (Bram Stoker) Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker) Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier) Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu) Vikram and the Vampire (Sir Richard Francis Burton) The Vampire...
| Автор | Редьярд Киплинг |
Homo Sum is a historical novel that features a story of early centuries of Christianity in Egypt. This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Hermas had hastened onwards without delay. He had already reached the last bend of the path he had followed down the ravine, and he saw at his feet the long narrow valley and the gleaming waters of the stream, which here fertilized the soil of the desert. He looked down on lofty palms...
| Автор | Georg Ebers |
The Nuremberg trials were held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany. This volume contains trial proceedings from 5 February 1946 to19 February 1946.
| Автор | International Military Tribunal |
The Nuremberg trials were held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany. This volume contains trial proceedings from 20 February 1946 to7 March 1946.
| Автор | International Military Tribunal |
A Book of Ghosts is a collection of occult stories and gothic tales of ghosts and other supernatural creatures that haunt minds and houses of people since the dawn of time. Table of Contents: Jean Bouchon Pomps and Vanities McAlister The Leaden Ring The Mother of Pansies The Red-haired Girl A Professional Secret H. P. Glámr Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story The Merewigs The «Bold Venture» Mustapha Little Joe Gander A Dead Finger Black Ram A Happy Release The 9.30 Up-train On...
| Автор | Baring-Gould Sabine |
"The Iron Pirate" is the tale of a great gas-driven iron-clad, which could outpace the navies of the world and terrorize the Atlantic Ocean. Constructed of a phosphor-bronze alloy with engines in the vessel that burn hydrogen, manufactured by passing steam through hot coal to produce a mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, the nameless ship is captained by the infamous Captain Black and it brings horror to every ship and every sailor that comes in its path. The «gas» engines in the...
| Автор | Pemberton Max |
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Georg Ebers collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: An Egyptian Princess Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt Homo Sum The Sisters The Emperor (Hadrian) Serapis: a Romance The Bride of the Nile Cleopatra Arachne A Thorny Path (Per Aspera) Other Novels: The Burgomaster's Wife:A Tale of the Siege of Leyden Margery: A Tale of Old Nuremberg Barbara...
| Автор | Georg Ebers |
The book follows the adventures of a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose «chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief». He takes great delight in hurting the animals on his family farm. Nils captures a tomte in a net while his family are at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from the Bible. The tomte proposes to Nils that if Nils frees him, the tomte will give him a huge gold coin. Nils rejects the offer and the tomte turns Nils into a tomte,...
| Автор | Selma Lagerlöf |
Miller ignores the warning about visiting a haunted island and soon mysterious things begin to occur with his friends! Excerpt: "Captain's Island is not far from civilisation as one measures space. Dealing with the less tangible medium of custom, it is—or was—practically beyond perception. James Miller didn't know this. When he had thought at all of his friend Anderson's new winter home he had pictured the familiar southern resort with hotels and cottages sheltering...
| Автор | Charles Wadsworth Camp |
e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited Edward Bulwer-Lytton Ultimate collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Novels & Novellas: The Last Days of Pompeii The Pilgrims of the Rhine Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes Falkland Pelham The Disowned Devereux Paul Clifford Eugene Aram Godolphin Asmodeus at Large Ernest Maltravers Alice, or The Mysteries (A sequel to Ernest Maltravers) Calderon, the Courtier ...
| Автор | Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон |
Excerpt: «The following attempt at a tragedy in fiction (a tragedy, however, without a tragic ending) must not be construed into an attack on the English priesthood generally. I have simply pictured, in the Rev. Charles Santley, a type of man which exists, and of which I have had personal experience. Fortunately, such men are uncommon; still more fortunately, the clergymen of, the English Establishment are for the most part sane and healthy men, too unimaginative for morbid deviations.»
| Автор | Robert Williams Buchanan |
Musaicum Books present to you the collection of the great novels and stories written after the turmoil, the trauma and the heroism experienced during the American Civil War: The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) The Little Regiment (Stephen Crane) The Veteran (Stephen Crane) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce) A Horseman in the Sky (Ambrose Bierce) Chickamauga (Ambrose Bierce) The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (Mark Twain) A Curious Experience (Mark Twain) ...
| Автор | Charles King |
The Rover Boys Series for Young Americans is a popular juvenile series that retails adventures of brothers Tom, Sam, and Dick Rover. The Rovers are students at a military boarding school: adventurous, prank-playing, flirtatious, and often unchaperoned adolescents who were frequently causing mischief for authorities as well as criminals. Table of Contents: The Rover Boys at School, or, The Cadets of Putnam Hall The Rover Boys on the Ocean, or, A Chase for a Fortune The Rover Boys in the...
| Автор | Stratemeyer Edward |
Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) was a British philosopher and author of science fiction. Stapledon's writings directly influenced Arthur C. Clarke, Bertrand Russell, C. S. Lewis, and indirectly influenced many others, contributing many ideas to the world of science fiction. In 2014, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Contents: Novels: Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future Last Men in London Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest Star...
| Автор | Olaf Stapledon |
Waking up after a nap on a Sunday afternoon, partner stirring next to you, the world safely at bay. An artist muses about painting his woman, drawing her every day of the year. Celebrating the closeness between them, and the passion. The plans they have, the places they'll go. The feeling of home between them. Jeremiah K. Black's signature touching yet breathtakingly explicit style paints a deft and subtle picture of a relationship with profoundly romantic insight and heart-warming...
| Автор | Jeremiah K. Black |
Musaicum Books presents to you thiscollection of historical adventures and romance novels set in ancient Egypt. This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: An Egyptian Princess Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt Homo Sum (Novel about 4th century A.D. Christianity on the Sinai Peninsula) The Sisters The Emperor (Hadrian) Serapis, a Romance(Tale of the destruction of the Library of Alexandria) The Bride of the Nile ...
| Автор | Georg Ebers |
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Novels: The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Captain Black: A Romance of the Nameless Ship The Sea Wolves The Little Huguenot: A Romance of Fountainebleau A Gentleman's Gentleman The Garden of Swords The House Under the Sea: A Romance The Lady Evelyn: A Story of Today Aladdin of London or, Lodestar ...
| Автор | Pemberton Max |
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited western collection: A Rider of the High Mesa Free Grass The Octopus of Pilgrim Valley Chaffee of Roaring Hors Son of the West Whispering Range The Feudists The Kid From River Red The Roaring Hour Starlight Rider Riders West The Silver Desert Trail Smoke Trouble Shooter Sundown Jim Man in the Saddle The Border Trumpet Saddle and Ride Rim of the Desert Trail Town Alder Gulch Action by Night The Wild Bunch Bugles in the...
| Автор | Ernest Haycox |
Gotteskrieger in Michelfeld? Ist der Tote im Weißburgunder ein Taliban? Gibt es zur Kavallerieattacke auf dem Himmelberg wirklich keine Alternative? Auf dem Weingut des Reichsgrafen und Marquis zu Hoensbroech spielen sich dramatische Szenen ab. Die Treue zu einem Jugendfreund aus dem Nahen Osten bringt die gräfliche Familie in Gefahr. Drastische Maßnahmen werden nötig, um sich gegen die Aggressoren zur Wehr zu setzen – doch die Fremden haben gute Gründe für ihren Zorn. In seinem fünften...
| Автор | Johannes Hucke |
Im Mittelpunkt des zweiten Bandes der vierteiligen schwedischen Familiensaga «Liebe und Krieg» steht die 22-jährige Kristina vom Hof Nygården, die Enkelin Johannas aus dem 1. Band, «Das brennende Meer». Man schreibt das Jahr 1854, und der Krimkrieg hat die Menschen im Gebiet des Åländischen Meeres erreicht, vor Grisslehamn segeln englische Kriegsschiffe mit åländischen Gefangenen. Unter dramatischen Umständen lernt Kristina den jungen englischen Deserteur Robert kennen und rettet ihn vor dem...
| Автор | Erik Eriksson |