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Darkness and the Light was written in the year 1942 by William Olaf Stapledon. This book is one of the most popular novels of William Olaf Stapledon, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

The Mystery of 31 New Inn was written in the year 1912 by R. Austin Freeman. This book is one of the most popular novels of R. Austin Freeman, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Ein Blatt Liebe erzählt von einer Pariser Straßendirne, der es gelingt, sich in die höchsten Kreise der Stadt "hochzuschlafen". Mit verheerenden Folgen. Denn ihre Anziehungskraft erlaubt es ihr, die Männer so zu manipulieren, dass sie ihre Ehen auf's Spiel setzen, sich wirtschaftlich ruinieren und sich sogar das Leben nehmen. Zola beschreibt das Paris des Zweiten Kaiserreichs eindringlich und detailliert. Leidenschaftlichkeit und Sinnlichkeit, aber auch Rohheit und Verderbtheit: Zola lässt den Zuhörer in überzeugender Weise teilhaben am Lebensgefühl der damaligen Gesellschaft.

A tale of love, Indian vengeance, and a mystery of the North. The danger trail is over the snow-smothered North. A young Chicago engineer, who is building a road through the Hudson Bay region, is involved in mystery, and is led into ambush by a young woman.

The tale of great boat races and thrilling experiences with Tom Swift the boatman.

The final novel by the acclaimed writer places heroine Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity and deep emotion, against the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England.

Vladimir Petrovich Voldemar, a 16-year-old, is staying in the country with his family and meets Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina, a beautiful 21-year-old woman, staying with her mother, Princess Zasyekina, in a wing of the manor. This family, as with many of the Russian minor nobility with royal ties of that time, were only afforded a degree of respectability because of their titles; the Zasyekins, in the case of this story, are a very poor family. The young Vladimir falls irretrievably in love with Zinaida, who has a set of several other (socially more eligible) suitors whom he joins in their difficult and often fruitless search for the young lady's favour.

Ex Oblivione was written in the year 1921 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. This book is one of the most popular novels of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

The Plumed Serpent was written in the year 1926 by David Herbert Lawrence. This book is one of the most popular novels of David Herbert Lawrence, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Der junge Chevalier Des Grieux hat seine Studien beendet und steht kurz vor der Abreise aus Amiens, als er der liebenswürdigen Manon Lescaut begegnet. Seine weitere berufliche Laufbahn - er soll Ritter des Malteserordens werden - gerät in den Hintergrund. Des Grieux entführt seine junge Geliebte nach Paris und beginnt dort ein zweifelhaftes Leben. Er wird zum Spieler und muss miterleben, wie ihn Manon mit dem wohlhabenden Monsieur de B. betrügt. Der Chevalier nimmt, scheinbar geläutert, in Paris ein Theologiestudium auf und scheint von seiner Leidenschaft kuriert, bis Manon erneut seinen Weg kreuzt. Wieder gibt Des Grieux seine Studien auf, um mit ihr zusammenzuleben. Ihr Bruder erscheint und gewährt Des Grieux Einblicke in das Leben als Falschspieler. Ebenso taucht Monsieur de G.M. auf, der sich Manons Gunst gern etwas kosten lässt, doch rasch merkt, dass Des Grieux und Manon hauptsächlich an seinem Geld interessiert sind. Er lässt Des Grieux ins Gefängnis und Manon ins Arbeitshaus bringen. Als sich der Sohn des Herrn von G.M. in Manon verliebt, schmiedet der enttäuschte Des Grieux einen Plan, der jedoch mit Verhaftungen endet. Manon wird aufgrund ihres liederlichen Lebenswandels nach Amerika deportiert, wohin ihr Des Grieux folgt. Dort ist es der Sohn des französischen Gouverneurs, der sich Hoffnungen auf Manons Zuneigung macht. Es kommt zum Duell mit Des Grieux. Dieser schiesst ihn nieder und flieht mit Manon, die jedoch bald darauf in den Armen ihres Geliebten stirbt.

This is the tantalizing tale of a missing world-renowned archaeologist that, so far, no one seems to be able to find any clues to. Dr. Thorndyke, our detective, is unusually perceptive and begins to find clues leading to a man with a tattoo of the "Eye of Osiris".

War On Bear Creek was written in the year 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard. This book is one of the most popular novels of Robert Ervin Howard, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Thomas Singleton broke down when his wife died giving birth to their daughter. He eventually recovered, but his half-brother Morse kept him locked up at the asylum. After seventeen years, Singleton escapes and tracks down his daughter, Rose, who is due to inherit a fortune on her eighteenth birthday. Convinced that his half-brother will try to trick Rose out of her inheritance, Singleton sends her to live with his former gardener, where she meets wealthy Theodore King. Romance begins to blossom, until Morse tracks the couple down and hires a thug to kill King.

Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, which was to tell "The Natural and Social History of a Family under the Second Empire."The novel was an immediate success. Le Voltaire, the French newspaper that was to publish it in installments from October 1879 on, had launched a gigantic advertising campaign, raising the curiosity of the reading public to a fever pitch. When Charpentier finally published Nana in book form in February 1880, the first edition of 55,000 copies was sold out in one day. Flaubert and Edmond de Goncourt were full of praise for Nana. On the other hand, a part of the non-reading public, spurred on by some critics, reacted to the book with outrage. While the novel is held up as a fine example of writing, it is not especially true to Zola's touted naturalist philosophy; instead, it is one of the most symbolically complex of his novels, setting it apart from the earthy "realism" of L'Assommoir or the more brutal "realism" of La Terre (1887). However, it was a great deal more authentic than most contemporary novels about the demimonde.Nana is especially noted for the crowd scenes, of which there are many, in which Zola proves himself a master of capturing the incredible variety of people. Whereas in his other novels -- notably Germinal (1885) -- he gives the reader an amazingly complete picture of surroundings and the lives of characters, from the first scene we are to understand that this novel treads new ground.Flaubert summed up the novel in one perfect sentence: Nana tourne au mythe, sans cesser d'etre réelle. (Nana turns into myth, without ceasing to be real.) From Wikipedia

John Pond (1767–1836) was appointed as 6th Astronomer Royal in February 1811, succeeding Dr. Nevil Maskelyne. Of a mild and unassuming character, Pond neither sought nor attained a popular reputation. His work was wholly technical, his writings dry and condensed; but his reform of the national observatory at Greenwich, England, was fundamental. He not only procured for it an instrumental outfit of the modern type, but established the modern system of observation. The number of assistants was increased during his term of office from one to six, and he substituted quarterly for annual publication of results. He possessed the true instinct of a practical astronomer.This is a brief eBook derived from the "John Pond" entry in the British Dictionary of National Biography.

A man mysteriously murdered at night, the figures 2x4 x 1x2 scrawled on his shirt front, a broken shoe-polish label beside him. Cleek solved it. Can you?