Рыцарь пустыни, или Путь духа
Молодой лейтенант Руперт Уллершоу вмиг потерял все, лишился былой легкости, стремлений и надежд. Виной тому были дурная кровь предков, жестокий рок, неумолимый фатум да какая разница?! Жизнь утратила смысл, но она продолжалась. И с этим надо было чтото делать. Прислушавшись к совету матери, Руперт р
Приключения капитана Коркорана
Отправившись по заданию Лионской Академии наук в Индию на поиски священной книги индусов, капитан Коркоран знакомится там с индусским правителем Голькаром и его дочерью, красавицей Ситой, которой угрожает бывший первый министр Голькара, а теперь изменник, Рао. Очарованный красотой девушки капитан Ко
Ayesha, the Return of She
In this heartstopping sequel to the classic novel She, Allan Quatermain discovers a lost kingdom in the heart of Africa, ruled by the mysterious Ayesha. A haunting story of love and enchantment that spans the...
Дядя Бернак. Тайна Клумбера. Роковой выстрел (сборник)
Артур Конан Дойл (18591930) всемирно известный английский писатель, один из создателей детективного жанра, автор знаменитых повестей и рассказов о Шерлоке Холмсе. В данный том вошли роман «Дядя Бернак» и две повести «Тайна Клумбера» и «Роковой выстрел».
Жрица тугов. Хирург с Гастеровских болот. Рассказы (сборник)
Артур Конан Дойл (18591930) всемирно известный английский писатель, один из создателей детективного жанра, автор знаменитых повестей и рассказов о Шерлоке Холмсе. В данный том вошли повести «Жрица тугов» и «Хирург с Гастеровских болот», а также рассказы.
Allan and the Ice-Gods
This novel is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki drug, as he did in previous novels, and he finds himself reliving as Wi, an civilized man living in the barbaric ice age as part of a clan of cavemen. The novel has been noted as a treat
Belshazzar
Ramose is the offspring of an Egyptian Pharaoh and a Greek woman. Brought up in a life of luxury he is catapulted into a life of adventure which leads him to the fall of Babylon at the hand of the Persian Empire under Cyrus. The last novel written by Haggard; finished just before his death and publi
Colonel Jack
Colonel Jack is one of Daniel Defoes most entertaining, revealing, and complex works. It is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are...
Count Robert of Paris
They were the literary phenomenon of their time: The Waverly novels, 48 volumes set in fanciful recreations of the Scottish Highlands (and other lands) of centuries past, published between 1814 and 1831 and devoured by...
Elissa: or The Doom of Zimbabwe
In Elissa Henry Rider Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa the mysterious ruins of which have been the subject of so much speculation and research in the recent past. A trading town, protected by vast fortications and adorned with many temples dedicated to the god
Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain
The youthful Allan Quatermain is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the illfated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan. Yet he is bound, too, for one of the deepest romances of his life for in Marie he tells of his courtship and marriage to hi
Joan Haste
The author of adventures as King Solomons Mines and She turns to domestic drama in this romance. Joan is a shop girl of illegitimate birth a single mother at the same time. Torn from the love of countrydwelling Captain Henry Graves, Joan endures exile with a Dickensian London family, and pursuit by
Mary of Marion Isle
Haggards penultimate novel! His cousin Algernon was different indeed. To begin with, his attire was faultless, made by the best tailor in London and apparently put on new that moment. Within this perfect outer casing...
The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
In 1823, Cooper began writing which he saw as a sea novel that seamen would appreciate for its fidelity and yet one that landsmen could understand. The hero of modeled on John Paul Jones leads the American Navy in dangerous raids on the English coast. James Fenimore Cooper's fourth novelhelped sta
The Oak Openings; or the Bee-Hunter
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American...