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A collection of mysteries and adventures from A. E. W. Mason.

A criminal sentenced to life in a French penal colony leaves his girlfriend to take care of his stash. When he escapes, he finds that she has spent it all on frivolous living, and he sets out to exact vengeance. Guest appearances from Inspector Hanaud and Julius Ricardo.

This glittering three-part fantasy begins in Ancient Rome and tells an evocative tale of reincarnation up to the present day. A. E. W. Mason brings to life the poignancies of the everyday through the characters of Attilus Scaurius, Anthony Scarr and Adrian Sharp. This unusual story is as much a reflection...

When Boris Waberski, brother-in-law of the wealthy widow Mrs. Harlowe, attempts to talk her English solicitors into advancing him money on his expectations as her heir, he is ignored. Unknown to Waberski, he has been disinherited in favour of Betty Harlowe, the niece of Mrs. Harlowe’s late husband....

“There were only two amongst all Pamela Mardale’s friends who guessed that anything was wrong with her; and those two included neither her father nor her mother. Her mother, indeed, might have guessed, had shebeen a different woman. But she was a woman of schemes and little plots, who watched...

En 1789, le château d’Eppstein est habité par le comte Rodolphe, son épouse et leurs fils: Maximilien, l’aîné, vil et ambitieux, déjà veuf; et Conrad, rêveur, frêle, sympathique. Ce dernier a épousé en secret la fille du garde forestier, Noémie. La mort dans l’âme, les parents le...

The giant moth has brought the Doctor, Tommy Stubbins, Chee-Chee, and Polynesia to the Moon. As they explore this strange new world, the Doctor soon discovers how to communicate with the intelligent plants. But mystery lies all around—why were they brought here? Who is watching them? Who is the owner of the giant footprints they encounter? And how will they ever get back to Earth?

Doctor Dolittle’s Circus is in a bad way and so the Doctor searches for a special new animal to add to the Circus’ attractions. His discovery of Pippinella, a canary with the most beautiful voice he’s ever heard, seems to solve the problems at first. But Dab-Dab the duck is still unhappy, and longs to return to her home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh…

The Dolittle household have been anxiously hoping for a year for the Doctor to return from the Moon, and it seems he will never come. What excitement when he does finally arrive, and what dramatic tales he has to tell! But now he is eager to write a book about the moon and his experiences, and in a quest for peace and quiet, attempts to have himself put in jail…

More adventures of the eccentric country physician with a bent for natural history and a great love of animals. Doctor Dolittle’s garden is teeming with insects, so he is determined to learn the insect languages, and soon hears some fascinating stories. None is more intriguing than the tale of the...

Grace Livingston Hill’s love for humankind shines through her character’s journey to manhood. Mickey, a young newsboy, saves the life of heiress Starr Endicott by taking a gunman’s bullet himself. To show his gratitude, Starr’s father sends the boy off to school where he studies law. Then...

Roman um eine junge Komtess und eine alte Schuld. Einsam und verbittert lebt Graf Ravenau in seinem Schloss, brennenden Hass im Herzen auf die Frau, die das Leben seines einzigen Sohnes zerstörte. Nie wieder soll Gräfin Gwendoline Schloss Ravenau betreten und ihre Tochter, Komtess Jutta, nie erfahren,...

La virtù di Checchina, una situazione piuttosto banale come quella della seduzione di una quasi comica «aspirante» Madame Bovary da parte del solito aristocratico mellifluo e indolente, viene trattata dalla Serao con una magistrale e sapida malizia che rasenta la perfidia. Sembra quasi che la Serao...

Non ostante i suoi quarant’anni vicini, la marchesa Anna di Oriente era ancora una bellissima donna, alta, bionda dalla carnagione di neve e gli occhi grandi e grigi con riflessi d’oro. E poi che chic nella sua persona dalle forme stupende, dalla vita lunga, elegantemente sottile e soprattutto nelle sue mani di cui è impossibile darvi un’idea.