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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME

Detective Sam Spade is a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. When his partner is killed during a stakeout, he is drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure with a dubious provenance—a golden bird encrusted with jewels. Also on the trail are a perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, an oversized adventurer named Gutman, and Spade’s new client Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime.

These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett’s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted generations of readers.

The Land That Time Forgot (complete Edgar Rice Burroughs caspak trilogy)

The Land That Time Forgot (complete Edgar Rice Burroughs caspak trilogy)
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Set during the turmoil of World War I, Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy The Land that Time Forgot transports readers to an amazing lost world. This attractive new edition contains all three novels in the classic Caspak trilogy–The Land that Time Forgot, The People that Time Forgot, and Out of Times Abyss–as well as Burroughss original map of Caspak and a glossary.

When a German U-boat sinks their ship, British and American survivors commandeer the enemy submarine. Going far off-course into the South Seas, they end up on the mysterious island of Caspak, where savage human tribes exist alongside several species of dinosaurs and other forms of prehistoric life.

Will they ever be able to escape?

The Ministry of Fear

The Ministry of Fear
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In London during the Blitz, an amnesiac must outwit a twisted Nazi plot in this “master thriller” of espionage, murder, and deception (Time).

On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete in the gardens of a Cambridgeshire vicarage where he wins a game of chance. If only this were an ordinary day. Britain is under threat by Germany, and the air raid sirens that bring the bazaar to a halt expose Rowe as no ordinary man. Recently released from a psychiatric prison for the mercy killing of his wife, he is burdened by guilt, and now, in possession of a seemingly innocuous prize, on the run from a nest of Nazi spies who want him dead.

Pursued on a dark odyssey through the bombed-out streets of London, he becomes enmeshed in a tangle of secrets that reach into the dark recesses of his own forgotten past. And there isn’t a soul he can trust, not even himself. Because Arthur Rowe doesn’t even know who he really is.

“A storyteller of genius,” Graham Greene composed his serpentine mystery of authentic wartime espionage—and one the author’s personal favorites—while working for MI6 (Evelyn Waug

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Kim by Rudyard Kipling
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1901 (the first) edition. illustrated

“Kim” is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. “Kim” is listed on the BBC’s The Big Read poll of the UK’s “best-loved novel.”Book is considered by many to be Kipling’s masterpiece, one of the best stories in English about India.It is a tale of adventure, a drama of a boy, a mystical story that unfolds against the backdrop of “The Great Game”, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. Story is set after the Second Afghan War (ended 1881).

The story is set after the Second Afghan War (which ended in 1881), but before the Third (fought in 1919)

Kim (Kimball O’Hara) is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother, living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century. Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. He becomes lama’s disciple, is trained as an English spy, travels around the India, performs spy missions.

 

Tarzan of the Apes Hardcover by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan of the Apes Hardcover by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Complete and unabridged hardcover edition.

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs is the classic tale of adventure, survival, and self-discovery that introduced the world to the legendary hero, Tarzan. The story follows the life of John Clayton, a young man who is orphaned and raised by apes in the African jungle, and who comes to be known as Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle.

As Tarzan grows into a powerful and fearless warrior, he finds himself torn between his loyalty to his adoptive family and his desire to explore the world beyond the jungle. Along the way, he battles against savage beasts, contends with rival tribes, and falls in love with a beautiful woman named Jane Porter. Through it all, Tarzan remains determined to uncover the truth about his past and forge his own destiny.

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ writing style is both vivid and engaging, bringing the African jungle to life with its lush descriptions and thrilling action scenes. The characters are well-developed and relatable, with Tarzan standing out as a hero who inspires with his courage, cunning, and compassion. The themes of self-discovery, survival, and love are timeless, making Tarzan of the Apes a timeless classic that continues to captivate and inspire generations of readers.

The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Outlaw of Torn is a historical novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, originally published as a five-part serial in New Story Magazine from January to May 1914, and first published in book form by A. C. McClurg in 1927.

It was Burroughs’ second novel, his first being the science fiction work A Princess of Mars. His third was Tarzan of the Apes.
The Outlaw of Torn is one of only two historical novels Burroughs wrote.

The other, I Am a Barbarian, set in the Rome of Caligula, was not published until 1967, seventeen years after his death.
Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages.

Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The first manned spaceship to reach the moon discovered a world hidden from human eyes – a world of flying women, of conical cities, and of semi-human monsters who fought for power across these eerie Lunar plains.

The Moon Maid is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, belonging to the Lost World sub-genre. It was written in three parts, Part 1 was begun in June 1922 under the title The Moon Maid, Part 2 was begun in 1919 under the title Under the Red Flag, later retitled The Moon Men, Part 3 was titled The Red Hawk. As evident from its name, Under the Red Flag was originally set in contemporary Soviet Russia, with the Bolsheviks as villains; as this was not popular with the publishers, Burroughs transferred it to a science-fictional setting, with the evil Communist-like “Kalkars” taking over the Moon (in the first part) and then the Earth (in the second part, with the help of a renegade Earthman) and being finally overthrown in the third part. (Also the Thorists, villains of Pirates of Venus, are clearly modeled on the Russian Communists.)

Edgar Rice Burroughs complete Venus serie (Carson Napier)

Edgar Rice Burroughs complete Venus serie (Carson Napier)
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Pirates of Venus
Carson Napier set out for Mars in a secret interplanetary rocket but found himself instead on a different world—the cloud-hidden planet Venus. Venus was a startling world—semi-private, semi-civilized. It was a place of unmapped oceans dotted with great islands; a world whose trees pierced the clouds and whose cities squatted on their branches; a planet whose inhabitants included men, half-men, and monsters, all struggling with each other for dominance.

Lost on Venus
Carson Napier begins this book in the Room of the Seven Doors. He can leave any time he wants, but six of the seven doors lead to hideous deaths; only one is the door of life. After navigating his way out of this logic puzzle, Carson continues his quest to rescue the planet’s fairest princess. He pursues this with single-mindedness, even though more terrible dangers lie ahead; even though the princess wishes neither his help or his affection; even though her people will execute him if he enters their country! Such is the honor of an Earthman’s pledge.

Carson of Venus
On the mist-shrouded planet of Venus, advanced civilizations blessed with eternal youth co-existed with cities haunted by the living dead, while bloodthirsty man-beasts stalked the luminous nights. Earthman Carson Napier knew how to survive the planet’s many perils-but now a merciless tribunal had condemned Carson’s beloved princess Duare to death. To save her life, the courageous Earthman stole the only airplane on Venus. But on the lovers’ flight to freedom, they learned that Duare’s father had been captured by a mad dictator. Across uncharted oceans teeming with fierce sea monsters, and through skies where man had never flown before, Carson of Venus risked his life to thwart an evil tyrant’s plan.

Escape on Venus
With his beloved princess, Duare, at his side, Carson Napier has once again managed to escape the scheming webs of Amtor’s fearsome powers—only to fall prey to a hideous race of humanoid amphibians, ruled by the dread king Tyros the Bloody. But Carson is far more than a fugitive and a captive: he is the only Earthman to have penetrated the forbidding clouds surrounding Venus, there to become a pirate, an explorer, and finally a prince of her cities.

The Wizard of Venus
Carson Napier is trapped in the castle of an insane Venusian “wizard” who holds the local population in thrall through the use of hypnotic powers. Napier, who is possessed of comparable powers he has hitherto utilized solely to transmit his account of his Venusian adventures back to Earth, successfully counters the tyrant and frees his victims.

The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Second book narrating the adventures of the Professor Challenger started in the classic The lost world by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The team of explorers from The Lost World reunites to face the end of the world in this adventure by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Prof. George Challenger has made a troubling discovery: The Earth is about to pass through a belt of poisonous gas. He quickly summons his three friends—Professors Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and Edward Malone—to his home in Sussex with a request to bring tanks of oxygen.

Once the men arrive, Professor Challenger leads them and his wife to a sealed room where they can wait out the crisis and observe the chaos outside. But when the poisonous cloud finally dissipates, there is no telling what they will find . . .

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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part of a trilogy of novel following the adventures of the Professor Challenger, followed by The Poison Belt and The Land of Mist

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. It was originally published serially in the popular Strand Magazine and illustrated by New-Zealand-born artist Harry Rountree during the months of April–November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.

Edward Malone, a young reporter for the Daily Gazette, asks his editor for a dangerous assignment to impress the woman he loves, Gladys, who wishes for a great man capable of brave deeds and actions. His task is to approach the notorious Professor Challenger, who dislikes the popular press intensely and physically assaults intrusive journalists. The subject is to be his recent South American expedition which, surrounded by controversy, guarantees a hostile reaction. As a direct approach would be instantly rebuffed, Malone instead masquerades as an earnest student.

On meeting the professor he is startled by his overwhelming intellect – his intimidating physique too – but believes his ruse is succeeding. Seeing through the masquerade, then confirming Malone’s scientific knowledge is non-existent, Challenger erupts in anger and forcibly throws him out. Malone earns his respect by refusing to press charges with a policeman who saw his violent ejection into the street. Challenger ushers him back inside and, extracting promises of confidentiality, eventually reveals he has discovered living dinosaurs in South America.

At a tumultuous public meeting in which Challenger experiences further ridicule, Malone volunteers for an expedition to verify the discoveries. His companions are to be Professor Summerlee, and Lord John Roxton, an adventurer who helped end slavery on the Amazon; the notches on his rifle showing how many slavers he killed doing so.