Books published in 1926
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A Womans College From The Outside
[english | 1926]Virginia Woolf
Summary: [1882. Born (25 Jan) Adeline Virginia Stephen third child of Leslie Stephen (Victorian man of letters first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography) and Julia Duckworth (of the Duckworth publishing family). Comfortable upper middle class family background. Her father had previously been married to the daughter of the novelist William Makepeace Thackery. Brothers Thoby and Adrian went to ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 47
Au Pays Des Brumes
[french | 1926]Arthur Conan Doyle
Summary: [Ce roman nous emmne en voyage dans la vieille Angleterre dans le monde du spiritisme et de la voyance. Le journaliste Edward Mallone mne lenqute auprs des mdiums et dans les runions spiritistes. A la dcouverte des fantmes et des esprits il fait dtranges rencontres dans un univers o le surnaturel ctoie la supercherie.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | occult supernatural] Downloads: 171
Clouds Of Witness
[english | 1926]Dorothy Sayers
Summary: [Lord Peter Wimsey comes into his own in a complex murder case in which his brother is accused of killing his sisters fiance. The cleverly told story is full of twists and turns and fascinating trivia but though I heartily recommend the novel I suggest you read it elsewhere. This is an extremely bad transcription full of notations about garbled and missing text.]
Genres: [mysterydetective] Downloads: 414
Followers Of The Trail
[english | 1926]Zoe Meyer
Excerpts: [... balsam-scented air of the woods, where he was fast gaining a health and vigor that he had not believed possible. Out of a lean face, tanned by exposure ...... Moreover it seemed to know that the man was crippled. Slowly it advanced, its body almost brushing the snow, its huge furry pads making no sound upon ...... withdraw his head, Mokwa found himself a prisoner. With the pressure ...]
Genres: [adventure | fiction and literature | nature] Downloads: 82
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[english | 1926]Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Summary: [Howard Phillips H. P. Lovecraft (August 20 1890 ? March 15 1937) was an American author of horror fantasy and science fiction especially the subgenre known as weird fiction. Lovecrafts guiding literary principle was what he termed cosmicism or cosmic horror the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason like his ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 417
Here And Beyond
[english | 1926]Edith Wharton
Summary: [Edith Wharton born Edith Newbold Jones (January 24 1862 ? August 11 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist short story writer and designer.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 117
La Fin De Fausta
[french | 1926]Michel Zevaco
Summary: [La suite du volume IX La Fin de Pardaillan et la fin de ce cycle majeur dans loeuvre de Zvaco.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 450
La Fin De Pardaillan
[french | 1926]Michel Zevaco
Summary: [Paris 1614. Louis XIII nest quun jeune garon de quatorze ans. La reine mre Marie de Mdicis est rgente et les Concini abusent de sa faiblesse pour usurper le pouvoir et piller le trsor royal. Paris gronde. Cest dans ce contexte que le chevalier de Pardaillan est venu aider son fils pour retrouver sa petite-fille ne il y a cinq ans et enleve quelques mois aprs ses parents Jehan de Pardaillan et ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 424
La Llamada De Cthulhu
[spanish | 1926]Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Summary: [The Call of Cthulhu is one of H. P. Lovecrafts best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926 it was first published in Weird Tales February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.It is written in a documentary style with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 45
My Mortal Enemy
[english | 1926]Willa Cather
Excerpts: [... her head, ?? la Pompadour, and there were curious, zigzag, curly streaks of glistening white in it, which made it look like the fleece of a Persian ...... long married. Mr. Henshawe was less perplexing than his wife, and he looked more as I had expected him to look. The prominent bones of his face gave ...... we saw by the lights behind when the front door opened and shut, and here ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 344
Planetoid 127
[english | 1926]Edgar Wallace
Summary: [Planetoid 127 Greenhill Science Fiction Fantasy by Edgar Wallace. A young man finds that his old science teacher and benefactor Professor Colson is in contact with another world. The information the Professor is receiving has made him rich but has also made him a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to discover the Professor s secret and use it for his own ends. Planetoid 127 is one of the ...]
Genres: [science fiction | pulp | short story] Downloads: 268
Sanders
[english | 1926]Edgar Wallace
Excerpts: [... newspaper that had a circulation of less than half a million. And yet, the appearance of this literary effort of Bones coincided with a peculiar moment ...... word which the lizard of fire brought to me, he said, and his shoulder hunched back for the throw. I am Loka! said the girl, and he looked and his ...... journal, do you? Bones opened and closed his eyes very quickly. I ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 290
The Avenger
[english | 1926]Edgar Wallace
Summary: [Agent 13: The Midnight Avenger was the name of a novel series based on Top Secret/S.I. setting published by TSR Inc. from 1986 to 1988. There were three stories in the series following the actions of the protagonist referred to in the novels only as Agent 13 or simply The Agent. It was written by Flint Dille and David Marconi. There is also a source book based on the characters and settings in ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 368
The Bandit Of Hell Bend
[english | 1926]Edgar Rice Burroughs
Summary: [No better yarn of the old cattle days can be found in current fiction. Tense dramatic situations unforgettable characters presented with incomparable skill the humor and repartee of the boys and over all the glamor and romance of the old west.]
Genres: [western | mysterydetective] Downloads: 276
The Benson Murder Case
[english | 1926]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... Coast, and the Congo. A definite purpose has animated me in speaking at such length about Vance's art instinct, for, in order to understand fully the melodramatic ...... snorted. 'Probably,' he repeated to Markham with good-natured contempt. You can bank on it if the captain says so??? . You see, ...... here looked upon a small stone court, really no more than a deep airwell ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 350
The Boy Ranchers On Roaring River
[english | 1926]Willard Baker
Summary: [The boy ranchers.--The boy ranchers in camp.--The boy ranchers on the trail.--The boy ranchers among the Indians.]
Genres: [western | young readers | adventure] Downloads: 352
The Call Of Cthulhu
[english | 1926]Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Summary: [The Call of Cthulhu is one of H. P. Lovecrafts best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926 it was first published in Weird Tales February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.It is written in a documentary style with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 356
The Dancing Floor
[english | 1926]John Buchan
Summary: [Includes bibliographical references (p. ).]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 208
The Darblay Mystery
[english | 1926]R Austin Freeman
Summary: [When a man is found floating beneath the skin of a green-skimmed pond one morning Dr Thorndyke becomes embroiled in an astonishing case. This wickedly entertaining detective fiction reveals that the victim was murdered through a lethal injection and someone out there is trying a cover-up.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 439
The Door With Seven Locks
[english | 1926]Edgar Wallace
Summary: [The shape of fear.--On the northern ice.--Their dear little ghost.--A spectral collie.--The house that was not.--Story of an obstinate corpse.--A child of the rain.--The room of the evil thought.--Story of the vanishing patient.--The piano next door.--An astral onion.--From the loom of the dead.--A grammatical ghost.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 70