Books published in 1930
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A Fighting Man Of Mars
[english | 1930]Edgar Rice Burroughs
Summary: [A Fighting Man of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel the seventh of his famous Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it on February 28 1929 and the finished story was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a six-part serial in the issues for April to September 1930. It was later published as a complete novel by Metropolitan in May 1931.The story is purportedly relayed back ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 80
A Nice Quite Place
[english | 1930]Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Excerpts: [... and die, but mother is sort of narrow-minded in some ways, and she feels that sixteen is too young to go to a prom and Lil Hammel's mother feels ...... father had decided, from observations of their own and some revelations on the part of their elder daughter, Constance, that Josephine knew her ...... was to be deprived this summer. A Nice Quite Place Chapter 2 ? Into Chicago, ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 85
Castle Gay
[english | 1930]John Buchan
Summary: [The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz is a childrens book which was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1950.]
Genres: [fiction | historical] Downloads: 72
Champ Of The Forecastle
[english | 1930]Robert Ervin Howard
Summary: [Good short about a sailor who teaches one of his fellow ship mates how to hold his own in a fight and the trouble it brings for him.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 332
Eagles Of The Sky
[english | 1930]Ambrose Newcomb
Summary: [Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001) is an autobiographic non-fiction book written by former Eagles guitarist Don Felder. The book follows Felder from his less-privileged childhood through to the 21st century. Heaven and Hell the short version title for the book gained notoriety for expressing frank and often mean-spirited feelings to Eagles leaders Don Henley and Glenn Frey. ...]
Genres: [adventure | post 1930 | mysterydetective] Downloads: 412
First Blood
[english | 1930]Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Summary: [The Lost Salt Gift of Blood is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Alistair MacLeod set predominantly in Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia and in Newfoundland. It was originally published in 1976. All of its stories were later republished in Island.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 422
Fist And Fang
[english | 1930]Robert Ervin Howard
Excerpts: [... minute the Old Man had stepped onto the ramshackle wharf, Bill O'Brien, my side kick, said to me, he said: Steve, see that motor launch down there by ...... to please shut up. But he paid no attention. After awhile we come on to a large open space and there was the village. Just now they wasn't a sign ...... a club, laying his scalp open and knocking him to his knees. MEANWHILE I ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 305
Fungi From Yuggoth
[english | 1930]Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Summary: [Fungi from Yuggoth is a sequence of 36 sonnets by cosmic horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Most of the sonnets were written between 27 December 1929 ? 4 January 1930 thereafter individual sonnets appeared in Weird Tales and other genre magazines.The first three poems in the sequence concern a person who obtains an ancient book of esoteric knowledge that seems to allow one to travel to parallel ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | poetry] Downloads: 72
Gladiator
[english | 1930]Philip Gordon Wylie
Summary: [With Burroughs Mars series Wylies Hugo Danner is generally credited as the ancestor of both Clark Kent and Clark Savage Jr. Danner the product of a strength serum given to his mother during pregnancy is able to lift 4000 pounds leap 40 feet in the air and so forth. Unlike Superman and Doc Savage however Danner is never happy with his skills hating the isolation and at times using his strength for ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 47
I Married A Ranger
[english | 1930]Dama Margaret Smith
Excerpts: [... lies a fascination a stranger without the gates can never share. I was the first woman ever placed in field service at the Grand Canyon, and the Superintendent ...... ease no banker ever toiled from dawn until all hours of the night, Sunday included. I made pothooks and translated them. I put figures down and added ...... him in Rainier Ranger West had met him at Glacier. He taught ...]
Genres: [romance | adventure | biography] Downloads: 6
Josephine A Woman With A Past
[english | 1930]Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Summary: [LC copy signed Robert T. Lincoln A. Lincoln. Gift of Lincoln Isham May 10 1960.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 190
Last And First Men
[english | 1930]William Olaf Stapledon
Summary: [Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species of which our own is the first and most primitive. Stapledons conception of history is based on ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 323
Le Juif Errant Est Arrive
[french | 1930]Albert Londres
Summary: [Ce livre rassemble vingt-sept articles sur les juifs quAlbert Londres crit lors dun priple qui dbute Londres se poursuit Prague en passant par les ghettos de Varsovie et de Transylvanie et qui prend fin en Palestine.]
Genres: [non-fiction | political science | religion] Downloads: 185
Le Sergent Bucaille
[french | 1930]Arnould Galopin
Summary: [Le conscrit Bucaille jeune paysan rejoint larme de Napolon en 1812 et sous les ordres du sergent Rebattel fait route vers la Russie. Il fait le rcit de la campagne de larrive Moscou incendie par les Russes la dbcle aprs la bataille de la Brzina et au retour Paris. Devenu caporal Bucaille entre dans la Garde corps dlite de lEmpereur...Avec ce roman Arnould Galopin nous plonge dans lhistoire de ...]
Genres: [fiction | historical] Downloads: 90
Love Among The Haystacks
[english | 1930]David Herbert Lawrence
Summary: [Fantastic]
Genres: [fiction | romance | short stories] Downloads: 279
Mr Pottermacks Oversight
[english | 1930]R Austin Freeman
Summary: [Mr Pottermack S Oversight by R Austin Freeman. Good Mr. Pottermack commits the perfect murder except for one teensy weensy little detail. He forgot Dr. Thorndyke might just take the case.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 470
One Trip Abroad
[english | 1930]Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Excerpts: [... talked it would have been absurd not to talk after having been through a swarm of locusts on the edge of the Sahara. The Smyrna-American ...... decided to have dinner together. As the young Kellys came downstairs later, Nicole was conscious of a certain regret that they had accepted, realizing ...... here? her husband objected. I'd feel like that man in the ragged dress suit we ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 154
San Manuel Bueno Martir
[spanish | 1930]Miguel De Unamuno
Excerpts: [... atenta a las cosas y a las gentes de nuestra aldea, de la que recib'ia frecuentes noticias y tal vez alguna visita. Y hasta al colegio llegaba la ...... suelen acudir a nuestro lago todas las pobres mujerucas, y no pocos hombrecillos, que se creen pose'idos, endemoniados, y que parece no son sino hist'ericos ...... perdonado, que es lo 'unico que importa. En el pueblo todos ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 114
Tarrano The Conqueror
[english | 1930]Raymond King Cummings
Summary: [In Tarrano the Conqueror is presented a tale of the year 2430 A.D.--a time somewhat farther beyond our present-day era than we are beyond Columbus discovery of America. My desire has been to create for you the impression that you have suddenly been plunged forward into that time--to give you the feeling Columbus might have had could he have read a novel of our present-day life.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 7
Tarzan The Invincible
[english | 1930]Edgar Rice Burroughs
Excerpts: [... the Filipino. You'll have to learn to cut out that 'sir' stuff, Tony, before we join the others, admonished the young man. The Filipino grinned. ...... half a minute the two stood thus, while there crept through Zora Drinov a sense of growing weakness, a realization of approaching capitulation. She fought ...... and an unusual quiet pervaded the scene-a quiet that was suddenly and ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 374