1058 títulos para "Mint Editions"

Elusive Isabel

Jacques Futrelle

Elusive Isabel (1909) is a spy novel by Jacques Futrelle. Published at the height of his career as a leading popular detective and science fiction writer, Elusive Isabel was adapted for a 1916 silent film of the same name starring Florence Lawrence. Celebrated for his brisk storytelling and mastery...

Old Man in the Corner

Emmuska Orczy

At a local tea shop, a lady journalist encounters a brilliant detective whos able to decode and solve some of the citys most complicated crimes. This is a thrilling narrative that hinges on the unique dynamic between its two protagonists. Polly Burton is a young journalist who stumbles across an el...

League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

Following the events of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious figure continues his efforts to elude captors, while saving French aristocrats from meeting a brutal fate. Its a collection of memorable stories featuring various characters and hidden obstacles along the way. The Reign of Terror during t...

Lord Tonys Wife

Emmuska Orczy

An aristocrat and his daughter are targeted by a former peasant who hides his true identity to ingratiate himself into the world of French royalists. After gaining their trust, he attempts to marry the girl, but shes already eloped with another. Pierre Adet is a French peasant who becomes obsessed w...

Laughing Cavalier

Emmuska Orczy

Percy Blake, the forefather of the Scarlet Pimpernel, is hired to kidnap a young woman with sensitive information regarding the potential assassination of a prince. Its a complex family drama that ties into a mystery surrounding an artists most acclaimed work. Percy Blake is the adopted son of Dutch...

Longest Journey

E M Forster

The Longest Journey (1907) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. Despite its critical success, the novel was a commercial failure for Forster, but has since grown in reputation and readership to help cement his reception as one of twentieth century Englands most talented writers. Rickie Elliot...

William Shakespeare

Víctor Hugo

William Shakespeare (1864) is an experimental biography by Victor Hugo. Written while the poet was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, William Shakespeare was doomed to fail at its conception. Condemned by critics who expected Hugo to focus on the works of the Elizabethan playwright, William...

Work

Émile Zola

Work (1901) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Published as the second installment of his Les Quatre Évangiles, a series of four novels inspired by the New Testament gospels and aimed at investigating prominent social issues, Work was the last of Zolas novels to be published during his lifetime...

Confessions of Arsene Lupin

Maurice Leblanc

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin (1913) is a collection of short stories by Maurice Leblanc. Blending crime fiction, fantasy, and mystery, Leblanc crafts original and entertaining tales of adventure starring one of the greatest literary characters of all time--Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief. Partly ba...

Contending Forces

Pauline EHopkins/Pauline E. Hopkins

Contending Forces (1900) is a novel by African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Originally published by the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company in Boston, Contending Forces is a groundbreaking novel that addresses themes of race and slavery through the lens of romance, faith, and betra...

Arsene Lupin

Maurice Leblanc

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (1907) is a collection of short stories by Maurice Leblanc. Originally published in Je sais tout, a popular French magazine, these stories launched Leblancs career as a leading international writer of crime fiction. Partly based on the life of French anarchist Marius...

Child of Storm

H Rider Haggard

What begins as a simple mission to win a dowry for a bride spirals into political and social unrest as a famed hunter, Allan Quatermain, witnesses a nation slip into a civil war. Known for his outdoorsman skills, Quatermains friend, Saduko, approaches him to ask for help winning a dowry for the woma...