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The Inheritors is a quasi-science fiction novel about the transition of British society from the old, aristocratic mould to a land of industry and advancement. A young writer comes into contact with the inheritors, people from the "fourth dimension" who plan to take over the world. He experiences the same shift as society within himself, only to be left feeling that he has lost everything.

Rasumow, der unglückliche Held dieser zum Teil auf historischen Vorkommnissen fußenden Geschichte, der nichts als Russe ist, muß selber zum Verstehenden werden; darauf weist bereits die Bedeutung seines Namens im Russischen und im Polnischen. "Ein gewöhnlicher junger Mensch", der, unehelicher...

Vollständige Überarbeitung des Werkes. Die Rechtschreibung des Werkes wurde auf den heutigen Stand gebracht, ohne den Charakter des Werkes zu verändern.

Die Taten und Erfahrungen der Menschen sind vom Spiel des Zufalls bestimmt – und das fordert Bewährung.Flora de Barral glaubt, nicht geliebt, kaum gerettet werden zu können. Doch der noble Kapitän Anthony rettet sie und sorgt für ihren Vater, glaubt aber nicht, selbst Anspruch auf Liebe erheben...

Vollständige Überarbeitung des erstmals 1908 erschienen Werkes. Die Rechtschreibung des Werkes wurde auf den heutigen Stand gebracht, ohne den Charakter des Werkes zu verändern.

Der Flussdampferkapitän Marlow reist im Auftrag einer belgischen Handelskompanie tief in den Kongo. Auf seiner Reise erlebt er unverständliche Wirrnisse, Sinnlosigkeit und eine unvorstellbare Ausbeutung der Schwarzen. Die Reise den Fluss entlang entwickelt sich immer mehr zur Reise in sein eigenes...

Commandant le Nan-shan, le capitaine Mac Whirr est un homme taciturne. Voguer sur la mer de Chine pendant la saison des typhons ne l'inquiète pas vraiment. Quand, pendant la traversée, il voit l'aiguille du baromètre chuter comme il ne l'a jamais vue auparavant, sa première réflexion est qu'un...

Prince Roman is a Pole who gives up his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as a (virtually) unknown soldier resisting Russian oppression. When captured, he has every opportunity to escape punishment, but declares himself unequivocally committed to Polish liberation. As a result he suffers...

The story takes place at sea, near the Gulf of Siam. The young captain is unfamiliar with both his ship and his crew, having only joined their company a fortnight earlier. He soon encounters a naked swimmer holding onto the side ladder of the ship while he is alone at night on look-out duty. He helps...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: This novel was conceived in the heated and controversial politics of Britain at the turn of the century. Arthur Granger, an aristocratic and unsuccessful novelist, betrays the ideals he prides himself on...

What's madness? Only something just a tiny bit wrong in the make of your brain. Why shouldn't there be a mad ship--I mean mad in a ship-like way, so that under no circumstances could you be sure she would do what any other sensible ship would naturally do for you. There are ships that steer wildly,...

We knew him in those unprotected days when we were content to hold in our hands our lives and our property. None of us, I believe, has any property now, and I hear that many, negligently, have lost their lives; but I am sure that the few who survive are not yet so dim-eyed as to miss in the befogged...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Of the five stories in this volume, The Lagoon, the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase...

We knew him in those unprotected days when we were content to hold in our hands our lives and our property. None of us, I believe, has any property now, and I hear that many, negligently, have lost their lives; but I am sure that the few who survive are not yet so dim-eyed as to miss in the befogged...