One detective story from Paradoxes of Mr Pond
Taras Bulba is a legendary national hero of Russia/Ukraine but in Poland he is a legendary villain and mass murder. Warning: This book is anti-Polish, anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish.
Very funny. Widely regarded as the most famous of all pre-Victorian novels.
A young archaeologist and two English upper-class fascists travel forward in time to the post-nuclear-wars London where gigantic rats hunt the black lions.
the various methods of cheating that are resorted to by professional gamblers
the mathematical odds at poker are the player's chief enemy and unless he can keep himself within the bounds of probability he is certain to fall into some of the pitfalls that continually beset the path of the inexperienced player.
poem about ship made famous by Turner's picture
famous poem glorifying infamous military disaster
rules and advices for most popular card games
Very humorous book about goings on in Anchuria (small Latino-American banana republic). Real pearl of a book!