A Son of His Father

Harold Bell Wright

When in 1925 his first novel The Son of His Father was published at the Chicago publishing house, then its circulation took twenty-seven freight cars. The Son of His Father was made near the Oracle, and his first show was in Tucson. A great adventure in the desert and mountain world of Arizona and the Mexican border. Adventure lovers will amuse by this novel.

A Son of the Stars

Fenton Ash

As may be imagined from the title, Mr. Fenton Ashs book does not lack for marvelous adventure. A Son of the Stars novel is a complete rewrite of Fenton Ashs earlier novel A Trip to Mars. An exciting science fiction adventure, in which two heroes journey on a trip to Mars, where they have various adventures. In A Son of the Stars the heroes, who bear the names Gerald Wilton and Jack Lawford in A Trip to Mars, are called Bruce Mortimer and Maurice Somers. The names of other characters have also been changed, and there are major plot differences between the two works. All in all, they differ sufficiently to merit their classification as two separate novels. Highly recommended!

A Son of the Sun

Jack London

“A Son of the Sun” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.   A Son of the Sun is a novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts the striking panorama of the South seas with adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers, pirates, and cannibals.  

A Son of the Sun

Jack London

Son of the sun a cycle of stories. The heroes of which are honest, persistent and courageous people, romantics, adventurers who have passed through difficult physical and moral tests in their lives. Griffiths and Jacobsen decided to trick Vulture into fleeing without paying the bills. But it would be better if they did not try to deceive the Son of the Sun.

A Sonnet (One Heart)

Adam Asnyk

A Sonnet (One Heart) One heart, one heart is all I’m dreaming of  One heart upon this sullen earth I seek.  A heart to tremble with my heart in love,  So that I be a meek one mid the meek.    One pair of lips, wherefrom my lips for aye  Would drink the drink of joy with no constraints.  Two eyes that I could marvel at each day,  And see myself a saint among the saints.    One heart I need, two hands both soft and white  To veil my eyes and gently bar the light,  So I may fall asleep and by a touch    Of an angel’s cheek be carried to the sky.  One heart, one heart, so little though need I,  I see and know that I demand too much.    [...]Adam AsnykUr. 11 listopada 1838 r. w Kaliszu Zm. 2 sierpnia 1897 r. w Krakowie Najważniejsze dzieła: Pijąc Falerno, Piosnka pijacka, Między nami nic nie było, Gdybym był młodszy, Jednego serca..., Nad głębiami (cykl sonetów), Daremne żale, Do młodych Poeta, epigon romantyzmu tworzący w epoce pozytywizmu i Młodej Polski, autor dramatów i opowiadań. Syn powstańca 1831 r., zesłańca. Podejmował różne kierunki studiów (rolnicze, medyczne, nauki społeczne), prowadząc działalność spiskową. Był więziony w Cytadeli (1860). W powstaniu styczniowym zaangażowany po stronie ?czerwonych?, był członkiem rządu wrześniowego. Po upadku zrywu uzyskał stopień dra filozofii w Heidelbergu (1866), zaczął wydawać pierwsze utwory w prasie lwowskiej (1864-65). W 1870 r. osiadł w Krakowie, brał czynny udział w życiu samorządowym, był posłem na Sejm Krajowy z ramienia demokratów (1889). Amator Tatr, wiele podróżował (Włochy, Tunezja, Algieria, Cejlon, Indie). Pochowany na Skałce. Kupując książkę wspierasz fundację Nowoczesna Polska, która propaguje ideę wolnej kultury. Wolne Lektury to biblioteka internetowa, rozwijana pod patronatem Ministerstwa Edukacji Narodowej. W jej zbiorach znajduje się kilka tysięcy utworów, w tym wiele lektur szkolnych zalecanych do użytku przez MEN, które trafiły już do domeny publicznej. Wszystkie dzieła są odpowiednio opracowane - opatrzone przypisami oraz motywami.

A Start in Life

Honoré de Balzac

By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of nineteenth-century realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works and 48 unfinished works. The novel A Start in Life is part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Balzacs masterpiece. In much of Balzacs work, the aristocracy is portrayed as vain, duplicitous, and greedy. But in this novel, it is members of the working class who are mercilessly skewered when what starts out as a harmless prank rapidly snowballs into a comedy of errors with profound consequences. A comic novel in which an intrigue about property serves as the excuse for a trip in a public diligence, where a group of people try to mystify each other with strange tales of their lives.

A Strange Disappearance

Anna Katharine Green

The book that will keep your attention until the very last page! A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katherine Green is one of the first detective stories to ever be published in USA. Her novels are known for their well thought out plots and their legal accuracy and A Strange Disappearance is one of her finest works. In this story, a young woman working as a home help disappears from a rich household in New York City, and the police begin their search to find her.

A Strange Story

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A lot of Edward Bulwer-Lyttons works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. A Strange Story is a mystery novel, which is told from the perspective of Dr. Allan Fenwicke, a rational materialist. He publically debunks the spiritualist beliefs of his fellow physician Dr. Lloyd, and thereby hastens his colleagues demise. It is an interesting novel with beautiful story full of suspense, thrill, love, drama and unexpected twists.

A Studio Mystery

Frank Aubrey

Weird mystery with rationalized supernaturalism featuring private detective Matthew Grimlock. A Studio Mystery is a secret, and there is not much of a secret about the murder of the artist Arnold. The suspicions of the reader fall at once on Gustave. There is a certain ingenuity, however, in the working out of the motive of the crime. Altogether, A Studio Mystery is a fairly good specimen of its class written by Frank Aubrey. Francis Henry Frank Atkins (18471927) was a British writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. He wrote under the pseudonyms Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash.

A Study in Scarlet. Illustrated Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle

Illustrated edition with original illustrations by Richard Gutschmidt, a famous German painter, book illustrator and graphic artist. A Study in Scarlet is the first Sherlock Holmes book written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr John H. Watson meets the great detective Sherlock Holmes and together they solve a case of murder, in which Watson is amazed at Holmes science of deduction. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccios Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall.

A ślady zasypał piasek

Zofia Jeżewska

Ależ lekko napisana, jak piasek przesypuje się ze strony na stronę. Romantyczna , polityczna i sensacyjna. Wszystkie te wątki dopełniają się znakomicie w tej książce pełnej zagadek, niespełnionej miłości, wielkich wydarzeń politycznych Syrii lat 30tych, fascynujących opisów pustyni i wydobywanych spod niej zagadek historii. A wszystko dzieje się w Palmyrze, stolicy królowej Zenobii, którą odbudowuje z kamieni prof. Michałowski. W Syrii szybkimi krokami zbliża się czas wielkich zrywów niepodległościowych. Rewolucja wybuchnie za chwilę. W Palmyrze trwają wykopaliska i jest Ona – pół Francuzka-pół Polka, piękna i wyzwolona kobieta i On – też archeolog ale i syryjski patriota – który musi walczyć o swój kraj z Francuzami. Czy taki związek ma szansę w tym momencie ?   ’’...Pragnę zwrócić uwagę na fakt, że tło historyczne dokładnie przestudiowano, a także znajomość Palmyry i wykopalisk archeologicznych z autopsii dały możność autorce oddania nie zafalszowanego, ale istotnego nastroju otoczenia, warunków i specyfiki badań archeologicznych w terenie. Nie wahałbym się powiedzieć, że znam tylko drugą książkę w literaturze światowej, która oddaje tak wiernie atmosferę obozu archeologicznego, a napisana jest ona przez żonę znanego archeologa angielskiego, A. Mallowan'a, słynną autorkę powieści detektywistycznych, Agatę Christie, p.t. « Murder in Mezopotomia », która stanowi do dnia dzisiejszego jeden z najbardziej poczytnych utworów…”                                                                                                                 Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski

A Tale of Three Lions

H. Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard wrote adventure novels. A Tale of Three Lions is an exciting story about the dangerous adventure of a young girl, Harry. She wants to join her father, who became a celebrity, thanks to the lion hunt. This novel, though not a fantasy, but still strikes a denouement.

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities - a novel by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.   A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met.  

A Tale of Two Cities - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

Dickens, Charles

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Ralph Mowat. 'The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.' The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted . . . and brave.

A Tale of Two Cities. A Story of the French Revolution

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens and it is one of his most tragic works. The plot centers on the years leading up to the French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. The novel, first and foremost, follows several characters including Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated British barrister who endeavors to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnays wife Lucie Manette. Other major characters include Dr. Manette (Lucies father), who was unjustly imprisoned in the infamous Bastille for many years under a lettre de cachet, and Madame Defarge, a female revolutionary with an implacable grudge against the aristocratic Evremonde dynasty. Here we see how general people can overthrow a government if they are tormented continuously. At the same time, this novel tells a love story too with special emphasis on the sacrificial attribute of Sydney Cartons character.

A Tale of Two Cities Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

Dickens, Charles

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Ralph Mowat 'The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.' The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted . . . and brave.