Captain Brassbound's Conversion

George Bernard Shaw

“Captain Brassbound's Conversion” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.   The play explores the relationship between the law, justice, revenge and forgiveness. Sir Howard Hallam, a judge, and his sister-in-law, Lady Cicely Waynflete, a well-known explorer, are at the home of Rankin, a Presbyterian minister. Sir Howard tells Rankin that his brother's property was illicitly seized after his death by his widow's family, but Sir Howard has now recovered it. Lady Cicely decides to explore Morocco with Sir Howard. They are advised to take an armed escort.  

Captain Nicholas

Hugh Walpole

Captain Nicolas is the authors most recognizable character. One for which its immediately clear whose story it is. Hugh Walpole tells the story of a family conflict. This is an ideal family, an example for everyone, but an evil and dissatisfied brother breaks into this idyll. The story is about an evil brother who is returning to visit his family, and about the destruction that he is reaping with his activity.

Captain Paul

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumass 1846 novel, Captain Paul is based on life of John Paul Jones, a captain in the American Navy during the revolutionary war. This epic adventure is written in best traditions of Dumas work featuring numerous desperate battles, true love, brave heroes, devious villains, and intrigue. This tale of high adventure and daring-do is highly recommended for fans of Dumass work, and would make for a fantastic addition to any bookshelf! One of the most widely read French authors in history, Alexandre Dumas is best-known for his iconic classic The Three Musketeers, as well as for The Count of Monte Cristo, and the two Musketeer sequels Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelome: Ten Years Later. Dumas began his writing career as a successful playwright, and later evolved to writing magazine articles and travel books, before extending his talents to fiction.

Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven

Mark Twain

The old godless captain Stormfield believed neither in God, nor in hell, nor in paradise, nor in hell. Imagine his surprise when, after his death, flying through the bottomless depths of space, he nevertheless arrived in paradise. He was even more surprised when he became acquainted with the local order it was too painfully different from the stories about the paradise of priests on Earth...

Captains of Souls

Edgar Wallace

Ambrose Sault finds a quasi-scientific way to insert his soul into another mans body before he is hanged for murder. The murder of Moropulos by Sault is a mystery in motive and deed. Twice a murderer, Sault is nevertheless a commanding figure and an appealing character. He is the center of a tragedy... The novel is long and breezy and a bit confusing, a comedy of manners at some points, a melodrama at others. This story from the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives.

Captives of the Desert

Zane Grey

Trying to save the life of an Indian child when hes thrown from his horse, John Curry falls into the arms of a lonely married woman with a jealous, scheming husband. Unless Curry revives his mission of mercy, three people will die and the first one will be Curry. Here is all the thrilling action, color, and romance of the Old West, exciting tales that make your blood tingle! Ruthless bandits in a lawless land: fearless men and the brave women they fought for. The roar of blazing guns, the awesome silence of prairie and canyon. Captives of the Desert has its social commentary on the sacredness of marriage, and its religious undertones how the desert can take hold of a person and fashion them into its own image, or can exert a force, of an inexplicable kind, to bring peace and contentment over the soul a communing with God.

Car Iwan IV. Wasylewicz Groźny

Aleksander Kraushar

Dzieje życia i zbrodni okrutnego cara. Któż nie słyszał o sławnym carze moskiewskim Iwanie IV. Wasylewiczu Groźnym, który, wywodząc ród swój aż od cesarza rzymskiego Augusta, pisywał się z łaski i woli Boga, w Trójcy św. sławionego, dzierżąc berło rosyjskiego carstwa, wielki gosudar, car i wielki książę Joann Wasylewicz, wszystkiej Rusi samodzierżca itd.? A ponieważ panownika takowego nie było, a nie będzie, póki świat światem, przeto nie żal kreślić tu, jakim to istnie, bieluchnym kruczkiem, był Groźny etot nastajaszczoj maładjec.

Car widmo. Powieść z czasów zasiadania a przecie nie siedzenia Władysława, syna Zygmuntowego, na tronie Rurykowym

Wiktor Gomulicki

Car widmo. Powieść z czasów zasiadania a przecie nie siedzenia Władysława, syna Zygmuntowego, na tronie Rurykowym to piękna historyczna powieść przygodowa z czasów świetności Polski, a czasów Wielkiej Smuty i niepokojów w Rosji, opowiadająca o tym jak Polacy zdobywali moskiewski Kreml, jak sandomierzanka Maryna Mniszchówna została carycą rosyjską u boku Dymitra Samozwańca, a król Władysław carem moskiewskim po pokonaniu Wasyla Szujskiego. Powieść czyta się jednym tchem przenosi nas ona w egzotyczny a niekiedy wręcz na poły baśniowy świat dawnej Rosji, w czas wojen, bitew, potyczek, dzielnych rycerzy, bojarów i kozaków, ukrytych skarbów carów i monastyrów, władzy, intryg, spisków, ale też o dzielności i szlachetności.