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.