Przygodowa
seria z kotwiczką. Zwycięstwo na Pacyfiku 1945
Samuel Eliot Morison
Finałowy tom monumentalnego dzieła Morisona. Skupia się na ostatecznych uderzeniach w japońskie wyspy macierzyste w 1945 roku, krwawych walkach o Iwo Jimę i Okinawę, działalności japońskich kamikaze oraz podpisaniu aktu bezwarunkowej kapitulacji Japonii w Zatoce Tokijskiej.
Max Brand
Rival police detectives Angus Campbell and Patrick ORourke find themselves working together to locate the millionaire who disappeared while under their protection on a train bound for Chicago. Manhattan millionaire John Cobb has been receiving threatening letters, and so leaves for Chicago, hoping that by hopping the night-train hell escape from his anonymous ill-wisher. Assigned as guards, Campbell and ORourke go along. When, after signing his $15 million will over to his cousin, Cobb disappears from his Pullman, Campbell and ORourke must check the train for their missing charge. Hes not on the train, though, and not in Buffalo, so they scour Chicago - and, as it happens, mean old Cobb has enemies galore from some slick deals hes pulled.
Max Brand
If you enjoy a fast moving Western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, youll like "The Seven Mile House" by Max Brand. Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Brands remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest Western authors of all time. Max Brand leads the reader on a very authentic tale of the old west the way it was. Brands action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world. Brand penned over 200 full-length Westerns in his career, including "Destry Rides Again" and Montana Rides Again".
Józef Bohdan Dziekoński
Józef Bohdan Dziekoński to polski prozaik okresu romantyzmu. Powieści Dziekońskiego w dużej mierze inspirowane były literaturą Hoffmanna, a skupiały się na sferze duchowych zmagań bohaterów, całkowicie oddanych poszukiwaniu prawdy absolutnej, wiecznej miłości i urzeczywistnianiu metafizycznych tęsknot. Za największe dzieło Dziekońskiego uznaje się powieść Sędziwoj. Jednak większość dzieł Dziekońskiego jest nieznana. Po śmierci autora wszystkie niepublikowane rękopisy spalono zgodnie z jego testamentem, przez co popadł w zapomnienie.
Willa Cather
This is a historical fiction book depicting the French colonization of Canada and life in Quebec in the late 1600s. Euclid Auclair is a father and a widower. The little daughter took over the running of their home after the death of her beloved mother two years ago. She is twelve. Euclid and his family, wife and daughter, had come to Quebec eight years earlier, hired by the Governor General to be his physician.
Max Brand
Old Mr. Benton had been murdered on his lonely ranch and there was only one suspect: the stranger who rode up in the downpour and sped off again before dawn. But looks can be deceiving and there were plenty of others acting suspiciously including Mrs. Zellar and Jack Montagne. Who had killed old Mr. Benton? The stranger, or Gus, or Mrs. Zellar? And why was Jack Montagnes behavior so gentlemanly? This is an old-fashioned Western mystery. Max Brand was one of many pseudonyms used by Frederick Schiller Faust (1892 1944), an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.
Sherlock Holmes: najsłynniejsze śledztwa
Arthur Conan Doyle
Pokrętne historie zbrodni i śledztwa pełne gracji. Klasyka kryminału w najlepszym wydaniu! Losy Sherlocka Holmesa i doktora Watsona splatają się przypadkiem - obaj "z przeszłością", obaj szukają mieszkania na wynajem. Właśnie w lokum przy Baker Street rozpoczyna się historia jednego z najsłynniejszych duetów w historii literatury. Genialny detektyw i piekielnie zdolny lekarz rozwiązują arcytrudne zagadki kryminalne oraz... wspierają się w osobistych perypetiach. Pasjonująca czytelnicza podróż po zaułkach malowniczego i pełnego występków XIX-wiecznego Londynu, w asyście nieco ekscentrycznych dżentelmenów. Utwory, na bazie których powstał serial "Sherlock" z Benedictem Cumberbatchem w roli głównej. W skład kolekcji wchodzą następujące powieści: "Studium w szkarłacie", "Znak Czterech", "Pies Baskerville'ów", "Tajemnicze morderstwo nad jeziorem", "Dolina strachu", "Pożegnalny ukłon". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) - brytyjski pisarz, twórca postaci Sherlocka Holmesa - najbardziej znanego detektywa w historii literatury. Doyle miał trudne dzieciństwo, jego ojciec alkoholik i narkoman znęcał się nad rodziną. Matka, by utrzymać rodzinę dorabiała jako praczka. Arthur skończył medycynę, lecz od 1890 roku poświęcił się wyłącznie pisaniu. Jest znany przede wszystkim z utworów kryminalnych, choć pisał także powieści historyczne, fantastyczno-naukowe i sensacyjne. Pasjonował się także spirytyzmem oraz badaniem historii antycznej Grecji. Jego najważniejsze dzieła to: "Pies Baskervilleów", "Studium w szkarłacie" oraz wielokrotnie ekranizowana powieść "Zaginiony świat". Co ciekawe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle pojawia się jako bohater literacki w wielu utworach, . w powieściach "Lista siedmiorga" i "Spisek sześciu" Marka Frosta oraz "Arthur i George" Juliana Barnesa, a także w serii "Kroniki Imaginarium Geographica" Jamesa Owena.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The definite collection of Fitzgeralds short stories; edited and with a preface by the foremost Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli. The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the authors fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. This essential collection is ample testament to that statement, and a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history of American literature.
John Buchan
Sick Heart River is the fifth book in the Edward Leithen series. This is Buchans last novel, about a man who is dying, and it must reflect Buchans own efforts to come to terms with his looming demise."Sick Heart River finds Leithen now in his late fifties facing a terminal diagnosis of turberculosis. Leithen has enjoyed a dazzling career as eminent barrister, member of Parliament, Cabinet minister, and attorney-general but with only months left to live, he leaves it all behind and takes up a whole new mission into the bleak arctic wilds of Canada. The friend of a friend, Francis Galliard, has gone missing in the North, and Leithen volunteers to find him and send him back, and so to die well, far away from the irking sympathy of his friends or the coddled atmosphere of the sick-room. But the North has some surprises in store for Leithen.
Max Brand
Silvertip had meant to kill the cold-hearted Bandini, but it was a kid wearing Bandinis cape who came out the saloon door and met Silvertips bullet. Now, Silvertip has taken an oath to take care of the kids business first, then track down Bandini and put the sidewinder six feet under - for good. An urge for roaming and a chance meeting with the bandit Bandini put Silvertip on the trail that leads to Haverhill Valley, where he finds more action than he ever bargained for. Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Brands remarkable gift for storytelling. Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!
Max Brand
Bill Gary was blinded by the agony of torn flesh. Red sparks of pain flared through him. He saw Frosty, his mouth dripping with blood, ready to spring again. Bill struck at the leaping form ... and missed. The wolfs teeth were at his throat! Bill Gary was dead. But this only encouraged the fortune seekers. For securely fastened around the killer wolfs neck was a collar containing the location of a vein of gold ... and it was still anybodys prize. This most vicious of timber wolves was now guardian and executor of his estate. And Silvertip, to carry out the dead mans wish, must find Frosty, the wolf.
Max Brand
No writer captured the excitement, humanity, or adventure of the American West better than Max Brand. ""Silvertips Roundup"" is and Old Western tale of adventure told by Max Brand, one of Americas favorite Western writers. Brand tells the story of the legendary Arizona Jim ""Silvertip"" Silver, who shoots fast, stays cook, and brings to justice killers and thieves who make a habit of taking the law into their own hands. No criminal was safe from Silvertips brilliant mind and reckless courage. But now Silvertip met his match in Barry Christian, a dangerous and cunning renegade who recognized no laws but the ones he imposed on helpless men and women ...
Max Brand
Arizona Jim Silver had to find Rap Bender, Judge Benders missing son - the same Rap Bender who had joined guns with Silvers oldest and deadliest enemy. But when the legendary Silvertip finally caught up with Bender, they shared a common enemy - ever since Benders partner double-crossed him by trying to kidnap his woman. Now it was up to the two men to catch the man Silver had pledged to kill - for Silvers honor and his life. "Silver Tip" is a series of Western novels written by the very prolific author (one of the most prolific author of all time) named Frederick Faust. The novels are published, like most of Fausts work, under the Max Brand pen name.
Max Brand
In his last evil plan, the dying Steve Wycombe wills his land, stock, and cash to his three worst enemies, Morris Delgas, Harry Rutherford, and Jim Silver, with the knowledge that sooner or later there would be violence over the inheritance. He actually dictates his will while dying from being shot in the stomach. He makes them, one honest man and two crooked, run his ranch. He knows that it is only a matter of time before they come to blows, but that is exactly what he wants them to do to each other. One of many recommended Westerns by this prolific author. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand.
Max Brand
At 30, Bill Naylor had spent half his life behind bars. Free again, and while looking for a new job, he saves a man from drowning. For Bill Naylor, there are all the others in the world, when it comes to being an outlaw, and there is Barry Christian. For Bill, Christian is the best, and the two wind up together, so Bill is all too ready to do the toughest thing that Christian has to throw his way. It involves killing Silvertip. It is Naylors chance to prove himself, and he know Christians plan cant fail. Something that Christians plan did not take into account will determine Naylors fate. "Silvertips Trap" by Max Brand is the seventh novel in the Silver Tip series that came out in 1943.
Sind Götter?. Die Halfred Sigskaldsaga
Felix Dahn
Felix Dahn (1834-1912) war ein deutscher Professor für Rechtswissenschaften, Schriftsteller und Historiker. Zwischen 1882 und 1901 ließ Dahn in 13 Bänden Kleine Romane aus der Völkerwanderung, zwischen 1890 und 1895 ebenfalls in mehreren Bänden eine etwa dreitausendseitige Autobiografie folgen. Sind Götter? Die Halfred Sigskaldsaga eine nordische Erzählung aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert, 1874.