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Juliusz Verne
W "Testamencie dziwaka" Juliusz Verne, mistrz fantastycznych przygód, zabiera czytelników w ekscytującą podróż przez Stany Zjednoczone, gdzie szóstka uczestników bierze udział w niezwykłej grze o fortunę zmarłego milionera. Ekscentryczny bogacz William J. Hypperbone pozostawił majątek wart 60 milionów dolarów, który przypadnie zwycięzcy rozgrywki wzorowanej na tradycyjnej "Grze Gęsiej". Uczestnicy, rzucani przez los od Chicago po Nowy Orlean i od Nowego Jorku po San Francisco, muszą stawić czoła nieprzewidywalnym wyzwaniom, a każdy ruch kostką może odmienić ich życie. Verne z charakterystyczną dla siebie precyzją i humorem opisuje Amerykę końca XIX wieku, tworząc powieść, która jest jednocześnie wciągającą przygodą, fascynującym przewodnikiem po młodym państwie i błyskotliwą satyrą społeczną. Pozycja obowiązkowa dla miłośników klasycznej literatury przygodowej!
Juliusz Verne
Ekscentryczny milioner z Chicago, William J. Hypperbone, umierając pozostawia ogromny spadek, opiewający na sumę 60 mln ówczesnych dolarów. Otrzyma go osoba, która ukończy jako pierwsza grę w Stany Zjednoczone. Jest to zmodyfikowana przez niego stara gra Gęś. Gracze są tu żywymi pionkami a poszczególnymi polami na planszy gry są wszystkie ówczesne Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki. W zależności od wyrzuconych punktów gracze przemieszczają się po całym terytorium USA, od stanu do stanu, kierując się do wyznaczonego im punktu. Nagrodę główną może wygrać tylko jedna z sześciu osób wylosowana spośród wszystkich pełnoletnich mieszkańców Chicago. W grze bierze także udział siódmy gracz, tajemnicza postać ukrywająca się pod inicjałami X.K.Z., dodana poza losowaniem wolą milionera w jego testamencie. (za Wikipedią).
Jack London
This is a love story. For what, if not the love of the Friend-Master, was looking for a half-wolf, half-dog White Fang? This is a story about understanding. For only having understood the beast, in whose blood the famous call of the ancestors still beats, can you tame it... Many people know that we are all responsible for the one we tamed. But how many are able to understand how much we are tamed in the responsibility for us?
The Adventures of a Modest Man
Robert W. Chambers
The narrator is a widower with two daughters, living happily into a rather troubling middle age and pushing away his daughters suitors so that his daughters would live with him a little longer. A younger neighbor persuades him to buy a pig and then bets that the boredom of life has so eclipsed his intelligence that he wont be smart enough to stop someone from stealing it. If the narrator loses the bet, he will jump out of his rut by going to Paris.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Love humor writing? Cant get enough of classic adventure tales? First published in 1902, The Adventures of Gerard are the autobiographical reminiscences of an old fictional brigadier soldier who served under Napoleon. He never hesitates to embellish his own bravado, importance, and attractiveness to the ladies, to such an extent that it cant help but be humorous. Etienne Gerard, a hussar of the French Army, is dashing, flamboyant, and unbelievably full of himself. The book is divided into chapters containing different segments of his life as a soldier under the leadership of Napoleon together with his personal exploits and the romance that swept his way in between. These short stories are historically interesting, the action is cleverly done and exciting, and the hero and his comic comportment are very entertaining.
H. Rider Haggard
Many readers of the novels of Henry Rider Haggard like his main character Allan Quatermain. He goes back to the past. This adventure promises to be exciting. After all, there will be many exciting events on the way of the main character: hunting for lions, fighting a crocodile and a battle between different armies.
The Argonauts of North Liberty
Bret Harte
What starts out as a tale of peaceful domesticity takes a sudden turn when the protagonists are lured from Connecticut to California by the promise of striking it rich. This fascinating novella from American author Bret Harte is an engaging, easy read that will please fans of historical fiction or tales of the Old West. First published in 1888, it keeps the reader engrossed with its fast-paced narrative and surprising twists and turns in the plot. Francis Bret Harte was a prolific American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. The spirit of Dickens breathes through the poems and stories of Bret Harte just as the spirit of Bret Harte breathes through the poems and stories of Kipling.
The Arrow of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes
Joseph Conrad
Events unfolding in Marseille. George secretly gets the forbidden goods, and this makes money. He falls in love with Rita da Lastiola, a young woman with a certain wealth and mystery that supports the work of Karlist and inherited the fortune from a rich man who took her for a mistress. She is of peasant origin, and her motives and feelings are the subject of endless debate.
Rex Beach
Lorelei Knights parents want to get rich on her beauty. They send her to New York to be on a girl show. Bob Wharton, the dissolute son of a millionaire, falls in love with a girl. When Lorelei finds out her father is ill and needs money, she marries Bob even though she doesnt love him. Bobs father cuts his allowance and Bob is forced to go to work.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
Kate Chopin
Awakening is one of the greatest works in American literature. Brilliant beauty Edna Pontellier, together with her husband and two wonderful kids, spend the summer in the resort town of Grand Isle. Ednas unexpected meeting with Robert, a charming young man, suddenly changes the calm and measured life of a woman. Awakening was recognized only many years later.
Max Brand
One of the greatest western authors of all time, superstar pulpsmith Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. His Westerns were always different, with complex plots and characters, and uncertain endings... But his historical adventures rank among the best stories he ever wrote. These seven stories of 16th Century Italian Renaissance swashbuckling swordsman Tizzo are tightly-plotted, action-packed adventures which were rarely equaled in quality by Brands contemporaries. It collects the final four stories: The Cat and the Perfume, Claws of the Tigress, The Bait and the Trap and The Pearls of the Bonfadini.
Robert W. Chambers
This is the story of what happened to a dozen malcontents who could no longer tolerate dirty business in Europe and politicians at home. This is an exciting story that will keep you in suspense until the end of the story.
Rex Beach
Many men were indebted to the trader in Flambeau, and many considered him a friend. The latter never explained why, other than that he did them a favor, and in the North that matters a lot.
The Battle of Life. A Love Story
Charles Dickens
While The Battle of Life is one of Charles Dickens Christmas Books his annual release of a story just before Christmas this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle, A Love Story, reveals more of the plot. The setting is an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title. This novel basically depicts the battles one faces in life and winning them. Grace and Marion are sisters, saying goodbye to their childhood friend, Alfred, who has just come of age after growing up as a ward to the girls father, Dr. Jeddler. Alfred promises to come back someday to marry Marion when he has finished medical school and made his fortune. The years pass, but their happy plans take a sorrowful turn, and it will take all their courage to survive the battle of life...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, first published in 1922, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage of would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As they await the inheritance of his grandfathers fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice and disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness...
The Beauty of the Purple. A Romance of Imperial Constantinople Twelve Centuries Ago
William Stearns Davis
There are typical characters in this book: the villains are very evil, while the heroes and heroines are beautiful, brave and wise. However, there is romance, adventure and suspense in this book, all against the backdrop of Constantinople during the Byzantine Empire.