Przygodowa
Zane Grey
Przywilej pierwszeństwa skrywa w swoim cieniu gorzkie doświadczenia przekraczania granic, niewygodnych kompromisów i palących łez. Ameryka XIX wieku - czas pionierskich wypraw i bezwzględnej walki o panowanie nad kolejnymi obszarami wielkiego lądu. Szczególnie burzliwym terenem jest stan Utah, gdzie fanatyczni mormoni szukają schronienia przed prawnymi konsekwencjami swoich brutalnych praktyk. Swoje surowe zasady próbują narzucić lokalnej społeczności i wytrwale tępią wszystkich "innowierców". W takich okolicznościach Jane Withersteen próbuje wytrwać na swoim ranczu. Czy wyrachowane małżeństwo z przywódcą lokalnego zgromadzenia mormonów zapewni jej spokojne życie? I ileż można trzymać na wodzy własne emocje? Zwłaszcza gdy w miasteczku pojawia się samotny kowboj Lassiter... Książka uchodzi za pierwszy western w historii literatury. Była wielokrotnie ekranizowana, . w 1925 r. przez Lynna Reynoldsa. Zane Grey (1872-1939) - amerykański pisarz, uważany za twórcę gatunku westernu. Twórca poczytnych książek (np. "Jeźdźcy purpurowego stepu" - 1912), z których większość została zekranizowana. Łącznie napisał ponad 80 utworów, głównie o tematyce Dzikiego Zachodu, niektóre z nich przetłumaczono na język polski. W 1951 r. znalazł się na liście autorów objętych cenzurą, a jego publikacje zostały usunięte z obiegu.
Talbot Mundy
There is a good belief that journalists can do exactly as they like and whenever they like. The fun with purple eyes was in Chicago. My passport describes me as a journalist. My employer said, Go to Jerusalem, and I went, it was in 1920. I was there several times before the start of World War II, when the Turks were in control. Therefore, I knew about the bugs and the stench of the citadel moose; pre-war price of camels; it is enough Arabic to speak freely and sufficiently of the Old Testament and the Quran to guess Arabic motives, which important words and things like lies.
Talbot Mundy
El Qudz so the Arabs call Jerusalem, somewhere elsewhere called Shalabi Cabir. This is a very beautiful city located on the hill. El Quds is translated as the City of Peace, and this is what it is for millions of people. Many religions, many races, many disguised politicians disguised as plans to save human souls from hell and fill the wallet of some people.
Jimgrim, Moses, and Mrs. Aintree
Talbot Mundy
The story tells of the discovery of a set of thirty-two golden plaques depicting the organizers and rituals of the occult group, whose member was the biblical Moses. Moses is actually depicted on one of the plates, and his portrait, most notably depicted not by an Egyptian artist, with his miserable skill, but a talented Indian hand.
H. Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard was known as English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. Joan Haste a novel about a girl of extramarital origin with a single mother. Torn from the love of captain Henry Graves. Joan is experiencing exile in the London family of Dickensy and the pursuit of the pursuer of the Victorian era.
John Buchan
John Burnet of Barns was Buchans first fully realised, full-length work of fiction. The authors third novel is story of adventure, treachery and revenge, set in the Scottish Borders in the 17th century, telling of a young nobleman who sets out to gain an education abroad, only to find himself betrayed in his absence by his cousin. Not just a romance, but adventures of a Scottish gentleman around the Netherlands and the wildest highlands of Scotland to find himself, regain his honour and save his true love. In this epic tale of a family torn asunder by a long-lasting feud, renowned action-adventure author John Buchan spins an engrossing account of two cousins locked in conflict and the horrible toll that their bad blood begets. In the wake of the ultimate betrayal, will the Burnet clan ever be able to bridge the chasm that has been created?
John Buchan
Written in 1925, the novel opens with three gentleman friends lawyer Sir Edward Leithen, banker John Palliser-Yeates, and Cabinet member Charles Lord Lamancha discovering that they all suffer a common and debilitating malady, a loss of zest for life, all desperate to relieve the ennui that has engulfed them. The solution can only be something devilish, with a dash of daring. Enlisting the aid of another friend, Scottish landowner Sir Archibald Roylance, the trio contrives a plot to poach game deer or salmon from the hereditary lands of three of Archies Highland neighbors under the guise of an assumed false identity, John Macnab. On this, they stake their reputations and the danger proves innervating. This novel is a light interlude within the Leithen Stories series an evocative look at the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle in Highland Scotland.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
The book has a lot of scientific component from various fields: geology, paleontology, botany, zoology, physics. But everything is very accessible and understandable. The plot focuses on a exploratory journey to the center of the earth through a volcano crater. The starting button for him was an encrypted message on half-decayed parchment. By happy coincidence, it fell into the hands of the famous and very gambling scientist. How could he remain indifferent? Of course not such people do not miss the opportunity to discover something new and are not afraid of dangerous adventures.