Literatura

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 3). Collected Short Stories. Volume 3

Arthur Conan Doyle

In this collection are four more individual cases for Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. Once more, they are solved by this bloodhound of a genius. This great series addition of Sherlock Holmes includes a full-length 1 novel and short stories. Volume 3 continues the exciting adventures of the worlds most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This volume contains one novel, The Valley of Fear, and two collections of short stories: His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. From his home, 221B Baker Street in London, the legendary Sherlock Holmes (accompanied by his loyal companion and chronicler, Dr. Watson) employs his mastery of deductive reasoning and expert sleuthing to solve an arraying of complex and harrowing cases, baffling the police and becoming internationally renowned for his remarkable observations and even more eccentric habits.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 4). Collected Short Stories. Volume 4

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is most well-known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring the legendary and eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes. This fourth volume concludes the exciting adventures of the worlds most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Included are the short story collections His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (1917) and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927), making this an indispensable classic for every home library. The book is based on various crimes occurring in England, big and small. Each of them have an unusual aspect to them that catches Holmes fantasy.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 5). Collected Short Stories. Volume 5

Arthur Conan Doyle

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. The Sherlock Holmes Collection: 4 Novels (The Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Valley of Fear, The Hound of the Baskervilles) and 43 Short Stories. They are all told as Dr. Watsons memoirs and are excellently written. The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. Each story has a completely different plot which goes on smoothly till the end.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 6). Collected Short Stories. Volume 6

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle never wasted time in getting his stories moving. His plots are always direct and refreshingly lucid, and the narrative has a velocity that sweeps you along right to the end. This was no doubt a large part of his immense worldwide success. Volume 6 continues the exciting adventures of the worlds most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Volume includes The Adventure of the Gloria Scott, The Adventure of the Resident Patient, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Final Problem. Here are three more Sherlock Holmes adventures from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This collection includes the following: The Adventure of the Priory School, The Red-Headed League and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 7). Collected Short Stories. Volume 7

Arthur Conan Doyle

The seventh issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery is another fine selection of tales about Sherlock Holmes, or in the Sherlockian spirit. A cypher message and a horrible murder in a Sussex village begin this dark and powerful tale as Holmes battles with the forces of the criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty. Central to the novel lies the story of a terrorist brotherhood and the hold it acquires over an American mining valley. Sherlock Holmes and his steadfast companion, Dr. Watson, set out to solve four brand new mysteries, each a unique puzzle unlike any theyve encountered before. This volume continues the exciting adventures of the worlds most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There are The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes and The Valley of Fear and other short stories.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 8). Collected Short Stories. Volume 8

Arthur Conan Doyle

The eighth issue features the usual assortment of stories and non-fiction. These are the next to last of the series of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. Some are set before the Great War, the last takes place in 1914. Holmes is retired and refused to take on any more cases, preferring to live out his years in a small rural village. His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in some editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, plus the one-off title story, also called A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes under Reminiscences of Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The Adventure of Wistaria Lodge was originally in two parts: The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles and The Tiger of San Pedro. Each story has a completely different plot which goes on smoothly till the end.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 9). Collected Short Stories. Volume 9

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional consulting detective in London 1880-1914 created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes, master of disguise, reasoned logically to deduce clients background from their first appearance. He used fingerprints, chemical analysis, and forensic science. This volume contains the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watsons point of view. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice.

Collected Short Stories. Volume 11

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle never wasted time in getting his stories moving. His plots are always direct and refreshingly lucid, and the narrative has a velocity that sweeps you along right to the end. This was no doubt a large part of his immense worldwide success. Not surprisingly, each time he tried to end the series, his fans would howl in protest. But, as he says in the preface to his last collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, all good things must come to an end. And so it is with this series, as we have now arrived at the end of the Sherlock Holmes tales, Conan Doyles most magnificent creation. The collection includes the famous stories about Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective. A mysterious light in a strange valley leads to danger and more... The mystery of the Mary Celeste solved! ... An ailing and paranoid General threatens his daughters marriage... These are the first two short stories, and first novel for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which started one of the most successful writing careers of all times!

Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life

H. Rider Haggard

Colonel Quaritch left the English army and moved to live at Honham Cottage. This is a quiet, calm and old place, which is located near the castle of the de la Molle family. He falls in love with Ida de la Molle, the only child of the squire, who has mortgaged his possessions to their full value. The young girl without wealth, but she promised her hand and help to the young banker.

Comedies

Aristophanes

Aristophanes, nicknamed the father of comedy, wrote in a different way than the first tragedies. He was troubled by everyday problems, rarely associated with the past. Gods also rarely appeared in his works, like the heroes of antiquity: the main role was given to contemporaries. If certain events of Aristophanes did not suit him, he made fun of them, or offered original recipes to change the situation for the better.

Coming Home

Ewelina Nawara

Czy można uciec od chaosu... trafiając prosto w jego środek? Blake Harringhton zna tylko jedno życie - ciężką pracę na rodzinnym ranchu w Montanie. Po śmierci ojca to on dźwiga odpowiedzialność za ziemię, tradycję i obietnice, których nie wolno złamać. Spokój, rutyna i samotność są jego tarczą przed światem. Ostatnim, czego potrzebuje, jest ona. Maddie Reeves wraca po latach do Honey Ridge. Gwiazda country, zmęczona show-biznesem i cudzymi oczekiwaniami, chce tylko jednego: ciszy. Remont starego domu po babci ma być jej nowym początkiem. Planem B. Bez sceny, bez blasku reflektorów... i zdecydowanie bez Blake'a Harringhtona. Los jednak ma specyficzne poczucie humoru. Błoto Montany, zrujnowany dom i sąsiad, który pamięta ją lepiej, niżby chciała, sprawiają, że Maddie i Blake, dwoje ludzi z zupełnie różnych światów, zostają zmuszeni do dzielenia jednej przestrzeni. Czy uprzedzenia okażą się silniejsze niż rodzące się uczucia? I czy powrót do domu zawsze oznacza to samo? "Coming Home" to komfortowy romans osadzony w klimacie Montany. Otulająca historia o drugich szansach, zderzeniu marzeń z rzeczywistością i o miłości, która rodzi się tam, gdzie nikt jej nie szukał.

Coming Up For Air

George Orwell

“Coming Up For Air“ is a novel by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.   Coming Up for Air is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell. The story follows George Bowling, a 45-year-old husband, father, and insurance salesman, who foresees World War II and attempts to recapture idyllic childhood innocence and escape his dreary life by returning to Lower Binfield, his birthplace.  

Concerto

Hannah Fielding

Can love escape from the darkness into the light? When Catriona Drouot, a young music therapist, honours an opera divas dying request to help her son, Umberto Monteverdi, recover his musical gift, she knows it will be a difficult assignment. She had shared a night of passion with the once-celebrated composer ten years before, with unexpected consequences. The extent of her challenge becomes apparent when she arrives at her clients estate on the glittering shores of Lake Como. Robbed of his sight by a near-fatal car accident, the man is arrogant, embittered and resistant to her every effort to help him. Still, Catriona sings a sirens call within him that he cannot ignore. Caught up in the tempestuous intrigues at Umbertos Palladian mansion, Catriona discovers that her attraction to the blind musician is as powerful as ever. How can she share what she has hidden from him for the past decade? Soon she realises that hers is not the only secret that is rippling uneasily below the surface. Dark forces haunt the sightless composer, threatening his life for the second time.

Confiteor

Stanisław Przybyszewski

“Confiteor” to utwór Stanisława Przybyszewskiego, polskiego pisarza, poety, dramaturga okresu Młodej Polski. Przybyszewski był skandalistą, przedstawicielem cyganerii krakowskiej i nurtu polskiego dekadentyzmu.   “Confiteor” to esej Stanisława Przybyszewskiego o roli artysty sformułowany w programowym artykule i ogłoszony na łamach krakowskiego czasopisma „Życie” w 1899. Utwór ten stał się manifestem polskiego modernizmu. Sformułował jako pierwszy w Polsce hasło sztuka dla sztuki.  

Confiteor

Stanisław Przybyszewski

“Confiteor” to utwór Stanisława Przybyszewskiego, polskiego pisarza, poety, dramaturga okresu Młodej Polski. Przybyszewski był skandalistą, przedstawicielem cyganerii krakowskiej i nurtu polskiego dekadentyzmu.   “Confiteor” to esej Stanisława Przybyszewskiego o roli artysty sformułowany w programowym artykule i ogłoszony na łamach krakowskiego czasopisma „Życie” w 1899. Utwór ten stał się manifestem polskiego modernizmu. Sformułował jako pierwszy w Polsce hasło sztuka dla sztuki.  

Congo Inc. Testament Bismarcka

In Koli Jean Bofane

Isookanga, Pigmej z plemienia Ekonda, ma już dość życia w rodzinnej wsi, zagubionej gdzieś w ostępach kongijskiej dżungli. Nie chce dłużej zbierać w lesie gąsienic dla wodza plemienia i wysłuchiwać jego nieustannego gderania na zmieniający się świat. Młodzieniec właśnie odkrył Internet i czuje, że musi działać. Wyrusza więc na podbój stolicy kraju, Kinszasy, z jednym celem w sercu: chce globalizować i być globalizowany. Tymczasem życie w postkolonialnym Kongo płynie swoim odwiecznym, leniwym nurtem. Okrutni zbrodniarze wojenni obsadzają intratne stanowiska rządowe, fałszywi prorocy wznoszą piramidy finansowe, podczas gdy funkcjonariusze międzynarodowych misji pokojowych wykorzystują swoje kongijskie placówki, żeby szybko się wzbogacić i przyjemnie spędzić czas. In Koli Jean Bofane ze zjadliwym humorem tworzy barwną i przejmującą panoramę współczesnego Konga - kraju, który mógłby być ziemskim rajem, a wciąż pozostaje tylko unowocześnioną i zglobalizowaną wersją Conradowskiego jądra ciemności. Powieść Congo Inc. Testament Bismarcka to pierwsza książka Bofane'a przełożona na język polski. Pierwotnie ukazała się w 2014 roku i zdobyła wiele literackich laurów, między innymi Nagrodę Pięciu Kontynentów Frankofonii (najważniejsze wyróżnienie dla utworu w języku francuskim stworzonego przez pisarza spoza Francji).

Constance Dunlap

Arthur B. Reeve

A charming thief rescues the not-so-innocent in this delightful crime novel from the creator of the Craig Kennedy detective series. Constance Dunlap is a young woman who turns amateur criminal in order to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest. When this sadly doesnt work out exactly as planned, Constance goes on to embrace a new life. More antiheroine than heroine, she uses her photographic memory and her sharp wit to help amateur criminals get back on the right track. From one escapade to the next, Dunlap eludes Drummond, a crooked private detective who preys on the weak and unfortunate. Even he cant help but admire the pluck and intelligence of this irresistible scofflaw.