Literatura

Seksualna

Krystyna Bezubik

Wpojone w dzieciństwie przekonanie, że nieznajomość własnego ciała jest dobra, a seks to brud i grzech. Ile dorosłych kobiet w Polsce i na świecie wciąż je ma? Ilu odbiera ono przyjemność ze zmysłowych doznań? Izka, bohaterka "Seksualnej", jest jedną z nich. Ale ona potrafi - choć nie jest to proste - znaleźć drogę do świadomej kobiecości, jedności ze swoim ciałem i radości z seksu. Joanna Keszka, matronka książki, napisała "Potrzebujemy takich historii". I to jest najlepsza pointa.

Sekta

Monika Magoska-Suchar

Uważano go za anioła... A on był wcielonym diabłem Edward Collins jest charyzmatyczny, piekielnie bogaty i nieziemsko przystojny. Seksowny, można by rzec, gdyby nie to, że takie słowo nie pasuje do bożego posłańca, jakiego widzą w nim setki tysięcy zwolenników Kościoła, na którego czele stoi. Sam Collins uważa się za syna Boga. I od wiernych oczekuje bezwzględnego oddania. Nie tylko duchowego. Interesują go też ich majątki... i ciała, zwłaszcza jeżeli należą do młodych, atrakcyjnych wyznawczyń. Tak, Edward Collins nie jest aniołem miłosierdzia, lecz pozbawionym skrupułów i moralności manipulatorem. Gdy na jego drodze stanie troje ludzi ― Jason Lambert, szeryf z hrabstwa Utah prowadzący śledztwo w sprawie sekty, a także siostry Rebeka i Rozalie Winston, które łączy z Collinsem wspólna przeszłość ― losy całej czwórki splotą się w iście piekielny węzeł, pełen przemocy, pożądania, seksu i mrocznych sekretów. Kto z nich dostąpi zbawienia za grzechy, a kto zostanie potępiony na wieczność? Tak więc trwają wiara, nadzieja, miłość - te trzy: z nich zaś największa jest miłość

Sekta diabła

Stanisław Wotowski

Przedwojenną stolicą wstrząsa seria samobójstw młodych, majętnych kobiet. Przy ciałach wszystkich ofiar znajdywane są tajemnicze notatki oraz kartki z narysowanym znakiem czarnego trójkąta odwróconego podstawą do góry. Kiedy o tych budzących grozę zgonach dowiaduje się z lektury wieczornej gazety inżynier Jan Grodecki, nie spodziewa się, że niebawem znajdzie się w samym centrum tragicznych wydarzeń. "Pewnego dnia, późnym popołudniem udał się bowiem pan Jan z wizytą do narzeczonej, pięknej panny o intrygującym imieniu Mura. Między narzeczonymi od dłuższego czasu nie układało się najlepiej. O ich ślubie zdecydowali przed laty rodzice. Z czasem w sercu Jana rozpaliło się uczucie do dziewczyny, niestety Mura traktowała kawalera chłodno, lecz uprzejmie, odwlekając w nieskończoność datę ślubu. Podczas rozmowy z kolan Mury spada książka, z której wysuwa się niewielka karteczka. Jan z przerażeniem spostrzega na niej czarny trójkąt, złowieszczy symbol, o którym nie tak dawno przeczytał w gazecie. Wstrząśnięty zadaje pannie szereg pytań, ta jednak zbywa go, nie mogąc się doczekać aby wreszcie opuścił jej mieszkanie..."

Selected Short Works

Zane Grey

Ambers Mirage (1929, For thirty years old, Jim has spent the search for the mythical Ambers Mirage without finding him. Tsu is a sad story about how his young teammate left the house, loved a woman and went to look for a bright rock over a source that is full of gold. But perhaps this is a mirage...)Bernardos Revenge (An exciting story of love and the interaction of man with nature in the jungle, namely tigers.) (1912)California Red (1926, For years Ben Ide had chased and tried to capture the great stallion, California Red, probably the noblest of all the fifteen thousand horses who roamed the northern California plains. But he had always been unsuccessful. Now his chance had come--and he had to make the devils bargain with a band of cattle rustlers in order to realize his greatest ambition.)The Camp Robber (1928, An interesting cowboy story about the mysterious robber of the camp who kidnaps strange things.)Death Valley (1920, Of the five hundred and fifty-seven thousand square miles of desert land in the Southwest, Death Valley is the lowest below sea level, the most arid and desolate. It derives its felicitous name from the earliest days of the gold strike in California, when a caravan of Mormons, numbering about seventy, struck out from Salt Lake, to cross the Mojave Desert and make a short cut to the gold fields. All but two of these prospectors perished in the deep, iron-walled, ghastly sinkholes, which from that time became known as Death Valley.)Don: The Story of a Lion Dog (1925, This essay tells about the love of animals to Zane Gray and his understanding of how much a person can know the animal and how an animal can get closer to a person. Zane Gray met Don when she first went to the Grand Canyon. He met many people on this trip, which turned into the heroes of his novels.)The Great Slave (1920, Siena young leader of the disappearing tribe. White invaders take them into slavery, but give a gun, thanks to this miracle of the fiery stick Sienna becomes famous among the tribes and, according to the prophecy, must become a great leader.)Lightning (1910, Lee and Cuth Stewart were tall, lean Mormons, as bronzed as desert Navajos, cool, silent, gray-eyed, still-faced. Both wore crude homespun garments much the worse for wear; boots that long before had given the best in them; laced leather wristbands thin and shiny from contact with lassoes; and old gray slouch hats that would have disgraced cowboys.)Lure of the River (1923, Iquitos was a magnet for wanderers and a safe hiding place for men who must turn their faces from civilization. Rubber drew adventurers and criminals to this Peruvian frontier town as gold lured them to the Klondike. Monty Prices Nightingale (1924, Monty Price had its secret. Several times each year he scored a nicotyled salary and disappeared for several months. Then, when returning, nobody knew where he was all this time and what he was doing. But when the forest fire happened, he discovered courage in his soul and this event changed his life forever.)Nonnezoshe, the Rainbow Bridge (1915, The book describes the journey to Nonnezoshe, the most beautiful and wonderful natural phenomenon in the world. This is the only such special place Ive ever visited, but Im not sure if I could find it myself without a guide again.)The Ranger (1929, In this book, the narrative is from the first person of the American Marshal Marshal, who helps the legendary Texas Ranger Texas Hold Wall to release Fairfield from the criminals.)

Selected Stories

Talbot Mundy

The Soul Of A Regiment(Adventure, February 1912) SO long as its colors remain, and there is one man left to carry them, a regiment can never die; they can recruit it again around that one man, and the regiment will continue on its road to future glory with the same old traditions behind it and the same atmosphere surrounding it that made brave men of its forbears. So although the colors are not exactly the soul of a regiment, they are the concrete embodiment of it, and are even more sacred than the person of a reigning sovereign.The Pillar Of Light(Everbodys Magazine, Dec 1912)No birds twittered. There was nothing, either animal or human, amid the awful desolation of the Twelve Apostles, that seemed glad to greet the dawn. Aloes were the only thing that grew there, unless you count the sickly-looking patch of vegetables, some twenty feet by twenty, that succeeding reliefs of sergeants had coaxed on to the bald, hot hideous rock to make them homesick.Sam Bagg Of The Gabriel Group(The Saturday Evening Post, Mar 11, 1916)He was an even-tempered man, but it was not considered wise to approach him when he stood in that place, in just that attitude; and Luther, the imported half-breed missionary, hid himself among the plantains that formed the outer fringe of Baggs little garden, round the thatched bungalow.The Real Red Root(The Crescent, Jun 1919)BY birth and speech Dan Ivan is United States American, descended probably from Russian exiles, although he denies it and weaves theories to prove another derivation of his name. I met him first six thousand feet above sea level, where the lions were hungry on account of frosty nights and water was scarce; and hearing his voice before he came in view I thought at first it was a womans, for it was suggestive of a song about ideals.The Bell On Hell Shoal(The Passing Show, Jul 15, 1933)JOE MOLYNEUX told this story. We were sprawling on my rug on a Florida beach, staring at Hell Shoal, where the big new bell-buoy swam. The gulls and terns were waiting for the tide, half asleep on the abandoned hulk of Sharpes million-dollar yacht.The Avenger(This Week, May 16, 1937)"THERES only one thing worse than corruption when it comes to enforcing the law, and thats sentiment, said Quinn. He glanced through my library window at the distant row of eucalyptus. If I wasnt your friend, Id have raided that queer group at the end of your garden long before this. Theyre all tramps. Now I have a warrant for the one they call Sirdarhis right name is Duleep Singh. What makes you think hell be here tonight? Companions In Arms(Adventure, Nov 1937)John Lawrence Burnham joined the regiment in Flanders, nineteen, green from an English public school and Woolwich, rushed through special courses for the war. He had been born in Rajputana. The first words he had ever learned to speak were Rajasthani. His father, who had commanded the regiment, was killed near Dargai, and the only son, aged seven, went to England with his mother, to be schooled and, if he pleased, to forget and to be forgotten. He remembered. He used Rajasthani in his dreams, that were all of turbaned, bearded horsemen, the smell of harness, and the thunder of lance-shod squadrons knee-to-knee.Making 10,000(McClures Magazine, April 1913)"Said hed no time for hereditary boneheadsdashed if I know what a bonehead is, exactly, but Ill bet its something rudeand that he wouldnt let his daughter marry one on any terms! Said there were boneheads enough in the States, without coming across the water to find one! He added a lot of tommy-nonsense about the idea of an aristocracy being all wrong anyhow. So I asked him whether hed have liked me any better if Id been a brick-layer! The Lady And The Lord(The All-Story Magazine, Jun 1911)An actress who is not exactly in the first flight is bound to be more or less of a nomad; so there was nothing particularly astonishing in not hearing from Mrs. Crothers for several months. True, she might have written; but if she were ever to become famous, her autograph would be valuable for its very rarity, for she seldom wrote to anyone.Kitty Burns Her Fingers (The All-Story Magazine, Jul 1911)KITTY CROTHERS perennially hard up working at her profession for a few months, doing one-night stands all over the country, and returning to spend her hard-earned savings along Broadway we all of us knew and understood; but Kitty Crothers with money was something to make the gods on Olympus sit up and take notice.The Hermit And The Tiger(American Cavalcade, Nov 1937)It was many months before I saw a tiger, in full moonlight, in the graveyard at Mount Abu in Rajputana, where the legends on more than half the tombstones read from wounds inflicted by a tiger. He was insolent, arrogant, splendid, and I think he knew I watched him. At intervals he stood snarling and muttering as if he sneered at the names on the tombs of the men who had died of wounds from his ancestors fangs. It was a weird experience. I had no rifle. I could only watch.Mystic India Speaks(True Mystic Science, Dec 1938)MANY years ago, in Rajputana, the writer climbed several thousand feet above sea level for a moonlight view of an historic landscape. He was, in those days, an opinionated young Englishman, rather recently from public school, educated in the traditional white mans burden theory of empire and in the Church of England attitude toward religion. After months of wandering in India, it was only just beginning to dawn on his not very observant, nor particularly critical, but rather idly curious mind, that virtue is neither racial, national, nor even international, but universal; and that possibly lots of Western theories are wrong.

Selekcja

Jonathan Kellerman

Mroczny thriller autora bestsellerów z listy New York Times! Kim jest i co kieruje postępowaniem seryjnego mordercy, którego ofiarami są bezbronne i doświadczone cierpieniem niepełnosprawne dzieci? Alex Delaware wspólnie z detektywem Milo Sturgisem rozpoczyna prywatne dochodzenie w sprawie tajemniczego morderstwa podczas wycieczki szkolnej. Podobno w rezerwacie przyrody nieopodal Los Angeles ktoś bestialsko odebrał życie upośledzonej 15-latce, córce izraelskiego dyplomaty... Dr Alex szybko dochodzi do wniosku, że śmierć niepełnosprawnej Irin to dopiero początek serii absurdalnych morderstw na tle eugenicznym. Przed tobą wciągająca opowieść o obsesyjnym pragnieniu zabijania w imię pseudonaukowych teorii o ograniczeniu reprodukcji słabych osobników i realizacji programu czystości rasowej. Zdaniem krytyków literackich jest to najbardziej prowokacyjna i niepokojąca powieść Kellermana, określanego mianem ,,króla współczesnych kryminałów". Oto dwunasty tom wstrząsającej serii o zagadkach kryminalnych Alexa Delawarea, można go uznać za oddzielną historię lub czytać bez zachowania kolejności cyklu. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, Copyright 1989 by Jonathan Kellerman

Selim Mirza

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Selim Mirza jest synem bogatego ziemianina pochodzenia tatarskiego. Jeszcze niedawno konkurował o względy pięknej Hani ze swoim rówieśnikiem, młodym paniczem Henrykiem. Obaj młodzieńcy zostali ranni w pojedynku. Podczas ich rekonwalescencji Hania przeszła ospę i została oszpecona. Dziewczyna odrzuca oświadczyny Selima i wstępuje do klasztoru. Młodzieniec wyrusza do Francji, by wziąć udział w wojnie francusko-pruskiej. Utwór Selim Mirza , napisany w stylu Alexandrea Dumasa, zawiera pewne wątki autobiograficzne.

Selim Mirza

Henryk Sienkiewicz

  “Selim Mirza" to nowela Henryka Sienkiewicza, laureata literackiej Nagrody Nobla, jednego z najpopularniejszych polskich pisarzy przełomu XIX i XX w. Nowela, którą Sienkiewicz napisał w 1876 roku stanowi trzecią część tzw. “małej trylogii”, na którą składają się także “Stary sługa” i “Hania”. Akcja noweli miała toczyć się w czasie powstania styczniowego, jednak ze względów cenzuralnych Sienkiewicz przeniósł ją do Francji czasów wojny francusko-pruskiej. Selim Mirza, napisany w stylu Alexandre'a Dumasa, zawiera pewne wątki autobiograficzne. Brat autora, Kazimierz Sienkiewicz, zginął w czasie wojny francusko-pruskiej.