Śmierć urzędnika i inne opowiadania

Antoni Czechow

Śmierć urzędnika i inne opowiadania to książka wybitnego rosyjskiego pisarza drugiej połowy XIX wieku, w których carska Rosja została przedstawiona w krzywym zwierciadle humoru podszytego ironią i sarkazmem. Choć jest to XIX-wieczna Rosja, to jednak tematy są uniwersalne. Czechow śmieje się z rozbudowanej biurokracji regulującej każdą sferę życia Rosjan. Drwi zwłaszcza z tych swoich rodaków, którzy tworzą urzędniczą machinę, a sami nie potrafią podjąć samodzielnie żadnej decyzji. I chociaż przedstawione typy ludzkie są często przerysowane, nie na tyle jednak, żeby nie móc wyobrazić ich sobie w realnym życiu. W tomie znalazły się następujące opowiadania: Śmierć urzędnika, Bezbronna istota, Przesolił, Po ciemku, Córa Albionu, Potwarz, Szczęśliwy, Dyrektor pod kanapą. Zakulisowa historia, Damy, Wańka, Malcy, W razurze, Dramat, Wykrzyknik, Nie udało się, Długi język, Złoczyńca, Zemsta, Order, Podrzutek, Dzieło sztuki, Szydło w worku, W biurze pocztowym, W złym humorze, Zagadkowa natura, Kameleon, Żarcik, Syrena, Aptekarzowa.

Serce kobiety. Opowiadania

Jack London

Wzruszająca historia o miłości i poświęceniu. Pokazuje wrażliwość, siłę i złożoność przewrotnego, kobiecego charakteru. Uniwersalna opowieść o woli życia i determinacji przetrwania. Zapraszamy do lektury...

Andivius Hedulio. Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire

Edward Lucas White

Edward Lucas White has written a number of historical novels, including Andivius Hedulio. Amazing story of a Roman during the reign of Commodus. This is an exciting adventure! You will feel that you are in ancient Rome.

The Last Miracle

M.P. Shiel

This volume contains Matthew Phipps Shiels 1906 novel, The Last Miracle. It is original, nicely written, and with good character studies that is recommended for fans of supernatural and science fiction, and is a must-have for collectors of Shiels work. The Last Miracle (1906) very loose thematic sequence of apocalyptic tales concerns a plot to discredit Christianity with fake miraculous visions created by gigantic hologram-like devices and the terrible crucifixions which are part of that plot. Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865 1947) also known as M. P. Shiel was a seminal British writer best remembered for his supernatural and scientific romances.

The Deep-Lake Mystery

Carolyn Wells

If you like Golden Age locked room mysteries this is a good one! Deep Lake Mystery (1928) by Carolyn Wells, author of The Clue, is set in the lake region of Wisconsin. Our narrator Gray Norris is invited to join his old friend, the detective Keeley Moore, and his new wife at their vacation cottage at Deep Lake, Wisconsin for a relaxing month of fishing, swimming, boating, and just getting away from the hustle and bustle of the East Coast. That goes by the wayside when one of the Moores neighbors, a millionaire Sampson Tracy, is found murdered in a locked room with a nail driven into his skull and his corpse festooned with bizarre ritualistic items, and other seemingly meaningless articles. Find the motive and you find the criminal!

Range Jester

Max Brand

Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author best known for his thoughtful Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres, he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. This is one of his work. Three men, each traveling alone, head for the town of Loomis, where they will meet in a violent confrontation that will leave one of them dead by morning. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre.

The Snow-Image and Other Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A warm fairy tale for any age. One winter evening, parents saw that an unfamiliar girl was playing with their children in the yard. Rejoicing, they decided to invite the girl to tea despite the assurances of the children that she was afraid of heat more than anything...

Kong-Kheou, das Ehrenwort. Der blau-rote Methusalem

Karl May

Die dritte Jugenderzählung Karl Mays wurde erstmals Oktober 1888 bis September 1889 unter dem Titel Kong-Kheou, das Ehrenwort in der Zeitschrift Der Gute Kamerad veröffentlicht. 1892 wurde der Text dann bearbeitet unter dem Titel Der blaurote Methusalem als Buchausgabe der Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft veröffentlicht. Fritz Degenfeld, Methusalem, ist zusammen mit dem jungen Richard Stein auf Abenteuer-Reise durch China auf der Suche nach dessen Onkel und der verschollenen Familie und Schatz des deutsch-chinesischen Teehändlers Ye-Kin-Li. Spannungsgeladenes und ereignisreiches Reise-Abenteuer von Karl May.

A Son of the Sun

Jack London

Son of the sun a cycle of stories. The heroes of which are honest, persistent and courageous people, romantics, adventurers who have passed through difficult physical and moral tests in their lives. Griffiths and Jacobsen decided to trick Vulture into fleeing without paying the bills. But it would be better if they did not try to deceive the Son of the Sun.

Household Tales

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

This is a collection of many tales. Porridge Pot" is a German folk tale from the Grimm Brothers collection, perhaps one of the most famous and beloved from early childhood. This is a story about how one girl received as a present from an old woman a pot that cooks porridge itself, it is only necessary to pronounce a magic spell. The girl carried the pot to her mother, but when she decided to use it, she forgot how to order the pot to stop in time. The pot boiled so much porridge that it flooded all the streets, and the townspeople had to eat their way.

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is one of the most legendary stories by Charles Dickens. This edition contains the original 1843 illustrations by celebrated caricaturist John Leech. The story has long since become one of the most beloved stories in the English language. As much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths, this perennial favourite continues to delight new readers and rekindle thoughts of charity and goodwill. The tale begins on a cold and bleak Christmas Eve in London, exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooges business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas. He refuses his nephew Freds Christmas dinner invitation. At home that night, Scrooge is visited by Marleys ghost, who is forever cursed to wander the earth dragging a network of heavy chains, forged during a lifetime of greed and selfishness. Marley tells Scrooge that he has one chance to avoid the same fatehe will be visited by three spirits, one on each successive evening, and he must listen to them or be cursed to carry chains of his own, much longer than Marleys chains.

South Sea Tales

Jack London

Among the vast expanses of the vast Pacific Ocean, like tiny pieces of mosaics, thousands of tiny islands are scattered. Proud people live on these islands: pearl catchers throwing themselves into the depths of the sea, rebellious natives who believe only in the god of the sea and sharks these are the heroes of Tales of the Southern Seas. White colonialists live on these islands with them, trying with all their might to tame the free spirit of the island people.

Salute to Adventurers

John Buchan

In John Buchans thrill-a-minute novel Salute to Adventurers, hero Andrew Garvald makes his way from the dreary moors of his native land to the deceptively bucolic landscape of early colonial America. A novel set during the beginning of the Jamestown Colony, Salute To Adventurers is an enthralling saga about one mans struggle to survive and even find love in a land beset by trade controls with England enforced by pirates, religious strife manifested through a fanatic who stirs Indian tribes to attack settlers, harsh environmental conditions, the unending chores of daily life, and much more. Faced with adversity, danger and social scorn, Garvald nevertheless stands firm in his commitment to bringing fairness and order to the burgeoning colony. Will he achieve this aim and live to tell the tale? Painting a vivid picture of what it was once like to earn a living in untamed lands, Salute To Adventure is an exciting chronicle featuring conflicts of man vs. nature and man vs. man alike.

The Stolen Stallion

Max Brand

The Stolen Stallion by Max Brand is one of the books in the Silvertip series. Wild horses ... evil men! Parade - a magnificent stallion worth twice his weight in cold cash. And many men had set out to capture this legendary prize. Some never returned. Some came back stony-broke. Others were ruined by desert heat and mountain winters. Only Silvertip, an honest man fast with his fists and quicker with his guns, can tame the magnificent stallion Parade, son of Brandy, king of the wild horses of the Sierras. When Silvertip hunted Parade he took only a rope and raw courage. But trailing him, guns at their sides, were two killers who wanted Silvertip as badly as they wanted Parade!

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Oscar Wilde

This is a collection of five short stories (The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket), that are fairytales like moral fables, not only for children, but drenched in subtle hints aimed at the older readers. Each little story is a beautifully told allegory touching to the heart. Each tale in this compilation is different but there is a strong lesson that could be seen in all. This is the lesson of love and friendship, how it differs in every scenario and what exactly is true love or devoted friendship. The lessons teach in these stories of good and bad, bad might not be necessarily evil but more of the selfish kind, it talked of selflessness and how true love redeems everything in the end. These tales are dark and colorful at the same time, and deal mostly with selfishness, compassion, egotism, Christianity, goodwill and love.

Lieutenant Bones

Edgar Wallace

Wallace was a prolific author responsible for several series of popular novels featuring bold adventurers and crime fighters. For his series set in the highly evocative world of West Africa he created two of his most beloved and enduring characters, Colonial Administrator Sanders and his eccentric companion Lieutenant Tibbetts, known to all as Bones. However, yet again, the trouble-prone Bones, while meaning to assist, only manages to spread his own unique style of innocent and endearing mischief. Those who love classic adventure especially set against an African backdrop will discover a rich vein of reading pleasure in the six books of the Colonial adventures of Sanders and Bones set on the Dark Continent.