Zdobycie Sandomierza

Walery Przyborowski

Powieść dla młodzieży opisująca krwawą bitwę w Austriakami oraz zdobycie Sandomierza przez wojska Księstwa Warszawskiego w 1809 roku. Książka trzyma w napięciu od samego początku do samego końca.

She and Allan

H. Rider Haggard

Ayesha is an example of a strong and stately woman. It is a 2000-year-old woman who still looks amazing for her age, rules the tribes in Africa. Despite the unwelcome arrival of the British on her land. She extends a helping hand to them. Suddenly, she falls in love with one of the researchers of this group. But can such love be?

The Laslett Affair

Harold Begbie

According to many people, true friendship lasts until the end of life. However, what happens if something goes wrong? The Laslett Affair novel was written on this subject. A story about friends who believe that there is nothing stronger than their friendship and nothing can prevent their friendship. However, everything changes with time...

The Light That Failed

Rudyard Kipling

Kipling wrote the first novel, The Light That Failed in many ways an autobiographical novel, having already gained fame with his poems and stories. In addition to the novel and selected stories from collections of different years, the book includes the story Brave Captains - about the romance and hardships of sea travel, the formation of the character of a young man, about metamorphoses that occur in people under the influence of merciless circumstances...

All Hallows Eve

Charles Williams

The novels of Charles Williams are fascinating. The novels are strange behind the plot. For example, All Hallows Eve is about a couple in love who are in danger. Strange things happen to lovers.

The Untamed

Max Brand

Dan Barry is found by a cattleman footloose and wandering in the desert. He is taken in by the man and cared for by his lovely daughter. But the course of love doesnt run smoothly in this classic western Whistlin Dan Berry is one of the most interesting characters in Western fiction. Easy going, Berry proves absolutely unforgiving when physically assaulted by a feared, vicious outlaw, Jim Silent. Seemingly without any emotions, Whistlin Dan is relentless in his vengeful search for Silent and his outlaw gang. "The Untamed" is a first part of a trilogy about a mysterious gunslinger who appears to be a Casper Milquetoaste but, in concert with a powerful wolf-dog, and a murderous stallion; is able to overpower seemingly any opposing force.

Prescott of Saskatchewan

Harold Bindloss

The story of the imitation of man. After all, everyone has a person to whom you want to strive. There is a murder and a chase in Western Canada a few days before the advent of cars or even telegraph lines in much of the country. Great attention to the landscape. The author does not regret the descriptions of landscapes.

Strona Guermantes

Marcel Proust

Trzeci i zarazem ostatni tom quasi-autobiograficznego cyklu W Poszukiwaniu Straconego Czasu. Autor przedstawia życie arystokracji francuskiej. Z utworu bije podziw i zachwyt nad wystawnością życia ludzi majętnych. Główny bohater, Marcel, zakochuje się w Pani zamku zamieszkanym przez jego rodzinę. Za wszelką cenę stara się zdobyć względy kobiety, nawet wykorzystując bliskie jej osoby. Na uwagę zasługuje fantastyczny przekład cyklu na język polski autorstwa Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego.

Wings in the Night

Robert E. Howard

Wings in the Night collects Robert E. Howards fiction and prose published in Weird Tales Magazine from July 1932 to May 1933. These works represent literary stepping-stones to Howards infamous Cthulhu mythos stories and his most famous character of all -- Conan the Cimmerian -- and ably demonstrate that each of Howards stories improved and added to his formidable skills as a master of fantasy and adventure.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle

Illustrated edition with original illustrations by Alfred Gilbert. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 in total) by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the mysteries of the disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Thor Bridge, Shoscombe Old Place, the Boscombe Valley, an illustrious client and a creeping man.

Sępy skalne. Powieść z Dzikiego Zachodu

Karol May

Karol May powraca na swój ulubiony Dziki Zachód, aby kontynuować opowieść o Old Shatterhandzie. Po raz kolejny spotykamy legendarnego wodza indiańskiego Winnetou i jego lojalnego przyjaciela, którzy wspólnie ruszają na pomoc tym, którzy akurat ich pomocy potrzebują. Ponownie przekonujemy się też o potędze przyjaźni, dzięki której można pokonać największe trudności.

Befehl aus dem Dunkel

Hans Dominik

Professor Allgermissen löst das Problem der Gedankenübertragung. Forscher sind mit Hilfe von bestimmten Wellen in der Lage Gedanken zu lesen und zu beeinflussen. Politisch verfeindete Systeme machen sich die moderne Technik zu Nutze, um ihre Gegner auszuspionieren und gelangen somit an die unbeschränkte im geheimen geführte Macht. Professor wird jedoch wahnsinnig und stirbt daran. Einen Teil seiner Erfindung gelangt in die Hände des verbrecherischen Abtes Turi Chan, der mit dieser Macht einen Krieg der gelben Rasse gegen die Weißen entfesselt, der andere Teil in den Besitz des deutschen Erfinders Georg Astenryk. Sie werden zu heimlichen Herrschern über ihre Mitmenschen, sie bekämpfen einander mit allen Mitteln. Ein Kampf um die Weltherrschaft und das eigene Leben beginnt.

Glorious Apollo

Elizabeth Louisa Moresby

E. Barrington is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Louisa Moresby, a British-born novelist who became the first prolific, female fantasy writer in Canada. She wrote very quickly, attributing her productivity to her sparse vegetarian diet and Buddhist habits of mental discipline; her best-selling fictional biography of Byron, Glorious Apollo, took only one month to complete. A bestseller in the 1920s, Glorious Apollo is a fictional biography of the 18th century Romantic poet, George Gordon, Lord Byron. Byron comes from a family noted for philandering and profligacy. He achieves notoriety in those areas before he achieves fame as a poet. Beginning as he prepares to takes his seat in the House of Lords in 1809, the novel takes us through Byrons entire life and career right up to his death in Greece at the age of thirty-six.

The Reporter

Edgar Wallace

In 1919-1920 Edgar Wallace wrote a series of ten short stories featuring the investigative reporter York Symon for publication in the British monthly The Novel Magazine. In 1928 the series was reprinted in Pearsons Weekly. In the following year Edgar Wallace collected nine of the stories in a book entitled The Reporter. The Reporter is a detective story about a police reporter named Wise Symon and his tricks of the trade. A collection presents 9 short stories that include The Writings of Maconochie Hoe, The Crime of Gai Joi, The Safe Deposit at the Social Club, and the two connected stories The Case of Crook Beresford and The Last Throw of Crook Beresford. The stories are fast-paced and well written but definitely a product of their time and place!

W cieniu zakwitających dziewcząt

Marcel Proust

Druga część cyklu W Poszukiwaniu Straconego Czasu. Książka pełna przemyśleń i urokliwych opisów pierwszych doświadczeń miłosnych autora. Emocjonalny i charakterystyczny język Prousta przenosi czytelnika do świata młodzieńczych doznań i zauroczeń. Główny bohater, Marcel, opisuje światek mieszczaństwa francuskiego w sposób melancholijny z dbałością o wszelkie niuanse.

The Zeppelins Passenger

E. Phillips Oppenheim

A World War I tale of espionage in a fictional backwater area in England with no apparent military value called Dreymarsh. The story begins with Dreymarsh residents discovering an observation car from a German zeppelin along with a Homburg hat near Dreymarsh. This discovery triggers a range of events and introduces a myriad of characters which all make for a rather delightful mystery. Oppenheim was famous for his hundreds of spy and espionage novels. He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have an undertone of intrigue. The Zeppelin Passenger is the most audacious German spy story with a strong hint of romance that Mr. Oppenheim has heretofore written.