Ubu Król, czyli Polacy

Alfred Jarry

Dramat autorstwa Alfreda Jarryego osadzony w konwencji teatru absurdu, sięgający do surrealizmu oraz groteski. Opowiada o losach pochodzącego z Francji Ubu, byłego króla Aragonii. Rusza on do Polski, gdzie zostaje rotmistrzem dragonów króla Wacława. Za namową żony zawiązuje spisek i dokonuje w Polsce zamachu stanu, wprowadzając okrutne i niesprawiedliwe rządy.

Großfuß. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Kurz vor Hanna Shaw Tod konnte sie noch einen verzweifelten Hilferuf absenden. Die Haushälterin des Anwalts Gordon Cardew Hanna Shaw wird in einem von innen verschlossenen Raum gefunden wurde."Hanna Shaw hat mich gerufen! Miß Leigh zeigt Oberinspektor Minter von Scotland Yard ein Telegramm: Bitte helfen Sie mir. Kommen Sie sofort. Es geht um mein Leben. Was hat die mysteriöse Botschaft von Hanna Shaw an Miß Leigh kurz vor Ihrem Tod zu bedeuten? Eine spannende Jagd auf den Mörder beginnt.

Murder at Monte Carlo

E. Phillips Oppenheim

One of many great works by E. Phillips Oppenheim, who styled himself as the prince of storytellers, and is credited with creating the rogue male genre of adventure thrillers and was one of the earliest writers of spy fiction from the late 19th and early 20th Century England. The hero in this one is Roger Sloane, a well-off American bon vivant who decides to blow the whistle on a gang of transplanted American gangsters who have abandoned New York and set up a sophisticated crime syndicate on the French Riviera and in Monaco. Robbery, murder, secret hideouts, fast cars, and beautiful women all figure in this tale of roaring 20s. Roger meets a wild and beautiful child of the hills, Jeannine, who reappears as the protege of his Aunt, and the belle of the casino.

Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey

Riders of the Purple Sage is Zane Greys best-known novel. Originally published in 1912, it was one of the earliest works of Western fiction and played a significant role in popularizing that genre. The story uses a third person narrator to tell the story from the point of view of two main characters Bern Venter and Jane Withersteen and a few minor characters. Jane Withersteen, Mormon-born Utah native, goes against her church when she befriends a young Gentile rider, Venters. He is trailing the mysterious Masked Rider through the Old West. Both Venters and a notorious gunman named Lassiter bring adventure, intrigue, and romance to the Withersteen ranch. The story is also somewhat complex, with several plots unfolding that eventually come together at the end of the story, and conveniently leave open the certainty of a sequel.

In den Schluchten des Balkan

Karl May

Kara Ben Nemsi und sein Gefährte Hadschi Halef jagen den Verbrechern nun in Osteuropa nach. Dabei begegnen sie einem alten Bekannten, den sie aber nicht erkennen. Unterwegs kommt es zu zahlreichen Begegnungen mit allerlei düsteren Gestalten, die die Schluchten des Balkan bevölkern und entweder Schmuggler sind oder zur Bande des Schut gehören. Aber es gibt auch Männer wie den bärenstarken Schimin, den Schmied, der Kara Ben Nemsi ein treuer Bundesgenosse im Kampf gegen Banditen wie Boschak, den Färber und Bäcker, Saban, den Bettler, Mübarek, den seltsamen Heiligen, oder Busra, den Krüppel, wird. Die Verbrecher sind ihnen immer wieder einen Schritt voraus. Zwar gelangen die gesuchten Verbrecher schließlich in die Hände ihrer Verfolger, doch sind noch lange nicht alle Rätsel gelöst...

Am Rio de la Plata

Karl May

Karl May war einer der produktivsten Autoren von Abenteuerromanen. Er zählt seit mehr als 100 Jahren zu den meistgelesenen Schriftstellern der Welt und der deutschen Sprache. Am Rio de la Plata beginnt für den Erzähler das Südamerika-Abenteuer. In einem von Revolutionen zerrissenen Land bringt ihm seine Ähnlichkeit mit einem dortigen Parteigänger prompt erste Verwicklungen. Ein Geheimnis zieht ihn ins Landesinnere von Argentinien, wo er dem Revolutionär Lopez Jordan begegnet. Die vorliegende Erzählung spielt Anfang der 70er-Jahre des 19. Jahrhunderts. Am Rio de la Plata wird fortgesetzt in Band 13 In den Kordilleren. Ein typischer Karl May!

Orli Szpon. Opowieść dla młodzieży o pierwszym Polaku wśród Indian amerykańskich

Bolesław Zieliński

Bolesław Zieliński stworzył wciągające powieści dla młodzieży opowiadające o losach pierwszego Polaka wśród Indian amerykańskich. Orli Szpon to historia Marka Zebrzydowskiego, który na skutek prześladowań religijnych w XVII wieku opuszcza Polskę. Trafia do Ameryki, gdzie próbuje ułożyć od nowa swoje życie. Po licznych perypetiach odnajduje szczęście u boku pewnej Indianki.

The Eye of Osiris

R. Austin Freeman

The Eye of Osiris, published in 1911, was the second of R. Austin Freemans many Dr. Thorndyke mystery novels. Here the great expert in medical jurisprudence will encounter the mysteries of ancient Egypt without ever leaving London. The cast of characters is rich in Egyptologists. A wealthy old man, John Bellingham, collector of Egyptian antiquities, has disappeared without a trace. His brother is also an Egyptologist, as is his niece and the lawyer who executed his will. Circumstances strongly suggest that the old man is dead, and innocent people may be accused of murder. Happily Dr. Thorndyke gets involved quite by chance. The plot is tremendously clever, and the denouement a total surprise. The great strength of the novel lies in the plotting which is ingenious enough and complicated enough to satisfy any fan of the puzzle-style of mystery story.

Między ustami a brzegiem pucharu

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Berlin, przełom XIX i XX wieku. Hrabia Wentzel młody arystokrata z Prus, w którego żyłach płynie polska krew zakochuje się w dumnej i pięknej dziewczynie z Wielkopolski, Jadwidze Chrząstkowskiej. Zdesperowany mężczyzna wszelkimi sposobami stara się podbić serce pięknej Jadwigi. Na przeszkodzie stoi nie tylko narzeczony panny, lecz także niewygodne pochodzenie. Przypadek zrządza, ze Wentzel ratuje dziewczynę napastowaną na ulicy przez pijanego barona Wertheima. Mimo pomocy Jadwiga nie chce się z nim spotkać. Ale hrabia łatwo nie daje za wygraną... Między ustami a brzegiem pucharu to ciekawa i wciągająca od pierwszego akapitu lektura.

Two on a Tower. A Romance

Thomas Hardy

The novel "Two on a Tower" is one of the most famous works of the author. An atmospheric, dynamic story throws the characters at the disposal of forces far beyond their control. Lady Viviet, violating all the rules of decency, falls in love with Cleve, who is not only below her in social status, but also the youngest by 10 years. In an ancient monument turned into an astronomical tower, the heroes create their own universe ...

Dogs of the Captain

Max Brand

When the character of Cole Lavery first appeared in the 1940s, readers immediately fell in love with this, which had a surprising smile and a quick gun. And, for the first time in a soft cover, all the stories of Cole Lavery were accumulated in one volume. The events in the book are continuously moving from one adventure to the next, when Cole bites with river pirates and the notorious gangster and unfair robber the baron; as he travels to California on a train infected with a donkey; and how he seeks to achieve the land and freedom that can be found only in the American West.

The Aspern Papers

Henry James

The Aspern Papers is one of the masterpieces of the writers small prose, the plots of which are based on the collision of European and American cultural consciousness, the point of view of an individual and social stereotypes, the book perception of the world and individual experience. The tragicomic search by the hapless biographer of the lost letters of the great poet is the conflict of this story.

The Mystery of Cloomber

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mystery of the Cloomber unfolds, revealing Heathstones war crime against a Buddhist priest. Narrated by John Fothergill West, a Scottish man, who moves from Edinburgh to Wigtownshire to care for the family estate when his fathers half brother dies. Near the estate is The Cloomber Hall, for years uninhabited, but now the residence of John Berthier Heatherstone, a general of the Indian Army. General Heatherstone is nervous to the point of being paranoid. As the story unfolds, it becomes evident that his fears are connected with some people in India whom he has offended somehow. Every year his paranoia reaches its climax. After some time there is a shipwreck in the bay and among the survivors are three Buddhist priests who had boarded the ship from Kurrachee. When John Fothergill West tells the general (to whose daughter Gabriel he is engaged) about the priests, he resigns himself to his fate and refuses any help from West.

Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum

Jules Verne

Deux villes sont construites sur Gokol, propriété de Googum, veuve du plus riche rajah indien, en Amérique, en Oregon, létat de largent, la belle Francesville et le sinistre Stalstadt. Le souverain de Stalstadt, le misanthrope Schulze, rve de détruire Franseville et son fondateur, le Dr Sarazen, et commence se préparer la guerre.

The Eyes of Max Carrados

Ernest Bramah

Short mysteries involving the blind detective Carrados. Max Carrados is one of the most unusual detectives in all fiction. He is blind and yet he has developed his other faculties to such an amazing degree that they more than compensate for his lack of sight. The Eyes of Max Carrados opens with a somewhat defensive essay which chronicles astonishing feats of the blind. Carrados himself outdoes them all and perhaps combines a few too many amazing abilities for real conviction. Here is a collection of the best of Max Carrados, a set of stories featuring a series of baffling puzzles to challenge the greatest of detectives. They are written by Ernest Bramah with great wit, style and panache.

Homo Sum

Georg Ebers, Clara Bell

Georg Ebers was one of the first who decided to popularize Egyptian knowledge through historical novels. So, for example, the Historical novel Homo sum is dedicated to the birth of the institution of monasticism in the depths of the Christian communities of Egypt and Syria. Unlike other novels of Georg Ebers, in this we find the life and customs of the Egyptian people. This novel is not inferior to others, even surpasses the knowledge of the people of Egypt.