The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

Herbert George Wells

What happens when science tampers with nature? Mr. Bensington and Mr. Redwood create a new food material, Herakleophorbia, later called Boomfood, they hope will have beneficial uses to mankind. They come up with a substance that causes flora, fauna, and people to become giants. At first, there are giant nettles, mushrooms but then it ramps up, with giant rats that can take down and eat horses and wasps so large one could hear them half a mile off. In the end it becomes a tragedy: several hundred children around the world had been given this food of the gods and grow to a height of around forty feet. The first giant babies are revealed and for the first time humanity has to contend with the existence of a new race of giant people. How humanity deals with this shocking new creation is revealed in The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth.

Envoy Extraordinary

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Ronald, Count Matsertser, was a world traveler and amateur. After several years of travel, he returns to his Norfolian estates, which deals with hunting, research and espionage in Africa and Asia. His treasures are huge, but his heart is empty. One night, a mysterious mercenary attacks him directly behind the gate of his estate.

Witch Wood

John Buchan

John Buchans own favourite among his novels, in which he dealt with the hypocrisy which can lie close to the surface of apparently god-fearing respectability. The story is set in the Scottish Borders during the civil war and the main character is the new young minister in a small village. The minister wrestles with his own christian faith as opposed to the severe presbyterianism of the Kirk and also has to deal with a pagan coven, a wounded soldier from Montroses defeated army as well as falling in love. The story itself is breathlessly exciting a real page-turner and Buchans characters really live, from the young minister David, with his gradual disillusionment with the Kirk he is pledged to serve to the grace and gaiety of Buchans most attractive and well drawn heroine, Katrine Yester.

Записки из мертвого дома (Wspomnienia z domu umarłych)

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fiodor Michajłowicz Dostojewski

Очерки «Записки из Мертвого дома» Достоевский писал после возвращения из каторги. Они представляют собой уникальный документ, где находятся рассказы о судьбах реальных заключенных, с которыми писатель сталкивался на каторжных работах, множество характерных поговорок и выражений, услышанных им из уст арестантов и солдат. Перед читателем открывается мир, где насилие над человеческой личностью принимает привычный, повседневный характер. Это история о судьбах отверженных, виновных и невинных, убийц и контрабандистов, лихих воров и интеллигентных фальшивомонетчиков, дворян и крестьян... И в тоже время это глубокое философское произведение, главной идеей которого выступает Свобода как необходимое условие человеческого существования.

Najlepsze żarty o Chucku Norrisie

Praca zbiorowa

Chuck Norris ma w dorobku kilkadziesiąt ról w filmach i serialach telewizyjnych, a także sześć tytułów mistrza świata w karate. Znany jest jednak przede wszystkim jako bohater absurdalnych dowcipów. W książeczce znalazło się 100 najlepszych dowcipów poświęconych temu amerykańskiemu aktorowi i mistrzowi sztuk walki.

One Nights Mystery. A Novel

May Agnes Fleming

The Secret of One Night tells about the life and love of three young women: Cyril Hendrick, daughter of a handsome, beggar, bastard; her best friend Sidney Owenson, a naive heiress; and Dolly De Courcy, an energetic actress. Both Cyril and Sidney are engaged, although everything is not as it seems in any case. Sydneys gold miner is stupefied by Dolly, and Cyril is satisfied with her aunt, whom Cyril calls the most humble, vicious old woman on earth. The Secret of One Night in the title refers to the disappearance of the groom Sidney the day before her wedding, but did he run away with Dolly or was he killed?

Nick Carter. Najsławniejszy detektyw Ameryki. Tom 2. Salon gry w Bowery

anonimowy

Czym Nick Carter zasłużył na tytuł najsławniejszego detektywa Ameryki? Prowadzący podwójne życie prywatny detektyw z niezrównanym zapałem tropi niebezpiecznych przestępców, aby oczyścić Amerykę z plugastwa i zbrodni, czym zaskarbia sobie wdzięczność społeczeństwa. Postać Nicka Cartera rzeczywiście osiągnęła wielką sławę, pojawiając się w filmach na całym świecie, radiu i komiksach.

The Mysterious Rider

Zane Grey

Readers with a taste for classic Westerns will appreciate this storys spirited, well-drawn characters and its evocative descriptions of the frontiers natural beauty. Hell-Bent Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. The plot centers around this young woman, an orphan named Columbine, who is entrapped by her allegiances into considering marriage to the drunkard son of her adopted father. Columbine is torn between her feelings of duty and affection for the old man, who raised her as his own child, and her blossoming love for a young ranch hand, Wilson Moore. Columbines dilemma seems impossible to resolve until tragedy, fate, and the mysterious rider intervene.

Jimgrim and Allahs Peace

Talbot Mundy

El Qudz so the Arabs call Jerusalem, somewhere elsewhere called Shalabi Cabir. This is a very beautiful city located on the hill. El Quds is translated as the City of Peace, and this is what it is for millions of people. Many religions, many races, many disguised politicians disguised as plans to save human souls from hell and fill the wallet of some people.

History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt

Jacob Abbott

This is not just a story, but a biography of Cleopatra, an evil woman who studies the effect of poison on her prisoners, and the lover of the art of seduction.Wars and conflicts are highlighted, making an intriguing story. Cleopatra should be included in the list of the most sinister people in the world. Because of it, two nations could be destroyed. All these events are described in detail in the book.

Blitzkrieg in the Past

David Wright OBrien

After a short, dumpy bald-headed guy in civvies installs an invention a time transfer device in a tank that proceeds into the Georgia wilderness on maneuvers, a lightning bolt send the tank and its three operators backward in time. Shortly afterward they notice a single three-toes dinosaur footprint and disturbingly they hear the bloodthirsty scream of a very strange bird. Blitzkrieg in the Past is a science fiction from American fantasy and science fiction writer David Wright OBrien. He had more than fifty-seven stories published in pulp magazines like Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures, most of them written under the different pen names.

Monsieur Lecoq

Émile Gaboriau

Deux cadavres dans la premiere page, troisieme dans la suivante... Sans doutes, ce sont les meurtres violentes: pistolet et poison sont les instruments. Monsieur Lecoq est vraiment le grand chef-duvre de son pere, Emile Gaboriau, qui est un peintre authentique de lépoque du Second Empire. Lauteur nous entraîne voyage dans le temps pour découvrir cet anctre des polars, un complot entre deux familles et une énigme passionnante qui simpose par lanalyse psychologique et la dimension historique.

Król Ryszard III. Tragedia w 5 aktach

William Shakespeare

Kronika życia potępianego przez wielu króla angielskiego Ryszarda III, stanowiącego przez długie wieki ucieleśnienie wszelkiego zła. Szekspir podzielił ten pogląd, przypisując swemu bohaterowi liczne zbrodnie i przedstawiając go w najczarniejszych barwach. Uzasadniał w ten sposób jego obalenie i przejęcie władzy przez kolejną dynastię Tudorów, którzy władali Anglią w kolejnych wiekach.

John Cornelius. His Life and Adventures

Hugh Walpole

This is a story about the life of a genius who has only dreams. But really make dreams a reality? After all, this is not a fantasy world. Walpole wrote mainly about a character whose life was never very real, and who could not find happiness, except in strange moments because of this abyss between him and the world. Walpoles romantic flights have a realistic break to temper them.

Towarzysze Jehudy. Sprzysiężeni

Aleksander Dumas ojciec

Powieść historyczno-przygodowa opowiadająca historię szlachcica o pseudonimie Morgan, który przewodzi tajnemu stowarzyszeniu Towarzyszy Jehudy. Ich celem jest restauracja monarchii Burbonów we Francji i obalenie rządu Napoleona Bonapartego. Porucznik Roland Ludwig de Montrevela zostaje delegowany z misją rozpoznania i zniszczenia wrogiego Napoleonowi stowarzyszenia. W tle przewrót historyczny we Francji. Fantastyczny wątek miłosny Morgana i Amelii, siostry Rolanda.

Fables

Robert Louis Stevenson

These are fables in many there is morality, others clearly contain moralizing. However, fables are not only literary interest. This is a beautiful, filigree prose. The author defined the fable genre very broadly as a combination of elements of a story about dreams with a moralizing allegory.