Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 10). Ród Rodrigandów. Benito Juarez

Karol May

Na losy bohaterów znanych z sagi rodu Rodrigandów wpłynie tym razem światowa polityka. Konflikt pomiędzy Benito Juarezem a cesarzem Maksymilianem Habsburgiem zaowocuje cesarskim dekretem skazującym na śmierć każdego zwolennika Juareza. Bohaterowie pomogą Juarezowi nie dopuścić do egzekucji kilkudziesięciu republikanów. Lecz nie jest to ostateczne zwycięstwo w tym starciu.

Tales of Fishes

Zane Grey

Zane Gray is best known as a fishing writer for wild adventure catching giants of the world record in oceans around the world. He published a collection of stories about individual places and types of fish. Fish tales are a great collection of stories that cover the most popular types of fish found in salt water. These are turtles, sailboats, marlins, swordfish and tuna. This is a perfect example for the shade of appetite of every fisherman. Zane Gray was one of Americas most productive and beloved writers. Being most famous for his Western novels, he actually spent more than 300 days a year on fishing.

Rain in the Doorway

Thorne Smith

Who hasnt waited for a ride in the pouring rain and wondered if there wasnt something more to life? This is exactly how we find poor Mr. Owen, hopeless and downtrodden, wet and miserable. Suddenly, he is swept in through a doorway to a place full of wild imaginations, where loneliness and unfulfilled dreams are a thing of the past. It is the story an adulteresss husband who embarks on inebriated adventures with his various partners and a girl who works in a pornographic books department. A fantastic thread of plot, plenty of wise cracks, and plenty of sex run riot through its pages. Those who have read and enjoyed Smiths work will love Rain in the Doorway, an entertaining and risqué tale of forbidden love and compromising situations.

To Win the Love He Sought

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This third novel by Oppenheim was published in 1895. It was originally published under the title A Daughter of the Marionis and was reprinted several times. The story of a vendetta, makes a capital plot for the novelist who takes characters from Southern life for his story, and in Margharita, a daughter of the Marionis, we have a not impossible character. She does not appear till late in the story, but takes up the vendetta of her uncle with a will. Marionis himself is a fine figure, and the scene when, having been let out of prison an old man, he seeks to resume his scheme of vengeance, and visits the degenerate committee of the White Hyacinth Society is full of stern pathos. The struggle Margharita has between love and hatred is also well described, and the interest in the story is never allowed to flag, and it continues absorbing to the end.

The Light of Western Stars

Zane Grey

Madeline Hammond wanted more out of life than the superficial glitter of New York society. So she bought a ranch near the turbulent Mexican frontier and ended up getting more than shed ever bargained for-and most of it trouble! She has a lot to learn about running a ranch in frontier New Mexico, but there is no question in her mind that she has to intervene when Gene Stewart, a cowhand who risked his life to save her honor, is scheduled to be hanged. And Madeline Hammond rode into the lawless wilds of Mexico in a desperate bid for his life and the love she had suddenly discovered! A surprising climax brings the story to a delightful close.

Silvertips Roundup

Max Brand

No writer captured the excitement, humanity, or adventure of the American West better than Max Brand. ""Silvertips Roundup"" is and Old Western tale of adventure told by Max Brand, one of Americas favorite Western writers. Brand tells the story of the legendary Arizona Jim ""Silvertip"" Silver, who shoots fast, stays cook, and brings to justice killers and thieves who make a habit of taking the law into their own hands. No criminal was safe from Silvertips brilliant mind and reckless courage. But now Silvertip met his match in Barry Christian, a dangerous and cunning renegade who recognized no laws but the ones he imposed on helpless men and women ...

Morning Star

H. Rider Haggard

The whole story revolves around a strong woman, the great queen of Egypt Neter-Tua, the daughter of the God Amen-Ra. She must overcome many difficulties: the murder of her father and the conspiracies of her uncle. Having overcome these difficulties, she will finally be able to rule Egypt and marry her adoptive brother, Rames. This story combines fantasy and romance, divine and human.

History of King Richard the Third of England

Jacob Abbott

Richard 3 went down in history as a great king. He was the last king from the House of York. Jacob Abbott remembers historical events from an impartial point of view. His text not only covers Richard III, but details events of his brother Edward IVs life, plus various other major individuals involved with the War of the Roses.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

Honoré de Balzac

Monsieur Guillaume is a draper in Paris. He owns his shop, La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote and took the business over from his master, also marrying the daughter. Guillaume is the very portrait of the successful bourgeois. He has three clerks apprenticed to him, the first of whom, Joseph, is an orphan he intends to marry to his elder daughter Virginie. However, Joseph is in love with the younger daughter Augustine but Augustine is in love with a successful artist Théodore. How will all this turn out? At the Sign of the Cat and Racket is a short novel by Honoré de Balzac. It was first published in 1830, but the story takes place about two decades earlier. It is one of the earliest pieces Balzac wrote for inclusion in his Comédie Humaine, the collection of 91 interconnected writings in which he documents the entire scope of French society in the early 19th century.

The Lady With The Dog and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

No, this is not a banal story about a resort romance. Spiritually, her heroes escaped beyond the boundaries of the nineteenth century, but are forced to live in its choking conditions and foundations. The stands that will soon be brought down by World War I with an explosion of revolution. In the meantime, two loving hearts are torn in a world in which they will never be together.

An Eye for an Eye

William Le Queux

An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, which states that some Jews in Eastern Europe took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1,000 concentration camps in Poland for German civilians. The book provides details of the imprisonment of 200,000 Germans many of them starved, beaten and tortured and estimates that more than 60,000 died at the hands of a largely Jewish-run security organisation.

But w butonierce

Bruno Jasieński

But w butonierce. Poezje futurystyczne to tom wierszy Brunona Jasieńskiego z 1921 roku. Stanowi sztandarowe dzieło futuryzmu awangardowego nurtu zrywającego z tradycyjnym postrzeganiem twórczości. Futuryzm miał swoje ulubione tematy, takie jak miasto, cywilizacja, postęp, kultura masowa, a także tworzył charakterystyczne dla siebie rozwiązania formalne, wykorzystujące zabawę słowem czy konwencję antyestetyzmu.

La Comédie humaine. Volume IV. Scenes de la vie privée. Tome IV

Honoré de Balzac

"La Fausse maîtresse" est une histoire dHonoré de Balzac et fait partie de son cycle "La Comédie humaine", dans lequel Balzac dépeint et se moque de la société française pendant la Restauration et la monarchie de Juillet. Lintrigue de lhistoire est déroutante et sa véritable explication reste un mystere jusqu la fin du livre. Albert Savarus le travail est une sorte denseignement. Malgré le vif désir, il est nécessaire de prendre en compte les intérts et les opinions dune autre personne. Rosalie sen moquait, voulait atteindre ce quelle voulait tout prix.

The Wooden Horse

Hugh Walpole

A magnificent classic tale of family life at a former age. The wooden horse is the story of the Trojans, a family that calmly accepted the belief that they were people for whom the world was created. But when Harry Troyan returned home twenty years later in New Zealand, with the democracy that he learned by working with his hands, he was a wooden horse who boldly carried an army of alien ideals into the walls of Troyan, which made a group of people out of this selfish family, satisfied with themselves.

The Gallows of Chance

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Believe it or not, here is an Oppenheim story without a single scene laid in Monte Carlo. And high time, too, for that lode, profitable as it no doubt has been, has shown signs, of petering out. The entire action of this novel takes place in England, and most of the characters, with the exception of a few detectives, belong to the upper classes. Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers. He wrote more than 100 novels between 1887 and 1943. The Gallows of Chance was first published in 1933.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young widow who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behavior becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shocking details of her past.