Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

The most popular pirate story ever written in English, featuring one of literatures most beloved bad guys, Treasure Island has been happily devoured by several generations of boysand girlsand grownups. Its unforgettable characters include: young Jim Hawkins, who finds himself owner of a map to Treasure Island, where the fabled pirate booty is buried; honest Captain Smollett, heroic Dr. Livesey, and the good-hearted but obtuse Squire Trelawney, who help Jim on his quest for the treasure; the frightening Blind Pew, double-dealing Israel Hands, and seemingly mad Ben Gunn, buccaneers of varying shades of menace; and, of course, garrulous, affable, ambiguous Long John Silver, who is one moment a friendly, laughing, one-legged sea-cook...and the next a dangerous pirate leader!

Did She Fall?

Thorne Smith

This early work by Thorne Smith was originally published in 1930. James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American author who specialized in supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. Did She Fall? (1930) is a straight murder mystery whose dialogue shows occasional traces of Smiths wisecracking energy. Americas bawdiest, wittiest writer turns his talents to a startling novel of murder, suspense and brilliant detection. Welcome to the Crewe house, where it is one for all and all for one. Unless, of course, you are the beautiful blonde, Emily-Jane. When she was bad, she was very, very bad, and when she was good, she was luscious until somebody killed her, or did she fall? So many would-be murderers, but only one would get to her first. Who will win out in the end?

The Adventures of Mr. Joseph P. Gray

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Joseph P. Cray is an American manufacturer who has just completed a year serving coffee to the troops in France during World War 1. He is motivated by good will, and also to escape his American second wife who is the head of a temperance organization. With sybaritic glee, he returns to London, dons civilian garb, and enjoys his first cocktail. He is soon joined by his daughter, the beautiful Lady Sara Sittingbourne, who lives in London. Together the two seek adventure in the form of crimes foiled, jewels recovered, spies uncovered, and plots smashed. Edward Phillips Oppenheim was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

The tongues of London high society gossips begin to wag when John Harmon --a young man whose inheritance depended on his marrying a woman he had never met-- is found dead in the River Thames. The fortune passes into the hands of the working-class Boffins, who take into their new home both Bella Wilfer (Harmons would-be bride), and a mysterious secretary known as Rokesmith. Meanwhile, Lizzie Hexam, the daughter of the boatman suspected of Harmons murder, is pursued by two suitors: obsessive and self-righteous Bradley Headstone and roguish and lethargic Eugene Wrayburn. Our Mutual Friend is one of the most sophisticated and sadly the last novel by Charles Dickens with a rare combination of social insight and psychological analysis.The main focus of the novel is on the significance of money in an individuals life but also stresses on the fact that one should never ignore human values in the face of money.

The Republic

Plato

Plato was the first Western philosopher to apply philosophy to politics. His ideas on, for example, the nature and value of justice, and the relationship between justice and politics, have been extraordinarily influential. The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. Presented as a series of dialogue between Socrates and Platos brothers Adeimantus and Glaucon, in eleven parts Plato step by step forms his ideal state, its rulers, their education, womens position and the position of art and poetry in the new state. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by philosopher kings. And if you examine carefully, you will see the truth of many of his view points, especially those relating to imperfect societies.

Children of the Wind

M.P. Shiel

M.P. Shiel is a British writer of West Indian descent. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances, published as serials, novels, and as short stories. Children of the Wind adventure set in South Central Africa. A lost race novel. An English scientist learns that the White Queen of the Wa-Ngwanyas is his own cousin and heiress to a fortune of which she is being kept in ignorance. There are tribal warfare including biological warfare, lesbianism, and vibrant plotting a full-blooded story done in Shiel s fabulously refreshing style written after a ten-year hiatus. Highly recommended!

O duchu praw

Monteskiusz

O duchu praw to najważniejsze dzieło Monteskiusza, wybitnego myśliciela i pisarza doby oświecenia. Składa się ono z trzydziestu jeden ksiąg, w których autor dokonał analizy znanych ówcześnie form ustrojowych, wydzielając monarchię, despotię i republikę. Wiele miejsca konieczności podziału władzy, popularyzując w ten sposób trójpodział władzy na władzę ustawodawczą, wykonawczą i sądowniczą.

That Affair Next Door

Anna Katharine Green

That Affair Next Door focuses on a mysterious murder that has occurred in a quiet neighborhood, incidentally in the house next door to the home of the curious middle-aged amateur sleuth Miss Butterworth. One night around midnight Miss Butterworth sees a man and woman enter the Van Burnam mansion, which is supposed to be empty. The man leaves soon after, but the woman does not. On the following day, Miss Butterworth and a policeman find the body of a woman crushed to death under a cabinet in the parlor. There are way too many coincidences to be realistic, but the competitive sleuthing of Miss Butterworth and Detective Gryce keep the story moving along with seemingly definitive evidence pulling the reader to believe one person after another must be the actual murderer.

Old Firehand

Karl May

Old Firehand ist ein Frühwerk Karl Mays. 1875 veröffentlicht der junge Schriftsteller Karl May seine ersten Abenteuer, die er im Wilden Westen ansiedelt. Die Erzählung Old Firehand ein klassisches Racheabenteuer a la May bietet schon alle klassischen Helden auf: den edlen Apachen Winnetou, die kauzigen Trapper Sam Hawkens, Dick Stone und Will Parker sowie einen Ich-Erzähler, der starke Züge des Shatterhand trägt. Interessant zu sehen, wie diese unsere alten Bekannten in der Frühzeit waren...

Some Short Stories

Henry James

Some Stories by Henry James is a small collection of tales. The best story is considered Brooksmith, about a butler who descends into the depths when the master dies, whom he apparently forced to serve. After that, The Real Thing is published about an emaciated couple desperately trying to find a way to make a living.

Nieoswojone ptaki

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Bohaterką Nieoswojonych ptaków jest dwudziestodwuletnia Tola. Dziewczyna pochodzi ze wsi, gdzie trafiła po śmierci rodziców jeszcze jako niemowlę. Została tam wychowana przez stryja, Kazimierza Łużyckiego. Opiekun całkowicie odizolował ją od ludzi. Doprowadził do tego, że dziewczynka zwyczajnie boi się obcych. Mijają lata. Tola wyrasta na bardzo piękną młodą kobietę. Pewnego dnia dziewczyna poznaje niesamowicie przystojnego malarza Jana Stankara. Zakochuje się w nim od pierwszego wejrzenia. Tymczasem swojej niechęci w kwestii tej znajomości nie kryje Kazimierz Łużycki. Kiedy Tola oznajmia stryjowi, iż chce wyjść za Jana za mąż, ten po prostu ją wydziedzicza. Młodzi małżonkowie wyjeżdżają do Warszawy. W stolicy Tola przeżywa koszmar. Mąż przestaje być szybko tym ukochanym mężczyzną, za którego wyszła za mąż. Nie ma weny twórczej. Za wszelkie niepowodzenia zawodowe obwinia Tolę. Gdy rodzi im się córka, jest jeszcze gorzej. Małżonkowie żyją na skraju ubóstwa. Ostatecznie Jan, nie mogąc dłużej znieść niekomfortowej dla siebie sytuacji, opuszcza rodzinę. Wyjeżdża do Paryża, gdzie ma nadzieję odnaleźć chęć do pracy. Natomiast Tola coraz częściej zaczyna myśleć o śmierci...

Le Triangle dor

Maurice Leblanc

Ici Arsene Lupin nest pas juste lhomme, il est un héros, qui a sauvé lamour. De la premiere la derniere page le lecteur attend un gentleman-cambrioleur pour jeter la lumiere sur ce qui se passe. Et Apres il sexclame: Oh! Cest évidemment! . Une histoire intrigante, laquelle faire se réfléchir la conséquence que peut apporter lavidité. De temps en temps les gens peuvent faire des choses terribles pour largent...

The Mysterious Three

William Le Queux

We all got up from tea in the hall, made our way to the drawing-room, and thence into the morning-room, which opened out of it. There was plenty of daylight still. James came in after us, and went straight up to a framed panel portrait which stood with others on a small table in a remote corner. It showed a tall handsome, clean-shaved man of three or four and thirty, of fine physique, seated astride a chair, his arms folded across the back of the chair as he faced the camera.

A Queen of Atlantis. A Romance of the Caribbean

Frank Aubrey

There is a long tradition among the romances of the 19th and early 20th century of the lost race novel concerning explorers who stumble onto a culture exists hidden from the outside world. A Queen of Atlantis: A Romance of the Caribbean is a novel among the most famous lost race novels written by Frank Aubrey. This story relates the discovery of a telepathic race living in the Sargasso Sea. A wonderful tale of the mythical continent, told with outstanding imaginative ingenuity, chronicling the adventures of the near-immortal Monella. Most desirable, all the expected thrills of an Atlantean thriller plus some: flying damsels; immortals; a satisfying variety of monsters including the frightful shape, with its maddening leer and its blood-curdling scream that welcomes us to the book.

The Countess of Lowndes Square and Other Stories

E.F. Benson

A collection of fourteen short stories. These are stories about blackmail and own experiments. Some stories may seem close. Thus, the stories will be read in one breath. Since the reader will perceive them with interest. A hint is attached to each story, but you will have to solve some problems yourself.

Jimgrim

Talbot Mundy

There is a good belief that journalists can do exactly as they like and whenever they like. The fun with purple eyes was in Chicago. My passport describes me as a journalist. My employer said, Go to Jerusalem, and I went, it was in 1920. I was there several times before the start of World War II, when the Turks were in control. Therefore, I knew about the bugs and the stench of the citadel moose; pre-war price of camels; it is enough Arabic to speak freely and sufficiently of the Old Testament and the Quran to guess Arabic motives, which important words and things like lies.