Cymbeline

William Shakespeare

There are two main lines: the story of the lovers of Postum and Imogen and the story of lost and found royal sons. All this, like a silver frame, is framed by sufferings, oaths of loyalty, amazing coincidences and other tasty Shakespearean curlicues. Postum was simply naive and blind, like most of the heroes of Shakespeare. And Imogen, in my opinion one of the most intelligent and clever heroines of him.

Le Crime de lord Arthur Savile

Oscar Wilde

Le personnage principal Arthur un personnage tres contrasté. Des les premieres pages, il donne limpression dun jeune homme décent, beau et instruit. Cependant, une rencontre avec voyante de rue détruit completement cette image. En entendant la terrible prédiction concernant le meurtre quil doit commettre, Lord Arthur perd son visage humain de maniere irréversible. Planifiant un meurtre de leurs parents de sang-froid, le jeune homme ne souffre pas de conscience, ne tourmente pas les doutes

The Just Men of Cordova

Edgar Wallace

There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot redress. The three friends, Pioccart, Manfred and Gonsalez, may be enjoying the exotic, Spanish city of Cordova with its heat and Moorish influences, but they are still committed to employing their intellect and cunning to dispense justice. In The Just Men of Cordova, written in 1917, the just men move into the treacherous, aristocratic world of gambling, horse-racing and high finance. It seems that police services, even governments, have no power to control this world, where blackmail, poison and murder are commonplace. The just men, working outside the law, take it upon themselves to clean things up in their own way.

Mrs. William Jones and Bill

Edgar Wallace

This mystery collection, written by British author Edgar Wallace, contains the following works: Mrs. William Jones and Bill, The Adventures of George, According to Freud, Bondage, The Society of Bright Young People, The King and the Editor, Christmas Presents. Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include The Four Just Men, Sanders of the River, and J. G. Reeder. Although Wallace wrote many stand alone novels it is, perhaps, for his series based material-always popular with readers-that he remains best known. He was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era.

Im Reiche des silbernen Löwen. Band IIV

Karl May

Im Reiche des silbernen Löwen besteht aus vier Bänden. Die Handlung beginnt unmittelbar nach dem Tod Winnetous. Old Shatterhand reitet zu den Apachen. Unterwegs rettet er einen Perser Dschafar Mirza aus der Gewalt der Komantschen. Einige Zeit später trifft er im Orient als Kara Ben Nemsi seinen Hadschi Halef und nimmt ihn mit auf eine Reise nach Persien. Auf dieser Reise erleben und überleben sie viele Abenteuer.

The Town of Tombarel

William J. Locke

This is a late set of long stories that are read at the pace of a narrator who is in no hurry. Similarly, Locke does not tell his story to the great storyteller, an English artist named Charles Fontenay, who lives for health in the south of France in Cannes, often tells his usual storyteller, whose stories he reports, Monsieur Alcide Tombarelle, mayor of Creel Mountain City, to speed up or stop being distracted.

Von Bagdad nach Stambul

Karl May

Von Bagdad nach Stambul ist ein Abenteuerroman von Karl May. Von Bagdad nach Stambul zieht sich der Reiseweg unserer Helden. In der Nähe der persischen Grenze treffen die Gefährten auf einen Turkmenen-Stamm, welcher die Bebbeh-Kurden überfallen will, werden dann aber zuerst angegriffen. Kara Ben Nemsi mit seinen Freunden kann aber entkommen. Wenig später werden sie wieder von den Bebbeh-Kurden angegriffen, nehmen aber deren Scheik Gasahl Gaboya als Geisel. Dies gefällt Mohammed Emin, dem Scheik der Haddedihn, gar nicht und wendet sich von Kara Ben Nemsi ab. Scheik Mohammed Emin stirbt bei einem Kurden-Überfall, sein Sohn trennt sich von den Reisegefährten, um die Täter zu verfolgen. Im Pesthauch der Todeskarawane werden Kara Ben Nemsi und Halef von schwerer Krankheit befallen und erreichen Damaskus. Bei den Ruinen von Baalbek begegnen sie einem alten Widersacher. Spannungsgeladenes und ereignisreiches Reise-Abenteuer von Karl May.

Guy Mannering. or The Astrologer

Walter Scott

The young educated gentleman Guy Mannering, after leaving Oxford, is travelling alone through some of the wilder parts of Scotland. After losing his way at nightfall, he is directed to Ellangowan, the home of Mr Godfrey Bertram at the time of the birth of Henry Bertram. By request of the father of a newborn baby, Guy made a horoscope in which the child was predetermined the ordeals from the fifth to the twenty-first years of life. The most incredible adventures are waiting for Henry and his family adventure, in which not only money is at stake but life and honor of all old family. Everything that makes a story good is included in this one: mystery, romance, adventure, danger, conspiracy, pirates, mad old gypsy women, dashing heroes, misunderstandings, murders, kidnapping, mistaken identity, good-hearted country folk, heroines both persecuted and steadfast, and crowning it all that inimitable humor that colors all of Scotts writing.

Poszukiwacze skarbu

Edith Nesbit

Poszukiwacze skarbu to pierwszy tom z cyklu Rodziny Bastablów Edith Nesbit. Opowiada o losach sześciorga dzieci, osieroconych przez matkę, które na skutek niepowodzeń w interesach ojca popadają w biedę. Ich marzeniem jest odnalezienie skarbu, dzięki któremu mogliby znowu beztrosko żyć. Ciekawy zabieg narracyjny nadaje powieści dodatkowych walorów.

Latarnik

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Skawiński, polski emigrant polityczny, przybywa w latach 70. XIX wieku do Aspinwall. Ma tu objąć posadę latarnika. Jest zmęczony życiem, które obfitowało w przygody. Walczył w wielu wojnach i powstaniach, m.in. w powstaniu listopadowym w Polsce i wojnie secesyjnej. Podejmował się też wielu zawodów, był m.in. harpunnikiem, poszukiwaczem diamentów, prowadził fabrykę cygar. Wszystkie te stanowiska tracił w tajemniczych okolicznościach, sam sobie tłumaczył to prześladującym go pechem. W końcu zaczął szukać miejsca, gdzie na dobre mógłby się osiedlić. Wybrał Aspinwall i latarnię morską, gdzie rozpoczął ciche, spokojne życie jako latarnik. Pewnego dnia oprócz zapasów żywności otrzymał paczkę z książkami z Polski. Podczas lektury zapomniał o tym, gdzie jest. W końcu zapadł w mocny sen o Polsce. Następnego ranka otrzymał wiadomość, że przez jego zaniedbanie rozbiła się łódź...

The Courts of the Morning

John Buchan

Although this book was listed in a collection of Richard Hannay stories, Hannay makes only a brief appearance at the beginning. Begins in the pleasant atmosphere of a country house in the Scottish borders, where Richard Hannay is the guest of his old friend, Sandy Arbuthnot. The action is set in Olifa, a fictional country on the west coast of South America. When Sandy Arbuthnots friend John Blenkiron discover that a charismatic industrial tycoon is plotting to rule the world from his base in the small South American country of Olifa, Sandy leads a revolution to scuttle the plot and allow the Olifans to decide their own fate. As it turns out, these events are only the prelude to a dramatic series of adventures which take place against the backdrop of a small South American Republic that has fallen under the spell of a ruthless Dictator.

The Midnight Guest. A Detective Story

Fred M. White

Another story where readers must solve the riddle: who is the killer. The main task: to solve who killed a fictitious famous artist Louis Delahay. Some say its his wife. But the clues in his past, they will help to identify the real offender.

Stracone zachody miłości

William Shakespeare

Król krainy Nawarry postanawia zaprowadzić w swoim królestwie niezwykłe, rygorystyczne porządki. Podejmuje zobowiązanie, że zrezygnuje z wszelkich rozrywek i towarzystwa kobiet. Sytuacja ulega diametralnej zmianie wraz z pojawieniem się francuskiej księżniczki w otoczeniu dworu. Komediowe wydarzenia pokażą, jak jej obecność wpłynie na realizację królewskich zamierzeń.

The Seed of Empire

Fred M. White

Fred M. White wrote a story on a historical basis. Belgium is just a pawn in a game of chess, in which Germany has played continuously for the last 40 years. And now England was waiting. Black Monday was overtaken. Germany violated its solemn promise to Belgium, and England was at war with Germany, and the greatest conflict in the history of the world began.

The Mesmerists Victim

Alexandre Dumas

Set in Paris during the French Revolution, The Mesmerists Victim tells the story of two star-crossed lovers whose romance blooms at an extremely inopportune moment in European history. Will they be able to find happiness together, or will they be swallowed up in the tumult of radical political and social change? The Mesmerists Victim is the second in Dumas fictional series on the French Revolution. The story continues the tale where Memoirs of a Physician left off. This is the second in Dumas series on the retelling of the French Revolution. Alexandre Dumas was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages. His historical novels include The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Corsican Brothers, and The Man in the Iron Mask.

A House of Pomegranates

Oscar Wilde

A House of Pomegranates is the second collection of fairy tales by the brilliant writer, master of European aesthetics Oscar Wilde, author of the novel Portrait of Dorian Gray, plays Salome, Fan Lady Windermere and Ideal Husband, letters of confession De profundis, and also numerous short stories, short stories, poems and essays about art. The text is published in two languages, which allows you to fully appreciate the unique originality of the works belonging to the pen of one of the most sophisticated British writers and stylists.