The Garden of Vision

Elizabeth Louisa Moresby

The Garden of Vision (1929) is a story of Japanese Zen Buddhism and martial arts situated in Britain and Japan in the 1920s. The chief character is an English woman who joins the school. L. Adams Beck was one of the pen-names of Elizabeth Louisa Moresby, a Canadian writer who wrote most of her 30 books in the last 10 years of her life. She was also known as Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck and Lily Moresby Adams. She was a staunch Buddhist and strict vegetarian, highly critical of the materialism of the West. Her works include The Ninth Vibration (1922), Dreams and Delights (1922), The Perfume of the Rainbow (1923) and others.

Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 11). Ród Rodrigandów. Traper Sępi Dziób

Karol May

Kolejny tom przygód w scenerii westernu z cyklu o rodzie Rodrigandów. Niebezpieczne wydarzenia rozgrywają się w Meksyku. Tytułowy traper Sępi Dziób udaremnia zasadzkę na lorda Drydena, raniąc przy tym dotkliwie przywódcę bandy. Ten jednak uchodzi z życiem. Wydarzenia przenoszą się do hacjendy del Erina, odbitej w poprzednim tomie z rąk bandy przez naszych bohaterów i Indian Miksteków.

Almayers Folly. A Story of an Eastern River

Joseph Conrad

Almayer is a European by nature who never lived in Europe. He has to marry the adoptive Malay daughter of another European, who promises Almayer a rich life. But the European does not keep his word. The main character gets depressed. But the story revolves around the stupidity of Almayers life and the stupidity of Europeans, who believe that they are superior to others.

Anne of the Island

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling Anne of Green Gables. This book tells the story of Anne Shirleys and her friends college years. As the security of home and childhood comforts fade, each must face the trials of being on their own. The novel kicks off when Anne decides to pursue her dream of a higher education, and subsequently leaves her two year teaching position at the school in Avonlea and begins her studies at Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her BA. A novel depicting the inevitable process of growing up, Anne of the Island is a perfect illustration of the challenging and sometimes awkward moments we all go through to achieve our full potential in life.

Doctor Therne

H. Rider Haggard

Therne is a young budding doctor who has experienced many tragedies. He is unfairly accused of abuse of office, he loses all his patients, even if he is acquitted, and later suffers from the loss of his young wife. Being a staunch supporter of vaccination, he is running for parliament on a platform against vaccination, selling his convictions and morality political gain and dirty gain. The author of most of his story attaches vaccination, which should help humanity.

Rodeo

B.M. Bower

Claude Kid Bennett is a young man starting to carve a place for himself in the world. His mom wants him to go to college and earn his M. D., but his dad thinks he could turn the boy into a useful man if hed stay on the Montana ranch, and learn to work hard. Kid gets a thorn under his saddle and sets out with his three horses to a six day rodeo in Chicago. Along the way he meets J.N. Harlan, and his free-spoken daughter Dulcie who is a Chicago businessman with plenty of pull. Trailblazing female Western writer Bertha Muzzy Bower wrote a series of pulse-pounding novels about the grizzled vaqueros and cowpokes who populated the Flying U Ranch.

Potop

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Potop to druga z trzech powieści historycznych będących częścią Trylogii Henryka Sienkiewicza. Akcja utworu rozgrywa się w latach 16551657 w okresie potopu szwedzkiego. W powieści przeplata się wątek walk polsko-szwedzkich z historią miłosną Andrzeja Kmicica i Oleńki Billewiczówny. Zaręczony z Oleńką Billewiczówną chorąży orszański Andrzej Kmicic opowiada się początkowo po stronie kolaborującego ze Szwedami potężnego rodu magnackiego Radziwiłłów. Uznany przez szlachtę i narzeczoną za zdrajcę, zaczyna poniewczasie rozumieć, że Radziwiłłom chodzi nie o dobro ojczyzny, lecz o własne interesy. Aby odkupić winy, pod przybranym nazwiskiem Babinicz bierze udział w obronie Jasnej Góry, własną piersią osłania króla Jana Kazimierza przed wrogami i bohatersko walczy z nieprzyjacielem.

Star Begotten

Herbert George Wells

The story centers on Joseph Davis, a popular writer of romanticized histories, who comes to believe that some people differ fundamentally from most of us. They are more rational, possibly more talented and intelligent. His wife has increasingly become a stranger, the imminent birth of his first child has left him in a panicked state, and his rosy-tinted histories have lately begun to strike him as so much bosh. And then he overhears a conversation at his Planetarium Club, in which several of the learned members discuss the possibility of mankinds increasing intelligence being the result of the cosmic rays that are constantly bombarding us. That is what Davis and two of his cronies, obstetrician Holdman Stedding and philosophy professor Ernest Keppel, endeavor to riddle out, in this thoroughly engaging and passionate piece of work.

The Cattle-Barons Daughter

Harold Bindloss

The basis of the plot is the inherent love of people of the upper and lower class. So our heroes had such love. Larry Grant works on a farm and he realizes that he falls in love with the daughter of a baron. Our main character has a worthy contender, but unfair. After all, he is also a baron and wants to lure the girl with his wealth, stating that he can give her more. Our main character will give real courageous resistance.

Green Ginger

Arthur Morrison

Green Ginger is one of the humorous story from mixed collection of sixteen short stories by the author of the Martin Hewitt, Investigator series. Collects several mysteries, including a Cunning Murrell tale, also The Seller of Hate, a deal-with-the-Devil story, and The Chamber of Light, a humorous ghost story of psychic investigator driving the poor spectres to distraction. The stories are well written and definitely a product of their time and place. Arthur George Morrison, a famous English writer, journalist and author of mystery genre, is also known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in Londons East End, A Child of the Jago being the best known.

Kroniki włoskie

Stendhal

Zbiór opowiadań, dla których inspiracją były stare włoskie manuskrypty znalezione przez autora podczas konsulatury. Opowieści zawarte w Kronikach włoskich pełne są namiętności, przemocy, mroku i renesansowego klimatu. Bohaterkami zbioru są kobiety, które przeżywają wewnętrzne rozterki, a w ich losy wpisują się romantyczne uniesienia i tragicznie zdarzenia.

The Old Man in the Corner

Emmuska Orczy

The late nineteenth and early twentienth century were a fecund period for classical mystery writers. Among the most popular was Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Old Man in the Corner contains twelve of the stories by Baroness Orczy featuring the mysterious man who sits in the corner of the ABC tea shop fiddling with a piece of string whilst working our the solutions to crimes that have baffled the police. Each case is unfolded during the course of a conversation between the man in the corner and a lady journalist, an ingenious method that avoids the necessity of a clumsy tacked-on explanation of the crime. Relying solely on his vast Holmesian powers of deduction, the strange looking sleuth never deigns to visit the scene of the crime, question a suspect, or examine clues. Nor does he have much faith in conventional police methods and crime solving capabilities.

Dave Dashaway around the World. Or a Young Yankee Aviator among Many Nations

Roy Rockwood

Weldon J. Cobb was a staff writer for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book packaging company that specialized in juvenile fiction. Under the pseudonym Roy Rockwood, Cobb authored the Dave Dashaway series of books that appeared between the years 1913 and 1915. In the tradition of the Bobbsey Twins and the Hardy Boys, Dave Dashaway continues to explore new horizons and to stay one step ahead of his nemesis! In this fourth volume of the series, Dave Dashaway and his friends are off on a race around the world. What heroic adventures will they find this time? An absorbing tale of a great air flight around the world, of adventures in Alaska, Siberia and elsewhere. A nostalgic picture of how the imaginations of children in the early twentieth century anticipated the accomplishments of the future.

Kazania sejmowe

Piotr Skarga

Utwór publicystyczny napisany przez polskiego jezuitę Piotra Skargę w 1597 r. Zawiera osiem kazań, które nie zostały nigdy wygłoszone. Zawierają najważniejsze postulaty dotyczące reformy państwa, skierowane są przeciw ideom reformacyjnym. Osiem Kazań sejmowych to osiem rozdziałów rozprawy politycznej o najważniejszych niedomaganiach Rzeczypospolitej (trawionej przez liczne choroby) i o sposobach ich przezwyciężenia.

Three Thousand Dollars

Anna Katharine Green

This short story revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the confines of Mr. Stoughtons business concern. Mr. Stoughton is the owner of a legendary vault that no one has ever been able to open. Though he cant be sure that the safe contains anything valuable, speculation is rampant among those who know of its existence. Will anyone ever be able to find out what the vault holds? Find out in this fast-paced mystery story from Anna Katharine Green. This is classic Green, with lots of high drama and a twisting, many-layered plot turning on stubbornly kept secrets and the fine points of physical and circumstantial evidence.

Nach Amerika!. Band IVI

Friedrich Gerstäcker

Friedrich Gerstäcker wurde am 10.05.1816 in Hamburg geboren. 1837 wanderte er nach Amerika aus, wo er ein abwechslungsreiches und abenteuerliches Leben als Matrose, Heizer, Jager, Farmer, Koch, Silberschmied, Holzfaller, Fabrikant und Hotelier fuhrte. Nach einigen Jahren jedoch führte ihn sein Weg zurück nach Deutschland, wo er seine Erfahrungen, die er im fremden Land gemacht hatte, niederschrieb und sehr schnell zu einem beliebten Autor avancierte. In den darauffolgenden Jahren unternahm er weitere Reisen, unter anderem nach Afrika, Südamerika und in die Goldsucher-Regionen rund um Kalifornien. Dieses Buch in sechs Bänden ist eine Auswanderersaga und erzählt vom Leben der Neuankömmlinge in Amerika. In seiner unnachahmlichen Art erzählt der deutsche Reiseschriftstellers von seinen Erlebnissen in der neuen Welt.