Trzej muszkieterowie

Aleksander Dumas ojciec

Najsłynniejsza powieść płaszcza i szpady, której bohaterami są muszkieterowie Atos, Portos i Aramis oraz pretendent do służby królowi dArtagnan. W wyniku nieporozumienia najpierw walczą między sobą. Łączy ich odwaga, męstwo i prawość. Mając wspólny cel i walcząc o słuszną sprawę, stają się braćmi broni. Razem przeżywają wiele emocjonujących przygód i bronią słabszych przed chciwym kardynałem Richelieu. Wspaniała opowieść o przyjaźni i odwadze.

Greatheart

Ethel M. Dell

First published in 1918. Ethel M. Dell was an English writer of popular romance novels. You will find some fascinating glimpses of the period in her books, as well as a substantial dose of romance and adventure. There were two of them as unlike as two men could be. Sir Eustace, big, domineering, haughty, used to sweeping all before him with the power of his personality. The other was Stumpy, small, insignificant, quiet, with a little limp. They clashed over the greatest question that may come to men the love of a girl. This story opens in a pleasing resort in the Swiss Alps, the heroine is sweet and charmingly naive. Did she choose wisely? Is Greatheart more to be desired than great riches? The answer is the most vivid and charming story that Ethel M. Dell has written in a long time.

The Missionary

George Griffiths

In the epicenter of events, the main character and his bright faith, as well as the book he wrote. Many of the books in the collection have not been produced for decades, and therefore the writers book was not available to the general public. The goal of the publishing program is to facilitate quick access to this huge reservoir of literature. This is a significant literary work that deserves to return to the press in many decades.

The Carter Girls of Carter House

Emma Speed Sampson

Written for young girls, this is book 4 in The Carter Girls Series by Emma Speed Sampson. Sampson, using the name of her sister Nell Speed, wrote 4 titles in the Molly Brown series after her sisters death in 1913. She also wrote several volumes including the Carter Girls series and the Tucker Twins before she began publishing works under her own name. The Carter Girls of Carter House is a good, clean book full of the antics of a family working together to solve their financial woes in a very creative way. The girls are creative, daring, dramatic, and pure fun! As usual with Sampsons writing, the story is characterized with a contagious work ethic, ambition, cheerfulness, and entrepreneurial endeavors. She shines in the realm of attitudes toward hardship.

Pałac i rudera

Bolesław Prus

Tematem utworu Pałac i rudera są tragiczne losy ludzkie, spowodowane w znacznej części zderzeniem z wczesnokapitalistyczną gospodarką. Zachodzące zjawiska społeczno-gospodarcze Prus poddaje wnikliwej ocenie i analizie. Ukazuje jałowość życia zamkniętego w swoim świecie ziemiaństwa.

Pan burmistrz z Pipidówki. Powieść z życia autonomicznego Galicji

Michał Bałucki

Doskonała satyra opisująca codzienne życie w XIX-wiecznym galicyjskim miasteczku. Autor obnażył w niej między innymi to, jak nieumiejętnie podchodzono wtedy do wywalczonej wolności. W żartobliwy sposób przedstawia też przyczyny zacofania w Galicji krakowskiej.

Pamiętnik egotysty

Stendhal

Powieść autobiograficzna. Książka pełna przemyśleń autora i jego wewnętrznych dialogów. Stendhal na sobie dokonuje szczegółowej psychoanalizy. Stawia pytania, a odpowiedzi na nie zawierają ocenę nie tylko jego dotychczasowego życia, ale też sytuacji politycznej kraju.

The Lion and the Lamb

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This is another great novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers and spy novels, and who wrote over a 100 of them. David Newberry is released from Wandsworth prison having served a year for burglary. He was briefly a member of The Lambs, a London gang run by Tottie Green, with the help of the beautiful, coarse, but alluring Belle. Vowing revenge, Newberry buys a gym and assembles and trains a crew of willing fighters using the techniques of Juiy Jitsu which he learned from Asians while in Australia. Oppenheim provides a mystery of another sort!

The Dorrington Deed Box

Arthur Morrison

English writer Morrison chronicles the exploits of Horace Dorrington, a raconteur and scoundrel who hails from a very different social strata than the typical Victorian detective. Mr. Dorrington himself is a marvelous creation, charming and with no moral scruples whatsoever, clever, and entirely devoted to achieving as great a profit for himself as possible if this involves doing some honest detection, that is fine if it involved extorting the criminal instead of turning him over to the police, no problem, if it involves having the client murdered well, some things cant be helped. There are six short stories in this collection which begins with The Narrative of Mr. James Rigby. Definitely fun and recommended for readers who want to explore the darker side of Victorian detective stories.

Young Lord Stranleigh

Robert Barr

If you have interest in finance, mining and sailing which is largely centered around those 3 topics in this novel, you are welcome! Young Lord Stranleigh is a thrilling tale of romance and suspense by Robert Barr. Some very sharp City of London operators think that rich Lord Stranleigh, a Bertie Woosterish West End fashion plate, is an easy mark to make some money. There is a potential gold mine in Africa, for example; a dilapidated but workable cargo steamer The Rajah, to haul the gold ore back to England. What more is needed? An entertaining yarn of dealing, double dealing and even triple dealing, and young Lord Stranleigh is by no means as big a mug as he looks. Suspenseful and full of character, this tale is a must for Barr fans.

Profesor Wilczur

Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz

Dalsze losy bohatera powieści Znachor profesora Rafała Wilczura, wybitnego warszawskiego chirurga. Po kilkunastu latach pracy jako wiejski znachor bohater ponownie zostaje naczelnym lekarzem renomowanej stołecznej kliniki. Nie wszystkich jednak cieszy jego powrót. Doktor Dobraniecki, który przez lata nieobecności profesora pełnił jego funkcję, czuje się zagrożony. Prowadzi zakulisową walkę z Wilczurem. Kiedy dochodzi do niezawinionej przez nikogo śmierci pacjenta, którego operował Wilczur, rozpętuje przeciwko swemu zwierzchnikowi nagonkę prasową. Rozgoryczony i załamany profesor ponownie tym razem już w pełni świadomie opuszcza Warszawę. Wraca do wioski, w której spędził ostatnie lata i znów jak dawniej leczy biednych ludzi. Razem z Wilczurem osiedla się tam zakochana w nim młoda lekarka Łucja... Czy życie z dala od wielkomiejskich intryg stanie się dla Rafała Wilczura skutecznym lekiem na jego depresję i pozwoli mu odnaleźć utracony sens życia? Profesor Wilczur to znakomita sensacyjno-obyczajowa historia z wątkami miłosnymi.

Souvenirs de la maison des morts

Fiodor M. Dostoevski

Souvenirs de la maison des morts lun des premiers ouvrages documentaires décrivant la gravité de la vie dans le camp. La base de Souvenirs de la maison des morts formait les souvenirs personnels de Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoievski, qui, apres sa condamnation dans le cas des Petrashevites, avait consacré quatre ans de sa vie aux travaux forcés. Gryachnikov a été condamné a dix ans de travaux forcés pour le meurtre de sa femme. Il réside dans une colonie située dans une petite ville sibérienne.

Short Stories. 18961922

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery, called Maud by family and friends and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. Montgomery published some 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems before her death in 1942. Because many of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, Canada and the Canadian province became literary landmarks. She was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. This book contains Lucy Maud Montgomerys short stories from the year 1896 to 1922. This great collection is full of her usual assortment of quirky, down-home, loyal, and loveable characters with honest and heart-warming stories.

The Black Flame

Stanley G. Weinbaum

When The Black Flame was first published in 1939, Stanley G. Weinbaum had already been dead for three years. This novel contains of two short novels: Dawn of Flame and The Black Flame. Both are very similar stories, the reason for that is that Weinbaum had not released the first one and reworked it into the longer second part. The story itself is a weird SciFi love story set in a very distant future. Mankind had nearly become extinct, but recovers to a good number by the help of scientists who also discover the secret of stopping people from aging and dieing.

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoes The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (aka Moll Flanders) details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll Flanders drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief before her crimes catch up with her, and she is transported to the colony of Virginia in the New World. The bawdy story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoes themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption, reward and womans struggle for independence.

Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Weil ihr seine Gedichte nicht gefallen, entläßt der Londoner Geschäftsmann Thornton Lyne seine Angestellte Odette Riders fristlos. Kurze Zeit später liegt Thornton erschossen im Gras des Hyde Parks, einen Strauß gelber Narzissen in den Händen... Das Attentat auf den millionenschweren Kaufhaus-Besitzer Thornton Lyne ist der Beginn einer Reihe von bizarren Morden. Jedes Mal hinterließ der Täter einen Strauß gelber Narzissen am Ort des schrecklichen Geschehens. Der Privatdetektiv Jack Tarling soll Scotland Yard unterstützen...