Red Eve

H. Rider Haggard

Haggard wrote the story Red Eve in six months. In it, we meet Sir Hugh de Cressi, the son of a merchant who is in love with Eve. She, too, is in love with him, but a traitor knight Sir Edmund Acour is caring for her. He realizes that he cannot conquer her feelings and gives her a potion. The result is that she did marry him. But how long will this potion act? Unlike other stories, where events are developing in Africa, here readers will be able to travel around Europe.

Black Hound of Death

Robert E. Howard

Some such thoughts flitted vaguely through my mind that night as I groped along the narrow trail that wound through the deep pinelands. Such thoughts are likely to keep company with any man who dares invade, in the night, that lonely stretch of densely timbered river-country which the black people call Egypt, for some obscurely racial reason.

Orchids to Murder

Hulbert Footner

Amos Lee Mappin is a great detective. A sad man came to him asking him to find his granddaughter, Mary Stannard. The detective soon discovers that she has stood up her wedding party. Mappin found several strands and many clues through which he can find Mary.

Poezje. Wybór

Adam Mickiewicz

Wybór Poezji wieszcza narodowego pokazuje go nie tylko jako twórcę wielkich dzieł na czele z Dziadami, lecz także jako autora znakomitych krótkich form poetyckich. Mickiewicz debiutował wierszem Zima miejska na łamach Tygodnika Wileńskiego w 1818 r. Ten najwcześniejszy okres twórczości zwykło się określać mianem okresu wileńsko-kowieńskiego. Trwał on do 1824 r. Poeta głosił wówczas sceptycyzm poznawczy i wolę racjonalnego poznania. Wynika z tego, że osobowość i światopogląd młodego Mickiewicza podobnie jak zresztą młodego Słowackiego dorastały w uwielbieniu literatury klasycznej. W 1820 r. poeta opublikował Odę do młodości utwór przynależący jeszcze do poetyki postklasycyzmu, ale wyłamujący się z ideałów oświecenia. Oda nawoływała do czynnej walki, wyrażała wiarę w moc rewolucyjnego przekształcania rzeczywistości, siłę młodości i zbiorowości. W 1822 r. Mickiewicz wydał zbiór Ballad i romansów uznawany powszechnie za dzieło oficjalnie rozpoczynające epokę romantyzmu w Polsce. Sporo kontrowersji wywołała otwierająca cykl ballada Romantyczność, która szokowała współczesnych śmiałym przedłożeniem ludowości nad postęp cywilizacyjny, kreacją nowego typu wzoru moralnego (młoda wiejska dziewczyna zdradzająca skrajną nierównowagę emocjonalną) oraz dość jednostronnie odczytywaną krytyką ówczesnego autorytetu naukowego.

The Death-Doctor. Being the Remarkable Confessions of Archibald More DEscombe, M.D. of Kensington, London, Selected by Laurence Lanner-Brown, M.D

William Le Queux

Some year and a half ago, my friend and erstwhile neighbour. Dr. Archibald More dEscombe, died suddenly, and shortly after his decease I received from his solicitors a sealed packet addressed to me in his handwriting, with instructions that it was not to be opened until after his death.

Les Quarante-cinq

Alexandre Dumas pere

Les Quarante-cinq est le troisieme tome de la trilogie des Guerres de Religion dAlexandre Dumas. La période historique décrite est fascinante, style du romancier est comme toujours intrigant, Dumas veut tout décrire et tout montrer. Henri III est le roi treize ans apres le bain de sang de la Saint-Barthélemy en une triste année de 1585. Il est le roi dans une France plus que jamais écartelée par les conflits religieux. Le destin de la France tient parfois un fil capricieux...

The Orator

Edgar Wallace

This decent collection presents short stories that include The Mind-Readers, The Sirius Man, The Couper Buckle, and many more stories featuring Chief Inspector Oliver Rater, written by a famous British author Edgar Wallace.? ne of the stories are told in the third person, but one is told by Rater himself, which is unexpected. The stories are fast-paced with some surprising twists, well written and great to read but definitely a product of their time and place. One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives. He provides a thrill of another sort!

Nędznicy

Victor Hugo

Powieść Wiktora Hugo Nędznicy stanowi panoramę społeczeństwa francuskiego XIX wieku oraz wykładnię poglądów autora na kwestie sprawiedliwego porządku społecznego, walki z nędzą i wykluczeniem. W powieści przenikają się wątki fabularne przygodowe, obyczajowe, kryminalne oraz eseistyczne dygresje o charakterze filozoficznym i historycznym, w których Hugo zawiera swój program polityczny i społeczny.

The Crook in Crimson

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace is continuing to introduce readers to Mr. J. G. Reeder, one of the least glamorous of all fictional detectives. Mr. J. G. Reeder is neither a police detective nor an amateur crime-fighter, nor is he a private detective. In fact he is employed by the Bank of England, and acts as a kind of consultant to Scotland Yard. This is vintage Wallace, with no great depths but a good deal of humor and plenty of engaging goings-on along Wallaces beloved Thames. Wallace was a British author who is best known for creating King Kong. Wallace was a very prolific writer despite his sudden death at age 56. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays.

Loves Labours Lost

William Shakespeare

King of Navarra, Ferdinand, with three close associates, vows to spend three years in an unceasing study of scholarly works. In the name of science, the monarch vows to limit himself in sleep and food, as well as spend the entire long term without communicating with women. Ferdinand is sure that only mortification of the flesh can lead to significant discoveries and conclusions. The king issues a decree that prohibits women from approaching the palace in fear of cutting off their tongues, and the courtiers to look for their unworthy society.

Sherlock Holmes. Z Tajnych Akt Światowej Sławy Detektywa. Tom 37: Ostatnia ofiara bożka

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Sherlock Holmes to jeden z tych bohaterów popkultury, którego nikomu przedstawiać nie trzeba. Ostatnia ofiara bożka to jedno z wielu nieautoryzowanych przez Arthura Conan Doylea opowiadań o przygodach legendarnego londyńskiego detektywa i jego ucznia Harryego Taxona. Holmes rozwiązuje kryminalną zagadkę, nie tylko wykorzystując swoje niezwykłe talenty w dziedzinie dedukcji i szeroką wiedzę z zakresu chemii i psychologii, lecz także bezpośrednio stawiając czoła przemocy przy użyciu... pięści. Zagadkowe morderstwa, tajemnicze zaginięcia, zuchwałe kradzieże sprawiają, że czytelnik poczuje, że jest otoczony przez wszechogarniające zło.

The Terror and Other Stories

Edgar Wallace

The master mystery-story teller presents a collection of short stories that include The Terror and many more. A group of criminals carry out a daring robbery of an armored van. Two of the criminals are betrayed by the mastermind of the operation. After ten years in prison they come out and search for the man behind the crimes who betrayed them. This genuine mystery story takes the reader from one exciting adventure to another with all the adroitness and ingenuity of Mr. Wallaces previous successful books. One is left gasping with suspense as the many clues are unraveled only to be followed by others still more stubborn. Edgar Wallace provides a thrill of another sort!

Red Aces

Edgar Wallace

J. G. Reeder is a shabby little man with red hair and weak eyes. However, his extraordinary mind is rapier sharp. Red Aces is the fourth and last of Edgar Wallaces JG Reeder books, featuring the diffident sleuth with the furled umbrella in three novelette-length adventures. Here are three thrilling episodes torn from his casebook: Red Aces about a man who gambles high and lives in fear; Kennedy the Con Man, reveals the impeccable mask stripped from a fiend, and finally The Case of Jo Attymer, a thoroughly intriguing mystery involving murder on Londons Thames. This is vintage Wallace, with no great depths but a good deal of humor and plenty of engaging goings-on along Wallaces beloved Thames.

The Fur Bringers

Hulbert Footner

The historicity of this story captivated everyone. After all, it gives a feeling of a sense of thinking and adventure of that time. A young free fur trader challenges the practices of the North West Company trader who is cheating the Natives of proper prices and enslaving them with debt for goods. Here, not only sinister characters, rebellion and accusations, but also love stories unfold against the backdrop of all this.

Behind a Mask. Or, A Womans Power

Louisa May Alcott

Originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard. Louisa May Alcotts novel of romance and sexual intrigue is one of her lesser-known gems. Behind a Mask, or A Woman Power is a controversial novella; its tone and characterizations strike a markedly different chord from her best-known works, such as Little Women and Little Men. The plot of the novella is focused upon Jean Muir, who works as a governess for one of the rich families of Coventry to their sixteen-year-old daughter. She employs intrigues and manipulation to gain success in the society, starting from the family she works for. But is the beguiling Miss Muir all that she seems to be? Alcott beautifully delivers a sick and twisted tale of a woman and her arts. She put a completely new spin on Victorian literature, which could only be accomplished in American.

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

This is one of the most uplifting of Dickenss novels. This book is certainly different from all the other books by Charles Dickens as it has no particular central character. Well all the other novels by Dickens have a strong connection with London but this story depicts Coketown and Coketown only, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. Hard Times is a very tragic and wonderfully described story of human oppression. Dickenss brilliant use of characterization can be seen in high form here and as always, his naming of his storys populace is entertaining by itself.