The War in the Air

Herbert George Wells

Bert Smallways is the unlikely protagonist, a kind of Edwardian Mod, not interested in a steady career, always looking for a good time, riding his proto-scooter down to Brighton at the weekends. When Bert is accidentally scooped up by a German fleet, on its way to launch a surprise attack on the United States, he finds himself with a front row seat to the greatest war that has ever been the war in the air! This new war is to be a different sort of war than all the wars that came before it, unprecedented in its ferocity and destructiveness. The art of war has completely changed with the coming of airplanes, which the author very eloquently brings out. The War in the Air is a story of the awful devastation following a conflict between two first-class powers with the resources of the air at their command. It is one of the most brilliant and successful of Mr. Wellss studies in futurity.

Over the Border. A Romance

Robert Barr

Over The Border: A Romance written by Robert Barr who was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist. This book was published in 1903. Robert Barr (16 September 1849 21 October 1912) wrote more than 20 novels. Among the more estimable are The victors (New York, 1901), about metropolitan politics, and The mutable many (New York and London, 1896), which focused on an industrial strike. Both had a distinctively realistic basis, and both were written more objectively and less floridly than was Barrs habit. A number of novels also had a Canadian setting. In the midst of alarms (Philadelphia, 1893) was a comic treatment of the 1866 Fenian invasion; as a teenager Barr had joined volunteers in St. Thomas in anticipation of such a disturbance. The measure of the rule (London, 1907) was a satiric romance about his experiences at the Toronto Normal School.

Firebrand Trevison

Charles Alden Seltzer, Charles Alden Seltzer

Charles Alden Seltzer was one of 20th century Americas most prolific authors, and his specialty was Westerns that were so popular in the country in the decades after the frontier had been completely settled. In addition to the books he wrote, Seltzer would have a role in dozens of films as well, making him one of the most instrumental figures in the genre. "Firebrand Trevison is a story about a ranch owner who runs afoul of a land grabber, both of whom are in love with the same girl, the daughter of a railroad owner. Firebrand Trevison is a different kind of cowboy. He stands up for what he believes in despite the law. When Corrigan tries to swindle all the local homesteaders from their land its Treviston who saves the day. Twists and turns in the plot keeps the reader guessing.

The Ear in the Wall

Arthur B. Reeve

The scientific detective known as the American Sherlock Holmes pursues a ruthless arch villain in this high-stakes suspense novel. The Exploits of Elaine is a collection of short stories about a beautiful young woman Elaine, whos father was murdered by the mysterious gang leader The Clutching Hand, and who is subsequently terrorized by him and his gang. Using the latest advances in forensic science, the professor Craig Kennedy and his loyal sidekick, newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, uncover the exotic and deadly scheme behind the murders. But when the Clutching Hand and his band of evildoers kidnap Elaine, Kennedy must shed his lab coat and leap into action before its too late.

The Admirable Carfew

Edgar Wallace

Carfew was an erratic genius, with a horror of anything that had the appearance of discipline, order, or conventional method. So it was with some luck that there was a train disaster while he was working in the newspaper office of The Megaphone. He was dispatched to the scene and came back triumphant: The Spaniard is a fake! shouted Carfew. He had forgotten all about the railway accident. Shortly thereafter, so would his editor. The Admirable Carfew is a collection of loosely linked short stories. The slowly developing fortunes of a young entrepreneur, trying his hand at various deals, from stock dealing to theatre ownership and just managing to scrap through.

Ferragus. Chief of the Devorants

Honoré de Balzac

Ferragus is an 1833 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the Scenes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. It is part of his trilogy Histoire des treize: Ferragus is the first part, the second is La Duchesse de Langeais and the third is The Girl with the Golden Eyes. A captivating story about human emotions and relations, set in the year 1820. Balzac narrates the tale of a man who suspects his wife of infidelity. He shows how relationships can suffer through miscommunication. Balzac proves himself as an author above par by his insightful exploration of the fear of social failure and the way it defines and governs the pattern of human life. A classic tale loved by many for generations, a great addition to the collection.

Plays

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Chekhov extracts from his everyday life the themes of frustration that apply to all of us the difficulty of creating a happy existence, problems of love, the extinction of hope. His pyems are full of tragedy. The theme of the suffering of the current generation. While he hopes the next generation will have a better life. In almost all the plays there is an alcoholic, unrequited love, unhappy marriage, people are irresponsible financially.

Found Dead

Fred M. White

Found Dead is the story of Sir John Mortmain, who was a bum. He was a rich man, owning one of the best estates in North Devon. He was also one of the best novlist in his early years and almost made a name for himself. In a sense, he was quite popular, and yet there was a strange sensation of the abyss between him and the locals.

Ojciec Goriot

Honoriusz Balzak

Powieść Ojciec Goriot jest powszechnie uznawana za najważniejsze dokonanie Balzaka. Jej akcja rozgrywa się w Paryżu w 1819 r. Ukazuje losy trzech bohaterów: zaślepionego miłością do swoich córek starca Goriot, tajemniczego kryminalisty ukrywającego się jako Vautrin i naiwnego studenta prawa, Eugeniusza Rastignaka. W pensjonacie mieszczącym się przy paryskiej ulicy Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve mieszkają student prawa Eugeniusz de Rastignac, tajemniczy propagandzista Vautrin i emerytowany producent makaronu Jan Joachim Goriot. Ten ostatni często pada ofiarą żartów ze strony innych mieszkańców pensjonatu, którzy szybko odkrywają, że zbankrutował on, by wesprzeć swoje dwie dobrze wydane za mąż córki. Rastignaka, który przeprowadził się do Paryża z południa Francji, pociąga klasa wyższa. Ma problemy z dopasowaniem się do niej, ale jest prowadzony przez swoją kuzynkę, wicehrabinę Madame de Beauséant. Rastignac zdobywa względy jednej z córek Goriota, Delfiny de Nucingen. W międzyczasie Vautrin próbuje przekonać go do zdobycia panny Wiktoryny Taillefer, której dostęp do rodzinnej fortuny blokuje jedynie brat. Proponuje Rastignakowi otwarcie drogi przez zabicie brata w pojedynku. Rastignac odmawia wzięcia udziału w realizacji planu, ale wysłuchuje lekcji Vautrina na temat wyższej warstwy. Wkrótce potem mieszkańcy pensjonatu odkrywają, że Vautrin to poszukiwany przez policję mistrz zbrodni znany jako Ołży-Śmierć. Goriot, przeciwny tyrańskiej kontroli, jaką mąż sprawuje nad jedną z jego córek, Delfiną, sprzyja zainteresowanemu nią Rastignakowi...

The Spy. A Tale of the Neutral Ground

James Fenimore Cooper

Inspired by accusations of venality leveled at the men who captured Major Andre (Benedict Arnolds co-conspirator, executed for espionage in 1780), Coopers novel centers on Harry Birch, a common man wrongly suspected by well-born Patriots of being a spy for the British. Even George Washington, who supports Birch, misreads the man, and when Washington offers him payment for information vital to the Patriots cause, Birch scorns the money and asserts that his action were motivated not by financial reward, but by his devotion to the fight for independence. Peopled with memorable characters, some of them real life heroes like George Washington, The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper is a great blend of fact and historical fiction, constructed on a magnificent scale.

The Return of Bulldog Drummond

H.C. McNeile

A stranger comes to the house of detective Hugh Bulldog Drummond asking for help. Hugh is always ready to get down to business. However, two overseers abruptly appear, asking about a man named Morris, the famous assassin who escaped from Dartmoor. The detective says that they are looking for the wrong man and helps the criminal to hide. So who is this stranger?

The Wolf-Leader

Alexandre Dumas

During the absolutism in France, the young clog-maker Thibaudt has a deep desire to belong to the aristocracy. One day he saves the life of a wolf, who fled from the baron Jean de Vez and his hunting party. A while later Thibaudt imagine his amazement: the wolf transformed himself into a human and offers him a pact. The wolf promises to grant Thibaults wishes in exchange for a hair on his head. As Thibault wishes harm upon more and more people, the hairs on his head become red and wiry. Thibaults life only gets worse, however; he is able to take revenge on his enemies, but the villagers suspect him to be a werewolf. The Wolf-Leader, a novel by Alexandre Dumas, was originally published in 1857. In the lengthy but entertaining introduction, Dumas explains that the novel is based on folktales he grew up hearing in his hometown of Villers-Cotterts. This particular tale was told to him by a gamekeeper who often took him hunting as a young man. The novel contains elements of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, yet it times is also quite comic.

Ursula

Honoré de Balzac

Ursula novel is one of the pillars of the Scenes of Provincial Life section of Honoré de Balzacs story cycle The Human Comedy. Through a series of tragedies and coincidences, a kind and pious teenager named Ursula has been taken in by an octogenarian wealthy doctor, Denis Minoret. Inspired by Ursulas goodness, Minoret decides to make her his chief heir. This incites the ire of his other relatives, and a ruthless war for Minorets estate breaks out. In this book Balzac examines the manners and morals in the French provinces and penetratingly depicts the small-mindedness, avarice, and envy of the provincial lower middle classes. In Ursula, no limitations based on morality or decency will hold these people back in their effort to acquire wealth and influence.

In New York with the Tucker Twins

Emma Speed Sampson

In New York with the Tucker Twins is a sixth book in the Tucker Twins series, written by an American author of juvenile fiction and a movie censor Emma Speed Sampson and published between 1915 and 1924. Nominally its a boarding school series, but actually only two of the books are set at school. Our heroine is 15 year-old Page Allison, a doctors daughter, raised in a rural Virginia community where she has no companionship with girls her own age. On her way to school for the first time, she meets the Tucker family, a set of twins nicknamed Dee and Dum who will be her best friends, and their startlingly young and sprightly widowed father. In it, Page Allison and the Tucker Twins head to New York City for a great adventure...

Szatan i Judasz (Tom 8). Szatan i Judasz. U stóp puebla

Karol May

Szatan i Judasz. U stóp puebla to ósma część z 11-tomowego cyklu przygodowego autorstwa Karola Maya. Znani z innych serii bohaterowie przemierzają świat wzdłuż i wszerz są zawsze tam, gdzie coś się dzieje i gdzie potrzebna ich pomoc. Znakomicie radzą sobie w najtrudniejszych sytuacjach, dzięki czemu udaje im się ocalić wiele istnień. Nagrodą często bywają odnalezione skarby.

Poezja polskiego renesansu

Praca zbiorowa

W renesansie polszczyzna rozwinęła się w mistrzowskie poetyckie formy Jana Kochanowskiego, Mikołaja Reja czy Szymona Szymonowica. Do dziś zachwyca różnorodność gatunków błyskotliwe, żartobliwe i refleksyjne fraszki, podniosłe pieśni i psalmy czy opisujące proste życie sielanki. Godnym podziwu bogatym i kunsztownym językiem poruszane są rozmaite tematy od lekkich, zabawnych czy wręcz rubasznych, przez obyczajowe, aż po tragicznie przejmujące.