Captain Paul

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumass 1846 novel, Captain Paul is based on life of John Paul Jones, a captain in the American Navy during the revolutionary war. This epic adventure is written in best traditions of Dumas work featuring numerous desperate battles, true love, brave heroes, devious villains, and intrigue. This tale of high adventure and daring-do is highly recommended for fans of Dumass work, and would make for a fantastic addition to any bookshelf! One of the most widely read French authors in history, Alexandre Dumas is best-known for his iconic classic The Three Musketeers, as well as for The Count of Monte Cristo, and the two Musketeer sequels Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelome: Ten Years Later. Dumas began his writing career as a successful playwright, and later evolved to writing magazine articles and travel books, before extending his talents to fiction.

Znachor

Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz

Profesor Rafał Wilczur jest znanym i cenionym chirurgiem. Pewnego dnia dowiaduje się, że jego ukochana żona odeszła z kochankiem. Zabrała też ze sobą córeczkę. Lekarz szuka ukojenia w alkoholu. Podczas bójki w podrzędnej knajpie zostaje uderzony dotkliwie w głowę. Traci pamięć. Wiedzie życie włóczęgi. Zatrzymany przez policję trafia na posterunek. Kradnie tam dokumenty na nazwisko Antoniego Kosiby. Z nową tożsamością tuła się po kraju. Po wielu latach znajduje schronienie u wiejskiego młynarza. Dokonuje udanej operacji jego kalekiego syna, przez co zyskuje w okolicy sławę doskonałego znachora. Miejscowy lekarz, zazdrosny o sukcesy znachora, grozi mu sądem za nielegalne wykonywanie praktyki lekarskiej. Doprowadza do aresztowania Kosiby... Znachor to pasjonująca historia o zdradzie, zawiści i triumfie miłości. Dalsze losy bohatera poznamy w powieści Profesor Wilczur.

The Marriage Contract

Honoré de Balzac

Just a plain old story told by a superb story teller. A Marriage Contract (French: Le Contrat de marriage) is an 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the Scenes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Bordeaux, the marriage between an elegant but weak young Parisian gentleman, Paul de Manerville, and the beautiful but spoiled daughter of a Spanish heiress, Natalie Evangélista, is undermined from the beginning by a fight over the contract of marriage and the financial arrangements, which causes the mother-in-law to seek revenge against Paul. The story is told in a typical Balzac prose style, a forthright narrative sprinkled with witty adages and life lessons, a swift change in emotions running in his characters such that its difficult to decipher the true nature of each character but only to gratify ones curiosity by admitting that inherent fallacy of human character its multi-faced nature.

An Outcast of the Islands

Joseph Conrad

This book is somewhere morally difficult to read. It describes the travails of women. Peter Willems, a Dutchman by birth, a poor boy, leaves his miserable, joyless home in order to seek a better, more prosperous future. The sea will be a salvation for the boy. on the ship, he will find his home and his comrades in life.

Gambles with Destiny

George Griffiths

George Griffith became famous for his fantastic stories. The main character decided to fight with Destiny. The hero is the symbol of all nations, he combines the interests of all nations. The author conceived an interesting idea and in the end will surprise readers.

The Lion of Petra

Talbot Mundy

Despite the fact that Talbot Mandy is more famous for having written the more popular King of Hebrew screws, this story of adventure in the desert will surely please the reader. An Englishman who accompanies the famous American James Graham in a dangerous journey through the Petri desert tells of this in order to resist Ali Higgs cruel and deadly robber in his own fortress. Powerful desert chifthan, Ali Higg terrorizes the Arabs, and does not unite them. Along with James Grim is his wife and companion, as well as a senior thief and his many sons and grandchildren. Will they succeed?

Bis zum Nullpunkt des Seins

Kurd Lasswitz

Der Autor beschreibt Zukunft und Raum, technische Möglichkeiten und deren Auswirkungen, Katastrophen der spezifischen Wissenschaftsglauben und innere Kraft des Menschen, die bei der Überlebung eine bedeutende Rolle spielt. In seinen Zukunftserzählungen wird jedoch trotz allen technischen Fortschritts immer wieder deutlich, dass die Menschen ihrem Naturell treu bleiben und dass die Liebe nie an Bedeutung verliert. Es ist das Jahr 2371. Die Menschheit nutzt Luftdroschken um sich fort zu bewegen. Jedes Stück Land für die Nahrungsversorgung gebraucht.

Planetoid 127 and The Sweizer Pump

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace enjoyed writing science fiction. Planetoid 127, first published in 1929 but reprinted as late 1962, is a short story about an Earth scientist who communicates via wireless with his counterpart on a duplicate Earth orbiting unseen because it is on the opposite side of the Sun. The idea of a mirror Earth or mirror Universe later became a standard subgenre within science fiction. The story also bears similarities to Rudyard Kiplings hard science fiction story Wireless. As we see the first of the two stories, Planetoid 127, is science fiction whilst the second, The Sweizer Pump, is a crime story. Fast-paced, with good twists and turns, an unusual criminal scheme.

Sergeant Silk. The Prairie Scout

Robert Leighton

As long as the lone red-coated equestrian policemen of the Northwest, tracking cattle thieves across uninhabited prairies and fighting hordes of warriors, have something to do with the boy approaching his teens, Mr. Leightons frank tales will be in demand. Wolves, carbines, bags of gold and logging run through its pages, and Sergeant Silk meets them all a combination of Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Sherlock Holmes in a red military jacket.

For The Defence. Dr. Thorndyke

R. Austin Freeman

Dr. Thorndyke is the CSI of his day. Most of the book is taken up with the account of how an innocent man gets himself thoroughly entangled in what looks like the certainty that he will be hanged, either for the death of a man he saw only once, or amazingly, for his own death! But, of course, Dr. Thorndyke is able to extricate him from this awful situation and triumph yet again. This is the amazing story of a polite, artistic gentleman who, by a series of mistakes, accidents, bad decisions and bad luck finds himself accused of two murders and a fraud. One of the murder victims is himself! No one but Dr. Thorndyke could possible clear up the confusion.

Ozimina

Wacław Berent

Powieść eksperymentalna Wacława Berenta, której akcja rozgrywa się w ciągu jednego lutowego wieczoru roku 1904. Podczas przyjęcia karnawałowego spotykają się osoby z różnych grup społecznych: zarówno wykształconej elity, jak i prostego ludu. Utwór zbudowany z wielu mikroscenek na wzór dramatu, co pozwala czytelnikowi zanurzyć się głęboko w opisywane wydarzenia i niemal stać się ich uczestnikiem.

LÉclat dobus

Maurice Leblanc

quelques kilometres de la frontiere allemande, non loin de la petite cité lorraine de Corvingy il y a un château d Ornequin. En juillet 1914 les jeunes mariés Paul et Elisabeth Delroze arrivent l. Depuis la mort de la comtesse Hermine, la femme du comte dAndeville et la mere dElisabeth, ce château est abandonné. Pendant le séjour dans le château Paul fait une découverte, qui va bouleverser sa vie. Et cest le défi. Cest une histoire pasionnante et extraordinaire de la persécution et de la guerre.

Kobiety w życiu wielkich ludzi

Stanisław Antoni Wotowski

Książka Kobiety w życiu wielkich ludzi Stanisława Wotowskiego opisuje życie kilku kobiet żyjących w otoczeniu ważnych postaci historycznych z różnych epok. Gdy do takiego tematu zabiera się przedwojenny prywatny detektyw, specjalizujący się w skandalach towarzysko-obyczajowych, możemy być pewni, że spotkamy pełnokrwistych bohaterów, których losy przedstawiono w sposób ekscytujący i szczególnie wciągający.

Room 13

Edgar Wallace

With Room 13 in 1924 Edgar Wallace introduced 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 time Edgar Wallaces unassuming investigator shares the limelight with a young and vigorous ex-con called John Gray. John Gray, a moderately wealthy gentleman who was set up for having supposedly cheated riding in a horse race and sent to Dartmoor, comes out seeking vengeance on the man who sent him there and finds himself aided in his quest by the seemingly innocuous J.G. Reeder.

When God Laughs and Other Stories

Jack London

A very wise story from the cycle about love. An inexhaustible topic, do not talk about it. No one has yet managed to beat the gods. Although Karkines met people who almost succeeded: Marvin Fisk and Ethel Baird. But the punishment of the gods overtook them at the end.

Work. A Story of Experience

Louisa May Alcott

A story about a nineteenth-century womans search for a meaningful life through work outside the family sphere, Work: A Story of Experience is at once Alcotts exploration of her personal challenges and a social critique of America, examining womens independence, the moral significance of labor, and the goals to which a woman can aspire. The story depicts the struggles of a young woman trying to support herself. The main character, Christie Devon, a New England orphan, works outside the home in a variety of different jobs, but the end of her story marks the beginning of a new career as a voice and activist for other working women. Influenced by Transcendentalism and by the womens rights movement, it affirms the possibility of a feminized utopian society.