Stella Fregelius. A Tale of Three Destinies

H. Rider Haggard

This is another of Haggards eternal love stories. This novel tells of intersecting fates, the triangle: scholarly Morris Monk, inventor; his first cousin, Mary Porson; and the daughter of the new church rector, Stella Fregelius. The story at one point plays with the idea that love cannot exist between man and woman without lust, which implies a rare power to Morris and Stellas bond. The moral of this story is: love that lives after death, and that spiritual connection is much more important than physical and temporary.

The First Part of King Henry the Sixth

William Shakespeare

This historical chronicle spans a period of thirty years in English history. Starting from the death of King Henry the Fifth in 1422 and ending with the Battle of Castillon in 1453. Lancaster pays for the usurpation of power and the death of the real king. British troops are defeated in battles with France. In England, civil strife and civil war begin.

Martin Eden

Jack London

Martin Eden is one of the most famous novels of the famous American writer Jack London. The novel is largely autobiographical the writer, like his hero, emerged from the bottom of society and achieved outstanding success in literature exclusively by his own efforts. Martin Eden, who comes from the very bottom of the social ladder of American society at the beginning of the 20th century, falls in love with a young girl, Ruth, who belongs to the bourgeois class. Seeing in her the exact opposite of the base dirt and rudeness that surrounded him from birth, Martin somewhat idealizes her image and from that moment, the only goal in his life is to become worthy of her hand. To do this, not sparing literally a minute, he begins to transform himself from an illiterate sailor into a man who looked no worse than the middle class.

Wiersze. Wybór

Jan Andrzej Morsztyn

Tom zawiera wybór utworów poetyckich Jana Andrzeja Morsztyna, polityka i poety, czołowego przedstawiciela polskiego baroku dworskiego. Utwory Morsztyna odznaczają się niezwykłym kunsztem. Znane motywy potrafił autor przetworzyć w niebanalny sposób. Jego zdolność do odświeżania utartych figur stylistycznych, zabawy słowem, tworzenia nieoczekiwanych point czy zaskakiwania kunsztownymi konceptami decydowały o oryginalności tej poezji. W erotykach, które dominują w jego twórczości, korzystał z kontrastów wynikających z przejścia od wzniosłości do potoczności, od rozbudowanych komplementów do żartów i złośliwości. Przy opisywaniu kobiecej urody wykorzystywał motywy włosów, oczu wypowiadających wojnę zalotnikowi, kwiatów wyrastających u stóp kobiety czy słońca blednącego w porównaniu ze spojrzeniem kochanki.

The Million Dollar Suitcase

Alice MacGowan, Perry Newberry

Present-day San Francisco in a good detective story The Million Dollar Suitcase (1922). Jeremiah Jerry Boyne, head of the Bankers Security Agency is hired to investigate the mysterious theft from inside a bank of a suitcase filled with nearly a million dollars in cash. Turns out to be a high spirited man with extraordinary powers of observation and logical deduction from observed facts. The case involves not one, but two locked room mysteries and a murder disguised as a suicide. Rapid action; tense excitement; nicely plotted; satisfying romance one of the best of this seasons crop of puzzle yarns. American writers Alice L. MacGowan and Perry Newberry takes you on a chase around familiar and fictional areas of California and keeps you wondering all the way to the end.

Trylogia księżycowa. MultiBook

Jerzy Żuławski

Fantastycznonaukowy cykl powieści Jerzego Żuławskiego opisuje podbój Księżyca i budowę nowego społeczeństwa. Konwencja fantastyczna pozwala wydestylować i ukazać w nowym świetle mechanizmy społeczne oraz zmierzyć się z idealistycznymi koncepcjami odnowy świata. Jak w soczewce skupiają się znane od wieków sprawy: walka o lepszy byt, żądza władzy, uwikłanie w religię...

Baśnie i opowieści

Hans Christian Andersen

Zbiór ponad 40 baśni i opowieści Hansa Christiana Andersena, stanowiących klasykę światowej literatury dziecięcej. W zbiorze zamieszczono najpopularniejsze baśnie, jak np. Brzydkie Kaczątko, Dzikie łabędzie, Calineczka, Królowa Śniegu i Mała Syrena, a także wiele innych nieco mniej popularnych utworów. Każdy przekaże najmłodszym czytelnikom ważne prawdy moralne, wzruszy, zadziwi, a czasem również rozbawi.

The Table

Edgar Wallace, Robert Curtis

Here is Edgar Wallaces famous stage-play as told by Robert Curtis in story form with all the dramatic excitement and suspense that thrilled theatre-goers. Robert Curtis was the private secretary to British crime writer Edgar Wallace. Curtis and Wallace met for the first time in 1913, before parting following the outbreak of World War One, as Curtis had to do his military service. In 1918 he was reunited with Wallace who employed him as his secretary, he had the task of copying out Wallaces dictations, this task he accomplished at such a speed that he was known as the fastest secretary in England. After Wallaces death, he completed some of Wallaces unfinished manuscripts and turned several plays and film scripts into novels in the style of Wallace as well as writing several original novels.

Strictly Business. More Stories of the Four Million

O. Henry

Written by famed author O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) in 1910, these are 25 more short stories of the Four Million, including the titled story Strictly Business, The Things the Play, The Call of the Tame, Psyche and the Pskyscraper and others. This collection of short stories brings together a motley cast of characters from all walks of life stage actors, blackmailers, soldiers, waitresses, and average citizens and adds in an array of unexpected plot twists and other surprises. O. Henry uses powerful language, themes speaking of the social classes in New York during this era, and often vivid imagery. The setting of the early 1900s New York provides an interesting backdrop for the stories. Overall, O. Henrys work is fascinating and provides quick relief from stresses in everyday life. For fans of short fiction, it doesnt get much better than this.

Mąż i żona. Komedia w trzech aktach wierszem

Aleksander Fredro

Mąż i żona to sztuka, która swego czasu naraziła Aleksandra Fredrę na zarzut niemoralności. Autor z lubością opisuje przemyślne intrygi i miłosne trójkąty, które wiele mówią o jego bohaterach. Lektura warta polecenia.

John Cornelius. His Life and Adventures

Hugh Walpole

This is a story about the life of a genius who has only dreams. But really make dreams a reality? After all, this is not a fantasy world. Walpole wrote mainly about a character whose life was never very real, and who could not find happiness, except in strange moments because of this abyss between him and the world. Walpoles romantic flights have a realistic break to temper them.

By Airship to Ophir

Fenton Ash

Dated 1928. By Airship to Ophir, written by Fenton Ash, tells the story of an airship and two aircraft meander round central Africa picking up an assortment of natives in a search for the fabled land of Ophir, which is eventually reached and found to be inhabited by a race of people of Arab/Hebrew mien. This fantasy adventure would suit anyone interested in old fantasy novels for children and young people. Fenton Ash is the first and main pseudonym of UK civil engineer and author Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927) who was a writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers. He wrote under the pseudonyms Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash.

Square Deal Sanderson

Charles Alden Seltzer

First published in the year 1922, Square Deal Sanderson was written by one of twentieth centurys most prolific authors Charles Alden Seltzer. This novel was written in the Western genre of writing and marks the latters mastery in the genre. Mary, our heroine, is running the ranch alone waiting for her brother, whom she has not seen in years, to come and help as she is about to loose the ranch to the bad guys. Square Deal Sanderson was a son of the great uncultured primitive West. An old time cowboy, his code was the knightly code of a man of honor. For the sake of Mary, he braved successfully the persecution of a trio of land grabbers who had threatened to wrest her ranch from her. The story throbs with the excitement of the wild life of the range.

Patty in the City

Carolyn Wells

Patty and her dad decide to spend part of the year in New York City. She moves to New York and enrolls in the Oliphant School. Then she starts to make friends, as she always does, and she even starts a club called the Grig. First appearance of the Farringtons. Patty in the City (1905) is the third book of the Patty Fairfield collection, a total of 17 novels covering the life of this happy and cheerful American teenager of a century ago, as she matures and comes of age, and, in the meantime, living all kind of amazing adventures. Patty Fairfield is a pretty, well-mannered, graceful, thoughtful, smart, but not too smart 14 year old who will make us laugh and cry, and learn about life with her.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 4). Collected Short Stories. Volume 4

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is most well-known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring the legendary and eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes. This fourth volume concludes the exciting adventures of the worlds most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Included are the short story collections His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (1917) and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927), making this an indispensable classic for every home library. The book is based on various crimes occurring in England, big and small. Each of them have an unusual aspect to them that catches Holmes fantasy.

Aspira. Der Roman einer Wolke

Kurd Lasswitz

Die Wolke Aspira betrachtet die Menschen und wundert sich. Aspira, die Tochter des Königs Migro, will nicht bei den Träumen und Spielen der Wolken bleiben. Die Sehnsucht hat sie gepackt, nach Erkenntnis. Die vermeintlichen Wirkungsmächte der Menschen haben es ihr angetan, denn sie könnten ja auch in ihr Leben greifen. Aspira philosophiert und entscheidet sich, in den Körper eines Menschen zu schlüpfen. Fast schon erkenntnisphilosophisch ist der Roman die Betrachtung des Menschen aus der Sicht einer Wolke.