What Happened to Forester

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Major Andrew Forester is a retired British Army officer, of no discernible occupation, who wanders about Europe, England and the United States. He is looking for adventure, but not outside the bounds of the acceptable. He is willing to skirt the law, but not break it. His peripatetic life style brings him in contact with scam artists, gold-diggers, art thieves, industrial spies, taxi dancers, and flappers. Sometimes he benefits from these associations, but at other times he is their victim. He does this all with style, impeccable clothing, and a humorous tolerance of human failings. What Happened to Forester is collection of short stories which includes the following ones: Ange Marie, The modern marauder, The shrew of Madrid, An ethical dilemma, The fugitive of Adelphie terrace, The battling pacifist and others.

The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Alfred Burton, a smooth-talking salesman, is having a perfectly ordinary day on the job when he stumbles across a strange plant with green leaves and a cluster of queer little brown beans hanging down from them in an old house. The virtue of the beans is that he who eats one shall see nothing, think nothing, say nothing but the truth. Alfred Burton has a well-meaning, rather ordinary wife who becomes unendurable to him, and he falls in love with a charming girl who would have no appeal for the man he formerly was. What Alfred really doesnt realize is that the fruit of the plant, when eaten, will change not merely the entire course of his life, but in fact his very self.

Tętniące serce

Selma Lagerlöf

Powieść szwedzkiej laureatki literackiej Nagrody Nobla porusza rzadko spotykany w literaturze temat miłości ojcowskiej silnej, niezłomnej, nieco szalonej, na pewno wzruszającej. Relacja ojca i córki naznaczona jest bliskością, zaufaniem, a także tęsknotą, którą trudno ugasić. W tle życie i obyczaje prowincjonalnej szwedzkiej wspólnoty z drugiej połowy XIX wieku.

W małym dworku. Sztuka w 3 aktach

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Akcja dramatu W małym dworku rozgrywa się w fikcyjnym majątku w Kozłowicach. Po śmierci pani domu do dworu przybywa kuzynka, która ma zająć się opieką nad dwoma nastoletnimi córkami gospodarza. Podczas urządzonego przez dziewczęta seansu spirytystycznego ukazuje się ich widmo ich matki. Rozpoczynają się dociekania nad ustaleniem przyczyny śmierci pani domu i jej lojalności wobec męża.

The Point of Honor. A Military Tale

Joseph Conrad

Conrad stresses that the narrative clearly shows that the duel really benefited two. Combat competitions made every job and strive a little harder, forced the will to survive and win in a personal fight as seriously as the desire to survive the bloody years of the Napoleonic war. Both are officers in Napoleons army, and both are to the core.

For The Salt He Had Eaten

Talbot Mundy

Almost unknown today, Footner was a Candadian journalist and author of many adventure and mystery novels. His first works were primarily travelogues of various river trips in Canada and the U.S., although he did produce some adventure novels. He is also credited with introducing the first American female investigator in Madame Storey and her plain assistant who explains the evolving solutions to her boss cases. So we are introduced to the fascinating Madame Rosika Storey, fearless and intelligent, who plays cat-and-mouse with killers, goes undercover to break up criminal gangs, and unravels deadly mysteries. This is the third book of the succesful mystery series Madame Storey, by canadian-american author Hulbert Footner.

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.

A Silent Witness

R. Austin Freeman

All the Dr. Thorndyke books are outstanding. This one is no exception. In this installment, the action centers on one Dr. Humphrey Jardine, who is the narrator of the story, and who himself is the focus of several strange events. Jardines troubles begin with a casual walk, where he comes across the body of a man and runs to fetch the police, only to come back and find that the dead man has disappeared. The police can find no trace that the man was ever there, so Jardine takes it upon himself to examine the scene for clues. His findings lead him into a very strange adventure which can only be solved with the technical expertise of Dr. Thorndyke, but not before Jardine finds his life in danger, and not just once.

To London Town

Arthur Morrison

A widow and her two children struggle to make ends meet in East London after their grandfather and provider is killed. First they are threatened by a sponging uncle and his friend Mr. Butson, a cadger of suppers, then by their new landlord Mr. Dunkin, a man who exudes a wealth of sympathy, a wealth that Mr. Dunkin squandered with no restraint but this, that it carried no other sort of wealth with it. To London Town novel was intended to provide a picture of working-class life in the East End of London at the end of the nineteenth century. Arthur Morrison, (1863-1945), English writer noted for realist novels and short stories describing slum life in Londons East End at the end of the Victorian era. A Child of the Jago and To London Town completed this East End trilogy.

Gucio zaczarowany

Zofia Urbanowska

Gucio zaczarowany, fantastyczno-przyrodnicza powieść dla dzieci autorstwa Zofii Urbanowskiej, opowiada o chłopcu, którego za karę za lenistwo przemieniono w muchę. Wyposażony w czerwoną chroniącą go przed niebezpieczeństwami czapeczkę poznaje świat przyrody oraz reguły nim rządzące. Odkrywa, że zwierzęta pełnią w naturze określoną rolę, a ich praca przynosi wszystkim wiele pożytku.

A Soldier and a Gentleman

Talbot Mundy

William Hulbert Footner was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His most successful creation was the beautiful and brilliant Madame Rosika Storey and her plain assistant who explains the evolving solutions to her boss cases. His Madame Storey mysteries fit the flapping 1920s like the long lizard gloves that graced her arms and did well supporting his traveling familys lifestyle. Easy To Kill is another mystery for the famous Mme. Storey to solve. Do you like the lifestyle in Newport? Mme. Storey prefers New York, for sure. Follow her in this investigation that is both dangerous and difficult. There are many twists and turns that keep it interesting.

Spiridion

George Sand

Le moine Spiridion, désillusionné la fois par le catholicisme et le protestantisme, créa une nouvelle religion, mais le manuscrit dans lequel il le présentait allait littéralement la tombe avec lui: il était caché dans sa tombe. Lesprit de Spiridion est son éleve, le pere Alexey, mais il manque du courage ou de la vraie foi pour obtenir le manuscrit. Cette mission est destinée au jeune moine Angel, qui le pere Alexei raconte lhistoire de Spyridion. Dans le roman, il y a une intrigue fascinante, des passions orageuses, des secrets et des éléments de mysticisme tout cela pour lequel le lecteur aime le travail de George Sand.

The Garden of Vision

Elizabeth Louisa Moresby

The Garden of Vision (1929) is a story of Japanese Zen Buddhism and martial arts situated in Britain and Japan in the 1920s. The chief character is an English woman who joins the school. L. Adams Beck was one of the pen-names of Elizabeth Louisa Moresby, a Canadian writer who wrote most of her 30 books in the last 10 years of her life. She was also known as Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck and Lily Moresby Adams. She was a staunch Buddhist and strict vegetarian, highly critical of the materialism of the West. Her works include The Ninth Vibration (1922), Dreams and Delights (1922), The Perfume of the Rainbow (1923) and others.

Записки из подполья (Notatki z podziemia)

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fiodor Michajłowicz Dostojewski

«Записки из подполья» 2013 повесть точно поставленных вопросов и точно найденных интонаций. Уйдя в психологическое подполье и презрев мир живых людей, главный герой задается вечными вопросами: что есть человек и каково его предназначение? Он протестует против отождествления добра и знания, против безоговорочной веры в прогресс науки и цивилизации и получает удовольствие от того, что мучает себя и других. Ярко и выразительно описывая состояние героя, оттенки и движения его мысли, доводя до крайности сумбурность идей подпольного человека, Достоевский раскрывает глубокие противоречия в его душе.

Najpiękniejsze utwory. MultiBook

Juliusz Słowacki

Juliusz Słowacki (18091849) to wybitny polski poeta, dramaturg, filozof-wizjoner. Obok Mickiewicza i Krasińskiego uznawany powszechnie za największego przedstawiciela polskiego romantyzmu. Mimo iż żył zaledwie 39 lat, jego twórczość literacka jest obfita i różnorodna. Poeta pozostawił po sobie kilkanaście dramatów, wiele poematów i powieści poetyckich, setki wierszy oraz listów. W multibooku znalazło się 18 największych dzieł autora, takich jak powieść poetycka Jan Bielecki, poematy: Lambro, Żmija, Anhelli, Beniowski. Poema i Król-Duch oraz dramaty: Balladyna, Fantazy, Horsztyński, Kordian, Ksiądz Marek, Książę niezłomny, Lilla Weneda, Maria Stuart, Mazepa, Mindowe, Samuel Zborowski i Sen srebrny Salomei.

Mr. Mirakel

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Mr. Mirakel is the last novel written by E. Phillips Oppenheim in 1943. Marquis Roderigo de Cordovina is leaving his Portuguese estates in Lisbon because he is being pressured to join the German military and command a mechanical battalion. He meets Miss Anne Strangeways in the seaplane terminal. The two board an airboat for London. Shortly thereafter, they meet again at the home of Princess Rosina Di Gomez who is the niece of the Portuguese Ambassador. At this point the plot changes to encompass the arrival of Mr. Mirakel, a mysterious, wealthy, well-connected personage who insinuates himself in the company. Thereafter, the book becomes a strange fantasy about a remote land of tropical perfection where war, and rumors of war, are unknown!