The Blue Castle

Lucy Maud Montgomery

One of the only L.M. Montgomery books featuring an older heroine, The Blue Castle is widely hailed as a reader favorite and is filled with humor and romance. Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love. She lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. One day, an unexpected medical diagnosis changes everything for Valancy and, for the first time in her dull grey life, she rebels. From then on things begin to change. Rebelling against her family she soon discovers a surprising new world, full of love and adventures far beyond her most secret dreams.

Alexander the Great

Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbott gave us the opportunity to plunge past. To step back in time a read about a man who had such an impact of the world. The author takes you into the tent of Alexander and you can see with his eyes that very way to the top. The author in detail show chronological events of Alexander, right from his birth to his death.

Ona

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Ona to historia wielkiej miłości i ogromnego cierpienia. Tytułowa ona to panienka Konstancja Skowrońska, nazywana Kostusią. Jest sierotą wychowywaną przez wujostwo. W majątku swoich opiekunów mieszka od małego. Od najwcześniejszych lat pracą odwdzięcza się, jak może, za dobroć, jaką otrzymuje od zamożnych krewnych. Z biegiem czasu przejmuje coraz więcej obowiązków. Gdy ją poznajemy, ma osiemnaście lat, a na głowie cały dom. Stara się puszczać mimo uszu uszczypliwości, jakie padają ze strony członków przybranej rodziny. Nie przyjdzie jej też do głowy myśl, że rodzina ją wykorzystuje. Pewnego dnia w życie Kostusi wkracza Sewer Stamierowski. Jest to człowiek tak samo samotny jak ona, mężczyzna ograbiony ze swego dziedzictwa przez zachłannego ojczyma. Młodzi zakochują się w sobie. Los nie jest jednak dla nich łaskawy. Do uszu wuja Kostusi dochodzą plotki kompromitujące młodych. W tym samym czasie ojczym Sewera wykorzystuje wybuch porywczego pasierba i zamyka go w lamusie. Kostusia dopiero po miesiącu dowiaduje się, jaka tragedia spotkała jej ukochanego. Prośby o ratunek dla Sewera nie przynoszą rezultatu. Samotna dziewczyna, która nie może liczyć na nikogo, decyduje się na dramatyczny krok. Razem z wierną mamką odchodzi z dworu, wydostaje wyniszczonego Stamierowskiego z jego więzienia i rusza na poniewierkę po świecie... Ona to wzruszający romans, historia, jakich obecnie się nie spotyka opowieść o bezinteresownym poświęceniu, wierności i stałości uczuć.

Les Forceurs de blocus

Jules Verne

Le navire sappelait Comet. Il établit une communication réguliere entre Glasgow et Greenock et se déplaçait une vitesse de six milles lheure. Depuis lors, plus dun million de bateaux vapeur et de robots se sont levés et sont descendus le long du fleuve écossais et les habitants de la grande ville commerçante située sur ses rives ont d vivre avec toutes les merveilles de la construction de navires vapeur....

The Sea Fairies

L. Frank Baum

Enchanting fantasy novel from creator of beloved Oz stories L. Frank Baum whisks young readers away on an exciting underwater adventure! The Sea Fairies (1911) was designed as the first volume in a new series for children, to replace the Oz books. It was followed by Sky Island in 1912. Trot, the hero of the tales is a girl, like Dorothy in the Oz stories. An old captain, peg-legged Capn Bill taught her to love the sea. The sailor told her that mermaids is fairies, and aint meant to be seen by us mortal folk. One day while out sailing around, the pair is greeted by a beautiful mermaid who extends an invitation for them to come and visit their underwater kingdom and even become mermaids themselves for the adventure. The mermaids are hospitable and introduce them to the ways and other fantastic creatures of the sea. But as they make their way from place to place they must be cautious of the evil, magic sea serpent Zog...

Рассказы. Рассказы (Opowiadania)

Antoni Czechow

Антон Чехов 2013 выдающийся русский писатель, классик мировой литературы, тонкий психолог, великолепно соединяющий в своих произведениях юмор и лиризм. Смысл творчества Чехова важен и поучителен для читателей всего мира. Главный герой чеховских произведений 2013 это всегда простой человек с самыми обычными каждодневными заботами и делами. Главным массивом почти всех произведений Чехова является подробное описание быта, посредством которого до читателей доносятся особенности настроений, характеров и чувств, а также взаимоотношений героев. В данное издание вошли наиболее известные повести и рассказы Чехова, написанные в разные годы.

The Gaunt Stranger

Edgar Wallace

Inspector Wemburys day turns from bad to worse when a legendary assassin who was supposed dead in Australia returns to England seeking vengeance for the murder of his sister. The detective teams up with Lomond, a police doctor, to try to find The Ringer who is a mysterious, revenge-driven serial killer and master of disguise. When a lawyer receives a bouquet with a note informing him that hell be dead in forty-eight hours, Wembury and his men embark on a frantic quest to uncover the killers identity... An exiting book full of intrigue and mystery, The Gaunt Stranger is a must-read for all fans of thrilling crime fiction. Edgar Wallace provides a thrill of another sort!

Uncle Bernac. A Memory of the Empire

Arthur Conan Doyle

This was one of several fictional historical works that Doyle wrote during the last five years of the 19th century, as he tried to find something to replace Sherlock Holmes. First published in 1897, this murder mystery relates the story of a young Frenchman, Louis, who, having grown up in England, returns to France at the false invitation of his Uncle Bernac. Louis quickly finds himself in personal danger as well as involved in a conspiracy against Napoleon. Were soon the realm of high adventure with mysterious meetings in desolate places, but once our hero finally met the Emperor, a vast chunk of the novel was given over to a most vivid portrait of the Napoleonic court with walk on appearances by Talleyrand, Josephine and many others.

Behind That Curtain

Earl Derr Biggers

Biggers third book in the Charlie Chan series involves the detective in a case that spans decades and continents, culminating in the city of San Francisco. This time Charlie pulls aside the curtain that conceals a mystery far in the past. The plot links a present day murder with another murder some year previously, combined with a series of disappearances of young women. Charlie Chan is still trying to leave San Francisco after a vacation that turned into a job of detection. Once again hes kept from leaving by a case: the murder of Sir Frederick Bruce, ex-head of the Criminal Investigation Unit at Scotland Yard. Despite his retirement, Sir Frederick cant resist pursuing certain unsolved cases to their end. His end comes before his success, and its Charlie Chans fate to carry on. How Charlie gets involved is a part of the deliciously complex plot that the reader can look forward to.

Valley of Wild Horses

Zane Grey

This is a classic story of the Wild West, a story of reinvention, of justice, of right makes might. Panhandle Smith develops a wild free life as a cowboy until homesickness and a longing for his childhood sweetheart, Lucy, leads him to find them moved to Marco, a town in New Mexico. His childhood enemy Dick Hardman is ensconced there with his grasping father and their power seems invincible. Smith has a plan. Fighting down his past as a gunman, he prepared to start a new life with only a saloon girl and an itinerant cowboy as his allies. But even the best plans have a way of going awry. Set against the dramatic background of a wild-horse roundup, the plot leads to the inevitable clash between two strong and stubborn men. The action escalates toward the end, but as in most of Zanes novels, the good folk finally win out and the man gets his girl, finally.

Der Weihnachtsabend

Charles Dickens

Der Weihnachtsabend ist das meistgelesene und beliebteste Weihnachtsmärchen. Die Christmas Books gehören zu den meistgelesenen Werken von Charles Dickens. Was wäre Weihnachten ohne Charles Dickens? Die Erzählung über den geizigen alten Ebenezer Scrooge, der in der Weihnachtsnacht Besuch vom Geist seines verstorbenen Teilhabers und von drei weiteren Geistern erhält und danach sein Leben ändert.

Król Maciuś na wyspie bezludnej

Janusz Korczak

Powieść dla dzieci autorstwa Janusza Korczaka, ukazująca dalsze losy małego władcy-reformatora, bohatera powieści Król Maciuś Pierwszy. Maciuś Pierwszy król, który pragnął uczynić szczęśliwymi wszystkie dzieci na świecie cudem uniknął śmierci. Po przegranej wonie zostaje uwięziony i czeka na zesłanie na bezludną wyspę. Zaczyna rozmyślać nad sobą i swoim miejscem w świecie. Nie przestaje też działać. Ucieka z wiozącego go na bezludną wyspę pociągu, ukrywa się pod przybranym imieniem, wreszcie staje przed szansą odzyskania tronu... Opowieść pełna zaskakujących przygód, które nie zawsze kończą się pomyślnie. Znakomite źródło wiedzy o świecie i wartościach, które są ważne w życiu każdego dziecka.

Dave Dashaway, the Young Aviator. Or in the Clouds for Fame and Fortune

Roy Rockwood

In the tradition of the Bobbsey Twins and the Hardy Boys, Dave Dashaways adventures continue with a race around the world! Created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and issued under their popular house name Roy Rockwood from 1913 to 1915, Dave Dashaway is a five volume series of aviation adventure tales for boys. Never was there a more clever young aviator than Dave Dashaway, and all up-to-date lads will surely wish to make his acquaintance. In his very first story we find out how the hero ran away from his miserly and cruel guardian, met, befriended and fell in with a successful airman, and became a young aviator of note. Its a good old fashioned tale about an adventurous boy at the dawn of the aviation age. Theres impossible coincidences, dastardly villains, and a young hero determined to do right.

The Undying Fire. A Contemporary Novel

Herbert George Wells

Dedicated to all schoolmasters and schoolmistresses and every teacher in the world, this re-interpretation of the Book of Job is one of the authors finest discussion novels. Written in 1918, this is the story of Job Huss, the headmaster of a progressive school. It is saturated with the ideas of educational reform and of the teaching of world history as the basis for a common civilization and is one of his most ambitious dialogue narratives. Essentially it is a modernized parody of the book of Job, a prose poem which Wells greatly admired, though not particularly religious, as can be seen from his logical Science Fiction writing. In The Undying Fire, Wells give us an updated Book of Job, focusing on the tribulations of an actual descendant of the biblical Job. The various characters from the Biblical narrative are all there, in updated form.

The Riddle of the Rail

Fred M. White

Infrequently puzzles can be solved. However, the main character, inspector Norcliff, is trying to solve this problem. The inspector had no resemblance to the average detective fiction; Indeed, he represented the exterior much more like a successful middle-aged businessman, than a hunter of his fellow creatures. He was the best in the business. Therefore, he was ready to take on a new business with great enthusiasm.

Ulysses

James Joyce

Probably one of the most complicated books ever written, the story parallels Homers The Odyssey, and touches on every theme that exists, as well as explores every literary style that exists. At times, it has extremely lude and graphic sexual content and very foul language. Taking Homers Odyssey as a structural framework, Joyce builds on it a complex narrative of Dublin characters on one day Thursday 16 June 1904. Each chapter features a different prose-style to match its theme or subject. One chapter is even written in a manner which traces the history of English prose, from the Renaissance to modern advertising jargon.This includes the famous final chapter which is an unpunctuated eighty page soliloquy of Molly Bloom as she lies in bed at night, thinking over her life and the events of the previous day. Ulysses is a cornerstone of modern English Literature written by an Irishman in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris.