Old Surehand. Band IIII

Karl May

Die Trilogie Old Surehand ist ein paradigmatisches Werk des Übergangs und der Wandlung Karl Mays. Mit der Hilfe von Old Wabble, dem König der Cowboys, will Old Shatterhand den geheimnisvollen Westmann Old Surehand aus den Händen feindlicher Indianer befreien. Später gesellt sich Winnetou zu ihnen. Im Llano Estacado kommt es dann zu einer schicksalhaften Begegnung. Nach Überwindung vieler Gefahren lichtet sich nun das Dunkel um Old Surehands Vergangenheit. Old Shatterhand und Winnetou ziehen mit ihren Begleitern, unter ihnen die Verkehrten Toasts Dick Hammerdull und Pitt Holbers, hinauf ins Felsengebirge, wo alle Fäden zusammenlaufen. Der ruhelose Held des Wilden Westens, Old Surehand, erlebt zahlreiche Abenteuer, wie einen Indianeraufstand und die Verfolgung einer verfeindeten Bande. Ein ereignisreicher Wild-West-Epos voller Spannung und Abenteuer.

Pustynia zagłady

Karol May

Pustynia zagłady to cykl opowiadań, których głównym bohaterem jest Old Shatterhand, czyli Kara Ben Nemzi. Tym razem jego przygody rozgrywają się w Afryce Północnej. Czytelnicy mogą obserwować współistnienie kultury chrześcijańskiej oraz islamu, a także podziwiać pięknie wykreowane, bajeczne afrykańskie krajobrazy: pustyni, puszczy, rozrzuconych wśród pustkowi ludzkich osad...

Short Stories. 18961922

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery, called Maud by family and friends and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. Montgomery published some 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems before her death in 1942. Because many of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, Canada and the Canadian province became literary landmarks. She was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. This book contains Lucy Maud Montgomerys short stories from the year 1896 to 1922. This great collection is full of her usual assortment of quirky, down-home, loyal, and loveable characters with honest and heart-warming stories.

Pójdźmy za Nim

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Akcja utworu Pójdźmy za Nim toczy się w starożytnym Rzymie. Patrycjusz Kajus Septimus Cinna prowadzi życie pełne zabaw. Ma jednak poczucie pustki i nie czuje się szczęśliwy. Pewnego dnia poznaje piękną Anteję. Szybko się w niej zakochuje. Wkrótce biorą ślub. Szczęście nie trwa jednak długo. Anteja zdradza objawy choroby psychicznej. Każdego dnia nawiedzają ją przerażające wizje. Wynajęci lekarze są bezradni. Cinna z żoną udają się do Jerozolimy. Liczą na to, że zdrowsze powietrze przyniesie poprawę. Wizje jednak nie ustają. Pewnego dnia oboje stają się świadkami egzekucji Jezusa Chrystusa...

The Planetary Series

Stanley G. Weinbaum

If youre going to launch a series dedicated to the very best science fiction and fantasy writers of the century, it makes sense to start with Stanley G. Weinbaum. The Planetary Series includes ten stories set on worlds of Earths solar system following several centuries of human exploration and settlement. It features a host of fascinating alien creatures, including birdlike Martians (features in A Martian Odyssey and its sequel Valley of Dreams) and The Red Peri and the Venusian trioptes (in Parasite Planet, The Lotus Eaters). Written in the 1930s, the planetary stories were consistent with scientific understanding of the solar system at that time, as well as consistent with science fiction ideas of the planets, most notably a warm and wet jungle-like Venus. Even today, the collection remains a highly readable and enjoyable, a great example of early science fiction that exhibits the finest pulp virtues: fast action, colorful settings and characters, and terrific storytelling.

The Great Court Scandal

William Le Queux

The Ladybird will refuse to have anything to do with the affair, my dear fellow. It touches a womans honour, and I know her too well. Bah! Well compel her to help us. She must. She wouldnt risk it, declared Harry Kinder, shaking his head. Risk it! Well, well have to risk something! Were in a nice hole just now! Our traps at the Grand, with a bill of two thousand seven hundred francs to pay, and the Ladybird coolly sends us from London a postal order for twenty-seven shillings and sixpenceall she has!

Pan Geldhab. Komedia w trzech aktach wierszem

Aleksander Fredro

Geldhab próbuje wydać swoją córkę za zbankrutowanego księcia. Chce w ten sposób zdobyć tytuł i awans do elit społecznych. Typowa komiedia z nietypowym zakończeniem. Lektura warta polecenia.

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

H.C. McNeile

Bulldog Drummond At Bay is another story from the famous series of Herman Cyril McNeile. This story is full of mysteries for the reader. Drummond hears cries near his yard, then notices traces of blood there. He meets two guys who claim to be after a madman. The main character is determined to explore in his unique style, but discovers a mysterious message.

The Square Emerald

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace, The Square Emerald, originally published in 1926 and made in England. The plot involves a young gentleman, secretary to a notable politician, convicted wrongly of forging a check, now released after serving his term in prison, a group of rather sinister society ladies with their sinister butler Druze, who were involved in the check and other activities, and a beautiful young woman detective from Scotland Yard, also from a stylish society background. A female sleuth is one step ahead of everyone, including the reader, and generally has jolly good fun solving the case. A mysteriously complicated plot make this Edgar Wallace book great fun with the twists coming thick and fast.

Famille-Sans-Nom

Jules Verne

Le roman La famille sans nom emmene le lecteur européen létranger, dans les étendues du continent nord-américain, jusqu la partie du continent appelée le Canada, et raconte le soulevement des colons français au Québec. Les Canadiens cherchent se libérer du contrôle de la couronne britannique. Lavocat Morgaz a trahi les rebelles et a d errer avec sa famille sans rester longtemps au mme endroit. Installé la frontiere avec les Etats-Unis, Morgaz ne résiste plus au stress et se tire.

Wiersze. Wybór

Daniel Naborowski

Tom zawiera wybór utworów poetyckich Daniela Naborowskiego, polskiego poety barokowego, dyplomaty i tłumacza. Tworzył w nurcie poezji metafizycznej. W swoich utworach godził wartości sprzeczne. Renesansowej pochwale rozsądku i życia statecznego towarzyszy przekonanie o marności świata i nieuchronnym przemijaniu wszelkich zjawisk.

The Honourable Algernon Knox, Detective

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This is a very clever collection of linked stories by E. Phillips Oppenheim written in 1913. Algernon Knox, pretty young, dapper, seemingly silly, has failed at everything. Although wealthy, he fails when he stands for parliament. By chance he becomes involved in a blackmail against his uncle, who is a diplomat. Knox foils the plot, and a new career is born, the gentleman detective. In some ways, the young man carries out increasingly dangerous and cleaver missions against criminals and foreign spies. Haunted by the beautiful but foreign Adele de Hagon, Knox finds his career and fortunes on the rise. An enjoyable read!

Outlaws of Palouse

Zane Grey

Kidnapping Collie Younger: When Rod Brecken stole the most beautiful and outrageous flirting mistress who ever made the cowboy crazy, this is just the lesson she needs; but Rod may have tasted more than he can chew on. Palaces persecutors: Dale Brittenham follow the footsteps of the horse thieves to bring to justice before angry runners overtake them.

Le Chancellor

Jules Verne

Le roman parle du navire, dans les cales o commence brler la charge de coton. Au début, lincendie nest pas détecté explicitement, mais au fil du temps, la flamme se déclare. Un groupe de passagers est sauvé sur un radeau construit la hâte construit partir des restes dun navire, et le radeau commence dériver travers les immenses étendues de locéan. Dans la situation de manque de nourriture et deau douce, les qualités des personnes se manifestent, qui sont profondément cachées pendant leur existence paisible.

Soldiers Three

Rudyard Kipling

Soldiers Three is a series of fascinating stories by the great English writer and poet Joseph Rudyard Kipling. A collection of short stories written in 1888 provides a glimpse into the life of tommies, as the English soldiers called it, in Afghanistan. They fool around, complain and talk about their daily lives - against the backdrop of the war and sunset of colonial England.

Major Haynes of the Secret Service

Edgar Wallace

Major Haynes of the Secret Service is a fine series of Wallace stories about wartime espionage. During the First World War Edgar Wallace wrote a number of morale-boosting tales about the skill and derring-do of the British military and intelligence services, mostly in the form of series published under such titles as Tam o the Scoots, Companions of the Ace High, and Clarence-Private. Several series were published in the form of dramatic pseudo-documentary accounts of what he claimed to be true stories. Three espionage series in this category are known to have been published in British newspapers. Two of these featured an intelligence agent by the name of Major Haynes and made their first appearance in the Dundee paper Thomsons Weekly News.