The Crimson Blind

Fred M. White

Many people go through financial difficulties. The popular detective novelist David Steele finds himself in a difficult financial situation and accepts an invitation from an unknown mysterious lady who offers to help with his debts. Instead, she wants him to solve her unpleasant situation. He performs his part of the deal. Upon arrival home, he discovers a corpse.

Dwór w Haliniszkach

Emma Dmochowska

Akcja powieści rozgrywa się na przełomie XIX i XX wieku na Wileńszczyźnie. Zosia Halicka szykuje się do ślubu z kawalerem, którego ze względów majątkowych wybrała jej rodzina. Jednak kawaler nie traktuje Zosi poważnie i za jej plecami wciąż romansuje z dawną kochanką. Za to daleko od Haliniszek żyje inny mężczyzna ten kocha Zosię prawdziwie, jednak czy zdoła porzucić dumę i pokonać trudności, aby zdobyć ukochaną?

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.

Znak czterech

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do Sherlocka Holmesa zgłasza się z prośbą o pomoc panna Mary Morstan (przyszła żona doktora Watsona). Od dziesięciu lat, w rocznicę tajemniczego zniknięcia jej ojca, ktoś przysyła jej drogocenną perłę. Tym razem jednak otrzymała także list, a w nim propozycję spotkania. Holmes i Watson mają odkryć, kto i dlaczego przysyła pannie Morstan tak drogie prezenty i co ma z tym wspólnego tajemniczy napis Znak czterech...

The Ebony Stick

Earl Derr Biggers

No sooner had Bob from the Silver Star ranch reached Italy than a telegram arrived asking for $1,000. A pretty woman was behind it, but that wasnt all. This early work by Earl Derr Biggers was originally published in 1916. The Ebony Stick is one of Biggers shorter stories, published after his death. The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907. While on holiday in Hawaii, Biggers heard tales of a real-life Chinese detective operating in Honolulu, named Chang Apana. This inspired him to create his most enduring legacy in the character of super-sleuth Charlie Chan. Many of his plays and novels were made into movies.

The Cruise of the Dazzler

Jack London

This is an early Jack London novel set in his hometown of San Francisco. It is considered the novel of a boys adventure. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school, runs away and joins the sloop team, he sees in San Francisco Bay. He finds that the captain is involved in criminal activity. Navigational actions on board a sailing boat are genuinely described, and there are convincing descriptions of boats that endure stormy weather at sea.

The Doings of Raffles Haw

Arthur Conan Doyle

The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors spread like wildfire about him. When his home is overtaken by workmen and strange boxes are seen coming and going, it only adds to the intrigue. Robert and Laura are his nearest neighbors and are soon delighted to meet this eccentric new addition to the small English town. The advent of Mr. Haw, however, changes the town, and particularly the lives of the McIntyre family, in ways no one could ever have guessed. A mysterious rich man, a desperate father, an ambitious daughter and the semi-detached and naive hero form the cast of this somewhat surprising Doyle piece. The Doings of Raffles Haw is a fantasy novel that explores the nebulous origins of the fortune of a mysterious millionaire, delving into the shadowy scientific process that Raffles Haws has used to amass his extravagant wealth.

The Man from Sing Sing

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Cruelly betrayed by the testimony of Reuben Argels, his business partner and close friend, Moran Chambers is sentenced to 10 years in Sing Sing Prison. Haunted by the feeling that Chambers will exact revenge, Argels flees on the next boat to London, where he finds their third partner, the dour Scotchman Andrew Pulwitter, and Morans mistress, the lovely actress Ambouyna Kotinzi. Argels finds success in London, but is all the while haunted by the thought when will Chambers wreak his revenge? It presents a fascinating picture of the frenzy which possessed financial markets at the beginning of the Roaring 30s with the twists and turns of the story.

The Dinner Club

H.C. McNeile

Readers will be the interlocutors of our heroes. They gather in the Dinner club and tell stories related to their professions. Members of the club are different people: actor, lawyer, doctor, soldier, writer and ordinary person. Every member of this club is obliged from time to time to treat their fellows with dinner. The stories of these people will surprise you in a pleasant way.

Czerwone i czarne

Stendhal

Sztandarowa powieść Stendhala umieszczona w indeksie ksiąg zakazanych z powodu krytyki Kościoła katolickiego. Główny bohater usiłuje poukładać swoje życie po przywróceniu obalonej dynastii Burbonów. Opowieść o ambicji, miłości i próbie wydostania się z biedy i marazmu. Kreacja głównego bohatera zaskakuje determinacją i wrażliwością. Powieść pełna jest niedomówień i ukrytych znaczeń, które zmuszają czytelnika do głębokiej analizy utworu.

The Doctor of Pimlico. Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime

William Le Queux

A grey, sunless morning on the Firth of Tay. Across a wide, sandy waste stretching away to the misty sea at Budden, four men were walking. Two wore uniformone an alert, grey-haired general, sharp and brusque in manner, with many war ribbons across his tunic; the other a tall, thin-faced staff captain, who wore the tartan of the Gordon Highlanders. With them were two civilians, both in rough shooting-jackets and breeches, one about forty-five, the other a few years his junior.

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo

Lhistoire de Quasimodo qui est un carillonneur de Notre-Dame. Il est séparé du monde par la double fatalité de sa naissance inconnue et de sa nature difforme, emprisonné dans ce cercle, le pauvre malheureux sétait accoutumé que Notre-Dame est pour lui, selon quil grandissait et se développait, luf, le nid, la maison, la patrie, lunivers. Son destin croise le chemin dune jeune et belle gitane appelée Esméralda qui danse sur le parvis de Notre Dame...

Czerwone koło

Maurice Leblanc

Skomplikowana fabuła i narastające napięcie czynią tę powieść pasjonującą lekturą. Aura tajemniczości i grozy pozwalają zakwalifikować utwór jako świetny thriller. Zapraszamy do lektury...

Отцы и дети (Ojcowie i dzieci)

Иван Сергеевич Тургенев, Iwan Siergiejewicz Turgieniew

201eОтцы и дети201d 2013 знаменитый роман Тургенева, ставший одним из самых известных русских произведений в истории о взаимоотношениях поколений. Споры главного героя Евгения Базарова, называющего себя нигилистом, и отрицающего всеобщие представления о жизни, искусстве, морали, человеческой природе, и его антагониста Павла Кирсанова, аристократа в полном значении этого слова, составляют центральную проблематику романа. Но сюжетная линия строится больше на внутреннем конфликте самого Базарова. Только что отрицавший все устоявшиеся понятия герой, не веривший в любовь, смеявшийся над своим другом, способным на нежные чувства, вдруг сам глубоко и страстно влюбляется. И всё вдруг переворачивается с ног на голову 2013 с любовью Базаров совладать не в силах, она оказывается сильнее самых твердых убеждений...

Arsene Lupin gentleman-cambrioleur

Maurice Leblanc

Arsene Lupin un Robin des Bois de la Belle Epoque, lénigmatique personnage, le fantaisiste gentleman, qui nopere que dans les châteaux et les salons, linsaisissable cambrioleur dont on racontait les prouesses dans tous les journaux depuis des mois, lhomme aux mille déguisements. Ce nest pas un aristocrate qui vit comme un anarchiste mais un anarchiste qui vit comme un aristocrate. Ajoutons cela la fascination de se mettre du mauvais côté de la loi, ainsi quune allusion non dissimulée Sherlock Holmes, et ce recueil sans prétention au départ ravira tout amateur de littérature policiere.

Daisy Miller. A Study

Henry James

A short story which deals, as many other novels by James, with the changing role of women in Society and the differences that begun to arise between the old stiff Europe and the America at the end of the XIXth century. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switzerland and Italy. Her lack of understanding of the social mores of the society she so desperately wishes to enter ultimately leads to tragedy. This little story catalyzed a lot of late 19th century debate about American values and European values and- particularly the confident, un-blushing American girl who is not inclined to conform to the snobbish tastes and attitudes of the upper class people she meets as her family becomes wealthy.