A Gilded Serpent

Dick Donovan

Before Sherlock Holmes there was Dick Donovan. The name struck terror into the hearts of thieves, murderers, fences, swindlers and criminals of every class, and his exploits gave delight to millions worldwide from 1888 onwards. This second volume of the Dick Donovan adventures collects three novels and a short story, written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Pembroke

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Pembroke is a novel about the work and dynamics of a small town, in this case a small town in New England. Freeman treats each character individually and devotes a lot of time to their individuality, giving the events taking place in Pembroke a more authentic atmosphere. Through his characters, Freeman focuses on how a person can influence their own happiness.

Big Brother and Other Stories

Rex Beach

This is a simple and sweet book. A story about a little sister who doesnt like being teased by her older brother. But one day she starts to notice that its just a tease and she doesnt give him the power to upset her. He gets bored and joins in her fun.

Blue-Bird Weather

Robert W. Chambers

Another romantic family adventure thriller by Robert W. Chambers about a young man who comes to an island with a gun he owns to hunt waterfowl. He meets the man who runs the club and falls in love. Everything is going well until he meets his daughters father.

A Lost Lady

Willa Cather

This novel is dedicated to the generation of builders of the first railway in the West. This subtle powerful novel and very touching. Beautifully written in sharp, stingy language that enhances the meaning of the simplest gesture and the slightest statement.

Feralny tydzień i inne opowiadania

Janusz Korczak

Zbiór opowiadań Janusza Korczaka wydanych w 1927 roku. Janusz Korczak, właśc. Henryk Goldszmit (18781942), polsko-żydowski lekarz i pedagog, zajmował się teorią i praktyką wychowania. Pisał utwory literackie oraz publicystyczne, w których propagował prawa dziecka oraz nowoczesne metody wychowawcze. Materiały do twórczości literackiej czerpał z bezpośredniej pracy dziećmi.

The Stranger

Max Brand

Staying alive is worth a thousand dollars a day to Oliver Wilton. Thats what hes paying Lew Sherry and Pete Long as hired guns to keep him healthy. And after riding the range, the money looks more than just a little inviting. But before Sherry and Long can pocket their first wages, Wilton is murdered. And town men were never so sad to see their boss take a bullet in the brain as Sherry and Long. Soon the pair are riding a vengeance trail out to catch the low-down killer who put them out a job... Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable classic western The Stranger . Packed with enough action and twists and turns to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre.

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither

Herman Melville

The first major novel by Herman Melville. This is a combination of pamphlet and melodrama, ethnics and esoterics, psychology and memoirs, a detective and travel notes, philosophy and poetry, woven into the historical canvas of the mid-19th century. The main character finds himself in a metaphorical world, reflecting the appearance of the countries of the Old and New Worlds in the mirror of the societies of conditional Oceania, where each island has its own prototype or social model.

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickenss tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

The Lust of Hate

Guy Boothby

Each person at some point in his life begins an adventure, after which he is destined to look back with a sensation very close to surprise. Someone said that adventure is for adventure. The vocation of a sailor in these times of giant steamboats is so much different from what it was in the old days of sailing ships and long voyages, that with the most ordinary luck, a person could easily climb along the ridges from the apprentice to the skipper less danger than that with which one might come across at the merchants London office.

Profesor Butrym

Jerzy Żuławski

Profesor Butryn to drugi tom dylogii Laus feminae. Butrynowie uchodzą w środowisku krakowskiej śmietanki towarzyskiej I połowy XX wieku za szczęśliwą i spełnioną parę. Prawda jest niestety bardzo bolesna. Gdy para znajduje się w zaciszu swojego domu, uruchamia się fala wzajemnych oskarżeń, żali, niespełnionych oczekiwań oraz braku porozumienia. Profesor Butryn i jego żona Zośka to dobrzy znajomi Romana Turskiego oraz księżnej Heleny głównych bohaterów pierwszej części cyklu. Jaki wpływ na ich związek będzie miała owiana już legendą historia miłosna Turskiego i księżnej?

Laughing Bill Hyde

Rex Beach

Mr. William Hyde was released from Deer Lodge Jail by a different person. Of course, these results were balanced by the benefits of three years of corrective discipline at the expense of the state; the ability to talk through stone walls.

Pieśń o ziemi naszej

Wincenty Pol

Wincenty Pol (18071872), badacz i poeta, często zmieniał miejsca zamieszkania, które rozbudzały w nim ciekawość górami, a później kolejnymi regionami ziem polskich. Pieśń o ziemi naszej powstała pod koniec 1835 roku podczas pobytu w Zagórzanach koło Gorlic. To najpopularniejszy utwór Pola, stanowiący poetycki opis regionów Polski. Pisał też poezje o tematyce górskiej, a jako geograf samouk prace naukowe o etnografii i geografii Polski.

The Plunder Pit

T.C. Bridges

Short and stout as he was, Pip could handle a boat with any man, and the speed with which he got the sail up and tied down the reef points was worth watching. As he finished, the great arch of cloud swept over the sun, wiping, out its bright light. Then with a roar the wind was on them.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Victor Hugo

The story of a love triangle from the Middle Ages. The young girl falls in love with the captain of the guard, who once saved her. But an aged priest falls in love with her. Both feelings are perverted, the priest pursues the girl, rolls his life downhill for the sake of love. The feeling of his religiosity is even more distorted. The girl is madly in love, she is also ready to give everything and die for the sake of a man who is absolutely indifferent to him and doesnt care when they want to hang the girl because of an attempt on him.

Co każda matka swojej dorastającej córce powiedzieć powinna

Izabela Moszczeńska

Izabela Moszczeńska-Rzepecka (18641941) była publicystką i rzeczniczką emancypacji kobiet, feministką oraz działaczką społeczną. Założyła Ligę Kobiet Polskich Pogotowia Wojennego. Napisała wiele książek i artykułów poświęconych sprawom kobiet, w których widać nowoczesne spojrzenie na społeczną i obyczajową pozycję kobiet. Co każda matka swojej dorastającej córce powiedzieć powinna ma formę przystępnego, życzliwie napisanego poradnika. Zebrano w nim obszerną wiedzę o najważniejszych sprawach w życiu kobiety. Mimo upływu ponad 100 lat, wiele porad w ogóle nie straciło na aktualności. Autorka unika pruderii, w mądry, przyjazny sposób porusza kwestie traktowania swego ciała, fizjologii, rozwoju, budowania relacji, samodzielności i odpowiedzialności. Książka udowadnia ponadczasowość myśli emancypacyjnej i istnienie wspólnoty kobiet z różnych czasów.