Swordsmen of Saladin

Henry Bedford-Jones

In the Twelfth Century an intrigue at the court of the great Sultan Saladin brings forth the Sphinx Emerald to play its strange magic role. A miniature image of the sphinx hypnotizes its owners and inspires them to make history-changing decisions. Ninth story in the series about the Sphinx Emerald from the master story tell H. Bedford-Jones!

Childe Harolds Pilgrimage. Cantos IIV

George Gordon Byron

The book, which at one time produced the most ambitious scandal in the history of British literature of the XIX century. This is a book that was desperately admired and equally desperately outraged. The poem that shocked the foundations of the foundations of morality and morality of its era and gave the world one of the most famous literary heroes of mankind a hero without whom neither Pushkin Onegin nor Lermontov Pechorin would exist.

Because of the Dollars

Joseph Conrad

Self-deception regarding his wife, inflicted on the good-natured captain of the ship and the like. the willingness to succumb to base men on the part of the painted woman. It truly demonstrates how even those who find themselves in the most extreme situations of life can find redemption, albeit at a terrible cost. And atonement is a rare thing in Conrad. And just to make sure you understand it, the final image of the captain is someone left alone and hopeless, despite his good deeds.

Zęby tygrysa

Maurice Leblanc

Zęby tygrysa to dwuczęściowa powieść autorstwa Mauricea Leblanca opowiadająca o przygodach Arsenea Lupin. Jej akcja rozgrywa się w 1919 r., tuż po zakończeniu I wojny światowej, w trakcie pandemii grypy hiszpanki. W tym to czasie umiera amerykański milioner Cosmo Mornington. Nie wszyscy wierzą, że była to śmierć naturalna. Tuż bowiem przed swoją śmiercią Amerykanin zobligował swego przyjaciela don Luisa Perennę, by ten odnalazł jego spadkobierców. Jeśliby jednak tacy się nie znaleźli, fortuna przypadnie don Luisowi. Czy Perennie uda się spełnić wolę zmarłego?

The White Wolf

Max Brand

If you like classic animal stories you will like this one for sure. Tucker Crosden bred his dogs to be champions. Yet even by frontiersmans brutal standards, bull terrier White Wolf was special. Tucker had great plans for the dog until it gave in to the blood-hungry laws of nature. He never thought that his prize animal would run at the head of a wolf pack one day and to be a leader among wolves in the San Jacinto Mountains or that a trick of fate would throw them together in a battle to the death. And White Wolf must choose between laws of nature or those of man. Max Brands action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world.

The Sunless City

Dick Donovan

A well-travelled journalist James Edward Preston Muddock though he was better known as Joyce Emerson Preston Muddock, wrote prolifically in a number of genres. The vast majority of his output were sensational detective stories in which Dick Donovan was the main character. In the lost world novel The Sunless City (1905), Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin pilots a submarine through a bottomless lake. Upon passing through a hole lined with gold, he finds a strange underground world...

Dr. Thorndykes Case-Book

R. Austin Freeman

This book is a collection of short stories about one of Sherlock Holmes most prominent rivals: Dr. Thorndyke and Jervis. Doyles characters may be better, but Freeman spins a lot of mysteries based on reasoning.

Wyandotté, or, the Hutted Knoll. A Tale

James Fenimore Cooper

The action of the novel refers us to the events that took place on the eve of the struggle for the independence of the North American colonies. The heroes of the novel will have to face the distrust of their compatriots, survive their betrayal, withstand the pressure of a gang of Indians, courageously overcome all hardships.

The Bravo. A Tale

James Fenimore Cooper

A Venetian story about deceptions and secrets, love and selflessness, cruelty and injustice that took place around the 18th century. This is a story about the adventures of the rich and the misadventures of the poor. Venice, this mysterious city, unlike any other, hides its true face under the mask, everything is here.

Wyspa węży

Jim Poker

Jim Poker to jeden z pseudonimów literackich Juliana Mieczysława Ginsberta (18921948), używany obok Inż. J.G. i Kpt. Nemo. Ginsbert był polskim inżynierem mechanikiem, porucznikiem Wojska Polskiego i komandorem porucznik Marynarki Wojennej. Brał udział w obu wojnach światowych. Pracował jako dziennikarz, pisarz, publicysta oraz reżyser w dziedzinie marynistyki. Pisał powieści przygodowe, podróżnicze i marynistyczne. Stworzył typ powieści historyczno-awanturniczej, zrodzony z bogatej fantazji autora podpartej gruntowną wiedzą techniczną i wojskową.

Between the Acts

Virginia Woolf

The author describes us only one day. One summer day of 1939. England. Between the Acts plays devoted to the history of England and presented on the stage of the amateur theater, a drama of misunderstanding and alienation in real life of the main characters of the novel is played. Between acts, the ideals and hopes of people standing on the threshold of World War II are crumbling, the whole world is crumbling.

Żołnierz samochwał

Plaut

Najpopularniejsza sztuka rzymskiego pisarza Plauta, która swoją sławę zdobyła dzięki tytułowej postaci żołnierza samochwała. Pyrgopolinices to zakochany w sobie wojak, postrzegający siebie jako żołnierza odważnego, nieziemsko przystojnego (bo z urodą wywodzącą się od Wenus i Marsa) i mającego wielkie powodzenie u kobiet. Swoją wielkość i boskie pochodzenie podkreśla bogatym strojem. W rzeczywistości jednak jest on tchórzliwym błaznem.

The Essays

Michel de Montaigne

Montaignes The Essays is an unusual book, largely due to the authors attitude to it. This is an exclusively everyday book, suitable for everyday use, in which the author does not discuss how the world works and where everything goes, but discusses the essential: how to raise children, how to build a married life, how to spend leisure time, etc. At the same time, Montaigne does not have a very high opinion of himself, although he praises him for his non-commitment to excesses and the measuredness of being.

Казаки (Kozacy). Кавказская повесть 1852 года

Лев Николаевич Толстой, Lew Nikołajewicz Tołstoj

Повесть величайшего русского писателя Льва Николаевича Толстого (181820131910) рассказывает о переломном этапе в жизни инфантильного молодого человека из московского общества, живущего мечтами и грезами. Главный герой повести, Дмитрий Оленин, близок автору и по духовному опыту, и по нравственным устремлениям. Как и Толстой, он оказывается на Кавказе в попытке начать новую жизнь, 201eв которой уже не будет больше ошибок, не будет раскаяния, а наверное будет одно счастье201d. Среди казаков, в окружении природы, в условиях, далеких от комфорта и роскоши, Оленин переосмысливает свое отношение к жизни, ощущает внутреннюю трансформацию. Герою повести предстоит увидеть настоящую жизнь и ощутить себя чужим в нетронутом цивилизацией мире.

Le Péché de Monsieur Antoine. Tome 12

George Sand

Le roman, construit, comme toujours avec George Sand, sur la base dintrigues amusantes, reflétait sa recherche de solutions utopiques la réorganisation sociale de la société. Lhistoire et les nouvelles racontent le monde des sentiments des Français ordinaires paysans, marins, employés des postes, racontent leur vie, leurs coutumes et leur morale. Au centre de lhistoire, un jeune garçon, Horace, un provincial qui, apres avoir perçu le dernier sou et mme pris une dot de sa sur, a été envoyé par la derniere force étudier le droit Paris dans lespoir quil deviendrait une personne digne. Mais la capitale a tourné la tte dun jeune homme.

A Fight for Fortune. Or, The Tiger of Batol

T.C. Bridges

A pair of seventeen-year-old boys leaves the house to make their way to fate in the Far Eastern seas. It must be my hands that are at fault, then, replied Clive. Ive been trying everywhere for the past three weeks, and cant get taken on. I came down here to look up Captain Brereton, an old friend of my fathers. Hes skipper and part owner of a tramp steamer, the Sphinx. I hoped to cadge a passage to Australia, where I thought I might find a job.