Romola

George Eliot

Penned by George Eliot, Romola is an intense, gripping historical novel set in 15th-century Italy. In the narrative, Tito, a handsome but scheming Greek opportunist, marries Romola, the daughter of a scholar. He deceives Romola, is unscrupulous in his political dealings, and is finally killed by his adoptive father. Romola finds strength in helping to care for Titos other wife and the children of that union. A true classic!

Arsene Lupin. 8 powieści i zbiorów opowiadań. MultiBook

Maurice Leblanc

Arsene Lupin (także Arseniusz Lupin) to dżentelmen włamywacz, bohater licznych powieści i opowiadań francuskiego pisarza Mauricea Leblanca. Jest mistrzem charakteryzacji. Potrafi znaleźć wyjście z każdej, nawet najbardziej beznadziejnej sytuacji. Żyje z kradzieży, ale jego ofiarami padają zawsze złoczyńcy. Działając poza prawem, wymierza im sprawiedliwość. W tomie znalazły się następujące powieści i zbiory opowiadań: Arsene Lupin, dżentelmen włamywacz, Arsene Lupin kontra Herlock Sholmes, Wydrążona iglica, Kryształowy korek, Zwierzenia Arsenea Lupin, Złoty trójkąt, Zęby tygrysa i Hrabina Cagliostro.

Роковые яйца (Fatalne jaja)

Михаил Афанасиевич Булгаков, Michaił Afanasjewicz Bułhakow

«Роковые яйца» Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова 2013 фантастическая повесть, но история, рассказанная в ней, ужасно реалистичная. История о том, как череда нелепых ошибок приводит порой к трагическим последствиям. Действие происходит на фоне извечных спутников человеческого общества: бюрократизма, халатности, зависти. Профессор Персиков разрабатывает уникальный красный луч, ускоряющий процесс развития живых организмов. Заведующий совхозом Александр Рокк решает воспользоваться этим открытием для быстрого восстановления поголовья кур, гибнущих от неизвестной болезни. Он похищает установку и выписывает из-за границы ящики куриных яиц. Но роковая ошибка приводит к тому, что в птичник привозят яйца страусов, анаконд и крокодилов, которые расплодились, выросли до невероятных размеров и двинулись на Москву...

The Marriage of Esther. A Torres Straits Sketch

Guy Boothby

The Marriage of Esther, surrounded by a messy community of settlers on a remote island off the coast of Australia, combines the best qualities of a classic action-adventure film with an ingeniously crafted riddle and right in the middle of all this is a heartbreaking novel.

The Moon of Much Gladness

Ernest Bramah

This early work by Ernest Bramah Smith was originally published in 1911. The Moon of Much Gladness Related by Kai Lung is the fourth book in the Kai Lung series. The China which Kai Lung inhabits has numerous features of the fantasy Land of Fable, and many of the embedded tales are fantasy; all are told in an ornate manner which ironically, often hilariously, exaggerates the old Chinese tradition of understatement and politesse. Ernest Bramah was born was near Manchester in 1868. He was a poor student, and dropped out of the Manchester Grammar School when sixteen years old to go into the farming business. Bramah found commercial and critical success with his first novel, The Wallet of Kai Lung, but it was his later stories of detective Max Carrados that assured him lasting fame.

The Secret Power

Marie Corelli

Morgana Royal is a beautiful, rich female fairy, endowed with a powerful mind, has a personal flying ship, communicates wirelessly with representatives of a superior race and reveals the secret of eternal life. But the wild beauty Manella becomes her rival in the fight for the heart of a selfish scientist who dreams of subduing the whole world with his destructive discovery.

Judasz. Tragedia w czterech aktach

Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer

Czteroaktowa tragedia Kazimierza Przerwy-Tetmajera z 1917 roku. Opowiada historię jednego z apostołów, tytułowego Judasza, którego złe działania autor próbuje racjonalnie uzasadnić. Bohater jest zadłużonym, nieszczęśliwym człowiekiem, pogrążonym w konflikcie ze swoimi dziećmi oraz matką, która w dzieciństwie źle go traktowała. Szuka ukojenia wśród uczniów Jezusa, jednak przez związek z szaloną kobietą rujnuje relacje z pozostałymi apostołami.

Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree

Ernest Bramah

Ernest Brammah Smith is best-known for two series, the Max Carrados books about a blind detective, all of whose Perceptions are enormously enhanced, and a series of tales in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. This collection of eight Kai Lung stories came out in 1940, two years before the authors death. They show the same wit as the earlier ones. The China which Kai Lung inhabits has numerous features of the fantasy Land of Fable, and many of the embedded tales are fantasy; all are told in an ornate manner which ironically, often hilariously, exaggerates the old Chinese tradition of understatement and politesse. The main sequence begins with The Wallet of Kai Lung and ends with Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry-Tree; of the posthumous collections, Kai Lung Raises His Voice usefully assembles all the remaining series stories.

The Golden Scarecrow

Hugh Walpole

Children come to this world with knowledge of the world that they left, and spiritual connection with him through the satellite, which they just call their Friend. Some adults can grow up without losing their friend, and some children repel him when they are young. The Golden Scarecrow needs a childs heart and willingness to believe in something that we dont see, but I think that if you want to give him a chance.

The Secret of Smoking Swamp

T.C. Bridges

Set against a Florida background, this story tells of the adventures of Bill Picton and his young companions who trail a gang of moonshiners through the steaming, sluggish swamp-lands. Fitzgordon had never in his life before been in a tropical swamp, and the very first thing he did was to get both feet tangled in a coil of tough bamboo vine, and come down flat on his face on the wet black muck. The stuff was like rotten sponge, and just as full of water as it would hold. When he gained his feet again he was soaked from his knees to his neck.

The Goldfish

Mary Cholmondeley

This was the main characters first professional visit to the Robinsons. Arthur Robinson had a bronchial coryza. He seemed like most selfish people very much in need of a listener, and he poured out his views on art and the form his own message to the world was likely to take.

A Hidden Enemy

Fenton Ash

We are surrounded by hidden enemies many of them deadly creatures... Meet another short science fiction novel from a British writer of pulp fiction Francis Henry Frank Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-sf Pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. He wrote under the pseudonyms Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash.

The Green Mirror

Hugh Walpole

Mrs. Trenchards figure contains all the jealous stubbornness of a strong parent who does not want to let go of his child. Her strength lies mainly in her ability, as she is understood to be unsympathetic, to impose creative possibilities on those whom she loves, and singles out a caring Catherine as a person whose fate she wants to control. When Katherine agrees to be engaged during the year, she realizes the need to pay any reasonable price to keep her mother and Trenchards.

His Back Against the Wall

Max Brand

Bad News for Bad Men is an excellent classic story by the incomparable Max Brand (Frederick Faust). Great read with Maxs leading off to unexpected places with characters you come to know personally. Max leads the reader to characters bigger than life, they come to life as people we wish we knew personally. People who deal with life by taking an active part instead of just observing as it passes by. Brand along with Zane Grey and Louis LAmour form the holy trinity of western writers. If youve read the other two and not Brand, then youre not experiencing everything the western can be. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre!

Życie snem. Dramat w trzech aktach

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca to hiszpański poeta, autor dwóch wielkich dzieł: Wielki teatr świata oraz Życie jest snem. Oba dzieła są dramatami filozoficznymi. Akcja Życie jest snem rozgrywa się w Polsce na dworze królewskim, gdzie na świat przychodzi syn króla Basilia, który według przepowiedni ma być potworem. Król postanawia więc zamknąć go w wieży. Jednak nie jest pewny, czy przepowiednia była prawdziwa.

Armadale

Wilkie Collins

The hero of the novel, Armadel, decides how to deceive fate, become loved and fall in love for life. The mysteries of life are the mysteries of love, which are presented to us by the main characters of the novel, and it is up to the readers to decide which characters to side with. A cry of passion or the silent restraint of love this is how the heroes of the novel behave.