The Debtor

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Banbridge is close enough to the great City that, after dark, the merging light of its many eyes of electric fire can be seen on the southern horizon. This book shows exactly how women were completely thrown into provincial resources. They perfected their minds and bodies, even having a physical education club and a teacher who came weekly from the City.

Milly Darrell

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Milly Darrell isnt the narrator, but the story is based around her. Mary Crofton is a new governess who meets her in school, and agrees to spend her vacation with Milly. She soon has to deal with the intrigues of Millys evil stepmother Augusta and possessive cousin Julian. Fortunately, Mary figures out that Milly is being poisoned thanks to noticing the wrong cork on a medicine bottle. Augustas no Lady Audley.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

George Orwell

Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a bitter, ironic novel. The protagonist is Gordon Comstock, an unrecognized poet, failed writer, forced to work in an advertising agency to earn a living. He has a real talent for composing slogans, but his work inspires him with disgust, it seems to be a caricature of literary creativity. He despises material values and the vulgarity of the everyday way of life, the symbol of which is the ficus on the window. He blames money for all his failures.

In Strange Company. A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas

Guy Boothby

At Guy Booths Strange Company, Australian writer Guy Boothby put his passion for travel to work as food for his fiction. Although his first publication was a popular science story about traveling around his home country, he soon turned to fiction as an outlet for his work, focusing mainly on adventure adventures, secrets, and discovery stories. In the Strange Company was Boothby

The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series. MultiBook

Lucy Maud Montgomery

One of the most famous novels of the Canadian writer Lucy Mod Montgomery. A single brother and sister living on a farm decide to adopt a boy from a shelter in Nova Scotia so that he becomes an au pair. But due to a misunderstanding, on the island of Prince Edward, eleven-year-old Anne, a tireless inventor and a cheerful seeker of adventures, who will forever change their lives, falls. The multibook includes the most read novels of the author, such as: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Annes House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Chronicles of Avonlea, Further Chronicles of Avonlea.

The Old London Merchant. A Sketch

William Harrison Ainsworth

At that festival time, when the days are the shortest and the nights the longest, and when, therefore, it is the invariable practice of all intelligent men to turn night into day; when the ratio of business and pleasure is clearly in favor of the latter; when a magnificent carnival is held in London, and everything testifies to the predominance and influence of good humor.

7 Classic Victorian Novels. MultiBook

Praca zbiorowa

A novel was born and developed in literature, which we call classic English in terms of both plot and character of the heroes and style of presentation. Victorian books became the standard for many decades, inspiring all European literature, and later cinema, to create real masterpieces of romance. The multibook includes books such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Middlemarch, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Vanity Fair.

The Spoilers

Rex Beach

The protagonist is Roy Glenister, a young and ambitious man who has been exploring for three years with his partner, an elderly man named Dextri. Their Midas mine is one of the richest in the area. Returning by boat from Seattle, where they spent the winter, they learn that their lawsuit is being contested in court, and until the lawsuit is settled, Midas is under the control of lawyer Alec McNamara.

Rozmowy, które miał król Salomon mądry z Marchołtem grubym a sprośnym, a wszakoż, jako o nim powiedają, barzo zwymownym, z figurami i gadkami śmiesznymi

Autor anonimowy

Marchołt, postać pochodząca prawdopodobnie z żydowskich legend, stał się bohaterem XII-wiecznego niemieckiego utworu, przełożonego na polski w wieku XVI. Po objęciu tronu po ojcu Dawidzie król Salomon poznaje szczególnego podwładnego z wyglądu odrażającego, jednak skorego do uczonych dyskusji. Szybko wychodzi na jaw, że Marchołt jest rubasznym prześmiewcą, któremu z uwagi na spryt i błyskotliwość wiele uchodzi na sucho.

Driven to Sea

T.C. Bridges

Dick traveled halfway around the world to get to this particular house, and despite his pinkish-white appearance, the boy had a lot of courage. Dick saw a heavy, bloated-looking man, with a fat, flabby face and thick, black hair and eyebrows. His clothes were black, so was his tie; even his finger-nails shared in the general mourning. He looked like a funeral mute off duty.

The Face and the Doctor

Max Brand

The Face and the Doctor is another short story by Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This story filled with excitement, suspense, good guys and bad, and plot twists aplenty! Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was killed while serving in Italy. Faust wrote more than 500 novels and over 400 short stories & novellas using twenty pseudonyms, including George Owen Baxter, George Challis, Evan Evans, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning & Peter Morland.

Billy Angel, Trouble Lover

Max Brand

Max Brand (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was killed while serving in Italy. Billy Angel, Trouble Lover is the rare pulp Western story from the womans point of view. Mr. Brand writes a fair romance story too. Packed with enough action and romance to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the novel also addresses a wide range of important themes with insight and sensitivity.

Dzieci ulicy

Janusz Korczak

Powieść Janusza Korczaka opublikowana w 1901 roku. Początkowo drukowana w odcinkach w Czytelni dla Wszystkich. Powstała na bazie doświadczeń gromadzonych przez Korczaka w ciągu kilku lat obcowania z dziećmi i dorosłymi mieszkańcami Powiśla, Starego Miasta, Woli, Ochoty. Przebija z niej doskonała znajomość dzielnic, w których toczy się akcja, a także realistyczne opisy dzieci wałęsających się po mieście, szukających środków utrzymania dla siebie, rodzeństwa i rodziców.

The Spook Hills Mystery

B.M. Bower

No writer of cowboy stories can equal B. M. Bower. Ever since Chip of immortal memory Bower has been easily first among the writers who stage their dramas in the wide spaces of the cattle country. There is something new about this novel. The old legend about the Spook Hills comes to life when the Sunbeams newest hand, a young tenderfoot named Shelton C. Sherman, takes a ride in the hills and discovers tracks made by something that seems neither human nor animal. The subsequent sighting of a bear-like creature might explain the brutal murder of a sheep rancher. Or does it? The mystery deepens and already-high stakes become higher! A very fine story.

Coming Up for Air

George Orwell

Insurance company agent George Fatty Bowling lives with his family in a featureless house among the same featureless houses in the London suburbs. When George wins some money at the races and is thinking about what to spend it on, he catches his eye on an advertising poster, and George begins to sort through his own memories memories of his childhood spent in Lower Binfield.

The Fighting Four

Max Brand

His name was Jim Silver, but they called him Silvertip. Jim Silver, the man with tufts of silver hair over each temple, the man who sometimes looked like a horned devil in the moonlight, hungered for action as most men hunger for food. And he found plenty when bank robber Jim Lovell sought his protection because, unknown to Silvertip, Lovell was packing a half-million dollars in stolen cash along with his Winchester. And the men hed double-crossed had shot their way out of jail and were riding hard on the trail of their desperate partner, ready for the bloodiest shootout the West had ever seen! Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!