The Woman from Outside

Hulbert Footner, Hulbert Footner

A woman goes on a secret errand into the far Northwest. Before it is accomplished the usual characters come into the story Indians, mounted police, and the villain. Written by Hulbert Footner who was an Edmonton journalist and travelled the northwest before it was settled. Published in 1921, it is a fascinating eye-witness view of the times and attitudes of northern trappers and traders, including the colonial view of Native Peoples.

Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

Ernest Bramah

The Kai Lung books are really short-story collections, whose disparate, rambling tales are knitted together by framing narratives featuring the eponymous travelling storyteller. The third in Bramahs Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and his despicable accomplice Ming-Shu. Kai Lungs adventures are related with humor and irony, his shrewdness and wisdom conveyed in euphemisms, paradoxes and parables. Bramahs droll writing style went a long way toward making the Kai Lung series so popular. The Kai Lung books are easily Bramahs greatest achievement; theyre as worthy of their somewhat neglected place in the pantheon of British humour as the delightful comic trivia of Wodehouse.

Hira Singhs Tale. When India Came to Fight in Flanders

Talbot Mundy

This story continues the picturesque and interesting novels of Munda about Raj and the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. If you like to read the British thriller of the early 1900s, you will surely be content with this novel. As you read it, you will understand how Mundi relates to the ancient world of harlots, Greeks, Romans and Cleopatra.

Andivius Hedulio. Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire

Edward Lucas White

Edward Lucas White has written a number of historical novels, including Andivius Hedulio. Amazing story of a Roman during the reign of Commodus. This is an exciting adventure! You will feel that you are in ancient Rome.

Moby Dick. or The Whale

Herman Melville

A former schoolteacher famously called Ishmael hero of Moby Dick signs up as sailor on a whaling voyage to cure a bout of depression. On his way to find a ship in Nantucket, he meets Queequeg, a heavily tattooed South Sea Island harpooneer just returned from his latest whaling trip. Ishmael and Queequeg become best buds and roommates almost immediately. Together, they sign up for a voyage on the Pequod, which is just about to start on a three-year expedition to hunt sperm whales.

Szwoleżerowie gwardii

Wacław Gąsiorowski

Szwoleżerowie gwardii zamykają tzw. trylogię napoleońską Wacława Gąsiorowskiego. Akcja rozgrywa się w czasie kampanii moskiewskiej Napoleona 1812 roku. Burzliwe wydarzenia stanowią wyraziste tło dla wątków miłosnych i przygodowych. Znów spotykamy Floriana Gotartowskiego, Zosię Dziewanowską, Tadeusza Bielskiego i Jankę Głuską, znanych z poprzednich części cyklu. Ich losy układają się w opowieść o patriotyzmie i wierności ideałom.

Cymbeline

William Shakespeare

There are two main lines: the story of the lovers of Postum and Imogen and the story of lost and found royal sons. All this, like a silver frame, is framed by sufferings, oaths of loyalty, amazing coincidences and other tasty Shakespearean curlicues. Postum was simply naive and blind, like most of the heroes of Shakespeare. And Imogen, in my opinion one of the most intelligent and clever heroines of him.

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Kim Rudyarda Kiplinga szeroko zarysowuje panoramę Indii XIX wieku. Na jej tle odbywa się podróż niezwykłego duetu: kilkunastoletniego Kima rezolutnego, zaradnego dziecka ulicy, oraz pielgrzymującego starego lamy filozofa i mnicha, którym chłopak się opiekuje. Podczas podróży Kim wplącze się również w aferę szpiegowską, która przewartościuje jego świat.

The Lost Ambassador

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Captain Austen Rotherby is on a mission of revenge in Paris and chances upon Louis, the head waiter of his favorite restaurant. Bored, he follows Louis to a shady café where he spots a pair hes long been intrigued by a South American gentleman and a young girl. Because of certain complications, Captain Rotheby finds himself forced to leave Paris, only to find himself travelling with the aforementioned gentleman, Mr. Delora, and his niece, Felicia. Arriving in London, Mr. Delora falls ill and excuses himself, leaving Captain Rotheby to take care of Felicia. They install themselves at the Milan Hotel, where Louis works, and waits for Mr. Delora, who seems to have vanished into thin air...

Les Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick

Charles Dickens

Ceci est une histoire sur le club de voyageurs en Angleterre. Ce club comprend de drôles de Britanniques, qui se considerent comme ceux qui ne le sont pas vraiment. La chose principale dans ce club était un Pickwick romantique. Il a essayé décrire chacune de ses observations dans un cahier spécial. Dickens a réussi a créer une bonne et détaillée histoire sur un petit club de vrais hommes anglais.

The Black

Edgar Wallace

Fashionable Londoner James Morlake is a gentleman with many secrets and several particularly valuable skills like terrorizing bankers across the city. His Moorish servant Mahmet has some secrets to hide as well, particularly when his employer gives him the odd task to perform in the dead of night in dark London. A collection of short stories from Edgar Wallace featuring a private detective who tracks down blackmailers. When you do reach the end you will anxiously await a follow on. Black grabs you immediately, then takes you on a high speed international trip at race pace.

Gobseck

Honoriusz Balzak

Powieść Gobseck Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Scen z życia prywatnego cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Pani de Grandlieu rozmawia z przyjacielem domu, adwokatem Derville. Rozmowa schodzi na temat pieniędzy. Derville jest zdania, że to pieniądze odgrywają główną rolę w Paryżu. Opowiada historię ze swojej młodości, kiedy jego sąsiadem był lichwiarz nazwiskiem Gobseck. Pożyczka od niego bardzo pomogła Dervilleowi zostać adwokatem. Co więcej, obserwacje odwiedzających Gobsecka osób wiele nauczyły młodego prawnika na temat życia w Paryżu...

Les Désenchantées

Pierre Loti

Un roman publié en 1906 qui trouve encore des échos un siecle plus tard. Sur la forme, il contient des procédés propres lautofiction. Mme si Pierre Loti affirme que cest une histoire entierement imaginée , elle est tout de mme inspirée par un fait réel auquel il a été mlé. Sil a beaucoup réarrangé laffaire en une histoire dramatique, en mme temps simplifiée et élargie, le coeur du sujet reste la condition des femmes musulmanes

Carmen

Prosper Mérimée

Nowela opowiada historię hiszpańskiego żołnierza José, którego miłość do pięknej Cyganki Carmen zwiodła na złą drogę. Aby zaskarbić sobie uczucie wybranki, bohater wikła się w środowisko przestępcze i posuwa się do niegodziwych działań. Stawia na szali własną karierę i reputację, tylko czy w ten sposób osiągnie cel? Utwór przesycony jest folklorem hiszpańskich Cyganów, który nadaje mu niepowtarzalny koloryt. Opowiadanie Prospera Mériméego rozsławiła opera Georgesa Bizeta pod tym samym tytułem. Po pierwszym wystawieniu, z uwagi na nowatorstwo formy, przyjęta z lekceważeniem, już po drugim podbiła światowe sceny operowe, stając się jedną z najsłynniejszych oper w historii.

Rogue River Feud

Zane Grey

Zane Gray had a hut on the Robber, and his affection and passion for this epic river make her the main theme of the book.It is the best writing about the Rogue that has been done before or since and poetically and descriptively traces the river from its birth below Crater Lake to its dispersal into the Pacific and then picks up a school of salmon and takes them all the way back up the river to spawn. Environmental organizations attempting to save Northwest salmon should be handing Rogue River Feud to anyone who will take a copy.

The School Ghost and Boycotted with Other Stories

Talbot Baines Reed

This is a storybook. Boycott, the first story, the simplest school story. A very popular boy is expelled from school, and his less popular friend is ostracized by his peers, so he does not know why. He is also too proud to ask or ask. This is a popular topic in Blaines school literature because it is one of the most dramatic things that can happen to a schoolboy.