La chanson des vieux époux

Pierre Loti

De jeunes filles avec des visages de marionnettes et de tres petits yeux félins traînent leurs grands souliers de bois; Les enfants japonais sont tres drôles dans leurs longs vtements colorés, venant en groupes pour effectuer leurs prieres, se tenant la main; belles dames avec un petit pain compliqué venant la pagode pour prier et rire; Des paysans aux cheveux longs, des bonzes ou des marchands, autant de marionnettes imaginables de ce joyeux petit homme, sont passés par Kaka-San, qui les voyait encore, et devant Toto-San, qui ne les revit jamais.

At the Sign of the Sword

William Le Queux

Warm, brilliant, and cloudless was the July noon. Beneath the summer sun the broad, shallow waters of the Meuse sparkled as they rippled swiftly onward through the deep, winding valley of grey rocks and cool woods on their way from the mountains of Lorraine, through peaceful, prosperous Belgium, towards the sea.

The Snow-Image and Other Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A warm fairy tale for any age. One winter evening, parents saw that an unfamiliar girl was playing with their children in the yard. Rejoicing, they decided to invite the girl to tea despite the assurances of the children that she was afraid of heat more than anything...

The Master Revenge

H.A. Cody

It happens that you are a hostage to circumstances. The main character, Nathan, is trying to clear his name from an unfair accusation. After 12 years, holding in prison on a false charge of theft. Can he do it? After all, now everyone looks at him differently.

The Thundering Herd

Zane Grey

In this breathless tale of bravery and battle, of white mans courage and red mans daring, Zane Grey has written one of his finest novels. The great western writers story of the buffalo hunters, and the passing of the great herds of buffalo. The Thundering Herd is the story of the buffalo and of their near extinction when hide hunters swarmed the plains killing them by the tens of thousands, and at the same time helping to eliminate the Indians by killing their food supply. Grounded in the authors sense of western history, it shows in no uncertain terms how white men were debased by the wanton destruction of the herds.

Zemsta

Aleksander Fredro

Doskonała komedia Aleksandra Fredry w czterech aktach, która powstała na początku lat 30. XIX wieku. Akcja Zemsty rozgrywa się w kilku planach. Cześnik Raptusiewcz pragnie ożenić się z owdowiałą Podstoliną, która bawi u niego z wizytą. Cześnik jest łasy na majątek Podstoliny, nie wie jednak, że ona sama szuka męża, bo jest bez grosza. Raptusiewicz jest człowiekiem nieobytym i nieśmiałym. Zdając sobie sprawę ze swoich braków, wzywa na pomoc Papkina, który podaje się za pożeracza serc niewieścich i wielkiego bohatera, a w rzeczywistości jest tchórzem i pyszałkiem. Raptusiewicz prosi także Papkina, by utrzymywał w jego imieniu kontakty z sąsiadem Rejentem Milczkiem, z którym Cześnik jest skłócony. Nagle okazuje się, że Rejent zlecił murarzom naprawę muru rozgraniczającego część zamku należącą do niego od części należącej do Cześnika. Raptusiewicz każe Papkinowi rozpędzić murarzy. Sytuację dodatkowo komplikuje to, że dziura w murze pozwala na schadzki w ogrodzie Klary (bratanicy Cześnika) i Wacława (syna Milczka). Wacław jest gotów porwać Klarę, by się z nią ożenić. Tymczasem na bratanicę Cześnika ostrzy sobie zęby Papkin...

Sam Steeles Adventures on Land and Sea

L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum, the author of the famous Oz books, wrote a number of series for children (and occasionally, books for older readers) under a variety of pseudonyms. Among those you can find many examples of adventure fiction, including this, the inaugural title of the Sam Steele series. Sam Steele is the son of a sea captain; his father is reported killed in a shipwreck, and Sam is quickly cheated of his inheritance. Now an orphan, he meets his maternal uncle, Naboth Perkins, another sea captain and ship-owner; together the two set sail in the Pacific trade. At home again, Sam and Naboth discover that Sams father Captain Steele has survived shipwreck, with the loss of a leg. Re-united with his father, Sam regains his lost patrimony. Unusually for Baum, the tale of Sam Steeles Adventures on Land and Sea is told in the first person, by the title character.

Двенадцать стульев (Dwanaście krzeseł)

Илья Арнольдович Ильф, Евгений Петров, Ilja Arnoldowicz Ilf, Jewgienij Pietrow

Знаменитый роман-фельетон И. Ильфа и Е. Петрова 201eДвенадцать стульев201d 2013 одно из культовых произведений русской литературы ХХ века. Захватывающая история о приключениях двух аферистов Остапа Бендера и Ипполита Воробьянинова в поисках сокровищ мадам Петуховой 2013 бриллиантов, запрятанных в одном из 12-ти стульев, за которыми и устроили настоящую охоту главные герои.

The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Alfred Burton, a smooth-talking salesman, is having a perfectly ordinary day on the job when he stumbles across a strange plant with green leaves and a cluster of queer little brown beans hanging down from them in an old house. The virtue of the beans is that he who eats one shall see nothing, think nothing, say nothing but the truth. Alfred Burton has a well-meaning, rather ordinary wife who becomes unendurable to him, and he falls in love with a charming girl who would have no appeal for the man he formerly was. What Alfred really doesnt realize is that the fruit of the plant, when eaten, will change not merely the entire course of his life, but in fact his very self.

The Million Dollar Story

Edgar Wallace

John Sands needed a bride more than that, however, he needed somebody with a criminal mind. Luckily a female convict has escaped from prison that very morning and was sitting in his house. Romance and mystery, with classic twists and turns. As is typical with Wallace, this book includes a death, a love-affair, a kidnapping, an intrepid amateur. British author Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was reportedly the second biggest seller after the Bible in his heyday. He was a Reuters war correspondent during the Second Boer War and wrote thrillers to earn money. He later moved to Hollywood as a script writer and died while drafting King Kong.

Pigeons From Hell

Robert E. Howard

Pigeons from Hell is a short story by Robert E. Howard written in late 1934 and published posthumously by Weird Tales in 1938. The story title derives from an image present in many of Howards grandmothers ghost stories, that of an old deserted plantation mansion haunted by ghostly pigeons.

For The Salt He Had Eaten

Talbot Mundy

Almost unknown today, Footner was a Candadian journalist and author of many adventure and mystery novels. His first works were primarily travelogues of various river trips in Canada and the U.S., although he did produce some adventure novels. He is also credited with introducing the first American female investigator in Madame Storey and her plain assistant who explains the evolving solutions to her boss cases. So we are introduced to the fascinating Madame Rosika Storey, fearless and intelligent, who plays cat-and-mouse with killers, goes undercover to break up criminal gangs, and unravels deadly mysteries. This is the third book of the succesful mystery series Madame Storey, by canadian-american author Hulbert Footner.

The Honour of His House

Fred M. White

Borne Abbey a miracle of architecture. And there is nothing more outstanding or more beautiful in the English countryside than Borne Abbey. Indeed, this place had its own atmosphere. For nearly four hundred years the Cranwallis family had lived here, lords of broad acres and suzerain of a many goodly manors. Everything changed after the brazen millionaire came to this house.

Pigularz

Wacław Gąsiorowski

Powieść Pigularz Wacława Gąsiorowskiego prezentuje wnikliwy obraz środowiska aptekarskiego z XIX wieku, znanego autorowi z własnego doświadczenia. Oczami bohatera Władka Turkowskiego śledzimy różne zachowania postaci na tle obyczajowości epoki, poznajemy różne typy aptek i aptekarzy z pasją wykonujących swój zawód i zwykłych partaczy, którzy psują opinię całej grupie.

The Ghost Kings

H. Rider Haggard

Haggard was a great popularizer of the story about the lost world, and his The Ghost Kings are an interesting addition to dozens of others in the authors pantheon. We meet Rachel Dove, the daughter of a British missionary who has traveled through the wilds of Africa for most of her young life. Her life turned upside down when another teenager Richard Darrien saved her from sudden flooding. These two are another pair of Haggards predestined lovers.

The Passionate Friends. A Novel

Herbert George Wells

Although most famous for his sci-fi, Wells best work often deals with ordinary people having big thoughts in picturesque settings. The Passionate Friends is a fine representative example of this. Wells uses the changing relationships among childhood friends as the media for his thoughts on human relations on personal and global scales, and of what it all means. On the death of his father, Stephen Stratton writes a long and deeply personal letter to his son, hoping that, as his son becomes a man, he can benefit from Stephens experience and wisdom. As Stephen sets down his lifes history, he tells the remarkable story of his former lover, Lady Mary. With a lust for freedom and a fierce desire not to be owned by a man, she is a woman living ahead of her time until marriage threatens to ruin her. First published in 1913, The Passionate Friends is an inspiring love story between father and son, and man and woman.