The Nine Bears

Edgar Wallace

With the stealing of the fat Englishmans wallet by Gregory Silinski, commences this extraordinary story of crime. Who are the Nine Bears? Who is Hyatt and the Man of the Eiffel Tower? And where is LOLO the secret rendezvous of the Nine? These are only a few of the facers that confront T. B. Smith, Assistant Commissioner from Scotland Yard, until the final dramatic scene aboard the mad battleship. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edgar Wallace, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. Novelist, playwright and journalist, Edgar Wallace, is best known for his popular detective and suspense stories which, in his lifetime, earned him the title, King of the Modern Thriller.

Listy z Afryki

Henryk Sienkiewicz

W 1890 r. 40-letni wówczas Henryk Sienkiewicz wyruszył w podróż do Afryki. Była to wyprawa myśliwska na południe Czarnego Lądu. Pisarz zapowiedział cykl korespondencji z podróży. Wiadomość ta spotkała się z wielkim zainteresowaniem czytelników. Sienkiewicz wyruszył z Neapolu 25 grudnia 1890 r. Zaopatrzony był w liczne listy polecające, m.in. od lorda Roberta Arthura Salisburyego, wybitnego polityka angielskiego, kardynała Lavigerie, prymasa Afryki, i Arthura Silva Whitea, szkockiego podróżnika i geografa. Trzonem wyprawy miała być miesięczna wycieczka myśliwska w głąb lądu. Punkt wyjścia był Zanzibar. Tom Listów z Afryki obejmuje dwadzieścia trzy szkice. Tylko dwa z nich powstały w czasie samej podróży. Resztę spisał autor po powrocie po kraju. Są to więc raczej wspomnienia niż listy z Afryki. Wyprawa do Afryki miała być dla pisarza chwilową ucieczką od dręczących go problemów obrzydłej codzienności. Tymczasem jak czytamy na kartach wspomnień afrykańskich pisarzowi towarzyszyła stale nostalgia oraz przygnębienie związane z oddaleniem się od rodziny.

Angel Esquire

Edgar Wallace

Angel Esquire (1919) is a great crime story by one of the masters of the genre. This novella revolves around the hunt for an inheritance, or rather the word to unlock the safe where the inheritance is safely stored. A nasty old millionaire dies, leaving clues to the combination of his safe where all his fortune is hidden, to several people, and the race is on! Will the beautiful innocent young girl whose father was swindled by the millionaire get to it first? Or will the criminal associates of said millionaire beat her? Its up to Angel Esquire, the famous and unorthodox detective to be sure that youth and innocence win!

History of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI of England

Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbotts biography of Margaret of Anjou is written in simple manner, making it digestible for the reader who dislikes the stuffy story. Margaret of Anjou was remembered as one of the most unfortunate queens that I could not love the people. She was not afraid to do what it took to keep her throne. Surprisingly, the author is still trying to portray Margaret of Anjou as a hero.

Miarka za miarkę

William Shakespeare

Miarka za miarkę Williama Szekspira to utwór odwołujący się do wątków biblijnych skąd autor wywiódł m.in. tytuł i w ich kontekście przedstawiający kontrast pomiędzy władzą polityczną a sprawiedliwością. Wybory bohaterów sytuują ich po określonych stronach odwiecznego sporu, a czytelnika skłaniają do refleksji nad kwestiami winy, kary i nagrody za czyny.

The Firm of Girdlestone

Arthur Conan Doyle

John and Ezra Girdlestone, father and son, run a British merchant company trading to the African coast with several sailing ships, all dangerously ill-maintained. Their small office is in London, their business is quite personally run, and the firm and its owners are well respected in the City by the 1870s. John Girdlestone is deeply and ostentatiously religious, to the cynical amazement of his son. The senior Girdlestone also is the tightly-controlling guardian of an heiress not quite of age, Kate Harston. This young lady is a cousin of Tom Dimsdale, college-age son of a physician. The story is filled with a fun, varied cast. Besides John, Ezra, and Kate, theres Captain Miggs, Major Tobias Clutterbuck, and the Dimsdale family. These families and their impingement are at the center of A. Conan Doyles psychological-adventure novel The Firm of Girdlestone.

Iliada

Homer

Poemat o wojnie Greków z Trojanami. Obok Odysei drugi z eposów, których autorstwo tradycja przypisuje Homerowi. Dziesiąty rok wojny trojańskiej. Największy grecki wojownik Achilles w gniewie porzuca walkę z Trojańczykami, po tym gdy Agamemnon odbiera mu brankę Bryzejdę. Trojanie w ten sposób uzyskują przewagę. Patroklos, chcąc dodać otuchy Grekom, wkłada zbroję Achillesa i rusza na czele wojsk greckich przeciwko Trojanom. Sam widok zbroi Achillesa wystarczył, by Trojanie cofnęli się. Jedynie Hektor stawił czoła rzekomemu Achillesowi i zabił Patroklosa. Zrozpaczony po stracie przyjaciela Achilles zapomina o obrazie i po wykuciu przez Hefajstosa nowej zbroi, pragnąc zemsty, rusza w bój pod mury Troi, pod którymi oczekuje go Hektor. Strukturę Iliady cechuje stałe przenikanie się i korespondencja dwóch płaszczyzn fabularnych świata ludzi i świata bogów.

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

The tongues of London high society gossips begin to wag when John Harmon --a young man whose inheritance depended on his marrying a woman he had never met-- is found dead in the River Thames. The fortune passes into the hands of the working-class Boffins, who take into their new home both Bella Wilfer (Harmons would-be bride), and a mysterious secretary known as Rokesmith. Meanwhile, Lizzie Hexam, the daughter of the boatman suspected of Harmons murder, is pursued by two suitors: obsessive and self-righteous Bradley Headstone and roguish and lethargic Eugene Wrayburn. Our Mutual Friend is one of the most sophisticated and sadly the last novel by Charles Dickens with a rare combination of social insight and psychological analysis.The main focus of the novel is on the significance of money in an individuals life but also stresses on the fact that one should never ignore human values in the face of money.

Magenta und Solferino. Historisch-politischer Roman aus der Gegenwart. Band IIII

John Retcliffe

Sir John Retcliffes historisch-politische Romane sind im ureigensten Sinn mit Abenteuern angereicherte Tendenzromane, die das gesamte politische Geschehen seiner Zeit zum Inhalt haben. Magenta und Solferino ist ein historisch politischer Roman. John Ratcliffe, wie immer unübertroffen.

LInvasion de la mer

Jules Verne

En Afrique du Nord, selon le plan des autorités françaises, un projet visant créer une mer artificielle au Sahara est en préparation. Ils sont déj en train de creuser un canal et denvoyer des expéditions dans le désert pour étudier le relief, mais une bande dindigenes sauvages mécontents de ce projet font tout pour que cela ne se matérialise pas. Le livre entier est un voyage en train de Tiflis Pékin en train et une breve description des villes.

Die Rose von Kairwan

Karl May

Der Band Die Rose von Karwan. Erzählung aus drei Erdtheilen. Enthält die lose verbundenen Texte: Ein Kaper, Der Pfahlmann, Eine Befreiung. Spannungsgeladenes und ereignisreiches Abenteuer von Karl May.

Sketches of Young Couples

Charles Dickens

Sketches of Young Couples is similarly a relatively early and short work by Charles Dickens in which he outlines in a humorous and vaguely satirical way various types of couples (young, old and matured) in society under different subjects describing their actions, thoughts and decisions as couple. These subjects are chosen as a moral essay to raise the awareness and information in young couple for coming generation of both sexes. As always, Dickens scatterings of humor help make it an enjoyable read. Its mainly an exercise in characterization, but each little chapter reads like a story, or part of a story. These satirical portraits, specially timed to Queen Victorias 1839 engagement to the future Prince Albert, not only reveal the dazzling brilliance of young Dickenss genius, but also offer a humorous glimpse into Victorian mores and attitudes.

The Handsome Young Men

Hulbert Footner

A historical romance and tale of adventure, set in England during the fourteenth century. Descendent of a noble family, Nigel Loring is the last of his race, and living alone with his aged grand-mother, upon a small remnant of their great estate. In service to King Edward III, Sir Nigel Loring must prove himself worthy of the hand of his the Lady Mary by performing three deeds in her honor. On his way to the altar, Nigel rescues a woman from dishonor, fights a pirate leader, and battles against the Spanish at sea, among other heroic feats. Set against the fourteenth-century war between England and France, Sir Nigel is an action-packed adventure classic, filled to the brim with history, conflict, chivalry, and a dash of romance.

Antonina. or the Fall of Rome

Wilkie Collins

A romance of the fifth century, in which many of the scenes described in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire are reset to suit the purpose of the author. Only two historical personages are introduced into the story, the Emperor Honorius, and Alaric the Goth; and these attain only a secondary importance. Among the historical incidents used are the arrival of the Goths at the gates of Rome, the Famine, the last efforts of the besieged, the Treaty of Peace, the introduction of the Dragon of Brass, and the collection of the ransom. Our heroine Antonina, a very young Roman maiden, flees her father and an amorous patrician neighbor, into the arms of a young, handsome, gentle, sympathetic Goth. This book does not show the intricacy of plot and clever construction of the authors modern society stories; but it is full of action, vivid in color, and sufficiently close to history to convey a dramatic sense of the Rome of Honorius and the closing-in of the barbarians.

Fred Fearnots Revenge

Hal Standish

Fred usually travels. Returning from the West, where Fred Firno rescued Terry Olcott from a group of pastoralists who were going to lynch him by mistake, he found letters from the manager of his small investments in Dedham Lake that gave him a bit of anxiety. The reader undoubtedly remembers that during a visit to the upper part of the state he discovered a beautiful lake, covering about three hundred acres.

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