The Mayors Wife

Anna Katharine Green

Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. Miss Saunders, a discreet domestic spy of some kind, is hired by Mayor Packard to look after his unaccountably abstracted wife whilst he goes out of town for a fortnight. The lady is unhappy, and the reason for her grave unhappiness is more serious than you think. A detective novel involving theft, bigamy, a haunted house, lost money, ciphers and code breaking. An American detective-story writer, Greens thrillers are characterized by logical construction and a sound knowledge of criminal law. She was one of a handful of women writing detective stories at the time.

A Mayfair Magician

George Griffiths

George Griffiths is popular with science and science fiction novels. The desire of every person is to have the power to read minds. George Griffiths decided to make it into reality. A Mayfair Magician is a science fiction novel about a device that allows you to read minds.

The Case for the Crown

Fred M. White

Fred M. White is famous for mystical, sometimes difficult to understand little stories. One of these stories is "A Case For the Crown". Almost from the very beginning, the author gives us such an intriguing description of events: From the mouth of a tortured person came a strange, terrible whistling cry, a mans cry on the verge of epilepsy. His eyes were full of nameless horror, sweat running down his face. Many questions appear in our story first.

The Dunwich Horror

H.P. Lovecraft

Master of horror writes a story of true forces of evil. There are six short stories that comprise this edition of The Dunwich Horror. The story beats a lot of modern writers in prose, characters and plot. The story started of well and gave us a spooky small village setting with the odd family of a Grandfather, deformed Albino mother and inhuman grandson and the strange events surrounding his birth and precocious development. Wilbur matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade all the while indoctrinated him into dark rituals and witchcraft by his grandfather. And above all, theres the mysterious presence in the farmhouse, unseen but horrifying, which seems to be growing... The Dunwich Horror follows the tragic events in Dunwich when Wilbur Whateley delves into dark occult practices with deadly repercussions.

Selim Mirza

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Selim Mirza jest synem bogatego ziemianina pochodzenia tatarskiego. Jeszcze niedawno konkurował o względy pięknej Hani ze swoim rówieśnikiem, młodym paniczem Henrykiem. Obaj młodzieńcy zostali ranni w pojedynku. Podczas ich rekonwalescencji Hania przeszła ospę i została oszpecona. Dziewczyna odrzuca oświadczyny Selima i wstępuje do klasztoru. Młodzieniec wyrusza do Francji, by wziąć udział w wojnie francusko-pruskiej. Utwór Selim Mirza , napisany w stylu Alexandrea Dumasa, zawiera pewne wątki autobiograficzne.

The Gentle Buccaneers

Fred M. White

The Gentle Buccaneers a gang of four pirates. They were a good company, physically, if not intellectually, although Endellion himself, the leader of the expedition and the owner of the yacht, was a classic scholar and passionate admirer of Marcus Aurelius, whose philosophy he loved to translate. They liked to pose as people who were disfigured in a battle for peace. However, it soon became harder to show up in public. Everyone is starting to pay attention to them.

The Pool of the Black One

The Pool of the Black One is one of the original short stories starring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan becoming the captain of a pirate vessel and encountering a remote island with a mysterious pool that has powers of transmutation.

Rodeo

B.M. Bower

Claude Kid Bennett is a young man starting to carve a place for himself in the world. His mom wants him to go to college and earn his M. D., but his dad thinks he could turn the boy into a useful man if hed stay on the Montana ranch, and learn to work hard. Kid gets a thorn under his saddle and sets out with his three horses to a six day rodeo in Chicago. Along the way he meets J.N. Harlan, and his free-spoken daughter Dulcie who is a Chicago businessman with plenty of pull. Trailblazing female Western writer Bertha Muzzy Bower wrote a series of pulse-pounding novels about the grizzled vaqueros and cowpokes who populated the Flying U Ranch.

Leśna Różyczka (1-12). Leśna Różyczka. Tom 1-12

Karol May

Leśna Różyczka, czyli prześladowania dookoła świata to 12-tomowy cykl przygodowy autorstwa Karola Maya, twórcy słynnego Winnetou. Opisywane wydarzenia rozgrywają się na przestrzeni kilku lat. Ogromny majątek, rodowe tajemnice, niebezpieczeństwa, spiski, walka z bandytami i światowa polityka stanowią kanwę barwnej, obfitującej w przygody opowieści. Losy wyraziście naszkicowanych bohaterów splatają się na lądach kilku kontynentów oraz na morzach.

John Burnet of Barns

John Buchan

John Burnet of Barns was Buchans first fully realised, full-length work of fiction. The authors third novel is story of adventure, treachery and revenge, set in the Scottish Borders in the 17th century, telling of a young nobleman who sets out to gain an education abroad, only to find himself betrayed in his absence by his cousin. Not just a romance, but adventures of a Scottish gentleman around the Netherlands and the wildest highlands of Scotland to find himself, regain his honour and save his true love. In this epic tale of a family torn asunder by a long-lasting feud, renowned action-adventure author John Buchan spins an engrossing account of two cousins locked in conflict and the horrible toll that their bad blood begets. In the wake of the ultimate betrayal, will the Burnet clan ever be able to bridge the chasm that has been created?

The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

With a strong spirit and body, people who are ready to endure all sorts of hardships and difficulties for the sake of the cause of their whole life, their blood, their feats inscribing their names in the history of mankind, also end up being tested, which turn out to be stronger than them. And for the sake of this, a person is able to erase his entire former life overnight. This happens with Anthony, an honorary Roman who fell in love with the proud queen of Egypt. For his sake he forgot Rome and the family, and Caesar.

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Tom Canty is a poor boy in the London slums. His birth only brings more poverty to his already dirt poor family. Edward VI is the long awaited heir to the English throne. They are born on the same day and look so alike they cant believe it. They exchange clothes and Edward VI ends up being thrown out of the palace by guards who think he is the poor boy he looks to be. Both boys have difficulty fitting into the others lives. After many adventures, matters are set right again, with one of the boys resuming his rightful, royal position and the other boy accepting a position that recognizes his innate intelligence and good heartedness.The bulk of the books is the mad life of the poor boy during which Edward VI learns how many of his subjects live. He resolves to change things if he can get back to the palace and be restored to his rightful place.

Семейное счастье (Szczęście rodzinne)

Лев Николаевич Толстой, Lew Nikołajewicz Tołstoj

Роман Льва Толстого, посвященный теме любви и брака. Что важнее: страсть или верность любимому человеку, семейное счастье или прожигание жизни в утехах? История любви молодой девушки к другу своего покойного отца, её опекуну, их женитьбы и первых нескольких лет супружеской жизни, включающих некоторое охлаждение и ссоры.

Beatrix

Honoré de Balzac

This novel opens in the old town of Guerande which still enclosed by mighty walls and possesses moats still full of water. The houses have not changed and the streets are as they were one hundred years in the past. It is the family seat of the de Guenics. The old society of the town gather here to play cards and gossip, often about the younger generations. The son of the house, Calyste, is going to visit one of the main objects of this gossip and we learn of this persons past. While on this visit, Calyste hears of Beatrix de Rochefide who is coming to Guerande on a visit. Béatrix is an 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the Scenes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Balzac based the characters in this novel on real figures: Félicité des Touches, a celebrated musician and writer, is based on George Sand. Béatrix de Rochefide is based on Marie dAgoult (who wrote under the pen name of Daniel Stern); Gennaro Conti is based on Franz Liszt; Claude Vignon is based on Gustave Planche.

The Lost Trooper

Talbot Mundy

How can one start a fairy tale in the beginning, when it has so many beginnings, how many people it has in it? I do not see that these critics, who make up literary laws, have done a lot different than closing two thirds of the best fairy tales without letting them say about them. Anyway, as I say it; and as no one should listen, if he does not like it, Im going to start where I enjoyed what is happening in Berlin. Germany, which I have been visiting for a long time after the Bourgeois War for men who fought for it all to show themselves there without the need for police protection.

Trylogia Saska (tom 1). Hrabina Cosel

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Losy hrabiny Anny Cosel jednej z najsłynniejszych królewskich metres, kochanki Augusta II Mocnego. Władca zakochał się w Annie Cosel, kiedy była żoną jednego z jego ministrów. Sprawnie i bez skrupułów przeprowadził rozwód, chciał ją bowiem mieć na własność. Przez wiele lat hrabina królowała na jego dworze. Była bardzo ustosunkowana i wpływowa. Jej silna pozycja nie odpowiadała jednak wielu ludziom z najbliższego otoczenia króla. Intrygami i plotkami doprowadzili do tego, że August odsunął ją od siebie, od dworu, a nawet od wspólnych dzieci. Ponieważ hrabina nie umiała pokornie zgodzić się na nowy romans Augusta, trafiła do więzienia. Została odcięta od rodziny, przyjaciół, towarzystwa... Powieść wraz z Brühlem i Z siedmioletniej wojny tworzy tzw. Trylogię Saską Kraszewskiego i ma mocne podstawy historyczne. Na podstawie powieści powstał film i serial Hrabina Cosel w reżyserii Jerzego Antczaka, z Jadwigą Barańską w roli tytułowej.