Mała trylogia

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Na tzw. małą trylogię Henryka Sienkiewicza składają się trzy, powstałe w latach 1875-1877, nowele: Stary sługa, Hania i Selim Mirza. Młody panicz Henryk i jego rówieśnik, syn bogatego ziemianina tatarskiego Selim Mirza, zakochują się w tej samej dziewczynie. Hania jest sierotą, córką wiernego sługi ojca Henryka. Między młodzieńcami dochodzi do ostrej rywalizacji o względy dziewczyny, obaj zostają ranni w pojedynku. Po powrocie do zdrowia Henryk dowiaduje się, że Hania przeszła ospę i została oszpecona. Dziewczyna odrzuca oświadczyny Selima i wstępuje do klasztoru. Selim wyrusza do Francji, by wziąć udział w wojnie francusko-pruskiej. Zachęcamy do przeczytania ebooka: Mała trylogia. Do zakupów powyżej 50,00 zł dodajemy bestseller literatury klasycznej gratis!

Wielki człowiek do małych interesów. Komedia w pięciu aktach

Aleksander Fredro

Ambroży Jenialkiewicz to człowiek, który ma wielkie plany, zawsze z powodzeniem realizuje świetne pomysły, knuje wyśmienite intrygi i zarządza wielkimi majątkami. A przynajmniej tak mu się wydaje.

Erotyki

Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński

Tom zawiera wiersze miłosne Mikołaja Sępa Szarzyńskiego, polskiego poety przełomu epok renesansu i baroku, najznakomitszego obok Jana Kochanowskiego twórcy literatury staropolskiej. W swoich Erotykach autor składa hołdy czterem kobietom: Zosi, Kasi, Anusi (przypuszczalnie Annie Sławskiej) i Jadwidze Tarłównie. Najwięcej wierszy pisze do Kasi i są to wiersze najbardziej zmysłowe. Na erotyki Sępa Szarzyńskiego wpływ miały przede wszystkim utwory miłosne Petrarki, ale także Horacego, Owidiusza i Katullusa.

The Great Shadow

Arthur Conan Doyle

Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, whose quiet way of life is shattered when a mysterious stranger steps ashore near his home. The stranger changes forever the lives of Jock, his cousin Edie, and his best friend Jim, sending the young men into the jaws of the final battle to defeat The Great Shadow that threatens to devour the whole of Europe. We see the boy grow into a soldier who fights in the Battle of Waterloo, and gives us his interesting insights on it. Drama, mystery, comedy, tragedy, and an enlightened look at the horrors of war and the last battle of Waterloo are contained in this tale.

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard is a volume collecting 8 short stories about a courier and cavalryman in the personal service of Napoleon Bonaparte. The stories in The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard are all told in the first person by an aged Gerard looking back on his military endeavours in the early 1800s when there was no man prouder to serve the Emperor Napoleon. Etienne Gerard is a dashing, chivalrous, and stalwart French officer who becomes involved various suspenseful and often comical political intrigues. He battles outlaws, Englishmen and Cossacks and always maintains a his honor and his style. However, despite his ludicrous self-adoration, Gerard is a hugely likeable figure owing to the fact that he does display the commendable traits of loyalty and bravery that he cannot disguise.

The Whisperer in Darkness

H.P. Lovecraft

The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. An Arkham university professor is contacted by a farmer living in a remote part of Vermont, who claims to have evidence of aliens living in the hills and mining a mysterious metal. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics. After visiting, the professor becomes alarmed at the mysterious change in the behavior of the farmer, including his assertion that the aliens can extract a human brain and keep it alive in jar for eternity. Wilmarth uncovers old legends about monsters living in the uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture or settle too close to their territory.

The Blanket of the Dark

John Buchan

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown is a time-tested adage that suits Peter Pentecost, a young monk and legitimate claimant to Englands Throne. But he is not alone as others are vying for power too. Soon a plot is hatched against the present King Henry VIII and Peter is sucked into the intrigue... Buchans description of the ruthless king is compelling. His knowledge of the time of Henrys reign and his love of the Oxfordshire countryside are apparent. This historical novel set in the time of Henry VIII vividly depicting both high life and low in the society of that time. A grand, sweeping historical drama. Set in Mediaeval England during a tense time as a the country waits for the new king to be crowned. A enthralling, richly detailed story of intrigue and passion.

Z głuszy

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Zbiór opowiadań Marii Rodziewiczówny głęboko osadzonych w krajobrazie Polesia. Pełno tu mitologicznych opisów, ludowych opowieści, bajań i gawęd. Zbiór zawiera utwory: Noc, Ul, Z tamtej strony, Czarna woda, Młyn Archipa, Na starej choinie, Wpisany do heroldii, Zachód, Pro memoria, Piaski, Szwed, Rozdroże, Posłaniec, Zagony i Czajki.

The DArblay Mystery

R. Austin Freeman

In this novel, Dr. Thorndyke builds a card house of wild speculations to solve a perplexing murder case, astonishing all observers, including the police. The victim is Julius D Arblay, an artist highly skilled at the rare French art of making wax-work figures and portrait masks. DArblay has a beautiful daughter, which leads to a romance with a young Dr. Grey who discovers the fathers body and brings the case to Dr. Thorndykes attention. Before the end of the story, the young doctor and his love will each have survived two murder attempts by an increasingly frantic killer. There are lots of great scenes: stalking scenes, vicious attacks on Dr. Gray and Marion with various weapons, a sinister scene in a dense yellow London fog, a humorous exhumation of a dead man of dubious identity, and very funny vignettes with a tippler of an old doctor advising Gray on how to handle troublesome patients. Thorndykes lovable lab assistant Polton has a starring role in this novel.

The Poison Belt

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Poison Belt, a novella by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is remarkable in that we, with the central characters, are permitted to witness what seems to be a global apocalypse, while enduring only minimal emotional fall out. Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. The mysterious substance suddenly becomes a deadly threat as the Earth passes through a belt in the ether, a belt of poisonous ether. To Professor Challenger it is clear that no animal or human life can possibly survive this encounter. Shutting themselves tightly up in Challengers house, they start to consider what may be done. But as their countrymen start to drop, will their oxygen last long enough to determine and implement a solution?

Lady Susan

Jane Austen

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted novel of Regency manners and mores that will delight Austen enthusiasts with its wit and elegant expression.

Old Surehand (Tom I). Old Surehand. Tom I

Karol May

Książki Karola Maya przyciągają czytelników ekscytującymi przygodami rozgrywającymi się w dzikich i malowniczych sceneriach Dzikiego Zachodu. Old Surehand to seria opowieści, której głównym bohaterem jest ów tajemniczy myśliwy. W rozwiązaniu jego rodzinnej tajemnicy pomagają mu Old Shatterhand i Winnetou. Cała trójka przeżywa przy tym wiele emocjonujących i mrożących krew w żyłach przygód, wielokrotnie ocierając się o śmierć w starciach z Indianami i niedźwiedziami grizzly.

The Secret of the League. The Story of a Social War

Ernest Bramah

The secret of the league is a dystopian novel written by Ernest Bramah in 1907. It was first published as What might have been: the story of a social war, but later was republished in 1909 as The secret of the league. The Secret of the League is kind of an underground oddity of a novel. Its a prophetic-warning novel, science fiction before that term was coined, largely sociopolitical but also with some charming technical extrapolations. The story centers around one mans daring and ingenious plan, enacted through a mysterious alliance called the Unity League, to stop the workings of the nations elected government in order to restore some measure of lost freedom and greatness, even at the risk of civil war. Its plot is developed rather patchily, and like most warning novels, was overtaken by real events and didnt come true. The Secret of the League was written, when the growth of the labour movement was beginning to terrify the middle class, who wrongly imagined that they were menaced from below rather than from above.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Possessing eternal youth and beauty produces exactly the same effect as sentencing a man to life without the possibility of parole. Both have nothing to lose and morals disappear before the desire for immediate self-gratification in all things. And so it is with Dorian Gray. Its a moral story so eventually his evil catches up with him and he dies, as does the criminal. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a fascinating novel in which a beautiful young man, under the poisonous influence of an older dandy, makes a bargain with the devil, according to which he stays young and charming while his portrait becomes a reflection of his conscience. Wildes novel is about youth and beauty versus experience; morality and the triumph of the senses over reason; sin and accountability; society, its hypocrisy and the depths of the human condition.

Dan Barrys Daughter

Max Brand

Hes an outlaw on the run. Harry Gloster is an accused murderer who, though innocent, is forced to hide. Harry is a heartbeat ahead of the posse. But neither twisted justice nor a gallows rope can stretch across the Rio Grande. Hell-bent for Mexico, Gloster meets up with Joan Daniels and shes a dream come true. Now hes got a choice. Kiss the sweetest thing hes ever seen goodbye... or stay and risk a lynching. One of many recommended westerns by this prolific author. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand.

Życie i przygody małpki. Pamiętnik szympansiczki Kaśki

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski napisał: Jestem pisarzem. Dużo podróżuję. Będąc w Afryce, otrzymałem od pewnego przyjaciela rzadki upominek. Była to piękna małpeczka, szympansiczka, imieniem Kaśka. Miłe, małe stworzonko przywiązało się do nas. Polubiliśmy ją bardzo. Zabawiała nas swoją wesołością i sprytem, rozrzewniała miłością do nas. Rozumiała wszystko... Mała Kaśka miała w swym życiu niezwykłe przygody. Opowiedziała nam o nich...