The Cooks Wedding and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Many stories from this collection about animals and children. This is perhaps the cutest collection, with unusual animals and kittens. This story you can live and feel through the eyes of a child. The choice of the main character leaves a lot of question in the future, but we ourselves can guess the reason for this choice.

Tanglewood Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This is a fun collection, the second of Hawthorne, Greek myths slightly rethought and retold for children. These are famous stories with a rather friendly perception. Antey has some friends who are called pygmies, but it seems that their height is about six inches. But they are going to avenge him after Hercules killed him, and Big X good-naturedly accepts the loss. Theseus still kills the Minotaur, although the beast seems to be a kind of miserable soul, but does not leave Ariadne rather, she refuses to leave her father, despite all his flaws.

The Mouthpiece

Edgar Wallace, Robert Curtis

The novel of Edgar Wallaces famous play told by Robert Curtis in story form with all the dramatic excitement and suspense. In the shady setting of a solicitors office on the East End waterfront a plan is evolved all quite legal to get hold of a large American legacy bequeathed to an English girl. Murder is planned and tried: kidnapping, incarceration in a London barge, a dash for freedom, the intervention of the river police and knock-out drops all play their part in the unfolding of the tale which keeps its suspense to the last in as swift-moving a sequence of events as ever Edgar Wallace at his best devised. It is a case where the Yard was best not to call them in for reasons best known to the characters in the story as the reader will find for himself.

W osiem dni dokoła świata. Powieść z niedalekiej przyszłości

Stefan Barszczewski

Powieść o tematyce podróżniczo-przygodowej i fantastycznonaukowej. Rozwój żeglugi parowej i kolei żelaznych pozwolił bohaterom powieści Juliusza Vernea objechać świat wokoło w ciągu 80 dni. Rozwój lotnictwa i radiotelegrafii pozwoliły stworzyć zuchwały plan podróży dokoła świata w ciągu dni... ośmiu.

Ma confession

Léon Tolsto

Ma confession lhistoire de Léon Tolstoi a propos de la recherche de la foi. Il parle de son athéisme juvénile, qui la amené a 50 ans de déception face a la vie et aux idées de suicide. Il y a beaucoup de réflexions sur la recherche du sens de la vie, sur les contradictions de la science et de la religion, sur la recherche de soi. Il a vu la vérité dans la foi des travailleurs des paysans.

Bones

Edgar Wallace

This collection of episodes in the Commissioner Sanders series continues Wallaces subtly humorous look at colonial Africa. In Bones, Wallace spins an engaging yarn about the adventures of an intrepid lieutenant as he travels through Africa on a series of life-or-death missions. When Commissioner Sanders goes on leave, the trusty Lieutenant Hamilton takes over administration of the African territories. However, yet again, the trouble-prone Francis Augustus Tibbetts, known as Bones, while meaning to assist, only manages to spread his own unique style of innocent and endearing mischief. A richly detailed document of the colonial period, Bones is sure to spark the imagination of action-adventure fans.

The Tremendous Event

Maurice Leblanc

A classic novel blending romance, adventure, and science fiction, "The Tremendous Event" is sure to appeal to fans of Leblancs detective fiction. This romantic adventure novel set after the ocean floor beneath the English Channel emerges and links Britain and France. During the chaos following the disaster bands of vicious criminals and looters roam the newly exposed land. Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective, Arsene Lupin. From the start, Leblanc wrote both short crime stories and longer novels and his lengthier tomes, heavily influenced by writers such as Flaubert and Maupassant, were critically admired, but met with little commercial success.

Tajemnica torpedy

Sven Elvestad

Tajemnica torpedy Svena Elvestada to znakomita dawka kryminalnych emocji. Niezależny detektyw Asbjrn Krag otrzymuje pozornie niezobowiązujące zaproszenie od starego przyjaciela. Rusza do willi za miastem, aby przekonać się, że spokój przyjaciela zakłócają dziwne wydarzenia w sąsiedztwie. Co kryje się za tajemniczym krzykiem w domu starego dziwaka, paraliżującym okolicę?

The Way of the Spirit

H. Rider Haggard

This is another Haggard novel in which the characters lived their lives in anticipation of love after death. A history of pain, supernatural and love that survives death. In the book, the reader meets a young man named Rupert Ullershaw. When we first meet him, he is in a difficult situation, he enters into a love affair with the wife of his elder cousin, Lord Deven. However, this is not the love that he wanted to find and he goes in search of that one.

Katherine Christine

Hugh Walpole

Nicholas Harris, his father, and Rosamund Harris, his mother, looked at him with love and pride. Nicholas, a huge man, was 1603 fifty-nine years old this year, and his wife thirty-seven. They were in their own house in Westminster, and everything was fine with them. Robert, their only child, was three years old. He was wide and well-built, but not tall, his strong legs lay firmly on the ground, his round head sat well on his thick neck, his eyes were steady and piercing. He was still a child, but already had self-confidence and independence. Now he was a serious child: he only laughed when his father was at hand.

Florian z Wielkiej Hłuszy

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Małe miasteczko na kresach w czasie I wojny światowej. Kiedy do miasta wkraczają Niemcy, mieszkańcy ukrywają przed rekwizycją dzwon, zwany Florianem. Na tle akcji z dzwonem toczą się wątki obyczajowe. Dziedzic Alfred Rupejko kocha się z wzajemnością w Bronce, wnuczce dziadka Wereszczyńskiego. Wkrótce idzie do legionów. Po pewnym czasie Niemcy opuszczają miasto, które zostaje z kolei zaatakowane przez Armię Czerwoną. Jednak na odsiecz przybywają legioniści... Florian z Wielkiej Hłuszy to ciekawa i wciągająca od pierwszego akapitu lektura.

Genghis Khan

Jacob Abbott

The most amazing thing about this story is that we can feel the life story of Genghis Khan. Starting from being the son of a minor chieftain in Mongolia to becoming the ruler of arguably the largest empire in history. His name itself caused so much terror in the minds of the countries he invaded, that most of them just gave him the keys to their kingdoms hoping that he wont kill them all.The book Genghis Khan will tell you the story of the great ruler.

Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 13). Ród Rodrigandów. Maskarada w Moguncji

Karol May

Kurta Ungera spotyka niesamowite szczęście. Przed laty jego ojciec wysłał z Meksyku spadek, który niestety zaginął. Teraz podczas pobytu Kurta w Moguncji spadek niespodziewanie się odnajduje. W aferę zamieszany jest snujący szpiegowskie plany Landola. Następnie Unger i Sępi Dziób, po wizycie u Bismarcka, wyjeżdżają do Meksyku, by odszukać zaginionych bohaterów.

Puszcza jodłowa

Stefan Żeromski

Głównym bohaterem utworu Puszcza jodłowa jest narrator, a zarazem port parole samego autora. Narrator snuje wspomnienia dotyczące dzieciństwa. Wychowywał się na Kielecczyźnie. Wspomina góry, po których chodził za młodu: Łysicę, Klonową, Kamień. Wspomina młodość jako życie niewinne, czyste w swej prostocie. Aż dochodzi do wniosku, że on sprzed lat to nie ten sam człowiek co dzisiaj. Dawne czasy i natura, która wspomina, jawią mu się niczym baśń.

The Day. Or The Passing of a Throne

Fred M. White

Many stories by Fred M. White have a spy theme. This story is no exception. The events take place during the First World War. Two men, Manuel and his young companion Luigi, are on a mission. The men have a problem: namely, a German wireless transmitter that they desperately wanted to find and stop.

Courier to Marrakesh

Valentine Williams

Perhaps Valentine Williams finest mystery thriller. Set in WW2, folk singer and guitarist Andrea Hallam gets caught up in a Nazi spy ring while travelling alone in Morocco. Kidnapped by Nazis who believe she holds a dossier on Hitler, the tale travels from entertaining wartime banter to sinister suspense and back again. She is swept into a plot to destroy or blackmail Hitler with some secret documents. But that enterprising villain Clubfoot (Dr. Grundt), wants to retrieve these documents. An exciting and emotional book from beginning to end. Courier to Marrakesh is the last entry in the seven book series about the evil Dr. Adolph Grundt. There are 7 books in the Clubfoot series of secret agent action novels, featuring Dr Grundt, an agent of the German government as the baddie.