Glen of the High North

H.A. Cody

The author again focuses on two topics: wealth and love. However, you can find love when chasing money? Our hero could. But he made great sacrifices. And is it even possible to call it love when the original purpose was to find money?

Ulysses

James Joyce

Probably one of the most complicated books ever written, the story parallels Homers The Odyssey, and touches on every theme that exists, as well as explores every literary style that exists. At times, it has extremely lude and graphic sexual content and very foul language. Taking Homers Odyssey as a structural framework, Joyce builds on it a complex narrative of Dublin characters on one day Thursday 16 June 1904. Each chapter features a different prose-style to match its theme or subject. One chapter is even written in a manner which traces the history of English prose, from the Renaissance to modern advertising jargon.This includes the famous final chapter which is an unpunctuated eighty page soliloquy of Molly Bloom as she lies in bed at night, thinking over her life and the events of the previous day. Ulysses is a cornerstone of modern English Literature written by an Irishman in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris.

The Radium Seekers

Fenton Ash

Early science fiction, a cult classic, an enjoyable adventure. The story opens when our hero and his friends go to South America to look for radium, which has anti-gravity properties, and battle with a race of cruel Inca-type people who use the radium to fly, and disguise themselves as giant birds and terrorize the locals. The Radium Seekers is a fairly good novel written by Frank Aubrey. Francis Henry Frank Atkins (18471927) was a British writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. He wrote under the pseudonyms Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash.

The Circular Study

Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935), known as the Mother of the Detective Novel, is one of the first American writers of detective fiction. She was recognized for realism and well plotted story of her mystery stories. A tale of two families, betrayal, revenge, and murder, The Circular Story, written in 1902, is still an absorbing and notable work. We highly recommend this book to fans of classic detective fiction!

Leśna Różyczka (Tom 4). Leśna Różyczka. Piraci i książęta

Karol May

Piraci i książęta to czwarty tom przygód z cyklu Leśna Różyczka, czyli prześladowania dookoła świata. Grupa ciekawych świata bohaterów podróżuje po różnych krajach i kontynentach. Mierzą się przy tym z nowymi wyzwaniami, stawiają czoła niebezpieczeństwom, odkrywają tajemnice i podejmują walkę z różnej maści opryszkami, stając w obronie dobra i sprawiedliwości.

Najlepsze żarty o kochankach

Praca zbiorowa

Idealny mąż to taki, który zastając żonę w łóżku z kochankiem, powie: Wy dokończcie, a ja idę zaparzyć kawę. Idealny kochanek to taki, który w tej sytuacji potrafi dokończyć, co zaczął. 100 najlepszych dowcipów o kochanku, kochance i zdradach.

Acres of Unrest

Max Brand

The Hale brothers, both successful ranchers, had a disagreement: Ross believed that with a fine education his son Peter would become even more successful than he was himself: Andy believed the opposite. Peter returns from college to his fathers ranch after an accident has left him physically crippled but not without ability or enterprise. Max Brand, was the pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust. He was a prolific American author best known for his classic western novels. Brand also created the famous character Dr. Kildare which became the basis of many films and television shows.

Sanctuary

Edith Wharton

Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiancé, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and by societys willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis similar to the one that showed her his fathers moral weakness. With the precision, beauty, and sharp awareness of the cracks in upper-class New York society that made her one of the great writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton offers a subtle critique of the nature versus nurture debate that raged in the early 1900s. Sanctuary is a spare and moving investigation of the forces that impel human beings toward sin, self-doubt, and redemption.

Im fernen Westen

Karl May

Eine Erzählung ist eine frühe Abenteuergeschichte Karl Mays. Mutige Helden des alten Westens und ihre finsteren Gegenspieler, abenteuerliche Verfolgungen und Kämpfe, List und Gegenlist, nicht zu vergessen eine gute Portion Humor und das alles eingebettet in das großartige Panorama der Prärien und Felsengebirge.

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.

Twenty Years After

Alexandre Dumas

Anyone old enough to have friends they havent seen for many years knows how difficult it can be to get everyone together again. And when you do, its never quite the same. Thats the theme of Twenty Years After (1845), Alexandre Dumass sequel to The Three Musketeers that is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. This story follows events in France during La Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I. Here the much beloved DArtaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. In the original novel they defeated Milady, a formidable foe; now they need to face her vengeful son Mordaunt, as well as countering the machinations of the sinister Cardinal Mazarin. Translated into many languages and adapted for cinema and television, The Musketeer novels have helped to make Dumas arguably the most successful exporter of French culture to the wider world.

Owen Clancys Happy Trail

Burt L. Standish

Such a heartbreaking story will appeal to everyone.It was just a tow-headed, cross-eyed youth who tried to find his father in Los Angeles. On Saturday evening, there was a festival for the Chinese, where a dragon twisted and twisted, under which there were a hundred people. Perhaps his father is there...

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.

Muza z zaścianka

Honoriusz Balzak

Powieść Muza z zaścianka Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Scen z życia prowincji cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w prowincjonalnym Sancerre. Dawny spekulant, Jean de la Baudraye, poślubia ambitną i utalentowaną Dinę Piédefer. Małżeństwo to służy mu do zdobycia prestiżu i wpływów. Piękna i uzdolniona literacko kobieta jest bowiem niekwestionowaną królową tamtejszych salonów. Źle się jednak czuje na konserwatywnej prowincji. Pewnego dnia nawiązuje romans z przebywającym w Sancerre przejazdem paryskim dziennikarzem Stefanem Lousteau. Ten jednak szybko nudzi się tym romansem. Porzucona Dina podejmuje ryzykowną decyzję o samotnej ucieczce do stolicy. Pragnie kontynuować romans ze Stefanem, a zarazem zyskać literacką sławę...

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...

Nowele amerykańskie

Henryk Sienkiewicz

W lutym 1876 r. Henryk Sienkiewicz wraz z aktorką Heleną Modrzejewską i grupą znajomych wybrał się w podróż do USA. W owym czasie nie było to czymś powszednim. W Ameryce zatrzymał się dłużej w Kalifornii. Pod wpływem podróży do Stanów Zjednoczonych napisał Nowele amerykańskie kilka ważnych dla swej twórczości nowel i opowiadań: Komedia z pomyłek, Przez stepy, Orso, W krainie złota, Za chlebem, Latarnik, Wspomnienie z Maripozy i Sachem.