Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road. or The Black Rider of the Black Hills

Edward Lytton Wheeler

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or The Black Rider of the Black Hills is a fun shoot-em-up-cowboy book, rather than a serious western but the entertainment value is just as high. They called him Deadwood Dick, the Prince of The Road, the Black Rider of the Black Hills of Dakota. He was as famous for a time as Wild Bill Hickok or Buffalo Bill. It is the story of gold-seekers, settlers and criminals who all come together in a small area of the Black Hills. Theres Fearless Frank, a young man who saves Alice Terry, a damsel in distress, from Sitting Bull and his warriors. There is also The General, Geoffrey Walsingham Nix, an old man with a vision of gold. And naturally, there is young Deadwood Dick, first spotted gunning down a man offering a reward for his arrest.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

In this Gothic novella, Robert Louis Stevenson combines the horrors of the human soul with a disgust for the Victorian importance of reputation. Stevenson delves into the darkest depths of humanity, and seems to discover what Sigmund Freud would not publish for another 15 years: the repression of the id, or the instinctive side of human nature, by the super-ego, or the part of us that holds on to the cultural ideals and rules we were raised with. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a narrative about the complexities of science and the duplicity of human nature. Dr Jekyll is a kind, well-respected and intelligent scientist who meddles with the darker side of science, as he wants to bring out his second nature. He does this through transforming himself into Mr Hyde his evil alter ego who doesnt repent or accept responsibility for his evil crimes and ways. Jekyll tries to control his alter ego, Hyde, and for a while, Jekyll has the power. However, towards the end of the novel, Hyde takes over and this results in their deaths.

Under the Tonto Rim

Zane Grey

Over 30 million Zane Grey paperbacks sold since 1954. Lucy Watson has finally escaped from the town where she grew up. She takes a job as a state welfare worker and travels to distant Cedar Ridge to help primitive backwoods families improve their lives. She quickly overcomes their fears, and achieves popularity by the practical results of her work. From the grandeur of the old forests, loomed over by the immense Rim Rock, to the love of the children whose lives she can make more inviting, Lucy feels her soul expanding in its new setting. But amid the strapping hunters and uncouth drinkers, Lucy realizes that the life most likely to change is her own!

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

William Shakespeare

The king Antioch was a beautiful daughter. All the fiancés who came to Antioch were given one condition: to guess the difficult riddle; otherwise they will lose their head. No one could guess. Then one day young Pericles from Tire arrived at the kings court... Having solved the royal riddle, Pericles dares to flee in terror not only from Antioch, but even from his own country. This flight leads to a chain of events, losses and partings with loved ones.

Золотой теленок (Złote cielę)

Илья Арнольдович Ильф, Евгений Петров, Ilja Arnoldowicz Ilf, Jewgienij Pietrow

Роман «Золотой теленок» 2013 продолжение изумительного произведения Ильфа и Петрова «Двенадцать стульев». В нем вас ждут новые яркие герои, великолепный виртуозный язык и, конечно же, тонкий и искрометный юмор! Это уникальный роман в своем роде. В этой книге авторыв своем фирменном стилепродолжают рассказ о приключениях великого комбинатора и гения Остапа Бендера.Здесь появляются еще более неординарные и запоминающиеся герои, бывший слепой Паниковский, сын лейтенанта Шмидта, подпольный миллионер Корейко и другие не менее яркие личности. Ну а главный герой, как и прежде, не желая зарабатывать тяжелым трудом, комбинируя событияи придерживаясь Уголовного Кодекса составляет планы по выманиваю денежных знаков из бывших и настоящий обладателей состояния.

Gelimer. A.D. 535

Felix Dahn

Gelimer historischer Roman aus der Völkerwanderung (a. 534 n. Chr.). Rom erzittert vor den wilden kriegen der Vandalen, König Gelimer steht auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht. Währenddessen rüstet im Osten Byzanz zum großen Angriff. Glanz und Triumph am kaiserlichen Hof zu Aachen, der Ruhm Karls des Großen strahlt über ganz Europa. Blutige Schlachten mit germanischen Stammesfürsten und den heidnischen Mauren drohen. Aber der Stern des Frankenkönigs steigt unaufhaltsam.

Poezje. Wybór

Jan Kasprowicz

Wybór wierszy zawiera około stu najpopularniejszych utworów lirycznych polskiego poety, dramaturga i krytyka literackiego okresu Młodej Polski. Twórczość Jana Kasprowicza podlegała licznym przemianom estetycznym i światopoglądowym. Poeta był związany ze wszystkimi głównymi nurtami ówczesnej liryki, przede wszystkim z naturalizmem, symbolizmem oraz ekspresjonizmem. Był również prekursorem nowoczesnego wiersza wolnego, katastrofizmu oraz szeregu tendencji prymitywistycznych we współczesnej sztuce. Różnorodność wątków i tematów, jakie podejmował w swych utworach Kasprowicz, stanowiła odbicie bezpośrednich doświadczeń życiowych autora. Był przy tym osobowością głęboko religijną. W każdej ze swoich stylistycznych odsłon poeta zachował właściwą sobie indywidualność stylu, której nie sposób porównywać ze stylem innych twórcy tego okresu.

Wierna rzeka

Stefan Żeromski

Wierna rzeka opisuje okres powstania styczniowego. Po przegranej bitwie pod Małogoszczem do zrujnowanego majątku Niezdoły dociera ciężko ranny powstaniec, książę Józef Odrowąż. Tam zajmuje się nim córka zarządcy majątku Salomea Brynicka, która wraz ze swym wiernym sługą, starym Szczepanem, opatruje jego rany. Musi także przygotować bezpieczną kryjówkę na wypadek, gdyby do dworu przyszli Rosjanie. Salomea długo ukrywa powstańca i pielęgnuje go podczas choroby. Z czasem obdarza Odrowąża uczuciem wbrew przestrogom starego opiekuna Szczepana.

O poprawie Rzeczypospolitej

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski

O naprawie Rzeczypospolitej to doniosłe dzieło Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego, obrazujące stan Rzeczpospolitej doby renesansu i postulujące zmiany w duchu idealizmu politycznego, oparte na sprawiedliwych prawach i silnej władzy królewskiej. Traktat obejmował pięć ksiąg: O obyczajach, O prawie, O wojnie, O Kościele i O szkole, a tym samym stanowił rozległe kompendium wiedzy o działalności państwa.

La Comédie humaine. Volume VI. Scenes de la vie de Province. Tome II

Honoré de Balzac

Lhistoire dramatique de Lucien de Rübampre, un gentil jeune provincial qui fait ses premiers pas Paris. Dans une ville o tout est vendu et tout est acheté carriere et succes, position dans la société, patronage, confiance, amour et amitié. Et une sorte de symbole de ce Paris joyeux, cruel, trompeur et corrompu, sont les déesses de la demi lumiere de belles courtisanes, des dompteurs et des hommes ruineux...

The Amazing Judgment

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This is a very early novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim from 1897. The wealthy and bored Lord Hildyard, Marquis of Esholt, is on a yachting tour with a group of friends, including his kept lover, Pauline Owston. When Hildyard spies an apparently uninhabited island, he slips off the ship in search of adventure. In the middle of the night, he hears wonderful violin music and finds a young and beautiful girl, Bertha, playing in the forest. She is accompanied by a cruel and misshapen dwarf. Enchanted, Hildyard stays on the island, where he finds an old college chum, Stanley Owston, the estranged husband of the actress, who is the guardian of the girl, and the owner of the island. The adventures are continuing...

The Sundial

Fred M. White

John Charlock had found out that all he had longed and hoped for since the early days was nothing more than vexation of spirit. Charlock made his way upwards. He had known what it was to starve. He often slept in parks. And now everything has changed, and he has become almost unsurpassed as a portrait painter. Glory and happiness came to him thanks to his brush and pencil. And at the same time, he seems to have found the only woman who could make him happy.

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

S.S. Van Dine

Gracie Allen in this case is not a famous artist, but a worker in a perfume factory. She involuntarily gives the enchanted Philo Vance all the important clues in this murder of a gangster, in those days when Riverdale in the Bronx was a rural paradise. Vance meets her when she interacts with nature, and then again in a trendy restaurant where her brother plays an important role. For a moment, her mother appears, a gentle, faded lady who turns out to be as sharp as Gracie.

The Isle of Pirates Doom

Robert E. Howard

The long low craft which rode off-shore had an unsavory look, and lying close in my covert, I was glad that I had not hailed her. Caution had prompted me to conceal myself and observe her crew before making my presence known, and now I thanked my guardian spirit; for these were troublous times and strange craft haunted the Caribees.

Tom Sawyer, Detective

Mark Twain

Its an exciting adventures of Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn meeting with a ghost, finding a corpse, etc. Tom unexpectedly became a detective the boy showed amazing observation and outstanding deduction, which helped not only expose the diamond thief and solve the insidious murder, but also save the innocent man from prison.

The Sowers of the Thunder

Robert E. Howard

The Sowers of the Thunder is a short story by Robert E. Howard (published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932) that takes place in Outremer (the Crusader states) in the time of General Baibars and deals with the Generals friendly/adversarial relationship with Cahal Ruadh ODonnell, an Irish Crusader with a troubled past cut in the Howardian mold. Both the Siege of Jerusalem (1244) and the Battle of La Forbie feature in the plot.