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.

Trędowata

Helena Mniszkówna

Najsłynniejszy polski melodramat, którego akcja rozgrywająca się na przełomie XIX i XX wieku. Tragiczne dzieje miłości, której spełnieniu stają na przeszkodzie przesądy społeczne i fanatyzm członków arystokratycznych rodów. Stefania Rudecka tytułowa trędowata jest niezamożną szlachcianką. Pracuje jako guwernantka w domu hrabiny Elzonowskiej, ciotki ordynata Waldemara Michorowskiego. Młody magnat zakochuje się w pięknej Stefci. Wkrótce mimo licznych przeszkód zaręcza się z dziewczyną. Wyznaczona zostaje data ślubu. Miłość tych dwojga napotyka kolosalny opór środowiska arystokratycznego. Uznają ich związek za niemożliwy do zaakceptowania mezalians. Stefcia poddawana jest niezasłużonym szykanom... Dalsze losy Waldemara opisała Helena Mniszkówna w powieści Ordynat Michorowski.

Hushed Up!. A Mystery of London

William Le Queux

An interesting classic mystery, yes, I guess I could say enjoyable but to a certain extent... At first you are dragged to the edge of your seat wondering whats going to happen next or what the hell does this unusual introduction mean, then youre hit with a bunch of senarios that keep you wanting to just continue to the next chapter to see what will happen, then you realise that some of what you may have suspected in the beginning IS the conclusion to the plot...

Jankes na dworze króla Artura

Mark Twain

Na skutek tragicznego wypadku tajemnicze moce przenoszą Amerykanina Hanka Martina, z zawodu kowala, na dwór legendarnego króla Artura. Z miejsca popada w tarapaty. Uwięziony przez sir Sagramora zostaje uznany za ludożercę i wtrącony do lochu, gdzie oczekuje na wykonanie wyroku śmierci. Hank nie byłby jednak sobą ani tym bardziej sprytnym Jankesem, gdyby nie próbował wyjść cało z tarapatów. Szybko wkrada się w łaski króla i zostaje pasowany na rycerza. Naraża się jednak porywczemu sir Lancelotowi, któremu odbija narzeczoną... Jankes na dworze króla Artura to jedna z wazniejszych powieści autora.

Han dIslande

Victor Hugo

Han dislande est un roman fantastique de Victor Hugo ou mlent gothique et romantisme, le roman se ménage une place confortable. Caveaux funéraires, apprentis savants disséquant les morts, géant sanguinaire se jouant de la justice des hommes, ours polaire domestiqué... et Han, qui vit avec un ours et qui boit du sang humain. Un monstre, une révolte populaire, une ligne damours. Ce roman se semble dtre plein dinattendus!

LAffaire Lerouge

Émile Gaboriau

Célestine Lerouge, veuve, est retrouvée égorgée avec une sauvagerie effroyable. Tous les indices conduisent un jeune homme de bonne famille. Mais quelle est la vérité? Laffaire Lerouge est le premier roman judiciaire français. Son auteur, Émile Gaboriau, crée une intrigue policiere o se mlent la construction astucieuse et lhistoire amoureuse.

Drag Harlan

Charles Alden Seltzer

Drag Harlan is a gunfighter with a fearsome reputation. He is known for his quickness with his guns. A mean, hard country man, he comes quite accidently by a dying man, Morgan. Morgan is cattleman and has left his ranch to his only daughter, Barbara. Seeing honesty in Harlans eyes, Morgan asks him to go to his daughter and protect her from fortune hunters. Thereafter Harlan establishes himself as the protector of Barbara Morgan and deals out punishment to the girls enemies through the lightning flash of drawn guns. A story filled with hard action, toughened cowboys, and sweeping romance from an American author of Westerns Charles Alden Seltzer who also wrote under the pseudonym Hiram Hopkins.

The Daughters of the Night

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallaces novels always have an endearing quality about them that is not so easy to define. Daughters of the Night is hard to explain in a few words, but there are the usual Edgar Wallace characters: the hero, the heroine, the suspicious but beautiful woman who is somehow involved in the whole plot, the hard-faced and fiendish villain and a chivalrous one. Jim Bartholomew is a young manager of a branch of the South Devon Farmers Bank with a love of hunting, horses and a dislike of routine. What does he have in common with Margot, the beautiful Mrs. Markham and a handsome American? And what do the Daughters of the Night the three Roman deities who brought punishment to evil-doers have to do with this tale?

The Vultures of Whapeton

Robert E. Howard

This is a good book of four Western stories. The title story, however, is the longest. The Vultures of Whapeton suffers from a protagonist who is just a bit too manly and effective to be believed. Everyone who meets Steve Corcoran seems to instantly know hell just prevail in any kind of gunfight, no matter how outnumbered he is -- and then, of course, Corcoran goes on to do use that.

Silvertips Trap

Max Brand

At 30, Bill Naylor had spent half his life behind bars. Free again, and while looking for a new job, he saves a man from drowning. For Bill Naylor, there are all the others in the world, when it comes to being an outlaw, and there is Barry Christian. For Bill, Christian is the best, and the two wind up together, so Bill is all too ready to do the toughest thing that Christian has to throw his way. It involves killing Silvertip. It is Naylors chance to prove himself, and he know Christians plan cant fail. Something that Christians plan did not take into account will determine Naylors fate. "Silvertips Trap" by Max Brand is the seventh novel in the Silver Tip series that came out in 1943.

A Crime on Canvas

Fred M. White

Frederick Merrick White has written many novels or short stories, many related to London. Modest stories in his spirit. A Clue in Wax is a simple, kind story. The story that even in a dark London place a bright life can occur.

The Pathfinder. or The Inland Sea

James Fenimore Cooper

In the third installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper takes his main character, here called the Pathfinder (Natty Bumppo) and examines his role as an explorer for British/Colonial forces in the forests and islands around the Great Lakes. The story is a classic historical adventure/romance and Bumppo falls in love, for the first and only time in the five novels, only to see his choice fall in love with another man a younger man and good friend of Nattys. The Pathfinder remains a classic and entertaining account of the American wilderness and of aspects of human experience in the New World. Probably the best of the five Leatherstocking novels.

Tekla. A Romance of Love and War

Robert Barr

Written in 1893, Tekla: A Romance of Love and War is a novel by Robert Barr. Great fun if you like a bit of chivalry and men in tights. Strongly recommended this book for every teenager who wants to discover the exciting world of reading medieval stories and for their parents! Robert Barr (1849-1912) was a British-Canadian short story writer and novelist, who published the first Holmes parody, The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs in 1892. He relocated to London in 1881 where he founded the magazine The Idler in 1892 in collaboration with Jerome K Jerome. In 1895 he retired from its co-editorship and became a prolific novelist. Some of his works include: In the Midst of Alarms, a story of the attempted Fenian invasion of Canada in 1866; A Woman Intervenes, a story of love, finance, and American journalism and others.

Das Gesetz der Vier

Edgar Wallace

Das Gesetz der Vier ist die Fortsetzung von Die vier Gerechten, in der die gleichnamige Vereinigung von Rächern für Gerechtigkeit kämpfen, wo Polizei und Justiz nicht können oder wollen, sind zwar nur noch zu zweit nichtsdestotrotz kämpfen sie mit vollem Einsatz für ihre Fälle. Wenn das Gesetz des Staates Verbrecher nicht mehr belangen kann dann schlägt die Stunde der Vier Gerechten. Mit genialen und umsichtigen Plänen bestrafen die Vier Gerechten, kaltblütige Mörder, gemeine Erpresser und skrupellose Menschenhändler. Lose Weiterführung der Ereignisse aus Die vier Gerechten. Das Gesetz der Vier erschien erstmals 1921 unter dem Titel The Law of the Four Just Men. Jedes Kapitel ist eine in sich abgeschlossene Kurzgeschichte.

Fanny Hill. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

John Cleland

Fanny Hill, also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland. It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history of literature. The book is written as a series of letters from Frances Fanny Hill to an unknown woman, with Fanny justifying her life-choices to this individual. This fictional account of a young womans unconventional route to middle-class respectability is, in fact, a lively and engaging comic romp through the boudoirs and brothels of Augustan England, with a heroine whose adventures and setbacks never lessen her humanity or her determination to find real love and happiness. Fannys story offers modern readers sensuality and substance, as well as an unusually frank depiction of love and sex in the eighteenth century. The edition contains 12 original illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril, a French painter and illustrator of erotic literature.

The King Who Was a King. The Book of a Film

Herbert George Wells

Herbert George Wells is a huge name in the world of literature. He is known as the king of Science Fiction stories. He was an accomplished teacher, a best-selling novelist, a historian and a journalist, however, he established his name in the world through his passion for writing and will be remembered forever as Father of Science Fiction. The King Who Was a King The Book of a Film is a fascinating treatise on the development of film written by H. G. Wells and first published in 1929. Writing at the when cinema was beginning to explode, Wells explores the emerging industrys history, future, and the elements of contemporary film. H. G. Wellss conception of a great film, as much a novel as it is a film scenario. Poses the issue Is one man justified in shedding the blood of another, in order to avert the greater catastrophe of war?