Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Alexandre Dumas pere

Dans ce roman Dumas réussit l développer franchement les relations humaines et le theme de la trahison pour aborder regrets, détermination et autres hantises de lesprit humain. grands coups de trésors, de secrets et de machinations, il nous conduit au gré des soubresauts du destin dEdmond Dantes! La magie et la dissimulation, la tromperie, lart du déguisement et les faux-semblants, et... la vengeance. Est-elle juste et facile vivre une fois accomplie?

The Man Who Forgot Christmas

Max Brand

After a successful prison breakout Lou Alp, a thief, and Jack Chapel, a wrongly accused person, form an unlikely pair and plan to rob a bank. But when the attempt at bank robbery goes awry with a bullet wound on Alps legs, Chapel comes forward to take care of him. But things are not going to be as easy as both of them fall for the same girl, Kate. What happens after this is sure to melt many hearts. No writer captured the excitement, humanity, or adventure of the American West better than Max Brand. And nowhere was Brands talent more evident than in this Classic Western. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

James Joyce first wrote Portrait as a one-thousand page novel, full of well-developed scenes and long explanations of Stephens motives, but he decided to trim it into a short book with a new sort of style. The novel tells the story of the first twenty years of Stephen Dedalus a young Catholic boy growing up in late 19th century Ireland. As the title suggests, this is the story not just of a young man, but of a boy developing into an artist. His search for knowledge and undestanding, and the decline of his familys circumstances, lead him to revelations on the nature of art and politics. His personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own nation, and forces him to decide whether to leave and accept exile, or to stay and fight. An semi-autobiographic novel, featuring a fictionalized character as Joyces alter-ego, it traces his formative childhood years that led him ambivalently away from a vocation in the clergy and into that of literature.

Lord Lister. Tajemniczy nieznajomy. Tom 14. Agencja matrymonialna

anonimowy

Bohaterem serii jest intrygująca postać o dwóch twarzach: wiktoriański gentelman Lord Edward Lister oraz słynny złodziej Raffles w jednej osobie. Jak w ogóle do tego doszło i co może wyniknąć z takiego niezwykłego połączenia? Jak bohater wykorzystuje niezwykłe zdolności medyczne i chemiczne, aby występować pod obiema postaciami? Komu udało się go rozszyfrować i jak wykorzystano tę wiedzę?

The Solution of a Remarkable Case

Nick Carter

Carter is probably the most famous private detective after Sherlock Holmes. It has been a character of pulp fiction since 1886 and has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century. Considered the King of Detectives, he was based out of an apartment on Madison Avenue in New York City and later out of Manchester. The Nick Carter name was treated as a pseudonym, and many of the volumes were written in first person. Nick Carter would go on to become one of the most popular heroes of the 19th and 20th centuries. In The Solution of a Remarkable Case, Nick investigates the mysterious death of popular dancer Eugenie La Verde, who has been brutally strangled in her bed.

Death of a Celebrity

Hulbert Footner

Many guys wanted the playwright, Gavin Dordress, to die. Especially on the night of his party. Gail Garrett and Bea Townley openly quarreled for the main role in the play. The next morning Gavin Dordress was found shot to death, a chessman imprinted on his forehead, and nearby a letter of farewell that sounded suspiciously like one of his stage characters speaking. Then a new and amazing hint hastened the seemingly hopeless hunt.

Jean Of The Lazy A

B.M. Bower

This was B. M. Bowers 15th novel, and like her The Phantom Herd a year later, it draws on her knowledge of the movie business. Sixteen-year-old Jean Douglas, the title character, is a no-nonsense daughter of a Montana rancher, Aleck Douglas, who in the opening chapters is wrongly found guilty of murder and sent to prison. With the help of a ranch hand, Lite Avery, she spends the rest of the novel finding the real killer. B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. This is one of her stories.

Młyn na wzgórzu

Karl Gjellerup

Powieść Młyn na wzgórzu duńskiego noblisty z dziedziny literatury Karla Gjellerupa daje wyraz fascynacji autora życiem wsi i duńskim folklorem. Opowiada o relacji owdowiałego młynarza z ukazaną jako femme fatale Lizą. Przesiąknięta pesymizmem opowieść o ludzkich namiętnościach, porywczości, pragnieniach oraz walce o ich realizację, ukazująca psychologiczne uwarunkowania bohaterów.

Jos Boys and How They Turned Out

Louisa May Alcott

Better known for her novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott continued the story of her feisty protagonist Jo in this final novel chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the March family. It is the only Alcott novel that has not had a film adaption. Originally published in 1886, two years before Ms. Alcotts death, Jos boys follows the lives of the young men readers came to love and cherish in its prequel. In it, we learn the fates of Jos sons Rob and Teddy, along with the other boys at Plumfield Estate School. Each boy must learn to deal with death, love, heartbreak, disappointment and the consequences of their actions. Entertaining, surprising, and overall a joy to read, Jos boys is nevertheless shaded by a bittersweet tone, for with it Alcott brought her wonderful series to an end.

Silinski. Master Criminal

Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author. In the 1920s, one of Wallaces publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. Silinski is one of Edgar Wallaces more over-the-top master fiends. He could teach Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley something about stock manipulation. Silinski and a group of gangster financiers make havoc with the markets, cause devastating financial turmoil. The action becomes ever more outrageous from there.

Обломов (Obłomow)

Iwan Aleksandrowicz Gonczarow, Иван Александрович Гончаров

Роман «Обломов» Гончарова входит в трилогию с двумя другими произведениями Гончарова 2013 «Обрыв» и «Обыкновенная история». В романе автор выводит важную для того время проблему российского общества 2013 «обломовщину», сделав имя главного героя Ильи Обломова нарицательным. Что такое «обломовщина»? Это определенный образ жизни, пассивная жизненная позиция, ничегонеделание, каждодневное лежание на диване, апатия.. Эта проблема актуальна и в нынешнее время. Человек, страдающий обломовщиной, может быть по сути своей умным, образованным и добрейшим человеком, но все устремления и желания его пропадут втуне. А ведь все могло сложиться по-другому... История неудавшейся карьеры, не сбывшейся любви, упущенных возможностей, но при этом, как ни странно, история жизни вполне счастливого, по собственному мнению, человека. Данное произведение многих читателей побуждает серьезно задуматься и, возможно, пересмотреть свою жизненную позицию.

Małe niedole pożycia małżeńskiego

Honoriusz Balzak

Małe niedole pożycia małżeńskiego Honoriusza Balzaka należą do Studiów analitycznych cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Utwór stanowi luźny zbiór porad dla młodych małżonków. Pisarz posługuje się archetypicznymi postaciami Adolfa i Karoliny de Chodoreille, parą typowych młodych małżonków wywodzących się z mieszczaństwa. W kolejnych studiach przypadków opisuje napotykane przez młode małżeństwo problemy emocjonalne, rodzinne, ekonomiczne oraz te związanych z wychowaniem dzieci. Mimo iż przywołane w utworze sytuacje są fikcyjne, autor inspirował się własnymi doświadczeniami lub też opowieściami zasłyszanymi w swoim bliskim otoczeniu.

A Daughter of Israel

Fred M. White

A Crime on Canvas is a story about a rich Blantyres family, which is one of the richest families in England. A few years later, the influence of Blantyres does not disappear. They are just as influential in their environment. The eldest of the Blantyres family decided to rent out their mansion. However, many bad rumors go about him.

Księżniczka Tarakanowa. Romans historyczny

Grigorij P. Danilewski

Powieść częściowo oparta na faktach historycznych. Tytułowa księżniczka to rzekoma córka carycy Elżbiety. Miała ona pretendować do rosyjskiego tronu po śmierci matki. Autor szczegółowo opisuje sytuację polityczną Rosji, dokładnie przedstawia historyczne postacie powieści. Wplata też w fabułę wątek miłosny, który nie jest poparty źródłem historycznym. Powieść Danilewskiego zalicza się do gatunku dramatu historycznego.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate in The Hound of the Baskervilles ?

Sick Heart River

John Buchan

Sick Heart River is the fifth book in the Edward Leithen series. This is Buchans last novel, about a man who is dying, and it must reflect Buchans own efforts to come to terms with his looming demise."Sick Heart River finds Leithen now in his late fifties facing a terminal diagnosis of turberculosis. Leithen has enjoyed a dazzling career as eminent barrister, member of Parliament, Cabinet minister, and attorney-general but with only months left to live, he leaves it all behind and takes up a whole new mission into the bleak arctic wilds of Canada. The friend of a friend, Francis Galliard, has gone missing in the North, and Leithen volunteers to find him and send him back, and so to die well, far away from the irking sympathy of his friends or the coddled atmosphere of the sick-room. But the North has some surprises in store for Leithen.