Eves Island

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. This novel is framed as several witness accounts to a fictious journalist and starts as an entertaining adventure yarn with even some pirate episodes, but the story looses steam at the half-way point when it turns into a very predictable society novel. Wallace follows his passions for horse-racing and adventure, and the title character in all his generosity and extravagance is clearly autobiographical. The story of a man who founds his own colony on an uninhibited island, returns to England to find true love and manages to keep the island out of the hands of various foreign powers.

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the novel The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the founders of American literature, once again, after a series of short stories and the famous Scarlet Letter, addresses the Puritan past and present of his homeland, New England. Legends and legends from national and family history, animated by the authors fantasy on Gothic themes, add up to the chronicle of the age-old confrontation of two families, which is implicated in greed, perjury and a tribal curse and which can only stop the love of young heroes...

Nowele

Józef Weyssenhoff

Nowele to zbiór utworów Józefa Weyssenhoffa, piewcy tradycji starego ziemiaństwa kresowego i łowów. W tomie znalazły się następujące utwory: Zaręczyny Jana Bełskiego, Za błękitami, Znaj pana, Pani Teodora, Pod piorunami, Wyroki, Dwa sumienia i Stara piosenka.

Bomba, the Jungle Boy at the Giant Cataract

Roy Rockwood

In this volume the reader is taken into the depth of the jungle where he meets Bomba in a life replete with thrilling situations. You meet Cody Casson, the old naturalist, and the White Hunters, Jake Dorn and Ralph Gillis who gives Bomba a Harmonica, matches, and revolver for saving their lives. The old naturalist gives him a hint of his father and his mother, and Bomba sets off to solve the mystery of his identity. He treks through the Amazon jungle to the Island of Snakes to find an old witch who may know the secret of his origins. From Moving Mountain Bomba travels to the Giant Cataract, still searching out his parentage. Among the Pilati Indians he finds some white captives. He finds, too, an aged woman who had at one time been a great operatic singer, and she is the first to give Bomba real news of his forebears.

Boyhood

Leo Tolstoy

The narration is conducted on behalf of the boy Nikolenka. He grows up, learns to forget grievances, experiences the first adult attraction to a young woman. The teenager is trying to convince himself that the appearance of a person is secondary, and most importantly this is the spiritual component. For people, Nikolenka prefers solitude.

The Sea Lady

Herbert George Wells

This charming, little-known fantasy by the author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds is also a sharply satirical look at the mores and moral of Edwardian England. During a family outing at the beach a family sees a young woman struggling further out in the water. Its only when they rescue her that they see that shes a mermaid. They quickly take her into the beach house, still unaware that the mermaid has planned the whole incident in order to meet a young man. Her motives are not quite clear; nor are her intentions of what she plans to do with the young man after she gets him, since she lives beneath the sea. On occasion she drops her guard and lets it be known she is death underwater. Will she be stopped in time from committing this dastardly deed? The Sea Lady takes a pretty good subject mermaid turned siren in proper British society and totally drops the ball.

Sępy skalne. Powieść z Dzikiego Zachodu

Karol May

Karol May powraca na swój ulubiony Dziki Zachód, aby kontynuować opowieść o Old Shatterhandzie. Po raz kolejny spotykamy legendarnego wodza indiańskiego Winnetou i jego lojalnego przyjaciela, którzy wspólnie ruszają na pomoc tym, którzy akurat ich pomocy potrzebują. Ponownie przekonujemy się też o potędze przyjaźni, dzięki której można pokonać największe trudności.

The Intriguers

Harold Bindloss

Churches, banks, offices and accommodations curiously combining the old and the newest pink tiers on a par with the magnificent red Frontenac Hotel. It would seem such a simple city. However, it was something unusual mystical. The people who lived here enjoyed life at first until something went wrong. The story is full of mysteries, and the answers to which lie at the very end.

Feuer im Schloß

Edgar Wallace

Der Alte ist ein geisteskranker Verbrecher, unter Verwahrung im Sanatorium von Sketchley Hill bei London. Doch dann bricht er aus. Nach 24 Jahren hat der Der Alte genug, er erschlägt den Wärter und bricht aus der Irrenanstalt auf Sketchley Hill aus. Nur wenig später trifft Lord Arranway auf einen Einbrecher in seinem Schloss. Wäre nicht Lady Arranway, hätte er den Verbrecher auf der Stelle erschossen. Und doch brennt das Schloss einige Zeit später bis auf die Grundmauern nieder. Nachdem das Schloss von Sketchley niederbrennt, wohnen Lord Arranways, seine Frau und seine Gäste im Gasthaus von Mr. Lorney. Einer der Gäste Lord Arranways wird ermordet...

Mistress Pat. A Novel of Silver Bush

Lucy Maud Montgomery

This book has a sequel, Mistress Pat, which describes Patricia Gardiners life in her twenties and early thirties, during which she remained single and took care of her beloved home, Silver Bush. All she could ever ask of life was bound in the magic of the lovely old house on Prince Edward Island. And now there was more than ever to do, what with planning for the Christmas family reunion, entertaining a countess, playing matchmaker, and preparing for the arrival of the new hired man. Yet as those she loved so dearly started to move away, Pat began to question the wisdom of her choice of Silver Bush over romance. Was it possible to be lonely at Silver Bush? Eventually, though, Pat will have to choose: the house shes loved her entire life or falling in love and starting a home of her own.

The Hundredth Chance

Ethel M. Dell

The Hundredth Chance is one of Ethel M. Dells most passionate and dramatic tales. Jack Bolton is the genius of the racing stable of Lord Saltash. He falls in love with Maud Brian, daughter of Lady Bernard Brian, who is married to the innkeeper Giles Sheppard. While Maud knows Jack is in love with her, she is half in love with Lord Saltash and does not love Jack. However, Lord Saltashs cruelty to her crippled brother Bunny makes her hesitate. She contemplates marrying Jack to protect her brother. Jack then takes the hundredth chance and asks Maud to marry him, hoping her love will come later. A classic romance and mystery/saga of a pair of star-crossed lovers, who, after many chances, have one last chance to express themselves.

Le Capitaine Paul

Le Capitaine Paul est un des premiers livres dAlexandre Dumas, qui nous montre, que lauteur est un grand écrivain et mme ses débuts. On peut voir son talent avec ses intrigues et sa passion de laventure. Cette fois-ci, il raconte de labordage, du prisonnier Lusignan et du capitaine de bateau Paul, qui écoute sa histoire. Il découvre apres plusieurs années la vérité de ses parents...

The Mahatma and the Hare. A Dream Story

H. Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard describes the plight of the protagonist. He loses his wife and daughter in a car accident, as he thinks through his fault. The main character goes into great depression and begins to drink. When the man was thinking about suicide, a stranger named Joren appeared and told him not to worry. He tells him about reincarnated souls and life after death. Joren teaches him to transcend his body.

Upiorny dom. Powieść sensacyjna

Ród Podbereskich zamieszkuje pałac na Kresach. Posiadłość jest mroczna, a na piętrze domu słychać nocą jęki i brzęk łańcuchów. W głębi pokoju widać przerażające zielone ślepia, a złe moce są wręcz namacalne. Jaką tajemnicę skrywa upiorny dom? Detektyw Dan przybywa z Warszawy, by wyjasnić tę łamigłówkę... Powieść kryminalna inspirowana losem rodu Potockich.

The Gay Triangle. The Romance of the First Air Adventurers

William Le Queux

From a derelict shed adjoining a lonely road which stretched for miles across the Norfolk fens, a strange shape slid silently into the night mist. It was a motor-car of an unfamiliar design. The body, of gleaming aluminium, was of unusual width, and was lifted high above the delicate chassis and spidery bicycle wheels that seemed almost too fragile to bear the weight of an engine.

The Romance of Golden Star

George Griffiths has written many science fiction novels. Each is unique in itself. The Romance of Golden Star is one of those. At the heart of the plot is a story about researchers who go in search of a Lost Inca tribe in Peru.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Possessing eternal youth and beauty produces exactly the same effect as sentencing a man to life without the possibility of parole. Both have nothing to lose and morals disappear before the desire for immediate self-gratification in all things. And so it is with Dorian Gray. Its a moral story so eventually his evil catches up with him and he dies, as does the criminal. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a fascinating novel in which a beautiful young man, under the poisonous influence of an older dandy, makes a bargain with the devil, according to which he stays young and charming while his portrait becomes a reflection of his conscience. Wildes novel is about youth and beauty versus experience; morality and the triumph of the senses over reason; sin and accountability; society, its hypocrisy and the depths of the human condition.

The Dream

Herbert George Wells

The Dream by H.G Wells follows the character, Sarnac, who lives a whole other life as Harry Mortimer Smith. Sarnac is at the height of his career as a scientist by discovering new research. Sarnac goes with his friends including his girlfriend, Sunray to escape for the holidays. Little does Sarnac know that he would be dreaming a whole new life as a different person. His dream world is peculiar rules and what is socially acceptable than reality. The roles of each member in this society is more conservative, yet relaxed at other situations. However, he finds that his dreams and the reality he has lived have become so entangled that he is no longer able to distinguish between them. The Dream is a 1924 novel by H. G. Wells about a man from a Utopian future who dreams the entire life of an Englishman from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Harry Mortimer Smith.

Poezje. Wybór

Bolesław Leśmian

W życiu Leśmiana nie było ani skandali, ani wielkich manifestów tak charakterystycznych dla Młodej Polski i dwudziestolecia międzywojennego. Twórczość poety ucieka od wpływu historii. Realizuje się raczej w wymiarach filozoficzno-metafizycznym i psychologicznym. Leśmian czerpał z twórczości baroku, romantyzmu i Młodej Polski. Inspirowało go wszystko to, co mistyczne, duchowe i co głęboko powiązane z Naturą oraz Bogiem. W swej poezji twórca wskrzesił świat fantastyczny. W tej ucieczce od rzeczywistości można doszukać się buntu, szczególnie względem nudnego, stereotypowego mieszczaństwa. Leśmian czuł niechęć do ludzi biernych, przeciętnych. Ideałem dlań był wolny i niezależny człowiek renesansu. Poeta często odwoływał się także do symbolizmu, przez co jego poezja uznawana jest za poezję filozoficzną.

The Pike Bearfield Stories

Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard turned to writing comic and dialect Western tales only late in his career, but he found an immediate and continuously successful market for them, and they are in many respects his most accomplished and polished works. The Pike Bearfield Stories is a collection of stories in the western genre, featuring Pike Bearfield the character who lead well-intentioned lives of perpetual confusion, mischance, and outright catastrophe. It includes: While the Smoke Rolled, A Gent from the Pecos Shave That Hawg! , Gents on the Lynch, The riot at Bucksnort. They are reminiscent of traditional southwestern tall tales, told in dialect, featuring larger-than-life characters, swift action, broad satire, and wry humor. All stories are fast-paced with simple yet effective plots that have a few surprises thrown in for good measure.

Gargantua i Pantagruel

Renesansowe dzieło François Rabelaisgo pisane przaśnym językiem ludowym, pełnym rubaszności i groteski, stanowiące świadomą grę z literaturą jarmarczną i heroiczną. Odwołuje się ono do wcześniejszych podań o olbrzymie Gargantui, które tak zainspirowały autora, że postanowił dopisać dalsze losy stwora, obdarzając go synem Pantagruelem. Można je odczytywać na wielu poziomach zarówno jako dialog z kulturą niską, jak i satyrę społeczną i obyczajową. Niniejsze polskie wydanie zawiera wszystkie pięć ksiąg oryginalnej edycji francuskojęzycznej.

Joshuas Vision

During the war, Joshua Fendik became rich against his will and found for himself an entrance to social circles, completely new to him. In particular, he falls under the influence of Robins Dale, a sculptor who supports a useless husband abroad. Robins mothers Joshua and prompts him to try his hand with a chisel.

John Flack. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Acht bis an die Zähne bewaffnete Männer von Scotland Yard bewachen einen Transport von 73000 Pfund Sterling. Aber der Geldtransporter mit Geld und seine Bewacher verschwindet auf der Straße von London nach Tilbury. Nach dem mysteriösen Verschwinden fehlt jede Spur. As wirklich geschehen?

Fear Stalks the Village

Ethel Lina White

Fear Stalks the Village will appeal to those who love detective. This novel is mysterious in its plots: people who live in an id? llic village receive anonymous letters accusing them of past mistakes. Secrets are revealed, and people begin to avoid each other, and then mysteriously begin to die. It turns out that this is not such an ideal and calm village.