Psałterz dziecka

Maria Konopnicka

Psałterz dziecka Marii Konopnickiej to zbiór wzruszających wierszy dla dzieci w formie modlitewnika. Pokazuje, że życie dziecka wcale nie jest beztroskie, ale pełne małych i dużych zmartwień, niepokojów i przeżyć, które ujęte w poetyckie słowa dają się jednak oswoić. Wiersze Konopnickiej wlewają otuchę w młode serce i pokazują, o co warto prosić, a za co dziękować i z czego się cieszyć.

What Maisie Knew

Henry James

The young heroine matures through her perception of family problems. The aristocratic family fell apart: the parents decided to live separately, but Macy does not agree with this. The girl is looking for a way to reunite her mom and dad...

Jeremy and Hamlet

Hugh Walpole

This is a horror book, but prone to human psychology. The book begins: between the kitchen and the pantry there was a certain window, which was a favorite for Hamlet. Thirty years ago these chronicles of 1894 the basements of houses in provincial English cities, even large houses owned by wealthy people, were dark, cold, odorous caves sizzling with bad gas and smelling of poorly prepared cabbage. The basement of Coles house in Polchester was the same bad, like any other, but this small window between the kitchen and the pantry was higher in the wall than other basement windows.

The Human Chase

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The six stories in Part I of this book trace the early career of Peter Benskin. He is a public school graduate with a small private income who joins the police force in London. After an early success he transfers to Scotland Yard where he becomes a detective. He is successful in solving several difficult cases but is hampered at times by his ethical feelings towards criminals who have been coerced or forced to commit crimes. He allows the innocent to escape, while he pursues the truly guilty. Part II of the book, which also consists of six stories, chronicles Benskins pursuit of and ultimate victory over a self-conceited master-criminal known only by the sobriquet Matthew.

The Finger of Fate

H.C. McNeile

The story of Staunton and Barstow, who are witnesses of a strange spectacle at a bar in an Austrian village. The aristocrat begins a formidable target training session on some playing cards the Five of Hearts and the Five of Spades. Barstow remains to witness this several times. Further stories of love, revenge, jealousy and destiny complete this exciting volume.

The Headswoman

Kenneth Grahame

The Headswoman is an unusual little tale about the power a woman can wield. A funny, witty, intelligent story about an executioner. Along the way, Grahame takes shots at lawyers and small town officials, among others. Thoroughly delightful and well worth reading.

Zagłoba swatem. Komedia w jednym akcie

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz to nie tylko autor niezapomnianych powieści i nowel, lecz także twórca sztuk scenicznych. Jednym z najpopularniejszych utworów jest komedia Zagłoba swatem. Autor napisał ją na 25-lecie swojej pracy twórczej. Wystawiono ją w 1900 r. równocześnie w czterech miastach: Warszawie, Lwowie, Poznaniu i Krakowie. Zgodnie z tytułem fabuła komedii osnuta jest na wątkach miłosnych. Panna Zosia, córka Oliwiusa, nie otrzymuje zgody na małżeństwo z żołnierzem Janem Zarembą. I tu wkracza do akcji imć pan Zagłoba, którego fortel sprawia, że komedia może zwać się komedią, panna Zosia zaś panną być przestanie.

The Lieutenant and Others

H.C. McNeile

The Lieutenant and Others a collection of stories written during the First World War. A novella written and published at the height of the war in 1916 by a soldier is approaching a real deal in its self-deprecating and ironic views on life in wartime. Here we can see a lot of dangerous moments that soldiers went through in the First World War. The book will not leave anyone indifferent.

Twelfth Night, or, What You Will

William Shakespeare

This is one of the most funny Shakespeare comedies, full of jokes and life-affirming optimism, elegant, brilliantly refined, built on aphorisms, wordplay and mind games. In her family, a meeting with which seems unthinkable, are unexpectedly. And the happiness awaits the heroes right around the bend, and it doesnt matter that not where they are looking for him.

The Way of These Women

E. Phillips Oppenheim

England has not been invited to attend a conference of European nations in the Hague. Some think war is about to break out. The Vanished Messenger presents the international intrigue and conspiracy of the Powers against England to separate her from her colonies. Mr. John P. Dunster, an American, is traveling to the Hague with an important document that may prevent the outbreak of war when he mysteriously disappears after a train wreck in England. Richard Hamel is asked by the British government to attempt to solve the mystery of Dunsters disappearance and prevent the outbreak of war in Europe. Intriguing spy novel with a murder, espionage and dramatic denouement nicely plotted and fully developed characters.

Love and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This is a collection of many outstanding stories of Chekhov. There is a pleasant and patient satire in all Chekovs stories, most of which are tragic, some are political, and all of them are revealed in many complex topics. The stories in this anthology bring back memories of a different time and place when life was completely different. These stories will hook everyone.

The New Machiavelli

Herbert George Wells

About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure. A successful author and Liberal MP Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life is thrown when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire. At first, he struggles to resist and remain focused upon his familiar political, personal and social life. But as he soon learns, it is harder than he could have imagined to turn his back on love. In the character of Richard Remington, Wells created a damning portrait of an insufferable, egoistic, pontificating windbag whose attempts to set an agenda to improve society whether to uphold the British Empire or allow women to play a greater part in social life pays no attention to the effects on the people he is supposed to represent.

Who Killed the Husband

Hulbert Footner

Mappin is a wealthy New York criminologist and author who is highly valued by the police and high society. He participates only in those crimes that really interest him. And in Who Killed the Husband he investigates solely because all the people around him beg him to take action. In this story, a detective investigates the murder of a banker. The killer who, according to the police have already found.

Im Schillingshof

Eugenie Marlitt

Im Schillingshof leben zwei Familien eine adlig, die andere bürgerlich. Eine bürgerliche und eine altadlige Familie geraten aneinander. Die Konflikte resultieren aus einem kriminellen Fall von Wirtschaftsspionage. Doch es geht auch um Gefühle wie Hass, Hochmut, Stolz, Liebe und Eifersucht... Der Bestseller Im Schillingshof zählt zu den wichtigten Büchern im umfangreichen Werk von Eugenie Marlitt. Eugenie Marlitts Bestseller Im Schillingshof bringt Spannung und historische Bildung auf unterhaltsame Art. Als Meisterin des Spannungsaufbaus versteht es Marlitt, die Leserin mit vielen vagen Andeutungen und plötzlichen abgebrochenen Gesprächen lange im Ungewißen zu lassen.

Trzy serca

Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz

W majątku Prudy należącym hrabiostwa Tynieckich panuje wielka radość. Hrabina została szczęśliwą mamą Goga. Stan zdrowia nie pozwala jej jednak samodzielnie karmić maleństwa. Ponieważ w tym samym czasie Michalina, żona lokaja, również urodziła chłopca, zostaje mamką panicza. Gdy okazuje się, że życie jej własnego synka Maćka jest zagrożone, Michalina postanawia zamienić dzieci, które są do siebie łudząco podobne. Gogo i Maciek wychowują się w skrajnie odmiennych warunkach. Spotykają się jednak ze sobą, a także z wychowanicą hrabiny Kate. Wkrótce Gogo zostaje wysłany za granicę do szkoły. Wraca po latach do majątku w Prudach i zakochuje się w pięknej Kate. Podkochuje się w niej także skromny pomocnik ekonoma Maciek. Tymczasem Michalina na łożu śmierci wyjawia szokującą prawdę o zamianie dzieci. Czy obaj młodzieńcy potrafią dostosować się do zaskakującej dla każdego z nich nowej sytuacji życiowej i społecznej? Jak potoczą się losy Kate? Jest to czas ciężkiej próby dla trójki młodych ludzi znających się od dzieciństwa. Trzy serca to lektura warta polecenia.

The Shadow-Line. A Confession

Joseph Conrad

This book is about a young captain who is hastily given his first command of a ghost ship. Its about a first mate who will lose his mind to madness as the malaria sickness spreads without medicine. This book is about a calm sea with not a sigh of a wind to move the ship. The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad describes that demarcation line in the journey of life that divides the happy, bright, fantastic and irresponsible youth with the darker ages of manhood. Conrad goes on to delineate this vision as being beyond the charm and innocence of illusions. It isnt an elaborate story, but one that explores that moment, that shadow-line between youth and adulthood. It is a story about maturity, wisdom, experience. And, even though Conrad himself tells us this story is not about the supernatural, a curse and the first captain who died before Conrad took command, tells us otherwise.

Soldier Stories

Rudyard Kipling

Three Soldiers is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Three soldiers of this title - Leroid, Mulvani and Orteris, who also previously appeared in the collection "Simple Tales from the Hills." Books reveal the side of British Tommy in Afghanistan, rarely seen in the Twilight of the British Empire. The soldiers comment on their improvements, act fools, but right against the backdrop of the wars in the Middle East, when the British began to weaken their imperial possessions, they begin to act directly.

Tales of El Borak

Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such hero as Francis Xavier Gordon. Texas gunfighter F. X. Gordon traveled the world before settling in 1920s Afghanistan. The Afghans dubbed him El Borak for his quick thinking and skill with a sword and gun. The respected Gordon frequently mitigated tribal wars and conflict through guile or, barring that, violence. Contrary to Howards reputation, these were straight adventure stories with no supernatural elements. Every fan of Robert E. Howard and aficionados of great adventure writing will want to own this collection of the best of Howards desert tales.

Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 15). Ród Rodrigandów. Klasztor della Barbara

Karol May

W kontynuacji wydarzeń z tomu Grobowiec Rodrigandów Kurt Unger, Sępi Dziób i oficer marynarki Peters usiłują schwytać Corteja i Landolę. Akcja odnosi połowiczny skutek. Jednocześnie doktor Hilario z klasztoru della Barbara knuje spisek przeciwko księciu Maksymilianowi oraz Juarezowi. W paradę wchodzą mu Cortejo z Landolą. Mieszkańcy hacjendy del Erina znów są w niebezpieczeństwie.

The Reverberator

Henry James

The Reverberator is a short novel from Henry James. Comedy traces the complications. which leads when unpleasant, but true stories about Paris family fall into the American scandal sheet of the name of the novel. George Flack is a Paris correspondent for the American sheet scandal called reverberator.

Collected Short Fiction

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (also wrote as John Jessel and Marge Stanley) (1902-1935) was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, A Martian Odyssey, was published to great acclaim in July 1934. Most of the stories fall into two categories: travelogue types that explore different planets, and the others with Dixon Wells and the great scientist Van Manderpootz, who invents amazing stuff that Wells manages to use to break his own heart over and over again. A collection of stunning short stories written in the 30s but ahead of their time in their depiction of bizarre alien life forms. The final story in the book, Proteus Island, is a bit of an anomaly. Instead of being in the future or space, it seems set more present day.

Shadows in Zamboula

Robert E. Howard

Shadows in Zamboula is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in November, 1935. Its original title was The Man-Eaters of Zamboula. The story takes place over the course of a night in the desert city of Zamboula, with political intrigue amidst streets filled with roaming cannibals. It features the character Baal-pteor, one of the few humans in the Conan stories to be a physical challenge for the main Cimmerian character himself.

The Devil in Iron

Robert E. Howard

The fisherman loosened his knife in its scabbard. The gesture was instinctive, for what he feared was nothing a knife could slay, not even the saw-edged crescent blade of the Yuetshi that could disembowel a man with an upward stroke. Neither man nor beast threatened him in the solitude which brooded over the castellated isle of Xapur.

Господа Головлевы (Państwo Gołowlewowie)

Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин, Michaił Jewgrafowicz Sałtykow-Szczedrin

Тема романа Михаила Салтыкова-Щедрина «Господа Головлёвы» 2013 жизнь дворянской семьи в условиях дореформенной и пореформенной России. Пагубное влияние собственности на человеческую душу приводит к разрушению личности, показанному на примере распада семьи Головлевых. Центральным героем семейной саги становится человек, насквозь пропитавшийся ложью и лицемерием, внешне облеченном в форму благочестия и благоприличия. Тема распада дворянской семьи, её морального и физического разложения определила сюжет и композицию романа, показывающего историю никчёмного существования и нелепой смерти членов головлёвской семьи.