Das indische Tuch. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Lord Willie Lebanon, Herr auf Schloss Marks Priory, könnte ein glücklicher Mann sein. Aber der alte Lord Lebanon wurde mit einem indischen Tuch erdrosselt. Die Erben versammeln sich und vernehmen den vorletzten Willen des Verblichenen: Die untereinander verfeindete Familie soll sechs Tage und Nächte in seinem Schloss verbringen, um sich auszusöhnen, erst dann werde das endgültige Testament verlesen. Die Erben fügen sich der Bedingung und werden bald immer weniger. Bei ihrer Spurensuche nehmen Tanner und Totty von Scotland Yard zunächst Lady Lebanon ins Visier: Was hat sie hinter der verschlossenen Tür im Obergeschoss zu verbergen?

Jerry Todd and the Bob-Tailed Elephant

Leo Edwards

This is a fascinating story full of interesting new characters that will fill you with a giggle. Visiting Ashton on the day the elephant arrived, Reds parents hurried home when Aunt Pansy frantically told her that the gang was setting up a wild circus in the barn. The elephants predicament and amazing detective adventures combine to make this book one of the most exciting in the Jerry Todd series.

Guzik z kamei

Rodrigues Ottolengui

Powieść detektywistyczna utrzymana w kanonie amerykańskiej literatury kryminalnej. Akcja powieści rozpoczyna się od spotkania dwóch gentlemanów. Efektem prowadzonej przez nich polemiki staje się zakład. Czy można dokonać przestępstwa i nie ponieść kary? Czy istnieje przestępstwo doskonałe? Czy organy ścigania dadzą się zmylić? I wreszcie: co wyniknie z tego zakładu?

Lambro. Powstańca grecki. Powieść poetyczna w dwóch pieśniach

Juliusz Słowacki

Opowieść o greckim bohaterze żyjącym w XVIII wieku, ukazanym jako osoba słaba, niezdolna do ponownej walki. Punkt wyjścia stanowił dla Słowackiego żal spowodowany jego niemożnością wzięcia udziału w powstaniu listopadowym. W utworze po raz pierwszy w Polsce opisane zostały stany narkotyczne.

Pamiętniki

Jan Chryzostom Pasek

Pamiętniki Jana Chryzostoma Paska to zbiór wspomnień spisanych pod koniec życia przez polskiego szlachcica. Pierwsza część barwnie opisuje wojenne doświadczenia autora wojnę ze Szwecją, Siedmiogrodem, Moskwą oraz wyprawę wojskową do Danii. Pełno tam ciekawych spostrzeżeń, odkrywających światopogląd Sarmaty i jego ocenę innych kultur. Druga część opisuje sarmackie życie ziemiańskie. Wszystko podane soczyście, z humorem i werwą.

Król Ryszard III. Tragedia w 5 aktach

William Shakespeare

Kronika życia potępianego przez wielu króla angielskiego Ryszarda III, stanowiącego przez długie wieki ucieleśnienie wszelkiego zła. Szekspir podzielił ten pogląd, przypisując swemu bohaterowi liczne zbrodnie i przedstawiając go w najczarniejszych barwach. Uzasadniał w ten sposób jego obalenie i przejęcie władzy przez kolejną dynastię Tudorów, którzy władali Anglią w kolejnych wiekach.

The Crimson Sign

H.A. Cody

The whole story revolves around the colony of Acadia, which belonged to New France. For this territory was the most intense struggle between Britain and France. However, the territory was divided into British colonies, which became Canadian provinces and American states. This historical work and hook on everyone who is interested in history.

Elle et Lui

George Sand

Le roman autobiographique dun écrivain français remarquable. Cette histoire est la fois simple et complexe la fois: deux amoureux vont en Italie, mais ils ny trouvent pas le bonheur, mais vivent la tragédie dun malentendu mutuel et la breche pour les deux. Mais la signification du roman ne se limite pas au conflit de caracteres, car les deux personnages sont des artistes talentueux, ce qui introduit le probleme de la personne créatrice et les lois de la créativité dans le roman.

Podróż do Ziemi Świętej z Neapolu

Juliusz Słowacki

Poemat dygresyjny o zróżnicowanym charakterze i tematyce. Składa się z dziewięciu pieśni i opiera się na wzorze podróży poetyckiej. Klasyka godna polecenia dla czytelnika w kazdym wieku. Próbka poezji Wieszcza w najlepszym wydaniu.

The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown is an 1896 novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. Following the apparent murder of a man, a novelist comes under suspicion. Very enjoyable period piece with lovely descriptions and intense love between hero and heroine. He has to clear his name, as main suspect in a murder and he had sworn revenge and had taken an assumed name. Flashbacks to Italy. Full of rich and influential people with touch of Dickens with Benjamin Levy, the private sleuth who is obsessed with money. The author has acquired an admirable technique of the sort demanded by this novel of intrigue and mystery. Readers of Mr. Oppenheims novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship.

The Thunder Bird

B.M. Bower

The Thunder Bird is a sequel of Johnny Jewels story and it looks like our heroes didnt learn their lessons, as Johnny seems more stubborn and Mary V more spoiled. Johnny is determined to pay his debt before going back to the ranch and to Mary V, but this time his affairs take a foray into an international intrigue. The Thunder Bird is written in the year 1919 by B. M. Bower and contains all of the elements that made B. M. Bowers books a mainstay of the genre of classic Westerns. This book is one of the most popular novels of B.M. Bower, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

The Man with the Clubfoot

Valentine Williams

If you like English adventure and spy stories, during the Great War, Valentine Williams is for you. The brothers Okewood, Desmond and Francis, will steal your heart and inspire you to mix it up with any passing Hun. Desmond Okewood is a young British officer in the First World War who goes to Germany on an important secret mission. The Kaiser has written a letter which both the British and the Germans are eager to get their hands on. Desmond has a series of misadventures and soon attracts the unwelcome attention of Dr. Adolf Grundt, known as Clubfoot. Clubfoot that sinister figure, who limps menacingly, is one of the most cunning and dangerous secret agents in Europe and he wants not only the Kaisers letter, but the capture and death of Desmond Okewood. In The Man with the Clubfoot, Valentine Williams has written a thrilling romance of mystery, love, and intrigue that in every sense of the word may be described as breathless.

Dominie Dean. A Novel

Ellis Parker Butler

Humorous novel set in Riverbank, a fictionalized Muscatine, in a Mississippi River town. Pastor David Dean and his wife take up residence in this town, Iowa in the 1850s and learn how unaccepting a small town can be of new residents, even after a stay of decades. An interesting social history of mid nineteenth century life, emphasizing the dominance of crass commercial interests in the vicissitudes of small town life, written by an American author Ellis Parker Butler. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story Pigs Is Pigs, in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating geometrically.

Burza

William Shakespeare

Na skutek intryg i zawiści Prospero, prawowity książę Mediolanu, zostaje pozbawiony przez swojego brata tronu i wraz z córką Mirandą wyprawiony na morze w łodzi. Trafiają oni na niemal bezludną wyspę, na której spędzają wiele lat. Aż nagle u wybrzeży wyspy pojawia się statek. Dzięki swoim umiejętnościom magicznym Prospero wywołuje burzę, która sprowadza załogę statku na wyspę...

The Shaggy Legion

Hal G. Evarts

Arapaho Gilroy, who was briefly loved to call Rapaho Hill. He was known by many. He was known wherever there were Indians of any tribe or white people with many years of experience to the West. Arpakho, to some extent, was a real robber. He ran across adventures everywhere. For such a hero is interesting to watch.

Paul Campenhaye, Specialist in Criminology

J.S. Fletcher

These are great detective stories. Campenhaye solves secrets, at first he tries to understand who ukarl jewels, and then solves the mysterious murder. Every story has the least stress. The most interesting is the ending, it really will be unexpected.

Dick Merriwell Abroad

Burt L. Standish

Dick Merriwell Abroad is a book about the exciting adventures of a young guy. He did not just set off on adventures, but discovered the world from a new side. The main character is bold and persistent, since he went abroad without a doubt. This book will appeal to everyone, especially adventure hunters.

Lonesome Land

B.M. Bower

Pioneering Western writer Bertha Muzzy Bower was herself the wife of a Montana rancher for a time, so she brings a wealth of personal experience and psychological insight to this gripping narrative that follows protagonist Valeria as she enters into marriage and struggles with the often-harsh reality of rural life. Val is cast into circumstances that test her temper, strength, and sanity. One of her few contacts with the outside world is a friend of her husbands whom she despises. Their relationship gradually changes as her husbands true character is slowly revealed to her. Kent watches Val very closely as she struggles with poverty and a drunken husband. He knows Val is worthy of more than her husband can give. Is he the man to do it?

Jerry of the Islands

Jack London

One of Jack Londons most beloved books is about the amazing adventures of the Irish Terrier Jerry. From birth, Jerry saw from his master only care and love. But once his life changed dramatically Jerry was on an island inhabited by some natives. The natural mind, resourcefulness and courage helped the extraordinary dog to avoid many dangers and even find a friend in a hostile tribe of natives.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a story of selfishness, greed, and hypocrisy. The central character is old Martin Chuzzlewit, whose selfishness and cynicism, combined with his great wealth, cause him to mistrust everyone around him. Also a major character in the story is his relative, Mr. Pecksniff, an accomplished hypocrite, who covers his avarice with a mask of smooth piety and humility. Martin Chuzzlewit is a picaresque novel, which follows the genre convention of depicting the humorous adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits and corrupts society. As in most picaresque novels, the primary objective is social satire or criticism.

A Peoples Man

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The marathon supports the radical form of general strikes to put the entire English industry on its knees and begin a long struggle for the redistribution of wealth. In many eloquent speeches, he claims the cause of poverty. Lord Foley, by contrast, believes that the enemies of England are waiting for mass actions aimed at the collapse of the country, during which they will invade and win. The marathon is obstructed from all sides by opposition forces that are trying to bring it to their side.

Internes Cant Take Money

Max Brand

Jimmy Kildare met from the hospital every day and arrived at Tom McGuires lounge on the avenue. He always drank two mugs of beer. But one from the other, there should be a brain at the fingertips all day long, but two beers are not too far between man and themselves, if it has bumps on shoulders, and Jimmy Kildare had.

The Shadow over Innsmouth

H.P. Lovecraft

The Shadow Over Innsmouth follows a nameless narrator touring New England for information on his family, and studying the local architecture. The story describes a man who finds himself stranded in a half-deserted town with strange inhabitants. They look human mostly, but there is something odd about their eyes and their behavior. He meets the town drunk, Zadok Allen, who tells him the terrifying history of the town, about Devil Reef and mutant humanoids, sea gods, gold, and human sacrifice. When the narrator finds himself stranded in town overnight, he comes face to face with the towns horrifying secret... one not of this world... A story about the horror that could turn to wonder, the once perceived abyss is afterwards seen as the most fascinating destiny, and what was at first avoided at all costs is eventually embraced with open arms.

Le Mariage de Loti

Pierre Loti

Loti, lauteur sappelle Julien Viaud. Il est passionné par lIndonésie depuis que son grand frere, marin y est allé. Lui mme, est devenu marin dans le but de revivre lexpérience de son défunt frere. Cest dailleurs l bas quil se fait nommé Loti.