The UP Trail

Zane Grey

The U. P. Trail takes place in the late 1860s during the building of the Union Pacific Railroad, the first to connect the east coast to the west. Our protagonist is Warren Neale, a civil engineer on the railroad. His girlfriend, Allie Lee, seems to be always in need of recusing. One of the most interesting characters is Neales best friend Larry "Red" King, a rough gun toting Texan cowboy. The heroes must battle the human challenges of greed, ruthlessness, and ambition, as well as the tremendous challenges of nature, to make the rail connection between East and West. The U. P. Trail is one of Zane Greys most detailed and panoramic Western novels; indeed, it is first-rate historical fiction in addition to being one of his most gripping romance-adventures.

Wodna Lilia. Opowieść dla młodzieży z czasów najkrwawszych walk Indian z amerykanskimi kolonistami

Bolesław Zieliński

Wodna Lilia Bolesława Zielińskiego to kontynuacja Orlego Szponu. Akcja rozgrywa się w Ameryce, po śmierci Marka Zebrzydowskiego i skupia się na jego żonie, Indiance Wodnej Lilii, oraz ich synach. Na wyraziście zarysowanym tle, prezentującym konflikt pomiędzy osadnikami francuskimi i angielskimi, rozgrywają się wciągające wydarzenia, w które uwikłani są młodzi potomkowie Polaka i Indianki.

Pattys Motor Car

Carolyn Wells

Patty enters a contest and wins an electric car, which she names The Swift Camilla. Then she and her family decide to buy a summer home on the beach. All of Pattys friends come up for a visit. Patty turns 19 in this book. Shes still not socially considered an adult, but her relationships are starting to get slightly more complicated. First appearance of Mona Galbraith. Pattys Motor Car is the ninth novel in the series of Patty Fairfield for young readers by the famous author Carolyn Wells. Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American poet and writer of detective and mystery novels, as well as childrens books, best known for her Fleming Stone Detective Stories. After 1910, she devoted herself to the mystery genre.

Pfarre und Schule. Eine Dorfgeschichte. Band III

Friedrich Gerstäcker

Der Weltenbummler Gerstäcker, dessen ausgedehnte Reisen ihn durch Nord- und Südamerika führten, gehört zusammen mit Karl Mai zu den populärsten Autoren von Abenteuerromanen seiner Zeit. Gerstäcker veröffentlichte eine Vielzahl von Erzählungen, Romanen und vor allem Berichte über seine verschiedenen Reisen. Pfarre und Schule ist eine Dorfgeschichte, eine klassische deutsche literarische Arbeit. Aufregendes Detail machen das zu einem außergewöhnlichen Interesse.

Iliada

Homer

Poemat o wojnie Greków z Trojanami. Obok Odysei drugi z eposów, których autorstwo tradycja przypisuje Homerowi. Dziesiąty rok wojny trojańskiej. Największy grecki wojownik Achilles w gniewie porzuca walkę z Trojańczykami, po tym gdy Agamemnon odbiera mu brankę Bryzejdę. Trojanie w ten sposób uzyskują przewagę. Patroklos, chcąc dodać otuchy Grekom, wkłada zbroję Achillesa i rusza na czele wojsk greckich przeciwko Trojanom. Sam widok zbroi Achillesa wystarczył, by Trojanie cofnęli się. Jedynie Hektor stawił czoła rzekomemu Achillesowi i zabił Patroklosa. Zrozpaczony po stracie przyjaciela Achilles zapomina o obrazie i po wykuciu przez Hefajstosa nowej zbroi, pragnąc zemsty, rusza w bój pod mury Troi, pod którymi oczekuje go Hektor. Strukturę Iliady cechuje stałe przenikanie się i korespondencja dwóch płaszczyzn fabularnych świata ludzi i świata bogów.

A Modern Cinderella. Or, The Little Old Show and Other Stories

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott created some fascinating short stories here. A Modern Cinderella: or The Little Old Shoe And Other Stories contains four short stories by Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women: A Modern Cinderella, Debbys Debut, The Brothers, and Nellys Hospital. Like her more famous novels, Alcott tells stories of young women interacting with people and events from the late 1800s. Louisa May Alcott bestows a truly amusing and thoroughly modern retelling of The Brothers Grimms Cinderella. Little Women is certainly Louisa May Alcotts best known book, but dont miss her refreshing version of this classic fairy tale, A Modern Cinderella. Alcott pokes fun throughout, describing a cool blonde as having many cares those happy little housewives never know. What modern gal doesnt appreciate that those old, worn out shoes are dependable and will take you far forget impractical glass slipper or stilettos! A great addition to the Alcott library of stories.

Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue

Frank L. Packard

The third book Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue in the Gray Seal series is quite fantastic! Jimmie Dale, alias The Gray Seal, alias Smarlinghue, the gentleman adventurer, is back on the scent with the King of crim and quarry. Over the head of the woman he loves hangs a menace from the gang, she and Jimmie have often thwarted, and through the previous volume saw the leader disposed of, and they free to marry and live their own lives. But Marie knows that there is still one, The Phantom, who menaces her. She again disappears to work out her own salvation... Jimmie too resumes his underworld work. A fast-paced, adventurous story riddled with aliases, disguises, gunfire and opium dens.

Over the Border. A Romance

Robert Barr

Over The Border: A Romance written by Robert Barr who was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist. This book was published in 1903. Robert Barr (16 September 1849 21 October 1912) wrote more than 20 novels. Among the more estimable are The victors (New York, 1901), about metropolitan politics, and The mutable many (New York and London, 1896), which focused on an industrial strike. Both had a distinctively realistic basis, and both were written more objectively and less floridly than was Barrs habit. A number of novels also had a Canadian setting. In the midst of alarms (Philadelphia, 1893) was a comic treatment of the 1866 Fenian invasion; as a teenager Barr had joined volunteers in St. Thomas in anticipation of such a disturbance. The measure of the rule (London, 1907) was a satiric romance about his experiences at the Toronto Normal School.

The Admirable Carfew

Edgar Wallace

Carfew was an erratic genius, with a horror of anything that had the appearance of discipline, order, or conventional method. So it was with some luck that there was a train disaster while he was working in the newspaper office of The Megaphone. He was dispatched to the scene and came back triumphant: The Spaniard is a fake! shouted Carfew. He had forgotten all about the railway accident. Shortly thereafter, so would his editor. The Admirable Carfew is a collection of loosely linked short stories. The slowly developing fortunes of a young entrepreneur, trying his hand at various deals, from stock dealing to theatre ownership and just managing to scrap through.

Ferragus. Chief of the Devorants

Honoré de Balzac

Ferragus is an 1833 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the Scenes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. It is part of his trilogy Histoire des treize: Ferragus is the first part, the second is La Duchesse de Langeais and the third is The Girl with the Golden Eyes. A captivating story about human emotions and relations, set in the year 1820. Balzac narrates the tale of a man who suspects his wife of infidelity. He shows how relationships can suffer through miscommunication. Balzac proves himself as an author above par by his insightful exploration of the fear of social failure and the way it defines and governs the pattern of human life. A classic tale loved by many for generations, a great addition to the collection.

Found Dead

Fred M. White

Found Dead is the story of Sir John Mortmain, who was a bum. He was a rich man, owning one of the best estates in North Devon. He was also one of the best novlist in his early years and almost made a name for himself. In a sense, he was quite popular, and yet there was a strange sensation of the abyss between him and the locals.

Ojciec Goriot

Honoriusz Balzak

Powieść Ojciec Goriot jest powszechnie uznawana za najważniejsze dokonanie Balzaka. Jej akcja rozgrywa się w Paryżu w 1819 r. Ukazuje losy trzech bohaterów: zaślepionego miłością do swoich córek starca Goriot, tajemniczego kryminalisty ukrywającego się jako Vautrin i naiwnego studenta prawa, Eugeniusza Rastignaka. W pensjonacie mieszczącym się przy paryskiej ulicy Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve mieszkają student prawa Eugeniusz de Rastignac, tajemniczy propagandzista Vautrin i emerytowany producent makaronu Jan Joachim Goriot. Ten ostatni często pada ofiarą żartów ze strony innych mieszkańców pensjonatu, którzy szybko odkrywają, że zbankrutował on, by wesprzeć swoje dwie dobrze wydane za mąż córki. Rastignaka, który przeprowadził się do Paryża z południa Francji, pociąga klasa wyższa. Ma problemy z dopasowaniem się do niej, ale jest prowadzony przez swoją kuzynkę, wicehrabinę Madame de Beauséant. Rastignac zdobywa względy jednej z córek Goriota, Delfiny de Nucingen. W międzyczasie Vautrin próbuje przekonać go do zdobycia panny Wiktoryny Taillefer, której dostęp do rodzinnej fortuny blokuje jedynie brat. Proponuje Rastignakowi otwarcie drogi przez zabicie brata w pojedynku. Rastignac odmawia wzięcia udziału w realizacji planu, ale wysłuchuje lekcji Vautrina na temat wyższej warstwy. Wkrótce potem mieszkańcy pensjonatu odkrywają, że Vautrin to poszukiwany przez policję mistrz zbrodni znany jako Ołży-Śmierć. Goriot, przeciwny tyrańskiej kontroli, jaką mąż sprawuje nad jedną z jego córek, Delfiną, sprzyja zainteresowanemu nią Rastignakowi...

The Spy. A Tale of the Neutral Ground

James Fenimore Cooper

Inspired by accusations of venality leveled at the men who captured Major Andre (Benedict Arnolds co-conspirator, executed for espionage in 1780), Coopers novel centers on Harry Birch, a common man wrongly suspected by well-born Patriots of being a spy for the British. Even George Washington, who supports Birch, misreads the man, and when Washington offers him payment for information vital to the Patriots cause, Birch scorns the money and asserts that his action were motivated not by financial reward, but by his devotion to the fight for independence. Peopled with memorable characters, some of them real life heroes like George Washington, The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper is a great blend of fact and historical fiction, constructed on a magnificent scale.

The Return of Bulldog Drummond

H.C. McNeile

A stranger comes to the house of detective Hugh Bulldog Drummond asking for help. Hugh is always ready to get down to business. However, two overseers abruptly appear, asking about a man named Morris, the famous assassin who escaped from Dartmoor. The detective says that they are looking for the wrong man and helps the criminal to hide. So who is this stranger?

Братья Карамазов (Bracia Karamazow)

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fiodor Michajłowicz Dostojewski

201eБратья Карамазовы201d 2013 великий роман, в котором испепеляющая страсть, борьба за наследство, поиски Бога переплетены так, что подводят к решению глобальных вопросов о самой сущности человека, о его природе. Загадка, связанная со смертью и кражей, полная накала и страстей любовная история, разворачивающаяся на глазах читателя семейная драма, сложные психологические события, множество дополнительных остросюжетных линий 2013 все это вместилось в роман 201eБратья Карамазовы201d, главной проблематикой которого является вопрос о Боге и бессмертии души. А в центре повествования, как всегда у Достоевского 2013 человек, терзаемый сомнениями, раздираемый страстями, жаждущий любви, власти, денег, мечущийся от добра ко злу и от зла к добру, ищущий свой путь, свою веру, своего Бога.

Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 16). Ród Rodrigandów. Walka o Meksyk

Karol May

Dalszy ciąg przygód z serii Ród Rodrigandów. Na ratunek mieszkańcom hacjendy del Erina spieszy Czarny Gerard, który udaremnia zamach. Następnie, pod nieobecność Hilario, razem z Kurtem i Sępim Dziobem uwalniają z klasztoru della Barbara bohaterów i odpierają atak bandytów. Kurt rusza na pomoc znajdującemu się w niebezpieczeństwie cesarzowi.

Dobry Dowcip Nie Jest Zły. Najlepsze żarty o lekarzach

Praca zbiorowa

Najlepsze żarty o lekarzach to zbiór 100 najlepszych dowcipów o lekarzach, lekarkach, doktorach i służbie zdrowia. Pełne sarkazmu, celnych morałów odnoszące się do życia codziennego. Dowcip lekarstwem na wszystko.

Mysterious Mr. Sabin

E. Phillips Oppenheim

When Lord Wolfenden saw, in the supper-room of the Milan Restaurant, a beautiful woman and became acquainted with her by saving the life of her elderly companion, the mysterious Mr. Sabin, as they leave the restaurant, he little knew the web of intrigue into which he was entering. Twists and turns galore, enjoyable descriptions about the upper-crust and by-gone days. Mr. Oppenheim can be depended upon to give his plots that turn which is as admirable as it is unexpected, and this is one of the best of his many good and exciting books. It was largely the success of his first spy novel, Mysterious Mr. Sabin, that enabled Oppenheim to relinquish control over the family business and devote himself to a full-time writing career.

Dzieje grzechu

Stefan Żeromski

Tragiczne dzieje Ewy Pobratymskiej. Dziewczyna pochodzi ze zubożałej szlacheckiej rodziny. Ma romans z żonatym Łukaszem, któremu jej matka wynajmuje pokój. Kiedy mężczyźnie nie udaje się uzyskać rozwodu, zostawia Ewę i wyjeżdża z miasta. Ewa wpada na jego ślad i podąża za nim. Żeromski ukazuje zawikłane losy kobiety, która poprzez porzucenie przez ukochanego popada w depresję i stacza się. Morduje swoje dopiero co narodzone dziecko, spotyka się z podejrzanymi mężczyznami, zostaje prostytutką. Dzieje grzechu w momencie publikacji wywołały sprzeczne oceny. Wśród publiczności literackiej powieść stała się niezwykle popularna. Krytyka zaskoczona tematyką utworu dopatrywała się dewiacji znakomitego talentu. Orzeszkowa podejrzewała pisarza o erotomanię, a Reymont uważał powieść za pozbawiony sensu i idei pomysł. Wszystkie te reakcje wywołało pierwsze tak odważne w polskiej literaturze ukazanie tematyki seksualnej i destrukcyjnej siły miłości. Warto przekonać się po latach, co było przyczyną tak skrajnych emocji.

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.

Hamlet. Królewicz duński

William Shakespeare

Dramatyczna opowieść o władzy, szaleństwie, zawiści, zbrodni i... miłości. Duch poprzedniego króla Danii zdradza swemu synowi, młodemu królewiczowi Hamletowi tajemnicę o morderstwie, którego padł ofiarą. Hamlet symuluje obłęd, aby upewnić się w intencjach nowego króla i dowieść mu popełnionych czynów, a następnie zrealizować ojcowskie zalecenie i dokonać zemsty.

The House of the Schemers

Fred M. White

There were various rumors about house No.13. There were no lights, badly painted blinds were always lowered, windows were black over the years. The feeling of loneliness and secrecy permeated the interior of No.13. Surprisingly there lived a young beautiful lady, about 20 years old. However, she was very frightened. And all this darkness was displayed on it.

Queen Lucia

E.F. Benson

The village of Rieseholm worships Queen Lucia. She completely commands the village, the ever-benevolent dictator of all things that really matter. However, someone had the pleasure of overthrowing a queen so great. And it was Olga Braisley, an opera singer from London. She is a real celebrity, not at all like that queen. Can she do it?

The Loudwater Mystery

Edgar Jepson

This novel was first published in 1920 and is along the lines of a classic whodunnit. Lord Loudwater is brash, short tempered and always bullying people. He was loved by none, feared by many and hated by all. When he is inexplicably found fatality stabbed with a letter opener, the list of suspects seems endless. Unfortunately for Detective Flexen, who is to investigate the case, Lord Loudwater was not a very agreeable sort of fellow and almost every person in his vicinity had a motive for the crime. Was it his young wife or her lover, his former fiancé or even one of the servants? If you like the old style crime novels where you are presented with a puzzle and have to try and work out who the killer is, then you should like this.