Tales of the Anglers Eldorado, New Zealand

Zane Grey

New Zealand is one of the hottest industrial sites in the world. Known for the brilliant, crystal clear rivers, New Zealand, Zain Gray has the image of a great and mythical trout. In The Saga of Eldorado, the Seaman Gray combines the legendary streams, and also haunts a monster off the coast of New Zealand. This is an adventure story and fishing history right away.

The Bronze Hand

Carolyn Wells

The steamship Pinnacle leaves New York on its way to Liverpool. Suspicions are raised and cast when a first class passenger, a shrewd oil man, is murdered, his head battered in by blows of the sinister bronze hand, modeled from Rodins original, which the victim had prized as his mascot. The apparent motive is theft of jewelry for his new wife, whom no one can track down, not even knowing if the marriage has happened yet. But, who killed Oily Cox? What part did the bronze hand play in the murder? What was the real motive? Such are the questions which Fleming Stone, enlisted as a disguised passenger on shipboard, sets out to answer in his clever, inimitable manner. So a locked ship mystery and an enjoyable one!

Otello

William Shakespeare

Tytułowy Otello jest Maurem i dowódcą weneckiej armii. Poślubia on córkę weneckiego senatora Desdemonę. Za sprawą intryg i sugestii sfrustrowanego życiem Jagona, chorążego weneckiej armii, zaczyna wątpić w lojalność swojej żony i daje się opętać obsesyjnej zazdrości. Choć motywacje Jagona nie zostają ujawnione, jego szatańskie działania doprowadzają do bolesnej tragedii.

The Hand of Power

Edgar Wallace

The name, Edgar Wallace, threads through early twentieth century crime fiction like a stream that turns out to be a lot deeper and wider than you thought. During the 1920s and 30s, it was said that one of every four books read in England was written by Wallace, who ultimately produced 173 books and 17 plays. The Hand of Power is a tale about the sale of a desk designed by a butler who murdered his wife. This book has all the aspects of good mysteries from around 1930 a beautiful woman, a young man infatuated with her, a secret society, an evil man, lots of twists of plot, and a surprise ending. It takes place in London and elsewhere in England and on an ocean liner. Highly recommended for people who like to treat a mystery story as a solvable riddle.

Tajemnice Nalewek

Henryk Nagiel

Akcja powieści toczy się w światku żydowskich handlarzy i bankierów. Z kasy banku dzielnicy Nalewki znika duża suma. Kasjer odpowiedzialny za bezpieczeństwo gotówki leży martwy w swoim mieszkaniu. Podejrzenia padają na młodego pracownika banku. Co tak naprawdę wydarzyło się na Nalewkach? Zagadkę zamierza rozwiązać wywiadowca policyjny Fryga. Powieść kryminalna ukazująca klimat Warszawy za czasów carskiej okupacji.

Selected Stories

Talbot Mundy

The Soul Of A Regiment(Adventure, February 1912) SO long as its colors remain, and there is one man left to carry them, a regiment can never die; they can recruit it again around that one man, and the regiment will continue on its road to future glory with the same old traditions behind it and the same atmosphere surrounding it that made brave men of its forbears. So although the colors are not exactly the soul of a regiment, they are the concrete embodiment of it, and are even more sacred than the person of a reigning sovereign.The Pillar Of Light(Everbodys Magazine, Dec 1912)No birds twittered. There was nothing, either animal or human, amid the awful desolation of the Twelve Apostles, that seemed glad to greet the dawn. Aloes were the only thing that grew there, unless you count the sickly-looking patch of vegetables, some twenty feet by twenty, that succeeding reliefs of sergeants had coaxed on to the bald, hot hideous rock to make them homesick.Sam Bagg Of The Gabriel Group(The Saturday Evening Post, Mar 11, 1916)He was an even-tempered man, but it was not considered wise to approach him when he stood in that place, in just that attitude; and Luther, the imported half-breed missionary, hid himself among the plantains that formed the outer fringe of Baggs little garden, round the thatched bungalow.The Real Red Root(The Crescent, Jun 1919)BY birth and speech Dan Ivan is United States American, descended probably from Russian exiles, although he denies it and weaves theories to prove another derivation of his name. I met him first six thousand feet above sea level, where the lions were hungry on account of frosty nights and water was scarce; and hearing his voice before he came in view I thought at first it was a womans, for it was suggestive of a song about ideals.The Bell On Hell Shoal(The Passing Show, Jul 15, 1933)JOE MOLYNEUX told this story. We were sprawling on my rug on a Florida beach, staring at Hell Shoal, where the big new bell-buoy swam. The gulls and terns were waiting for the tide, half asleep on the abandoned hulk of Sharpes million-dollar yacht.The Avenger(This Week, May 16, 1937)"THERES only one thing worse than corruption when it comes to enforcing the law, and thats sentiment, said Quinn. He glanced through my library window at the distant row of eucalyptus. If I wasnt your friend, Id have raided that queer group at the end of your garden long before this. Theyre all tramps. Now I have a warrant for the one they call Sirdarhis right name is Duleep Singh. What makes you think hell be here tonight? Companions In Arms(Adventure, Nov 1937)John Lawrence Burnham joined the regiment in Flanders, nineteen, green from an English public school and Woolwich, rushed through special courses for the war. He had been born in Rajputana. The first words he had ever learned to speak were Rajasthani. His father, who had commanded the regiment, was killed near Dargai, and the only son, aged seven, went to England with his mother, to be schooled and, if he pleased, to forget and to be forgotten. He remembered. He used Rajasthani in his dreams, that were all of turbaned, bearded horsemen, the smell of harness, and the thunder of lance-shod squadrons knee-to-knee.Making 10,000(McClures Magazine, April 1913)"Said hed no time for hereditary boneheadsdashed if I know what a bonehead is, exactly, but Ill bet its something rudeand that he wouldnt let his daughter marry one on any terms! Said there were boneheads enough in the States, without coming across the water to find one! He added a lot of tommy-nonsense about the idea of an aristocracy being all wrong anyhow. So I asked him whether hed have liked me any better if Id been a brick-layer! The Lady And The Lord(The All-Story Magazine, Jun 1911)An actress who is not exactly in the first flight is bound to be more or less of a nomad; so there was nothing particularly astonishing in not hearing from Mrs. Crothers for several months. True, she might have written; but if she were ever to become famous, her autograph would be valuable for its very rarity, for she seldom wrote to anyone.Kitty Burns Her Fingers (The All-Story Magazine, Jul 1911)KITTY CROTHERS perennially hard up working at her profession for a few months, doing one-night stands all over the country, and returning to spend her hard-earned savings along Broadway we all of us knew and understood; but Kitty Crothers with money was something to make the gods on Olympus sit up and take notice.The Hermit And The Tiger(American Cavalcade, Nov 1937)It was many months before I saw a tiger, in full moonlight, in the graveyard at Mount Abu in Rajputana, where the legends on more than half the tombstones read from wounds inflicted by a tiger. He was insolent, arrogant, splendid, and I think he knew I watched him. At intervals he stood snarling and muttering as if he sneered at the names on the tombs of the men who had died of wounds from his ancestors fangs. It was a weird experience. I had no rifle. I could only watch.Mystic India Speaks(True Mystic Science, Dec 1938)MANY years ago, in Rajputana, the writer climbed several thousand feet above sea level for a moonlight view of an historic landscape. He was, in those days, an opinionated young Englishman, rather recently from public school, educated in the traditional white mans burden theory of empire and in the Church of England attitude toward religion. After months of wandering in India, it was only just beginning to dawn on his not very observant, nor particularly critical, but rather idly curious mind, that virtue is neither racial, national, nor even international, but universal; and that possibly lots of Western theories are wrong.

Poezja polskiego oświecenia

Praca zbiorowa

Niekwestionowanym mistrzem polskiej poezji oświeceniowej był Ignacy Krasicki, w którego satyrach jak w krzywym zwierciadle odbijał się świat ludzi i obyczajów. Gorzkie prawdy ujmował on w lekkie, sarkastyczne formy, które potęgowały prześmiewczy wydźwięk i jeszcze bardziej skłaniały do refleksji. Obok Krasickiego na uwagę zasługuje także sentymentalna twórczość Franciszka Karpińskiego oraz skandalizujące utwory Tomasza Kajetana Węgierskiego.

Tales of Men and Ghosts

Edith Wharton

In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910) consists of ten masterful ghost stories that listed here in chronological order of their original publication dates: The Bolted Door, His Fathers Son, The Daunt Diana, The Debt, Full Circle, The Legend, The Eyes, The Blond Beast, Afterward and The Letters. Despite the title, the men outnumber the ghosts, since only The Eyes and Afterward actually call on the supernatural. In only two of the stories are women the central characters, though elsewhere they play important roles. If you have never read Edith Whartons fantasy work before, you will be captivated and delighted.

Der Mann von Marokko. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Der Schwarze treibt in London sein Unwesen, keine Bank ist vor ihm sicher. Die Wohnung James Morlakes in der Bond Street ist die luxuriöseste dieser vornehmen Londoner Strasse. Mr. Morlake zählt zu den bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten der Gesellschaft. Man sagt, er lebe von seinen Zinsen. Viele wissen um das Doppelleben des Gentleman, aber alle schweigen aus Angst vor einem gewaltigen Skandal! Gibt es wirklich eine Verbindung zu dem bekannten und reichen James Lexington Morlake, der eine luxuriöse Wohnung in der vornehmen Bond Street bewohnt?

The Wistaria Scarf

J.U. Giesy, Junius B Smith

Sheldon, who was sentenced many times to imprisonment, has long been free. There were no rumors about him. However, his daughter is married and is going to the honeymoon, which paid for her father. The detective gets a phone call saying Sheldon has taken up the old business. And the detective goes to Sheldons daughter, whom he was in love with. The pursuit of Sheldon will never stop. However, maybe this time he is still not guilty?

Twin Sombreros

Zane Grey

A novel of honor lost, redemption found, and rip-roaring wild adventure from the original master of the American Western. Falsely accused of murdering Allen Neece, cowboy Brazos Keene had narrowly escaped a lynch mob. With his name at last cleared, Keene discovered that Neeces twin sisters had being forced off their ranch after the death of their brother, something that honorable cowboy Brazos Keene couldnt allow to happen. Brazos made a pledge to track down their brothers killers and get the ranch back. He became an instrument of vengeance, furiously shooting his way through the web of lies and greed that now hangs over Twin Sombreros Ranch. But Brazos also found himself hopelessly in love with both twins!

In Polar Seas

Fenton Ash

The works of Fenton Ash are highly prized among bibliophile collectors of classic sci-fi and fantasy. Fenton Ash was a pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-science fiction pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. In Polar Seas is a romance of adventure in the frozen North, targeted mainly at juvenile readers but billed as being for readers of all ages, it describes the adventures of a team of British explorers who discover a lost Viking civilization in a hitherto unknown temperate zone near the North Pole. If you havent discovered the joys of Fenton Ashs adventures there is a good place to start. Highly recommended!

Heart of the World

H. Rider Haggard

A love story taking place in Mexico at the end of the 18th century. The beautiful Indian princess and the Englishman fall in love, but suffer because of their feelings and her Indian origin. Also, the novel touches on the theme of the division of the Indians into two groups, after the conquest of Cortes. One group runs north and the other south and remains separate until the events of this novel unite them.

W cieniu wiązów

Anatole France

Pierwsza część cyklu Historia współczesna Anatolea Francea noblisty, wielkiego erudyty i bibliofila. France w mistrzowski sposób łączył wątki obyczajowe z pogłębioną refleksją dotyczącą otaczającego go świata, w której dawał wyraz sprecyzowanym poglądom socjalistyczno-pacyfistycznym. Budował światy na wskroś intelektualne i głęboko przeniknięte humanizmem.

Apache Gold. A Story of the Strange Southwest

Joseph A. Altsheler

Apache Gold, A Story of the Strange Southwest is a rip-roaring tale of adventure set on the Arizona frontiers of the American Old West written by Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 June 5, 1919). He was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. An abiding classic of western literature, our hero in this tale is Charles Wayne, a young but strong and sharp lad who seeks adventure in the southwesterly desert frontier of Arizona. Charles has terrifying encounters with wild beasts and Indians when he searches for the lost treasure of the Spaniards. Joseph A. Altsheler describes the vast open frontier evocatively, placing the reader in a time when equal measures of freedom and danger were abundant. Throughout Mr. Waynes traversals, were reminded of how difficult it was to survive let alone thrive in the Old West. The beauty of the unforgiving land forms a vibrant backdrop to the scrapes and challenges our heroes must face.

LAiguille creuse

Maurice Leblanc

Une aventure que se déroule en partie dans les lieux magnifiques: Ambrumésy et dans dautres villes françaises. Lhistoire de la battre contre Arsene Lupin un filou génial, et Isidore Beautrelet, jeune lycéen et détective amateur, lhistoire du jeu du chat et de la souris entre Lupin et linspecteur Ganimard et aussi lhistoire de lopposition entre un gentleman-cambrioleur et Herlock Sholmes. Mystérieuse chasse a lun des plus grands énigmes dArsene Lupin un secret de laiguille creuse. Mais personne ne sait quest ce que Lupin a lintention de faire...

Squadron of the Damned

David Wright OBrien

Looking for a satisfying, meticulously exciting adventure with which to while away an afternoon? Look no further than Squadron of the Damned, a short story from one of the most early writers in the genre of fantasy and science fiction, David Wright OBrien. OBriens work was space opera or other routine adventure, but many of his stories betray a strain of humor, not unlike Henry Kuttners at that time. Some of the stories were co-written with his close friend William P. McGivern, with whom OBrien shared an office in Chicago. He continued writing even after he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, adding corporal before all his pseudonyms.

Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą

Bruno Schulz

Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą to zbiór opowiadań Brunona Schulza, prozaika, grafika, malarza, rysownika i krytyka literackiego. Głównym bohaterem opowiadań, a jednocześnie narratorem wszystkich opowieści podobnie jak w Sklepach cynamonowych jest dojrzewający, nastoletni chłopiec o imieniu Józef. W postaci tej widać wyraźne podobieństwo do samego autora. Centrum świata Józefa stanowi małe prowincjonalne miasteczko, w którym można dostrzec współczesny Schulzowi, galicyjski Drohobycz. Rzeczywistość opowiadań swobodnie miesza się z fantastyką. Przedmioty i zwierzęta uzyskują cechy ludzkie. Banalne czynności podnoszone są do rangi mitu. Nastoletniego Józefa szczególnie fascynuje Ojciec, postać wieloznaczna, która funkcjonuje na pograniczu świata żywych i umarłych. Zbiory opowiadań Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą i Sklepy cynamonowe stanowią trudną do oddzielenia całość fabularną. W opowiadaniach utrwalony zostaje chylący się ku upadkowi świat, który dawał bohaterowi oparcie i bezpieczeństwo.

Scepter und Hammer

Karl May

Den Inhalt nachzuerzählen ist fast unmöglich, da sich eine verwirrende Fülle von Neben- und Randhandlungen sowie nach und nach entdeckten Vorgeschichten und Rückblenden auftut. Jedoch der Roman erzählt auf mehreren Handlungsebenenn die spannend-abenteuerliche Geschichte um Max Brandauer, den Sohn des königlichen Hofschmieds von Norland, und seinen Freund Arthur von Sternburg, den Gegenspieler des tollen Prinzen von Süderland, sowie auf einer anderen Zeitebene die Geschichte von Katombo, dem ehemaligen Geliebten der geheimnisvollen Zigeunerin Zarba, dessen Flucht vor dem intriganten und mächtigen Herzog von Raumburg ihn bis an die Ufer des Nils führt, wo er als Schwarzer Kapitän ein phantastisches Schicksal als Seeräuber erlebt. Scepter und Hammer ist ein Abenteueroman, der alle typischen Mittel der Kolportage wie familiäre Verstrickungen, Verschwörungen, Geheimbünde und das Motiv der Verfolgung rund um die Erde in einem spannungsreichen Bilderbogen zur Anwendung bringt.

Downland Echoes

Victor L. Whitechurch

Victor Whitechurch, a clergyman who became a mysterious writer, well known for his detective story Railroad Stories, was admired by Ellery Queen and Dorothy L. Sayers for impeccable conspiracy and factual accuracy: he was one of the first authors to submit his manuscripts to Scotland Yard to check for a police procedure. Downlands echoes analyze the life of a small village and the interaction of all the characters who live in it in everyday situations, from the funeral to the visit of the bishop.

Les Dents du tigre

Maurice Leblanc

Cest une autre histoire saturé des énigmes et des aventures. Un riche américain, qui sappele Cosmo Mornington, est décédé dans détranges circonstances. Il reste un grand héritage, que provoque une séquence des crimes en France. Si les descendants de la famille Roussel ne se retrouvent pas, largent sera remis Don Luis Perenna, qui est...bien sr! Arsene Lupin! Ce nest pas difficile pour lui dtre un distingué espagnol et chef de la Sreté Paris, dtre vivant et en mme temps dtre considérer comme un homme mort. Un personnage atypique et tres intrigant, qui risque sa vie pour lamour, il fait ce jeu passionnant.

The Lady of Blossholme

H. Rider Haggard

This is a story about the adventures of the time of King Henry VIII and the pilgrimage of grace. This is one of the most historical adventures of Haggard, in which there are almost no elements of fantasy. King Henry and Cromwell put in appearances and evil men plot against the good guys. There is also a love story involved between Foterells daughter, Cicely and the man shes loved since childhood, Sir Christopher Harflete

This Side of Paradise

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgeralds first novel, This Side of Paradise, focuses on several themes and illustrates some social and moral changes in America during the early 20th century. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Amory Blaine is utterly an idealist. He indulges in every sense of his dreams, to the point that it becomes detrimental to the state of his status in life. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgeralds original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgeralds youth and offers a poignant portrait of the Lost Generation. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking.

Nowele i opowiadania

Joseph Conrad

Na tom opowiadań Josepha Conrada składają się m.in. takie utwory jak Laguna, Placówka postępu, Falk. Wspomnienie czy Amy Foster. Tematyka Placówki postępu, podobnie jak późniejszego Jądra ciemności, przenosi czytelnika do afrykańskiej dżungli ery kolonializmu. Biali handlarze pozyskują od miejscowej ludności cenną kość słoniową. Jednak zapędy kolonizatorów sięgają dużo dalej, co wkrótce prowadzi do tragedii.