The Red Bandanna

George Owen Baxter

Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his novels. Clancy Morgan must learn how to shoot a gun when his best friend is unjustly accused of murder; John Manner, on the lam from the law, finds a new identity in the frozen Arctic. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre. Max Brands action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world.

The Kings Arrow. A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists

H.A. Cody

This is a wonderful romantic story. All events take place in the forests of New Brunswick at the time of the arrival of the Loyalists. A charming tale of perseverance and loyalty to King George after the American Revolution. It hooks each historical basis.

Tymon Ateńczyk

William Shakespeare

Tytułowy bohater tragedii Tymon Ateńczyk jest majętny, więc nic nie stoi na przeszkodzie, aby wydać huczne przyjęcie i obdarować gości hojnymi prezentami. Jednak taka postawa nie jedna mu prawdziwych przyjaciół, za to skupia wokół niego osoby interesowne. Majątek Tymona pierzcha, a przyjaźnie zostają wystawione na próbę. Dochodzi do brzemiennych w konsekwencje zbrodni. Tymon obmyśla dotkliwą zemstę na fałszywych przyjaciołach.

Jedynaczka

Stefania Sienkiewiczowa

Jedynaczka to nieznana dotąd, nowo odnaleziona nowela autorstwa matki Henryka Sienkiewicza, Stefanii Sienkiewicz z domu Cieciszowskiej. Utwór mimo iż pisany zapewne w celach zarobkowych odznacza się sporym kunsztem literackim. Opowiada o losach osieroconej dziewczynki, wychowywanej, a właściwie rozpieszczanej przez zakochanych w niej dziadków, co w konsekwencji prowadzi do pasma tragedii w dorosłym życiu kobiety. Nowela ma zwartą konstrukcję, ujętą w tak zwaną ramę. Utwór otwiera i zamyka scena w salonie, gdzie losy tytułowej jedynaczki relacjonuje gronu młodych panienek gwoli ostrzeżenia i przestrogi sędziwy Pan S***. Jedynaczka to swoisty XIX-wieczny moralitet, w którym Stefania Sienkiewiczowa, matka czterech dziewczynek, przedstawia swoje poglądy na temat współczesnego systemu wychowania dziewcząt. Niniejsza popularna edycja stanowi pierwsze od przeszło 150 lat książkowe wydanie noweli.

Poganka. Powieść przy kominkowym ogniu opowiadana

Narcyza Żmichowska

Poganka to szkatułkowa opowieść o dawnych czasach, wywołujących wzruszenie, nostalgię i dominujące uczucie przemijania. Bohaterami są młody Beniamin, który w imię miłości porzuca zwykłe życie, i na wpół mityczna Aspazja, która jego życiem zawładnie. Powieść pełna symboli, ukrytych znaczeń, fantastyki i metafizyki jawi się jako dzieło na wskroś romantyczne.

Książę niezłomny. Z Calderona de la Barca. Tragedia w 3 częściach

Juliusz Słowacki

Książę niezłomny to swobodny przekład dramatu Pedro Calderóna dokonany przez Juliusza Słowackiego, jednak na tyle wzbogacony i rozbudowany, że stanowiący niemal autonomiczne dzieło. Opowiada o dziejach portugalskiego infanta wziętego do mauretańskiej niewoli za to, że nie chciał poddać muzułmanom miasta. Jego niezłomność urosła do rangi ewangelicznego symbolu.

The Valley of Vanishing Men

Max Brand

Valley of the Vanishing Men begins with Ben Trainor receiving a letter from home that tells him that his brother who was bound for Alkali Valley has been missing. Alkali Valley was a lawless desert outpost, known for its gunplay and gold. Ben Trainor rode into town searching for his vanished brother. Within twenty-four hours he had been slugged, shot at, and bushwhacked. ""Go home while youre still in one piece"" the sheriff advised him. But Ben decided to stick it out. And when his friend Silvertip slipped into town to help him out, it was just the two of them against a pack of gun-happy killers. Two men against a gang of killers!

Harvey Garrards Crime

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Harvey Garrard, as his limousine crawled over London Bridge and turned into the dingy streets beyond, leaned forward in his seat looking out of the window with the half-weary anticipation of one who revisits familiar but distasteful scenes. There was a faint air of disgust in his expression as the well-known odours of the neighbourhood assailed his nostrils. Forty-eight hours ago he had been living in a paradise of mimosa and roses warmed by Riviera sunshine, his senses reacting pleasurably to the mild excitement, the music and the gaiety of Monte Carlo.

Godfrey Morgan. A Californian Mystery

Jules Verne

Godfrey Morgan, the young nephew of a strikingly rich man William Kolderup and his future heir, believes that his life is extremely boring. He would like to fill her with adventures and travels, and is not going to marry as his uncle wants without having made at least a trip around the world. Mr. Kolderup is a resourceful and wise man, and, thinking, he agrees to Godfreys venture. Uncle William is confident that Godfrey will return from a trip as a much more mature and calm person...

Exit a Dictator

E. Phillips Oppenheim

In this novel tells about Alexander, the head of a huge movement aimed at returning to Russia a more conservative government. And also about his beautiful spy love, Anna, who works against the gang of butchers for the Soviet chief.

The Melody of Death

Edgar Wallace

An enjoyable short work from Edgar Wallace, originally published in 1915. Few people today would recognize the name Edgar Wallace but before his death in 1933 he was a literary force to be reckoned with. He was both prolific and popular and his books reportedly sold at the rate of 5,000 a day. The Melody of Death is a novel about a young man who starts behaving strangely upon hearing a certain melody. Fearing that he may be suffering from cancer, Gilbert Standerton asks the doctor to deliver the bad news in an unusual way. In the meantime, he desperately searches for a way of providing for his bride after his death-including crime. An excellent minor plot supplies an eerie atmosphere and explains the title. Edgar Wallace provides a thrill of another sort!

From Missouri

Zane Grey

In its first edition of the text based on the authors holographic manuscript, three sticks working on the Springer-Ranch attempted, through falsification of letters, to prevent East from learning from the arrival of the West to school. Their strategy failed due to the mysterious Frank Owens, whose love letters convinced her that she should come. Nobody knows who he is.

The Marvellous Land of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, set shortly after the events in the first book. A fantastical tale of endless imagination, The Marvelous Land of Oz follows the adventures of a young boy named Tip, who, for as long as he can remember has been under the guardianship of a witch named Mombi in the Land of Oz. When Tips prank, in creating a pumpkin-headed man to frighten Mombi backfires, and he is threatened with the terrible fate of being made into a statue as punishment, the young boy runs away and heads for the Emerald City, taking the now living Jack Pumpkinhead with him. Here he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as some new friends like the Wooden Sawhorse, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the amazing Gump. They thwart the wicked plans of the evil witch Mombi and overcome the rebellion of General Jinjur and her army of young women. This story is as exciting and endearing today as it was when first published more than 80 years ago.

Joan and Peter. The Story of an Education

Herbert George Wells

The book starts in late Victorian England and ends shortly after the first world war. It covers the transition between the end of the Victorian era, and the aimlessness of the next generation very well. The main characters grow up with the best education that can be found in England at the time, which is freely admitted to be not very good. They grow up and deal with love, decadence and the reality of war in a very meaningful way. Beautiful and brilliant this remarkable novel, with the subtitle The Story of an Education, is full of love, tragedy, World War I scenes and perspectives on German, Irish, Russian, British and American issues and values. Joan and Peter, orphaned at five and with four guardians, run the gamut.

The Shadow Kingdom

Robert E. Howard

The blare of the trumpets grew louder, like a deep golden tide surge, like the soft booming of the evening tides against the silver beaches of Valusia. The throng shouted, women flung roses from the roofs as the rhythmic chiming of silver hosts came clearer and the first of the mighty array swung into view in the broad, white street that curved round the golden-spired Tower of Splendor.

Le Rve

Émile Zola

Le personnage principal est une jeune fille qui a vécu longtemps dans la solitude. Elle a revé daventures et, bien sur, dun grand et pur amour. Des son enfance, elle revait dun grand exploit, puis dune mort prématurée ou dun grand amour; croyait que le beau prince la trouverait et laimerait a premiere vue. Une fois que le monde de ses fantasmes est devenu réalité.

Seifenblasen. Moderne Märchen

Kurd Lasswitz

Der promovierte Physiker und Mathematiker Kurd Laßwitz gilt als Begründer der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction, veröffentlichte daneben jedoch auch zahlreiche Arbeiten zu physikalischen und vor allem philosophischen Fragen. Der Autor beschreibt Zukunft und Raum, technische Möglichkeiten und deren Auswirkungen, Katastrophen der spezifischen Wissenschaftsglauben und innere Kraft des Menschen, die bei der Überlebung eine bedeutende Rolle spielt. In seinen Zukunftserzählungen wird jedoch trotz allen technischen Fortschritts immer wieder deutlich, dass die Menschen ihrem Naturell treu bleiben und dass die Liebe nie an Bedeutung verliert. Zu Besuch bei den Bewohnern der Seifenblase, die die Wissenschaft hochhalten und in einer schillernden Welt leben. Ein modernes Märchen vom Vater der deutschen Science Fiction.

Again the Three

Edgar Wallace

More adventures of Edgar Wallaces most popular characters, Manfred, Gonsalez, Poiccart, & Merrell better known to the underworld as the dreaded Three Just Men dedicated to punishing those whom the law cannot touch, in England, Europe, and America. Again the Three consists of 13 short stories: The Rebus, The Happy Travellers, The Abductor, The Third Coincidence, The Slane Mystery, The Marked Cheque, Mr. Levingrous Daughter, The Share Pusher, The Man Who Sang in Church, The Lady From Brazil, The Typist Who Saw Things, The Mystery of Mr. Drake and The Englishman Konnor.

The Wilderness Mine

Harold Bindloss

This is a novel that contains a mixture of romance and adventure. Events taking place in Canada. Readers can watch the life of a simple girl who, without money, went for a better life. A novel about a strong girl who, despite the obstacles, is ready to go to the end.

As a Man Lives

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Positively every one, with two unimportant exceptions, had called upon us. The Countess had driven over from Sysington Hall, twelve miles away, with two anamic-looking daughters, who had gushed over our late roses and the cedar trees which shaded the lawn. The Holgates of Holgate Brand and Lady Naselton of Naselton had presented themselves on the same afternoon. Many others had come in their train, for what these very great people did the neighborhood was bound to endorse. There was a little veiled anxiety, a few elaborately careless questions as to the spelling of our name; but when my father had mentioned the second f, and made a casual allusion to the Warwickshire Ffolliotswith whom we were not indeed on speaking terms, but who were certainly our cousinsa distinct breath of relief was followed by a gush of mild cordiality.

Mon frere Yves

Pierre Loti

Cest un roman semi-autobiographique de lauteur français Pierre Loti. Il raconte lamitié de lofficier de marine français Pierre Loti et du marin breton Yves Kermadeka, un travailleur acharné, dans les années 1870 et 80. Cétait probablement le livre le plus célebre de Loti et ses descriptions de la vie des Bretons la mer, bord dun navire et terre.

Maria Stuart. Drama historyczne w 5 aktach

Juliusz Słowacki

Dramat Juliusza Słowackiego omawiający losy Marii I Stuart, szkockiej królowej. Skupia się na krótkim wycinku życia Marii, która po śmierci prywatnego sekretarza Rizzia pomaga swojemu kochankowi zgładzić swego męża Darnleya. Na skutek tych wydarzeń oboje uciekli ze Szkocji. Dramat prezentuje Marię jako postać tragiczną, nieradzącą sobie z emocjami i władzą, która stała się jej udziałem.

La Petite Fadette

George Sand

Roman George Sand, chef-duvre de la littérature française du XIXe siecle. Les événements tournent autour de deux freres jumeaux inséparables et de la jeune fille Fadett, qui a transformé leur vie. Petite Fadetta est un roman dans lequel une mélodie de chambre poétique et nave est devenue un hymne lyrique au peuple.

Zamek kaniowski

Seweryn Goszczyński

Zamek kaniowski Seweryna Goszczyńskiego to mniej oczywiste oblicze polskiego romantyzmu. Poemat przenosi nas w mroczny i brutalny świat ziem ukraińskich, których mieszkańcy wszczynają bunt przeciw polskiej szlachcie i Kościołowi. Tytułowy zamek jawi się jako siedlisko zła, któremu pisana jest zguba. Dramatyczne wydarzenia opisane są plastycznym, budzącym grozę językiem.