Louise de la Valliere

Alexandre Dumas

After The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and DArtagnan continues! Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Can it be true that the King is in love with the Duchess dOrleans? Or has his eye been caught by the sweet and gentle Louise de la Valliere? No one is more anxious to know the answer than Raoul, son of Athos, who loves Louise more than life itself. Behind the scenes, dark intrigues are afoot. Louis XIV is desperate to solidify his position as absolute ruler of France. Impending turmoil forces the Musketeers and dArtagnan to come out of retirement, but is it for the right reasons? A fantastic continuation of Dumass famous saga, Louise De La Valliere constitutes a must-read for fans of his work, and would make for a worthy addition to any collection.

Odyseja

Homer

Obok Iliady drugi z eposów, których autorstwo tradycja przypisuje Homerowi. Odyseja zaczyna się po dziesięciu latach wojny trojańskiej. Odyseusz ciągle nie wrócił do domu z wojny. Podróż tytułowego bohatera do domu prowadzi go przez wiele niebezpiecznych miejsc. Tymczasem syn Odyseusza, Telemach, ma dziesięć lat i dzieli dom z matką Penelopą i 108 młodymi ludźmi, których celem jest poślubienie Penelopy. Przez cały czas Penelopa trzymała zalotników z dala od siebie. Obiecała, że wybierze jednego z nich, gdy skończy tkać sukno pogrzebowe dla teścia. Jednakże każdej nocy rozpruwa pracę z poprzedniego dnia...

Angel Esquire

Edgar Wallace

Angel Esquire (1919) is a great crime story by one of the masters of the genre. This novella revolves around the hunt for an inheritance, or rather the word to unlock the safe where the inheritance is safely stored. A nasty old millionaire dies, leaving clues to the combination of his safe where all his fortune is hidden, to several people, and the race is on! Will the beautiful innocent young girl whose father was swindled by the millionaire get to it first? Or will the criminal associates of said millionaire beat her? Its up to Angel Esquire, the famous and unorthodox detective to be sure that youth and innocence win!

The Poisoned Pen

Arthur B. Reeve

The second collection of 12 of the early Craig Kennedy mysteries, written by Arthur Benjamin Reeve and published in 1912. His Craig Kennedy stories, of which these are early examples, earned their main character the nickname the American Sherlock Holmes, both for his highly rational and analytical detective work as well as for his ever-present Dr. Watson-like companion Walter Jameson. They solve crimes using cutting-edge technology of the early twentieth century with varying degrees of plausibility. This volume includes The Germ of Death, The White Slave, The Confidence King, The Invisible Ray, and eight more. Each story features a fascinating look at life in the early 20th century, and even includes some action along the way.

The Marble Faun. Or, The Romance of Monte Beni

Nathaniel Hawthorne

At the center of the novel is a group of four characters. These are two young American artists, Hilda and Kenyon, who were brought to Rome by a thirst to comprehend the secrets of art, and their friends the artist Miriam and the young Donatello, who are introduced into this circle not by a passion for art, but by love for Miriam. Everyone is struck by the similarity of the count with the famous statue of Praxiteles, depicting a faun. Most importantly, this similarity is not limited to external similarity: traits dominate in the depiction of his image, beyond which the innocence of a creature unaware of the existence of evil is revealed.

La Fort des aventures

Maurice Leblanc, André de Maricourt

On connaît Maurice Leblanc comme le pere dArsene Lupin. Ici il samuse beaucoup mler le réel et lirréel. Ainsi le petite Pierre fait la connaissance de Violette et ils font face laventure dans la fort voisine, une fort mystérieuse... Cendrillon, Grand-mere et le loup, Ali Baba, Barbe-Bleue, et mme le Prince charmant vont rencontrer les enfants. La Fort des Aventures raconte comment on passe de lenfance ladolescence et comment les fantaisies de lenfance laissent peu peu la place la réalité de la vie. Maurice Leblanc ne sadresse pas tant aux enfants quaux adultes... qui ont été des enfants.

Kobieta porzucona

Honoriusz Balzak

Powieść Kobieta porzucona Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Scen z życia prywatnego cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Akcja powieści rozpoczyna się bezpośrednio po zakończeniu wydarzeń opisanych w utworze Ojciec Goriot. Główna bohaterka, wicehrabina Klara de Beauséant, została właśnie porzucona przez portugalskiego markiza dAjuda-Pinto. Wyjeżdża do swojego zamku w Normandii, by całkowicie wyłączyć się z życia towarzyskiego. Jej izolacja staje się przyczyną licznych plotek. Szczególnie młody hrabia Gaston de Nueil jest zafascynowany tajemniczą arystokratką...

Stara Ziemia

Jerzy Żuławski

Trzecia część Trylogii księżycowej Jerzego Żuławskiego rozgrywa się równocześnie z akcją Zwycięzcy, tyle że na Ziemi. Pokazuje nowy system społeczny zapewniający bezpieczeństwo, ale oparty na wyzysku i nierówności. Planowana przez grupę intelektualistów rewolucja stanowi literacką odpowiedź na rozwijające się na przełomie XIX i XX wieku socjalistyczne ideały odnowy świata.

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.

Prodigals of Monte Carlo

E. Phillips Oppenheim

He might be almost forgotten now, but Mr. Oppenheim wrote an amazing 116 novels, including many bestsellers. Several are set amid the glamour of Monte Carlo, including this 1920s romantic thriller. The novel has an intriguing start, as handsome and charming Sir Hargrave Wendever gets a nasty shock from the doctor. Wealthy, handsome, intelligent, single, with the world at his feet suddenly he finds his world crumbling. What will he do? He decides to do some good with his money in the time he has left, and offers a penniless young woman a free holiday at his villa, with no strings attached. The reader is transported from the grey fogs of London to the sunshine of Monte Carlo, where, along with the hero and some new friends, the real adventures begin.

Ronicky Doone

Max Brand

His name was famous throughout the wild Old West. From Tombstone to Sonora hed won the respect of every law-abiding citizen-and the hatred of every bushwhacking bandit. While Bill Gregg stole Ronicky Doones best mare, Doone thanked him with a bullet in the leg. When he discovered that Bill was desperately searching for a girl whose name he didnt know, Ronicys interest was captured. Helping him track the girl down was no real challenge for Ronicky, but rescuing her from the evil New Yorker who held her prisoners might be another matter. But Ronicky Doone never backed down from a challenge! This is the first of a trilogy involving the adventure-seeking, straight-shooting cowboy. Another great read by Max Brand.

Rozdzióbią nas kruki, wrony

Stefan Żeromski

Szymon Winrych glówny bohater Rozdzióbią nas kruki, wrony to powstaniec styczniowy, który choć zdaje sobie sprawę z tego, że powstanie dogorywa, nie poddaje się i walczy do upadłego. Uparcie dąży do celu. Nie straszny mu głód ani ziąb. Nie boi się też samotności. Jego zaciekłość i konsekwencja w działaniu to rezultat świadomości, że po klęsce powstania pałeczkę przejmą przeciwnicy walki narodowowyzwoleńczej. Nie chce dopuścić do tego, aby zwolennicy lojalizmu dowodzili, że powstanie nie miało sensu, a jedyne, co przyniosło, to niepotrzebny rozlew krwi.

The Rome Express

Arthur Griffiths

Set in an era when train travel was a privilege of the wealthy few, Arthur Griffiths The Rome Express features the exciting story of a murder on a luxury train and the ensuing investigation with most of the characters coming from higher classes. The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just woken and informed that they will reach Paris soon, and a general bustle fills the train. Only one passenger cannot be awoken by the porter, no matter how loudly he knocks on the compartment door. At last, when the door is forced open, the occupant of the compartment is found dead stabbed to the heart! The murderer must be found among the passengers...

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...

The Tempting of Tavernake

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Tempting of Tavernake is written by Edward Phillips Oppenheim. He composed some one hundred and fifty novels, mainly of the suspense and international intrigue nature, but including romances, comedies, and parables of everyday life. The hero of this novel, however, is very unusual for several reasons. Tavernake is unemotional, unable to sympathize or even understand the most common social situations. He is diligent, precise, obsessive in his pursuit of wealth, but oblivious to the feelings of the people around him. They simply dont matter. He meets Beatrice Burnay an American in London without any money. Odd, uncomfortable, almost autistic, he rescues from hunger and possible suicide, and in return she educates him on the possibilities of human emotion.

The History of Mr Polly

Herbert George Wells

An intriguing HG Wells work, not of the sci-fi variety, which details a mans struggle to find himself and get along with his world. Published in 1910, this novel is the story of Alfred Polly, a generally non-descript member of the English lower middle class. The story begins when he is thirty-five years old, miserably unhappy with his life, both his circumstances and himself. In other words, he is a man with a badly muddled sense of reality who, sick of the life that he leads, burns down the outfitters shop that he has come to hate, gives his wife half of the insurance money, and disappears, exchanging his acceptable life as a shopkeeper for that of a wanderer. Unexpected events, however, conspire at the last moment to lead the bewildered Mr. Polly to a bright new future after he saves a life, fakes his death, and escapes to a life of heroism, hope and ultimate happiness.

The Elusive Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

It is the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierres revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly being thwarted. It appears that Sir Percy Blakeney the cunning and heroic Pimpernel is more than a match for them all. But Sir Percys spy-catching archenemy, Chauvelin, has devised a plan. Another fun adventure novel, and the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel. It continues telling the story of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel as they attempt to save more aristocrats from the Reign of Terror. Sir Percy attempts to smuggle French aristocrats out of the country to safety, while Chauvelin plays out a vile plot to eliminate the Pimpernel and his beautiful wife, once and for all.

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherines father. After Mr Earnshaws death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherines brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.

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?

Sebastopol. Historisch-politischer Roman aus der Gegenwart. Band III

John Retcliffe

Das russische Uebergewicht in Europa wurde vernichtet! Sebastopol! Welche Fülle von Erinnerungen knüpft sich an diesen Namen! war es doch ein furchtbares Ringen um den Besitz dieser Krim-Festung, deren Fall nach fast einjähriger Belagerung den Orient-Krieg entschied, den die Türkei, unterstützt von Frankreich und England, in den Jahren 1853 1866 gegen Rußland führte, um dessen Seemacht im Schwarzen Meere zu zerstören. Aber noch ein weiteres Ziel wurde durch diesen endlichen Sieg über die von Totleben, dem russischen Ingenieur-General aus dem Baltenlande erreicht.

Grzechy dzieciństwa

Bolesław Prus

Głównym bohaterem utworu Grzechy dzieciństwa jest Kazio Leśniewski, syn dworskiego oficjalisty i młodo owdowiałej hrabiny. Kazio kipi nadmiarem energii życiowej. Kiedy polując na jastrzębia, podpala oborę, hrabina decyduje, że należy oddać chłopca do szkoły w mieście. W Siedlcach Kazio nie przykłada się zbytnio do nauki. Traktuje szkołę jako przedłużenie okresu zabaw. Liczy na pomoc kolegów. Któregoś dnia staje w obronie maltretowanego przez klasę garbuska Józia, zyskując wdzięczność i przyjaźń kaleki. Kazio bagatelizuje jednak te uczucia. Wkrótce potem Józio umiera po wypadku. Wkrótce potem Kazio zakochuje się w Loni kapryśnej i próżnej córce miejscowej dziedziczki. Miłość ta doprowadza Kazia do konieczności wyboru pomiędzy spełnieniem banalnego życzenia Loni a udzieleniu pomocy Walkowi uciekającemu ze wsi. Kiedy Walek po ucieczce ze wsi ginie bez śladu, Kazio odczuwa wyrzuty sumienia, tym bardziej że przekonuje się o braku uczuć ze strony Lońki.

La Débâcle

Émile Zola

Lauteur restitue le déroulement des événements de la guerre franco-prussienne et analyse correctement les causes fondamentales de la défaite de larmée française. Une grande partie du travail est consacrée a la bataille de Sedan et a la destruction de la Commune de Paris. Au centre du roman se trouve le destin dun homme contraint de survivre dans des conditions sociales inadéquates.

The Black Camel

Earl Derr Biggers

The death of Hollywood actress Shelah Fane in her Waikiki beach house brings Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police to seek the identity of the killer. The story behind her murder is linked with the three-year-old murder of another Hollywood actor and also connected with an enigmatic psychic named Tarneverro. Through the confusion of alibis, false clues, and bizarre characters, Chan moves with the utmost calm until the classic gathering of suspects climax, when his form of justice hits with shattering force. This is the fourth of Earl Derr Biggers books in the Charlie Chan series. It is also the first book in which we meet Chans family. Well, his wife and four of his eleven children to be specific. Where the other seven kids have gone is never mentioned.

The Flying Squad

Edgar Wallace

The creek between the canal and the river flows under Ladys Stairs, a crazy wooden house inhabited by Li Yoseph known to the police as a smuggler. The neighborhood suspects he is rich, and knows he is mad. Inspector Bradley is out to break a drug-smuggling gang which operates from an old house overhanging the Thames; the gang is headed by a criminal called Mark McGill. The disappearance of young Ron Perryman whom McGill has murdered and dumped in the river gives the Inspector his ideal opportunity to begin asking questions... Edgar Wallace established his reputation as a writer of detective thrillers, a genre in which he wrote more than 170 books, with the publication of The Four Just Men.