Jane Field

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

At first glance, this may seem like a simple fairy tale, but Mary quickly and with lively sympathy brings the various characters and settings to life. The main question is: what will happen to Jane and her daughter?

A Horses Tale

Mark Twain

It was interesting how Twain switched between stories. For example, a horse started a story from a first-person perspective. At first, people told, then letters told about past events, often to characters who do not participate in the events of history, and, finally, animals told other animals about the dialogue.

The Silver Horde

Rex Beach

A former American football star, Boyd Emerson has failed in several businesses. He did all this in order to get the hand of his rich lover, but failure seems to haunt him at every turn. Now he is trying his hand at salmon fishing in Alaska.

The Mirror of the Sea

Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrads Mirror of the Sea was a compelling read. From love to death, Conrad explains all this, using his life in the sea to match the human condition. The Mirror of the Sea is mainly about the adventures of Joseph Conrad when he was at sea. In the adventures described above, the author discusses the risks, struggles and dangers of sailing for sailors. While he and the crew sailed, they often encounter a great terrible storm. Sailors always run the risk of a storm, and their ship is sinking. The good thing about this book is that it has a lot of personification.

Rifle Pass

Max Brand, Max Brand

The name Max Brand is synonymous with great adventure and quality. Good men gone bad fill the pages of this Western trio, with stories of outlaws, horse thieves and a rowdy ranch hand who turns to stage robbery. This book contains three short novelettes: The Nighthawk Trail, Vamps Bandit and the title story, Rifle Pass. In Rifle Pass, ageing Sheriff Thomas Weller has one major problem: his son Dick Weller. Dick cannot seem to apply himself to anything. In a desperate attempt to have Dicks courage tested, the sheriff deputizes his son and charges him with the capture of Harry Sanford. Rifle Pass is another outstanding collection that demands your attention!

Czy Polacy mogą się wybić na niepodległość?

Józef Pawlikowski

Tę rozprawę polityczną wydano anonimowo w roku 1800 w Paryżu, ze względów konspiracyjnych podając w publikacji fałszywe miejsce wydania. Rzeczywiste autorstwo, przypisywane wcześniej błędnie m.in. Tadeuszowi Kościuszce, udało się ustalić ponad wiek później. Józef Pawlikowski był prawnikiem, publicystą jakobińskim i pamiętnikarzem epoki rozbiorów, na emigracji sekretarzem i bliskim współpracownikiem Kościuszki. Na postawione w tytule pytanie odpowiada warunkowo.

Profesor Butrym

Jerzy Żuławski

Profesor Butryn to drugi tom dylogii Laus feminae. Butrynowie uchodzą w środowisku krakowskiej śmietanki towarzyskiej I połowy XX wieku za szczęśliwą i spełnioną parę. Prawda jest niestety bardzo bolesna. Gdy para znajduje się w zaciszu swojego domu, uruchamia się fala wzajemnych oskarżeń, żali, niespełnionych oczekiwań oraz braku porozumienia. Profesor Butryn i jego żona Zośka to dobrzy znajomi Romana Turskiego oraz księżnej Heleny głównych bohaterów pierwszej części cyklu. Jaki wpływ na ich związek będzie miała owiana już legendą historia miłosna Turskiego i księżnej?

The Maid-at-Arms

Robert W. Chambers

This is an outstanding book written in the old style. The story is set between the middle and the end of the Revolutionary War and has a good mix of adventure, romance and complex characters with a bit of history thrown in for good measure.

Wiersze. Wybór

Stanisław Wyspiański

Stanisław Wyspiański, nazywany czwartym polskim wieszczem, tworzył w epoce Młodej Polski. Sławę i uznanie przyniosła mu twórczość zarówno malarska, jak i literacka. Tworzył liczne dramaty, utrzymane w duchu romantycznym i patriotycznym, pod wieloma względami nowatorskie. Zebrane w tomie wiersze Wyspiańskiego pokazują jego mniej znane, liryczne oblicze.

The Dark Star

Robert W. Chambers

Jim Nyland, an artist with a touch of Irish in his blood, becomes an amateur adventurer among professional spies who, in the style of the Hitchcockian protagonist, treat the danger in which he finds himself as nothing more than fun.

5 najpiękniejszych powieści. MultiBook

Joseph Conrad

Tom zawiera pięć najpiękniejszych powieści Josepha Conrada, angielskiego pisarza i publicysty polskiego pochodzenia. Problematykę jego utworów prozatorskich można określić jako psychologiczną. Conrad stawia rozmaite pytania moralne. Jakie są granice odpowiedzialności człowieka w obliczu zagrożenia przychodzącego z zewnątrz? Jakim próbom charakteru jest w stanie sprostać człowiek? Jakie jest znaczenie ludzkiej solidarności? Akcja wielu utworów powieściowych autora rozgrywa się na morzu, a ich bohaterami są marynarze. Ta egzotyczna sceneria Oceanu Indyjskiego jest doskonałym tłem dla rozważań na temat granic między dobrem a złem czy między prawdą a fałszem. W tomie znalazły się następujące powieści: Szaleństwo Almayera, Murzyn z załogi Narcyza, Lord Jim, Jądro ciemności i Tajny agent.

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

An American classic about Swedish immigrants in the Midwest. There lived in Nebraska a clever and beautiful woman named Alexandra Bergson, and she had three brothers. The older ones were greedy self-satisfied people, the younger one was a spoiled egoist, and she devoted her whole life to making sure they had a good life. I thought only about crops, livestock and land plots, but I didnt think about myself for the time being

Temporal Power. A Study in Supremacy

Marie Corelli

This book depicts the machinations and problems concerning the royal family and politicians in power in fictional England. A revolutionary conspiracy gathers momentum in an imaginary country ruled by an unpopular monarch, but it is eventually revealed that a surprising figure is the driving force behind the movement.

The Greene Murder Case

S.S. Van Dine

Gracie Allen in this case is not a famous artist, but a worker in a perfume factory. She involuntarily gives the enchanted Philo Vance all the important clues in this murder of a gangster, in those days when Riverdale in the Bronx was a rural paradise. Vance meets her when she interacts with nature, and then again in a trendy restaurant where her brother plays an important role. For a moment, her mother appears, a gentle, faded lady who turns out to be as sharp as Gracie.

The Man from Montevideo

T.C. Bridges

Peter Carr, with his usual skills, scattered flies through blazing puddles. And yet not a single fish moved, nor did the slightest rise reward him for all his efforts. Peter walked many miles that day, and the prospect of a quiet evening over the blazing peat fire was clearly pleasant. But before he walked another quarter of a mile, he was awakened by his pleasant reverie of a piercing call for help.

Serapis

Georg Ebers

Georg Ebers to żyjący w XIX w. niemiecki egiptolog i powieściopisarz. Sławę przyniosło mu odkrycie starożytnego egipskiego papirusu medycznego. Spopularyzował również egipskie podania za pomocą romansów historycznych. Powieść Serapis opowiada o grecko-egipskim bogu, stworzonym w III wieku p.n.e. na rozkaz Ptolemeusza I jako sposób na zjednoczenie Greków i Egipcjan w jego królestwie oraz o buncie chrześcijan przeciwko bogu Serapisowi.

Götiska rummen. Släktöden frn sekelslutet

August Strindberg

Götiska rummen lanserades som en fortsättning p Strindbergs genombrottsroman Röda rummet. Götiska rummen lanserades som en fortsättning p Strindbergs genombrottsroman Röda rummet. Götiska rummen lanserades som en fortsättning p Strindbergs genombrottsroman Röda rummet.

The Specimen Case

Ernest Bramah

Working name of UK author Ernest Brammah Smith (1868-1942) for all his writing; he is best-known for two series, the Max Carrados books about a blind detective, all of whose Perceptions are enormously enhanced, and a series of tales in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. At the height of his fame, Bramahs mystery tales, featuring the blind detective, appeared alongside Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine, even occasionally outselling them. This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1924. A collection of twenty-one short stories which bridge, in the process of their writing, thirty years of life, one featuring Kai Lung and another featuring blind detective Max Carrados. Highly recommended this entertaining reading!

The Imperialist

Sara Jeannette Duncan

Lorne Murchison is the son of a respectable first-generation immigrant family. He is of Presbyterian Scottish descent and is running for office with his ideals of a renewed British Empire. An intelligent and insightful snapshot of provincial Canada as it enters the 20th century, torn between being alone in the world and strengthening imperial ties with the mother country.

Wanted!. A Detectives Strange Adventures

Dick Donovan

Wanted! A Detectives Strange Adventures, by James Edward Muddock (Dick Donovan), is a collection of 22 short stories. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1889 and 1922 he published nearly 300 detective and mystery stories. Donovan investigates crime in all its forms, recovering priceless jewels, exposing villainous conspiracies and solving dastardly murders!

Lucias Progress

E.F. Benson

Lucias Progress, previously published in the U.S. as The Worshipful Lucia is the fifth of E. F. Bensons famous series, opening about a year after the previous story ended. In this volume both Lucia and Mapp stand for election to the Town Council, and Lucia speculates in gold shares. While re-decorating Miss Mapps house, Lucia discovers and hide the remains of a Roman Villa. Excitements ensue!

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

Readers are invited to a book by an outstanding English philosopher, psychologist, sociologist and economist John Stuart Mill, which explores the problem of civil liberty of the individual. According to the author himself, the subject of the work is not the so-called free will, namely civil, or social, freedom, that is, the properties and limits of that power, by the power of which society fully manages individual individuals. In various chapters of the book, Mill discusses the freedom of thought and speech, about individuality as one of the conditions for human well-being, and also about the existing limits of the power of society over an individual.

Oblubienica z Messyny. Tragedia z chórami

Fryderyk Schiller

Oblubienica z Messyny to dramat niemieckiego poety, filozofa i dramaturga z połowy XVII wieku, przedstawiciela okresu Sturm und Drang, czyli burzy i naporu. Powieść powstała w 1803 roku i jest hybrydą średniowiecznego romansu z grecką tragedią. Księżna Messyny, Donna Izabela, dowiaduje się, że topór wojenny pomiędzy jej synami Don Manuelem i Don Cezarem zostaje zakopany. Jednak między mężczyznami pojawia się pewna piękna kobieta. Czy bracia przetrwają tę próbę?

Cadets of the Dolphin

Fenton Ash

Welcome to the important and meaningful boys adventure novel of Francis Henry Atkins which is The Cadets of the Dolphin. Aubrey, Frank (pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins) was a British writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers. Despite his commercial success at the time, little is known about Atkins personal life.