The Sea Fairies

L. Frank Baum

Enchanting fantasy novel from creator of beloved Oz stories L. Frank Baum whisks young readers away on an exciting underwater adventure! The Sea Fairies (1911) was designed as the first volume in a new series for children, to replace the Oz books. It was followed by Sky Island in 1912. Trot, the hero of the tales is a girl, like Dorothy in the Oz stories. An old captain, peg-legged Capn Bill taught her to love the sea. The sailor told her that mermaids is fairies, and aint meant to be seen by us mortal folk. One day while out sailing around, the pair is greeted by a beautiful mermaid who extends an invitation for them to come and visit their underwater kingdom and even become mermaids themselves for the adventure. The mermaids are hospitable and introduce them to the ways and other fantastic creatures of the sea. But as they make their way from place to place they must be cautious of the evil, magic sea serpent Zog...

Paul Campenhaye, Specialist in Criminology

J.S. Fletcher

These are great detective stories. Campenhaye solves secrets, at first he tries to understand who ukarl jewels, and then solves the mysterious murder. Every story has the least stress. The most interesting is the ending, it really will be unexpected.

Klechdy polskie

Bolesław Leśmian

Klechdy polskie to zbiór baśni napisanych przez wybitnego poetę Bolesława Leśmiana. Utwory zachwycają już na poziomie języka: stylizowanego na ludową opowieść, pełnego tajemniczości i magicznych opisów. Leśmian sięga głęboko do folkloru, aby wydobyć z niego archetypiczne motywy i symbole, a następnie twórczo je przekształca, osiągając efekt, którym zachwycają się czytelnicy niemal w każdym wieku.

Tiger Eye

B.M. Bower

B.M Bower had a gift for writing Westerns, weaving tales of adventure, intrigue, mystery, and romance often with surprise endings. Her gift for creating engaging, human characters is just as evident in Tiger Eye, a book with a much tougher, more serious plot than some of her early works. The main character, nicknamed Tiger Eye because of his one yellow eye, is a young Texan who has left home to escape being drawn into an old feud. Arriving in Montana, he literally wanders into the middle of a vicious range war between a big cattle outfit and a community of small ranchers and farmers, or nesters. He soon finds himself working for the cattle outfit, but without a very clear idea of whats expected from him.

Eugenie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac

Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honoré de Balzacs Eugénie Grandet (1833) is one of the earliest and most famous novels in his Comedie humaine cycle, which portrays a society consumed by the struggle to amass wealth and achieve power. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenies cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenies emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel that results in tragedy for all. This classic work of social satire, carnal desire, greed, and obsession is both an exquisitely drawn portrayal of private life and an extraordinary document of post-revolutionary France.

LArgent

Émile Zola

LArgent est le dix-huitieme roman de lécrivain français. Le jeu, la spéculation sur la propriété fonciere et les valeurs mobilieres, leffondrement de la pyramide financiere sont brillamment décrits dans le roman. Un roman sur lamour et sur lamour de largent. En ce qui concerne le pouvoir global de largent et comment, au détriment deux, une personne peut sélever au ciel et seffondrer dans la boue, il en résultera des actes terribles.

The Dutchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death

Hugh Walpole

An energetic girl enters society and must choose between her rebellious and exiled cousin or an ordinary young man. Rachel chooses an ordinary young man, but when their marriage begins to degenerate, she again comes into contact with her cousin. She falls in love with him will she leave her husband and run away with her romantic but weak lover?

Points West

B.M. Bower

B.M Bower had a gift for writing Westerns, weaving tales of adventure, intrigue, mystery, and romance often with surprise endings. They are historical reminiscences of pioneers among the sage and bush, clearing the way for a new America. She wrote about working cowboys usually on western ranches, with the occasional visit of an eastern types. Her books were known for their factual attention to detail such as cattle branding. Cole is the son of wealth, but through no fault of his own this wealth has disappeared. 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.

Les Compagnons de Jéhu

Alexandre Dumas pere

Les Compagnons de Jehu est la suite des Blancs et les Bleus et précede Le Chevalier de Saint-Hermine. Comme toujours, quand on ouvre un livre, que est écrit par Dumas, on ne peut pas sarrter. Lhistoire nous prend immédiatement, le narrateur nous raconte les subtilités historiques. Ici on retrouve tous les themes, des gens dhonneur, que ce soit Roland de Montrevel, aide de camp de Bonaparte pas encore Napoléon 1er, ou Charles de Saint-Hermine, chef des compagnons de Jehu sous le nom de Morgan, un amour impossible, batailles et duels et la composition de fiction et histoire.

Pan burmistrz z Pipidówki. Powieść z życia autonomicznego Galicji

Michał Bałucki

Doskonała satyra opisująca codzienne życie w XIX-wiecznym galicyjskim miasteczku. Autor obnażył w niej między innymi to, jak nieumiejętnie podchodzono wtedy do wywalczonej wolności. W żartobliwy sposób przedstawia też przyczyny zacofania w Galicji krakowskiej.

No Thoroughfare

Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins

Two foundlings from the London Educational Home received the same name, which over the years led to disastrous consequences. Two lawyers are looking for the missing heir, in order to correct the injustice. Rumors lead them from the moldy wineries of the City of London to the Mediterranean sun through the winter Swiss Alps. Lies and deceit would prevail if not the courage of a young woman

The Grassleyes Mystery

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This is another great novel by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers and spy novels, and who wrote over a 100 of them. When David Granet asks for a place to stay within a twenty-mile radius of either Nice or Cannes, he does not anticipate the trouble that he finds at the Manoir of Lady Grassleyes. The Lady of the manor is dead when he arrives, and the will is disputed. Granet gets himself drawn into an ugly dispute between the estate agent and Lady Grassleys niece. At stake is the land, the fortune, and a mysterious wealth in botanical formulas.

Charlie Chan Carries On

Earl Derr Biggers

The fifth of the Earl Derr Biggers Charlie Chan books books involves the Honolulu detective in a case of murder that stretches around the world, as members of a tour group are dying, one by one. Charlies old friend Chief Inspector Duff from Scotland Yard comes to his rescue in this book. Duff is investigating the murder of Hugh Morris Drake, a sweet old man strangled in Londons famous and exclusive hotel, Broomes. Drake is with a tour group encircling the globe. While Duffs ship is docked in Honolulu, the detective is shot and wounded by his quarry; though he survives, he is unable to continue with the cruise, and Chan takes his place on the ship to San Francisco, where finally the mystery is solved.

Following the Equator

Mark Twain

In the book Following the Equator, the author talks about his journey from the shores of America to Australia, then to India and South Africa. This is a kind of travelers diary, written in art form. The narration is in the first person. The author talks about what he saw, remembered so figuratively, as if the reader himself had visited this distant journey

Rookwood

William Harrison Ainsworth

A typical gothic fantasy, Rookwood is a good read if you can stomach the songs, poetry, and flowery language. It features underground vaults, mummified corpses falling out of tombs, paranormal summonses, girls in great distress, a sinister gypsy old woman, adultery, death by lightning, and macabre prophecies.

Rozpruwacze. Powieść sensacyjna

Urke Nachalnik

Urke Nachalnik to pseudonim literacki Icka Borucha Farbarowicza (18971939), żydowsko-polskiego autora kryminałów. Człon Nachalnik pochodził od złodziejskiego pseudonimu Farbarowicza, który przez większość swojego życia był przestępcą. Twórczość literacką rozpoczął w więzieniu. Sławę przyniosły mu powieści kryminalno-sensacyjne, które świetnie oddawały realia przestępczego półświatka. Historia Rozpruwaczy zaczyna się od napadu na sejf pewnej hrabiny, podczas którego ginie policjant. Szaleńcze tempo akcji trzyma czytelnika w napięciu do samego końca.

Czas zamknięty

Hanna Cygler

Kwiecień 1939 roku. Napięta sytuacja w Wolnym Mieście Gdańsku zmusza Helen Hallmann do wyjazdu do Anglii z całą rodziną. Włodek, jej pasierb, marzy o przygodach i podróżach, nie chce jednak opuszczać rodzinnego domu ani rozstawać się ze swoją pierwszą miłością. Los, który stanie się jego udziałem, pełen będzie wielu niespodzianek. Marzenia bowiem czasem się spełniają, ale w zupełnie nieprzewidywalny dla nas, zdumiewający sposób... Akcja tego romansu przygodowego rozgrywa się w przedwojennym Gdańsku, Kłajpedzie, Wilnie i okolicach, na Lubelszczyźnie i kończy się w maju 1945 roku w Łodzi. Książka stanowi początek pasjonującej sagi. Dalszy ciąg losów bohaterów został opisany w powieści Pokonani.

Les Mysteres de Paris

Eugene Sue

Eugene Sue parle en détail de la vie de chacun des personnages, de sorte que certains deviennent de bons amis du lecteur, pour qui vous inquiétez jusquaux dernieres pages de lhistoire. Au début du livre, le personnage principal apparaît tombé, buvant, ne causant pas de la sympathie. Ensuite, son histoire sur son enfance la rend sympathique. Ici lhérone est exposée au risque de mourir de froid, de faim ou des mains de Sychiha, menaçant de la noyer pour des bonbons mangés. Mais lhérone senfuit.

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

The book shows the journey from the American Dream to the American Tragedy. And this path is shown through the life of an ordinary young man, Clyde Griffiths. Clyde, a young man from a poor large family of street preachers, not alien to vanity, pride, but deprived of education, ends up in Lycurgus, where he receives a position in a factory of wealthy relatives. Here he meets and becomes close to the worker Roberta Alden, a sweet, modest girl. From that moment on, everything changes.

Found and Fettered. A Series of Thrilling Detective Stories

Dick Donovan

Found and Fettered A Series of Thrilling Detective Stories is a collection of short stories dates from 1894 written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. 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. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.

Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories

Oscar Wilde

A pleasant short story about Sir Arthur Savile, charming in her naivety and hypertrophied in her nobility. Ironic humor, a beautiful syllable, wise quotes, an English spirit and a non-standard prose of life. At the dinner party, the young and noble Sir Arthur Savile finds out that from now on he does not allow him to live in peace and marry his girlfriend. After a night of thought, he makes a gentlemans decision, requiring him to act in a non-gentlemanly manner.

Дни Турбиных

Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Пьеса посвящена переломному моменту истории России 2013 революции и Гражданской войне, раз и навсегда изменившим жизнь русской интеллигенции. Это произведение в гораздо большей степени было реалистическим, чем то допускали его критики, представлявшие действительность, в отличие от Булгакова, в виде заданных идеологических схем.

Zmierzch bożyszcz. Czyli jak filozofuje się młotem

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, niemiecki XIX-wieczny filozof, zasłynął kontrowersyjną perspektywą ujmowania świata, zwaną później nihilistyczną. Negował istnienie ukrytego sensu i układu świata, pojmując rzeczywistość jako chaos. W radykalny sposób krytykował chrześcijaństwo oraz kulturę zachodnią jako oparte na złudzeniu wewnętrznego ładu i powiązań przyczynowo-skutkowych. Jego pisma charakteryzowały się szczególnym stosunkiem do religii i moralności, zdominowanym przez ateizm, psychologizm i historyzm. Zmierzch bożyszcz prawdopodobnie planowany był jako wstęp do pism filozoficznych, stanowi zbiór refleksji, głównie mocno krytycznych, na temat współczesnego autorowi świata.

The Debtor

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Banbridge is close enough to the great City that, after dark, the merging light of its many eyes of electric fire can be seen on the southern horizon. This book shows exactly how women were completely thrown into provincial resources. They perfected their minds and bodies, even having a physical education club and a teacher who came weekly from the City.