Because of the Dollars

Joseph Conrad

Self-deception regarding his wife, inflicted on the good-natured captain of the ship and the like. the willingness to succumb to base men on the part of the painted woman. It truly demonstrates how even those who find themselves in the most extreme situations of life can find redemption, albeit at a terrible cost. And atonement is a rare thing in Conrad. And just to make sure you understand it, the final image of the captain is someone left alone and hopeless, despite his good deeds.

The White Wolf

Max Brand

If you like classic animal stories you will like this one for sure. Tucker Crosden bred his dogs to be champions. Yet even by frontiersmans brutal standards, bull terrier White Wolf was special. Tucker had great plans for the dog until it gave in to the blood-hungry laws of nature. He never thought that his prize animal would run at the head of a wolf pack one day and to be a leader among wolves in the San Jacinto Mountains or that a trick of fate would throw them together in a battle to the death. And White Wolf must choose between laws of nature or those of man. Max Brands action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world.

Казаки (Kozacy). Кавказская повесть 1852 года

Лев Николаевич Толстой, Lew Nikołajewicz Tołstoj

Повесть величайшего русского писателя Льва Николаевича Толстого (181820131910) рассказывает о переломном этапе в жизни инфантильного молодого человека из московского общества, живущего мечтами и грезами. Главный герой повести, Дмитрий Оленин, близок автору и по духовному опыту, и по нравственным устремлениям. Как и Толстой, он оказывается на Кавказе в попытке начать новую жизнь, 201eв которой уже не будет больше ошибок, не будет раскаяния, а наверное будет одно счастье201d. Среди казаков, в окружении природы, в условиях, далеких от комфорта и роскоши, Оленин переосмысливает свое отношение к жизни, ощущает внутреннюю трансформацию. Герою повести предстоит увидеть настоящую жизнь и ощутить себя чужим в нетронутом цивилизацией мире.

The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In The Great Stone Face, Hawthorne compares different types of human activity. Most of them are aimed at finding success in society. But Hawthorne believes that the success of the Finnish businessman or general, who turned military affairs into a means of his personal career, or a clever politician who is uncleanly making his way to power, is an imaginary success. Even the poet, the creator of beautiful works of art, still retains a lot of vicious individualism and self-love, and only the humble young man Ernst, who devoted his life to serving people, selflessly doing good, won the favor of the author he gives preference to him and his selfless altruism proclaims the ideal of human life.

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser is a famous American prose writer, publicist and public figure. This is the story of the rise of the main character, the young provincial Caroline Meeber, achieved at the cost of numerous moral compromises, and the descent of the manager of a prestigious bar, George Hurstwood, to the bottom of life.

Granatka. Facino Cane. Msza ateusza

Honoriusz Balzak

Desplein jest przenikliwym, bystrym, dobrze obeznanym ze strukturą i funkcjonowaniem ludzkiego ciała chirurgiem, który budzi zazdrość wśród swoich kolegów ze środowiska lekarskiego. Sceptycznie i cynicznie podchodzi do wszystkiego, co go otacza, i gardzi zarówno ludźmi, jak i przekonaniami. Jednak pewnego razu jego były uczeń Horacy Bianchon przyłapuje go na udziale we mszy świętej. Postawa doktora, zdeklarowanego od zawsze ateisty, wprawia Bianchona w zdumienie.

The Steppe

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The story of a boy Egor, who goes from his home to a gymnasium located in another city. This trip is the last event before the start of a new life away from mother and familiar places. Nothing unexpected happens on the way, but at the same time, there is a constant change of landscapes and moons of Egor, meetings with new people, both ordinary and of noble origin. The boy is a witness to the life of people whose path also lies through the steppe.

Baśnie i bajki europejskie. Wybór

Praca zbiorowa

Tom Baśnie i bajki europejskie zawiera zbiór popularnych historii, opowiadanych dzieciom w całej Europie. W książeczce można znaleźć zarówno baśnie i bajki niemieckie Jakuba i Wilhelma Grimmów (Kopciuszek, Czerwony Kapturek, Śnieżka), duńskie Jana Christiana Andersena (Dziewczynka z zapałkami, Księżniczka na ziarnku grochu, Królowa śniegu) czy rosyjskie Aleksandra Puszkina (Baśń o królu Sałtanie, Złota rybka), jak i tradycyjne polskie bajki o Panu Twardowskim czy Waligórze i Wyrwidębie.

Chińska papuga

Earl Derr Biggers

Earl Derr Biggers (18841933), amerykański pisarz, zyskał uznanie jako autor powieści detektywistycznych. Chińska papuga należy do jednej z jego serii powieściowych, w której Biggers wykreował postać detektywa chińskiego pochodzenia Charliego Chana. Charakterystyczny styl pracy śledczego oraz metodyczne podejście do rozwiązywania zagadek kryminalnych zaskarbiły i detektywowi, i autorowi sympatię czytelników. Biggers studiował na Uniwersytecie Harvarda. Zanim został pisarzem, pracował jako dziennikarz i krytyk teatralny.

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

The novel is about six friends who have known since childhood: Bernard, Louis, Neville, Susie, Ron and Ginny. After a few key episodes, their life appears from early childhood to the last days. As in most Virginia Woolf books, the plot as such is absent, it is entirely focused on the inner world of its characters, the flow of their thoughts and feelings, the whole story is an uncontrollable, bubbling flow, stream of thoughts, stream of life, stream of time.

Jewels Have a Long Life

Henry Bedford-Jones

Again the strange Sphinx Emerald came to the scene to play its part in the unrolling historic drama. This series about the Sphinx Emerald constitutes, as has been said, a veritable Outline of History or perhaps Highlights of History would be more accurate. For this reason the greatest event in all history could not be left out.

Lucian the Dreamer

Joseph Smith Fletcher

Joseph Smith Fletcher was an English journalist, writer and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He studied law before turning to journalism. This book opens with the first page of his experiences at the train station. If you love a story that sticks to the end, then this book is for you.

Oresteja

Ajschylos

Trylogia starogreckich tragedii jednego z największych antycznych tragików, sięgająca V wieku p.n.e. Opowiada o losach Agamemnona, Ofiarnicy oraz Eumenidy. Jednym z najsłynniejszych motywów tragedii jest zabójstwo króla Agamemnona przez jego żonę Klitajmestrę. Oresteja uważana jest za najznakomitsze dzieło Ajschylosa. Porusza ona temat zemsty oraz jej konsekwencji, a także tego, jaki wpływ mają bogowie na czyny i wybory bohaterów.

Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree

Ernest Bramah

Ernest Brammah Smith 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. This collection of eight Kai Lung stories came out in 1940, two years before the authors death. They show the same wit as the earlier ones. The China which Kai Lung inhabits has numerous features of the fantasy Land of Fable, and many of the embedded tales are fantasy; all are told in an ornate manner which ironically, often hilariously, exaggerates the old Chinese tradition of understatement and politesse. The main sequence begins with The Wallet of Kai Lung and ends with Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry-Tree; of the posthumous collections, Kai Lung Raises His Voice usefully assembles all the remaining series stories.

The Golden Scarecrow

Hugh Walpole

Children come to this world with knowledge of the world that they left, and spiritual connection with him through the satellite, which they just call their Friend. Some adults can grow up without losing their friend, and some children repel him when they are young. The Golden Scarecrow needs a childs heart and willingness to believe in something that we dont see, but I think that if you want to give him a chance.

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.

The Titan

Theodore Dreiser

Titan is the second part of Theodore Dreisers famous Trilogy of Desire, which is based on the life story of the American millionaire C. Yerkes, who played a significant role in the development of the public transport system in Chicago and the London Underground.

Donnegan Gunmans Reckoning

Max Brand

Max Brand is an American writer, considered one of the best authors working in the Western genre. A gunmans reckoning is his understanding, and here, we have several gunmen and women, one in a main role, whose understandings of life ineluctably draw them together. Gunmans Reckoning is a psychological novel, with roots in Greek tragedy and with twists worthy of far better known writers.

Pani Dulska przed sądem i inne nowele

Gabriela Zapolska

Gabrielę Zapolską historia literatury zapamiętała jako przedstawicielkę polskiego naturalizmu i prześmiewczynię moralnej obłudy mieszczaństwa. Zapolska pisała głównie dramaty oraz powieści, a także krótkie formy prozatorskie. Oprócz działalności literackiej zajmowała się też aktorstwem, publicystyką i krytyką artystyczną. Na tom składają się następujące nowele: Pani Dulska przed sądem, Dwie, Frania. Szkic, Korale Maciejowej. Szkic i Ostatni promień. Szkic.

The Bait and the Trap

Max Brand

One of the greatest western authors of all time, superstar pulpsmith Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. His Westerns were always different, with complex plots and characters, and uncertain endings... But his historical adventures rank among the best stories he ever wrote. These seven stories of 16th Century Italian Renaissance swashbuckling swordsman Tizzo are tightly-plotted, action-packed adventures which were rarely equaled in quality by Brands contemporaries. It collects the final four stories: The Cat and the Perfume, Claws of the Tigress, The Bait and the Trap and The Pearls of the Bonfadini.

Dwaj poeci

Honoriusz Balzak

Dwaj poeci to pierwsza część powieści Stracone złudzenia autorstwa Honoriusza Balzaca. Dawid Séchard, młody i ambitny chłopak mieszkający na prowincji Francji, marzy o tym, aby zostać uczonym. Jednak jego chciwy ojciec postanawia wykorzystać nieśmiałość i naiwność syna i na niekorzystnych warunkach odsprzedaje mu swój zakład drukarski. Dawid desperacko mierzy się z groźbą bankructwa, aby zapewnić byt sobie i żonie Ewie, siostrze jego najlepszego przyjaciela Lucjana Chardona, poety ruszającego właśnie do Paryża w poszukiwaniu kariery.

Mr. Poskitts Nightcaps

Joseph Smith Fletcher

The idea behind this book is that before going to bed, Yorkshire farmer Mr. Poskitt liked to tell a little story or nightcap. Thus, J.S. Fletcher recorded and collected these stories in this book. There is a hilarious story, tales of robbing money and arguing over wills, orphan pigs running around the village causing havoc, broken hearts and jealous lovers, and misers and men trying to make a fortune.

Notwithstanding

Mary Cholmondeley

The story begins with Annette Georges choosing between two evil destinies. She is rescued by a kind woman who looks after her until she can live with her aunts in a village in little England along with a vicar and afternoon tea. There she meets and befriends various people, and her past seems to have some bearing on the lives of those she befriends.

Dr. Thorndykes Case-Book

R. Austin Freeman

This book is a collection of short stories about one of Sherlock Holmes most prominent rivals: Dr. Thorndyke and Jervis. Doyles characters may be better, but Freeman spins a lot of mysteries based on reasoning.