Karawana niewolników

Karol May

Bohaterami powieści są europejscy przyrodnicy, badający faunę Afryki. Zostają jednak wciągnięci w niebezpieczną przygodę na afrykańskiej pustyni. Stają się mimowolnymi uczestnikami walk wioski murzyńskiej z arabskimi łowcami niewolników. Karl May (18421912) niezwykle płodny powieściopisarz niemiecki, popularność przyniosły mu powieści przygodowe o wartkiej akcji, okraszone humorem i dobrodusznością. Najsłynniejsze rozgrywały się na Dzikim Zachodzie, który autor na własne oczy zobaczył dopiero po ich napisaniu.

Flowing Gold

Rex Beach

Calvin Gray is a swindler who won immediate sympathy from readers. Its sleek, stylish, smart and full of life. However, the best thing about him is that he is sincere, noble and always on the right side of the law.

Omoo. A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Herman Melville

At the beginning of the book about the wanderings on the ship. The way Melville describes everything is indescribably delightful. With amazingly alluring tongue, he knows all readers life on board the ship, the relationship between the crew. Later, when the main character and his friend appeared in Tahiti, he describes the life of the islanders, how they spend their daily lives, and how modern civilization comes to them, trying to adjust them to themselves, to remove them from their centuries-old everyday life.

The Spoilers

Rex Beach

The protagonist is Roy Glenister, a young and ambitious man who has been exploring for three years with his partner, an elderly man named Dextri. Their Midas mine is one of the richest in the area. Returning by boat from Seattle, where they spent the winter, they learn that their lawsuit is being contested in court, and until the lawsuit is settled, Midas is under the control of lawyer Alec McNamara.

Lady Audleys Secret

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The heroes of this novel became victims of intrigue with the tuned arms of a golden-haired beauty who knew how good she wanted only luxury and honors. The reader after the first chapter understands what the heroine is hiding for the secret, although the villain will be more accurate, because throughout the novel she brings the rest only evil, the meaning of which they understand much later. The ball of intrigue that she had been spinning all this time would eventually be unraveled by the most inappropriate person who would not even think that such a shrewd mind was hidden in his head. No matter how complicated the riddle is, it will still be solved...

The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson

Mark Twain

This is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. His central intrigue revolves around two boys one born into slavery, with 1/32 black pedigree; on the other, white, born to be the master of the house. Two boys who look the same turn on in infancy. Each grows into a different social role.

London Pride. Or, When the World Was Younger

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This is a story about a knight who lost his wife during childbirth and his two daughters. The eldest daughter Hyacinth with a family monastery in Paris and Angela in a Flemish monastery with an aunt. The cloisters and surroundings were like night and day. The story of the reunion of the sisters after several years apart. The sisters have different moral values, but their sisterly cares prevail until forbidden love paves the way for despair. The author does not disappoint the Gothic romantic reader and the end, be he sad, but not all together are hopeless in the readers mind.

Strażnik Krakatoa

Jim Poker

Jim Poker to jeden z pseudonimów literackich Juliana Mieczysława Ginsberta (18921948), używany obok Inż. J.G. i Kpt. Nemo. Ginsbert był polskim inżynierem mechanikiem, porucznikiem Wojska Polskiego i komandorem porucznik Marynarki Wojennej. Pracował jako dziennikarz, pisarz, publicysta oraz reżyser w dziedzinie marynistyki. Brał udział w obu wojnach światowych. Strażnik Krakatoa to powieść awanturniczo-historyczna. Opowiada o największej naturalnej katastrofie w dziejach ludzkości wybuchu wulkanu Krakatau w Indonezji w 1883 roku, z wojną rosyjsko-turecką w tle.

Richelieu Raids a Tomb

Henry Bedford-Jones

Richelieu Raids a Tomb is the fourteenth installment about the Sphinx Emerald from a Canadian-American historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer H. Bedford-Jones. Here the malign magic of the Sphinx Emerald works its spell anew in one of the famous dramas of history. And again the strange Sphinx Emerald came to the scene to play its part in the unrolling drama.

Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

Ernest Bramah

The Kai Lung books are really short-story collections, whose disparate, rambling tales are knitted together by framing narratives featuring the eponymous travelling storyteller. The third in Bramahs Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and his despicable accomplice Ming-Shu. Kai Lungs adventures are related with humor and irony, his shrewdness and wisdom conveyed in euphemisms, paradoxes and parables. Bramahs droll writing style went a long way toward making the Kai Lung series so popular. The Kai Lung books are easily Bramahs greatest achievement; theyre as worthy of their somewhat neglected place in the pantheon of British humour as the delightful comic trivia of Wodehouse.

Hira Singhs Tale. When India Came to Fight in Flanders

Talbot Mundy

This story continues the picturesque and interesting novels of Munda about Raj and the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. If you like to read the British thriller of the early 1900s, you will surely be content with this novel. As you read it, you will understand how Mundi relates to the ancient world of harlots, Greeks, Romans and Cleopatra.

Andivius Hedulio. Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire

Edward Lucas White

Edward Lucas White has written a number of historical novels, including Andivius Hedulio. Amazing story of a Roman during the reign of Commodus. This is an exciting adventure! You will feel that you are in ancient Rome.

Moby Dick. or The Whale

Herman Melville

A former schoolteacher famously called Ishmael hero of Moby Dick signs up as sailor on a whaling voyage to cure a bout of depression. On his way to find a ship in Nantucket, he meets Queequeg, a heavily tattooed South Sea Island harpooneer just returned from his latest whaling trip. Ishmael and Queequeg become best buds and roommates almost immediately. Together, they sign up for a voyage on the Pequod, which is just about to start on a three-year expedition to hunt sperm whales.

Szwoleżerowie gwardii

Wacław Gąsiorowski

Szwoleżerowie gwardii zamykają tzw. trylogię napoleońską Wacława Gąsiorowskiego. Akcja rozgrywa się w czasie kampanii moskiewskiej Napoleona 1812 roku. Burzliwe wydarzenia stanowią wyraziste tło dla wątków miłosnych i przygodowych. Znów spotykamy Floriana Gotartowskiego, Zosię Dziewanowską, Tadeusza Bielskiego i Jankę Głuską, znanych z poprzednich części cyklu. Ich losy układają się w opowieść o patriotyzmie i wierności ideałom.

Cymbeline

William Shakespeare

There are two main lines: the story of the lovers of Postum and Imogen and the story of lost and found royal sons. All this, like a silver frame, is framed by sufferings, oaths of loyalty, amazing coincidences and other tasty Shakespearean curlicues. Postum was simply naive and blind, like most of the heroes of Shakespeare. And Imogen, in my opinion one of the most intelligent and clever heroines of him.

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Kim Rudyarda Kiplinga szeroko zarysowuje panoramę Indii XIX wieku. Na jej tle odbywa się podróż niezwykłego duetu: kilkunastoletniego Kima rezolutnego, zaradnego dziecka ulicy, oraz pielgrzymującego starego lamy filozofa i mnicha, którym chłopak się opiekuje. Podczas podróży Kim wplącze się również w aferę szpiegowską, która przewartościuje jego świat.

The Lost Ambassador

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Captain Austen Rotherby is on a mission of revenge in Paris and chances upon Louis, the head waiter of his favorite restaurant. Bored, he follows Louis to a shady café where he spots a pair hes long been intrigued by a South American gentleman and a young girl. Because of certain complications, Captain Rotheby finds himself forced to leave Paris, only to find himself travelling with the aforementioned gentleman, Mr. Delora, and his niece, Felicia. Arriving in London, Mr. Delora falls ill and excuses himself, leaving Captain Rotheby to take care of Felicia. They install themselves at the Milan Hotel, where Louis works, and waits for Mr. Delora, who seems to have vanished into thin air...

Les Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick

Charles Dickens

Ceci est une histoire sur le club de voyageurs en Angleterre. Ce club comprend de drôles de Britanniques, qui se considerent comme ceux qui ne le sont pas vraiment. La chose principale dans ce club était un Pickwick romantique. Il a essayé décrire chacune de ses observations dans un cahier spécial. Dickens a réussi a créer une bonne et détaillée histoire sur un petit club de vrais hommes anglais.

The Black

Edgar Wallace

Fashionable Londoner James Morlake is a gentleman with many secrets and several particularly valuable skills like terrorizing bankers across the city. His Moorish servant Mahmet has some secrets to hide as well, particularly when his employer gives him the odd task to perform in the dead of night in dark London. A collection of short stories from Edgar Wallace featuring a private detective who tracks down blackmailers. When you do reach the end you will anxiously await a follow on. Black grabs you immediately, then takes you on a high speed international trip at race pace.

20 najpiękniejszych powieści. MultiBook

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Maria Rodziewiczówna (18631944) jedna z najpopularniejszych polskich autorek tworzyła powieści psychologiczno-obyczajowe z życia polskiej inteligencji ziemiańskiej i mieszczańskiej XIX i XX wieku. Poruszała w swej twórczości temat cywilizacyjnego oddziaływania kultury polskiej na Kresach Wschodnich, w tym religijność, patriotyzm, tradycję i kult przyrody ojczystej. W multibooku znalazło się 20 najpiękniejszych powieści autorki, takich jak: Dewajtis Kwiat lotosu Między ustami a brzegiem pucharu Błękitni Hrywda Anima vilis Pożary i zgliszcza Jerychonka Ryngraf Barcikowscy Magnat Nieoswojone ptaki Wrzos Czahary Ragnarök Byli i będą Atma Barbara Tryźnianka Lato leśnych ludzi Florian z Wielkiej Hłuszy

Gobseck

Honoriusz Balzak

Powieść Gobseck Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Scen z życia prywatnego cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Pani de Grandlieu rozmawia z przyjacielem domu, adwokatem Derville. Rozmowa schodzi na temat pieniędzy. Derville jest zdania, że to pieniądze odgrywają główną rolę w Paryżu. Opowiada historię ze swojej młodości, kiedy jego sąsiadem był lichwiarz nazwiskiem Gobseck. Pożyczka od niego bardzo pomogła Dervilleowi zostać adwokatem. Co więcej, obserwacje odwiedzających Gobsecka osób wiele nauczyły młodego prawnika na temat życia w Paryżu...

Les Désenchantées

Pierre Loti

Un roman publié en 1906 qui trouve encore des échos un siecle plus tard. Sur la forme, il contient des procédés propres lautofiction. Mme si Pierre Loti affirme que cest une histoire entierement imaginée , elle est tout de mme inspirée par un fait réel auquel il a été mlé. Sil a beaucoup réarrangé laffaire en une histoire dramatique, en mme temps simplifiée et élargie, le coeur du sujet reste la condition des femmes musulmanes

The Owl Taxi

Hulbert Footner

Suppose you were a young and very rich New Yorker, and you suddenly lost all your money. Suppose you met a taxi-driver and for reasons good to both you agreed to exchange identities. Suppose, having started up Fifth Avenue in the old taxi at one a.m., you were about to admit your first fare when you discovered a dead body already occupying the car. Humor, espionage, romance, and adventure make this novel thrilling.

The Gay Rebellion

Robert W. Chambers

This book is not a flowing novel, but rather a collection of experiences. Young men with good looks and health are kidnapped and married to young women from the eugenics suffragette movement to breed a perfect race of beautiful and intelligent people.