Ze wspomnień

Joseph Conrad

Ze wspomnień to utwór autobiograficzny Josepha Conrada wydany w 1912 roku. Został również opublikowany pod tytułem A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences. Notorycznie zawodny i dygresyjny w strukturze stanowi jednak główne źródło informacji o życiu autora. Opowiada o jego szkolnictwie w zrusyfikowanej Polsce, żeglarstwie w Marsylii, wpływach wuja Tadeusza i pisaniu Szaleństwa Almayera. Utwór daje wgląd w to, jak Conrad chciał być postrzegany przez brytyjską publiczność.

Tracked and Taken. Detective Sketches

Dick Donovan

James Edward Preston Muddock also known as Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock and Dick Donovan (1843-1934) was a prolific British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Most of Muddocks stories featured his continuing character Dick Donovan, the Glasgow Detective, named for one of the 18th Century Bow Street Runners. Other works include these short stories as well.

Księga dżungli

Rudyard Kipling

Księga dżungli to opwieść o Mowgli, który jako małe dziecko gubi się w dżungli. Tam zostaje przygarnięty i wychowany przez wilki. Kiedy chłopiec dorasta, grozi mu niebezpieczeństwo ze strony tygrysa Szir Hana. Zwierzęta decydują wysłać dziecko do ludzkiej osady.

Atar-Gull. Un Corsaire, Le Parisien en Mer, Voyages et Aventures sur Mer de Narcisse Gelin

Eugene Sue

Un Corsaire, Le Parisien en Mer, Voyages et Aventures sur Mer de Narcisse Gelin                                

The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

Oscar Wilde

Once they started a new interesting game in pseudonyms, which led to funny and curious consequences. Each time he came to London, he was convicted of only marrying a man named Ernest. Upon learning of an advanced friend, Algerie decides to play him, for which he goes to Jacks country estate, where he impersonates his brother Ernest, who immediately falls in love with charming Cecilia. Only friends forgot how important it is to be serious, because Ernestov and lies were too much, and there is very little truth.

Und Friede auf Erden

Karl May

Das Buch entstand unter dem unmittelbaren Eindruck von Karl Mays großer Orientreise 1899/1900. In Kairo lernt Karl May die Hauptpersonen seiner Reise kennen: den stolzen Araber Sejjid Omar, der freiwillig in seine Dienste tritt, den religiösen Eiferer Waller mit seiner sanften Tochter Mary und zwei hochgebildete Chinesen, Vater und Sohn. Nach ersten Abenteuern in Gizeh beschliessen die fünf Reisenden, gemeinsam weiterzuziehen. Nach der Schiffsreise haben sie den ersten unangenehmen Zusammenstoß mit einer Gruppe von selbsternannten Zivilisatoren in Colombo auf Ceylon. Auch bei der Überfahrt nach der Malaiischen Halbinsel und in Penang selbst müssen sie sich mit den rücksichtslosen Menschen auseinandersetzen. Über Ceylon, die malaiische Halbinsel und Penang führt sie der Weg bis nach China.

A Clergymans Daughter

George Orwell

Dorothy has always been a believer. Her father, a priest, helped her believe in God, and now the girl sincerely tries to be correct. She punishes herself for every misconduct, leads a household and an active social life, waiting with horror for censure. But one day she lost her memory. Now Dorothy is stuck with the vagabonds, where no faith exists.

Some Do Not

Ford Madox Hueffer

Some Do Not..., the first volume of Ford Madox Fords highly regarded tetralogy Parades End. Set during the First World War, the novel follows the conflicted relationship between conservative English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens, his beautiful but headstrong wife, Sylvia, and fearless young suffragette Valentine Wannop. An unforgettable exploration of the tensions of a society confronting catastrophe, sexuality, power, madness, and violence, this narrative examines time and a critical moment in history.

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.

The Danvers Jewels

Mary Cholmondeley

This is a funny story told by a guy who returned from India and was entrusted with delivering jewelry to a family in England. This guy is not very smart, completely unaware and remains so throughout the story.

Jack Sheppard

William Harrison Ainsworth

Set in the eighteenth century, the novel is a retelling of the story of real-life criminal turned tragic anti-hero Jack Sheppard. The sensational melodrama tells about the life of the eponymous anti-hero.

Zdzich szuka ojca. Powieść morska dla młodzieży

Jim Poker

Jim Poker to literacki pseudonim Juliana Ginsberta. Urodził się on w 1892 roku w Warszawie. Spełniał się na wielu polach: z wykształcenia inżynier, początkowo pracował w wojsku, które porzucił dla działalności literackiej i publicystycznej. Podczas II wojny światowej wcielony do marynarki wojennej, po zwolnieniu ze służby ponownie zajął się pisaniem oraz reżyserowaniem filmów krótkometrażowych. Pisał po polsku i po angielsku, zmarł w Londynie.

Warszawianka. Pieśń z roku 1831

Stanisław Wyspiański

Dramat Stanisława Wyspiańskiego porusza temat powstania listopadowego. Autor nawiązuje w nim do pieśni Kazimierza Delavignea pt. Warszawianka, której słowa Oto dziś dzień krwi i chwały [...] dziś twój triumf albo zgon odgrywają najważniejszą rolę w utworze, oddając nastrój panujący podczas powstania. Akcja rozgrywa się podczas bitwy o Olszynkę Grochowską 25 lutego 1831 roku, a głównymi bohaterami są generałowie powstania listopadowego Józef Chłopicki oraz Jan Skrzynecki.

5 utworów dramatycznych. MultiBook

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Tom zawiera pięć najbardziej znanych, najczęściej granych i najdojrzalszych sztuk Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza (Witkacego). Są to takie dramaty jak: W małym dworku, Janulka, córka Fizdejki, Matka, Sonata Belzebuba i Szewcy.

The Great Pandolfo

William J. Locke

Paula Field was a woman who happily suffered from most people. Such a gift as a gift of a song or painting or a solution to acrostic. Consequently, she had many more friends around the world who loved her than it was humanly possible to love her in return. From time to time, the jealous turned around a scorpion and stung her. They called her insincere.

The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle

Cliffford Ashdown

Austin Freeman and Dr. John James Pitcairn, a medical office at Halloway Prison, writing under the common pseudonym, Clifford Ashdown. This mystery collection is the first work of Freeman and it is a delightful bundle of adventures features the gentleman criminal Romney Pringle, an engaging crook and literary agent who lives in Furnivals Inn, cycling everywhere no matter what the scam! This series of six stories feature many colourful, bizarre characters from the Chicago Heiress to the Assyrian Rejuvenator.

The Canary Murder Case

S.S. Van Dine

One of the best novels by the little American detective writer Van Dyne, The Canary Killing Case, takes the reader to New York sixty years ago, where amateur detective Filo Vance, a literary relative of Sherlock Holmes, brilliantly uses the deductive method to find the killer of the star Broadway at night nicknamed Canary.

Farewell, Nikola!

Guy Boothby

This is the last of Dr. Nicholas Boothbys novels staged in Venice, Italy. Nicola tells the story of her sad life, demonstrates her mystical ability to help people test themselves in another place and time, turns a man into a beast and leaves his palace in Venice, which has a bloody history, but it remains in the minds of those who met him.

A Tramp Abroad, Complete

Mark Twain

The noisy success of this perky book, which was based on Mark Twains impressions of his trip to Europe and Palestine, opened the way for the journalist to great literature. A guy from the shores of the Mississippi, convinced that the Old World is the day of mankind, and the future belongs to America, funny describes the sights, customs and customs of the countries where he visited.

Valvedre

George Sand

Cest une histoire de souffrance humaine. Le personnage principal parle de sa souffrance dans lenfance, quil a souffert. Il y avait mme des jours, voire des semaines, quand il vivait, sans savoir o il se trouvait vraiment. Il est parfois utile de tirer les leçons des erreurs des autres et dapprendre par eux-mmes lexpérience et les enseignements précieux.

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.

The Romance of His Life

Mary Cholmondeley

There are eight unrelated shorts in this book. The author tells us about the cottage she lives in and the memorable experience she had during the war.

Guy Fawkes

William Harrison Ainsworth

Guy Fawkes, a prominent figure in the history of England, was one of the leaders in the Gunpowder Plot, whose goal was to overthrow King James I, the Protestant king of England. The plan failed, and Fox and his accomplices were executed in front of the public.

The Devil-Tree of El Dorado

Frank Aubrey

The Devil-Tree of El Dorado concerns the discovery of the legendary city of Manoa in British Guiana, high atop Mt. Roraima, at that date an incredibly remote part of the world. Most desirable, all the expected thrills of an Atlantean thriller plus some: flying damsels; immortals; a satisfying variety of monsters including the frightful shape, with its maddening leer and its blood-curdling scream that welcomes us to the book.