Privy Seal

Ford Madox Hueffer

Ford Madox Ford was a prolific English novelist and poet in the early 20th century. Ford wrote the best-selling novel The Good Soldier, as well as the Parades End series. Privy Seal is the second novel in the well-known Fifth Queen trilogy that recreates Tudor England in a masterful story of court intrigue, romance, and betrayal. Here Ford focuses on the figure of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful advisor to the King who comes to see Katharine as a rival whose good nature threatens his ambitious political agenda.

A Cabinet Secret

Guy Boothby

The city itself, climbing a hillside almost at the waters edge, was painted pale pink at sunset, and even the old Vesuvius, from the top of which a thin column of black smoke seemed a little less gloomy than usual. Because of heaven, the sky was a mass of golden and raspberry-colored, and this was reflected in the calm waters of the bay until the whole world turned into a real radiance. The evening could hardly be desired. And yet this is not the city, mountain or sunset that we must make, but the first movement of the conspiracy, which was ultimately destined to shake one of the greatest Empires that the Earth has ever seen.

Guerre et Paix

Léon Tolsto

Ce livre appartient a la catégorie de léternel, car il traite de tout, de la vie et de la mort, de lamour et de lhonneur, du courage et de lhéroisme, de la gloire et de lhéroisme, de la guerre et de la paix. Le roman le plus célebre au monde dun écrivain de génie pour le troisieme siecle a obligé les lecteurs a faire preuve dempathie pour les héros. Un roman sur lâme russe, sur le mode de vie russe, les questions éternelles que chaque personne doit décider seule avec elle-meme. Ce roman vous permet de remonter de 200 ans dans le temps et de plonger dans la vie du peuple russe du début du XIXe siecle.

The Eye of the Sun

Henry Bedford-Jones

More thrilling adventures from the master story tell H. Bedford-Jones! 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. Here, then, we see the Holy Family during the exile in Egypt.

Wykolejeniec

Joseph Conrad

Powieść szczegółowo opisuje zgubę Petera Willemsa, nikczemnego, niemoralnego człowieka, który uciekając przed skandalem w Makassar, znajduje schronienie w ukrytej wiosce tubylczej, tylko po to, by zdradzić swoich dobroczyńców z powodu pożądania do córki wodza plemienia. Opowieść przedstawia powracającą postać Conrada, Toma Lingarda, który pojawia się również w Szaleństwie Almayera (1895) i Ratunku (1920), pojawiają się tu także inne postaci z tych powieści. Dzieło to jest przez wielu uważane za niedoceniane. Conrad romantyzuje środowisko dżungli i jej mieszkańców w stylu podobnym do swojego Jądra ciemności.

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!

Prometeusz skowany

Ajschylos

Prometeusz skowany to jedyna zachowana część trylogii Ajschylosa opowiadająca o micie o Prometeuszu. W jej skład wchodziły również tragedie Prometeusz niosący ogień oraz Prometeusz wyzwolony. Akcja tragedii rozgrywa się w momencie wymierzenia kary Prometeuszowi za podarowanie ludziom ognia. Tytan, przykuty do skał Kaukazu, wygłasza słynną mowę o przeznaczeniu, przed którym nawet sam Zeus nie jest w stanie uciec.

Brand. Poemat dramatyczny w pięciu aktach

Henryk Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen to norweski dramatopisarz żyjący w latach 18281906. Początkowo jego twórczość zaliczyć można do nurtu narodowego romantyzmu. Jednak po rozczarowaniu, jakie przyniosła mu postawa Norwegów w konflikcie Danii z Prusami, porzucił tematykę narodową i skupił się na bardziej uniwersalnych tematach. Brand to historia księdza, nieprzystosowanego do świata indywidualisty, który podejmuje nierówną, często kontrowersyjną walkę o uratowanie ludzkich dusz.

Marked Personal

Anna Katharine Green

Intoxicated by success, the crowd walked along the street, screaming and screaming, while broken glasses and womens cries marked her progress. In a few minutes they will be ahead. Suddenly a second doorbell rang. This time the negro stopped before opening it.

Cyd

Pierre Corneille

Tragikomedia autorstwa Pierrea Corneillea, w tłumaczeniu Stanisława Wyspiańskiego, to opowieść o młodym rycerzu Rodrigu Díaz de Vivarze, zwanym również Cydem Walecznym. Staje on przed bardzo trudnym wyborem aby odzyskać honor i dobre imię swojej rodziny, musi zabić ojca swojej ukochanej. Powieść porusza temat odwiecznego konfliktu miłości i obowiązku oraz postawy honoru i własnego szczęścia.

Wenus w futrze

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Powieść Wenus w futrze stanowi literacki zapis eksperymentu z 1869 roku, w czasie którego Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch na pół roku stał się niewolnikiem baronówny Fanny von Pistor. Książka natychmiast po wydaniu zyskała światową sławę. Wywołała też olbrzymi skandal oraz zainicjowała szeroką dyskusję o dewiacjach seksualnych. Od nazwiska autora ukuto termin masochizm, co zaważyło na karierze oraz relacjach zawodowych i towarzyskich Leopolda von Sacher-Masocha.

Wspomnienia z martwego domu

Fiodor Dostojewski

Wspomnienia z martwego domu to najbardziej osobiste dzieło mistrza rosyjskiej prozy. Oparte na bazie doświadczeń z kilkuletniego pobytu na katordze, stanowią poruszający obraz życia w syberyjskim więzieniu. Powieściowa forma pozwala na zdystansowanie się od własnych przeżyć i ukazanie różnorodności osadzonych. A ci bywają rzeczywiście odmienni niektórzy, mimo trudów i dramatów, zachowują człowieczeństwo i życzliwość, inni dziczeją, dają się porwać najniższym instynktom i zdominować najgorszym cechom. Tło dla ludzkich losów i relacji między bohaterami stanowi szeroki opis zwyczajów panujących na katordze i katorżniczego życia.

Prisoners

Mary Cholmondeley

In this magnificent novel, love and death intertwine and dissolve into each other. But the characters are the perfect product of the best Victorian literature.

Billy Angel, Trouble Lover

Max Brand

Max Brand (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was killed while serving in Italy. Billy Angel, Trouble Lover is the rare pulp Western story from the womans point of view. Mr. Brand writes a fair romance story too. Packed with enough action and romance to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the novel also addresses a wide range of important themes with insight and sensitivity.

The Neer-Do-Well

Rex Beach

Father often asked Kirk Anthony to do a real job. But Anthony, despite almost idolizing his strong, successful father, just cant stop having a good time with his fathers money. He goes to fancy dinners, drives the latest cars, and treats his friends to sumptuous meals. Then a man steps in trying to get away from the law. At dinner, he persuades one of Anthonys drunken friends to play a terrible joke on him.

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

An exquisite novel in which times of action are mixed and intertwined, and the summer spent by the wealthy Ramsey family on the Isle of Skye turns out to be a kind of British chronicle of lost time a fragile, almost idyllic time, doomed to be destroyed soon by the First World War. Children will grow up someone will survive and grow up, someone will lay their heads on the battlefields. Small failures and grievances will be forgotten. The old house will be abandoned, the garden will grow. But will the dream of a trip to a distant lighthouse come true even for one of Ramseys children? ..

The Old London Merchant. A Sketch

William Harrison Ainsworth

At that festival time, when the days are the shortest and the nights the longest, and when, therefore, it is the invariable practice of all intelligent men to turn night into day; when the ratio of business and pleasure is clearly in favor of the latter; when a magnificent carnival is held in London, and everything testifies to the predominance and influence of good humor.

The Years

Virginia Woolf

The action of the novel Years, one of the most significant works of W. Woolf, takes place over fifty years from the 1880s to the mid 30s of the twentieth century. Victorian traditions are breaking down, cars and planes are appearing, the First World War is covering Europe... All this serves as the backdrop for the family saga the history of the Pargiter family: Colonel Abel Pargiter, his wife, lover, seven children, their wives, husbands, numerous relatives...

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.

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

Kate Chopin

Awakening is one of the greatest works in American literature. Brilliant beauty Edna Pontellier, together with her husband and two wonderful kids, spend the summer in the resort town of Grand Isle. Ednas unexpected meeting with Robert, a charming young man, suddenly changes the calm and measured life of a woman. Awakening was recognized only many years later.

The Collected Short Stories. MultiBook

David Wright OBrien

The Collected Short Stories is a collection of short adventure stories from pioneering American fantasy and science fiction writer David Wright OBrien (19181944). A nephew of Farnsworth Wright, editor of Weird Tales, OBrien was 22 years old when his first story Truth Is a Plague! appeared in the February 1940 issue of Amazing Stories. There were about forty stories and novels under his own name plus others under various pseudonyms, including John York Cabot, Bruce Dennis, Duncan Farnsworth, Richard Vardon and others. Some of OBriens work was space opera or other routine adventure, but many of his stories betray a strain of humor, not unlike Henry Kuttners at that time. OBrien was a sharp and creative writer who liked stories of madcap invention as well as adventure.

The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The Coming Race (1870) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton is an early science fiction novel. It offers a fascinating vision of a shadowy underworld populated by strange and beautiful creatures who closely resemble the angels described in Christian lore. These beings, known as Vril-ya, live underground, but are intending to leave their subterranean existence and conquer the world...

Моя жизнь (Moje życie). Рассказ провинциала

Антон Павлович Чехов, Anton Pawłowicz Czechow

В центре повествования жизнь молодого человека Мисаила Полознева. Он потомственный дворянин и ему не пристало добывать себе копейку физическим трудом. Но в какой-то момент он решается жить сообразно велениям собственной души, что значит не просиживать день в конторе и зазря протирать штаны. В свои уже 25 лет он обивал и в телеграфистах, и в вольноопределяющихся, и в фармацевтах... В конце концов он начинает работать простым маляром. Только реальный труд поможет ему стать счастливым. Что интересно, ни гнев, ни просьбы отца-архитектора, ни умаления сестры Клеопатры не могут изменить его решения. Среди жителей маленького городка, в котором правят кумовство и взяточничество, такое событие не может остаться незамеченным 2013 общество отворачивается от героя. И невозможно предугадать, чем обернется выбор Мисаила. Преодолением нравственного кризиса, билетом в новую жизнь? Или добровольной изоляцией, регрессом, окончательным падением?

A Personal Record

Joseph Conrad

A Personal Record is the story of the design and manuscript of Caprice Olmeyer, Conrads first novel, as well as the story of his dream about the sea, and the story of his cousin who ate a dog, and the story of a beloved dog presented to his son, but above all, the story of the novel The Olmeyer Caprice, and the strange prototype of the hero of this novel, and a few more words about the man who was the first reader of this novel. At the same time, A Personal Record is not a classic autobiography, the book sometimes resembles a game of association, and it is impossible to predict where the author will bring another memory, another association and the story it generated.