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.

Tajemnicza wyspa

Juliusz Verne

Juliusz Verne (18281905) francuski pisarz, dramaturg i działacz społeczny, jest powszechnie uważany za jednego z protoplastów fantastyki naukowej. Tajemnicza wyspa opowiada o przygodach piątki uciekinierów, którzy docierają na zaginioną w czasie wyspę będącą domem tajemniczego kapitana Nemo. Niezwykle szczegółowe i spektakularne opisy krajobrazów wyspy, jej flory i fauny, na równi z geniuszem inżynieryjnym i technologicznym bohaterów zachwycają kolejne pokolenia czytelników.

Z pamiętnika masażysty (Tom I). Z pamiętnika masażysty. Nic, co ludzkie, nie jest mi (już) obce

Agnieszka Dydycz

Z pamiętnika masażysty - nic, co ludzkie nie jest mi już obce to dziennik codzienny fizjoterapeuty Marcina, który choć ma stopień doktora i tak nazywany jest przez pacjentów masażystą. Względnie panem Marcinkiem Marcin ma lat 35, lubi siebie oraz swoją pracę i bardzo kocha synka, Jerzyka, lat 5, którego wychowuje na zmianę ze swoją eks. Pacjenci nieustająco testują jego cierpliwość, ale on im wybacza i wszystkim pomaga. No chyba, że ktoś nie pozwala sobie pomóc Marcin ma grono oryginalnych przyjaciół, w tym znanego i nieco chimerycznego pisarza, zdolnego dentystę i ordynatora-kolekcjonera. Związki z kobietami różnie mu wychodzą i choć nie zawsze rozumie, dlaczego, Marcin nigdy się nie poddaje. Szuka, próbuje, a nawet uczy się na błędach, tych własnych i tych cudzych. A swoje obserwacje zapisuje i komentuje. Dla potomnych, jak twierdzi oficjalnie, a nieoficjalnie dla własnego dobrego samopoczucia. A w pamiętniku jak w życiu Czasem jest śmiesznie, a nawet bardzo śmiesznie, bywa też trudno i smutno, ale potem znowu jest wesoło. Jeśli masz ochotę oderwać się na chwilę od rzeczywistości, poczytać o prawdziwym życiu i zaśmiać się w głos ta książka jest dla Ciebie!

Going Some

Rex Beach

Four cowboys leaned over the barbed-wire fence that marked the dividing line between the Centipede Ranch and their own, gazing mournfully into a summer night that only distant southwestern countries know. The great yellow stars hung thick and low, so low that it seemed as if an outstretched hand might rip them off, and the silent air swept over the thousands of open miles of land lying fresh and fragrant under the velvety darkness.

North of Fifty-Three

Rex Beach

Rex Beach is an American writer, playwright, and Olympic water polo champion. Big George was drinking and the little Arctic mining camp was paralyzed. He was central to the North Club.

Mother

Maxim Gorky

The novel Mother, one of Gorkys most popular works, was based on the mass demonstration of 1902 in the city of Sormovo. Hence, an exciting plot based on real events, with a sharp political struggle, secret gatherings, searches, arrests, and the selfless heroism of the main revolutionary hero Pavel Vlasov. However, the central image in the novel is Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, the mother of the hero, one of the most striking and exciting characters in Russian literature, symbolizing the eternal image of the Mother endowed with the gift of unlimited love and patience.

Детские годы (Lata dzieciństwa). Из воспоминаний Меркула Праотцева

Николай Семёнович Лесков, Nikołaj Siemionowicz Leskow

Великий русский писатель Н. С. Лесков стремился в своем творчестве постигнуть жизнь разных классов, социальных групп, сословий, создать многокрасочный, сложный, во многом еще не изученный образ всей страны в один из самых трудных периодов ее существования. Данная повесть возникла в сложный период пересмотра Н. С. Лесковым своего творческого и идейного пути. Писатель почувствовал потребность вернуться к годам киевской молодости, когда фрески древних художников впервые зажгли в нем огонь любви к творческому истолкованию мира. Поэтому не случайно, что повесть о Меркуле Праотцеве 2013 страстном и мятежном человеке, глубоко одаренном художнике, прошедшем через многие житейские испытания и очутившемся в келье монастыря, содержит много автобиографического материала. Действие в ней протекает в основном в Киеве в 40201350-е годы. В 1849 г. здесь впервые появился и юноша Лесков.

Tales of the Fish Patrol

Jack London

This is a collection of short stories by Jack London. The action of the stories takes place in the bay of San Francisco, in the center of the plot is the activity of the local fish surveillance. The narration is conducted in the first person, the narrator is the owner of the reindeer sloop, chartered by a fishing company to patrol the bay in order to prevent illegal fishing methods. Another main character is Charlie Le Grant, if not involved in the events, then at least mentioned in each story.

Ad astra. Dwugłos

Eliza Orzeszkowa, Tadeusz Garbowski

Powieść Elizy Orzeszkowej, przybiera formę listownego dwugłosu korespondencji między Seweryną Zdrojowską oraz Tomaszem Rodowskim. Listy Tomasza pisał początkowo Tadeusz Garbowski, jednak nie ukończył swojej części Orzeszkowa sama dokończyła dzieło. Korespondencja dotyczy sporów światopoglądowych bohaterowie prezentują różne stanowiska w kwestii religii, moralności czy stosunku do świata. W tle rysuje się też wątek miłosny.

Hilda. A Story of Calcutta

Sara Jeannette Duncan

This book is about an actress and her growing up in a country full of secrets and strange people. Duff Lindsay faces a strange situation when he falls in love with Laura Filbert.

The Shoulders of Atlas

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

A slow paced story of love and self-sacrifice with thoughtful character development. In this novel, the heroine Sylvia is on the verge of receiving a large and unexpected inheritance. But soon an unexpected discovery leads to unexpected consequences as Sylvia dives deeper into family secrets.

Nieznanym szlakiem. Nowele

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

Nieznanym szlakiem to zbiór opowiadań inspirowanych licznymi podróżami Ferdynanda Antoniego Ossendowskiego (18781945). Autor odmalowywał w nich odległe, różnorodne krainy z Europy, Azji i Afryki. W centrum zainteresowania zawsze stawiał jednak spotkanie z człowiekiem doświadczonym przez los, odmiennym, a jednak tak bardzo podobnym. Ossendowski to drugi po Sienkiewiczu najczęściej tłumaczony polski autor. Oprócz opowiadań pisał liczne powieści, szeroko odwołujące się do jego bogatych podróżniczych i życiowych doświadczeń.

The Garden Murder Case

S.S. Van Dine

The setting for The Garden Murder Case, the ninth detective novel by S.S. Van Dine, featuring stylish intellectual detective Philo Vance, is a rooftop penthouse. Vance receives a not-so-anonymous phone message that piques his interest in a gathering of Floyd Garden socialites and friends to hear the results of the race in the comfort of his fathers luxurious penthouse.

Mistress Spitfire

Joseph Smith Fletcher

Fletchers understanding of human nature is evident in his writing, where his characters embody every facet of human existence in very well-written prose and dialogue. Mistress Spitfire is a simple account of some of the episodes in the history of Richard Coop, Ghent, and his cousin Mistress Alison French during the Revolution of 1642-1644.