The Insulted and the Injured

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The book contains several topics: the relationship between a man and a woman before marriage, the betrayal of loved ones and their forgiveness, fathers and children. As the life stories of two women are almost the same, as Ivan tried to prevent the same end for Natasha. The breaking lives of good people because of unclean ones on hand.

Unter Palmen und Buchen. Band IIII

Friedrich Gerstäcker

Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816-1872) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Er war ein Autor von spannenden Abenteuerromanen und -erzählungen, aber auch Dorfgeschichten, der Landschaften und kulturelle Verhältnisse so gut wiederzugeben verstand, dass noch heute ein überwiegend jugendliches Publikum seine bekannten Romane liest. Auf seinen Streifzügen vor allem in die Neue Welt, Nord- und Südamerika, Australien und nach Tahiti enstand eine große Anzahl persönlicher Geschichten, die er literarisch verarbeitete und reflektierte. Unter Palmen und Buchen ist eine Sammlung von Erzählungen aus 3 Bänden. Erschienen in den Jahren 1865, 1866 und 1867. Erster Band Unter Buchen enthält: 1. Eine alltägliche Geschichte. 2. Die Vision. 3. Folgen einer telegraphischen Depesche. 4. Der Polizeiagent. 5. Eine Heimkehr aus der weiten Welt. 6. Wenn wir einmal sterben. Zweiter Band Unter Palmen enthält: 1. Das Klima der Tropen. 2. El Comisario. 3. Am Cachavi. 4. Der Tiger. 5. Negerleben. Dritter Band Unter Palmen und Buchen enthält: 1. Eine Mesalliance. 2. Der Gevatterbrief. 3. Ein Ausflug in Java. 4. Der Heimathschein. 5. Auf der Eisenbahn.

The Planter of Malata

Joseph Conrad

This is both mystery and romance; the latter creates one of the recurring difficulties in Conrad: it preserves the Victorian histrionic element, which sometimes may seem a little attractive. But overall, it is well read and much less burdensome than some of his novels.

Through Russia

Maxim Gorky

The stories, united under the name Through Russia, were originally printed by M. Gorky in various periodicals and collections. In the series of short stories In Russia. M. Gorky refers to the image of the past in order to illuminate the paths to the future. The writer reflected the harsh truth of the life of little great people, life-giving and decorating the earth with their labor.

Behind Closed Doors

Anna Katharine Green

The last part of the book includes a chase that ends with a terrible snowstorm. The problem with this is that the twist discovered at the end is what the reader will suspect long before Mr. Grice does. She explains in detail the heart and souls of all her characters even Detective Grace.

Men of the Mist

T.C. Bridges

The TEA at the Wasperton School was nothing more than thick slices of bread and margarine and an ominous black mixture served in huge metal teapots. The food was so bad that the boys could hardly eat it, but they did not dare to complain, at least as long as they were under the gaze of their master, Mr. Silas Craishaw. Because his eyes were no less rigid than his cane, and not a day passed, but some of them felt a prick of it. Among the forty or so boys who were sitting at two long tables, there was a couple that was somehow different from the rest. Despite their worn clothes and patched boots, an atmosphere of reproduction reigned around Clem and Billy Ballard.

Rhetoric

Aristotle

It can be seen from the book that at that time rhetoric was used to a greater extent in the courts, and Aristotle writes a lot about judicial speeches, how to convince judges and jurors, and sometimes goes into consideration of laws. Also, rhetoric was used in deliberative and laudatory speeches, in the modern century this is no longer so relevant. The second part of the book describes human passions. Aristotle, as always, in his style from all sides examined anger, mercy, shame, fear and other human passions, so that it was clear how to evoke a particular feeling in people in his speech.

Luck or Pluck. A Story of the Northern Forests

T.C. Bridges

The long table was filled with guys from Overtons school, everyone was busy with breakfast and talked from sixteen to a dozen. Only two days remained until the end of the summer semester, and everyone was wildly excited about the idea of returning home for a long eight-week vacation. Bruce, being the captain of the hostel, sat at the head of the table, and Clive next to him so that they could read their letters calmly.

The Outlaw

Max Brand

Young Larry Lynmouth had been the most fabulous outlaw of them all. Now he was determined to go straight. But going straight wasnt that easy-not with ugly leeches like Jay Cress around, who couldnt believe any man was fool enough to be honest. Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable novel The Outlaw. Packed with enough action, twists and turns 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. This classics appeal extends far beyond the core audience for Westerns give it to a yet-to-be-won-over friend or loved one, and soon theyll be clamoring for more.

The Gold Magnet

T.C. Bridges

The cold drizzle made Plymouth unhappy, and it was with a sigh of relief that Bruce Carey exchanged the greasy, dirty platform of North Road Station for the warm, well-lit comfort of a first-class night mail coupe for London. At first he thought that he would have a car, but when the train was getting ready to start, a man jumped into it and fell on the seat opposite Bruce. He was breathing heavily, as if running, and Bruce, looking at him, was struck by the expression on his face.

Przekład dowolny

Hanna Cygler

Po przeżyciu wielkiego zawodu miłosnego, Iza, absolwentka skandynawistyki, wychodzi za mąż za Szweda i wyjeżdża z kraju. Po czterech latach upokarzającego ją związku ucieka w dramatycznych okolicznościach od psychopatycznego męża. Na promie, podczas podróży powrotnej do Polski, poznaje Maćka, wdowca samotnie wychowującego 4-letnią córkę, tłumacza, który pomaga jej stanąć na nogi załatwia mieszkanie, pracę i wprowadza w krąg swoich znajomych. Maciek staje się dla młodej kobiety po przejściach kimś bardzo ważnym, ale czy uda mu się zmienić jej postanowienie? Iza, pragnąc uodpornić się na uczuciowe emocje, nie zamierza szukać już miłości, a jedynie mężczyzny z grubym portfelem. Na horyzoncie pojawia się interesujący kandydat, potentat w branży komputerowej...

Werewolf

Max Brand

You dont get a much more evocative opening than that for a Western novella called Werewolf, and the story lives up to both its title and that opening in ways you wont expect from Max Brand who did write some fantastic fiction. On that bitter night Chris Royal walks into Yates Saloon to escape the storm where Cliff Main, gun happy brother of killer Harry Main, is looking for trouble over a girl both like. Words are exchanged, and there is the smell of cordite in the air. Cliff Main is dead and Chris Royal alive. At least until Harry Main comes to avenge his dead brother... It is a part Western revenge story, part tale of redemption of man and dog, part dog story with a rousing good adventure story set in the more or less modern West. Highly recommended, especially for those who love this genre!

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.

Michael

E.F. Benson

There has never been a city that would be so inimitable. Most trains, too, completely ignore its existence and pass through it on the way to more useful stops. The story was supposed to strengthen many people during the First World War. The book is full of sentimentalism, but it describes well the different scenes of everyday life.

The Doctrine of the Mean

Confucius

The Doctrine of the Mean is a text rich in symbolism and a guide to cultivation. The goal of the doctorine meaning is to maintain balance and harmony from the direction of the mind to a state of constant equilibrium. A person who follows the average is on the path of duty and should never leave it.

Tylko kochanka

Hanna Cygler

Życie Leny obfituje w nagłe zwroty, toczy się pomiędzy skrajnościami. Wszelkie przyjemności hiszpańskiej riwiery, a potem smętna rzeczywistość prowincjonalnego Gniewu. Beztroska i luksusy zapewniane przez kochanka, szwedzkiego milionera, a później ukrywanie się przed komornikiem. Pewnego dnia w życie Leny wkracza Jakub, polski prawnik, który zrobił karierę w Londynie. Próbuje odmienić życie Leny i uratować ją z sytuacji, zdawałoby się, bez wyjścia.

The Secret of Smoking Swamp

T.C. Bridges

Set against a Florida background, this story tells of the adventures of Bill Picton and his young companions who trail a gang of moonshiners through the steaming, sluggish swamp-lands. Fitzgordon had never in his life before been in a tropical swamp, and the very first thing he did was to get both feet tangled in a coil of tough bamboo vine, and come down flat on his face on the wet black muck. The stuff was like rotten sponge, and just as full of water as it would hold. When he gained his feet again he was soaked from his knees to his neck.

Dartmoor Legacy

T.C. Bridges

At the Bar-Tor farm in Dartmoor, owned by young Robert Hamlin. Downstairs, on the red land of Devon, a porcelain clay deposit was found, the value of which, although not fantastic, was large enough to make searchers be interested in the possibilities of buying all the property. Their idea was to get it before Robert Hamlin realized that he had a hidden asset that cost a lot more than all of his agricultural land. But they did not outsmart him.

Za cudze grzechy

Hanna Cygler

Kontynuacja powieści W cudzym domu. Historyczno-obyczajowa opowieść o burzliwych losach Joachima von Eistettena, Louise de Sokolowski i Dmitrija Szuszkina. Wartka akcja przenosi się z Warszawy do Paryża, Deauville, Krakowa, Gdańska, Barcelony i Sankt Petersburga. Spiski, terroryści, wybuchające bomby i namiętności nie pozwalają bohaterom cieszyć się spokojem. Ich fascynujące przeżycia i miłosne perypetie trzymają w napięciu do ostatniej strony.

The Darkness at Windon Manor

Max Brand

Something natural or supernatural enters the soul of Andrew Creel, a commonplace and disaffected young man, and drives him into a swift game where death is a probability on the one side and love only a possibility on the other. Creel plays it to the end: an end unlike the end that seemed so sure when dusk fell on the garden of that charming mansion with its sinister residents who have taken up residence in the titles Windon Manor after a bank failure wiped out their fortunes eight years earlier. The Darkness at Windon Manor is an entertaining 1923 crime novel written by Max Brand aka Frederick Faust. This moving swiftly tale of mistaken identity, a femme fatale, and a haul of stolen jewels.

Happy Jack

Max Brand

If you enjoy a fast moving western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, youll like Happy Jack (1936) by Max Brand. One bullet was all it took to change Jack Anderson from a carefree boy into a hunted man. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists and turns. The journey is the entertaining part. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre. No pulp writer was more prolific than Frederick Faust, who wrote nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. He sold all his stories and sometimes wrote complete issues of Western Story Magazine.

Z pamiętnika masażysty (Tom II). Z pamiętnika masażysty. Człowiek zawsze kicha dwa razy

Agnieszka Dydycz

Z pamiętnika masażysty człowiek zawsze kicha dwa razy to druga część przygód dr Marcina, zwanego masażystą lub panem Marcinkiem. Nasz ulubieniec wraca z długich wakacji, by ponownie zmierzyć się z rzeczywistością. A jest z czym! Jego eks zostaje ponownie mamą, przyjaciel szwagrem, syn starszym bratem i każdy potrzebuje wsparcia. Po pomoc do Marcina przychodzą nie tylko zbolali pacjenci, ale także przyjaciele: znany i nieco sfochowany pisarz, zdolny dentysta i ordynator kolekcjoner. Do tego pięcioletni syn Jerzyk zadaje tacie coraz trudniejsze pytania, a pacjenci coraz częściej zgłaszają się z diagnozą własną. Jedynie wrodzony optymizm i subiektywnie pozytywna ocena samego siebie pozwolą dr Marcinowi na ogarnięcie tego wszystkiego. I nadzieja, że na ratunek przybędzie mu kobieta na białym rowerze Przygody dr Marcina pomagają w oderwaniu się od otaczającej nas rzeczywistości i bawią jeszcze długo po skończonej lekturze. Bo czy wiedzieliście na przykład, że selfie skraca życie i gdzie można kupić szynkę z kruka? A nasz Marcin z każdej sytuacji wybrnie z wdziękiem i poczuciem humoru. Właśnie za to kobiety go kochają, a mężczyźni mu zazdroszczą.

Odmiana przez przypadki

Hanna Cygler

Początek nowego milenium ma oznaczać dla Zosi i Witka Halmanów nowe życie. Marzenia o spokoju i stabilizacji wkrótce okazują się nierealne. Trzeba stawić czoło nowym wyzwaniom, które przynosi codzienne życie, praca i problemy dorastających dzieci. Odzywają się też duchy przeszłości, stanowiące całkiem realne zagrożenie. Gdańsk, Londyn, Warszawa, Sydney... Rozgałęziona rodzina Halmanów przemierza kraje i kontynenty, poszukując swojego miejsca w życiu. Powieść stanowi nawiązanie do trylogii: Tryb warunkowy Deklinacja męska/żeńska Przyszły niedokonany.

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.