Joan VIII, 112

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Stróż Gedras napotyka przy drodze ciężarną kobietę i zabiera ją do domu. Podczas porodu kobieta umiera i zostawia mu w opiece dziecko, które ten chce wychować. Nie jest mu jednak łatwo żyć z nim wśród ludzi, ponieważ dziecko jest okryte hańbą.

Buffalo Bills Spy Trailer. Or The Stranger in Camp

Prentiss Ingraham

By the author of the celebrated Buffalo Bill stories. Colonel Prentiss Ingraham was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a professional military officer throughout the 1860s and a fiction writer. As well as writing under his own name, he published under pseudonyms including Dr. Noel Dunbar, Dangerfield Burr, Major Henry B. Stoddard, Colonel Leon Lafitte, Frank Powell, Harry Dennies Perry, Midshipman Tom W. Hall, and Lieut. Preston Graham. Buffalo Bills Spy Trailer: The Stranger in Camp was first published in 1908. In it, a legendary figure of the Wild West who was canny enough to capitalize off of his own notoriety, William Cody was a renowned soldier and hunter. This action-packed tale parlays some of the historical facts surrounding Buffalo Bills life into a larger-than-life, thrill-a-minute Western.

Rogues in the House

Robert E. Howard

Rogues in the House is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1934. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan inadvertently becoming involved in the power play between two powerful men fighting for control of a city. It was the seventh Conan story Howard had published.

The Silent Bullet

Arthur B. Reeve

Enter an American Sherlock Holmes solving crimes in the early twentieth century. Craig Kennedy is a Columbia University chemistry professor by day and New Yorks premier sleuth by night. With the help of his roommate and partner in detection, newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, Kennedy uses his mastery of technology to solve the most puzzling of mysteries. It is interesting to see the different cases they take on and how they solve them. Originally published in 1910, these twelve short stories are as follows: The Scientific Cracksman, The Bacteriological Detective, The Deadly Tube, The Seismograph Adventure and others. The Silent Bullet is a first volume in the Arthur B. Reeve Detective Series.

The Professor

Charlotte Brontë

Written two years before Jane Eyre, The Professor was Charlotte Brontes first novel and was based on her experiences in Brussels. The story is one of love and doubt, as the hero, William Crimsworth, seeks his fortune as a teacher in Brussels and finds his love for the good Anglo-Swiss girl, Frances Henri, severely tested by the sensuously beguiling and manipulative headmistress, Zoroade Reuter. On the other hand, the social protest sounded distinctly in this novel that is typical for mature works of Charlotte Bronte. In particular, this protest is expressed in the image of a soulless, prudent businessman, the factory owner Edward Crimsworth who devoided of basic humanity in dealing with workers and their families.

When the Sleeper Wakes

Herbert George Wells

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Grahams money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the entire planet. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. This struggle is the main focus of the larger part of the novel. The novel proposes that whatever is done officially for the good of society, individual ambition is unlikely to address the failure of capitalist structures to create a good standard of living for those whose work supports the system.

Raison et Sensibilité, ou les Deux Manieres dAimer

Jane Austen

Le destin des soeurs Dashwood est au centre du roman. Marianna, lincarnation de la sensibilité. Elle tombe passionnément amoureuse dun gentilhomme charmant mais frivole. Et sa sour sensible Elinor tombe amoureuse dun jeune homme tout a fait sur. Quelle est la clé du bonheur?

LArchipel en feu

Jules Verne

Le livre nous emmene dans le premier quart du XIXe siecle, peu avant la libération de la Grece du pouvoir des Turcs. Les Grecs se battent avec les esclaves turcs pour leur liberté. En cela, ils sont aidés par ceux qui chérissent la liberté et lindépendance du pays. Mme les pirates de la mer leur viennent en aide.

Castle Gay

John Buchan

Castle Gay is the second of Buchans three Dickson McCunn books and is set in south west Scotland in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the 1920s. The plot revolves around the self-discovery of a media mogul named Craw, who is firstly the subject of mistaken identity and then the target of Balkan extremists who wish to use his newspapers to influence their political cause. Mr. Craws journey is overseen by Jaikie Galt, one of the young scamps in Huntingtower, who is now a Cambridge undergraduate and international rugby player. Jaikie and Craw embark on life-changing travels around the Scottish wilderness, where they both re-evaluate their values and choices in life although they arrive at very different conclusions. There is appreciation of the wilds and the simple lives of the shepherds along with the politics and international intrigue. There is the threat of violence, which is averted through quick thinking, which make the story exciting.

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

A diamond is stolen from the English country estate of Lady Verinder and the renowned Sergeant Cuff is brought in from London to help solve the case. The diamond, said to bring bad luck to its owner because it was stolen from a temple in India, was given to Lady Verinders daughter, Rachel, on her 18th birthday. It was bequeathed to Rachel from her uncle (who stole it when he was a young soldier) on his death. The story unfolds through several narrators, all of whom know a piece of what happened. As each of them writes his or her side of the story, the reader gets just a little more information that helps to solve the mystery. You can see things invented here that were directly borrowed by future writers: Holmes overconfidence (and his use of London urchins as agents); Agatha Christies exploration of narrative reliability.

The Old Man in the Corner

Emmuska Orczy

The late nineteenth and early twentienth century were a fecund period for classical mystery writers. Among the most popular was Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Old Man in the Corner contains twelve of the stories by Baroness Orczy featuring the mysterious man who sits in the corner of the ABC tea shop fiddling with a piece of string whilst working our the solutions to crimes that have baffled the police. Each case is unfolded during the course of a conversation between the man in the corner and a lady journalist, an ingenious method that avoids the necessity of a clumsy tacked-on explanation of the crime. Relying solely on his vast Holmesian powers of deduction, the strange looking sleuth never deigns to visit the scene of the crime, question a suspect, or examine clues. Nor does he have much faith in conventional police methods and crime solving capabilities.

Pożary i zgliszcza. Powieść na tle powstania styczniowego

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Aleksander Świda to człowiek dumny, hardy i honorowy, acz porywczy. Dla idei i miłości swojego serca jest gotów poświęcić życie. Pewnego dnia zostaje fałszywie oskarżony przez swego sąsiada, Dominika Czaplica, o podpalenie zabudowań sąsiedzkiego majątku. Aleksander na wiele lat znika z okolicy. Tymczasem wybucha powstanie. Rząd Narodowy wzywa Świdę do udziału w walce. W pierwszej chwili Aleksander odmawia, uznając ten zryw za źle przygotowany i groźny dla Polski. Słucha jednak głosu jedynego człowieka, któremu wierzy bezgranicznie: ukochanej kobiety. Angażuje się w walkę. Los ponownie styka go z Czaplicem, który kolaboruje z wrogiem... Pożary i zgliszcza to ciekawa i wciągająca od pierwszego akapitu lektura.

Frank Merriwell, Juniors, Golden Trail

Burt L. Standish

Frank Merriwell, Juniors, Golden Trail- the story is not much different from other authors stories. The plot is based on the adventures of the protagonist. Frank tries to talk about a dream that has been tormenting him for a long time. All this is not just so, the dream has a great value on the further development of the plot. Such an intriguing development of the plot doesnt let the reader get bored.

The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii

Jack London

This is a small storybook. Events that mostly revolve around one person. All his life in Hawaii, Percival Ford lived in the belief that he was following the path of his father, and there was nothing better than missionary virtue and moderation. But his pride was hit by that knowledge of which he had no idea, although it had been with him since childhood.

The Glimpses of the Moon

Edith Wharton

Set in the 1920s, Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds. They are in love and decide to marry, but realize their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters a more eligible proposition. Their conditional marriage begins to falter as Susy grows jealous of her husbands attentions to a wealthy young woman and Nick becomes increasingly disgruntled by the moral compromises arising from his wifes social negotiations. An expertly drawn portrait of two young lovers, caught between bright-eyed passion and the bitter allure of wealth.

Constance Dunlap

Arthur B. Reeve

A charming thief rescues the not-so-innocent in this delightful crime novel from the creator of the Craig Kennedy detective series. Constance Dunlap is a young woman who turns amateur criminal in order to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest. When this sadly doesnt work out exactly as planned, Constance goes on to embrace a new life. More antiheroine than heroine, she uses her photographic memory and her sharp wit to help amateur criminals get back on the right track. From one escapade to the next, Dunlap eludes Drummond, a crooked private detective who preys on the weak and unfortunate. Even he cant help but admire the pluck and intelligence of this irresistible scofflaw.

The Dutchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death

Hugh Walpole

An energetic girl enters society and must choose between her rebellious and exiled cousin or an ordinary young man. Rachel chooses an ordinary young man, but when their marriage begins to degenerate, she again comes into contact with her cousin. She falls in love with him will she leave her husband and run away with her romantic but weak lover?

Queen Lucia

E.F. Benson

The village of Rieseholm worships Queen Lucia. She completely commands the village, the ever-benevolent dictator of all things that really matter. However, someone had the pleasure of overthrowing a queen so great. And it was Olga Braisley, an opera singer from London. She is a real celebrity, not at all like that queen. Can she do it?

Ponad śnieg bielszym się stanę. Dramat w trzech aktach

Stefan Żeromski

Ponad śnieg bielszym się stanę to dramat w trzech aktach. Jego akcja rozgrywa się na Kresach. Główny bohater, Wincenty z miłości do kuzynki staje się winny ludzkiej śmierci i zrywa z matką. W Ponad śnieg bielszym się stanę dostrzec można Ibsenowskie konflikty sumień. Główny bohater dramatu to prawdziwy, modernistyczny melancholik, pogrążony w nieuleczalnym marazmie niespełnionego idealisty. Poprzez didaskalia oraz kwestie wypowiadane przez inne postaci Żeromski wyraźnie zaznacza słabość i skrajną, depresyjną wręcz niemoc tego bohatera. Dramat otwierał w 1919 r. działalność słynnego Teatru Reduta Juliusza Osterwy. Spektakl okazał się wielkim sukcesem.

Michael, Brother of Jerry

Jack London

Craving for travel, curiosity and a great desire to find his brother made the Irish Terrier Michael to get on board the ship. Friendship with a man helped Michael to survive in a sea voyage, and unusual quick wits made the terrier a welcome prey for sensational hunters. But at any twist of fate, Michael believed that sooner or later he and his brother would be together again.

Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 10). Ród Rodrigandów. Benito Juarez

Karol May

Na losy bohaterów znanych z sagi rodu Rodrigandów wpłynie tym razem światowa polityka. Konflikt pomiędzy Benito Juarezem a cesarzem Maksymilianem Habsburgiem zaowocuje cesarskim dekretem skazującym na śmierć każdego zwolennika Juareza. Bohaterowie pomogą Juarezowi nie dopuścić do egzekucji kilkudziesięciu republikanów. Lecz nie jest to ostateczne zwycięstwo w tym starciu.

The People of the Black Circle

Robert E. Howard

The king of vendhya was dying. Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared. Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold- domed chamber where Bhunda Chand struggled on the velvet-cushioned dais. Beads of sweat glistened on his dark skin; his fingers twisted the gold-worked fabric beneath him. He was young; no spear had touched him, no poison lurked in his wine.

Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The usual little throng of Americans, journalists, men of business and loiterers, were occupying their accustomed chairs in one corner of the long, green-carpeted room. Around the bar, would-be customers were crowded three or four deepmany of them stalwart Canadians in khaki, making the most of their three days leave, and a thin sprinkling of men about town on their way to lunch in the grill-room adjoining. On the outskirts of the group was a somewhat incongruous figure, a rather under-sized, ill-dressed, bespectacled little man, neither young nor old, colourless, with a stoop which was almost a deformity. His fingers were stained to the tip of his nails as though by chemicals or tobacco juice. He held the glass of vermouth which he had just succeeded in obtaining from the bar, half-way suspended to his lips. He was listening to the conversation around him.

Arsene Lupin. Dżentelmen włamywacz

Maurice Leblanc

Pierwszy z cyklu tomów poświęconych przygodom Arsenea Lupinea. Główny bohater jest włamywaczem i bawidamkiem, ale urzeka bystrością umysłu i nienagannymi manierami. To mistrz w swoim fachu błyskotliwy i piekielnie inteligentny łamie szyfry sejfów i niewieście serca. Okrada tylko nikczemników i złych bogaczy, a wspiera potrzebującą biedotę i otacza opieką pokrzywdzonych.