The Last Days of Pompeii

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The Last Days of Pompeii is a love story set in that Roman town just before the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried it and most of its citizens in ash. It draws a vivid portrait of the lifestyle of the Imperial Romans, their daily baths, symposia, and gladiatorial entertainments, their religious practices and their homes while presenting a busy plot full of decadent, diabolical seducers, religious fanatics, and glutinous parasites.The novel itself tells the story of the Athenian Glaucus, his love, the beautiful Ione, and a blind flower-girl Nydia, who is secretly in love with Glaucus. Threatening the love of Glaucus and Ione is Iones guardian, the decadent and deceitful Egyptian Arbaces, who lusts after Ione himself. An amazing historical-fiction novel, set out in a highly elaborate exquisite language.

Legiony

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Akcja powieści toczy się w czasach wojen napoleońskich na ziemiach polskich zaboru pruskiego oraz we Włoszech, gdzie walczą polskie legiony, na których czele stoi generał Jan Henryk Dąbrowski. Marek Kwiatkowski i Stanisław Cywiński to para przyjaciół. Marek jest synem ubogiego leśnika, a Stanisław sierotą pochodzącym ze szlacheckiego rodu (opiekę nad nim i jego majątkiem sprawuje stryj szambelan). Młodzieńcy mimo młodego wieku brali przed kilku laty udział w walkach insurekcji kościuszkowskiej. Teraz postanawiają zaciągnąć się do polskich legionów, które tworzą się we Włoszech i walczą u boku Napoleona Bonapartego przeciwko Austrii.

Записки на манжетах (Notatki na mankietach)

Михаил Афанасиевич Булгаков, Michaił Afanasjewicz Bułhakow

«Записки на манжетах» 2013 частично автобиографическая повесть Михаила Булгакова. Основным мотивом «Записок на манжетах» стала проблема отношений автора с властью. В повести достаточно подробно описана жизнь Булгакова на Кавказе и первые месяцы его пребывания в Москве.В этой книге объединены лучшие рассказы М.А.Булгакова, среди которых «Красная корона», «Китайская история», «Спиритический сеанс» и другие, а также знаменитый автобиографический цикл «Записки на манжетах». Именно в этих произведениях впервые появляются темы и сюжетные линии, которые писатель будет развивать далее в своих романах и пьесах. «Записки на манжетах» местами перекликаются с «Запискам сумасшедшего» Гоголя, а действительность как грань между реальностью и фантазией станет излюбленным художественным стилем Булгакова.

A Tale of Two Cities. A Story of the French Revolution

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens and it is one of his most tragic works. The plot centers on the years leading up to the French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. The novel, first and foremost, follows several characters including Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated British barrister who endeavors to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnays wife Lucie Manette. Other major characters include Dr. Manette (Lucies father), who was unjustly imprisoned in the infamous Bastille for many years under a lettre de cachet, and Madame Defarge, a female revolutionary with an implacable grudge against the aristocratic Evremonde dynasty. Here we see how general people can overthrow a government if they are tormented continuously. At the same time, this novel tells a love story too with special emphasis on the sacrificial attribute of Sydney Cartons character.

Death of an Airman

Christopher St. John Sprigg

When George Furnace, instructor of the Baston Aero Club, is found dead in the wreck of his crashed plane, everyone assumes it was a tragic accident, even though he was a skilled airman. An Australian visitor to the Aero Club, Edwin Marriott, Bishop of Cootamundra, suspects that the true story is more complicated. Could this be a dramatic suicide – or even murder? The intrepid Bishop and Inspector Bray of Scotland Yard make an appealing pair of detectives, and ultimately a cunning criminal scheme is uncovered. Death of an Airman is an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations.

What Men Live By and Other Tales

Leo Tolstoy

A small work describes the whole life, the meaning of all life on this Earth. The point is that people live by God, people love, they have a heart, they live not for their needs, not for their own good. And it simply struck the appearance, the rebuke of the Angel, how he watched everything, how he smiled at the hearty people who have faith. As a person blossoms after doing good, and faith becomes even stronger.

The Sinister Man

Edgar Wallace

A mystery novel classic by Edgar Wallace with so many twists and turns it becomes utterly baffling by the end. Superintendent Wills investigates the murder of a man found floating in the River Thames, it appears the victim was a archeology Oxford professor, murdered over three small fragments of an ancient text, working on the deciphering of some very rare tablets which if they fall into the wrong hands could cause major problems for one Asian country. He had previously been studying an archeological artefact known as the Kytang Wafers, and this is now missing. Highly recommended for people who like to treat a mystery story as a solvable riddle!

The Room with the Tassels

Carolyn Wells

It had seemed an idyllic way for a group of wealthy New Yorkers to spend a summer month, researching the supernatural in a reputed haunted mansion in the depths of Vermonts Green Mountains. That is until two of their number are mysteriously struck down at afternoon tea. Could the supernatural be at the heart of these deaths? Or did humans do the deed. This is the riddle that the famed detective Pennington Wise must unravel as they tries to discover what happened in... The Room with the Tassels. The Room with the Tassels marks the debut of occult detective Pennington Penny Wise and his female sidekick Zizi. Carolyn Wells created this younger crime fighting duo after the success of her Fleming Stone books. As her twelfth mystery novel, The Room with the Tassels marks a maturity of writing from the author of The Clue.

The Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil

Talbot Mundy

From the point of view of a serious expert on the events, Jimmarg holds control over the situation to try and prevent bloody fighting in Jerusalem and elsewhere. It involves some trick, which makes some deals that you can not abandon with Ali Baba, the descendant of different generations. Lots of tension, a lot of camels and James Shuiller Thunder coolly do their thing.

The Bravo of London

Ernest Bramah

The Bravo of London is a book in the Max Carrados series. Also, Max Carrados will be followed by The eyes of Max Carrados in 1923, The Specimen Case in 1924, Max Carrados Mysteries in 1927, and The Bravo of London in 1934. Max Carrados is a blind detective who uses his remaining senses in such a way that his blindness is often not immediately apparent to others. Working with his old friend, Louis Carlyle, a private investigator, the wealthy Carrados pursues his talent for detection whenever he pleases without accepting a fee. It is the first appearance of the blind sleuth Max Carrados whom, accompanied by his faithful but not always insightful Carlyle, was created as a rival to Sherlock Holmes and quickly found a strong following amongst readers.

The Blonde Lady. Being a Record of the Duel of Wits Between Arsene Lupin and the English Detective

Maurice Leblanc

If you enjoy the Sherlock Holmes series, then Arsene Lupin will be another detective series for your library. Leblanc was a French novelist and short story writer known for creating the character Arsene Lupin, who is the French counterpart to the English Sherlock Holmes. In The Blonde Lady: Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsene Lupin and the English Detective the great French gentleman thief and the formidable English unofficial consulting detective go head-to-head in a series of Alien vs Predator-style skirmishes. If in the last story of Arsene Lupin, gentleman-burglar Sherlock Holmes arrives too late, in the two stories that compose The Blonde Lady these two great intellects are bound in opposite directions. Where one chooses to abide to the law, the other uses his power and wits to crime and who is going to win?

Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum

Jules Verne

Deux villes sont construites sur Gokol, propriété de Googum, veuve du plus riche rajah indien, en Amérique, en Oregon, létat de largent, la belle Francesville et le sinistre Stalstadt. Le souverain de Stalstadt, le misanthrope Schulze, rve de détruire Franseville et son fondateur, le Dr Sarazen, et commence se préparer la guerre.

Wodna Lilia. Opowieść dla młodzieży z czasów najkrwawszych walk Indian z amerykanskimi kolonistami

Bolesław Zieliński

Wodna Lilia Bolesława Zielińskiego to kontynuacja Orlego Szponu. Akcja rozgrywa się w Ameryce, po śmierci Marka Zebrzydowskiego i skupia się na jego żonie, Indiance Wodnej Lilii, oraz ich synach. Na wyraziście zarysowanym tle, prezentującym konflikt pomiędzy osadnikami francuskimi i angielskimi, rozgrywają się wciągające wydarzenia, w które uwikłani są młodzi potomkowie Polaka i Indianki.

Das Eulenhaus

Eugenie Marlitt

Eugenie Marlitt (1825-1887) war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin. Sie wird als erste Bestsellerautorin der Welt angesehen. Eugenie Marlitt arbeitete bis zu ihrem Tod im Jahr 1887 an ihrem Roman Das Eulenhaus den sie jedoch nicht mehr vollenden konnte. Diese Aufgabe übernahm dann Wilhelmine von Heimburg. In ihrem letzten Roman thematisiert Marlitt die gesellschaftlichen Problematiken die ihr am Herzen lagen wie gleiche Bildungschancen für Frauen, soziale Gerechtigkeit und gesellschaftliche Toleranz.

Im Lande des Mahdi. Band IIII

Karl May

Erleben Sie die Abenteuer des Kara Ben Nemsi, der an Sklavenjäger und -händler gerät und zusammen mit Reis Effendina, einem Offizier des Vizekönigs, versucht, dem Einhalt zu gebieten. Mit dramatische Konsequenzen: Er soll ermordet werden. Kara Ben Nemsi rettet ihm das Leben, und dies nicht nur einmal. Abenteuer auf Abenteur! Lassen Sie sich in die Welt des Orients endführen zu den Sklavenhändlern nach Kairo. spannend und aufregend, unterhaltsam und ereignisreich.

Listy z podróży do Ameryki

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Listy z podróży do Ameryki to cykl reportaży pisanych podczas pobytu pisarza w Ameryce. Utwory te były wysyłane do kraju w formie listów i publikowane na łamach Gazety Polskiej od lutego 1876 r. do grudnia 1878 r. W listach z podróży po USA pisarz błysnął olśniewającym talentem obserwatora i artysty. Zawarł w nich świetne opisy polowań i puszczańskiego życia w Kalifornii, dowcipne scenki z życia Amerykanów, próby szerokich syntez społecznych i obyczajowych, szkice o doli i niedoli polskiej emigracji. Listy z podróży do Ameryki są wybitnym dziełem literackim i bogatym zbiorem wiadomości o USA drugiej połowy XIX wieku.

The Broken Thread

William Le Queux

On this particular morning, about ten oclock, the seafront was already full of men in flannels and lounge-suits, and women in garments of muslin and other such flimsy materials usually affected at the seaside, for stifled and jaded Londoners had flocked down there, as usual, to enjoy the sea air and all the varied attractions which Southport never fails to offer.

The End of the Tether

Joseph Conrad

This is the story of a sea captain named Wally, who suffered a financial catastrophe at the end of an outstanding career. All he wants is to leave his only daughter some money to help her cope with her unsuccessful marriage, so he is investing his last 500 pounds in an old steamer owned by his chief engineer, a man named Massy. Massy a desperate man who won the money to buy his ship in the lottery.

The Day of Uniting

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace established his reputation as a writer of detective thrillers, a genre in which he wrote more than 170 books, with the publication of The Four Just Men. Moreover, the author was a wholehearted supporter of Victorian and early Edwardian values and mores, which are now considered in some respects politically incorrect. In England, in the 1920s, Wallace was said to be the second biggest seller after the Bible. The Day of Uniting by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1930 and features a World War One ace as the lead detective who tries to solve a mystery. The story is fast-paced with some surprising twists, well written and great to read.

Sekrety księżnej de Cadignan

Honoriusz Balzak

Powieść Sekrety księżnej de Cadignan Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Scen z życia paryskiego cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Księżna Diana de Cadignan de Mafrigneuse złamała ogromną liczbę męskich serc. Nieraz przy okazji niszczyła również fortuny swych adoratorów. Pewnego dnia postanawia się wycofać z życia wielkiego świata paryskiego. Utrzymuje jedynie kontakt ze swą dawną przyjaciółką, markizą dEspard. Wkrótce markiza przedstawia księżnej barona Daniela dArtheza. Człowiek ten mimo iż odziedziczył ogromną fortunę nadal pracuje i odmawia uczestnictwa w wielkoświatowych intrygach. Pani de Cadignan postanawia go uwieść...

The Sacred Fount

Henry James

The book is about history, but not the one that is written in dry letters in the textbook, but the one into which the time machine takes you and lets you live the days, months in the body of another person, a contemporary of the time you are reading about. It is about religion, but not about what they preach in churches, without the right to question, but about its origins, causes, development, problems, transformation over time, our perception of it in the modern world, as well as about coexistence, disagreements and struggle religions with each other. Three archaeologists, three friends American Cullinan, Arab Tabari and Israeli Eliav decided to conquer the world by large-scale excavations.

Weir of Hermiston

Robert Louis Stevenson

This novel, according to many critics, could become one of the main masterpieces of the XIX century. However, Stevensons premature death from tuberculosis did not allow him to end it. Only six chapters were written, which were then published in some collected works. This is Stevensons attempt to write a psychological action novel, which clearly shows the confrontation between the Father and the Son. A rude, cruel judge is Lord Hermiston, however, a master of his craft, a knowledgeable person.

Marjorie in Command

Carolyn Wells

Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American poet and writer of detective and mystery novels, as well as childrens books, best known for her Fleming Stone Detective Stories. Marjorie series is Carolyn Wellss also known series was publicized as happy books for happy girls. The series includes Marjories Vacation, Marjories Busy Days, Marjories New Friend, Marjorie in Command, Marjories Maytime, and Marjorie at Seacote. Marjorie is a happy American little girl of twelve, up to mischief, but full of goodness and sincerity. The incidents of her summer vacation are such as will delight any little girl. In her and her friends every girl reader will see much of her own love of fun, play, and adventure. Highly recommended!

The Sapphire

A.E.W. Mason

Major Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 Dulwich, London 22 November 1948 London) was a British author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel The Four Feathers. His short story The Sapphire follows a Sapphire given to a Captain Michael Crowther by his Burmese wife who he is deserting. When he finally decides to return to them he finds them now out of his reach and so he becomes a Buddhist Monk. However, the Sapphire that now adorns a temple is stolen and so begins an adventure to track down the missing gem. Sometimes violence or threatened violence accompanies it. Also, love and adventure followed Sapphires trail across half the world...