The Great Prince Shan

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Written in 1922, this story of world politics in 1934 has everything that goes to the making of an enthralling tale. A theme of present import, an intricate plot full of suspense and surprise, fascinating characters and an unusual love interest. The central figure of this absorbing story is the mysterious and cultured Prince Shan, ruler of China; the heroines are captivating English girl and a exotically beautiful Russian who pit their charm, their loveliness, and their wisdom against each other and against the highly-trained diplomats of many countries. Each of them attempts to influence the decision which may change the map of the world. Will Germany, Russia and China parcel out the world amongst themselves?

Le Docteur Pascal

Émile Zola

Le Docteur Pascal est louvre finale de Zola du cycle Rugon-McCara. Le docteur Pascal est un personnage tres gentil, pensant bien et brillant, qui prend la vie telle quelle, sans fioritures ni idéalisation. Zola a mis ses idées, ses conceptions philosophiques du monde, sa compréhension du sens de la vie dans la bouche du héros. Il résume toute la vie agitée de la famille Rugon-Makkarov, qui, malgré tout, a laissé une marque notable sur lhistoire du Second Empire.

Tomahawk Rights

Hal G. Evarts

This is the story of the border war during the Revolution and immediately after it. The hero is captured during the Indian raid. He respects his Indian friends even in those bitter years when he fights with them like a border ranger. In the book you can feel the spirit of the time.

Horsztyński

Juliusz Słowacki

Dramat opowiada o synu zdrajcy hetmana Szymona, Szczęsnym Kossakowskim, który zostaje wplątany w dworskie intrygi, będące częścią planów ojca i powstańców kościuszkowskich. Klasyka godna polecenia.

The Master of the Shell

Talbot Baines Reed

In this novel, for a change, the protagonist is a master, not students. We see events from the point of view of some boys, but it is new that readers are asked to look at things from the point of view of the teacher. Mark Ralesford is a young gentleman who has just become engaged. He is also ready to start work after graduation and travel around the world. He is accepted as a teacher and home master at a boarding school called Grandcourt, where, coincidentally, one of his students will be Arthur Herapat, the younger brother of his bride.

Stolen Idols

E. Phillips Oppenheim

A young adventurer steals two complimentary idols of Buddha from a Chinese temple, one of which is supposed to have a debasing and malevolent effect upon its owners. One of the idols represents the Body, and all of the corruption and evil of Mankind, the other represents the Soul, and all that is good. The Ballastons are a spendthrift aristocratic family threatened with the loss of their ancestral home due to large debts. The son steals these idols, ends up with just the naughty one, and in the process crosses swords with Wu Ling, a wily Chinese merchant who later manages to become English. Mr. Oppenheim can be depended upon to give his plots that turn which is as admirable as it is unexpected, and this is one of the best of his many good and exciting books.

Pamiętniki

Jan Chryzostom Pasek

Pamiętniki Jana Chryzostoma Paska to zbiór wspomnień spisanych pod koniec życia przez polskiego szlachcica. Pierwsza część barwnie opisuje wojenne doświadczenia autora wojnę ze Szwecją, Siedmiogrodem, Moskwą oraz wyprawę wojskową do Danii. Pełno tam ciekawych spostrzeżeń, odkrywających światopogląd Sarmaty i jego ocenę innych kultur. Druga część opisuje sarmackie życie ziemiańskie. Wszystko podane soczyście, z humorem i werwą.

Król Ryszard III. Tragedia w 5 aktach

William Shakespeare

Kronika życia potępianego przez wielu króla angielskiego Ryszarda III, stanowiącego przez długie wieki ucieleśnienie wszelkiego zła. Szekspir podzielił ten pogląd, przypisując swemu bohaterowi liczne zbrodnie i przedstawiając go w najczarniejszych barwach. Uzasadniał w ten sposób jego obalenie i przejęcie władzy przez kolejną dynastię Tudorów, którzy władali Anglią w kolejnych wiekach.

The Crimson Sign

H.A. Cody

The whole story revolves around the colony of Acadia, which belonged to New France. For this territory was the most intense struggle between Britain and France. However, the territory was divided into British colonies, which became Canadian provinces and American states. This historical work and hook on everyone who is interested in history.

Elle et Lui

George Sand

Le roman autobiographique dun écrivain français remarquable. Cette histoire est la fois simple et complexe la fois: deux amoureux vont en Italie, mais ils ny trouvent pas le bonheur, mais vivent la tragédie dun malentendu mutuel et la breche pour les deux. Mais la signification du roman ne se limite pas au conflit de caracteres, car les deux personnages sont des artistes talentueux, ce qui introduit le probleme de la personne créatrice et les lois de la créativité dans le roman.

Podróż do Ziemi Świętej z Neapolu

Juliusz Słowacki

Poemat dygresyjny o zróżnicowanym charakterze i tematyce. Składa się z dziewięciu pieśni i opiera się na wzorze podróży poetyckiej. Klasyka godna polecenia dla czytelnika w kazdym wieku. Próbka poezji Wieszcza w najlepszym wydaniu.

The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown is an 1896 novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. Following the apparent murder of a man, a novelist comes under suspicion. Very enjoyable period piece with lovely descriptions and intense love between hero and heroine. He has to clear his name, as main suspect in a murder and he had sworn revenge and had taken an assumed name. Flashbacks to Italy. Full of rich and influential people with touch of Dickens with Benjamin Levy, the private sleuth who is obsessed with money. The author has acquired an admirable technique of the sort demanded by this novel of intrigue and mystery. Readers of Mr. Oppenheims novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship.

Zwierzęta, ludzie, bogowie

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

Zwierzęta, ludzie, bogowie to najgłośniejsze dzieło Ferdynanda Antoniego Ossendowskiego, a zarazem największy światowy bestseller literatury polskiej dwudziestolecia międzywojennego. Ossendowski, uchodząc z Krasnojarska opanowanego przez bolszewików, był uczestnikiem dramatycznych wydarzeń lat 19201921. Książka stanowi relację autora, w której odsłania on nieznany świat Środkowej Azji w przełomowych chwilach jej historii. Opis obejmuje ucieczkę poprzez Syberię i Mongolię przed wszechwładną CzeKa, walki z czerwonymi bandami, spotkania z krwawym baronem Ungern von Sternbergiem, tajemnice klasztorów lamaickich czy krótki przebłysk niepodległości narodu Czyngiz-chana.

The Thunder Bird

B.M. Bower

The Thunder Bird is a sequel of Johnny Jewels story and it looks like our heroes didnt learn their lessons, as Johnny seems more stubborn and Mary V more spoiled. Johnny is determined to pay his debt before going back to the ranch and to Mary V, but this time his affairs take a foray into an international intrigue. The Thunder Bird is written in the year 1919 by B. M. Bower and contains all of the elements that made B. M. Bowers books a mainstay of the genre of classic Westerns. This book is one of the most popular novels of B.M. Bower, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

Makbet

William Shakespeare

Tragedia Williama Shakespearea napisana około 1606 r. Należy do najczęściej wystawianych i adaptowanych sztuk szekspirowskich. Lord Makbet, wódz w armii króla Dunkana, spotyka trzy wiedźmy, które przepowiadają mu koronę. Ten się opiera, ale podjudzany przez chorobliwie ambitną żonę zabija swojego króla. Aby utrzymać się przy władzy brnie jednak w spiralę zbrodni... Makbet jest archetypiczną opowieścią o niebezpieczeństwach związanych z żądzą władzy i zdradą przyjaciół.

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Herbert George Wells

On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreaus assistant he is taken to the doctors island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...The main plot, a shunned biologist, Dr. Moreau, attempting to create a new species of animals by combining biological elements of the original animal with human and other animal bloods and cells, is handled in both a dramatic, yet accessible sicentific manner. The Island of Doctor Moreau portrays the consequences of Science without ethics. In this case it is early twentieth century vivesection.

Hawtreys Deputy

Harold Bindloss

In the fashion of the high prairie, romance and trust are acquired, lost, destroyed and acquired again... Sketchy mortgages and vague speculations will make us guess. The main character goes on a strange sea adventure to stop thinking about unhappy love. This is a story about a love triangle with unusual plot twists.

Der Sohn des Bärenjägers

Karl May

Martin Baumann, der Sohn des Bärenjägers macht sich auf die Suche nach seinem von den Sioux entführten Vater. Der dicke Jemmy, der eigendlich Jakob Pfefferkorn heißt, und der lange Yankee David Kroners kommen dem jungen Indianer Wokadeh zur Hilfe, der schließlich Martin Baumann berichtet, dass dessen Vater, ein berühmter Bärenjäger, von den Sioux-Oglala gefangen wurde und ihm die Marter droht. Glücklicherweise helfen ihm und seinen Gefährten Old Shatterhand und Winnetou. Mit ihrer Art machen sie sich die Krähenindianer und die Schoschonen zu Freunden, die mit ihnen zur Befreiung des Bärenjägers reiten. Sie beschließen, den Mann zu retten und machen sich auf den Weg zum Yellowstone.

The Man with the Clubfoot

Valentine Williams

If you like English adventure and spy stories, during the Great War, Valentine Williams is for you. The brothers Okewood, Desmond and Francis, will steal your heart and inspire you to mix it up with any passing Hun. Desmond Okewood is a young British officer in the First World War who goes to Germany on an important secret mission. The Kaiser has written a letter which both the British and the Germans are eager to get their hands on. Desmond has a series of misadventures and soon attracts the unwelcome attention of Dr. Adolf Grundt, known as Clubfoot. Clubfoot that sinister figure, who limps menacingly, is one of the most cunning and dangerous secret agents in Europe and he wants not only the Kaisers letter, but the capture and death of Desmond Okewood. In The Man with the Clubfoot, Valentine Williams has written a thrilling romance of mystery, love, and intrigue that in every sense of the word may be described as breathless.

Silas Marner. The Weaver of Raveloe

George Eliot

Although the shortest of George Eliots novels Silas Marner is a cherished masterwork and a moving story of redemption by the one of the Victorian eras most accomplished novelists. Published in 1861, the author charts the life of the cataleptic, miserly weaver Silas Marner. Arriving in insular Raveloe after a wrongful expulsion from his Calvinist community in the north, Silas is a foreign and outcast figure, left alone to accumulate a useless fortune through his loom in the dawn of the new industrial age. His unhappy life is rendered unrecognizable when his fortune is stolen and he adopts a child Eppie. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is a tender and affecting tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the readers attention until the last page as Eppies bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test.

Dominie Dean. A Novel

Ellis Parker Butler

Humorous novel set in Riverbank, a fictionalized Muscatine, in a Mississippi River town. Pastor David Dean and his wife take up residence in this town, Iowa in the 1850s and learn how unaccepting a small town can be of new residents, even after a stay of decades. An interesting social history of mid nineteenth century life, emphasizing the dominance of crass commercial interests in the vicissitudes of small town life, written by an American author Ellis Parker Butler. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story Pigs Is Pigs, in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating geometrically.

Boska komedia

Dante Alighieri

Poemat Dantego Alighieri Boska komedia powstawał w latach 13081321. Jako arcydzieło literatury włoskiej należy do klasyki światowej i wywarł ogromny wpływ na całą kulturę europejską. Boska komedia jest tryptykiem. Składa się z trzech ksiąg zatytułowanych: Piekło, Czyściec i Raj. Każdą z części poematu tworzą 33 pieśni, co wraz z pieśnią wstępną daje 100 utworów. Każdy z nich pisany jest strofą trzywersową tercyną. Liczba 3, kluczowa dla budowy utworu, jest symbolem Trójcy Świętej, a liczba 100 symbolizuje doskonałość. Tematem utworu jest wędrówka alter ego autora po zaświatach. Podróż trwa trzy dni i trzy noce, począwszy od Wielkiego Piątku do Wielkanocy 1300 r. Po zaświatach oprowadzają poetę inne osoby: Wergiliusz (symbol rozumu), święty Bernard z Clairvaux i ukochana Dantego, zmarła Beatrycze (alegoria miłości). Wizja świata pozagrobowego jest tu jednocześnie krytyką świata doczesnego.

Those Folk of Bulboro

Edgar Wallace

An Edgar Wallace detective thriller novel. The plot revolves around the nephew of a small town English doctor who takes over his uncles practice and runs into trouble with a religious fanatic. This book is in a new vein for Edgar Wallace, for it is not a story of mystery but a real novel, and goes to show where his versatility could take him if he wished, for Those Folk of Bulboro proves him to be the possessor of all the requisite gifts which go to make the really popular novelist against the writer of detective fiction. He has always been noted for his ability to sketch character vividly in a few strokes, and here his touch is as sure as ever, and the story he tells is sympathetic, true to life and deeply interesting.

Father Sergius

Leo Tolstoy

The story Father Sergius is one of Tolstoys most deeply personal works. This is a story about leaving. This is her main topic, and all the more curious, that its meaning did not develop immediately, with the accumulation of some own spiritual experience, which he was in no hurry to put on paper, and even more so to publish.