Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcotts most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Four sisters are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother in a quiet Massachusetts town while their father serves as an army chaplain during the American Civil War. Here are independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg; or precocious and artistic Amy, the baby of the family. The charming story of these four little women and their wise and patient mother Marmee enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England was an instant success when first published in 1868 and has been adored for generations. Following the lives of the March sisters, the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. The novel has two sequels: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jos Boys (1871) and Jos Boys and How They Turned Out (1886).

Komedia omyłek

William Shakespeare

Farsa Szekspirowska oparta na motywie bliźniąt, które ciągle ze sobą mylono. Bliźnięta rozdzielone w dzieciństwie, dwaj identyczni chłopcy, którzy nie wiedzą o sobie nawzajem, a w dodatku nagle pojawiają się w jednym mieście z tego musi zrodzić się prawdziwa komedia omyłek. Utwór pełen humoru sytuacyjnego, który rozbawi do łez największych maruderów.

A Clue in Wax

Fred M. White

Fred M. White gives us the opportunity to plunge into the past of Gladys Brooke. The book begins with the perfect life of Gladys in a small town. Then we come back three years ago, where we find out that she has a brother. And they, too, then lived well, but in another place. The main character begins to notice the strange behavior of her brother. At one point, a calm and perfect life ends.

The Under Dogs

Hulbert Footner

The Under Dogs", published in 1925, is the first novel about Rosika Storey, told by her trusty secretary, Bella Brickley. Beautiful, intelligent Madame Rosika Storey, a respected investigator, becomes interested in the case of a young girl accused of jewel robbery. Although Melanie is desperate, she rejects Mme. Storeys help, because the gang that is after her is ruthless and, she thinks, unstoppable. When Melanie is kidnapped, Mme. Storey goes undercover herself, and walks into the clutches of the gang, where she works to find its mysterious leader and to free the imprisoned Melanie.

The Valley of the Moon

Jack London

The novel of the famous American writer Jack Londons Moon Valley is the story of a young worker defeated by the iron fifth of an industrial octopus city and finding peace and joy in a life close to nature on a California ranch. This book describes historical events in America in the early twentieth century on the example of one family. The Great Depression has not yet begun, but tension is felt in the cities, clashes are taking place between the striking workers and strike breakers, which are supported by the police.

The Drift Fence

Zane Grey

Zane Grey evokes the atmosphere, hardships and possibilities of the Old West like nobody else. Leaving Missouri with no knowledge of cattle ranching, Jim Traft of Missouri is put in charge of building one hundred miles of fence on his uncles western ranch to prevent cattle from drifting. The job puts him in conflict with the local community and he must find a balance. Theres also the lovely Molly Dunn to distract him; but how can he hope to woo the sister of his chief enemy? The Drift Fence shows how this tender young man struggles to overcome the odds he faces and ultimately wins over the heart of the beautiful young lass.

Consuelo. Tome 13

George Sand

George Sand le pseudonyme de lécrivain français Aurora Dupin-Dyudevan. Dans ses nombreuses uvres, les idées de libération de la personnalité se combinent une recréation psychologique de talent de personnages idéalement sublimes, de conflits damour complexes. Le roman Consuelo est une histoire fascinante de la vie dun jeune chanteur qui doit surmonter des épreuves difficiles en donnant son art aux gens. Il sagit dun livre sur le destin dun véritable artiste, sur le lourd fardeau du talent accordé par le destin, sur le choix difficile et parfois mme tragique entre la gloire et le bonheur personnel.

The Gold King Turns His Back

Max Brand

No writer captured the excitement, humanity, or adventure of the American West better than Max Brand. And nowhere was Brands talent more evident than in this classic short novel. In The Gold King turns his back, young Miriam Standard returns to her fathers ranch determined to learn the business, but she discovers she has a lot to learn when she makes the statement that she will marry any man who can bring in Gold King, the wild mustang. The Gold King Turns His Back presents a ripsnorter of a father-daughter feud that concludes with a proper twist. Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!

The Tower of the Elephant

Robert E. Howard

Torches flared murkily on the revels in the Maul, where the thieves of the east held carnival by night. In the Maul they could carouse and roar as they liked, for honest people shunned the quarters, and watchmen, well paid with stained coins, did not interfere with their sport. Along the crooked, unpaved streets with their heaps of refuse and sloppy puddles, drunken roisterers staggered, roaring. Steel glinted in the shadows where wolf preyed on wolf, and from the darkness rose the shrill laughter of women, and the sounds of scufflings and strugglings.

Leśna Różyczka (Tom 1). Leśna Różyczka. Zamek Rodriganda

Karol May

Zamek Rodriganda to pierwszy tom przygód z cyklu Leśna Różyczka, czyli prześladowania dookoła świata. Grupa ciekawych świata bohaterów podróżuje po różnych krajach i kontynentach. Mierzą się przy tym z nowymi wyzwaniami, stawiają czoła niebezpieczeństwom, odkrywają tajemnice i podejmują walkę z różnej maści opryszkami, stając w obronie dobra i sprawiedliwości.

Król zamczyska. Powieść

Seweryn Goszczyński

Powieść gotycka, która opisuje dzieje historyczne. Nawiązuje do walk wrześniowych z 1831 roku, jakie toczyły się pod Warszawą. Główny bohater odkrywa ruiny zamku i poznaje intrygującą postać, niejakiego Machnickiego, który opowiada historię zamczyska. Ukryty sens, otwarte zakończenie, szczegółowe opisy to wielkie atrybuty tej powieści. Przebija z niej typowa dla epoki romantyzmu miłość do ojczyzny, pełna nostalgii i wzruszeń.

Frank Merriwells Backers

Burt L. Standish

The story of Frank Merriwell continues. Frank is an energetic young guy. He was the best in everything: in sports, in school, he helped his friends. But now he needs help. After all, he falls into the trap and his enemies take away securities from him. Who will help him?

Collected Short Stories

A. Merritt

The Collected Short Stories is a collection of Abraham Merritts shorter works, and contains eight stories and two fragments. Included are: The People of the Pit, Through the Dragon Glass, The Drone, The Last Poet and the Robots and others. These short stories span the entire career of the man who has been called Americas foremost adventure fantasist of the 1920s and 30s. The collection kicks off with one of its strongest tales, The Fox Woman, a tale of revenge in a remote part of 20th century China. This is a mix of complete short stories and beginnings of novels that Abraham Merritt left unfinished before he died, the title story in the latter camp.

Pan Tadeusz. Czyli Ostatni zajazd na Litwie

Adam Mickiewicz

Epopeja narodowa z elementami gawędy szlacheckiej, powstała w latach 18321834 w Paryżu. Składa się z dwunastu ksiąg pisanych wierszem. Jest 1811 r. Do rodzinnego dworku w Soplicowie wraca po zakończeniu nauk dwudziestoletni Tadeusz Soplica. Gospodarzem Soplicowa jest stryj i opiekun młodzieńca, Sędzia Soplica. Wydaje się, że dwór jest pusty. Jego mieszkańcy wybrali się do pobliskiego lasu. Zwiedzając stare zakamarki, Tadeusz trafia do swego pokoju dziecinnego. Zastaje w nim Zosię, córkę Ewy Horeszkówny. Piękna dziewczyna porusza wyobraźnię młodzieńca. Wieczorem, podczas kolacji wydanej na Zamku, o który się toczy spór pomiędzy ziemiańską rodziną Sopliców a Hrabią, ostatnim potomkiem Horeszków, Tadeusz spotyka uwodzicielską Telimenę. Nawiązuje z nią romans... Adam Mickiewicz nigdy nie nazwał Pana Tadeusza eposem lub epopeją. Nie określili go też w ten sposób pierwsi czytelnicy utworu. Wyrażali nawet swoje niezadowolenie z powodu niewielkiej ilości podniosłego tonu w utworze. Uważano, że zawiera za dużo treści rubasznych. Zauważono także, że nie pojawia się w utworze żadna wielka postać historyczna (pojawienie się takiej osoby miało być zgodne z kanonami eposu). Status arcydzieła literatury polskiej oraz eposu narodowego Pan Tadeusz uzyskał po 1863 r.

LÎle hélice

LÎle hélice est un roman de fiction de Jules Verne. Le roman raconte lhistoire dun quatuor musical, en raison de la supercherie astucieuse, qui sest avérée tre sur une immense île flottante qui est devenue la maison des millionnaires américains et qui nage constamment dans locéan Pacifique. Standard Island est constamment en danger: linvasion danimaux sauvages, lattaque de pirates malais, la lutte de deux familles riches pour le pouvoir

The Veiled Man. Being an Account of the Risks and Adventures of Sidi Ahamadou, Sheikh of the Azjar Marauders of the Great Sahara

William Le Queux

I am a Veiled Man. Openly, I confess myself a vagabond and a brigand. Living here, in the heart of the Great Desert, six moons march from Algiers, and a thousand miles beyond the French outposts, theft is, with my nomadic tribe, their natural industrya branch of education, in fact. We augment the meagreness of our herds by extorting ransoms from some of our neighbours, and completely despoiling others. Mention of the name of Ahamadou causes the face of the traveller on any of the caravan routes between the Atlas mountains and Lake Tsâd to pale beneath its bronze, for as sheikh of the most powerful piratical tribe in the Sahara, I have earned an unenviable notoriety as leader of The Breath of the Wind, while the Arabs themselves have bestowed upon my people three epithets which epitomise their psychology: Thieves, Hyenas, and Abandoned of Allah.

Topsy-Turvy

Jules Verne

In the story, the heroes of one of his most famous books about a trip to the moon, enterprising Americans, gather again to use their huge guns. But for what? In order for the recoil from the cannon to make the Earth bend a little, so that some lands are in other latitudes, warmer. The world community is concerned about this venture and is sluggishly opposing.

The Books of Bart

Edgar Wallace

Best remembered for penning the screenplay for the classic film King Kong, author Edgar Wallace was an astoundingly popular luminary in the action-adventure genre in the early twentieth century. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, joining the army at 21, he was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and The Daily Mail. This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1923. The Books of Bart is a novel of relationships and double-crossing. As the novel is rather short and quite fast-paced with a lot of scenery-changes and adventures, this nice. Highly recommended!

Das geheimnisvolle Haus. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Der Kleinkriminelle Poltavo tritt in die Dienste eines geheimnisvollen Manns, welcher sich hinter einem schwarzen Schleier verbirgt und sich schlicht Mr. Brown nennt. Der zwielichtige Poltavo hat ehrgeizige Pläne: er will in der Londoner Gesellschaft aufsteigen. Hier lernt er die junge Doris Grey kennen, so wie ihren Vormund Mr. Farrington. Eine Erpressung in gehobenen Kreisen, ein Mord, dessen einziger Zeuge der undurchsichtige Millionär Gregory Farrington ist: Mr. T. B. Smith hat einen äußerst schwierigen Fall zu lösen...

The Carter Girls of Carter House

Emma Speed Sampson

Written for young girls, this is book 4 in The Carter Girls Series by Emma Speed Sampson. Sampson, using the name of her sister Nell Speed, wrote 4 titles in the Molly Brown series after her sisters death in 1913. She also wrote several volumes including the Carter Girls series and the Tucker Twins before she began publishing works under her own name. The Carter Girls of Carter House is a good, clean book full of the antics of a family working together to solve their financial woes in a very creative way. The girls are creative, daring, dramatic, and pure fun! As usual with Sampsons writing, the story is characterized with a contagious work ethic, ambition, cheerfulness, and entrepreneurial endeavors. She shines in the realm of attitudes toward hardship.

Nord contre Sud

Jules Verne

Cest un roman daventures de lécrivain français Jules Verne. Guerre civile aux États-Unis, entre les États du Sud esclaves et les pays du Nord industrialisés. Laction se déroule dans la splendide Floride exotique. Parallelement aux actions militaires du roman, de nombreux incidents mystérieux sont décrits...

Drag Harlan

Charles Alden Seltzer

Drag Harlan is a gunfighter with a fearsome reputation. He is known for his quickness with his guns. A mean, hard country man, he comes quite accidently by a dying man, Morgan. Morgan is cattleman and has left his ranch to his only daughter, Barbara. Seeing honesty in Harlans eyes, Morgan asks him to go to his daughter and protect her from fortune hunters. Thereafter Harlan establishes himself as the protector of Barbara Morgan and deals out punishment to the girls enemies through the lightning flash of drawn guns. A story filled with hard action, toughened cowboys, and sweeping romance from an American author of Westerns Charles Alden Seltzer who also wrote under the pseudonym Hiram Hopkins.

The Three Hostages

John Buchan

The story re-introduces the reader to an older Richard Hannay, married and the father of a young son, living on a country estate. Our hero is pulled out of retirement by his old comrade, Bullivant, asking him to help track down three missing persons, taken so that the villain can, as well as furthering his craze for crime and stopping his activities being investigated, obtain complete mental control over his acolytes. After much deliberation, Hannay accepts the case and so begins the search for the missing three. Much of the story is a series of chases, following various clues, during which Hannay is once again forced to work against the ordinary police to maintain his secrecy. The Three Hostages is a haunting novel, given added poignancy by the subsequent history of the twentieth century.

Gordon of the Lost Lagoon. A Romance of the Pacific Coast

Robert Watson

Despite the severity of the life he encounters, like a little rat, Douglas Gordon, with good mood and good fortune, with calm courage, pushes his way through difficulties. And this is followed by a fairy tale full of sea fool, the enchanting beauty of the islands in the Gulf of Georgia, the color of the promenade: a boy, a girl and a dog in a human adventure on the wild sea coast life near Vancouver.