Madame Storey Intervenes

Hulbert Footner

Author Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) brought the excitement of the 1920s and 1930s to Madame Storey's cosmopolitan adventures, moving away from Edwardian and Victorian flavors of the mystery genre. Beautiful and aloof. Her secretary/narrator/companion is Bella Brickley. Rosika lives near Gramercy Park in NYC and has a pet monkey. She seems to solve cases by use of good guesswork, "practical psychology" and fortuitous prior knowledge of certain facts or people.

Cień Bafometa. Powieść fantastyczna

Stefan Grabiński

Cień Bafometa to powieść fantastyczna, która jest niezwykle twórczym przełożeniem mitu Doktora Jekylla i pana Hyda. Główny bohater opowieści, Tadeusz Pomian, ma stoczyć pojedynek ze swym śmiertelnym wrogiem ministrem Praderą. Ten jednak zostaje nieoczekiwanie zamordowany. Czy to tylko przypadek, czy też działanie siły wyższej? I co ma z tym wszystkim wspólnego Paweł Kuternóżka, właściciel sklepu z dewocjonaliami? Znakomite połączenie realistycznej narracji z oryginalną wizją wyzwolonego zła.

The Face in the Abyss

A. Merritt

A simply amazingly creative novel by one of the best of the pulp-era authors, originally published 1931. While searching for lost Inca treasure in South America, American mining engineer, Nicholas Graydon stumbles across a lost civilization. A culture both more barbarous than our own and more civilized; more advanced and yet in some ways primitive. Is it a strange and highly advanced technology, or magic, that is responsible for the wonders of this land? Naturally our engineer meets a beautiful young woman Suarra, and they fall in love. But his arrival triggers an epic battle between the Snake Mother and her arch-rival, Nimir. The Face in the Abyss is a brilliant tale filled with weird imagination, marvelous writing, horror, beauty, and it may well be called the most visual book ever written for the world of fantasy.

Sternentau. Die Pflanze vom Neptunsmond

Kurd Lasswitz

Der Roman Sternentau thematisiert den Besuch von Aliens auf der Erde. Auf einem Spaziergang entdeckt die junge Harda eine unbekannte Pflanze, die nicht von der Erde stammt. Sie reproduziert Elfen, deren Fähigkeiten bis zum Gedankenlesen reichen. Aber sind diese Elfen gut oder böse? Ein im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes fantastischer Roman.

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.

The Scandal of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton

Chesterton again allows us to accompany Father Brown, preternaturally-unbiased master of human nature, as he stumbles across another series of murders and mysteries. These stories in this series are not as compact as those in other books, notably The Innocence of Father Brown, but they have the same magnetic power to draw the reader in. As ever, Chesterton is interested not only in delivering first rate detective stories, but of describing human nature. His characters are flawed and biased, all blind in their own way, which is what makes it so difficult to see the truth that lies before them. Father Brown, ever kind and imperturbable, nearly always sees right through to the heart of the matter. Posing as a humble parish priest, which he is, he somehow sees beyond the class boundaries which it is Chestertons special gift to point out and puncture.

Jeremy and Hamlet

Hugh Walpole

This is a horror book, but prone to human psychology. The book begins: between the kitchen and the pantry there was a certain window, which was a favorite for Hamlet. Thirty years ago these chronicles of 1894 the basements of houses in provincial English cities, even large houses owned by wealthy people, were dark, cold, odorous caves sizzling with bad gas and smelling of poorly prepared cabbage. The basement of Coles house in Polchester was the same bad, like any other, but this small window between the kitchen and the pantry was higher in the wall than other basement windows.

365 obiadów

Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa

Poradnik kulinarny autorstwa Lucyny Ćwierczakiewiczowej, królowej kucharek polskich. Prawdziwa gratka dla wszystkich, dla których gotowanie stało się pasją. 365 obiadów to najsłynniejsza polska książka kucharska. Przeznaczona jest zarówno dla wprawnych kucharzy, jak i tych, którzy w kuchni stawiają pierwsze kroki. Zawiera przepisy, z których skorzystają nie tylko miłośnicy tradycyjnej kuchni, lecz także entuzjaści posiłków opartych na naturalnych produktach. Proponowane przez Lucynę Ćwierczakiewiczową przepisy mimo iż mogą się wydawać wyszukane, a nawet wykwintne nie są ani trudne, ani drogie w wykonaniu. Na niniejsze wydanie składa się 458 różnych przepisów, uszeregowanych w kolejnych szesnastu rozdziałach. Po części z przepisami zamieszczono menu na każdy dzień roku. Opisane w menu obiady składają się na ogół z czterech dań.