Nobodys Man

E. Phillips Oppenheim

It is strange to find Mr. Phillips Oppenheim choosing as his hero an earnest politician with a love for social reform. Nobodys Man starts out as a standard whodunit murder mystery then makes an abrupt lane-change into British politics of the mid-1920s. Brigadier general Andrew Tallente, late of Parliament, is implicated in the death of his male secretary, the son of a classmate at Eton. Seems the younger man may have not only been having an affair with the heros American wife, but had stolen incriminating political documents. A political coup of sorts develops as the opposing party invites Tallente to lead them. Enter the lovely heiress-next-door, who becomes the heros champion, and perhaps, new flame.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 3). Collected Short Stories. Volume 3

Arthur Conan Doyle

In this collection are four more individual cases for Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. Once more, they are solved by this bloodhound of a genius. This great series addition of Sherlock Holmes includes a full-length 1 novel and short stories. Volume 3 continues the exciting adventures of the worlds most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This volume contains one novel, The Valley of Fear, and two collections of short stories: His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. From his home, 221B Baker Street in London, the legendary Sherlock Holmes (accompanied by his loyal companion and chronicler, Dr. Watson) employs his mastery of deductive reasoning and expert sleuthing to solve an arraying of complex and harrowing cases, baffling the police and becoming internationally renowned for his remarkable observations and even more eccentric habits.

Ze wspomnień cyklisty

Bolesław Prus

Historia Ze wspomnień cyklisty przedstawia losy młodego, niezbyt zamożnego urzędnika bankowego, który przez przepracowanie podupada na zdrowiu. Mężczyzna cierpi na bezsenność, w końcu przechodzi załamanie nerwowe. Lekarz szybko rozpoznaje chorobę i przepisuje dość nietypową, aczkolwiek jedną z najlepszych możliwych kuracji wycieczkę rowerową za miasto. Przejażdżka ma uzdrowić nadszarpnięte nerwy, uleczyć z bezsenności, jednym słowem zregenerować młodego człowieka. Utwór ma charakter opowieści drogi. Warszawski cyklista przeżywa liczne przygody związane z obserwacją zdarzeń i realiów życia mieszkańców podstołecznych wsi i miasteczek. Natomiast podczas drzemki, uciętej w czasie przerwy w pedałowaniu, młodzieniec śni o pięknej wybrance i jej majętnym ojcu.

The Chouans

Honoré de Balzac

Two works of 1829 brought Balzac to the brink of success. Les Chouans, the first novel he felt enough confidence about to have published under his own name, is a historical novel about the Breton peasants called Chouans who took part in a royalist insurrection against Revolutionary France in 1799 that occurred in the region between Brittany and Nantes and Balzac places his story in this accurate historic contest. Balzac is one of Frances greatest storytellers and this particular thriller is one of his most spine-tingling ones. In it, an aristocrat, Marie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché, the terrible minister of police to seduce and capture their leader, the Marquis de Montauran, known as the Guy (le Gars). She must be helped by a skillful, ambitious and unscrupulous policeman, Corentin. But Marie falls in love with her target...

The New Machiavelli

Herbert George Wells

About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure. A successful author and Liberal MP Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life is thrown when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire. At first, he struggles to resist and remain focused upon his familiar political, personal and social life. But as he soon learns, it is harder than he could have imagined to turn his back on love. In the character of Richard Remington, Wells created a damning portrait of an insufferable, egoistic, pontificating windbag whose attempts to set an agenda to improve society whether to uphold the British Empire or allow women to play a greater part in social life pays no attention to the effects on the people he is supposed to represent.

W żydowskich rękach

Michał Bałucki

Jedna z późniejszych powieści Michała Bałuckiego. Krytyczne spojrzenie autora na otaczającą go rzeczywistość i ówczesną sytuację polityczną Polski. Świat, w którym żyją bohaterowie powieści jest pełen przemocy i niesprawiedliwości.

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.

The Gilded Age. A Tale of Today

Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

The book reflects the state of 19th-century society in the United States votes in the Senate and Congress are bought and sold, all this is carefully hidden and masked. The curse of the Tennessee land, which could but did not enrich the young people who are the heirs of this land, is largely activated by the heirs themselves typical Americans of that time, who want to quickly make a fortune.