Eves Island

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. This novel is framed as several witness accounts to a fictious journalist and starts as an entertaining adventure yarn with even some pirate episodes, but the story looses steam at the half-way point when it turns into a very predictable society novel. Wallace follows his passions for horse-racing and adventure, and the title character in all his generosity and extravagance is clearly autobiographical. The story of a man who founds his own colony on an uninhibited island, returns to England to find true love and manages to keep the island out of the hands of various foreign powers.

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the novel The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the founders of American literature, once again, after a series of short stories and the famous Scarlet Letter, addresses the Puritan past and present of his homeland, New England. Legends and legends from national and family history, animated by the authors fantasy on Gothic themes, add up to the chronicle of the age-old confrontation of two families, which is implicated in greed, perjury and a tribal curse and which can only stop the love of young heroes...

Nowele

Józef Weyssenhoff

Nowele to zbiór utworów Józefa Weyssenhoffa, piewcy tradycji starego ziemiaństwa kresowego i łowów. W tomie znalazły się następujące utwory: Zaręczyny Jana Bełskiego, Za błękitami, Znaj pana, Pani Teodora, Pod piorunami, Wyroki, Dwa sumienia i Stara piosenka.

Bomba, the Jungle Boy at the Giant Cataract

Roy Rockwood

In this volume the reader is taken into the depth of the jungle where he meets Bomba in a life replete with thrilling situations. You meet Cody Casson, the old naturalist, and the White Hunters, Jake Dorn and Ralph Gillis who gives Bomba a Harmonica, matches, and revolver for saving their lives. The old naturalist gives him a hint of his father and his mother, and Bomba sets off to solve the mystery of his identity. He treks through the Amazon jungle to the Island of Snakes to find an old witch who may know the secret of his origins. From Moving Mountain Bomba travels to the Giant Cataract, still searching out his parentage. Among the Pilati Indians he finds some white captives. He finds, too, an aged woman who had at one time been a great operatic singer, and she is the first to give Bomba real news of his forebears.

Boyhood

Leo Tolstoy

The narration is conducted on behalf of the boy Nikolenka. He grows up, learns to forget grievances, experiences the first adult attraction to a young woman. The teenager is trying to convince himself that the appearance of a person is secondary, and most importantly this is the spiritual component. For people, Nikolenka prefers solitude.

The Sea Lady

Herbert George Wells

This charming, little-known fantasy by the author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds is also a sharply satirical look at the mores and moral of Edwardian England. During a family outing at the beach a family sees a young woman struggling further out in the water. Its only when they rescue her that they see that shes a mermaid. They quickly take her into the beach house, still unaware that the mermaid has planned the whole incident in order to meet a young man. Her motives are not quite clear; nor are her intentions of what she plans to do with the young man after she gets him, since she lives beneath the sea. On occasion she drops her guard and lets it be known she is death underwater. Will she be stopped in time from committing this dastardly deed? The Sea Lady takes a pretty good subject mermaid turned siren in proper British society and totally drops the ball.

Sępy skalne. Powieść z Dzikiego Zachodu

Karol May

Karol May powraca na swój ulubiony Dziki Zachód, aby kontynuować opowieść o Old Shatterhandzie. Po raz kolejny spotykamy legendarnego wodza indiańskiego Winnetou i jego lojalnego przyjaciela, którzy wspólnie ruszają na pomoc tym, którzy akurat ich pomocy potrzebują. Ponownie przekonujemy się też o potędze przyjaźni, dzięki której można pokonać największe trudności.

The Intriguers

Harold Bindloss

Churches, banks, offices and accommodations curiously combining the old and the newest pink tiers on a par with the magnificent red Frontenac Hotel. It would seem such a simple city. However, it was something unusual mystical. The people who lived here enjoyed life at first until something went wrong. The story is full of mysteries, and the answers to which lie at the very end.