Tales of El Borak

Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such hero as Francis Xavier Gordon. Texas gunfighter F. X. Gordon traveled the world before settling in 1920s Afghanistan. The Afghans dubbed him El Borak for his quick thinking and skill with a sword and gun. The respected Gordon frequently mitigated tribal wars and conflict through guile or, barring that, violence. Contrary to Howards reputation, these were straight adventure stories with no supernatural elements. Every fan of Robert E. Howard and aficionados of great adventure writing will want to own this collection of the best of Howards desert tales.

Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 15). Ród Rodrigandów. Klasztor della Barbara

Karol May

W kontynuacji wydarzeń z tomu Grobowiec Rodrigandów Kurt Unger, Sępi Dziób i oficer marynarki Peters usiłują schwytać Corteja i Landolę. Akcja odnosi połowiczny skutek. Jednocześnie doktor Hilario z klasztoru della Barbara knuje spisek przeciwko księciu Maksymilianowi oraz Juarezowi. W paradę wchodzą mu Cortejo z Landolą. Mieszkańcy hacjendy del Erina znów są w niebezpieczeństwie.

The Reverberator

Henry James

The Reverberator is a short novel from Henry James. Comedy traces the complications. which leads when unpleasant, but true stories about Paris family fall into the American scandal sheet of the name of the novel. George Flack is a Paris correspondent for the American sheet scandal called reverberator.

Collected Short Fiction

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (also wrote as John Jessel and Marge Stanley) (1902-1935) was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, A Martian Odyssey, was published to great acclaim in July 1934. Most of the stories fall into two categories: travelogue types that explore different planets, and the others with Dixon Wells and the great scientist Van Manderpootz, who invents amazing stuff that Wells manages to use to break his own heart over and over again. A collection of stunning short stories written in the 30s but ahead of their time in their depiction of bizarre alien life forms. The final story in the book, Proteus Island, is a bit of an anomaly. Instead of being in the future or space, it seems set more present day.

Shadows in Zamboula

Robert E. Howard

Shadows in Zamboula is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in November, 1935. Its original title was The Man-Eaters of Zamboula. The story takes place over the course of a night in the desert city of Zamboula, with political intrigue amidst streets filled with roaming cannibals. It features the character Baal-pteor, one of the few humans in the Conan stories to be a physical challenge for the main Cimmerian character himself.

The Devil in Iron

Robert E. Howard

The fisherman loosened his knife in its scabbard. The gesture was instinctive, for what he feared was nothing a knife could slay, not even the saw-edged crescent blade of the Yuetshi that could disembowel a man with an upward stroke. Neither man nor beast threatened him in the solitude which brooded over the castellated isle of Xapur.

Господа Головлевы (Państwo Gołowlewowie)

Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин, Michaił Jewgrafowicz Sałtykow-Szczedrin

Тема романа Михаила Салтыкова-Щедрина «Господа Головлёвы» 2013 жизнь дворянской семьи в условиях дореформенной и пореформенной России. Пагубное влияние собственности на человеческую душу приводит к разрушению личности, показанному на примере распада семьи Головлевых. Центральным героем семейной саги становится человек, насквозь пропитавшийся ложью и лицемерием, внешне облеченном в форму благочестия и благоприличия. Тема распада дворянской семьи, её морального и физического разложения определила сюжет и композицию романа, показывающего историю никчёмного существования и нелепой смерти членов головлёвской семьи.

Marbleface

Max Brand

Marbleface is a an ex-prize fighter who becomes a fugitive after a failed robbery attempt lands him on the wrong side of the law. Hed almost been middleweight champion of the world, but then his heart went bad. So he trains himself to complete nerve control he takes up poker as a living he gets trapped into an escapade from which his victims daughter rescues him. With a bum ticker, Marbleface believes his days are numbered and sets out to reform, landing himself in the town of Piegun where he becomes the towns hero. He stays honest and eventually finds himself well again and able to settle down with the girl he loves.