Pfarre und Schule. Eine Dorfgeschichte. Band III

Friedrich Gerstäcker

Der Weltenbummler Gerstäcker, dessen ausgedehnte Reisen ihn durch Nord- und Südamerika führten, gehört zusammen mit Karl Mai zu den populärsten Autoren von Abenteuerromanen seiner Zeit. Gerstäcker veröffentlichte eine Vielzahl von Erzählungen, Romanen und vor allem Berichte über seine verschiedenen Reisen. Pfarre und Schule ist eine Dorfgeschichte, eine klassische deutsche literarische Arbeit. Aufregendes Detail machen das zu einem außergewöhnlichen Interesse.

Iliada

Homer

Poemat o wojnie Greków z Trojanami. Obok Odysei drugi z eposów, których autorstwo tradycja przypisuje Homerowi. Dziesiąty rok wojny trojańskiej. Największy grecki wojownik Achilles w gniewie porzuca walkę z Trojańczykami, po tym gdy Agamemnon odbiera mu brankę Bryzejdę. Trojanie w ten sposób uzyskują przewagę. Patroklos, chcąc dodać otuchy Grekom, wkłada zbroję Achillesa i rusza na czele wojsk greckich przeciwko Trojanom. Sam widok zbroi Achillesa wystarczył, by Trojanie cofnęli się. Jedynie Hektor stawił czoła rzekomemu Achillesowi i zabił Patroklosa. Zrozpaczony po stracie przyjaciela Achilles zapomina o obrazie i po wykuciu przez Hefajstosa nowej zbroi, pragnąc zemsty, rusza w bój pod mury Troi, pod którymi oczekuje go Hektor. Strukturę Iliady cechuje stałe przenikanie się i korespondencja dwóch płaszczyzn fabularnych świata ludzi i świata bogów.

The Three Just Men

Edgar Wallace

If you like a villain to be a proper villain then Oberzhon is the genuine article. What a villain! What an adventure! There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot efface. When conventional justice fails The Three Just Men employ their great intellect and cunning. They use their own methods, carry out their own verdicts which the police were unable or unwilling to carry out. There can be no compromise. Each of the ten chapters in this book recounts a separate episode in the careers of two of the trio who call themselves the Three Just Men. The third member of the trio remains in the background. The mission that the Three Just Men have undertaken is to mete out punishment to evil-doers whom the law has failed to reach.

Frank Merriwells Alarm

Burt L. Standish

Burt L.Standish is best known as author of the Frank Merriwell stories. Frank Merriwells Alarm is one of these stories. The main characters, continuing their adventures, were in the desert. Now the obstacle is harder. After all, they were left without water. What will they do?

Die Gräfin von Ascot. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Neugier breitet sich in der kleinen Ortschaft Ascot aus, als sich eine wohlhabende Gräfin dort niederlässt. Eine Gräfin taucht in Ascot auf, und bezieht dort eine Villa. Ein Einbrecher sucht die Villen in Ascot heim. Immer wieder erbeutet er Schmuck. Die Gräfin engagiert als Beschützer den Privatdetektiv John Morlay und stellt ihn vor eine äußerst schwierige Aufgabe.

The Firm of Girdlestone

Arthur Conan Doyle

John and Ezra Girdlestone, father and son, run a British merchant company trading to the African coast with several sailing ships, all dangerously ill-maintained. Their small office is in London, their business is quite personally run, and the firm and its owners are well respected in the City by the 1870s. John Girdlestone is deeply and ostentatiously religious, to the cynical amazement of his son. The senior Girdlestone also is the tightly-controlling guardian of an heiress not quite of age, Kate Harston. This young lady is a cousin of Tom Dimsdale, college-age son of a physician. The story is filled with a fun, varied cast. Besides John, Ezra, and Kate, theres Captain Miggs, Major Tobias Clutterbuck, and the Dimsdale family. These families and their impingement are at the center of A. Conan Doyles psychological-adventure novel The Firm of Girdlestone.

Szatan i Judasz (Tom 2). Szatan i Judasz. Pogromca Yuma

Karol May

Szatan i Judasz. Pogromca Yuma to drugi tom z 11-tomowego cyklu przygodowego autorstwa Karola Maya. Grupa dzielnych bohaterów odbywa wspólnie szalone podróże, aby mierzyć się z wszelkiej maści niegodziwcami, walczyć o sprawiedliwość i odnajdywać zaginione skarby. Dzięki pracy zespołowej, zaufaniu i wzajemnej pomocy udaje im się wyjść obronną ręką z najgorszych opresji.

A Modern Cinderella. Or, The Little Old Show and Other Stories

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott created some fascinating short stories here. A Modern Cinderella: or The Little Old Shoe And Other Stories contains four short stories by Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women: A Modern Cinderella, Debbys Debut, The Brothers, and Nellys Hospital. Like her more famous novels, Alcott tells stories of young women interacting with people and events from the late 1800s. Louisa May Alcott bestows a truly amusing and thoroughly modern retelling of The Brothers Grimms Cinderella. Little Women is certainly Louisa May Alcotts best known book, but dont miss her refreshing version of this classic fairy tale, A Modern Cinderella. Alcott pokes fun throughout, describing a cool blonde as having many cares those happy little housewives never know. What modern gal doesnt appreciate that those old, worn out shoes are dependable and will take you far forget impractical glass slipper or stilettos! A great addition to the Alcott library of stories.