Little Men. Or, Life at Plumfield With Jos Boys

Louisa May Alcott

Now married, the warm-hearted and fiesty Jo Bhaer (nee March) couldnt be happier. Jo, along with her husband Professor Friedrich Bhaer, operates the Plumfield Estate School, an unconventional school based on individuality and diversity. Plumfield is a haven for poor orphans which is attended by 12 adopted boy and Jos own two sons. Although Plumfield is a place of trust and warmth, the boys occasionally struggle to maintain good manners. Personal relationships are key to the school, as well as to the novel, and the lovable characters get up to plenty of scrapes and adventures, but in the end, even the troublesome among them find redemption in the love and support of the extended March family. Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jos Boys is the delightful unofficial sequel to Louisa May Alcotts Little Women, which is completed with Alcotts 1886 novel Jos Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to Little Men.

Jan in India

Otis Adelbert Kline

As we continue to follow adventures of Jan of the Jungle written by Otis Adelbert Kline, we find him engaged to his fiancée Ramona and reunited with his parents. Together with some friends, they start a cruise on the Indian Ocean. However, the happy days dont last long for Jan as he gets thrown in the shark infested waters and Ramona gets abducted. Follow the exploits of Jan of the Jungle as he strives to save his future wife from a hideous death at the fangs of the Black Tigress in a Temple of Kali! Otis Adelbert Kline was an adventure and science-fiction novelist of the pulp era, best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics. Because of these, and several jungle-adventure novels also, Kline is often compared to Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The Trail to Yesterday

Charles Alden Seltzer

Originally published in 1913, it was one of the earliest works of Western fiction by Charles Alden Seltzer and played a significant role in popularizing that genre. A story of the Old West in which an American girl from the East finds herself confronted with a strange type of man dwelling in the shadow of an ancient grudge. Dakota, the man, first convinces her that he is a brute beyond redemption and then gradually wins her back to the belief in his own essential manliness. Before this happens, however, there has been an attempted bribe, an attempted murder that seems the response to the bribe and a wild ride through the night, that ends at Dakotas shack. Highly recommended for lovers of Western fiction.

Na kresach lasów. Powieść

Wacław Sieroszewski

Na kresach lasów to powieść Wacława Sieroszewskiego prezentująca obraz życia mieszkańców Jakucji krainy w północnej Rosji na tle syberyjskiej przyrody. Do małej wioski dociera polski zesłaniec, którego tubylcy biorą na Rosjanina. Wraz z nim poznajemy obyczaje Jakutów i przekonujemy się, jak hermetyczna jest to społeczność, jak bardzo odmienna i jak trudno czasem znaleźć zrozumienie.

Red Devil of the Range

George Owen Baxter

Seattle-born author who worked as a cowhand in California, attended Berkeley, joined then deserted the Canadian Army, and finally settled down to writing full-time. He was incredibly prolific and wrote numerous books under his birth name (Frederick Faust) and a variety of pseudonyms. Today he is best known for his work published as Max Brand. Red Devil Of The Range is one of his Western fiction. When young Ever Winton loses the two most important things in his life, his Uncle Clay and Red Pacer the wildest, most untamable horse in the West he must ride with the notorious Timberline outside the law, doing whatever it takes to get his horse and his uncle back.

Odludki i poeta. Komedia w jednym akcie wierszem

Aleksander Fredro

Opowieść o dwojgu młodych ludzi, który wierzą, że miłość przezwycięży wszystkie przeszkody. Sztuka spotkała się ze szczególnym uznaniem wśród polskich romantyków. Lektura godna polecenia.

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

In the early years of the 20th century, life on a farm in Massachusetts is not easy. The New England winters are hard; snow and ice cover the fields for months, and the nights are long and cold. For a poor farmer like Ethan Frome, life has few bright moments. He works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeenas young and beautiful cousin Mattie Silver enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. Edith Whartons Ethan Frome is a classic of American Literature, with compelling characters trapped in circumstances from which they seem unable to escape.

La Comédie humaine. Volume II. Scenes de la vie privée. Tome II

Honoré de Balzac

Largent pour Papa Grande est un objectif, pas un moyen. Et le fait que les moyens remplacent les buts pour les remplacer une des caractéristiques les plus remarquables de notre époque. Selon Fromm, une personne exclusivement occupée acquérir et posséder est une personne atteinte de maladie mentale, névrosée, et la société elle-mme, dans laquelle prédominent de tels individus, devrait donc tre considérée comme malade.