The Steward

Edgar Wallace

This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1932. Wallace was an extremely prolific writer who wrote over 175 novels, plus numerous plays, essays and journalistic articles. During the peak of his success during the 1920s, it was said that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. In England, in the 1920s, Wallace was said to be the second biggest seller after the Bible. Many of his novels were made into films and TV dramas. The Steward is a collection of short stories that include The left Pass, The Little Baroness, Solo and the Lady, and many more. The stories are fast-paced with some surprising twists, well written and great to read and definitely a product of their time and place.

Les Esclaves de Paris

Émile Gaboriau

Quand Paris a devenu la proie dun immense chantage? Une redoutable association de trois malfaiteurs fait trembler la capitale. Les passions humaines si banales que sont lamour, lambition et largent transforment les gens en personnes tres dépendant. Paris manque de quelquun, qui peut assembler toutes les pieces du puzzle arrter la formidable machination. Qui sera en mesure de sauver la capitale?

Le Secrétaire intime

George Sand

Cest lun de ses premiers romans. Le Secrétaire Intime est lun des romans moins connus et sous-estimés de Sand. Le personnage principal est une figure influente et politique. Lauteur donne également au texte une approche analytique et atypique, bavarde, taquine, de lamour, de la sentimentalité et des questions sexuelles. Le Secrétaire Intime raconte le réveil psychologique et la maturation de léponyme Louis de Saint-Julien de Normandie, qui apprend une leçon difficile sur le désir masculin, le respect des femmes et la responsabilité personnelle.

Lekarz mimo woli

Molier

Znakomita, prześmiewcza komedia w iście Molierowskim stylu. Pewien lekkoduch zostaje wplątany w medyczno-miłosną intrygę przez niefortunny splot okoliczności ma uzdrowić córkę możnego pana z niezwykłej przypadłości. I choć medykiem bynajmniej nie jest, nie sposób wymigać się od zadania. Molier jak zwykle trafia w sedno ludzkiej natury, wyśmiewając znane we wszystkich epokach postawy.

The Flying Fifty-five

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace was an English novelist, journalist and playwright, who was an enormously popular writer of detective, suspense stories, and practically invented the modern thriller. His popularity at the time was comparable to that of Charles Dickens one of Wallaces publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. The Flying Fifty-Five is a novel set in the horse racing community and follows the ups and downs of turf life. Its all great fun and Wallace keeps the action moving along swiftly, as he always did. Although he takes us into some of the intricacies of betting in the horse racing arena, it is not so tedious that you cant get through those sections, but otherwise a wonderfully written, funny and happy ending.

The Three Snails

Aidan de Brune

Another breathtaking novel by the master of mystery Aidan de Brune (Herbert Charles CULL). A dead man and three dead snails. What could it mean if not murder? The story is fast-paced with some surprising twists, well written and great to read. This genuine mystery story takes the reader from one exciting adventure to another with all the adroitness and ingenuity of de Brunes previous successful books. One is left gasping with suspense as the many clues are unraveled only to be followed by others still more stubborn. An entertaining tale of mystery and intrigue, this book constitutes a must-read for lovers of crime mystery.

The Riddle of the Purple Emperor

Thomas W. Hanshew

Hamilton Cleek, once known to Scotland Yard as The Vanishing Cracksman is a reformed crook turned detective. He has a gift for both deduction and impersonation, a curious combination of Sherlock Holmes and Peter Sellars, which he uses to solve mysteries. After a long Channel crossing, Cleek drives a lady home only to discover her aunt has been murdered. But the mystery has only just begun. It leads to a mysterious and sinister chain of events, which Cleek and Superintendent Maverick Narkom of Scotland Yard attempt to unravel, with, of course, the help of the irrepressible and ever-hungry Dollops, Cleeks cockney sidekick. As excitingly improbable a detective story as ever baffled and allured the breathless reader, The Riddle of the Purple Emperor has all the thrills of adventure and murder and hate and love embroidered on the groundwork of a plot as precisely worked out as a problem in mathematics.

Świętoszek. Tartuffe. Komedia w pięciu aktach

Molier

Świętoszek to komedia Moliera napisana w 1661 r., a wystawiona po raz pierwszy w 1664 r. Swój rozgłos sztuka zawdzięcza nie tylko walorom artystycznym, lecz także skandalowi, jaki wywołała w XVII-wiecznej Francji. Tytułowy Tartuffe to człowiek, który dla osiągnięcia własnych korzyści wykorzystuje Orgona i jego rodzinę. Udaje przy tym osobę wielce religijną i pobożną. Orgon początkowo jest niewrażliwy na przestrogi rodziny dotyczące hipokryzji Tartuffea. Swój błąd uświadamia sobie dopiero po zapisaniu Tartuffeowi całego majątku. Zdemaskowanie hipokryzji Tartuffea jest powszechnie uznawane za jedną z najdoskonalszych scen w historii teatru.