Baśnie i opowieści

Hans Christian Andersen

Zbiór ponad 40 baśni i opowieści Hansa Christiana Andersena, stanowiących klasykę światowej literatury dziecięcej. W zbiorze zamieszczono najpopularniejsze baśnie, jak np. Brzydkie Kaczątko, Dzikie łabędzie, Calineczka, Królowa Śniegu i Mała Syrena, a także wiele innych nieco mniej popularnych utworów. Każdy przekaże najmłodszym czytelnikom ważne prawdy moralne, wzruszy, zadziwi, a czasem również rozbawi.

The Table

Edgar Wallace, Robert Curtis

Here is Edgar Wallaces famous stage-play as told by Robert Curtis in story form with all the dramatic excitement and suspense that thrilled theatre-goers. Robert Curtis was the private secretary to British crime writer Edgar Wallace. Curtis and Wallace met for the first time in 1913, before parting following the outbreak of World War One, as Curtis had to do his military service. In 1918 he was reunited with Wallace who employed him as his secretary, he had the task of copying out Wallaces dictations, this task he accomplished at such a speed that he was known as the fastest secretary in England. After Wallaces death, he completed some of Wallaces unfinished manuscripts and turned several plays and film scripts into novels in the style of Wallace as well as writing several original novels.

Strictly Business. More Stories of the Four Million

O. Henry

Written by famed author O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) in 1910, these are 25 more short stories of the Four Million, including the titled story Strictly Business, The Things the Play, The Call of the Tame, Psyche and the Pskyscraper and others. This collection of short stories brings together a motley cast of characters from all walks of life stage actors, blackmailers, soldiers, waitresses, and average citizens and adds in an array of unexpected plot twists and other surprises. O. Henry uses powerful language, themes speaking of the social classes in New York during this era, and often vivid imagery. The setting of the early 1900s New York provides an interesting backdrop for the stories. Overall, O. Henrys work is fascinating and provides quick relief from stresses in everyday life. For fans of short fiction, it doesnt get much better than this.

Mąż i żona. Komedia w trzech aktach wierszem

Aleksander Fredro

Mąż i żona to sztuka, która swego czasu naraziła Aleksandra Fredrę na zarzut niemoralności. Autor z lubością opisuje przemyślne intrygi i miłosne trójkąty, które wiele mówią o jego bohaterach. Lektura warta polecenia.

John Cornelius. His Life and Adventures

Hugh Walpole

This is a story about the life of a genius who has only dreams. But really make dreams a reality? After all, this is not a fantasy world. Walpole wrote mainly about a character whose life was never very real, and who could not find happiness, except in strange moments because of this abyss between him and the world. Walpoles romantic flights have a realistic break to temper them.

By Airship to Ophir

Fenton Ash

Dated 1928. By Airship to Ophir, written by Fenton Ash, tells the story of an airship and two aircraft meander round central Africa picking up an assortment of natives in a search for the fabled land of Ophir, which is eventually reached and found to be inhabited by a race of people of Arab/Hebrew mien. This fantasy adventure would suit anyone interested in old fantasy novels for children and young people. Fenton Ash is the first and main pseudonym of UK civil engineer and author Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927) who was a writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers. He wrote under the pseudonyms Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash.

Square Deal Sanderson

Charles Alden Seltzer

First published in the year 1922, Square Deal Sanderson was written by one of twentieth centurys most prolific authors Charles Alden Seltzer. This novel was written in the Western genre of writing and marks the latters mastery in the genre. Mary, our heroine, is running the ranch alone waiting for her brother, whom she has not seen in years, to come and help as she is about to loose the ranch to the bad guys. Square Deal Sanderson was a son of the great uncultured primitive West. An old time cowboy, his code was the knightly code of a man of honor. For the sake of Mary, he braved successfully the persecution of a trio of land grabbers who had threatened to wrest her ranch from her. The story throbs with the excitement of the wild life of the range.

Patty in the City

Carolyn Wells

Patty and her dad decide to spend part of the year in New York City. She moves to New York and enrolls in the Oliphant School. Then she starts to make friends, as she always does, and she even starts a club called the Grig. First appearance of the Farringtons. Patty in the City (1905) is the third book of the Patty Fairfield collection, a total of 17 novels covering the life of this happy and cheerful American teenager of a century ago, as she matures and comes of age, and, in the meantime, living all kind of amazing adventures. Patty Fairfield is a pretty, well-mannered, graceful, thoughtful, smart, but not too smart 14 year old who will make us laugh and cry, and learn about life with her.