The Master Key. An Electrical Fairy Tale

L. Frank Baum

The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale was one of Baums earliest full length fantasy books for children, published in 1901 just one year after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Rob Joslyn is in most respects an ordinary American teenager; his one distinguishing peculiarity is his passion for the new science and craft of electricity. He has his own laboratory in the attic of the family home, and has rigged the house with his electrical gadgets. One day, amid the bewildering cluster of circuits and wires in his workshop, Rob causes a blinding flash of light from which emerges the Demon of Electricity. A young boy receives a series of gifts, electrical gifts, and has a series of unusual adventures. Rob travels the world, rendering assistance to European heads of state and narrowly escaping disaster at the hands of primitive cannibals, Turks and Tatars, pirates, and evil scientists who try to steal his inventions.

Czyja wina?. Obrazek w jednym akcie

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz to nie tylko autor niezapomnianych powieści i nowel, lecz także twórca sztuk scenicznych. Laureat literackiej Nagrody Nobla był także świetnym dramaturgiem. Czyja wina? to kameralna sztuka obyczajowa, która została opublikowana drukiem w 1880 r. Ukazuje spotkanie po latach dwojga znajomych Jadwigi Karłowieckiej i Leona, obecnie sławnego malarza. Kiedyś łączyło ich gorące uczucie. Teraz w rozmowie wracają do tych chwil z przeszłości, które zniszczyły ich miłość i rozdzieliły ich na zawsze. Karłowiecka mówi: W życiu nawet mężczyzna musi się czegoś trzymać, a ja, słaba kobieta, jestem jak łódka bez steru, bez wiosła i bez światła, do którego bym zmierzać mogła. A serce wyrywa się do szczęścia. Chciejcie wy zrozumieć, że kobieta musi być kochaną i musi kochać kogokolwiek w świecie; inaczej, w braku prawdziwej miłości, chwyta za pierwszy lepszy jej pozór, za pierwszy lepszy cień....

Miss Ludingtons Sister

Edward Bellamy

There is a little mystery and a little romance in this novel. This is a study of a certain type of character, a type of character that is fixated on the past and not on the present. The plot is full of mysteries that the reader will want to solve. The author delves into the psychology of the protagonist.

The Hand in the Dark

Arthur J. Rees

An ancient English country house with a storied and bloody history is the setting for this intriguing mystery. The new Mrs. Meredith has invited all her friends from her freer, wilder life in London to meet with her at her husbands family home. However, she is seemingly taken ill and cant accompany the party on their final jaunt to a neighbors house after dinner. Later she is dead of a gunshot wound, an heirloom pearl necklace is missing, and Scotland Yard is homing in on possibly the wrong suspect. Can the famous private detective Mr. Colwyn bring the murderer to justice? From the Golden Age of Detective Fiction comes a neatly plotted thriller in which atmosphere and mystery mix to produce a tight and satisfying tale.

Chip and the Cactus Man

Max Brand

Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable short novel Chip And The Cactus Man . Packed with enough action and romance to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the novel also addresses a wide range of important themes with insight and sensitivity. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists. Faust wrote more than 500 novels and over 400 short stories & novellas using twenty pseudonyms. Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!

Jim Maitland

H.C. McNeile

Jim Maitland is a crazy, wandering wanderer. He crosses the globe wherever he pleases. At the beginning of the book, he is in the southern seas and meets storyteller Dick Leyton, who becomes his traveling companion. Wherever they go, they will need to prove their decency and face criminals.

The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Sir Joseph is a brilliant surgeon from Australia who went mad after operating on vast numbers of soldiers during World War 1. His terrible hobby is cutting peoples heads open to steal bits of their brains. His wife is a former nurse who went mad alongside him. They are pursued across England and the continent by Mr. Daniel Rocke, codebreaker of the Foreign service: Miss Ann Lancaster, daughter of one of Londes victims, and Sir Francis Worton, known as Q20, head of the secret service. Londe adopts many disguises, and plots brilliant escapes. This short story collection also containing: The Scarlet Patch, The Terror of Elton Lodge, The House on Salisbury Plain, The Shaftesbury Avenue Murder and others.

Son Excellence Eugene Rougon

Émile Zola

Le roman Son Excellence Eugene Rugon, qui fait partie de la grande série dEmile Zola sous le titre général Rugon-Maccara, plonge le lecteur dans lélite politique et la haute société de lere du Troisieme Empire. Au centre de lhistoire Eugene Rugon: un homme politique, une personne a la volonté affirmée. Au tout début du roman, nous sommes confrontés a leffondrement dEugene Rougon. Il doit cependant démissionner de force, mais le sort le portera bientôt au rang de ministre. Comme toujours, Zola nous montre toute la dépravation de la société, cachées derriere une modestie ostentatoire et de linnocence.