Kapitanowie zuchy

Rudyard Kipling

Na pokład rybackiego kutra łowiącego u wybrzeży Nowej Funlandii w niezwykłych okolicznościach trafia nastoletni syn milionera. Na kilka miesięcy dołącza do załogi zaprawionych w bojach ludzi morza, którym niestraszna ciężka praca i trudne warunki. Jak wychowany w cieplarnianych warunkach i znudzony życiem chłopak poradzi sobie w tej sytuacji? Jakie wnioski wyciągnie z tej lekcji?

Black Canaan

Robert E. Howard

Good collection of stories. Black Canaan is a favorite of mine. I have some doubts that REH would have finished The House with the suicide of John Conrad, but it is a Lovecraftian ending (Augest Derleth finished the REH fragment in this volume).

Skąpiec

Molier

Skąpiec to prozatorska komedia Moliera, wystawiona na deskach teatru po raz pierwszy w 1668 r. Tytułowy skąpiec to Harpagon. Jest wdowcem. Ma dwoje dorosłych dzieci. Córka Eliza jest zakochana z wzajemnością w Walerym, który nie tak dawno uratował jej życie. Młodzi muszą jednak ukrywać swą miłość ze względu na ojca Elizy. Walery nie ma majątku, więc chce się wkraść w łaski Harpagona. Użył podstępu, by się dostać do jego domu jako rządca. Syn Harpagona, Kleant, jest w podobnej sytuacji co jego siostra. Jest zakochany w Mariannie, dziewczynie ładnej, dobrej i uczciwej, ale niezbyt bogatej. Kleant nie może więc liczyć na przychylność ojca. Sam stara się zdobyć pieniądze na swoje utrzymanie i pomoc dziewczynie, bo od skąpego taty ich nie dostanie.

Roderick Hudson

Henry James

Roderick Hudson is the first novel by Henry James. Although Roderick was a poor man, but he had a great talent, about which he was not even aware. In the afternoon, he was an ordinary student, and after university he was an outstanding sculptor. One day, by a happy coincidence, he meets the wealthy connoisseur of Rowland Mullet, a man who recognizes his genius and becomes his mentor.

Hawks and Eagles

Max Brand

Hawks and Eagles is the authors classic. The brand is a great storyteller who shows his enthusiasm for humans and animals, such characters as a professor, a small dog, and Mole. Joe Good, the protagonist, hes twenty years old. His father was killed by the richest man in the city, because he wants a good ranch not to be. A good, lazy, prickly guy who lacks a sense of respect and respect for everyone in the city. The only thing he can do is to handle a whip with such skill that he becomes almost alive. This story is also a story of the growth of kindness to become the most respected person in his community.

Jennerton & Co

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Impatient of the numerous checks which had held up his car all the way from Croydon, Gerald Jennerton let down the window and looked out. London, he realised at once, was swallowing him up. Not the London upon which he had gazed half an hour ago from his earthward-gliding aeroplanea huge, tumbled chaos of obscurity, with its far-spreading myriads of lightsbut an engulfing wilderness of endless streets, through which cars from every direction seemed to be racing to some magnetic centre.

Thurston of Orchard Valley

Harold Bindloss

This is a story about a bold and intelligent engineer. He dared to do business on the Canadian border. From meeting real friends, making enemies and falling in love with Miss Helen Savin. The moral of this book is shown at the end. And in the end must overcome them.

The Vanished Messenger

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Mystery novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim involving a handicapped art collector. The book concerns recently demobbed and down on his luck Major Owston, who becomes the bodyguard of the deformed amoral art collector Martin Hews. Enabled by his enormous wealth to buy the worlds most beautiful works of art. Hews is plunged into a bitter rivalry with a gang leader simply known as Joseph. This is a thrilling and tense story of a struggle between master brains, of gang wars, of deceit, of murder, while the sinister Martin Hews sits in his fortified treasure house, and the love story of Beatrice lends romance and beauty. It presents a fascinating picture of unexpected turns and twists.