Wielki człowiek do małych interesów. Komedia w pięciu aktach

Aleksander Fredro

Ambroży Jenialkiewicz to człowiek, który ma wielkie plany, zawsze z powodzeniem realizuje świetne pomysły, knuje wyśmienite intrygi i zarządza wielkimi majątkami. A przynajmniej tak mu się wydaje.

Naboths Vineyard

Fred M. White

The story of Naboth, who owned a vineyard in Jezreel.Ahab, claims to be a Naboth vineyard. He says: I want to use the land for a vegetable garden. I will give you the best vineyard. Naboth. replies that he inherited this vineyard and is not going to dress him.

Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories

Nathaniel Hawthorne

An early collection of fairy tales. Some of the subtle, almost subconscious problems that Hawthorne faces with female sexuality. Like the stories, these plays often do not follow the traditional dramatic arcs that can disappoint, but Hawthorne is always more interested in character than plot, so you just need to abandon any expectations of high drama and sometimes enjoy the amazing revelations that come from his attention to atmospheric details.

Madame Storey

Hulbert Footner

"When Rogues Fall Out incorporates some wonderful conundrums to hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers. This book contains three interconnected stories. In the first, a respectable collector of antiques falls victim to temptation. In the second a police inspector is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a railway tunnel. This section includes an interesting essay on the early use of fingerprint evidence. The third is a classic locked room mystery where someone has been making use of a sealed room in a remote country house. All three are resolved together in the last few pages. The rogues of the title include three very different men engaged in stealing and fencing high-quality jewelry. One is a working-class robber; one a refined antiques dealer turned fence; and one a mysterious middleman with the appearance of a gentleman.

Sanders

Edgar Wallace

Like most of the later ones even though this one is called Sanders it very much stars Lieutenant Augustus Bones Tibbetts. Employing his unique style of innocent and endearing humor, Bones has written to the newspapers The Surrey Star and The Middlesex Plain Dealer inviting the Foreign Secretary to pay a visit to the African territories which they administer. It is against the regulations and his boss Hamilton is furious. While world powers vie for colonial honors, Sanders and his assistants attempt to administer an uneasy peace in a climate of ju-ju and witch doctors, and all the while Bosambo, chief of the Ochori, watches closely. Sanders should be on the must-read list of every action-adventure junkie.

Erotyki

Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński

Tom zawiera wiersze miłosne Mikołaja Sępa Szarzyńskiego, polskiego poety przełomu epok renesansu i baroku, najznakomitszego obok Jana Kochanowskiego twórcy literatury staropolskiej. W swoich Erotykach autor składa hołdy czterem kobietom: Zosi, Kasi, Anusi (przypuszczalnie Annie Sławskiej) i Jadwidze Tarłównie. Najwięcej wierszy pisze do Kasi i są to wiersze najbardziej zmysłowe. Na erotyki Sępa Szarzyńskiego wpływ miały przede wszystkim utwory miłosne Petrarki, ale także Horacego, Owidiusza i Katullusa.

The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth

William Shakespeare

The play of W. Shakespeare King Henry VI was written in 1590-1592. Its events take place during the war of England with France and at the beginning of the war of the Scarlet and White Roses, which led to a feudal anarchy and untold misfortunes. The limp, unable to rule the country, King Henry becomes a toy in the hands of his power-hungry wife Queen Margarita and her lover the Duke of Suffolk...

The Great Shadow

Arthur Conan Doyle

Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, whose quiet way of life is shattered when a mysterious stranger steps ashore near his home. The stranger changes forever the lives of Jock, his cousin Edie, and his best friend Jim, sending the young men into the jaws of the final battle to defeat The Great Shadow that threatens to devour the whole of Europe. We see the boy grow into a soldier who fights in the Battle of Waterloo, and gives us his interesting insights on it. Drama, mystery, comedy, tragedy, and an enlightened look at the horrors of war and the last battle of Waterloo are contained in this tale.