Lalka

Bolesław Prus

Stanisław Wokulski bogaty, warszawski kupiec zakochuje się w zubożałej arystokratce Izabeli Łęckiej. Nie czuje się jednak jej godnym i aby powiększyć swój majątek wyrusza na tzw. wojnę bułgarską, gdzie zaopatrując rosyjską armię dorabia się ogromnej fortuny. Po powrocie do Warszawy wchodzi w układy finansowe z ojcem Izabeli, Tomaszem, próbuje zdobyć serce ukochanej ofiarowując znaczne sumy na organizowaną przez nią kwestę charytatywną. Ona jednak traktuje jego gesty jako objaw niezdrowych ambicji nowobogackiego nuworysza. Jak potoczą się losy bohaterów powieści Lalka ? Czy Wokulski zdobędzie rękę Łęckiej?

Mr. Marxs Secret

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This is another adventure Oppenheim thriller written in 1899. When Phillip Morton is eight years old, his father is pushed off the edge of a slate quarry. A servant from the local castle is suspected. Ten years later, by chance, Phillip meets the lord of the local castle, the scholar and adventurer Ravenor. On a whim, Ravenor offers to pay for Phillips further education if Phillip will befriend his wayward nephew. Phillip meets Mr. Marx, Lord Ravenors secretary, and is both attracted and repelled by him. Mysterious pasts, lonely castle, family secrets, evil adventurers, dissolute youths, disguises and madness... a little of everything, including lovely ladies. The hero Philip Morton doesnt know who to trust. Very enjoyable and escapist as many characters live in extreme luxury.

Szatan i Judasz (Tom 2). Szatan i Judasz. Pogromca Yuma

Karol May

Szatan i Judasz. Pogromca Yuma to drugi tom z 11-tomowego cyklu przygodowego autorstwa Karola Maya. Grupa dzielnych bohaterów odbywa wspólnie szalone podróże, aby mierzyć się z wszelkiej maści niegodziwcami, walczyć o sprawiedliwość i odnajdywać zaginione skarby. Dzięki pracy zespołowej, zaufaniu i wzajemnej pomocy udaje im się wyjść obronną ręką z najgorszych opresji.

The Amazing Judgment

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This is a very early novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim from 1897. The wealthy and bored Lord Hildyard, Marquis of Esholt, is on a yachting tour with a group of friends, including his kept lover, Pauline Owston. When Hildyard spies an apparently uninhabited island, he slips off the ship in search of adventure. In the middle of the night, he hears wonderful violin music and finds a young and beautiful girl, Bertha, playing in the forest. She is accompanied by a cruel and misshapen dwarf. Enchanted, Hildyard stays on the island, where he finds an old college chum, Stanley Owston, the estranged husband of the actress, who is the guardian of the girl, and the owner of the island. The adventures are continuing...

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, is the story of Amy Dorrit, a kind and compassionate young woman who is born impoverished and becomes wealthy, but retains her goodness and strength of character throughout. Little Dorrit is a novel of family loyalty. The story of a girl who is taking care of a large family and her love for the rich young man, and at the same time sarcastic description of English society the debtors prison of the Marshalsea, financial practice and corruption. We follow the paths of three families, and rub shoulders with a few others as well.

Full Moon

Talbot Mundy

Hulbert Footner (18791944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. About 1920, Footner began to write detective fiction, his first series detective character being Madame Rosika Storey. This is the seventh book of the succesful mystery series Madame Storey, by canadian-american author Hulbert Footner. Footner most successful creation was the beautiful and brilliant Madame Rosika Storey and her plain assistant who explains the evolving solutions to her boss cases. These stories take the reader to Morocco and China etc... basically out of NYC where Storey resides. Theres lots of action and danger and disguises and very very bad people.

Fangs of Gold

Robert E. Howard

Harrison is a brawny police detective who patrols the unquiet slums and dives of River Street, in an unnamed port city where the sun never shines. But REHs stories were far-removed from the mean streets of Hammetts and Raymond Chandlers stories in Black Mask. Like Skull-Face they owe more to Sax Rohmer and to REHs own contemporary horror stories.

Jacobs Ladder

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Jacobs Ladder begins: Seated at breakfast on that memorable July morning, Jacob Pratt presented all the appearance of a disconsolate man. His little country sitting-room was as neat and tidy as the capable hands of the inimitable Mrs. Harris could make it. His coffee was hot and his eggs were perfectly boiled. Through the open windows stretched a little vista of the many rows of standard roses which had been the joy of his life. Yet blank misery dwelt in the soul of this erstwhile cheerful little man, and the spirit of degradation hung like a gloomy pall over his thoughts and being. Only the day before he had filed his petition in bankruptcy.