The Adventures of a Modest Man

Robert W. Chambers

The narrator is a widower with two daughters, living happily into a rather troubling middle age and pushing away his daughters suitors so that his daughters would live with him a little longer. A younger neighbor persuades him to buy a pig and then bets that the boredom of life has so eclipsed his intelligence that he wont be smart enough to stop someone from stealing it. If the narrator loses the bet, he will jump out of his rut by going to Paris.

The Black Mate

Joseph Conrad

Since this is not a very famous story, and most of the pleasure that it provides depends on the surprise that the highlight in the story will present to the reader. Winston Bunter, who registered as First Mate on Sapphire, a ship bound for Calcutta. His commander, Captain Jones, is described as an extremely unpleasant person, incredulous and capricious, who believes that sailors over forty are no longer suitable, and he always talks about ghosts and ways to contact them. Despite all this strange humor that lives within the framework of this story, you can, of course, feel that the narrator is very skeptical of Johns opinion that senior sailors are no longer suitable, as he makes a sharp remark that gray-haired tars are desperate in search of a berth in the English ports.

Rifle Pass

Max Brand, Max Brand

The name Max Brand is synonymous with great adventure and quality. Good men gone bad fill the pages of this Western trio, with stories of outlaws, horse thieves and a rowdy ranch hand who turns to stage robbery. This book contains three short novelettes: The Nighthawk Trail, Vamps Bandit and the title story, Rifle Pass. In Rifle Pass, ageing Sheriff Thomas Weller has one major problem: his son Dick Weller. Dick cannot seem to apply himself to anything. In a desperate attempt to have Dicks courage tested, the sheriff deputizes his son and charges him with the capture of Harry Sanford. Rifle Pass is another outstanding collection that demands your attention!

In Secret

Robert W. Chambers

The main character landed in New York that very morning. At that moment, he was standing in the bar of the Astor Hotel, sober enough not to tell the bartenders everything he knew, and drunk enough to talk too much in a place where the enemy is always listening.

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

An American classic about Swedish immigrants in the Midwest. There lived in Nebraska a clever and beautiful woman named Alexandra Bergson, and she had three brothers. The older ones were greedy self-satisfied people, the younger one was a spoiled egoist, and she devoted her whole life to making sure they had a good life. I thought only about crops, livestock and land plots, but I didnt think about myself for the time being

Walka z szatanem

Stefan Żeromski

Trylogia Walka z szatanem Stefana Żeromskiego złożona z powieści: Nawracanie Judasza, Zamieć i Charitas. Obejmuje panoramę życia polskiego w okresie przedwojennym i w latach pierwszej wojny światowej. Trylogia przedstawia historię młodego architekta Ryszarda Nienaskiego, który podejmuje samotną walkę z szatanem o sprawiedliwszy świat. Symbolem jego dążeń społecznych jest m.in. niedoprowadzony do końca projekt odbudowy starego zboru ariańskiego i stworzenia w nim ludowego ośrodka oświatowego. Z właściwą sobie finezją przedstawił pisarz wątki romansowe. Wyróżniają się także obrazy życia czy to wielkomiejskiego Paryża, czy prowincjonalnej galicyjskiej Posuchy oraz obrazy wojny, kreślone z pasją wyrażającą antywojenny protest pisarza. Niektóre części utworu utrzymane są w poetyce drapieżnego naturalizmu.

Diana Tempest

Mary Cholmondeley

The Tempest family estate was long-standing, extremely wealthy, and passed from father to son through many generations; but complications arose in the late nineteenth century. These complications, and what they led to, are set forth in this marvelous tale, which has elements of the sensational novel and elements of the new womens romance mixed with a touch of family saga and romance.

Zwierciadło morza

Joseph Conrad

Wydane po raz pierwszy w 1906 r. Zwierciadło morza było pierwszym z dwóch autobiograficznych wspomnień Josepha Conrada. Jak podaje sam autor: Usiłowałem tu odsłonić z bezpośredniością ostatniej spowiedzi, jaki był mój związek z morzem, który zaczął się tajemniczo jak każda wielka namiętność zesłana na śmiertelnych przez niezbadanych bogów, rozwijał się nieodparcie wbrew zasadom zdrowego rozsądku, wytrzymując próbę straconych złudzeń i przezwyciężając rozczarowanie, co się czai w każdym dniu czynnego życia; trwał dalej wśród miłosnych rozkoszy i miłosnych mąk, pełen uniesienia, lecz próżen złudzeń, bez goryczy i bez skarg, od pierwszej chwili aż do ostatniej.