The Stranger

Max Brand

Staying alive is worth a thousand dollars a day to Oliver Wilton. Thats what hes paying Lew Sherry and Pete Long as hired guns to keep him healthy. And after riding the range, the money looks more than just a little inviting. But before Sherry and Long can pocket their first wages, Wilton is murdered. And town men were never so sad to see their boss take a bullet in the brain as Sherry and Long. Soon the pair are riding a vengeance trail out to catch the low-down killer who put them out a job... Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable classic western The Stranger . Packed with enough action and twists and turns to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre.

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither

Herman Melville

The first major novel by Herman Melville. This is a combination of pamphlet and melodrama, ethnics and esoterics, psychology and memoirs, a detective and travel notes, philosophy and poetry, woven into the historical canvas of the mid-19th century. The main character finds himself in a metaphorical world, reflecting the appearance of the countries of the Old and New Worlds in the mirror of the societies of conditional Oceania, where each island has its own prototype or social model.

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickenss tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

The Lust of Hate

Guy Boothby

Each person at some point in his life begins an adventure, after which he is destined to look back with a sensation very close to surprise. Someone said that adventure is for adventure. The vocation of a sailor in these times of giant steamboats is so much different from what it was in the old days of sailing ships and long voyages, that with the most ordinary luck, a person could easily climb along the ridges from the apprentice to the skipper less danger than that with which one might come across at the merchants London office.

Profesor Butrym

Jerzy Żuławski

Profesor Butryn to drugi tom dylogii Laus feminae. Butrynowie uchodzą w środowisku krakowskiej śmietanki towarzyskiej I połowy XX wieku za szczęśliwą i spełnioną parę. Prawda jest niestety bardzo bolesna. Gdy para znajduje się w zaciszu swojego domu, uruchamia się fala wzajemnych oskarżeń, żali, niespełnionych oczekiwań oraz braku porozumienia. Profesor Butryn i jego żona Zośka to dobrzy znajomi Romana Turskiego oraz księżnej Heleny głównych bohaterów pierwszej części cyklu. Jaki wpływ na ich związek będzie miała owiana już legendą historia miłosna Turskiego i księżnej?

Laughing Bill Hyde

Rex Beach

Mr. William Hyde was released from Deer Lodge Jail by a different person. Of course, these results were balanced by the benefits of three years of corrective discipline at the expense of the state; the ability to talk through stone walls.

Pieśń o ziemi naszej

Wincenty Pol

Wincenty Pol (18071872), badacz i poeta, często zmieniał miejsca zamieszkania, które rozbudzały w nim ciekawość górami, a później kolejnymi regionami ziem polskich. Pieśń o ziemi naszej powstała pod koniec 1835 roku podczas pobytu w Zagórzanach koło Gorlic. To najpopularniejszy utwór Pola, stanowiący poetycki opis regionów Polski. Pisał też poezje o tematyce górskiej, a jako geograf samouk prace naukowe o etnografii i geografii Polski.

The Plunder Pit

T.C. Bridges

Short and stout as he was, Pip could handle a boat with any man, and the speed with which he got the sail up and tied down the reef points was worth watching. As he finished, the great arch of cloud swept over the sun, wiping, out its bright light. Then with a roar the wind was on them.