Clung

Max Brand

Another great Western by Max Brand aka Frederick Faust, Clung is one his most memorable and intriguing characters. As a Western author, Brand did not shrink from controversial topics such as race relations in the Old West. There is a mystery about the birth of Clung, who is raised by an old Chinese man in a small Arizona town, but none about his skill with weapons. At first he shoots in self-defense, then recklessly to avenge an insult. With a price on his head, he begins a long journey that takes him far beyond the border country into strange and dangerous encounters. Here, readers will find the Eastern mysticism they seek, Confucian ethics, and a kind of loyalty they may not expect set against one thrilling action scene after another.

No Name

Wilkie Collins

A tragic incident leaves a girl from an aristocratic family without the right not only to an inheritance, but even to a family name. But the talented and energetic beauty is not going to surrender to the will of fate she will throw all her ingenuity and desperate audacity into the cause of restoring justice. True, for this you have to give up a lot...

Miłość przestępcy

Urke Nachalnik

Urke Nachalnik to pseudonim literacki przedwojennego autora kryminałów pochodzenia żydowskiego, które właściwe nazwisko brzmiało Icek Boruch Farbarowicz. Karierę zawodową rozpoczął jako... złodziej, a z przestępczego półświatka wziął swój pseudonim. Wiele lat spędził w więzieniu, gdzie zajął się literaturą. Miłość przestępcy to jego powieściowy debiut z 1920 roku.

The Fifth Queen Crowned

Ford Madox Hueffer

This is three novels bound as one. The wonderful Fifth Queen trilogy by Ford Madox Ford (1873 1939) is about Katharine Howard, the 5th wife of Henry VII which present Katharine Howards arrival at the Court of Henry VIII, her eventual marriage to the king, and her death. Depicting some of the eras most notorious figures, including Thomas Cromwell, Throckmorton, Bloody Mary, and the King himself, Ford makes history both entertaining and undeniably human.

An Impossible Ideal

Sara Jeannette Duncan

The action of the story takes place in the summer capital of the British Raj, is a narrative. The author questions the concepts of taste, distinction and pretension in a colonial context. The book keeps you in suspense until the very end.

Некуда (Bez wyjścia). Роман в трех книжках

Николай Семёнович Лесков, Nikołaj Siemionowicz Leskow

Великий русский писатель Н. С. Лесков стремился в своем творчестве постигнуть жизнь разных классов, социальных групп, сословий, создать многокрасочный, сложный, во многом еще не изученный образ всей страны в один из самых трудных периодов ее существования. С января 1864 начал печататься роман 201eНекуда201d, окончательно подорвавший репутацию писателя в левых кругах. Современники восприняли роман как клевету на 201eмолодое поколение201d, хотя, помимо 201eшальных шавок201d нигилизма, писатель нарисовал и искренно преданных социализму молодых людей, поставив их в ряду лучших героев романа. Главная мысль Лескова бесперспективность революции в России и опасность неоправданных социальных жертв провоцировала неприятие романа в 1860-е гг. Лесков был объявлен 201eшпионом201d, написавшим 201eНекуда201d по заказу III Отделения. Столь бурная реакция объяснялась и откровенной памфлетностью романа: Лесков нарисовал узнаваемые карикатуры на известных литераторов и революционеров.

John Marchmonts Legacy

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Edward, a handsome young soldier, considers Mary a charming child. John, the widow, is sick and poor, and asks Edward to keep an eye on Mary after his imminent death, whenever that happens. John stands in line, behind several other relatives, to inherit a huge mansion and income, and he warns Edward if he ever happens before his own death, beware of the evil relative who is next in line after himself because this person will do everything to snatch the inheritance from Mary.

Mount Royal

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This book is romance, mystery, murder, Christian and the best part of lost love. The main character listened to the often told story, kneeling in the firelight, at her aunts knee, a ruddy glow gently touched her light soft hair and a brighter forehead, her large blue eyes looked with love on Mrs. Tregonells face. And he was a widower, Aunt Diana, she repeated with an expression of disgust, as if something had clenched her teeth.