Wyznania

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dzieło autobiograficzne Jeana-Jacquesa Rousseau, XVIII-wiecznego filozofa, pisarza, pedagoga i teoretyka muzyki. Rousseau zasłynął jako autor koncepcji umowy społecznej, a także idei powrotu do natury. Negował wartość postępu cywilizacyjnego, w którym upatrywał źródło wszelkiego zła. W Wyznaniach dzieli się szczegółowo własnym życiem życiem ostatniego niezepsutego przez świat człowieka cnotliwego.

Larramees Ranch

Max Brand

Larramees Ranch is another great and entertaining Max Brand novel! This is quite a change of pace for Max Brand. His hero Tom Holden is a bookish young man with a bad leg, no money, and no experience with firearms. When he sets out to make his fortune, he has no real prospects but through a series of bluffs he outwits a killer, faces down a town bully, makes a considerable bundle of money for himself. Then he announces he will marry Alexa Larrame, the beautiful blue-eyed daughter of the wealthiest rancher around even though hed never even met her! But now he has a lot more than just a rash promise to live up to. He is being accused of committing several robberies and murders in a town where the strong make the laws and enforce them with bullets!

Und Friede auf Erden

Karl May

Das Buch entstand unter dem unmittelbaren Eindruck von Karl Mays großer Orientreise 1899/1900. In Kairo lernt Karl May die Hauptpersonen seiner Reise kennen: den stolzen Araber Sejjid Omar, der freiwillig in seine Dienste tritt, den religiösen Eiferer Waller mit seiner sanften Tochter Mary und zwei hochgebildete Chinesen, Vater und Sohn. Nach ersten Abenteuern in Gizeh beschliessen die fünf Reisenden, gemeinsam weiterzuziehen. Nach der Schiffsreise haben sie den ersten unangenehmen Zusammenstoß mit einer Gruppe von selbsternannten Zivilisatoren in Colombo auf Ceylon. Auch bei der Überfahrt nach der Malaiischen Halbinsel und in Penang selbst müssen sie sich mit den rücksichtslosen Menschen auseinandersetzen. Über Ceylon, die malaiische Halbinsel und Penang führt sie der Weg bis nach China.

Paul Clifford

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Paul Clifford is a novel published in 1830 by Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) who was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. It tells the life of Paul Clifford, a man who leads a dual life as both a criminal and an upscale gentleman. Paul Clifford tells the story of a chivalrous highwayman in the time of the French Revolution. This is the novel that first used the opening line It was a dark and stormy night...

Sleeper Turns Horse-Thief

Max Brand

Another Sleeper story, featuring Sleeper, a gunslinger turned horse-thief, from the collection More Tales of the Wild West. Six action-packed stories of the Old West, filled with unforgettable characters, includes A Lucky Dog, in which mans best friend helps a would-be killer and thief find salvation, along with A First Blooding, Inverness, (aka Sleeper Turns Horse-Thief) and Death in Alkali Flat. In this story Sleeper is hired to break a horse and turns horse-thief. No pulp writer was more prolific than Frederick Faust, who wrote nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. Brand has been labeled one of the top three Western novelists of all time so western fans will be in for a treat.

Trouble for Lucia

E.F. Benson

Lucia is now rich, happily married, and Mayor of Tilling but the village gossip is in full swing and Lucias arch-rival Miss Elizabeth Mapp is out for revenge. Their epic collisions rock their small society and provide the narrative engines for Bensons gloriously farcical masterpieces. Will Lucia fall at the final hurdle? Delightfully witty and shamelessly entertaining, this is a fitting finale to the series E.F. Bensons au reservoir!

Twelve Men

Theodore Dreiser

Twelve Men biographical stories. Each story individually is an autobiographical essay, a portrait of an individual. If we consider the works as a whole, as a collection, then we can trace the history of the authors life: adolescence in Indiana, work as a newspaper reporter, freelance writer, worker at a railway station, magazine editor.

Swanns Way

Marcel Proust

Swanns Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood a sensitive boys impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition Swanns Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past recreated through memory.