Crazy Rhythm

Max Brand

After 8 years in prison for murder, Jimmy Geary returns to his town Yellow Creek, and his past, and an ambush. Jimmy was very happy to see town again. But there are three men who arent happy to see Jimmy Geary return, and they conspire to make his stay this time very short... Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Max Brands remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest western authors of all time, Frederick Faust wrote under sixteen different pseudonyms, including the best known being Max Brand. Although he wrote under many genres, westerns were his forte. Max Brand leads the reader on a very authentic tale of the old west the way it was.

Jerusalem

Selma Lagerlöf

Jerusalem är en roman i tv delar av den svenska författarinnan Selma Lagerlöf. Jerusalem utspelar sig i Dalarna och i Jerusalem under 1800-talet, där man fr följa ngra människor och deras närstende under flera r. Selma Lagerlöf skriver om mnga olika personer ur olika generationer, bland annat om dem som lever p den stora Ingmarsgrden, där man fr bekanta sig med deras, inte alltid s okomplicerade, relationer till varandra.

Candide. Or, The Optimist

Voltaire

Candide, who grew up in a rich mans family, who absorbed real mentor sermons on the fact that everything in the world happens for the better, serves its purposes and in general is accomplished in the best of all possible worlds, despite all the misfortunes that have happened to people this is also for the better. By the will of fate, Candide sets off on a round-the-world trip, where everyone literally screams that the world is unfair, misfortunes are often meaningless and lead only to great misfortunes, and people everywhere do not shy away from bribes, anger and self-interest. Besides the semi-mythical Eldorado, of course. But its not so easy to get into it. And its not so easy to get out of it.

Mare nostrum

Vicente Blasco Ibáez

Vicente Blasco Ibáez (18671928) był hiszpańskim publicystą, pisarzem oraz działaczem politycznym o poglądach lewicowych, autorem reportaży, powieści społeczno-obyczajowych oraz regionalnych. Tytułowe Mare Nostrum to starożytna rzymska nazwa Morza Śródziemnego, na którym toczy się akcja powieści. Pochodzący z Walencji Ulisses Ferragut jest kapitanem statku, który w czasie I wojny światowej dostarcza surowce statkom angielskim i francuskim. Kiedy na jego drodze staje tajemnicza doktorka i jej piękna towarzyszka Freya, postanawia zerwać dla nich ze swoimi dotychczasowymi przekonaniami.

Wiersze. Wybór

Felicjan Faleński

Felicjan Medard Faleński żył w latach 18251910. Był polskim poetą, prozaikiem, dramatopisarzem i tłumaczem. Uważano go za przedstawiciela parnasizmu. Głosił przekonanie, że jako poeta nie jest nikomu potrzebny i nikt nie rozumie jego twórczości, przez co będzie skazany na zapomnienie. I miał rację spotykał się z ogromną krytyką, która zarzucała mu odtwórcze podejście do romantyzmu. Poeta zmarł w całkowitym osamotnieniu i zapomnieniu. Jednak wątki przewijające się w jego twórczości, dogłębnie humanistyczne, choć ukryte pod płaszczykiem cierpkiej ironii, pozostają wciąż aktualne.

Notes on Life and Letters

Joseph Conrad

This book is a collection of some of Konrads reviews and writings. The collection is divided into two parts, primarily the sections Letters, its reviews. The second section is called Life, but this is only true in a limited sense. It contains Conrads views on some of the pressing political issues of the day. They range from the Russo-Japanese War and the question of the independence of Poland to the death of the Titanic.

Wyllards Weird

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Wyllards Weird is a little-known sensational novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The story mainly concerns the riddle of a young girl who dies as a result of a fall from a train in motion. Was it a murder? Or was it suicide? Amateur detective makes his mission to solve the mystery at the request of old love. The discoveries he makes lead him to a double murder committed ten years ago. Were they connected? If so, then the same murderous hand struck again.

Peter Blue

Max Brand, Max Brand

This collection includes three short novels from one of the top three Western novelists of all time Max Brand (Frederick Faust). The stories here are character studies of outlaws, the lives they lead and the lies and myths that spring up about them. The title novel, Peter Blue, is an excellent character study. Blue, wounded in a gunfight, has lost the use of his gun hand and is desperately trying to learn to shoot with his left hand before his enemies realize how vulnerable he is. In the meantime, being hold up in one place, he, too, learns the values of a normal, fulfilling life until one of the gunmen he beat in the past comes to even the score. Now, Blue, with so much more to live for, is unable to defend himself. Or is he?