Murder Me

Max Brand

Max Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior westerns like his Destry Rides Again, but Brand also wrote the Dr. Kildare series and numerous detective stories as well. Never before published in book form, this 1937 police procedural by veteran Brand introduces New York police detectives Campbell and ORourke. The pair investigate the apparent suicide of a philanthropist David Barry who was about to be accused of bribery and corruption prior to his death. Angus Campbell and Patrick ORourke can get the cuffs on the killer, therell be endless face-offs in which the five suspects hurl accusations at each other and reveal how many of them were popping in and out of the crowded murder scene on the fatal night.

The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In The Great Stone Face, Hawthorne compares different types of human activity. Most of them are aimed at finding success in society. But Hawthorne believes that the success of the Finnish businessman or general, who turned military affairs into a means of his personal career, or a clever politician who is uncleanly making his way to power, is an imaginary success. Even the poet, the creator of beautiful works of art, still retains a lot of vicious individualism and self-love, and only the humble young man Ernst, who devoted his life to serving people, selflessly doing good, won the favor of the author he gives preference to him and his selfless altruism proclaims the ideal of human life.

Chapters from My Autobiography

Mark Twain

Mark Twain bequeathed to publish his autobiography without cuts only a hundred years after his death, and she first saw the light in 2010. Now, finally, many readers can meet this amazingly witty book. Twains autobiography is very unusual: amusing episodes alternate with sad ones, sparkling jokes give way to serious reasoning and the large-scale personality of the writer, who has presented the world with many masterpieces, appears before us in all its versatility.

Blind Love

Wilkie Collins, Walter Besant

The loving heart of the protagonist of the novel, Iris, remains faithful to the master of her destiny. The conflict with the father does not prevent the lovers from connecting, but how does this story end?

The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson

Mark Twain

This is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. His central intrigue revolves around two boys one born into slavery, with 1/32 black pedigree; on the other, white, born to be the master of the house. Two boys who look the same turn on in infancy. Each grows into a different social role.

Legenda Młodej Polski. Studia ostrukturze duszy kulturalnej

Stanisław Brzozowski

Legenda Młodej Polski, określana jako rozprawa krytyczno-kulturowa, to jedno z najważniejszych dzieł Stanisława Brzozowskiego, uznanego krytyka literackiego, filozofa i pisarza okresu Młodej Polski. Brzozowski przeprowadził w nim wnikliwą analizę zjawisk sobie współczesnych: związków romantyzmu z Młodą Polską, kulturowych i społecznych uwarunkowań sytuacji polskiej. Z uwagi na bezkompromisową krytykę przekonań i postaw książka wzbudziła skrajne emocje od zachwytu do gwałtownej krytyki.

Żywot człowieka poćciwego. Fragmenty

Mikołaj Rej

Utwór wchodzi w skład tomu Źwierciadło wydanego w 1567/1568 w Krakowie. Stanowi podsumowanie dorobku literackiego Mikołaja Reja. Opisuje wzorcowy obraz ludzkiego życia niespiesznego, zanurzonego w pracach gospodarskich, sprawach rodzinnych, domowych, pełnego czułości dla świata i najbliższego otoczenia, optymizmu i radości z małych rzeczy. Porusza także tematy obowiązków obywatelskich oraz pogodzenia się z nieuchronnością śmierci.

Innocent. Her Fancy and His Fact

Marie Corelli

This is the story of a young woman from England at the turn of the 20th century who learns the truth about her parents, and this knowledge sets her life on a path she is not ready for and those around her are powerless to stop.