On the Makaloa Mat

Jack London

The storybook On the Makaloa Mat tells the story of the lives of natives and whites in the Hawaiian Islands. The story, which gave the name to this brilliant collection, is considered one of the best works about love in world literature. Each story has common features: firstly, they all describe some side of life in the Hawaiian Islands, and secondly, these are all the memories of old people, or people close to them in age, wise by experience. And, of course, the local flavor, customs, features of native life, their adaptation and survival after the arrival of whites all this is written simply amazing.

Through Russia

Maxim Gorky

The stories, united under the name Through Russia, were originally printed by M. Gorky in various periodicals and collections. In the series of short stories In Russia. M. Gorky refers to the image of the past in order to illuminate the paths to the future. The writer reflected the harsh truth of the life of little great people, life-giving and decorating the earth with their labor.

The Joyful Delaneys

Hugh Walpole

Hugh Walpole skillfully weaves these plot threads and half a dozen others into this increasingly exciting saga. His characters leave the page in a living, breathing color; his descriptions are better than photographs, including sounds, smells, tastes and emotions, as well as vivid visual descriptions; he skillfully plays on our feelings, including us as good colleagues, sharing the views of his fantastic world. Joyful Delaneys were very, very good. Funny, makes you think, wonderfully recalls time and place.

Ostatni faraon. Powieść

Jerzy Mariusz Taylor

Ostatni faraon należy do cyklu książek autorstwa Jerzego Mariusza Taylora, których bohaterem jest młody polski archeolog Lech Jarecki. Organizuje on wyprawy badawcze finansowane przez tajemniczego arabskiego księcia, podczas których bada starożytne dzieje. W tym tomie wyrusza na poszukiwania śladów zaginionej cywilizacji, skrytych w piaskach etiopskiej pustyni.

The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches

Herman Melville

Smooth reading, very pretty, with graceful irony personifying superstition and fears in the unknown. The Apple Tree Table is a cool little ghost story where rationalistic skeptics were right, and it turns out that there is a mundane explanation. And oddly enough for Melville, at the end there is even a message of pro-Christianity.

Behind Closed Doors

Anna Katharine Green

The last part of the book includes a chase that ends with a terrible snowstorm. The problem with this is that the twist discovered at the end is what the reader will suspect long before Mr. Grice does. She explains in detail the heart and souls of all her characters even Detective Grace.

The Streets of Ascalon

Robert W. Chambers

With the exception of Westgard, all other employees began migrating to the monthly conference, returning one by one from the mysterious financial jungle, popularly known as Downtown. This is a fascinating story that will keep you in suspense until the very end.

Śpiewy historyczne

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

Na tom, wydany po raz pierwszy w 1809 roku, składają się pieśni historyczno-patriotyczne. Wyłania się z nich wyidealizowana wizja przeszłości Polski. Tom w całym wieku XIX wznawiany był kilkanaście razy. Pieśni opatrzone były zapisami nutowymi i komentarzami historycznymi. W zamierzeniu autora zbiór przeznaczony był głównie dla młodzieży, której wychowaniu miał służyć.