Eric Brighteyes

H. Rider Haggard

Eric Brighteyes an epic novel about the Vikings, the main character of which accounts for Eric Brighteyes. All events revolve around Eric and his adventures across Iceland in the 10th century. He seeks to win the hand of his beloved Gudruda the Fair. Her father, Asmund, a priest of the Norse gods, opposes this, considered to be his unpromising boy for his daughter. The most awful thing in this story is that the witch wants to get Erics attention. But can our hero resist her charms?

Murdelio

Zygmunt Kaczkowski

Powieść Zygmunta Kaczkowskiego Murdelio z 1853 roku należy do cyklu Ostatni z Nieczujów. Jej akcja rozgrywa się na ziemiach polskich po pierwszym rozbiorze i koncentruje się wokół Ignacego Piotrowicza herbu Murdelio. Był on dziedzicem ogromnej fortuny, jednocześnie jego postać budziła grozę w zabobonnej szlachcie z uwagi na demoniczny i destrukcyjny charakter. Jego historię opowiada główny bohater, a zarazem narrator powieści Marcin Nieczuja. Przez zadziwiający splot okoliczności ich losy nagle się przecinają... Henryka Sienkiewicza do napisania słynnego Latarnika zainspirowało wydarzenie rozgrywające się w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Latarnik, który nie dopełnił obowiązku, tak bezpamiętnie zaczytał się właśnie w Murdelio...

The Secret of Smoking Swamp

T.C. Bridges

Set against a Florida background, this story tells of the adventures of Bill Picton and his young companions who trail a gang of moonshiners through the steaming, sluggish swamp-lands. Fitzgordon had never in his life before been in a tropical swamp, and the very first thing he did was to get both feet tangled in a coil of tough bamboo vine, and come down flat on his face on the wet black muck. The stuff was like rotten sponge, and just as full of water as it would hold. When he gained his feet again he was soaked from his knees to his neck.

Pardners

Rex Beach

Almost all old quotes need to be corrected, Joyce said in a tone that forbids arguing. For example, the guy who mentioned marriages being made in heaven was definitely wrong. He meant partnerships. The same jobs dont work for both, no more than you can build a stopwatch in a fraction of a second.

Jezebels Daughter

Wilkie Collins

The heroine of the novel, Mina, the only daughter of Madame de Fontaine, is in love with Fritz. But Fritzs father is opposed to his sons marriage and believes that Mina and her mother encroached on the familys wealth. Suddenly, the grooms father, Mr. Koehler, falls ill, and Madame de Fontaine gives the sick man a miraculous medicine. She cures him of a fatal illness. But this medicine turns out to be an antidote. Who poisoned Herr Koehler?

Assassination at Christmas

Henry Bedford-Jones

Steel clashed and bugles blared in the Antioch of December 362... and the strange Sphinx Emerald flashed again to potent life. Meet seventh installment of the amazing cycle of tales from a prolific author who is largely forgotten today outside of pulp fandom is Henry James OBrien Bedford-Jones (18871949), better known as just H. Bedford-Jones.

Don Carlos. Infant hiszpański. Poemat dramatyczny

Fryderyk Schiller

Don Carlos to książę austriacki, syn Filipa II. Z powodów politycznych król musi wziąć za żonę wybrankę serca księcia, co skazuje księcia na ogromne cierpienie. Postanawia on wyjechać do Flandrii i dowodzić tamtejszą armią. W dramacie występują postaci historyczne, jednak autor zmienił trochę swojego bohatera, nie czyniąc z niego obłąkanego mężczyzny, lecz idealistę głoszącego liberalne poglądy. Na podstawie dzieła powstało najsłynniejsze libretto do opery Verdiego.

Charlottes Inheritance

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The main theme of the plot revolves around hunting for the legitimate descendant of a rich man whose great legacy was expected to be bestowed. And in this context, there are several more or less unscrupulous people who trace this genealogy, some of which turn into the best people who are deeply immersed in betrayal and continue to remain evil until the very end. He seems so respectable on the surface, but his covert actions and manipulations with others were reprehensible.