Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

Ernest Bramah

The Kai Lung books are really short-story collections, whose disparate, rambling tales are knitted together by framing narratives featuring the eponymous travelling storyteller. The third in Bramahs Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and his despicable accomplice Ming-Shu. Kai Lungs adventures are related with humor and irony, his shrewdness and wisdom conveyed in euphemisms, paradoxes and parables. Bramahs droll writing style went a long way toward making the Kai Lung series so popular. The Kai Lung books are easily Bramahs greatest achievement; theyre as worthy of their somewhat neglected place in the pantheon of British humour as the delightful comic trivia of Wodehouse.

Hira Singhs Tale. When India Came to Fight in Flanders

Talbot Mundy

This story continues the picturesque and interesting novels of Munda about Raj and the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. If you like to read the British thriller of the early 1900s, you will surely be content with this novel. As you read it, you will understand how Mundi relates to the ancient world of harlots, Greeks, Romans and Cleopatra.

Andivius Hedulio. Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire

Edward Lucas White

Edward Lucas White has written a number of historical novels, including Andivius Hedulio. Amazing story of a Roman during the reign of Commodus. This is an exciting adventure! You will feel that you are in ancient Rome.

Moby Dick. or The Whale

Herman Melville

A former schoolteacher famously called Ishmael hero of Moby Dick signs up as sailor on a whaling voyage to cure a bout of depression. On his way to find a ship in Nantucket, he meets Queequeg, a heavily tattooed South Sea Island harpooneer just returned from his latest whaling trip. Ishmael and Queequeg become best buds and roommates almost immediately. Together, they sign up for a voyage on the Pequod, which is just about to start on a three-year expedition to hunt sperm whales.

Szwoleżerowie gwardii

Wacław Gąsiorowski

Szwoleżerowie gwardii zamykają tzw. trylogię napoleońską Wacława Gąsiorowskiego. Akcja rozgrywa się w czasie kampanii moskiewskiej Napoleona 1812 roku. Burzliwe wydarzenia stanowią wyraziste tło dla wątków miłosnych i przygodowych. Znów spotykamy Floriana Gotartowskiego, Zosię Dziewanowską, Tadeusza Bielskiego i Jankę Głuską, znanych z poprzednich części cyklu. Ich losy układają się w opowieść o patriotyzmie i wierności ideałom.

Cymbeline

William Shakespeare

There are two main lines: the story of the lovers of Postum and Imogen and the story of lost and found royal sons. All this, like a silver frame, is framed by sufferings, oaths of loyalty, amazing coincidences and other tasty Shakespearean curlicues. Postum was simply naive and blind, like most of the heroes of Shakespeare. And Imogen, in my opinion one of the most intelligent and clever heroines of him.

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Kim Rudyarda Kiplinga szeroko zarysowuje panoramę Indii XIX wieku. Na jej tle odbywa się podróż niezwykłego duetu: kilkunastoletniego Kima rezolutnego, zaradnego dziecka ulicy, oraz pielgrzymującego starego lamy filozofa i mnicha, którym chłopak się opiekuje. Podczas podróży Kim wplącze się również w aferę szpiegowską, która przewartościuje jego świat.

The Lost Ambassador

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Captain Austen Rotherby is on a mission of revenge in Paris and chances upon Louis, the head waiter of his favorite restaurant. Bored, he follows Louis to a shady café where he spots a pair hes long been intrigued by a South American gentleman and a young girl. Because of certain complications, Captain Rotheby finds himself forced to leave Paris, only to find himself travelling with the aforementioned gentleman, Mr. Delora, and his niece, Felicia. Arriving in London, Mr. Delora falls ill and excuses himself, leaving Captain Rotheby to take care of Felicia. They install themselves at the Milan Hotel, where Louis works, and waits for Mr. Delora, who seems to have vanished into thin air...