Prescott of Saskatchewan

Harold Bindloss

The story of the imitation of man. After all, everyone has a person to whom you want to strive. There is a murder and a chase in Western Canada a few days before the advent of cars or even telegraph lines in much of the country. Great attention to the landscape. The author does not regret the descriptions of landscapes.

The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million

O. Henry

The Trimmed Lamp follows The Four Million and provides another series of twenty-five short stories that take place in New York City in the early years of the 20th century and are representative of the surprise endings that popularized O. Henrys work. Contents: A Madison Square Arabian Night, The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball, The Pendulum, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen, The Assessor of Success and others. Stories of the lives of blue collar workers and middle class with endings that can turn the whole story on its ear. Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henrys birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He published 10 collections and over 600 short stories during his lifetime. The Trimmed Lamp by O. Henry is a classic by one of Americas most loved and respected authors, a great addition to the collection.

Strona Guermantes

Marcel Proust

Trzeci i zarazem ostatni tom quasi-autobiograficznego cyklu W Poszukiwaniu Straconego Czasu. Autor przedstawia życie arystokracji francuskiej. Z utworu bije podziw i zachwyt nad wystawnością życia ludzi majętnych. Główny bohater, Marcel, zakochuje się w Pani zamku zamieszkanym przez jego rodzinę. Za wszelką cenę stara się zdobyć względy kobiety, nawet wykorzystując bliskie jej osoby. Na uwagę zasługuje fantastyczny przekład cyklu na język polski autorstwa Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego.

Wings in the Night

Robert E. Howard

Wings in the Night collects Robert E. Howards fiction and prose published in Weird Tales Magazine from July 1932 to May 1933. These works represent literary stepping-stones to Howards infamous Cthulhu mythos stories and his most famous character of all -- Conan the Cimmerian -- and ably demonstrate that each of Howards stories improved and added to his formidable skills as a master of fantasy and adventure.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle

Illustrated edition with original illustrations by Alfred Gilbert. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 in total) by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the mysteries of the disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Thor Bridge, Shoscombe Old Place, the Boscombe Valley, an illustrious client and a creeping man.

Sępy skalne. Powieść z Dzikiego Zachodu

Karol May

Karol May powraca na swój ulubiony Dziki Zachód, aby kontynuować opowieść o Old Shatterhandzie. Po raz kolejny spotykamy legendarnego wodza indiańskiego Winnetou i jego lojalnego przyjaciela, którzy wspólnie ruszają na pomoc tym, którzy akurat ich pomocy potrzebują. Ponownie przekonujemy się też o potędze przyjaźni, dzięki której można pokonać największe trudności.

Befehl aus dem Dunkel

Hans Dominik

Professor Allgermissen löst das Problem der Gedankenübertragung. Forscher sind mit Hilfe von bestimmten Wellen in der Lage Gedanken zu lesen und zu beeinflussen. Politisch verfeindete Systeme machen sich die moderne Technik zu Nutze, um ihre Gegner auszuspionieren und gelangen somit an die unbeschränkte im geheimen geführte Macht. Professor wird jedoch wahnsinnig und stirbt daran. Einen Teil seiner Erfindung gelangt in die Hände des verbrecherischen Abtes Turi Chan, der mit dieser Macht einen Krieg der gelben Rasse gegen die Weißen entfesselt, der andere Teil in den Besitz des deutschen Erfinders Georg Astenryk. Sie werden zu heimlichen Herrschern über ihre Mitmenschen, sie bekämpfen einander mit allen Mitteln. Ein Kampf um die Weltherrschaft und das eigene Leben beginnt.

Glorious Apollo

Elizabeth Louisa Moresby

E. Barrington is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Louisa Moresby, a British-born novelist who became the first prolific, female fantasy writer in Canada. She wrote very quickly, attributing her productivity to her sparse vegetarian diet and Buddhist habits of mental discipline; her best-selling fictional biography of Byron, Glorious Apollo, took only one month to complete. A bestseller in the 1920s, Glorious Apollo is a fictional biography of the 18th century Romantic poet, George Gordon, Lord Byron. Byron comes from a family noted for philandering and profligacy. He achieves notoriety in those areas before he achieves fame as a poet. Beginning as he prepares to takes his seat in the House of Lords in 1809, the novel takes us through Byrons entire life and career right up to his death in Greece at the age of thirty-six.