Sielanki

Szymon Szymonowic

Sielanki to najważniejsze dzieło Szymona Szymonowica. W dwudziestu utworach, wydanych w 1614 r. w Zamościu, widoczne są odwołania do Teokryta, twórcy sielanki jako gatunku literackiego, oraz do Wergiliusza i Jana Kochanowskiego. Sielanki napisane są językiem wykwintnym, poetyckim, o jasnej strukturze składniowej. Odegrały wielką rolę w rozwoju twórczości sielankowej. Ukazały się w momencie popularności i dużego zapotrzebowania na literaturę tego rodzaju. W zbiorze Sielanek znalazł się, niezaliczany do tytułowego gatunku, utwór Żeńcy. Stanowi on realistyczny obraz z życia wiejskiego. W scenie pracy żeńców bierze udział troje bohaterów: łagodna Oluchna, sprytna Pietrucha oraz Starosta, okrutny mężczyzna, który nadzoruje prace polowe i pogania żeńców batem.

The Riddle of the Mysterious Light

Thomas W. Hanshew

In The Riddle of the Mysterious Light, consulting detective Hamilton Cleek is en route to meet with Scotland Yard detective Narkom when hes intercepted by a roving gang of nefarious neer-do-wells. Can he muster his mighty intellect and physical prowess and hatch a plan to escape his captors? Hamilton Cleek is the central figure in dozens of short stories that began to appear in 1910 and were subsequently collected in a series of books. Cleek is a detective as remarkable as Sherlock Holmes. He has, however, the prime quality of always being in an apparently hopeless tangle of circumstances, and he has also the genius of getting out. The Cleek stories were written by Thomas W. Hanshew, until his death in 1914. His wife, Mary E. Hanshew, then took over this popular pulp mystery series.

Desert Gold

Zane Grey

Which is the true treasure, love or money? Prospecting in an Arizona border town, Richard Gale sees the possibilities of passion and gold when he finds himself trying to save a beautiful Spanish heiress. Love, adventure, and more wait in the Old West of Zane Greys western classic Desert Gold. When Richard Gale arrives in the border country of Arizona, he hopes for a brand new start. He soon finds himself embroiled in local trouble, however, when he and an old friend a Texas Ranger attempt a daring rescue. The victim, the daughter of a murdered rancher, has been kidnapped by a cruel bandit named Rojas. Challenging him means almost certain death for Richard, but as he escapes with the beautiful seorita into the desert, his adventure turns into something unexpected.

The Flirting Fool

Aidan de Brune

De Brunes novel The Flirting Fool is a thrilling court-room melodrama previously only published as a newspaper serial. The story is fast-paced with some surprising twists, well written and great to read. Readers of Aidan de Brunes novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship. Nineteen novel length serials, two novella serials, and eighteen short stories, all except one published in Australian and New Zealand newspapers between 1926 and 1935. Other novels by De Brune were reputedly published in the USA under various pseudonyms, but these have not been traced.

Old-Ugly Face

Talbot Mundy

The Tibetan lama, with a great sense of joy, leads two people from the west to enlightenment, fighting with enemies in Tibet in this interesting story of adventure and spiritual discoveries. This is Mundis latest novel, The sequel to the dramatic dragon gates. The Nazi expedition in Tibet is torn apart by American and British agents of the special services.

Les Quarante-cinq

Alexandre Dumas pere

Les Quarante-cinq est le troisieme tome de la trilogie des Guerres de Religion dAlexandre Dumas. La période historique décrite est fascinante, style du romancier est comme toujours intrigant, Dumas veut tout décrire et tout montrer. Henri III est le roi treize ans apres le bain de sang de la Saint-Barthélemy en une triste année de 1585. Il est le roi dans une France plus que jamais écartelée par les conflits religieux. Le destin de la France tient parfois un fil capricieux...

On the Spot. Violence and Murder in Chicago

Edgar Wallace

Set in Chicago, and written in 1931 by Edgar Wallace, On the Spot truly reflects the horror of gang life in Prohibition Chicago. Tony Perelli, the gang boss, recruits men for his gang and women for his bed with the same ruthlessness and rapidly arranges for their disposal when they become a nuisance. But Minn Lee, the half-Chinese widow, is a little too much for him, and as she gradually learns the extent of his treachery, she plans a revenge... The constant threat of death, the interaction between cops and gangsters, love gone wrong, love gone right, loss of youth, bootlegging, prostitution... its all here and beautifully handled by Edgar Wallace.

Mr. Laxworthys Adventures

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The man was awaiting the service of his dinner in the magnificent buffet of the Gare de Lyon. He sat at a table laid for three, on the right-hand side of the entrance and close to the window. From below came the turmoil of the trains. In appearance he was of somewhat less than medium height, of unathletic, almost frail, physique. His head was thrust a little forward, as though he were afflicted with a chronic stoop. He wore steel-rimmed spectacles with the air of one who has taken to them too late in life to have escaped the constant habit of peering, which had given to his neck an almost storklike appearance.