Stories from Livy

Alfred J. Church

Stories From Livy is a great collection of stories about important events and people in Roman history. Tales of early Roman history drawn from the greatest of Roman historians, and admirably retold by Alfred J. Church. Features stories of the founding of Rome, the expulsion of kings, and the early days of the republic. It covers the period from the founding of Rome through the Samnite Wars (about 750 to 300 B.C.). Famous stories of the Roman kings, and such early heroes as Horatius, Coriolanus, Cincinnatus, Camillus, Manlius, and Mucius Scaevola are related. This is a faithful rendition of Livys History of Rome, but simplified for the general reader.

The Bird Cage

Eimar ODuffy

Eimar Ultan ODuffy (29 September 1893 21 March 1935), born in Dublin in 1893, was a novelist, poet, playwright and satirist. The Irish Theatre Company produced two of his plays, and a later play Bricrius Feast was published, though not produced, in 1919. His other publications include The Wasted Island (1919), King Goshawk and the Birds (MacMillan, 1926) and a series of mystery novels including The Bird Cage, Asses in Clover and The Secret Enemy. In The Bird Cage, a murdered man is discovered in a bedroom at the Grand Hotel in Spurn Cove, an English seaside resort... This is the first American edition of a mystery novel by an Irish writer. Eimar ODuffys mysteries give you just enough information to get you drawn into the story and enough twists and turns to keep you guessing. Highly recommended for fans of mysteries!

Over the Border. A Romance

Robert Barr

Over The Border: A Romance written by Robert Barr who was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist. This book was published in 1903. Robert Barr (16 September 1849 21 October 1912) wrote more than 20 novels. Among the more estimable are The victors (New York, 1901), about metropolitan politics, and The mutable many (New York and London, 1896), which focused on an industrial strike. Both had a distinctively realistic basis, and both were written more objectively and less floridly than was Barrs habit. A number of novels also had a Canadian setting. In the midst of alarms (Philadelphia, 1893) was a comic treatment of the 1866 Fenian invasion; as a teenager Barr had joined volunteers in St. Thomas in anticipation of such a disturbance. The measure of the rule (London, 1907) was a satiric romance about his experiences at the Toronto Normal School.

Tros of Samothrace

Talbot Mundy

The cable that Julius Caesar has made in helping find the best way to attack Britain is to play a double game. He must save his father and encourage the resistance of the British leaders to remove Rome from its legions that are ready to conquer the land of Gaul. Offenses, intrigue, and many murders pose a threat to accompaniment by Caesars Caesar in his amphibian landings and battles.

Poezje. Wybór

Juliusz Słowacki

Wybór wierszy z bogatego dorobku jednego z trzech wieszczy narodowych, autora Kordiana, Balladyny i Beniowskiego. Utwory Juliusza Słowackiego były zgodne z duchem epoki i ówczesną sytuacją narodu polskiego. Poeta podejmował w nich istotne problemy związane z walką narodowowyzwoleńczą, z przeszłością narodu i przyczynami niewoli, ale także poruszały uniwersalne tematy egzystencjalne. Jego twórczość liryczna, zebrana w tomie Poezje, wyróżniała się mistycyzmem, wspaniałym bogactwem poetyckich przenośni i języka. Jako liryk zasłynął pieśniami odwołującymi się do Orientu, źródeł ludowych i słowiańszczyzny. Był poetą nastrojów, mistrzem operowania słowem.

The Lord of the Manor

Fred M. White

Todays old castle is a mass of ivy-covered picturesque ruins, towering on the seashore and commanding the inner space of one of the most exquisite perspectives in the North. In this elegant house there is something very romantic and charming, protected by a gloomy fortress. For eight hundred years there had been a Castlerayne more or less ruling over these parts. Castlerayne were warriors, deities, statesmen, robbers, in turn. He had great wealth, all the inhabitants of the city envied him, but will his sense of superiority win over others?

Poezja polskiego renesansu

Praca zbiorowa

W renesansie polszczyzna rozwinęła się w mistrzowskie poetyckie formy Jana Kochanowskiego, Mikołaja Reja czy Szymona Szymonowica. Do dziś zachwyca różnorodność gatunków błyskotliwe, żartobliwe i refleksyjne fraszki, podniosłe pieśni i psalmy czy opisujące proste życie sielanki. Godnym podziwu bogatym i kunsztownym językiem poruszane są rozmaite tematy od lekkich, zabawnych czy wręcz rubasznych, przez obyczajowe, aż po tragicznie przejmujące.

Hrabina Cagliostro. Córka Józefa Balsamo

Maurice Leblanc

Powieść opowiada o początkach kariery Arsenea Lupinea. Kierowany honorem ratuje on przed śmiercią pewną tajemniczą piękność hrabiankę Cagliostro. Kobieta mimo nieprzeciętnej urody jest zimna i bezwzględna. Pod jej okiem bohater doskonali swój złodziejski fach. Między Arseneem a hrabiną wywiązuje się płomienny romans. Oboje marzą o bogactwie. Rozpoczyna się wyścig po wielki skarb mnichów...