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Zane Grey
After his partner was killed during a card game, Link Bradway travels to South Pass, Wyoming to find the killer. But South Pass is awash with players and gunsmiths, and Bradways quest leads him directly to a bloody battle when he discovers that he will need much more than a gun to stay alive.
The Mayor of Casterbridge. The Life and Death of a Man of Character
Thomas Hardy
The novel tells about a man with character and unusual fate. The life story of Michael Henchard, first a homeless worker, a haymaker, then the mayor of Casterbridge and a local rich man and again a farm laborer, involuntarily arouses interest in the intensity of events.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
The young handsome Mayor of Mechester, Daniel Poynton is the owner of a very successful shoe manufacturer, the major employer in the city and the mayor will soon be a Lord Mayor. Never before interested in women, or even in social affairs, he is stricken by the beauty of The Lady Ursula Manningham and falls in love. As the novel develops, Poyntons factory is threatened by foreign manufacturers who want to establish a cooperative monopoly with him. At the same time, Poyntons relationship with Violet Grey, who is a competent secretary, continues to develop and becomes more important to his business and social life. Meanwhile his infatuation with Lady Ursula progresses to the point of asking her to marry... The book shows interesting color on the interaction between socialist workers unions and managements enlightened response to worker unrest.
Anna Katharine Green
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. Miss Saunders, a discreet domestic spy of some kind, is hired by Mayor Packard to look after his unaccountably abstracted wife whilst he goes out of town for a fortnight. The lady is unhappy, and the reason for her grave unhappiness is more serious than you think. A detective novel involving theft, bigamy, a haunted house, lost money, ciphers and code breaking. An American detective-story writer, Greens thrillers are characterized by logical construction and a sound knowledge of criminal law. She was one of a handful of women writing detective stories at the time.
The Meaning of Constructions. The Cognitive Denial of the Lexicon-Syntax Division
Konrad Szcześniak
Książka dotyczy tradycyjnego podziału na leksykon i składnię zastąpionego w ostatnich dekadach modelem kontinuum (Lexicon-syntax continuum), w którym nie ma ostrej granicy między komponentami. Opracowanie rewiduje przesłanki (takie jak rozmycie granic między leksykonem i składnią), którymi kierują się obecnie językoznawcy odrzucający podział na leksykon i składnię. Celem opracowania jest wykazanie, że chociaż podział jest nieostry, jest nadal prawdziwy i ma konsekwencje dla elementów języka znajdujących się po obu jego stronach. Jedną z tych konsekwencji jest zróżnicowanie potencjału semantycznego form składniowych w porównaniu do form leksykalnych. Książka adresowana jest do językoznawców pracujących nad konstrukcjami gramatycznymi w ramach językoznawstwa kognitywnego, a w szczególności modelu gramatyki konstrukcji.
Robert Barr
Robert Barr has been almost completely overlooked by critics and anthologists of Canadian literature, in part because, although he was educated in Canada, he spent most of his life in the United States and England. However, since most of his serious novels are either set in Canada or have some Canadian connection, Barr deserves attention. The Measure of the Rule is a 1907 coming-of-age novel about a country teacher who migrates to the city to study engineering, but is forced by dint of circumstance to go to a teachers training college, where he meets his wife-to-be. In this novel, Barr is exorcising unhappy memories and is ironic, even bitter, about the schools system and schools quality of education, the rigid discipline observed by its staff and their indifference to their students, and the sexual segregation practiced. A number of men under whom Barr actually studied are vividly caricatured.
Edgar Wallace
An enjoyable short work from Edgar Wallace, originally published in 1915. Few people today would recognize the name Edgar Wallace but before his death in 1933 he was a literary force to be reckoned with. He was both prolific and popular and his books reportedly sold at the rate of 5,000 a day. The Melody of Death is a novel about a young man who starts behaving strangely upon hearing a certain melody. Fearing that he may be suffering from cancer, Gilbert Standerton asks the doctor to deliver the bad news in an unusual way. In the meantime, he desperately searches for a way of providing for his bride after his death-including crime. An excellent minor plot supplies an eerie atmosphere and explains the title. Edgar Wallace provides a thrill of another sort!
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. This collection of stories consists of: "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk" "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire" "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" "The Final Problem"