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Robert E. Howard
The singing of the swords was a deathly clamor in the brain of Godric de Villehard. Blood and sweat veiled his eyes and in the instant of blindness he felt a keen point pierce a joint of his hauberk and sting deep into his ribs. Smiting blindly, he felt the jarring impact that meant his sword had gone home, and snatching an instants grace, he flung back his vizor and wiped the redness from his eyes.
George Owen Baxter
Seattle-born author who worked as a cowhand in California, attended Berkeley, joined then deserted the Canadian Army, and finally settled down to writing full-time. He was incredibly prolific and wrote numerous books under his birth name (Frederick Faust) and a variety of pseudonyms. Today he is best known for his work published as Max Brand. Red Devil Of The Range is one of his Western fiction. When young Ever Winton loses the two most important things in his life, his Uncle Clay and Red Pacer the wildest, most untamable horse in the West he must ride with the notorious Timberline outside the law, doing whatever it takes to get his horse and his uncle back.
H. Rider Haggard
Haggard wrote the story Red Eve in six months. In it, we meet Sir Hugh de Cressi, the son of a merchant who is in love with Eve. She, too, is in love with him, but a traitor knight Sir Edmund Acour is caring for her. He realizes that he cannot conquer her feelings and gives her a potion. The result is that she did marry him. But how long will this potion act? Unlike other stories, where events are developing in Africa, here readers will be able to travel around Europe.
Robert E. Howard
Red Nails is the last of the stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E. Howard. A novella, it was originally serialized in Weird Tales magazine from July to October 1936. It is set in the pseudohistorical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction. Due to its grim themes of decay and death, the story is considered a classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his best tales.
Mary Cholmondeley
This is the story of two friends Esther and Rachel who have known each other since childhood and see each other as a kindred spirit. They are both smart, moral and modern in the sense that they want their lives to have meaning. They communicate with each other and with a few good like-minded friends. They have to endure the stupidity and superficiality of others, some of whom are members of their own family.
Robert E. Howard
The moonlight shimmered hazily, making silvery mists of illusion among the shadowy trees. A faint breeze whispered down the valley, bearing a shadow that was not of the moon-mist. A faint scent of smoke was apparent. The man whose long, swinging strides, unhurried yet unswerving, had carried him for many a mile since sunrise, stopped suddenly. A movement in the trees had caught his attention, and he moved silently toward the shadows, a hand resting lightly on the hilt of his long, slim rapier.
Henry Bedford-Jones
The Sphinx Emerald passed into other hands to reappear centuries later when conquering Cambyses came storming into Egypt with his Persian legions... Readers are treated to authentic historical dramas, all centering on the mysterious jewel that seems to contain a miniature image of the sphinx. A great pulp extravaganza!
Eugenie Marlitt
Das Buch Reichsgräfin Gisela enthält alles, was man von einem Roman erwarten kann große Liebe, Verbrechen und Happy End -, aber auch Kritik an korrupter Politik und hochmütigem Adel. Die junge Gräfin Gisela leidet schwer unter den Verhältnissen, die das Leben bei ihren Stiefeltern prägen. Strenge Erziehung, Unterdrückung und Gängelung prägen die Kindheit des Mädchens, das mit den Jahren feststellen muss, dass ihre Stiefeltern sie zudem schamlos ausnutzen. Dann taucht ein fremder, wahnsinnig reicher und natürlich gutaussehender Portugiese auf. Und dieser Fremde hat augenscheinlich eine Rechnung offen mit der Familie des Barons Fleury. Dummerweise hat sich Gisela zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits in ihn verliebt. Die junge Gräfin Gisela lernt durch die Liebe zu einem geheimnisvollen Unbekannten allmählich ihren Standesdünkel abzulegen und entwickelt sich zu einem mitfühlenden Menschen. Reichsgräfin Gisela gilt als ideologisch interessantestes Buch Marlitts.
Paweł Staśko
Fabuła powieści charakterystyczna dla końcowej fazy twórczości Staśki. Romans pełen klasycyzmu i romantycznych uniesień. Wpisany w kanony literatury dwudziestolecia międzywojennego.
Stanisław Przybyszewski
Na początku była chuć słynne zdanie rozpoczynające Requiem aeternam zapowiada manifest panseksualistycznych poglądów Przybyszewskiego. Głęboko osadzony w młodopolskich nastrojach utwór stanowi wyraz koncepcji filozoficznych autora. W czasach autora bulwersował i szokował, wpisywał się w aurę skandalu otaczającą Przybyszewskiego. Sam autor zaliczał Requiem aeternam do cyklu poematów prozą albo rapsodii.
Leo Tolstoy
The book tells about the young prince, in whose soul changes suddenly occurred and he realized that his life was empty, that he was swallowed by empty acquaintances and his life needed to be changed. He began to change it radically. The kick was a meeting with a girl whom he seduced many years ago. He saw how his rash act changed the life of another person.
Rudyard Kipling
A year has passed. Dan and Una have matured and again return to the village for the summer. There, Pak is already waiting for them with new stories and acquaintances, to again lead the children into the intricate labyrinth of British history, mythology and folklore.
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Jan Potocki
Monumentalna powieść Jana Potockiego o szkatułkowej kompozycji. Składa się na nią wiele wątków i historii jedne wynikają z drugich i wzajemnie się zazębiają, podzielone są przy tym na dni, które wyznaczają rytm opowiadania. Główny bohater, Alfons von Worden, przeżywa niezwykłe przygody, które układają się w fascynującą, spójną i zaskakującą opowieść.
Aristotle
It can be seen from the book that at that time rhetoric was used to a greater extent in the courts, and Aristotle writes a lot about judicial speeches, how to convince judges and jurors, and sometimes goes into consideration of laws. Also, rhetoric was used in deliberative and laudatory speeches, in the modern century this is no longer so relevant. The second part of the book describes human passions. Aristotle, as always, in his style from all sides examined anger, mercy, shame, fear and other human passions, so that it was clear how to evoke a particular feeling in people in his speech.
Henry Bedford-Jones
Richelieu Raids a Tomb is the fourteenth installment about the Sphinx Emerald from a Canadian-American historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer H. Bedford-Jones. Here the malign magic of the Sphinx Emerald works its spell anew in one of the famous dramas of history. And again the strange Sphinx Emerald came to the scene to play its part in the unrolling drama.
Dick Donovan
Written by James Edward Preston Murdock (18431934), an author of mysteries, thrillers, and horror stories. For a time, his popularity rivaled that of Arthur Conan Doyle and he was certainly more prolific than Doyle. This collection of short stories dates from 1896: 1: In the Shadow of Sudden Death, 2: The Doom of the Star-gazer, 3: The Strange Story of Some State Papers, 4: The Problem of Dead Wood Hall, 5: Trapped, 6: The Riddle of Beavers Hill, 7: A Railway Mystery, 8: A Desperate Game