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Thorne Smith
Thorne Smiths imaginative novel Skin and Bones takes the concept of suffering for ones art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself; in other words, him found himself no more than a walking skeleton. Blands flesh does not merely become invisible but intangible. Can he make a life worth living with this condition? A great read, this book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any home, where it is sure to become a family favorite.
Bruno Schulz
Sklepy cynamonowe to opowieść o rodzinie kupieckiej z małego miasteczka w Galicji, w którym można dostrzec pewne podobieństwa do Drohobycza, z którego pochodził pisarz. Jedną z najważniejszych postaci w utworze jest Ojciec, głowa rodu, kupiec prowadzący sklep z tekstyliami w rynku. Ojciec jest też szalonym eksperymentatorem, żyjącym na pograniczu życia i śmierci, świata realnego i nierzeczywistego. Bohaterem opowiadań, a zarazem narratorem, jest Józef młody chłopiec, z dziecięcą fascynacją odkrywający otaczający go świat. W opowieściach chłopca można dostrzec cechy samego Schulza. Opowieść jest klasycznym obrazem Schulzowskiego sposobu widzenia rzeczywistości, nierzadko wizyjnego, onirycznego. Jest to więc rzeczywistość mityczna, przetworzone przez wyobraźnię, artystycznie zdeformowana i wzbogacona odniesieniami do mitów, aluzjami do innych dzieł literatury.
Robert E. Howard
The horror first took concrete form amid that most unconcrete of all thingsa hashish dream. I was off on a timeless, spaceless journey through the strange lands that belong to this state of being, a million miles away from earth and all things earthly; yet I became cognizant that something was reaching across the unknown voidssomething that tore ruthlessly at the separating curtains of my illusions and intruded itself into my visions.
L. Frank Baum
Sky Island was the second of three titles written by Baum featuring a spunky girl from California, Trot, and her companion, the old sailorman, Capn Bill. L. Frank Baum had hoped to end the Oz series and introduced Trot and Capn Bill in The Sea Fairies. In Sky Island, Button Bright has found a magic umbrella, which allows him to go anyplace in the world in seconds. He meets Trot and Capn Bill during his adventures, and the three decide to go to Sky Island, and small island without a name off the coast. But the umbrella instead take them up over the ocean. They land in a land of blue, where they are taken prisoner by the terrible Boolooroo. They must find a way to escape servitude, and on the way help the blue people. Will they escape? Will they ever find their way home? A charming addition to your collection of Oz books, this volume will delight long-time Oz fans as well as newcomers to L. Frank Baums realms of fantasy.
B.M. Bower
First published in 1918, Johnny Jewel is a the story of a cowboy-cum-aviator in Americas Old West. Johnny learns of a damaged plane abandoned in the desert on the Mexican side of the border, and comes up with a plan to put it to work. His affairs are being monitored by Mary V, the ranch owners spunky daughter, who is slowly taking interest in Johnny. But in the meantime, a gang of rustlers are taking advantage of his passion for flying in order to distract him from his job of keeping an eye over the ranchs horses. This charming and exciting tale of Western ranch life is highly recommended for lovers of Western fiction, and it is not to be missed by those who have read and enjoyed other works by this author.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A collection of unconnected but all featuring the same protagonist, gentlemen amateur detective Slane. Sir Jasper Slane, wealthy clubman, and amateur detective, is always willing to help his fellow aristocrats in need. With the able assistance of Inspector Stimpson of Scotland Yard, he solves thefts, rescues kidnapped victims, foils blackmailers, and helps to restore fortunes. Because of his upper class morality, Slane is perhaps more diffident than some other Oppenheim heroes, but, in the end, he succumbs to the attractions of women. Much of Oppenheims work possesses a unique escapist charm, featuring protagonists who delight in Epicurean meals, surroundings of intense luxury, and the relaxed pursuit of criminal practice, on either side of the law.
Max Brand
Another Sleeper story, featuring Sleeper, a gunslinger turned horse-thief, from the collection More Tales of the Wild West. Six action-packed stories of the Old West, filled with unforgettable characters, includes A Lucky Dog, in which mans best friend helps a would-be killer and thief find salvation, along with A First Blooding, Inverness, (aka Sleeper Turns Horse-Thief) and Death in Alkali Flat. In this story Sleeper is hired to break a horse and turns horse-thief. No pulp writer was more prolific than Frederick Faust, who wrote nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. Brand has been labeled one of the top three Western novelists of all time so western fans will be in for a treat.
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Błyskotliwe i zabawne krótkie formy poetyckie Boya-Żeleńskiego celnie komentują ludzkie zwyczaje. Boy nie kryguje się w wyborze tematu sięga do różnych sfer, z każdej potrafi zakpić i zadrwić, wytykając obłudę. Czytelników zachwyca lekkość tonu i trafność spostrzeżeń. Tom Słówka stał się na dekady skarbnicą złotych myśli i skrzydlatych słów, które do dziś z lubością powtarzamy.
Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales
H. Rider Haggard
Rider Haggard, just like his main character in this story, is not indifferent to Ancient Egypt. The events of the four stories take place in Africa. Here several acts overlap: extraordinary courage and an epic clash of different cultures. The main theme remains unchanged: the theme of love, which lasts until death.
Edgar Wallace
A collection of 23 stories from every-day life in the British military, centered around the characters of Smithy and Nobby. Edgar Wallace, who is also famous for his own stories of colonial life the Sanders stories was principally a writer of crime and detective fiction. However, he was well aware that the irrepressible spirit of Kiplings famous rankers would live on, and he wrote his own tales of ordinary British soldiers. Set at a later-and, when first published, contemporary time, and on a different stage, this substantial collection of the Smithy stories finds our incorrigible hero and his scurrilous band of confederates malingering, scheming and conniving their way through life in the British Army during the First World War.
Edgar Wallace
Further collection of 24 war-time short stories about Smithy, the soldier and his comrades Nobby and Spud in the British army before WWI. This is the second anthology in Wallaces Smithy series in which the famous character T. B. Smith makes his appearance. Also Smithys pal Nobby Clark has now emerged very much as the main character in these, usually humorous stories of pre world war one British army life. These stories are more clearly set in the Boer war. While the first Smithy volume was quite a test of patience, this volume at least has some well-done humor, mostly derived from the zany characterizations of the soldiers.
Edgar Wallace
This collection of stories from every-day life in the British military, centered around the characters of Smithy and Nobby. Edgar Wallace, who is also famous for his own stories of colonial life the Sanders stories was principally a writer of crime and detective fiction. He was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. However, he was well aware that the irrepressible spirit of Kiplings famous rankers would live on, and he wrote his own tales of ordinary British soldiers. Edgar Wallaces Smithy stories enter the First World War, not much mud and bullets or the horror of the trenches, instead its Nobbys schemes and delightfully silly comic description of life with the Kaiser.
Edgar Wallace
Between 1904 and 1918 Edgar Wallace wrote a large number of mostly humorous sketches about life in the British Army relating the escapades and adventures of privates Smith (Smithy), Nobby Clark, Spud Murphy and their comrades-in-arms. Set at a later-and, when first published, contemporary time, and on a different stage, this substantial collection of the Smithy stories finds our incorrigible hero and his scurrilous band of confederates malingering, scheming and conniving their way through life in the British Army during the First World War. Edgar Wallace published three more collections about Smithy and Nobby and many, many more uncollected stories about them in magazines and newspapers.
Jack London
The famous cycle of novels and short stories by the American writer Jack London is a peculiar and unique painting of life in inhuman conditions, where people still manage to remain human beings. The story is about a man who found the courage, courage and power to exchange the clerks prosperous, but dull and boring life for danger, the exciting and fascinating fate of an adventurer in the wild lands of the Northern Way. The whole North knew him under the name Smoke Bellew.
Edgar Wallace, Robert Curtis
The novel of Edgar Wallaces famous play told by Robert Curtis. Smoky Cell:... At ten oclock that night the guards outside the prison walls were doubled and among them they had enough machine-guns to play havoc with a battalion. The warden of the prison had announced that he was taking no chances. Ben Guinney, he had said, might have escaped from Canyon City prison without his due dose of high-power juice, but he wasnt going to jump this dump. Rumors of an attempt at rescue had reached him and his reputation as warden was at stake...
Józef Weyssenhoff
Wschodnia Litwa, początek XX wieku. Wysoko urodzony student Michał Rajecki powraca na wakacje w okolice rodzinnych Jużynt. Podczas polowania spotyka Warszulkę Łaukinisównę, dziewczynę z ludu o niepospolitej urodzie i przymiotach ducha. Po pierwszym spotkaniu przychodzą następne. Zadurzony w dziewczynie Michał przebąkuje coś niebacznie o małżeństwie. Ta znajomość choć pełna dziwnego uroku nie ma jednak przyszłości. Młodych dzielą różnice społeczne i majątkowe. Nikt z rodziny Michała nie zaakceptowałby takiego mezaliansu. Mimo że Warszulka szczerze kocha panicza, ten powoli przestaje się nią interesować. Dostrzega, że ich związek nie ma przyszłości. Ciągnie go w wielki świat. Powodowany wyrzutami sumienia usilnie namawia Warszulkę do ożenku z interesującym się nią zamożnym chłopem Józefem Trembelem. Kiedy zrozumie, że popełnił błąd, jest już za późno... Powieść Soból i panna oparto na losach barona Pierrea de Rojana, oficera armii napoleońskiej, który ranny w kampanii 1812 roku osiedlił się w miejscowości Gaczany w rejonie Rakiszki w północno-wschodniej części Litwy.
Marcel Proust
La partie principale du roman est consacrée au deuxieme et éventuellement au dernier voyage du héros Balbec. Encore Verdureny, Cambrera, mais au lieu de Charles et Odette maintenant Marseille et Albertina. Tout rappelle au héros et sa mere la grand-mere décédée. Plus ils sont douloureux dans cet endroit. Et, bien sr, le dreyfusarstvo-anti-drifusarisme, le sémitisme / antisémitisme / le nationalisme sont touchés.
George Owen Baxter
No writer captured the excitement, humanity, or adventure of the American West better than Max Brand. And nowhere was Brands talent more evident than in this Classic Western. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. In this one of his short novel, Soft Metal, Larry Givain, fleeing from a posse, meets a beautiful woman at a deserted cabin belonging to one of the men in the posse. Her brother is also holed up in the cabin, pursued by a notorious gunfighter. With death drawing ever nearer, Givain realizes his life will never be the same again. Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!
Robert Leighton
Over the laughter of a nearby waterfall, over a long roar the distant herds of bison that crowded the prairie, and over the oily creak of his knife on a sharp stone on his knee, his keen ear knew the sound of her light stepped as she crawled out of the pines into a sunny glade on a bluff. He didnt turn around, he only dropped the stone, threw back the thick locks that retreated, his long black hair, and then, with his thumb, meditatively checked the razor blade his blade Sitting very motionless, he raised his dreamy eyes to look forward through a sparkling stream and a billowing prairie to the dark sky behind the purple mountain.
Rudyard Kipling
Three Soldiers is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Three soldiers of this title - Leroid, Mulvani and Orteris, who also previously appeared in the collection "Simple Tales from the Hills." Books reveal the side of British Tommy in Afghanistan, rarely seen in the Twilight of the British Empire. The soldiers comment on their improvements, act fools, but right against the backdrop of the wars in the Middle East, when the British began to weaken their imperial possessions, they begin to act directly.
Rudyard Kipling
Soldiers Three is a series of fascinating stories by the great English writer and poet Joseph Rudyard Kipling. A collection of short stories written in 1888 provides a glimpse into the life of tommies, as the English soldiers called it, in Afghanistan. They fool around, complain and talk about their daily lives - against the backdrop of the war and sunset of colonial England.
Solferino. Historisch-politischer Roman aus der Gegenwart (Nachtrag zu: Magenta und Solferino)
John Retcliffe
Sir John Retcliffe, der eigentlich Herrmann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche heißt, war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, aber er war auch bei der Preußischen Geheimpolizeit tätig, arbeitete für Redaktionen, war Herausgeber und Kriegsberichterstatter. Er benutzte auch das Pseudonym Theodor Armin. Sir John Retcliffes historisch-politische Romane sind im ureigensten Sinn mit Abenteuern angereicherte Tendenzromane, die das gesamte politische Geschehen seiner Zeit zum Inhalt haben. Solferino ist ein historisch politischer Roman. Dieser Roman ist eine Ergänzung zu Magenta und Solferino.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens work is ranked among the finest writing in the Western canon, and the author specialized in seasonal stories to warm the hearts of his adoring fans during the holiday season. Dickenss relationship with Christmas extends far beyond the success of A Christmas Carol, with five short Christmas books and countless slighter stories on a festive theme. In all of them he uses Christmas as a time to wake up the dozing conscience of the prosperous urban middle classes. This collection of Christmas-themed tales are an entertaining read during the holidays or any time you need a quick pick-me-up. In this volume you will find the following entertaining holiday tales: The Christmas Tree, What Christmas is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relations Story, The Childs Story, The Schoolboys Story, Nobodys Story. Elegantly written, in pure Dickensian style, these short stories evoke the magic of Christmas and its true meaning.
Ford Madox Hueffer
Some Do Not..., the first volume of Ford Madox Fords highly regarded tetralogy Parades End. Set during the First World War, the novel follows the conflicted relationship between conservative English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens, his beautiful but headstrong wife, Sylvia, and fearless young suffragette Valentine Wannop. An unforgettable exploration of the tensions of a society confronting catastrophe, sexuality, power, madness, and violence, this narrative examines time and a critical moment in history.