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H.C. McNeile
Sapper stories focus on the individuals than overall strategy. They describe what the things are like for the soldiers in the trenches. The story of an excellent young man, noble and deeply versed in the intricacies of etiquette. Most of the human race was unaware of its existence; but the ladies and gentlemen in the Mogmoth Emporium of Mogg considered him the ultimate arbiter of elegance. There is no direct story about the war, but there is a story about the man who helped many after the war.
John Buchan
Sick Heart River is the fifth book in the Edward Leithen series. This is Buchans last novel, about a man who is dying, and it must reflect Buchans own efforts to come to terms with his looming demise."Sick Heart River finds Leithen now in his late fifties facing a terminal diagnosis of turberculosis. Leithen has enjoyed a dazzling career as eminent barrister, member of Parliament, Cabinet minister, and attorney-general but with only months left to live, he leaves it all behind and takes up a whole new mission into the bleak arctic wilds of Canada. The friend of a friend, Francis Galliard, has gone missing in the North, and Leithen volunteers to find him and send him back, and so to die well, far away from the irking sympathy of his friends or the coddled atmosphere of the sick-room. But the North has some surprises in store for Leithen.
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.
Bolesław Prus
Utwór Sieroca dola opowiada o losach pewnego chłopca, który po śmierci najpierw ojca, a potem matki traci wszelką podporę w swym życiu. Jest skazany na łaskę i niełaskę obcych ludzi. Bolesław Prus - polski powieściopisarz, nowelista i publicysta okresu pozytywizmu. Jest autorem siedmiu powieści oraz kilkunastu nowel i opowiadań. Jego twórczość prozatorska należy do największych osiągnięć literatury polskiej. Popularność przyniosły mu powieści realistyczne Placówka, Lalka i Emancypantki oraz powieść historyczna rozgrywająca się w starożytnym Egipcie Faraon.
Silas Marner. The Weaver of Raveloe
George Eliot
Although the shortest of George Eliots novels Silas Marner is a cherished masterwork and a moving story of redemption by the one of the Victorian eras most accomplished novelists. Published in 1861, the author charts the life of the cataleptic, miserly weaver Silas Marner. Arriving in insular Raveloe after a wrongful expulsion from his Calvinist community in the north, Silas is a foreign and outcast figure, left alone to accumulate a useless fortune through his loom in the dawn of the new industrial age. His unhappy life is rendered unrecognizable when his fortune is stolen and he adopts a child Eppie. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is a tender and affecting tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the readers attention until the last page as Eppies bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test.
Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author. In the 1920s, one of Wallaces publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. Silinski is one of Edgar Wallaces more over-the-top master fiends. He could teach Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley something about stock manipulation. Silinski and a group of gangster financiers make havoc with the markets, cause devastating financial turmoil. The action becomes ever more outrageous from there.
Max Brand
Silvertip had meant to kill the cold-hearted Bandini, but it was a kid wearing Bandinis cape who came out the saloon door and met Silvertips bullet. Now, Silvertip has taken an oath to take care of the kids business first, then track down Bandini and put the sidewinder six feet under - for good. An urge for roaming and a chance meeting with the bandit Bandini put Silvertip on the trail that leads to Haverhill Valley, where he finds more action than he ever bargained for. Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Brands remarkable gift for storytelling. Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!
Max Brand
Bill Gary was blinded by the agony of torn flesh. Red sparks of pain flared through him. He saw Frosty, his mouth dripping with blood, ready to spring again. Bill struck at the leaping form ... and missed. The wolfs teeth were at his throat! Bill Gary was dead. But this only encouraged the fortune seekers. For securely fastened around the killer wolfs neck was a collar containing the location of a vein of gold ... and it was still anybodys prize. This most vicious of timber wolves was now guardian and executor of his estate. And Silvertip, to carry out the dead mans wish, must find Frosty, the wolf.