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Thorne Smith best-remembered for humorous novels, many turning on some fantastic plot device which thrusts the protagonist into grotesque predicaments, often via unwitting transformation. The 1926 publication of „Topper” brought the author immediate acclaim. Elegant, fun-loving George and Marion Kerby are the toast of the town, until they wreck their flashy car and discover they’ve become, well, ghosts. Making the best of a bad situation, they decide that being dead is the ...

To jest tajemnica Romy Ligockiej: jej książki pisane są zawsze bardzo osobiście i emocjonalnie. Stąd ich siła i wyjątkowa więź z czytelnikami. Pisarka przygląda się światu, który ją otacza, opowiada nam swoje życie – zawsze trochę inaczej, zawsze z innej perspektywy. Refleksyjnie, dojrzale, z łagodnym poczuciem humoru. Najnowsza książka jest może bardziej emocjonalna niż inne. Jej sercem jest bowiem opowieść autorki o tym, jak stara się pomóc bliskiej osobie w najważniej...

Wchodząc w XXI wiek Polska – jak i cały świat – stała się areną cyfrowej rewolucji. Komputery z fantastycznych wizji przeobraziły się w przedmioty codziennego użytku. Bezgłośny światłowód wyparł skrzeczące modemy, a pokolenie MTV, zbiorowy umysł zjednoczony przed telewizorem, ustąpiło przed pokoleniem Neo, cyborgami połączonymi z komputerami – i sobą nawzajem. Miłość, polityka, kultura, media – globalna sieć odmieniła wszystko. Internet stał się „miejscem”, w którym żyjemy,...

W jaki sposób nastawienie psychiczne wpływa na kondycję fizyczną? Dlaczego warto umieć słuchać, a nie tylko mówić? Po co nam asertywność? Czym jest negatywna motywacja i jak ją spożytkować? Dlaczego wygląd zewnętrzny jest tak samo ważny jak osobowość? Na te i wiele innych pytań szuka odpowiedzi autor książki „A kto mi, kuźwa, zabroni”. W 49 zabawnych, błyskotliwych i frapujących rozdziałach wnikliwy czytelnik odnajdzie zapis walki z przeciwnościami losu, rozmaitymi dyle...

Świąteczno-noworoczne cuda czasem się zdarzają. Ale niektórym trzeba pomócRozgrzewająca serce opowieść o mieszkańcach pewnej kamienicy, ich bliskich oraz nieznajomych, których losy zaskakująco się splatają. To m.in. kobieta na zakręcie, która musi wybierać między kilkoma adoratorami, młodzi duchem starsi państwo, rozczarowany kobietami samotny ojciec, skrywająca tajemnicę zabiegana matka i żona, pewny siebie biznesmen, niewierny mąż, nieśmiała poetka, zagadkowy kurier i rezol...

Obszerna rozprawa naukowa na temat przyczyn krzyżackiego sukcesu w podboju Prus w XIII wieku. Rozdział I: Geneza i ogólna charakterystyka stron konfliktu, czyli o podejściu do nauki historii. Historia jako nauka nomotetyczna i idiograficzna. Prusowie, czyli o nomotetycznym standardzie. Krzyżacy i krzyżowcy, czyli o idiograficznym fenomenie. Rozdział II: Przebieg podboju Prus w XIII wieku. Preludium i etap I podboju (do roku 1236). Etap II podboju (lata 1237-1255...

O czymkolwiek pisze Artur Daniel Liskowacki – o teatrze, filmie, literaturze i życiu literackim, o Szczecinie czy Oborach, otoczeniu gabinetu proktologa w przychodni zdrowia, brzuchomówstwie, poezji Piotra Szewca, prozie Romana Bratnego – jest w tym ironia. „Ironia – ładne imię dla paskudnej dziewczynki”. Zmysłowi obserwacji, erudycji, rozległości skojarzeń towarzyszy świadomość języka, którym pisze, którym myśli, i to nadaje jego tekstom szczególną dynamikę, sz...

„The Trimmed Lamp” follows „The Four Million” and provides another series of twenty-five short stories that take place in New York City in the early years of the 20th century and are representative of the surprise endings that popularized O. Henry’s work. Contents: „A Madison Square Arabian Night”, „The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball”, „The Pendulum”, „Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen”, „The Assessor of Success” and others. Stories of the lives of blue collar workers and middl...

Settle in for a whimsical, thoroughly enjoyable whirlwind tour through the prodigious imagination of American short-story master O. Henry. When he wrote the following, he may have discounted his own creativity. „Whirligigs”, comprised of 24 short stories and published in 1910, is evidence of this. O. Henry writes of love and loss, of mystery and drama, of journalism and murders and trials. He creates a tapestry of characters, young and old, wealthy and poor. It offers some ...

O. Henry is most widely recognized for his stories’ dry wit, plot twists and surprise ending. But another major element in his fiction is his love of the American urban environment, as well as a keen appreciation of the rapid diversification that occurred in many cities in the early twentieth century. In „The Voice of the City”, O. Henry uses excellently written short stories and high vocabulary to convey a sense on New York. This collection brings together an array of tale...

O. Henry (whose real name is William Sydney Porter) is famous for his many short stories of everyday-life America, full of wit, charm, and inventiveness. This collection of classic tales set on the wrong side of the law showcases a master craftsman at the top of his form. „The Gentle Grafter” is a collection of 14 short stories about grafters who travel, peddle and swindle in the South. Those grafters have different business ethics and moral senses, and their artistic plots...

„Sixes and Sevens” is a first collection of humorous short stories from the author of „The Four Million”, his stories deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen and waitresses and often use twist endings which turn on an ironic or coincidental circumstance in his stories. O. Henry proves that he is the master of the short story format. This collection has quirky as well as nice little stories, each differing in style from the other. Most of his stories a...

O. Henry’s unique style of writing will introduce you to story filled of mystery, suspense and of course a decision. A decision which will lead a certain main character to three roads of which he must choose from. A collection of 22 short stories: „Roads of Destiny”, „The Guardian of the Accolade”, „The Discounters of Money”, „The Enchanted Profile”, „Next to Reading Matter”, „Art and the Bronco”, „Phobe”, „A Double-dyed Deceiver”, „The Passing of Black Eagle”, „A Retrieved...

Arthur Morrison was a prolific journalist and author best known for his detective fiction that featured the lawyer-detective Martin Hewitt, who was the most successful rival to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. His realistic novels and stories are sober in tone, but the characters are portrayed with a Dickensian colorfulness. His attitude toward the people he described was paternalist, rather than radical, and he opposed socialism and the trades-union movement. This was...

Arthur Morrison, who was English novelist, short story writer and journalist, wrote pioneering realistic narratives about working-class life in London’s East End. He is also celebrated for his exciting mystery stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, who served as a natural successor to Sherlock Holmes. This comprehensive book presents Morrison’s collection of short stories. The collection includes: „Chance of the Game”, „Spotto’s Reclamation”, „A „Dead ’Un”, „The Di...

The dead body of a beautiful girl in a disused house, the secret meeting room in the cellar, a baffling murder mystery... „The Dagger and Cord” is another mystery by Aidan de Brune (Herbert Charles CULL). It’s all great fun and the author keeps the action moving along swiftly, as he always did. Wonderful entertainment and highly entertaining. If you haven’t discovered the joys of Brune’s mysteries there is a good place to start. Aidan De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who...

Fourth and last collection of detective fiction featuring Martin Hewitt, a famous private detective whose methods closely resemble those of Sherlock Holmes. The plot lines of all six linked sensation stories in this collection center on the mystery of the Red Triangle, a group of villains known only from the Red Triangle left stamped on the heads of their victims, and the actions of Martin Hewitt and his narrator, esteemed journalist Mr. Brett, in bringing the members of th...

Looking for a satisfying, meticulously exciting adventure with which to while away an afternoon? Look no further than „Squadron of the Damned”, a short story from one of the most early writers in the genre of fantasy and science fiction, David Wright O’Brien. O’Brien’s work was space opera or other routine adventure, but many of his stories betray a strain of humor, not unlike Henry Kuttner’s at that time. Some of the stories were co-written with his close friend William P....

This anthology contains 25 tales of old New York city at the dawn of the 20th century. A collection of O. Henry’s short stories bearing his trademark irony, comic misunderstandings, and surprise endings. They also capture his use of coincidence or chance to create humor in the story. O. Henry wrote about ordinary people in everyday circumstances. The true hero of „The Four Million” is the city of New York, with its energy, compassion and kaleidoscope of human emotions. O. H...

Written by famed author O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) in 1910, these are 25 more short stories of the Four Million, including the titled story „Strictly Business”, „The Thing’s the Play,” „The Call of the Tame,” „Psyche and the Pskyscraper” and others. This collection of short stories brings together a motley cast of characters from all walks of life – stage actors, blackmailers, soldiers, waitresses, and average citizens – and adds in an array of unexpected plot twists ...

„Heart of the West” is a collection of O. Henry nineteen short stories, all of which are set in or feature the American West at the turn of the 20th century, back before paved interstates, when cowboy culture was at its peak. This collection of short fiction from master of the form centers on tales of romantic entanglement, adventure, and lost love among the dusty trails and plains of the Wild West. Saddle up for a heaping dose of the clever plot twists that this brilliant ...

A widow and her two children struggle to make ends meet in East London after their grandfather and provider is killed. First they are threatened by a sponging uncle and his friend Mr. Butson, a „cadger of suppers”, then by their new landlord Mr. Dunkin, a man who exudes a wealth of sympathy, a wealth that Mr. Dunkin squandered with no restraint but this, that it carried no other sort of wealth with it. „To London Town” novel was intended to provide a picture of working-clas...

„Cabbages and Kings” is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious country. A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town called the Republic of Anchuria while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is o...

Morrison, a novelist and short-story writer, is most often remembered for a series featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, but before that, he wrote several grim and violent books about life in the London slums. „The Hole in the Wall” is one of the most gripping adventure stories ever written. Stephen Kemp goes to live with his mysterious grandfather after his mother’s death, and is gradually drawn into the seedy world which Captain Nat Kemp inhabits. The author brilliantly ...