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Aristophanes, nicknamed the „father of comedy”, wrote in a different way than the first tragedies. He was troubled by everyday problems, rarely associated with the past. Gods also rarely appeared in his works, like the heroes of antiquity: the main role was given to contemporaries. If certain events of Aristophanes did not suit him, he made fun of them, or offered original recipes to change the situation for the better.

Old Philokleon was so addicted to attending court hearings that his son Bdelikleon locked him in the house and stretched a net around the house. He wants to ensure a quiet life for his father, but Philokleon does not at all want peace. He’s a cocky, like a choir made up of his old friends, judges, and he likes to convict. The choir appears on the stage in wasp costumes and tries to help Philokleon slip away, but Bdelikleon prevents this.

This bold statement by Euripides is an absurd premise on which the whole game depends. Women are outraged by the image of the female as crazy, murderous and sexually depraved, and they use the Thesmophoria festival as an opportunity to discuss a suitable choice of revenge, Fearing their abilities, Euripides seeks out his tragic friend Agathon in the hope of convincing him to spy on him and become his protector at the festival – a role that, of course, would require him to dis...

Knighs are not just equestrians: the whole estate was called in Athens – those who had enough money to keep a war horse. These were wealthy people, had small estates outside the city, lived on their income, and wanted Athens to be a peaceful, closed agricultural state. The poet Aristophanes wanted peace; therefore, he made the riders the chorus of his comedy.

Aristophanes is revered as the „father of comedy.” He wrote over forty works, of which eleven reached us. Centuries have passed, but the comedies of Aristophanes continue to live. The political events that Aristophanes criticized in his works have long faded into the past, but the author enjoys the inexhaustible comic ingenuity of the author, his wit and ingenious courage with which he derives the funny from everything that he touches.

The game begins with Praxagora leaving the house on the Athenian street before dawn. She wears a fake beard and men’s clothes, and she carries a cane and a lit lamp. A chorus of Athenian women enter one on one, all dressed in a similar costume. In order to be more convincingly courageous, some women developed tans and stopped shaving armpits. One woman brings a full basket of yarn in order to get the job done, as the assembly replenishes, to which Praxagora reports to her for...

The old farmer Strepsiad is in debt because of his son Fidippida, squandering money for equestrian sports. Strepsiad seeks help from a neighbor – the sage of Socrates; Having come to the „thought room”, where Socrates teaches young people, Strepsiad asks to teach him tricky speeches and evasions, which would allow not to repay debts. But Strepsiad turns out to be unsuitable for science, and then Fidippid goes to study instead

Pisfeter manages to convince the birds that their mission is to rule the world. According to his idea, the bird city of Tucekukuyshchyna is being built between heaven and earth; birds give wings to Pisfeter and Evelpid, Pisfeter becomes the ruler of the new city and puts into effect a plan whose goal is to take power from the Olympic gods. Birds intercept the smoke from the sacrifices that the gods feed on, persuade people to honor the birds as new gods and promise them prote...

This is the comedy of the ancient Greek comedian Aristophanes, the earliest of his plays that have survived to this day. Together with „Mir” and „Lysistrata” refers to the „anti-war” comedies of the author. It refers to a citizen who was so tormented by the constant wars waged by his state that he made peace on his own behalf with all his neighbors, and while the rest fought and endured hardships and poverty, he lived calmly, profitably traded – in general, everything to envy...

This is a comedy of the ancient Greek comedian Aristophanes. First introduced in 408 BC e., was later redesigned and put on the scene in 388 BC. e. in a contest with four more poets. Competition results are unknown. Put on stage for the second time, in a complete rework. This was the last play staged on the stage by Aristophanes himself.

An elderly wine grower Trigay, tired of the war and strife between the Greek cities, on a giant dung beetle goes to heaven to talk with Zeus. Arriving there, Trigay learns from Hermes that Zeus and the other gods are away, and instead of them, Polemos settled in the house of the gods. Polemos threw the goddess of peace Eiren into the cave and stoned him; together with the Horror that is serving him, he is going to „powder” the Greek cities in a huge mortar depicting a war....

A woman named Lysistrata, determined to stop the senseless war, gathers women from all over Greece in the square in front of the Acropolis of Athens. She offers them „until the men make peace – do not sleep with them, do not give them, do not touch them! „. With difficulty and after much debate and bickering, women agree. They take refuge in the Acropolis and do not admit anyone to themselves. The entire civilian population is divided into two camps: women and the elderly...

Doctor Kildare approached just in time to hear Meg say to the officer, „"I heard a shot outside my apartment, then a crash. When I ran out, this man was lying on the landing... „” „"Whiskey Sour"” (1938) is a Doctor Kildare story that continues the depiction of a „"gangster"” atmosphere surrounding the young doctor as he cared for East Side streets toughs and local political bosses while defying his hospital superiors. Max Brand (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widel...

You don’t get a much more evocative opening than that for a Western novella called „Werewolf”, and the story lives up to both its title and that opening in ways you won’t expect from Max Brand who did write some fantastic fiction. On that bitter night Chris Royal walks into Yates Saloon to escape the storm where Cliff Main, gun happy brother of killer Harry Main, is looking for trouble over a girl both like. Words are exchanged, and there is the smell of cordite in the air. C...

Les Burchard owned the local gambling palace, half the town, and most of the surrounding territory, and Walt Devon’s thousand-acre ranch would make him king of the land. The trouble was, Devon didn’t want to sell. In a ruthless bid to claim the spread, Burchard tried everything from poker to murder. But Walt Devon was a betting man by nature, even when the stakes were his life. The way Devon figured, the odds were stacked against him. So he could either die alone... or takes ...

If you like classic animal stories you will like this one for sure. Tucker Crosden bred his dogs to be champions. Yet even by frontiersman’s brutal standards, bull terrier White Wolf was special. Tucker had great plans for the dog until it gave in to the blood-hungry laws of nature. He never thought that his prize animal would run at the head of a wolf pack one day and to be a leader among wolves in the San Jacinto Mountains or that a trick of fate would throw them together i...

Staying alive is worth a thousand dollars a day to Oliver Wilton. That’s what he’s paying Lew Sherry and Pete Long as hired guns to keep him healthy. And after riding the range, the money looks more than just a little inviting. But before Sherry and Long can pocket their first wages, Wilton is murdered. And town men were never so sad to see their boss take a bullet in the brain as Sherry and Long. Soon the pair are riding a vengeance trail – out to catch the low-down killer w...

An exciting saga of danger, adventure, and romance on the Western frontier. Bill Lancaster was a dangerous man that no one dared mess with. He was fast with a gun, deadly with his fists, and a bully who never let you forget who was tougher. Young Dan Cadigan however refused to be pushed. Mistaken for a quiet weakling, no one expected him to stand up to Bill Lancaster. Fighting him with his fists he made Lancaster realize that someone was tougher than he was. Desperate he used...

He was smiling continually, with such an air of removal above the concerns of ordinary mortals, with such an upward lifting of the head, that his fellows in the boat had called him, from the first day of labor and thirst, „The Saint.” This novelette filled with excitement, suspense, good guys and bad, and plot twists aplenty! Brand is a masterful story teller, slowly revealing his main characters’ unique idiosyncrasies, strengths and weaknesses that make them both human and a...

Historia 41 Samodzielnej Kompani Czołgów, pancernego pododdziału rozpoznawczego Wojska Polskiego w czasie walk z Niemcami we wrześniu 1939 roku. Kompania została sformowana w sierpniu 1939 roku w Zgierzu wchodziła w skład 30 dywizji Piechoty Armii "Łódź". Na wyposażeniu posiadała 13 TK-3, polskich tankietek, które obok czołgu 7TP była podstawową bronią polskich sił pancernych. Po zaciętych walkach 41 kompania tak jak i inne rozdziały rozpoznawcze straciła zdolność bojową, j...

Na malowniczej Gotlandii, podczas sezonu turystycznego, zostaje zamordowana młoda dziewczyna. Podejrzenie pada na jej męża, jako że poprzedniego wieczora widziano, jak doszło między nimi do burzliwej kłótni. Inspektor Anders Knutas, po zapoznaniu się ze sprawą, rozpoczyna rutynowe dochodzenie. Parę dni później zostaje odnalezione ciało innej młodej kobiety zamordowanej w podobny sposób. Śledztwo zaczyna się komplikować, a inspektor musi pogodzić się z faktem, iż przyjdzie mu ...

Czas słuchania słowa Bożego jest niewątpliwie szczególnym czasem wpatrywania się w Jezusa. W adhortacji Amoris leatitia Ojciec św. przypomina, że "jest [ono] dla rodziny źródłem życia i duchowości. Całe duszpasterstwo rodzinne musi być kształtowane wewnętrznie i formować członków Kościoła domowego prze modlitewną i kościelną lekturę Pisma Świętego. Słowo Boże jest nie tylko dobrą nowiną dla życia prywatnego osób, ale również kryterium oceny i światłem, by rozeznać r...

Accused, tried, and convicted of robbery and murder that he did not commit, Jim Seton rotted in jail for five long years. Although the townspeople said he was lucky not to hang, that wasn’t how Jim saw it. He didn’t take kindly to being railroaded. Now he was free and ready. He was an innocent man who’d been sent to hell, and he was ready, willing, and able to return the favor. „The Return of the Rancher „ is a classical western excitement at its very best by a master of the ...

Young Larry Lynmouth had been the most fabulous outlaw of them all. Now he was determined to go straight. But going straight wasn’t that easy-not with ugly leeches like Jay Cress around, who couldn’t believe any man was fool enough to be honest. Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable novel „The Outlaw”. Packed with enough action, twists and turns to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the novel also addresses a wide range of im...

A good classic western by Max Brand (Frederick Faust) about the famous outlaw King Bird. The King Bird, a young, reckless and mystery bandit, whose definition of happiness is freedom, the best horse, a wonderful girl, faces difficult choices when he attempts to save an old friend’s runaway daughter from a dangerous gang of robbers. „The King Bird Rides” is a fast moving, exciting, plenty of gun play and adventure. Max Brand’s action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in ...

One of the most prolific writers of all time, he wrote more than 500 novels and nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. Alongside Zane Grey, the western section of any bookstore is usually packed with Max Brand titles. „The Jackson Trail” is another outstanding western that demands your attention. In it, Jesse Jackson is riding where the law feared to go... Packed with enough action and interesting twists to please even the most die-hard ...

Superstar pulpsmith Max Brand was best known for his Westerns, but his historical adventures rank among the best stories he ever wrote. He wrote somewhere around 12 or 13 historical swashbucklers not including the seven Tizzo stories. The complete tales of Tizzo the Firebrand contains the 7 stories. „The Great Betrayal” is one of it. The series is set in early 16th Century Italy. Luigi Falcone had taken in red haired street urchin Tizzo outside of the city of Perugia. Raised ...

His name was Jim Silver, but they called him Silvertip. Jim Silver, the man with tufts of silver hair over each temple, the man who sometimes looked like a horned devil in the moonlight, hungered for action as most men hunger for food. And he found plenty when bank robber Jim Lovell sought his protection – because, unknown to Silvertip, Lovell was packing a half-million dollars in stolen cash along with his Winchester. And the men he’d double-crossed had shot their way out of...

„The Face and the Doctor” is another short story by Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This story filled with excitement, suspense, good guys and bad, and plot twists aplenty! Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a...

Something natural or supernatural enters the soul of Andrew Creel, a commonplace and disaffected young man, and drives him into a swift game where death is a probability on the one side and love only a possibility on the other. Creel plays it to the end: an end unlike the end that seemed so sure when dusk fell on the garden of that charming mansion with its sinister residents who have taken up residence in the title’s Windon Manor after a bank failure wiped out their fortunes...

One of the greatest western authors of all time, superstar pulpsmith Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. Also, he wrote somewhere around 12 or 13 historical swashbucklers not including the seven Tizzo stories. Faust spent time in Italy every year and soaked up the atmosphere and history. The Tizzo stories came out of his Italian sojourn. The complete tales of Tizzo contains the followi...

One of the greatest western authors of all time, superstar pulpsmith Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. His Westerns were always different, with complex plots and characters, and uncertain endings... But his historical adventures rank among the best stories he ever wrote. These seven stories of 16th Century Italian Renaissance swashbuckling swordsman Tizzo are tightly-plotted, action-...

Eva Flores została wychowana przez despotyczną matkę, dumną z arystokratycznego pochodzenia. Przyjaźń z kimś niżej urodzonym nie wchodziła w grę. Eva nie potrafiła sprzeciwić się matce, nawet gdy się zakochała w synu ogrodnika, Vidalu Suarezie. Po śmierci matki Eva nie jest w stanie utrzymać rodzinnego majątku i podejmuje pracę w hotelu. Któregoś dnia spotyka Vidala – teraz milionera, znanego biznesmena. Vidal, choć ma żal do Evy za to, jak kiedyś był traktowany, jest gotowy ...

Ariel Hart od kilkunastu lat mieszka w Paryżu i pracuje jako projektantka mody. Żyje jednak w ciągłej obawie, że upomni się o nią szejk Riyaz, któremu obiecano ją na żonę. Ten dzień nadchodzi. Przyjeżdża brat szejka, Cairo al Hadid, z którym Ariel przyjaźniła się, gdy byli nastolatkami. Zabiera ją do pałacu, żeby ją przygotować do roli przyszłej królowej. Obojgu jednak coraz trudniej jest ukrywać, że są w sobie zakochani i to oni są sobie przeznaczeni…

Po rozwodzie z przemocowym mężem Jo stworzyła sobie nowe życie na Key West na Florydzie. Uwielbiała pracę w pogotowiu lotniczym, miała grono oddanych przyjaciół, po pracy przyjemnie spędzała z nimi czas. Gdy po paru latach były mąż ją odnalazł, spanikowana chciała uciec z wyspy. Jej przyjaciel Casey zaproponował, żeby udawali parę. Wtedy były mąż, jeśli pojawi się na wyspie, będzie miał do czynienia z nim. Casey unika skomplikowanych emocji i utrzymuje, że skoro są przyj...

Eliot Stone, była modelka, nie zapomniała gorących chwil, które przeżyła na Lazurowym Wybrzeżu z Sorenem Granthamem. Spotykają się ponownie w dramatycznej dla Eliot chwili – tuż przed ślubem rzuca ją narzeczony. Aby wymknąć się żądnym sensacji paparazzi, Eliot przystaje na propozycję Sorena i ucieka z nim do jego rodzinnej posiadłości. I zaczyna myśleć, że były narzeczony właściwie wyświadczył jej przysługę. Bo namiętność, która kiedyś połączyła ją z Sorenem, nie wygasła......

Quinn Harper i Micaha Goulda łączy niezobowiązujący związek, który utrzymują w tajemnicy. Podczas ślubu Eden – przyjaciółki Quinn i siostry przyrodniej Micaha – Quinn niespodziewanie wyjawia publicznie, że ma z nim romans. Micah jest na nią wściekły i rozstają się w gniewie. Wkrótce jednak, gdy Quinn ulega wypadkowi, natychmiast zjawia się w szpitalu. Mają sobie wiele do powiedzenia o tym, co ich poróżniło, ale też o prawdziwych uczuciach, które ich łączą…

Ru jest ciągle w drodze, zwiedza świat, nie ma zamiaru nigdzie osiąść. Gdy kończą się jej pieniądze, wraca do Stanów, by chwilę popracować i zarobić na kolejną podróż. Tym razem zostaje asystentką pracoholika i samca alfa, bogatego Foxa Granthama. Od pierwszej chwili między nimi iskrzy. Fox nie ukrywa, że jej pragnie, ale romans będzie mu przeszkadzać w pracy. Ru jednak chętnie spędziłaby z nim kilka pełnych namiętności nocy, bo przecież nie szuka związku i wkrótce wyrus...

Aneta po wielu latach postanawia wreszcie odwiedzić swoją ukochaną babcię. Pakuje walizki i wyjeżdża na wieś, aby odetchnąć od nużącej codzienności. Szybko zadomawia się w ciepłym, wypełnionym zapachem świeżego chleba domu, a długie rozmowy z babcią napełniają ją spokojem oraz poczuciem bliskości. Z każdym dniem powracają do niej wspomnienia: zarówno te dobre, związane z dziadkami i pięknem otaczającej przyrody, jak i te złe, ukryte głęboko, które rozpaczliwie starała s...

Czym jest zagadkowe „Jedno”, nad którym zastanawiają się rozmówcy w drugiej części dialogu? Czy jest czysto językowym dlugi_cytatem, który błędnie traktują jak realnie istniejący byt? Dlaczego autor nie zajmuje stanowiska wobec licznych paradoksów, jakie wysnuwają z założeń na temat owego Jedna?Według niektórych Parmenides, napisany w późnym okresie twórczości Platona, stanowi rodzaj zgryźliwego żartu, splątanej łamigłówki dla czytelników, której rozwiązania sam autor nie zna...

A collection of three short exciting stories by Max Brand aka Federick Faust. Brand has been labeled „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” so western fans will be in for a treat. It includes „The Flaming Rider”, „Outlaw Buster” and „Sun and Sand”. Three western stories about men who appear to be lacking the intelligence and skills to survive on the frontier but are able to achieve success where others had failed. „Sun and Sand” is the story of a youth known onl...

Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust) is one of the greatest early Western writers who has been labeled „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” and „Speedy’s Bargain” is one of 9 „Speedy” stories that have seen print in various collections. „Speedy’s Bargain” features „Speedy,” Brand’s atypical western man of action who carries no gun and relies on his wits and psychological insights to stop crooks in their tracks. In it, an outlaw holds a family at gunpoint, thre...

They called him Speedy because he could outsmart bankers, outfox barkeeps, and outwit bounty hunters faster than any man alive. He arrived on an iron horse. The day he rode into Durfee, he was more than ready to use his skills to make a killing. To Speedy, Durfee didn’t look any different from a hundred other towns he’d seen before. There were fat bankers waiting for his smooth talk, and lovely young ladies ready to swoon over his smile and his guitar playing. But this time t...

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 man’s 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-th...

Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable novel „Six Golden Angels”. Max Brand’s action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world. Brand penned over 200 full-length Westerns in his career, including „Destry Rides Again” and „Montana Rides Again”. But in this work, we see Brand in a new role. A familiar situation in the story of the murder of a millionaire which is dismissed ...

Poruszająca opowieść o przyjaźni między podziałami, miłości i dążeniu do realizacji marzeń…Młodziutka Apolonia, chcąc uniknąć kolejnych, brutalnych ataków ojczyma, za namową zrozpaczonej matki opuszcza rodzinną wieś pod Rzgowem i przyjeżdża do Łodzi. Licząc na schronienie u ciotki, starszej siostry mamy – gorzko się rozczarowuje. Wynajmuje więc pokój na Wschodniej, zaludnionej w większej części przez biedne społeczeństwo żydowskie, który dzieli z Helką – dziewczyną lekki...

Jest tylko jedna wojna, wieczna wojna. I właśnie zapukała do naszych drzwi…Na Morawach dochodzi do piekielnej manifestacji. Neutralizacją upiorów mają zająć się kanonicy – siły specjalne dotknięte boskim błogosławieństwem. I giną niemal wszyscy. Błąd? Sabotaż? Piekielna pułapka?Ocaleli wracają do Warszawy, gdzie o rząd dusz toczy się zupełnie inna rozgrywka. Między jej siłami tkwi Roksana, nawiedzana przez koszmary kanoniczka, która usilnie pragnie rozwikłać własną tajemnicę....

Another great tale by Frederick Schiller Faust who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand! The Kid was a lawman’s worst nightmare. A fearsome gun-for-hire, he was a legend written in blood and carved in the tombstones of the men he killed. But this time he was facing an old enemy from his twisted past – a man who had survived his bullet and lived for vengeance. This story filled with excitement, suspense, g...

The name Max Brand is synonymous with great adventure and quality. Good men gone bad fill the pages of this Western trio, with stories of outlaws, horse thieves and a rowdy ranch hand who turns to stage robbery. This book contains three short novelettes: „The Nighthawk Trail”, „Vamp’s Bandit” and the title story, „Rifle Pass”. In „Rifle Pass”, ageing Sheriff Thomas Weller has one major problem: his son Dick Weller. Dick cannot seem to apply himself to anything. In a desperate...

This collection includes three short novels from „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” Max Brand (Frederick Faust). The stories here are character studies of outlaws, the lives they lead and the lies and myths that spring up about them. The title novel, „Peter Blue”, is an excellent character study. Blue, wounded in a gunfight, has lost the use of his gun hand and is desperately trying to learn to shoot with his left hand before his enemies realize how vulnerab...

No matter what name Frederick Schiller Faust was writing under, it’s sure to be a tightly written action packed book and „Outlaw’s Code” is no exception. Lawrence Grey is called El Diablo – the devil – though he’s fair-haired and has a boyish grin. But no jail can hold him, and some swear that he is the fastest gun alive. Yet everyone has Grey pegged as a goner when he agrees to ride to Mexico to track down Johnny Ray, a man who has been missing for fifteen years. There’s a r...

This great book by Max Brand tells the story of honest, hard working Phil Slader, the son of a notorious murdering outlaw, who had sworn not to follow the footsteps of his father, a feared and hated gunman. Phil was adopted by the man who put a bullet in his father’s heart. Watched and expected every day to explode into the lawless ways of his father, young Phil patiently waits to come of age to leave the servitude of his father’s killer and find the truth of his death. Could...

After ten years of wandering, during which he has lived the life of a gambler and learned the ways of devious men, Tom Keene returns home, only to find his father alone and dying. Old John Keene’s sole legacy to his son is a Bible, so with his father’s passing, Tom renounces his selfish, worthless past and sets out to preach to others that the greatest happiness is born of trust in one another. But Tom Keene’s good intentions are about to cost him more than he knows... Tom is...

Max Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior westerns like his „Destry Rides Again”, but Brand also wrote the „Dr. Kildare” series and numerous detective stories as well. Never before published in book form, this 1937 police procedural by veteran Brand introduces New York police detectives Campbell and O’Rourke. The pair investigate the apparent suicide of a philanthropist David Barry who was about to be accused of bribery and corruption prior to his death. Angus...

First published in 1932, „Lucky Larribee” is another great read by Max Brand. Alfred Larribee likes drinking, not working. He likes gambling, too. Maybe that’s what drives him to risk his easy-going life for Sky Blue, the horse of a lifetime. When he first goes after this wild and magnificent animal, he knows about the back shooters. But no one tells him about the Indians... they play for keeps. How safe is this bet? Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Brand’s rem...

„Larramee’s Ranch” is another great and entertaining Max Brand novel! This is quite a change of pace for Max Brand. His hero Tom Holden is a bookish young man with a bad leg, no money, and no experience with firearms. When he sets out to make his fortune, he has no real prospects but through a series of bluffs he outwits a killer, faces down a town bully, makes a considerable bundle of money for himself. Then he announces he will marry Alexa Larrame, the beautiful blue-eyed d...

One of many recommended westerns by this prolific author. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand. In this short story told in the first person, Leon Porfilo, an outlaw of poor beginnings and lowly ancestry, goes up against Jeffrey Dinsmore, a gentleman outlaw born of the privileged class, in an attempt to clear his name and gain a pardon. In „His Fight ...

„Bad News for Bad Men” is an excellent classic story by the incomparable Max Brand (Frederick Faust). Great read with Max’s leading off to unexpected places with characters you come to know personally. Max leads the reader to characters bigger than life, they come to life as people we wish we knew personally. People who deal with life by taking an active part instead of just observing as it passes by. Brand along with Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour form the holy trinity of weste...

If you enjoy a fast moving western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, you’ll like „Happy Jack” (1936) by Max Brand. One bullet was all it took to change Jack Anderson from a carefree boy into a hunted man. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists and turns. The journey is the entertaining part. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre. No pulp writer was more pr...

Lucky Bill has the reputation of a natural battler, but he is not a cold-blooded killer. Then Bill finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he is accused of a crime he did not commit, and plenty of greenhorns and gringos set their sights on collecting the price on his head. He’s wanted by every tin star in the West and by every greedy gunslinger out for the price they can get for his no-good corpse. But Bill refuses to turn tail and run. Renowned Old West gunslinger Bi...

A power more than human, a will to absolute evil – such was he. All who had tried to save her from him perished... Must her true love also die? Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior Westerns like his „Destry Rides Again”, but Brand also wrote the „Dr. Kildare” series, numerous detective stories and fantastic novels as well. His Wester...

After 8 years in prison for murder, Jimmy Geary returns to his town Yellow Creek, and his past, and an ambush. Jimmy was very happy to see town again. But there are three men who aren’t happy to see Jimmy Geary return, and they conspire to make his stay this time very short... Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Max Brand’s remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest western authors of all time, Frederick Faust wrote under sixteen different pseudonyms, i...

Another great Western by Max Brand aka Frederick Faust, Clung is one his most memorable and intriguing characters. As a Western author, Brand did not shrink from controversial topics such as race relations in the Old West. There is a mystery about the birth of Clung, who is raised by an old Chinese man in a small Arizona town, but none about his skill with weapons. At first he shoots in self-defense, then recklessly to avenge an insult. With a price on his head, he begins a l...

In „Calling Dr. Kildare”, Dr. Kildare has left his family home to work in a metropolitan hospital with the brilliant Dr. Gillespie who is slowly dying. Kildare has been chosen to work under the irascible Doctor and receive his vast knowledge. On his first case, young Dr. Kildare defies his chief-of -staff, and faces danger and scandal... It is the second in the „Dr. Kildare” series, written by Max Brand, which was the pen name of prolific author Frederick Faust. He is best kn...

Fakir el Fukara to porywająca powieść orientalna autorstwa Karola Maya, która przenosi czytelnika w niezapomnianą podróż przez krajobrazy tajemniczej krainy Mahdiego. Narrator, Ben Nil, wraz z oddziałem żołnierzy eskortuje wyzwolone kobiety Beduinów Fessarah do ich ojczyzny. Podróż nie jest pozbawiona niebezpieczeństw. Bohaterowie napotykają liczne wyzwania, m.in. atak fakira fakirów, Abd Asla, który później staje się Mahdim. Główny bohater, Kara Ben Nil, wykazuje się odwagą,...

Zapraszamy do zapoznania się z pasjonującą historią zawartą w książce „Oko za oko...” autorstwa Karola Maya. Ta ekscytująca opowieść przenosi czytelnika w świat intryg i niebezpieczeństw, gdzie plany i układy mogą zmieniać się w mgnieniu oka.W tej książce, czytelnicy zostaną wciągnięci w wir wydarzeń, gdy główny bohater, Ben Nil, staje w obliczu zagrożenia ze strony złowrogiej bandy rabusiów niewolników. Głęboko ukryte tajemnice, niebezpieczeństwa i zdrady splatają się w tej ...

Żadne z licznych dzieł Machiavellego nie wzbudziło takiego zainteresowania i kontrowersji jak Il principe, czyli Książę, żadne też nie osiągnęło takiej sławy i znaczenia. Ten traktat o zasadach zdobywania i utrzymywania władzy przez księcia mógłby się wydawać zaledwie kontynuacją jego wcześniejszej pracy: rozważań nad ustrojem i instytucjami republiki na przykładzie historii Rzymu. W przypadku państw rządzonych przez jednostkę pojawia się jednak dwoistość spojrzenia. Tradycja...

Zapraszamy do wyprawy przez egzotyczne krajobrazy Bliskiego Wschodu w towarzystwie książki "Pod Siutem" autorstwa Karola Maya. Ta urzekająca powieść, należąca do cyklu "W kraju Mahdiego", przenosi czytelnika w świat niezwykłych przygód. W tej fascynującej opowieści bohaterowie podążają przez tajemnicze kraje Bliskiego Wschodu, poznając różnorodnych ludzi i odkrywając zakamarki pełne zagadek. Ukryte tajemnice, intrygi i niebezpieczeństwa czekają na nich na każdym kroku. Od egi...

"Historia niecodziennej przyjaźni dwóch barwnych bohaterów, których fascynujące przygody przekraczają granice wyobraźni.Przygotuj się na wspaniałą podróż do magicznego świata, gdzie legendarne istoty stają się rzeczywistością, a przyjaźń jest najcenniejszym skarbem."O autorzePaweł Malukiewicz (ur. 18 lipca 1986 roku) - na co dzień bankowiec z krwi i kości, zarządzający biznesem międzynarodowej instytucji finansowej. Prywatnie tata, który każdego dnia wspólnie z córką tworzy f...

…zagroda, Wampir, Podzwonne i Klątwa.Wszystkie one eksplorują tematykę wiary, niekoniecznie religijnej. Wierzenia, przesądy, siła sugestii, mechanizm fatalistycznego myślenia. Wszystko to ma swoją moc i zdolność oddziaływania na ludzkie losy.Książkę polecają Wolne Lektury — najpopularniejsza biblioteka on-line.Stefan GrabińskiW pomrokach wiaryEpoka: Dwudziestolecie międzywojenne Rodzaj: Epika Gatunek: Nowela...