"Przygody Sindbada Żeglarza" to pierwsza książka nowej, dwujęzycznej serii „Czytanki Orientalne”. Będzie ona prezentowała skarby literatur orientalnych zarówno w wersji oryginalnej, jak i w przekładzie najwybitniejszych polskich orientalistów. "Przygody Sindbada Żeglarza" – w nowym tłumaczeniu Jolanty Kozłowskiej – zaczerpnięto z "Baśni tysiąca i jednej nocy" – bodaj najbardziej znanego arcydzieła literatury arabskiej, od lat zachwycającego czytelników na cał...

Zbiór zawiera przekład 55 wierszy 10 znamienitych chińskich poetów żyjących pomiędzy VII, a IX wiekiem. Przekładu z oryginału chińskiego dokonał sinolog i dyplomata Aleksy Dębnicki (1916-1991).

Originally published in 1913, „The Great Impersonation” is probably the most famous spy novel of all time. This tale is full of murder, crime, confused identity, blackmail, war, romance, politics, and there’s even a ghost... In 1913, a German spy assumes a dead Englishman’s identity and infiltrates British society as a sleeper agent, but when he falls in love with the Englishman’s wife and his Hungarian ex-lover recognizes him, he must decide how to deal with the two women ...

Guy Ducaine is a recent graduate of Oxford University. Through a series of unfortunate events he is penniless and starving in the rural town of Brasters. Seeking to make a few shillings, he schedules a lecture on local history. On the same time, Lord Rowchester invites the officer and explorer Colonel Mostyn Ray to the village to speak. Ducaine’s lecture fails and he returns to his small house and collapses from hunger. Found there by Ray, and Rowchesters lovely daughter, L...

This is a connected collection of short stories about the leader of a secret society pledged to protect England and their German adversary. In „The Double Four”, Peter is called out of retirement by that organization, which, since his departure, has morphed into a sort of private diplomatic secret service. Peter acquires a title, some nice clothes, and a new archenemy, a German spy, Bernadine. Light hearted with a bit of romance along with the action and fancy pants English...

When Lord Wolfenden saw, in the supper-room of the Milan Restaurant, a beautiful woman and became acquainted with her by saving the life of her elderly companion, the mysterious Mr. Sabin, as they leave the restaurant, he little knew the web of intrigue into which he was entering. Twists and turns galore, enjoyable descriptions about the upper-crust and by-gone days. Mr. Oppenheim can be depended upon to give his plots that turn which is as admirable as it is unexpected, an...

This connected series of stories chronicle the adventures of a young American graduate of Harvard college, M. Edmund Martin and the retired British soldier, Colonel Green on the Cote d’Azur in the period just to World War 1. The two meet at a casino, and manage to avoid many of the classic traps which await the idle wealthy of the time. Seemingly inadvertently, they foil crooks, rescue maidens, recover stolen jewels, help young lovers, assist spies against Germany, and foil...

At half-past eleven o’clock–Mr. Billingham was a man of regular habits–he quitted the promenade, crossed the Place in front of the Casino, and selected a table outside the Café de Paris. He selected it simply because it happened to be the nearest empty one and without even a glance at his neighbours. It was nevertheless, without a doubt, by the direction of that mysterious influence called fate that he should have chosen that particular chair and ordered his champagne cockt...

This novel was written in 1926, almost ten years after the Russian revolution. The nature and tragedy of the Soviet revolution and the new regime are clearly described in this novel. The ruthless and deadly power of Soviet communism tries to extend its reach to the Trade Unions of the postwar United Kingdom. The activities of various secret agents, civilian, commercial, military and cultural are described in this book.

’Michael’s Evil Deeds’ (and they are very evil at times) is a rather ingenious crime novel in more ways than one. Firstly the 11 chapters each represent a separate incident but overall they do link together, if on occasions somewhat loosely. And secondly the tale is told by various of the protagonists so there is often a different point of view within each chapter.

The two men hesitated upon the tee, gazing down the glade towards the distant-green. Their caddies were still pointing in excitement to a motionless object stretched upon the smooth turf close to the flag. „Look there! „ „It’s a man! „ „He is dead! „ The players paused to consider the situation. They were oddly contrasted combatants–one, Mr. Edgar Franks, elderly, large and florid, with a mass of flaxen hair only slightly streaked with grey, a transatlantic millionaire, and...

American Millionaire meets Ruritanean Princess, Jeremiah Vavasour Strole meets the Princess Marya of Pletz at a weekend party in the Hamptons on Long Island. The year is 1933. Much of the world has been plunged into economic ruin by the stock market crash. Marya’s country, Jakovia, is ruled by a playboy monarch who would rather spend his nights with courtesans in Paris, than pay attention to the starving people of his homeland. Michael Grogner, the chief of police and son o...

E. Phillips Oppenheim, writing as Anthony Partridge, in 1912. A curious tale in three parts. „The Court of St. Simon”, by E. Phillips Oppenheim tells the story of Monsieur Simon with his consort Josephine, who lives in the demi-monde of Paris, consorts with criminals and artists, and exacts „contributions” from various evil-doers in the „Court of St. Simon” an underground tribunal of, for, and by, the criminal class. One evening, he brings along with the jaded youth Eugene ...

Welcome to the adventuring, thrilling world of E. Phillips Oppenheim’s modern retelling of „Monte Cristo”. Gilbert Channay is released from prison after three years. He had been framed-up by business partners in the Channay Syndicate, and sets about executing his revenge. The retired policeman, Martin Fogg, mysteriously appears, knowing too much about Channay’s business. He helps Channay escape an attempt on his life, and keeps turning up at crucial times. The plot is the s...

Impatient of the numerous checks which had held up his car all the way from Croydon, Gerald Jennerton let down the window and looked out. London, he realised at once, was swallowing him up. Not the London upon which he had gazed half an hour ago from his earthward-gliding aeroplane–a huge, tumbled chaos of obscurity, with its far-spreading myriads of lights–but an engulfing wilderness of endless streets, through which cars from every direction seemed to be racing to some ma...

Antologia „Kryminalna 13” to jedyny w swoim rodzaju projekt, firmujący pierwszy konkurs literacki organizowany przez Oficynę wydawniczą RW2010. To konkurs otwarty na powieść kryminalną, którego szczegóły znajdziecie w regulaminie, a regulamin – na końcu antologii. Znaleźliśmy 13 specjalistów od zbrodni, 13 sprawdzonych fachowców od literackiej mokrej roboty i umieściliśmy ich zabójczo świetne opowiadania w jednym zbiorze. Zarazem poprosiliśmy szanowne autorskie...

Ronald, Count Matsertser, was a world traveler and amateur. After several years of travel, he returns to his Norfolian estates, which deals with hunting, research and espionage in Africa and Asia. His treasures are huge, but his heart is empty. One night, a mysterious mercenary attacks him directly behind the gate of his estate.

Upward in long sinuous bends the road wound its way into the heart of the hills. The man, steadily climbing to the summit, changed hands upon the bicycle he was pushing, and wiped the sweat from his grimy forehead. It had been a gray morning when he had left, with no promise of this burst of streaming sunshine. Yet the steep hill troubled him but little--he stepped blithely forward with little sign of fatigue.

This is another great collection of short stories by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers and spy novels, and who wrote over a 100 of them. He was the self-styled „prince of storytellers., generally regarded as the earliest writer of spy fiction as we know it today, and invented the ’Rogue Male’ school of adventure thrillers. This volume is a collection of 10 myste...

Choć od śmierci św. Antoniego z Padwy minęły wieki, jego kult jest wciąż ogromny. Setki tysięcy czcicieli zwraca się do niego i gromadzi się na modlitwach ku jego czci. Wychodząc temu naprzeciw, pragniemy rozkrzewiać nabożeństwo 13 wtorków odprawiane przez trzynaście kolejnych tygodni poprzedzających liturgiczne wspomnienie tego świętego. Można je jednak odprawić także w dowolnej porze roku. Ta pobożna praktyka z pewnością ubogaci wszystkich, którzy właśnie w św. Antonim z Pa...

„Słowa na podróż” to zbiór fragmentów Pisma Świętego na każdy dzień miesiąca, przedstawiających drogę do pojednania z Bogiem i pomagających w podróży przez życie.

Autorzy oddając w ręce Czytelników opracowanie „Właściwości fizykochemiczne i biologiczne wybranych biopierwiastków” podali istotne informacje o wybranych pierwiastkach koncentrując się na ich roli w organizmach żywych, a szczególnie w organizmie człowieka. Pierwiastki zostały omówione według kolejności występowania w Układzie Okresowym Pierwiastków tj. bloku s, bloku p i bloku d. Podano właściwości fizykochemiczne omawianych pierwiastków oraz przedsta...

Przedsiębiorca często potrzebuje osoby, która będzie odpowiedzialna za weryfikację zgodności działań firmy z przepisami ochrony środowiska. W takiej sytuacji rzetelna ocena skutków działalności i opracowanie strategii to zadania specjalistów ds. ochrony środowiska, którzy znajdują zatrudnienie zarówno w sektorze rządowym, samorządowym, jak i prywatnym. Zadania zawodowe specjalisty ds. ochrony środowiska wynikają przede wszystkim z obowiązku stosowania przepisów ustawy Prawo o...