”I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom’s realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer’s Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue...

If you like your horror with a western twist then these tales are for you. Awesome occult western adventure, from the master of strange fiction, Robert E. Howard! This collection includes the following stories: „THE HORROR FROM THE MOUND”, „THE MAN ON THE GROUND”, „OLD GARFIELD’S HEART”, „BLACK CANAAN”, „THE DEAD REMEMBER”, „PIGEONS FROM HELL” and others. Kind of like „Dreams at the Witch House” by Lovecraft but mixed with Howard’s own legends. „Tales of the Weird Southwest...

Szósty tom cyklu o Wespazjanie. RZYM, 51 ROK. Wyzwoleńcy cesarza Klaudiusza, Narcyz i Pallas, toczą między sobą walkę o kontrolę nad tronem. Każdy z osobna wysyła Wespazjana do Armenii, by tam bronił interesów Rzymu. Jednakże stawką jest coś więcej niż ochrona podległego królestwa. Krążą pogłoski, że cesarzowa Agrypina spiskuje, by zdestabilizować Wschód. Wespazjan musi znaleźć sposób, jak służyć jednocześnie dwom panom... Narcyz ze wszystkich stara się znis...

C.k. kuchnia to nie tylko książka kucharska, lecz również opowieść o czasach, gdy Europa Środkowa stanowiła jedność pod berłem Habsburgów. Amatorzy kulinariów odnajdą na jej łamach 84 przepisy z tamtych czasów i tamtych ziem, od Adriatyku po Karpaty. Przepisy reprezentatywne dla dzisiejszych kuchni narodowych - węgierskiej, czeskiej, rumuńskiej, austriackiej, bośniackiej, słowackiej czy też północnowłoskiej - kiedyś zwanych po prostu c.k. kuchnią. Ci wszyscy, którzy na...

Brat Robert Wieczorek pracuje na misjach w RCA od 1994 roku. Był tam także podczas rebelii i na własnej skórze doznał napadów i grabieży. Patrzył, jak wojna wydobywa z wielu ludzi najgorsze instynkty, widział zniszczenia, zabójstwa, zdradę, doświadczył bezradności wobec zła, które opanowało serca ludzi. Strzelano do niego i to zdarzenie pozostawiło w nim wyraźny ślad. A jednak wrócił, aby dalej pracować na misjach. Ponieważ był świadkiem wielu nieprawości, pomaga teraz pokrzy...

Powieść nominowana do nagród Hugo i Nebula. Zabawna, ekscytująca, prowokuje do myślenia. - Isaac Asimov. Niewiarygodne, ale Heinlein raz jeszcze napisał wspaniałą powieść. - Arthur C. Clarke. Alexander Hergensheimer, ortodoksyjny członek Zjednoczonego Kościoła, po nierozważnym udziale w polinezyjskim Święcie Ognia przenosi się do kolejnych alternatywnych światów. W każdym z nich wszystkie znaki na niebie i ziemi wskazują, że nadchodzi koniec świata i ...

If you have interest in finance, mining and sailing which is largely centered around those 3 topics in this novel, you are welcome! „Young Lord Stranleigh” is a thrilling tale of romance and suspense by Robert Barr. Some very sharp City of London operators think that rich Lord Stranleigh, a Bertie Woosterish West End fashion plate, is an easy mark to make some money. There is a potential gold mine in Africa, for example; a dilapidated but workable cargo steamer The Rajah, t...

This greatest political novel of Robert Barr’s most beloved books has been written in years. Barr was a Scottish-Canadian author who relocated to London in 1881 where he founded the magazine „The Idler” in 1892 in collaboration with Jerome K Jerome. In 1895 he retired from its co-editorship and became a prolific novelist. „The Victors: A Romance Of Yesterday Morning & This Afternoon...” is a stirring story of a „boss” and others. Patrick Maguire, big, brawny, and smooth...

Psychologia. Kluczowe koncepcje to pięć tomów solidnej wiedzy psychologicznej, podanej w niezwykle przystępny i przyjazny sposób. Nowe wydanie zostało zaktualizowane o wyniki badań z ostatnich lat oraz najbardziej aktualne zagadnienia. Podręcznik ten może służyć zarówno studentom, jak i entuzjastom psychologii. Philip Zimbardo, zwany „twarzą i głosem psychologii”, wraz z Robertem Johnsonem i Vivian McCann przybliżają Czytelnikom podstawowe teorie i pojęcia psych...

„The Chicago Princess” is a historical novel with a romantic line, written by Robert Barr. Robert Barr (1849-1912) was a British-Canadian short story writer and novelist, who published the first Holmes parody, „The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs” in 1892. A novel „The Chicago Princess” first published in 1904. After working several years in foreign affairs, and after winning and then losing a fortune, Rupert Tremorne is stranded in Nagasaki, at the end of his wits and in some ...

Robert Kaplan trafił do Rumunii w zasadzie przez przypadek i nie podejrzewał, że zwiąże się z tym krajem na wiele lat. W 1970 roku był młodym dziennikarzem, a Rumunia jawiła mu się jako smutny komunistyczny zaścianek, którym nie interesują się zachodnie media. Wkrótce jednak stała się dla niego kluczem do Bałkanów i ostatnim pograniczem – zarówno w sensie geograficznym, jak i historycznym. To rozległe terytorium, kiedyś najdalszy skraj imperiów bizantyjskiego, otomańskiego,...

Written in 1893, „Tekla: A Romance of Love and War” is a novel by Robert Barr. Great fun if you like a bit of chivalry and men in tights. Strongly recommended this book for every teenager who wants to discover the exciting world of reading medieval stories and for their parents! Robert Barr (1849-1912) was a British-Canadian short story writer and novelist, who published the first Holmes parody, „The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs” in 1892. He relocated to London in 1881 where...

Po dziesięciu latach nieobecności Rafe MacKade niespodziewanie wraca do rodzinnego Antietam. Zawsze miał opinię awanturnika, dlatego jego przyjazd elektryzuje całą społeczność sennego miasteczka. Rafe kupuje dziewiętnastowieczny dom, który zamierza odnowić, by otworzyć w nim przytulny pensjonat. Pomaga mu w tym Regan Bishop, dynamiczna i pomysłowa właścicielka sklepu z antykami. Wspólna praca w starej, pełnej tajemnic posiadłości zaowocuje kilkoma niespodziankami…

The moonlight shimmered hazily, making silvery mists of illusion among the shadowy trees. A faint breeze whispered down the valley, bearing a shadow that was not of the moon-mist. A faint scent of smoke was apparent. The man whose long, swinging strides, unhurried yet unswerving, had carried him for many a mile since sunrise, stopped suddenly. A movement in the trees had caught his attention, and he moved silently toward the shadows, a hand resting lightly on the hilt of hi...

The Turks, cruelly lead by the scurrilous Bayazid, crushingly defeat a bunch of European Christians who were invading so as to steal land from the Turks, or something. But one of the Europeans, a Scott, Donald MacDeesa escapes with his life and hooks up with Ak Boga, who who had secretly been spying on the carnage. Ak Boga works for the Amir of Samarcand, one Timour the Lame.

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the sword and sorcery genre. From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s most enduring heroes. Yet while Conan is indisputably Howard’s greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the b...

The Pool of the Black One is one of the original short stories starring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan becoming the captain of a pirate vessel and encountering a remote island with a mysterious pool that has powers of transmutation.

Robert E. Howard turned to writing comic and dialect Western tales only late in his career, but he found an immediate and continuously successful market for them, and they are in many respects his most accomplished and polished works. „The Pike Bearfield Stories” is a collection of stories in the western genre, featuring Pike Bearfield – the character who lead well-intentioned lives of perpetual confusion, mischance, and outright catastrophe. It includes: „While the Smoke R...

A great black shadow lay across the land, cleaving the red flame of the red sunset. To the man who toiled up the jungle trail it loomed like a symbol of death and horror, a menace brooding and terrible, like the shadow of a stealthy assassin flung upon some candle-lit wall.

The tales of James Allison take place both in modern times and in the far past, in that time after the Hyborian kingdoms of Conan. Allison is a crippled Texan who lost a leg when his horse fell on him. To escape boredom and sadness he ventures into the past, exploring his previous lives as mighty warriors. All these ancestors were members of a migration of Aryans as they traveled the world in search of a homeland.

The battle in the meadowlands of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the Caliph of Bagdad and his Turkish allies had broken the onrushing power of Doubeys ibn Sadaka of Hilla and the desert, the steel-clad bodies lay strewn like the drift of a storm. The great canal men called the Nile, which connected the Euphrates with the distant Tigris, was choked with the bodies of the tribesmen, and survivors were panting in flight toward the whit...

This having happened to me I sat still on my brother Bill’s horse, because that’s the best thing you can do when a feller is p’inting a cocked.45 at your wishbone. This feller was a mean-looking hombre in a sweaty hickory shirt with brass rivets in his leather hat band, and he needed a shave. He said, „Who are you? Where you from? Where you goin’? What you aimin’ to do when you get there?

The Black Stranger"is one of the stories byRobert E. HowardaboutConan the Cimmerian. It was written in the 1930s but not published in his lifetime. When the original Conan version of the story failed to find a publisher, Howard rewrote „The Black Stranger” into a piraticalTerence Vulmeastory entitled „Swords of the Red Brotherhood.”

The long low craft which rode off-shore had an unsavory look, and lying close in my covert, I was glad that I had not hailed her. Caution had prompted me to conceal myself and observe her crew before making my presence known, and now I thanked my guardian spirit; for these were troublous times and strange craft haunted the Caribees.