The poem in prose „Twenty-Six and One” is based on the writer’s impressions related to life in Kazan and work in Semenov’s bakery. Gorky considers the image of a tramp, revealing its negative qualities. The work tells about twenty-six bakers, attitude, feelings, the behavior of which is presented by the author as the attitude of one person. This is achieved by using Gorky a huge number of pronouns „we are all”

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...

A jeśli spróbujemy… Megan Maxwell Szalona powieść o zranionej kobiecie, która zostaje swingerką Nazywam się Verónica Jiménez, mam trzydzieści osiem lat i jestem niezależną, ciężko pracującą, i, według tych, którzy mnie znają, dość upartą i kontrolującą kobietą. OK, przyznaję – jestem. Ale czy ktoś jest idealny? Kiedyś wierzyłam w istnienie księżniczek i książąt, do czasu, gdy mój książę nie zamienił się w ropuchę. Wtedy przestałam wierzyć w romantyzm. Więc ku...

"Katastrofy” to kolejna po „ Murach”, „Rewolucjach” i „Wojnach” książka duetu Boguś Janiszewski, Max Skorwider, którzy tym razem rozprawiają się w sposób niebanalny z katastrofami. Opisują skutki, przebieg i konsekwencje zarówno katastrof wynikających z sił natury, jak i tych, które sami na siebie sprowadzamy. Autorzy stawiają tezę, że ludzie są mistrzami katastrof i potrafią zniszczyć wszystko, w sposób nagły i nieodwracalny. Palą wycinają, zabijają, dewastują. Książka ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Opublikowana po raz pierwszy w 1947 roku a pisana w mrocznym okresie II wojny światowej Dialektyka oświecenia jest być może pierwszą próbą opisu stanu życia publicznego, w którym „myśl staje się nieuchronnie towarem a język jego reklamą”. To z niej czerpała większość postmodernistycznych demaskatorów nowoczesnego rozumu (od Zygmunta Baumana po Michela Foucaulta i Jeana-François Lyotarda). W zamieszczonych tu filozoficznych szkicach i notatka...

Prawdziwa historia chłopca, który przeżył wojnę, ukrywając się w polskich lasach.Rodzinę Maxwella Smarta zabito na jego oczach, kiedy miał jedenaście lat. On sam, koczując w lesie, ukrywał się w wykopanej przez siebie norze i żywił plonami podbieranymi z upraw okolicznych rolników. Przymierający głodem, odziany w podarte łachmany, unikał śmierci z rąk nazistów i grasujących po lasach band.Po kilku miesiącach samotnego ukrywania się Maxwell spotkał chłopca, błąkającego się w p...

Jimmy Kildare met from the hospital every day and arrived at Tom McGuire’s lounge on the avenue. He always drank two mugs of beer. But one from the other, there should be a brain at the fingertips all day long, but two beers are not too far between man and themselves, if it has bumps on shoulders, and Jimmy Kildare had.

Seattle-born author who worked as a cowhand in California, attended Berkeley, joined then deserted the Canadian Army, and finally settled down to writing full-time. He was incredibly prolific and wrote numerous books under his birth name (Frederick Faust) and a variety of pseudonyms. Today he is best known for his work published as Max Brand, including the classic Western "Destry Rides Again" and his popular series Dr. Kildare. In "The Desert Pilot", Reverend Reginald Ingra...

Terry Rivers was the black sheep of an aristocratic Southern family. When he headed West, the Law was in hot pursuit. In Zander City he won respect with his whip, fists and gun. There he met the legendary Lost Wolf, a white man who’d been raised by the savage Cheyennes. Lost Wolf had turned out so crazy that the Cheyennes wouldn’t make him a chief even though he was their best fighter. Between this untamed white Indian and the runaway Southern aristocrat developed the stran...

The Stolen Stallion by Max Brand is one of the books in the Silvertip series. Wild horses ... evil men! Parade - a magnificent stallion worth twice his weight in cold cash. And many men had set out to capture this legendary prize. Some never returned. Some came back stony-broke. Others were ruined by desert heat and mountain winters. Only Silvertip, an honest man fast with his fists and quicker with his guns, can tame the magnificent stallion Parade, son of Brandy, king of ...

Western. „Bad News for Bad Men” is just that for the Burwell clan when Jimmy Jones arrives in town to take over the Jasper Journal. Jones’s uncle has given him the small-town newspaper because Jimmy’s life so far has been divided into two equal halves: In the first twelve years you were a small child and a schoolboy. In the last twelve years you have tried to raise hell continually. Now, instead of being called a gunfighter, Jimmy can be called an editor. His uncle warns Ji...

Książka obejmuje wyjątkowy zestaw tematów, którego nie znajdziesz nigdzie indziej i odpowiada na pytanie, jak przezwyciężyć przeszkody wyłaniające się wraz z rozwojem rynku i rozpowszechnianiem w świadomości konsumentów start-upów opartych na blockchainie. Książkę otwiera szkic o historii technologii blockchain i omówienie podstaw kryptografii, na których opiera się łańcuch bloków w protokole Bitcoin. Po nich następują zagadnienia związane z unowocześnieniami ...

W nadmorskim pensjonacie pod Dubrownikiem zamordowana zostaje modelka. Wszystko wskazuje na to, że ktoś zabił ją nocą, dusząc poduszką, podczas gdy w sąsiedztwie trwała impreza zapoznawcza wczasowiczów. Oficjalne śledztwo prowadzi ekscentryczna para chorwackich policjantów – mały, korpulentny detektyw i jego wysoki, chudy partner. Zagadkę usiłuje też rozwikłać główny bohater powieści – Michał Zawadzki, by przy okazji oczyścić się z podejrzeń. Pomaga mu żona Joanna, która miał...

Max Brand (1892–1944), war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und gilt als einer der wichtigsten und bekanntesten Western-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Zu Max Brands Klassikern gehört auch der hier vorliegende Roman „Die Unbezähmbaren” (1918, englischer Titel: „The Untamed”), der zu den besten Western aller Zeiten zählt. Der mysteriöse Dan Barry, genannt „Whistling Dan” ist ein wilder Draufgänger. Der junge Dan Barry ist mit allen Wassern gewaschen, doch dann tauchen plöt...

These are the legends of courageous people who conquered the vast expanses of the American Wild West. The heroes of Max Brand’s westerns are cowboys, gunfighters, sheriffs – the fearless conquerors of the Wild West, who made America their homeland and homeland. For example, the hero of the novel „The Night Horseman” – a brilliant scientist Randall Byrne, a man of remarkable intelligence but poor health, goes to the Wild West to gain strength, and unexpectedly becomes one of...

Opracował i podał do druku Thomas Strässle przy współpracy Margit Unser. Max Frisch (1911–1991) był jednym z czołowych twórców literatury niemieckiej XX wieku. Niedługo po przeprowadzce do Berlina zaczął prowadzić codzienne zapiski, które złożyły się na dzieło unikatowe w jego dorobku literackim. Autor zażądał jednak, by z uwagi na bardzo osobisty charakter notatki te opublikowano dopiero po dwudziestu latach od jego śmierci. Ideowy spadkobierca Bertolda Brechta, przy...

A train passenger is framed for murder, and a young man tries to help a young, newlywed couple but not everything is what is at first seems in this thriller. Whichever side of the law they’re on, the unforgettable characters in this tale will fight for what they believe... and to survive. Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author best known for his thoughtful Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres, he wrote historical novels, detect...

This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. Alcatraz is a wild horse and Brand alternates the narrative between the people struggling to hold onto a ranch and the horse as he breaks from a cruel master and learns to survive on the plains. This is one of the great Western novels. Max Brand’s style of writing is classic western, heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys, wide open country. Max Bra...