Najstarszy z synów hrabiego Cison, musi zrzec się dziedzictwa i wraz z dwoma braćmi opuścić rodzinny dom, aby dołączyć do grona elitarnych wojowników kontynentu Henny, Czarnego Zakonu. Staje się nieśmiertelny, lecz ceną, jaką musi za to zapłacić, jest przemiana, która wypala w nim wszelkie uczucia. Pewnego dnia spotyka na swej drodze kobietę, której miłość próbuje przebić się poprzez pozbawiony emocji pancerz Zimnego Rycerza. W tym czasie z Gór Wysokiej Magii młody cza...

Mieszkańcy Przystani Wiatrów odkryli, że na ich planecie możliwe jest realizowanie odwiecznego marzenia ludzi. Wspomagani przez słabą grawitację i gęstą atmosferę, na skrzydłach wykutych z metalu uzyskanego z porzuconego statku - zaczęli latać! Na planecie małych wysepek, trapionych przez potwory mórz i rozdzierające powietrze sztormy, lotnicy pełnili funkcję wysłanników i zazdrośnie strzegli prawa do dziedziczenia skrzydeł. Jednak Maris z Amberly, która ponad wszystko p...

If you love thrilling adventure stories with twist and turns then this Western adventure will offer you just what you need. It tells the story of a decent young man, Andrew Lanning , who through a couple of unlucky breaks, is forced into the life of a desperado. He made one mistake in the beginning, and now the most feared lawman in the mountain desert, Hal Dozier, is on his trail and will stop at nothing to bring the outlaw Lanning to justice. But is Andrew guilty of all t...

The "Thunder Moon" series by the very prolific author Frederick Faust (published under his favorite pseudonym Max Brand) is a series of pulp fiction Western and adventure novels. In order, the works appear in four volumes as "The Legend of Thunder Moon", "Red Wind and Thunder Moon", "Thunder Moon and the Sky People", and "Farewell, Thunder Moon". Thunder Moon was the adopted son of a great warrior, unaware that he was born the son of a white man. And though he grew bigger a...

Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable Adventure Classics "The Boy Who Found Christmas ". Packed with enough action and romance to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the work also addresses a wide range of important themes with insight and sensitivity. This classic’s appeal extends far beyond the core audience for Westerns - give it to a yet-to-be-won-over friend or loved one, and soon they’ll be clamoring for more. The plot...

Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable Western "The Whispering Outlaw". The Whisperer, a mysterious frontier bandit who never shows his face or speaks in his own voice, recruits a ragtag band of outlaws to assist him in a series of daring robberies designed to make them all rich. Who was this whispering outlaw who could so easily slip through the hand of the lawmen Kenworthy and even baffle the seasoned and brutal gunman Lew Borgen, whom ...

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. This is one of his novels. Clancy Morgan must learn how to shoot a gun when his best friend is unjustly accused of murder; John Manner, on the lam from the law, finds a new identity in the frozen Arctic. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twist...

The Black Rider,” originally published in 1925, is set in Spanish California at the time when the eastern colonies of this country were still ruled by Great Britain. In the novella The Black Rider," a Navajo named Taki is fluent in four languages, a skilled knife-thrower, a consummate horseman, and can outwit any opponent. It is a tale of intrigue and revenge, where a mysterious Navajo becomes more than just a nemesis to a brutal landowner and his simpering son. But a woman...

Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable novel "Stolen Gold". Packed with enough action and romance to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the novel also addresses a wide range of important themes with insight and sensitivity. No one knew - or wrote about - the West like Max Brand, as shown brilliantly in the this classic short novel. In this novel Reata, one of Brand’s most popular heroes, is enlisted to retrieve a hidden trea...

No writer captured the excitement, humanity, or adventure of the American West better than Max Brand. And nowhere was Brand’s talent more evident than in this Classic Western. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. In this one of his short novel, „Soft Metal,” Larry Givain, fleeing from a posse, meets a beautiful woman at a deserted cabin belonging to one of the men in the posse. Her brother is also holed...

Prywatny detektyw i samozwańczy stróż sprawiedliwości na tropie sprawcy mordu, który zmieni bieg świata Poczwarkę, kobietę o przezroczystej jak szkło skórze, będącą królową dżokerskiego półświatka, brutalnie zamordowano w jej popularnym lokalu, Kryształowym Pałacu, odwiedzanym przez wiele sław świata dzikich kart.. Jej zabójcy poszukują dwaj mężczyźni: Jay Ackroyd, pracujący jako prywatny detektyw as, który znalazł jej zmasakrowane ciało, oraz samozwańczy stróż ...

W labiryncie magii i strachu na pewno nie czeka na Ciebie nuda. Stopniowo, z każdą stroną zbioru opowiadań ,,Granica” powoli wsiąkniesz w świat autentycznych postaci, wyznaczonego losu i ludzi szarpanych równie ludzkimi emocjami. Jak w dobrej potrawie każdy może znaleźć tu coś dla siebie, poczynając od Akademii Magii, przez wehikuły czasu, a kończąc na smokach wiernym ludziom pomimo swej odmienności. Najlepszą cechą tego zbioru jest zdecydowanie lekkość z jaką autor por...

No writer captured the excitement, humanity, or adventure of the American West better than Max Brand. And nowhere was Brand’s talent more evident than in this classic short novel. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. In „The three crosses”, a practical joke gets out of hand and turns an earnest cowboy into a hard-riding yahoo. „The Three Crosses,” an ominous prediction leads a cowpuncher to a showdown w...

„The Lightning Warrior” is the name given to the great white wolf that is so swift in attacking its prey. A bounty is offered but no one can catch or kill the animal, that is until Cobalt arrives in the area. When Sylvia Baird, a proud woman determined not to marry Cobalt, a fierce warrior, tells him that she will consent to be his wife only if he brings her the pelt of this elusive white wolf, he succeeds much to her horror, and she must escape with the wolf at her side. M...

Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, but today is primarily known by only one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, George Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. This is one of the great Western novels. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides ...

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. „Red Devil Of The Range” is one of his Western fiction. When young Ever Winton loses the two most important things in his life, his U...

Frederick Schiller Faust was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his novels. Enter the Kid who has an eye on Milman’s daughter but also on the life of Milman who he blames for the death of his parents. He saves the Milman cattle because he cannot stand to see innocent cattle killed to make money. In doing so he saves Milman from ruin, wins the girl and forgives Milman. His trek down a narro...

Max Brand, was the pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust. He was a prolific American author best known for his classic western novels. One sheriff and two deputies have already disappeared in the rough-and-tumble mining town of Slosson’s Gulch. The same fate awaits any other man who crosses the cutthroats and thieves who thrive there. Pedro Melendez is a gambler and a drifter, trying his best to put his gunslinging days behind him. But he’ll need all the sharp shooting he ca...

L’année 1810. Sur l’Ile île Maurice (France), il y a une bataille entre les Français qui la possèdent et les Anglais qui la convoitent. Commencé sur mer, le conflit se poursuit sur terre où, suite à un débarquement massif, les Anglais finiront par l’emporter. C’est la conquête aux colonies! Une île, des bateaux, des batailles, la vie des différentes castes dans les colonies; préjugés, esclavage, révolte... Georges est un passionant roman et en effet étonnamment!...

„Wytrwać w tej pracy pomagało mi przeświadczenie, że mój trud może być przydatny dla innych osób, które pragną się poświęcić pisarstwu”. - ze Wstępu. Opowiadania zebrane Franka Herberta to pierwsze w naszym kraju tak obszerne wydanie krótkich form prozatorskich autora Diuny. Zgromadzone w dwóch tomach utwory – aż czterdzieści! – są, można śmiało powiedzieć, bezcenne. To właściwie przekrój zainteresowań pisarza, które znalazły później odzwierciedlenie w jego najwybitniejs...

Język angielski - Poziom B2Lubisz czytać dobre książki, a jednocześnie chcesz doskonalić swój angielski?Mamy dla Ciebie idealne połączenie!Klasyka literatury światowej w wersji do nauki języka angielskiego.CZYTAJ – SŁUCHAJ – ĆWICZCZYTAJ – dzięki oryginalnemu angielskiemu tekstowi opowiadań The Time Machine przy­swa­jasz nowe słówka i uczysz się ich zastosowania w zdaniach. Wciągająca fabuła opowiadań sprawi, że nie będziesz mógł się oderwać od lektury, co zapewni regularn...

The novel tells the prophetic story of man’s harnessing of the newly-discovered power of the atom, how this power nearly destroys civilization in a catastrophic war and foreshadows nuclear warfare years before research began and describes the chain reactions involved and the resulting radiation. It is presented as a history of the important events of the 20th century, jumping back and forth amongst narratives of different eyewitnesses and major players in those events. „The...

Considered one of Wells most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wells’s tale is a panoramic view of an unravelling society. A semi-autobiographical satire of Edwardian advertising and patent-medicines. The story follows the life of a young man, George, and his Uncle Edward. Edward invents an elixir called TONO-BUNGAY and hires his nephew George to help build the company. The medicine becomes a huge commercia...

„You Can’t be Too Careful” is a sketch of one way of life – the life path, cowardly man, in fear, made a lot of dirty tricks. He never forgot that „necessary caution”, and helped unleash the Second world war. He believed everything he was told, he did what he was told. Not it is done by world Affairs, he was only a humble and law-abiding. But he relied all those who would, in the words of wells, „to increase the amount of the world’s evil”. He was one of the men who develop...