Like Byron’s passionate sayings „sounding on the tones of a wild and completely unsophisticated melody”, this is Gorky’s crazy, unbridled, powerful voice when he sings about the „madness of the brave,” barefoot dreamers who are proud of their idleness, who have nothing and fear nothing who is cheerful in his suffering, but unhappy in his joy.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Maria Baros zakochała się w błękitnookim Remingtonie, jednym z braci Winslow, gdy chodziła do liceum. Niestety, ich ścieżki się rozeszły. Maria rozkręciła biuro nieruchomości, odnosiła sukcesy. Po jakimś czasie wszystko się skomplikowało. Dziewczyna postanowiła zostać surogatką, aby urodzić dziecko swojej siostry. Kiedy była w trzecim miesiącu ciąży, przyszli rodzice dziecka zginęli. Maria, karierowiczka z ambicjami, musiała się zmierzyć z wizją nieoczekiwanego macierzyństwa....

OPUS MAGNUM UKRAIŃSKIEGO PISARZAPONAD 1000 STRONNIESAMOWITA NARRACJADOGŁĘBNIE PRZEMYŚLANY, BARDZO PRAWDOPODONY ŚWIAT PRZYSZŁOŚCICHARYZMATYCZNE POSTACIINTRYGI, POLITYKA, TAJEMNICEJEDEN Z NAJWIĘKSZYCH UKRAIŃSKICH BESTSELLERÓW OSTATNICH LATKolonia to pierwszy tom serii Nowe wieki ciemne opowiadającej o świecie w XXIIwieku. To historia o tym, że człowiek mimo wszystkich osiągnięć cywilizacji wcale się nie zmienia i ani wydłużenie ludzkiego życia, ani nawet dojście do stadium gatu...

Heraklia Płaro i Arnold Lupę znowu na tropie!Tym razem kuzynostwo musi stawić czoła kolejnym zagadkom, aby zdobyć licencję Międzynarodowych Detektywów! Czy im w tym pomożecie?Jeśli podejmiecie się tego wysiłku, czekają Was nie lada przygody! Przemierzycie kontynenty i oceany. Być może nawet uda wam się przenieść w czasie...Jak zniknąć, wcale się nie chowając? Czy dinozaury na pewno wyginęły? W jaki sposób zważyć słonia bez wagi? To tylko część pytań, na które należy znaleźć o...

Dan Barry is found by a cattleman footloose and wandering in the desert. He is taken in by the man and cared for by his lovely daughter. But the course of love doesn’t run smoothly in this classic western … Whistlin’ Dan Berry is one of the most interesting characters in Western fiction. Easy going, Berry proves absolutely unforgiving when physically assaulted by a feared, vicious outlaw, Jim Silent. Seemingly without any emotions, Whistlin’ Dan is relentless in his vengefu...

The romance story of a hearty well-known explorer, who finally, at the age of 62 crosses the Antarctic and the spinster who accompanies him on his journey to the Andes in 1895. Here we have a young Victorian woman’s unconventional romance with a man, who was already married, had various adventures, was disowned by her family, etc. So, what happened in between? Did their romance end when he left for his next expedition? Will his crazy wife ever die so that they can get marri...

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...

Mroczna i urzekająca powieść nominowana do Bookera 2019 O godzinę drogi od Londynu znajduje się wioska, w niczym nieróżniąca się od wielu innych: pub, kościół, domy z czerwonej cegły, kilka budynków urzędowych, na obrzeżach parę większych posiadłości. Wszędzie — co normalne — posłyszeć można ludzi mówiących o miłości, trudach dnia codziennego, pracy, umieraniu i wyprowadzaniu psów. Wioska należy do swych mieszkańców, a także do okolicy i jej przeszłości. Nal...

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...

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...

Rascal, rogue, and gambler, Ben Connor was about to meet his match... Ben Connor liked fine clothes, lovely ladies and smooth-drinking liquor. But what he liked most was a horse that won races. The moment he saw an Eden Gray run, he knew he had laid eyes on the finest piece of horseflesh ever to win a race... or make a gambler’s dream come true. So why not find the reclusive deaf mute who owns the Eden Gray, buy one, enter it in races and watch his fortune grow? The plans s...

From the popular author of „Destry Rides Again” comes an exciting saga of adventure, romance, honor, and danger, in the Old West. Les Tarron was just a boy when five strangers rode into his life and changed it forever. Years later – jailed, hunted and betrayed – Les felt the hatred burning inside him like a fever and set out, determinedance and death. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists. Brand does k...

Two gunslingers known as Jingo and the Parson form a two-man army in Tower Creek to deal with the dangerous Rankin brothers in a conflict over a dishonest poker game. Wally Rankin, a gambler, is one of the players and because he is losing to Jingo, resorts to marking the cards. Jingo spots the action and accuses Wally Rankin of cheating. In the ensuing gun fight, Wally is shot in both shoulders. Subsequently, the sheriff advices Jingo that Wally’s older brother will probabl...