"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 ...

Zło mogło być wszędzie, a z pewnością miejsce na nie było w sercu każdego człowieka.Komisarz Deryło poszukuje wytchnienia w ustroniu nad Bałtykiem. Jednak Zło nie spuszcza go z oczu.Kilkadziesiąt kilometrów dalej dochodzi do potwornej zbrodni. Pewna kobieta zostaje zamordowana tak brutalnie, jakby sprawcą był prawdziwy diabeł.Tymczasem w okolicy pojawia się tajemniczy badacz wiary w zjawiska paranormalne, a grupka dzieci rozpoczyna niezwykłą grę. Ponoć jej autorem jest sa...

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...

A collection of short stories by a popular and influential Russian author, the founder of the literary method of socialist realism and, possibly, the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote short stories, plays, memoirs and novels that touched the imagination of the Russian people, and was the first Russian author to sympathize sympathetically with characters such as tramps and thieves, emphasizing their daily struggle with insurmountable difficulties....

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...

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...

WSZYSCY JESTEŚMY MORDERCAMI, CZYŻ NIE?Idealne życie profesora etyki Klausa Martina legło w gruzach, gdy oboje z żoną padli ofiarami brutalnej napaści. To zdarzenie pociąga za sobą falę dramatycznych wydarzeń. Najlepszy, najbardziej etyczny człowiek może złamać swoje zasady. Nigdy nie wiemy, kim jesteśmy naprawdę. Każdy z nas jest zdolny do zbrodni. Wy również. Jeśli macie jakiekolwiek wątpliwości, stracicie je po lekturze tej książki. Przekonajcie się sami...

Loafer was a big dog who looked like a buffalo wolf; he was gray against one background and pale yellow against another; like a buffalo wolf, he had a great leonine body covered with a loose hide which humped in a wave above his shoulders at every lurch of his gallop. Strangers always said „Wolf! „ when they saw him, and no one said „Good dog! „ except his master.

„Young Dr. Kildare” is the first in a popular series of eight novels by writer Max Brand, beginning in 1940 and finishing in 1943. Brand this time has young Dr. Kildare take on a special case to force his beloved Gillespie to take a rest from the research job which is draining him. The case involves a fear neurosis in the daughter of a multimillionaire, and Kildaire uses unorthodox means to get to the bottom of it. He has an ingenious way of bringing her out of darkness, and ...

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...

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...

He’s an outlaw on the run. Harry Gloster is an accused murderer who, though innocent, is forced to hide. Harry is a heartbeat ahead of the posse. But neither twisted justice nor a gallows rope can stretch across the Rio Grande. Hell-bent for Mexico, Gloster meets up with Joan Daniels and she’s a dream come true. Now he’s got a choice. Kiss the sweetest thing he’s ever seen goodbye... or stay and risk a lynching. One of many recommended westerns by this prolific author. Fred...

It is the continuing saga of Max Brand’s finest heroine, Jack – Jacqueline Boone. Jack is blessed and cursed by the cross of Meilan when she meets Dix Van Dyck. Dix Van Dyck, is being persecuted by an evil sheriff, named Onate. Dix, perhaps too fond of action and excitement, had stayed out of trouble on the strength of his boyish charm and the verdict of „suicide” passed on those who drew their guns on him. Strangely enough, it is Jackie Boone and a beautiful Yaqui Indian g...

Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. This is one of his work. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre. Also Brand w...

For all his untamed ways, Whistling Dan Barry has won the love of Kate Cumberland, who struggles to lure him from the call of the wind and the night in the desert country. But Dan’s mysterious personality leads him into one difficult situation after another, for the path he takes with his wild companions - the stallion Satan and the wolf dog Black Bart - is strewn with desperate enemies and fierce encounters. "The Night Horseman" is part of a trilogy about a mysterious guns...

The Man From Mustang is the first book in Max Brand’s famed Silvertip series and it’s a decent read. 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. The set-up of a young bank clerk framed for robbery and murder proves a worthy puzzle for Silvertip to run down, and, in saving the innocent and tracking down the real culprits, his hazards provide...

Mistyka i ekologia. Powieść o tym, o czym milczą książki himalaistów. Drugi najwyższy szczyt świata w lokalnym języku określany jest jako Czogori – Duża Góra, a nie K2, jak nazwali go Anglicy. Miejscowe wierzenia i tradycje, ekonomiczne i społeczne problemy są jednak pomijane w relacjach. Podobnie jak ekologiczna katastrofa, której przyczyną jest nie tylko położona tuż obok linia frontu, lecz także śmieci pozostawiane przez wspinaczy – nie tylko plastik, lecz także trupy...