„Ocalenie” (1920) to jedna z trzech powieści, zwanych trylogią Lingarda, opartych na doświadczeniach Conrada z czasów służby na parowcu Vidar. Wydarzenia opisane w powieści poprzedzają te zawarte w „Szaleństwie Almayera” (1895) i „Wyrzutku” (1896). Historia opowiada o kapitanie Tomie Lingardzie, który wyruszył w podróż na Archipelag Malajski, aby pomóc przyjacielowi odzyskać królestwo. Po drodze pomaga uratować jacht, który ugrzązł na mieliźnie, i ulega urokowi żony właścic...
Powieść szczegółowo opisuje zgubę Petera Willemsa, nikczemnego, niemoralnego człowieka, który uciekając przed skandalem w Makassar, znajduje schronienie w ukrytej wiosce tubylczej, tylko po to, by zdradzić swoich dobroczyńców z powodu pożądania do córki wodza plemienia. Opowieść przedstawia powracającą postać Conrada, Toma Lingarda, który pojawia się również w „Szaleństwie Almayera” (1895) i „Ratunku” (1920), pojawiają się tu także inne postaci z tych powieści. Dzieło to je...
„Ze wspomnień” to utwór autobiograficzny Josepha Conrada wydany w 1912 roku. Został również opublikowany pod tytułem „A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences”. Notorycznie zawodny i dygresyjny w strukturze stanowi jednak główne źródło informacji o życiu autora. Opowiada o jego szkolnictwie w zrusyfikowanej Polsce, żeglarstwie w Marsylii, wpływach wuja Tadeusza i pisaniu „Szaleństwa Almayera”. Utwór daje wgląd w to, jak Conrad chciał być postrzegany prze...
Wydane po raz pierwszy w 1906 r. „Zwierciadło morza” było pierwszym z dwóch autobiograficznych wspomnień Josepha Conrada. Jak podaje sam autor: „Usiłowałem tu odsłonić z bezpośredniością ostatniej spowiedzi, jaki był mój związek z morzem, który zaczął się tajemniczo jak każda wielka namiętność zesłana na śmiertelnych – przez niezbadanych bogów, rozwijał się nieodparcie wbrew zasadom zdrowego rozsądku, wytrzymując próbę straconych złudzeń i przezwyciężając rozczarowanie, co ...
„Zwycięstwo” to powieść psychologiczna Josepha Conrada opublikowana po raz pierwszy w 1915 r., dzięki której Conrad zdobył popularność na świecie. Opowiada o wydarzeniach z życia Axela Heysta, wychowywanego w Londynie przez owdowiałego ojca, szwedzkiego filozofa. Atmosfera w domu Heysta, przesycona bezwzględnym dążeniem ojca do prawdy i pesymistycznym spojrzeniem na ludzkość, wypacza jego umysł. Po śmierci ojca Heyst opuszcza Anglię i zamieszkuje na tropikalnej wyspie....
Rusty Sabin was born to white parents but brought up by the Cheyenne Indians. Raised by Spotted Antelope and Bitter Root, Rusty, now known as Red Hawk, refuses the compulsory and brutal initiation into the tribe when he is fifteen. But in his twenties, Red Hawk sets out to take his place among white people. Rusty doesn’t know much about the white man’s ways especially a white man like Bill Tenney. A thief Tenney is only interested in one thing – Rusty’s white stallion, cons...
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. Max Brand was incredibly prolific and wrote numerous books under his birth name (Frederick Faust) and a variety of pseudonyms. He does it again in the eminently enjoyable novel „A Lucky Dog”. Hagger is a man on the run, a thief and would-be killer. He’s no good on a horse, and feels miserable and out of place in...
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...
Max Brand (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was killed while serving in Italy. „Billy Angel, Trouble Lover” is the rare pulp...
In a sinister cabaret the dancing feet of Anthony Hamilton tap out a message of life or death for an uncrowned czar. Anthony Hamilton, head of the U.S. counter-espionage service, flew to Monte Carlo when it was rumored that the Number One secret service agent of Japan, Henri de Graulchier, was planning a coup that would bring on another World War. „"The Case of the Man in the Shroud"” is a novelette by Max Brand, one of the greatest western authors of all time. The plot is ...
The science fiction story describes the adventures of three friends: the founder of the Cannon Club, Impi Barbicane, captain Nicolas and the daredevil Michel Ardan. Travelers make a five-day flight around the satellite of our planet, spending time in scientific disputes and discussions and sharing important guesses and observations with each other. At the very beginning of the novel, Barbican states: „Well, algebra is the same tool as a plow or plow, and a tool very useful ...
The book has a lot of scientific component from various fields: geology, paleontology, botany, zoology, physics. But everything is very accessible and understandable. The plot focuses on a exploratory journey to the center of the earth through a volcano crater. The starting button for him was an encrypted message on half-decayed parchment. By happy coincidence, it fell into the hands of the famous and very gambling scientist. How could he remain indifferent? Of course not –...
He is a French writer whose adventure novels made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. He was also a playwright and journalist. Having hired several assistants, he writes novels for newspapers with a sequel – adventure, pseudo-historical in nature, which both readers and publishers are happy to buy. Among these works are 5 famous historical multibooks such as: „The Count Of Monte Cristo”, „The Three Musketeers”, „Twenty Years After”, „The Black Tulip...
The novel „The White Jacket” by American writer Herman Melville is dedicated to swimming on the US military frigate. The novel, which is a chronicle only in part, describes in detail the life and life of naval sailors, their colorful figures, as well as the features of ships and naval service in that era. A number of philosophical, romantic and socio-political thoughts are presented.
Ceci est le premier roman de la série d’aventures du Cannon Club. Les événements se déroulent immédiatement après la fin de la guerre civile aux États-Unis. Un groupe de personnes passionnées par leur métier forment le Gun Club. Cela inclut ceux qui développent, qui font des cast, qui peuvent aider avec du matériel ou qui sont plus qu’utiles pour les intérêts du club. Mais la guerre est finie et personne n’a besoin de leurs inventions, et il n’y a pas de place pour les test...
Le conte de science-fiction décrit les aventures de trois amis: le fondateur du Cannon Club, Impee Barbicane, le capitaine Nicolas et le courageux Michel Ardant. Les voyageurs effectuent un vol de cinq jours autour d’un satellite de notre planète, passant du temps à des débats et discussions scientifiques et partageant entre eux d’importantes conjectures et observations. La société décrite dans l’histoire „Autour de la Lune” a des traits utopiques: chacun a son opinion...
Max Brand is an American writer, considered one of the best authors who worked in the Western genre. In total, he wrote about 500 works, of which 300 were in this genre. Silvertip is a western novel about revenge and quest completion. Silvertip wanted to kill a cold-blooded Bandini, but it was a child in a Bandini cloak...The multibook includes the most read novels of the author, such as: «Silvertip», «The Man from Mustang», «Silvertip’s Strike», «Silvertip’s Roundup», «Sil...
Zane Gray was an American author, known on both sides of the ocean for his Westerns – popular novels and adventure stories that represented a solid, idealized image of the Old West. From his pen came out over 60 books of westerns, on which more than 100 films were shot. The multibook includes the most read novels of the author, such as: «Forlorn River», «Nevada», «Arizona Ames», «Majesty’s Rancho», «Knights of the Range», «Under the Tonto Rim», «The Thundering Herd», «West ...
Working name of UK author Ernest Brammah Smith (1868-1942) for all his writing; he is best-known for two series, the Max Carrados books about a blind detective, all of whose Perceptions are enormously enhanced, and a series of tales in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. At the height of his fame, Bramah’s mystery tales, featuring the blind detective, appeared alongside Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holm...
South Seas Adventure Novel, written in 1925 by Gordon Ray Young (1886-1948) a journalist in Chicago and San Francisco, literary editor of the Los Angeles times, and author of over forty novels. During his time in Los Angeles, Young befriended the writer Paul Jordan-Smith and the painter Edward Middleton Manigault. As such, this book was dedicated to the memory of the painter Middleton Manigault who was born in London, Ontario, and started his career there. „Seibert of the I...
No writer of „cowboy” stories can equal B. M. Bower. Ever since „Chip” of immortal memory Bower has been easily first among the writers who stage their dramas in the wide spaces of the cattle country. There is something new about this novel. The old legend about the Spook Hills comes to life when the Sunbeam’s newest hand, a young tenderfoot named Shelton C. Sherman, takes a ride in the hills and discovers tracks made by something that seems neither human nor animal. The su...
The storybook „On the Makaloa Mat” tells the story of the lives of natives and whites in the Hawaiian Islands. The story, which gave the name to this brilliant collection, is considered one of the best works about love in world literature. Each story has common features: firstly, they all describe some side of life in the Hawaiian Islands, and secondly, these are all the memories of old people, or people close to them in age, wise by experience. And, of course, the local fl...
This is a collection of short stories by Jack London. The action of the stories takes place in the bay of San Francisco, in the center of the plot is the activity of the local „fish surveillance”. The narration is conducted in the first person, the narrator is the owner of the reindeer sloop, chartered by a fishing company to patrol the bay in order to prevent illegal fishing methods. Another main character is Charlie Le Grant, if not involved in the events, then at least m...
