Fat Mr. Horner might have changed his mind if he could have watched Gilbert’s face as he drove his rattling old motorcycle over the bridge and climbed the steep slope beyond. The young man&rs...więcej »
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 ce...więcej »
The bottom of the gorge was filled with old lava, black and fragile, like bottle glass, but the rocks that endlessly rose on both sides on an African night were made of limestone. Everything was st...więcej »
Peter slowly rose to the top. He was in a blue twill suit, his brown shoes were old but well polished, and his soft gray hat looked like a hundred others. If someone tried to watch him, they would ...więcej »
Działanie na dwa fronty to ryzykowna gra. Zwłaszcza, jeśli jedna ze stron jest potężna i nieprzewidywalna. Francja za czasów panowania Henryka III Walezego. Na weselu jednego ze swoich...więcej »
This old science fiction novel, Bridges, describes the Earth, largely devastated and devastated by terrible unrest in the solar system. The story tells about the adventures of seven people sailing ...więcej »
A pair of seventeen-year-old boys leaves the house to make their way to fate in the Far Eastern seas. „It must be my hands that are at fault, then,” replied Clive. „I’ve bee...więcej »
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...więcej »
The novel „Mother”, one of Gorky’s most popular works, was based on the mass demonstration of 1902 in the city of Sormovo. Hence, an exciting plot based on real events, with a sha...więcej »
The name Max Brand is synonymous with great adventure and quality. Good men gone bad fill the pages of this Western trio, with stories of outlaws, horse thieves and a rowdy ranch hand who turns to ...więcej »
Paradoks szczęścia polega na tym, że najtrudniej je osiągnąć, kiedy go szukamy. Pojawia się jednak nieoczekiwanie, gdy robimy rzeczy, które mają sens.
Profesor Bruce Hood przyjrzał się temu proble...więcej »
Światowy bestseller Stuarta Ritchiego! Książka, która ujawnia niepokojące i szokujące sygnały świadczące o kryzysie, jaki przechodzi współczesna nauka. Nauka to sposób, w jaki ...więcej »
Namiętność niejedno ma imię. Dla niektórych małżeńskie uniesienia to nic w porównaniu z emocjami, jakie dają spekulacje giełdowe. Laura jest panną tyleż urokliwą, co wyrachowan...więcej »
Set against a Florida background, this story tells of the adventures of Bill Picton and his young companions who trail a gang of moonshiners through the steaming, sluggish swamp-lands. Fitzgordon h...więcej »
„As the great ’plane roared through the upper air, young Monty Vince sat with his eyes glued to the thick glass window of her enclosed body, and watched the sea of clouds lying like a p...więcej »
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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, reve...więcej »
„Short and stout as he was, Pip could handle a boat with any man, and the speed with which he got the sail up and tied down the reef points was worth watching. As he finished, the great arch ...więcej »
The long table was filled with guys from Overton’s school, everyone was busy with breakfast and talked from sixteen to a dozen. Only two days remained until the end of the summer semester, an...więcej »
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...więcej »