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The long low craft which rode off-shore had an unsavory look, and lying close in my covert, I was glad that I had not hailed her. Caution had prompted me to conceal myself and observe her crew before making my...
Co jest ważniejsze lojalność względem narodu czy rodziny? John Puller dowiaduje się, że jego brat Robert, skazany na dożywocie, zbiegł z więzienia. Uciekinier staje się poszukiwanym numer jeden. John wierzy w niewinność brata, ale nie ma co do niej stuprocentowej...
Medytacje biblijne Pawła Kozackiego to zbiór nieoczywistych rozważań. Ten jeden z najbardziej rozpoznawalnych polskich dominikanów wyłuskuje z tekstów czytanych co niedzielę i znanych niemal na pamięć świeże sensy. Nieraz odnosi się do aktualnych lektur, filmów czy bieżących sporów, przede wszystkim...
(fragment z książki) Jedni porównywali ją do Kopciuszka, drudzy do Królowej Śniegu. Niektórzy widzieli w niej zakochaną w starszym mężczyźnie marzycielkę; inni wyrachowaną łowczynię majątków. Cały świat poznał Barbarę Piasecką-Johnson podczas sądowej batalii o spadek po Johnie Sewardzie Johnsonie, którą...
The horror first took concrete form amid that most unconcrete of all thingsa hashish dream. I was off on a timeless, spaceless journey through the strange lands that belong to this state of being, a million miles away from earth...
So thay brought the envoys, pallid from months of imprisonment, before the canopied throne of Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan of Turkey, and the mightiest monarch in an age of mighty monarchs. Under the great purple dome of the royal chamber...
The Sowers of the Thunder is a short story by Robert E. Howard (published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932) that takes place in Outremer (the Crusader states) in the time of General Baibars and deals with the Generals friendly/adversarial relationship...
W monografii zaprezentowano złożoną naturę procesów zarządzania finansami. Autorzy pokazują szerokie spektrum badań prowadzonych w tym zakresie – zarówno w wymiarze teoretycznym, jak i praktycznym. Uwypuklają także związki, które łączą zarządzanie finansami z innymi dziedzinami nauki. Czytelnik znajdzie w książce...
An Irish-American warrior passes himself of as a Kurd and sets out to steal the treasure of Tartary. This is one of Robert E, Howards fast-paced short stories, featuring lots of fights and sliced entrails. Not one of his best...
This is a good book of four Western stories. The title story, however, is the longest. The Vultures of Whapeton suffers from a protagonist who is just a bit too manly and effective to be believed. Everyone who meets Steve...
The battle in the meadowlands of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the Caliph of Bagdad and his Turkish allies had broken the onrushing power of Doubeys ibn Sadaka of Hilla and the...
Robert E. Howard turned to writing comic and dialect Western tales only late in his career, but he found an immediate and continuously successful market for them, and they are in many respects his most accomplished and polished works. The...
The Teeth of the Tiger was written in the year 1914 by Maurice Leblanc (translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos). Leblanc was a French novelist and short story writer known for creating the character Arsene Lupin, who is the French...
In The Three Eyes, author Maurice Leblanc veers away from the Sherlock Holmes-style mysteries that were long his stock-in-trade and mixes things up by introducing some science fiction elements. Maurice Leblanc was a 20th century French writer best known for...
Prince Renine alias Arsene Lupin is an amateur detective who teams up with a lady named Hortense Daniel. The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc (Alexander Teixeira De Mottos translation). The...
A story of Arsene Lupin, the greatest, most ingenious and most daring criminal in modern fiction. Translated by Teixeira de Mattos Alexander, The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc, is one of the many novels featuring the celebrated thief Arsene Lupin....