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The Adventures of Kirby O’Donnell – ebook
Robert E. Howard
One of Robert E. Howard’s lesser known fictional characters, Kirby O’Donnell is an American treasure hunter in early-twentieth century Afghanistan disguised as a Kurdish merchant, „Ali el Ghazi”. „Ali el Ghazi” is a master of edged weapons, fiercely intelligent, tigerishly quick, and a merciless killer when threatened. Kirby O’Donnell is similar to another of Howard’s characters, El Borak, in many...Data dostępności:
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The Honourable Algernon Knox, Detective – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
This is a very clever collection of linked stories by E. Phillips Oppenheim written in 1913. Algernon Knox, pretty young, dapper, seemingly silly, has failed at everything. Although wealthy, he fails when he stands for parliament. By chance he becomes involved in a blackmail against his uncle, who is a diplomat. Knox foils the plot, and a new career is born, the gentleman detective. In some ways, the...Data dostępności:
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The Channay Syndicate – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Welcome to the adventuring, thrilling world of E. Phillips Oppenheim’s modern retelling of „Monte Cristo”. Gilbert Channay is released from prison after three years. He had been framed-up by business partners in the Channay Syndicate, and sets about executing his revenge. The retired policeman, Martin Fogg, mysteriously appears, knowing too much about Channay’s business. He helps Channay escape an...Data dostępności:
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The Desert Pilot – ebook
Max Brand
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...Data dostępności:
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The Night Horseman – ebook
Max Brand
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...Data dostępności:
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Destry Rides Again – ebook
Max Brand
This fast-paced story is about a tough rebel named Destry who is sent to prison for years, serving time for a crime he did not commit. Once out, he aims to seek revenge on the 12 jury members who sent him to prison and voted for his incarceration. However, his mission isn’t to kill but to find other unique ways as punishment and to make their lives miserable. Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates...Data dostępności:
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Love And Mr Lewisham – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Mr. Lewisham is an ambitious young teacher who has grand plans for his future. Indeed he has written up a Plan or Schema as he calls it and has committed himself to daily study to improve himself. We follow him as he moves to London and becomes a student. He also gets married and the later part of the novel is about how his naive beliefs about himself and the world survive this transition. „Love and...Data dostępności:
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The Innocence of Father Brown – ebook
G.K. Chesterton
Father Brown is one of the Hound’s greatest crime fighters and his creator, Chesterton, one of the masters of the short crime story. Father Brown is the second among the Great literary detectives, right after Sherlock Holmes. In some ways, Father Brown was a continuation of what Chesterton wrote in his classic Orthodoxy.The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery...Data dostępności:
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Paradygmat zignorowany – ebook
Agnieszka Wołowicz
Książka wpisuje się w nurt badań intersekcjonalnych ulokowanych na pograniczu krytycznych studiów o niepełnosprawności i gender studies, otwiera nową przestrzeń analiz dotyczących zagadnienia dotychczas ignorowanego – macierzyństwa kobiet z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną. Autorka analizuje, w jaki sposób niepełnosprawność intelektualna oraz związane z nią uwarunkowania społeczne i systemowe...Data dostępności:
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Naród: wspólnota wyobrażona – ebook
Artur Jabłoński
Publikacja stanowi analizę i rekonstrukcję tego, jak wyobrażał sobie naród kaszubski Jan Rompski (1913-1969) – pisarz, działacz narodowy, etnograf. Ten współzałożyciel grupy polityczno-literackiej Zrzeszińców narodową tożsamość kaszubską interpretował jako zespół cech z otwartego zbioru, obejmującego w szczególności: terytorium, język, kulturę, poczucie obywatelstwa. W tekst poświęconej mu publikacji...Data dostępności:
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