klasyczne warszawskie legendy opowiedziane pióremArtura Oppmana, wybitnego poety okresu Młodej Polski. Ich wkład w kształtowanie się naszej narodowej tożsamości jest niepodważalny, a znać je...
This having happened to me I sat still on my brother Bill’s horse, because that’s the best thing you can do when a feller is p’inting a cocked.45 at your wishbone. This feller was a mean-looking...
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”....
Adam Mickiewicz był jednym z najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli europejskiego romantyzmu. Jego poezję charakteryzował równocześnie mistycyzm i sentymentalizm, jak i aktywizm społeczny. W polskiej...
W cieniu zakwitających dziewcząt Marcela Prousta to druga część procesu powieściowego W poszukiwaniu straconego czasu, uznawanego za arcydzieło światowej literatury. (…) Proust lekceważy sobie to,...
20 000 mil podmorskiej żeglugi Juliusza Verne to jedna z pierwszych powieści science-fiction. Autor zabiera nas w niesamowitą podroacute;ż pod powierzchnią moacute;rz i oceanoacute;w, podczas...
Before Robert E. Howard wrote of „Conan the Cimmerian”, he wrote of the swashbuckler Solomon Kane. „The Adventures of Solomon Kane” takes you through Howard’s horrific and fantastic world of swords...
The king of vendhya was dying. Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared. Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold- domed chamber where Bhunda Chand struggled...
One moment the glade lay empty; the next a man poised tensely at the edge of the bushes. No sound warned the red squirrels of his coming, but the birds that flitted about in the sunlight took...
Breck Elkins is a hillbilly from Bear Creek, a fictional location in the Humboldt Mountains of Nevada. He is „mighty of stature and small of brain"–a physically huge and imposing figure, and...
If you like your horror with a western twist then these tales are for you. Awesome occult western adventure, from the master of strange fiction, Robert E. Howard! This collection includes the...
An Earthman transported to Almuric, a remote alien world where he must contend with apelike humans, winged monsters, and other sinister forces. Robert E. Howard’s collection of fantastic fantasy...
Drugie życie doktora Murka to kontynuacja powieści Doktor Murek zredukowany, autorstwaTadeusza Dołęgi-Mostowicza. Tytułowy bohater porzuca swoje ideały i razem ze znajomymi z noclegowni, bierze...
The singing of the swords was a deathly clamor in the brain of Godric de Villehard. Blood and sweat veiled his eyes and in the instant of blindness he felt a keen point pierce a joint of his...
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...
The tall Englishman, Pembroke, was scratching lines on the earth with his hunting knife, talking in a jerky tone that indicated suppressed excitement: „I tell you, Ormond, that peak to the west is...
The tales of James Allison take place both in modern times and in the far past, in that time after the Hyborian kingdoms of Conan. Allison is a crippled Texan who lost a leg when his horse fell on...
Jestem Polakiem – więc mam obowiązki polskie: są one tym większe i tym silniej się do nich poczuwam, im wyższy przedstawiam typ człowieka. To z całą pewnością najmocniej znany fragment z Myśli...
The Pool of the Black One is one of the original short stories starring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written żeby American author Robert E. Howard. It is set in the...
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...
Torches flared murkily on the revels in the Maul, where the thieves of the east held carnival by night. In the Maul they could carouse and roar as they liked, for honest people shunned the...
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...
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....
Doktor Murek zredukowany to jedna z bardziej znanych powieści Tadeusza Dołęgi-Mostowicza. Tytułowy bohater - doktor praw Franciszek Murek - zostaje zwolniony z pracy na skutek bezpodstawnego...