A Mad Marriage. A Novel

May Agnes Fleming

Mr. Gordon Carill marries Miss Rosamond Lovell, and then discovers that she is not the daughter of Colonel Lovell, but a girl with a low birth rate and a bad reputation, who was a concert singer. She is unusually beautiful, she is only eighteen years old, and the dark experiences of her past life, to put it mildly, had to hurry. In horror, she leaves her husband, who then pursues her.

A Maker of History

E. Phillips Oppenheim

In this romantic story tells about how in 1905 a young British tourist accidentally witnesses a strange meeting in Germany. Then, in Paris, he tells about it not in the company where it could be shared. His sister, who had to meet with him finds his brothers baggage at the hotel, but he himself disappeared. The French police are pretending to be looking for him persistently, but then the sister himself disappears. A childhood friend who is in love with her is asking her friend to help in the search. He agrees to look for this pair, finds hints, but gets a warning to stop the search.

A Man Could Stand Up

Ford Madox Hueffer

1926. A Novel. The third in a series that includes Some Do Not and No More Parades. It chronicles the life of Christopher Tietjens, the last Tory, a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. The novel opens on Armistice Day and follows the fortunes of Tietjens and Valentine Wannop, until their paths finally cross again in post-war London.

A Matter of Millions

Anna Katharine Green

The main plot of the story is a dying man and his will. Having no relatives, the man wants to give his money to someone worthy and resembling a woman whom he loved and lost too early. Most of the book is devoted to various actions of the characters, reactions and plans for this money millions in the title. The book also has a love story.

A Mayfair Magician

George Griffiths

George Griffiths is popular with science and science fiction novels. The desire of every person is to have the power to read minds. George Griffiths decided to make it into reality. A Mayfair Magician is a science fiction novel about a device that allows you to read minds.

A Midsummer Nights Dream

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Nights Dream is a comedy where all the characters find themselves in a situation that completely changes their lives. In the play several plot lines that are closely intertwined with each other and affect each other. The main conflict of the play is a quarrel between the king of the elves of Oberon and his wife, Queen Titania. Because of this quarrel, all the madness of the summer night is happening. After all, Oberon decided to punish the spouse and play a little joke on her: he asks little Pac during sleep to rub Titanias eyes with a love potion so that the queen fell in love upon waking at the first comer.

A Midsummer Night's Dream - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Shakespeare, William

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by William Shakespeare. There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny because they cannot act, so it is also a story that makes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a story about mischief and magic too. What happens when love and laughter come together with magic in an Athenian forest? A Midsummer Night's Dream was written in about 1596 and is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It has been retold for Bookworms, not as a play, but as a story.

A Midsummer Night's Dream Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Shakespeare, William

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by William Shakespeare. There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny because they cannot act, so it is also a story that makes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a story about mischief and magic too. What happens when love and laughter come together with magic in an Athenian forest? A Midsummer Night's Dream was written in about 1596 and is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It has been retold for Bookworms, not as a play, but as a story.

A Millionaire of Yesterday

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The novel tells about the struggle of a young man for wealth in colonial Africa and about his search for happiness in this country. Although he is trying to do everything right and honest, he is prevented by many opponents who bring only a great calamity. But despite all the difficulties, the story ends with a happy end.

A Modern Cinderella. Or, The Little Old Show and Other Stories

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott created some fascinating short stories here. A Modern Cinderella: or The Little Old Shoe And Other Stories contains four short stories by Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women: A Modern Cinderella, Debbys Debut, The Brothers, and Nellys Hospital. Like her more famous novels, Alcott tells stories of young women interacting with people and events from the late 1800s. Louisa May Alcott bestows a truly amusing and thoroughly modern retelling of The Brothers Grimms Cinderella. Little Women is certainly Louisa May Alcotts best known book, but dont miss her refreshing version of this classic fairy tale, A Modern Cinderella. Alcott pokes fun throughout, describing a cool blonde as having many cares those happy little housewives never know. What modern gal doesnt appreciate that those old, worn out shoes are dependable and will take you far forget impractical glass slipper or stilettos! A great addition to the Alcott library of stories.

A Modern Utopia

Herbert George Wells

H.G Wells wrote many tales of adventure and exploration, which were fascinating to early twentieth century readers as transportation to faraway lands was so difficult back then. Wells Modern Utopia was first published in 1905. It set the scene for many modern, scientific utopias and dystopias. The story is set on a planet very like earth. The Utopian Planet differs from earth in that the inhabitants have created a perfect society. Two men, the narrator and his colleague (a botanist), visit this parallel planet and argue over its merits and defects. Utopia is a world in which the problems of humanity have been solved. People live healthy, happy lives in cities where all human needs are met. The novel is best known for its idea that the Samurai, a group of nobility, could effectively rule a world. This would redress the sociological issue of progress and political stability

A Monk of Cruta

E. Phillips Oppenheim

A very interesting and early novel is extremely popular in the 1920s and 1940s by the famous author E. Phillips Oppenheim. It differs from its later works, here are considered more gloomy themes and a tragic plot. This story tells of a wealthy Englishman who fell in love with the daughter of an Italian nobleman who lives on the island of Krutha in the Mediterranean Sea. The very dark influence of the Catholic Church in this period will not prevent the victory of love and happiness.

A morze wcale nie wzbiera

Michał Wachnicki

"A morze wcale nie wzbiera" to opowieść o spotkaniu trójki przyjaciół, które przeradza się w pełną napięcia podróż przez relacje, emocje i wspomnienia. To, co oczywiste, stopniowo przestaje się takie wydawać, a poczucie, że coś ważnego czai się tuż pod powierzchnią, nie opuszcza czytelnika aż do ostatnich stron.

A Mother in India

Sara Jeannette Duncan

The regiment, as usual, lacked officers, and John had to hold daytime parades three times a week. This story is about a poor guy who tried to do everything to get out of poverty. This story keeps everyone to the end.

A Mummers Throne

Fred M. White

Fritz, a wandering man. He came to the west with the generally accepted goal of finding a wife. This adventure in search of a wife, it promises to be interesting. It would not be the story of Fred M. White, if he had not added mysticism here.

A nawet mężczyzna

Małgorzata Maj

Gizela Feredyńska to niebieskooka blondynka z głosem zapłakanej pogodynki i duszą jak burzowe niebo. Ma osobistego kota, kolekcję królików i słabość do brązowych oczu. Pracuje w laboratorium, ale jej życie dalekie jest od wszelkiej sterylności i porządku. Tuż po czterdziestce, po rozwodzie, od dawna nie szuka szczęścia u boku mężczyzny. Jak to jednak z mężczyznami bywa, pojawiają się w najmniej spodziewanym momencie, niczym króliki z kapelusza. I do tego w wersjach bardzo zaskakujących. Tak jak Wojciech - bardzo przystojny, bezczelny, czarujący okulista. Młody lekarz zrobi wszystko, aby zdobyć Gizelę, mimo Drugiej...   A nawet mężczyzna to pełna tajemnic, niebanalnych smaków i smaczków historia, gdzie zło jest tak złe, że aż śmieszne, miłość tak oczywista, że aż nudna, i przypadłość tak nieoczekiwana, że aż spełniona. Książkę mogą, ale na własną odpowiedzialność, przeczytać również mężczyźni, jednakże wówczas nic już nie będzie dla nich takie samo.  

A niech to czykolada

Paweł Beręsewicz

Pęka niebo i przez szczelinę wsuwa się Dłoń. Mieszkańcy Zylirii patrzą oniemiali, jak rośnie w oczach i zbliża się do miasta. Czy po to by zmieść je z powierzchni ziemi jak okruch ze stołu, czy żeby przynieść cenny dar? Jedno jest pewne: olbrzymia Ręka zostawi po sobie ślad. Zamiesza w życiu małego Olego i jego zyliryjskich sąsiadów. Wplącze ich losy w mroczną, tajemniczą, kosmiczną historię, której prawdziwego znaczenia nigdy nie pojmą. A my? My mamy łatwiej. Leży przed nami A niech to czykolada!. A w niej klucz do Wielkiej Zagadki.

A Nights Adventure in Rome

William Harrison Ainsworth

For a person unaccustomed to the imposing religious ceremonies of the Catholic Church, it was a delightful sight to observe all the pomp and splendor displayed at this high celebration. The papal choir now and then sang the melodic masses characteristic of worship, and hundreds of centers spread all-consuming spirits around.

A Pair of Blue Eyes. A Novel

Thomas Hardy

The heroine of the novel is a young Elfrid. She can easily charm anyone with the look of her blue eyes. In her life, two appear, a young architect and an experienced writer. Former friends become rivals, and Elfrida is faced with a painful choice.

A pamiętasz, mamo?

Kateryna Babkina

Młoda bohaterka trafia wprost z bombardowanego Kijowa do wiedeńskiego domu swojego ojca, towarzyszy jej dziecko, którego nie urodziła. Szuka swojego miejsca pomiędzy nieodczytanymi wiadomościami, nowymi ulicami i wspomnieniami z innego życia. To opowieść o błędach, które popełnia rzeczywistość, roślinach, które jednak nie wyrosły, pierwszej miłości i dorastaniu. "A pamiętasz, mamo?" jest też przejmującym portretem ukraińskich uchodźców wojennych, niewypowiedzianych traum, które wracają w najbardziej nieoczekiwanych momentach. Bohaterka jest matką i dzieckiem jednocześnie, jest w Wiedniu, ale też w Kijowie, jest blisko i daleko w tej samej chwili. Powieść ta to obraz świata, którego mieszkańcy próbują otaczać innych troską, choć sami jej potrzebują. To zdjęcie rodzinne ze śmiercią, która stale przebywa w pobliżu, o której nie sposób przestać myśleć, ale nie sposób też wiecznie ją rozpamiętywać. Bohaterka Babkiny jest dorosłym dzieckiem zdanym na łaskę rzeczywistości, która sama nie wie, co robi. "A pamiętasz, mamo" to najnowsza powieść Kateryny Babkiny, napisana w formie listów kilkunastoletniej bohaterki do nieobecnej matki. Autorem przekładu na język polski jest Bohdan Zadura.

A Passionate Pilgrim

Henry James

The narrator meets the American Clement Searle in a London hotel. Searle had long wanted to move to England, to run away from the routine of his life. However, he is physically ill and depressed because his lawyer cannot support his claim for a share in the out-of-town property currently owned by Richard Searle. The narrator and the main character are trying to solve this problem.

A Peoples Man

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The marathon supports the radical form of general strikes to put the entire English industry on its knees and begin a long struggle for the redistribution of wealth. In many eloquent speeches, he claims the cause of poverty. Lord Foley, by contrast, believes that the enemies of England are waiting for mass actions aimed at the collapse of the country, during which they will invade and win. The marathon is obstructed from all sides by opposition forces that are trying to bring it to their side.

A Personal Record

Joseph Conrad

A Personal Record is the story of the design and manuscript of Caprice Olmeyer, Conrads first novel, as well as the story of his dream about the sea, and the story of his cousin who ate a dog, and the story of a beloved dog presented to his son, but above all, the story of the novel The Olmeyer Caprice, and the strange prototype of the hero of this novel, and a few more words about the man who was the first reader of this novel. At the same time, A Personal Record is not a classic autobiography, the book sometimes resembles a game of association, and it is impossible to predict where the author will bring another memory, another association and the story it generated.

A Pippa tańczy!

Gerhart Hauptmann

“A Pippa tańczy!” to sztuka Gerharta Hauptmanna, niemieckiego dramaturga i powieściopisarza, laureata literackiej Nagrody Nobla.   Sztuka ta, a właściwie bajka, podzielona jest na cztery akty i rozgrywa się w śląskich górach. Głównymi postaciami sztuki są, włoski technik hutniczy Tagliazoni oraz Pippa, jego córka.