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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The tragic story of a young burgher, who could not find an answer to his feelings and rejected by society, was instantly translated into other languages and gave rise to a series of sequels and imitations the so-called Verterian. Over time, Werther, the rebellious martyr became one of the eternal images of world literature and introduced the sociopsychological phenomenon of verterism into European culture, associated with the melancholic mentality and the problem of suicide as the highest manifestation of free will.
Henry James
Mrs. Gareth has been collecting works of art in her Pointon manor all her life, and now, after her husbands death, she must, according to English customs, hand over the manor to her son Owen. The trouble is that the limp Owen is under the influence of his bride, Mona Brixton, who dreams of taking up Poyntons hands and closing access for Mrs Goret forever. And Mrs. Gareth decides to fight for her treasures.
A.P. Mist
Adrien i Alex są braćmi. Podczas jednej z imprez rozgrywają partię pokera, w której stawka jest dość nietypowa. Jeśli Alex przegra, musi zrezygnować ze zdobycia delikatnej Livii uchodzącej na uczelni za dziewczynę, której zdobyć się nie da. W przeciwnym razie jego starszy brat wyjawi mu swoje patenty na podrywanie kobiet i pomoże mu w osiągnięciu tego niełatwego celu. Adrien nie wie jednak, że dziewczyna, będąca obiektem westchnień Alexa, jest tą samą, którą poznał kilka dni wcześniej na plaży. Tą, której spojrzenia, uśmiechu i wypowiadanych przez nią słów nie potrafi wyrzucić z głowy. Co zrobi, kiedy dowie się o tym dopiero podczas wizyty w rodzinnym domu, do którego przyjechał na urlop z rocznego kontraktu w Europie? Jak skończy się ta rozgrywka? Kto ostatecznie będzie wygranym, a kto będzie musiał powiedzieć pas?
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Tenants of Malory is a sensational novel about two warring families, Verney and Fanshaw, and their mixed relationship. Arthur, the nephew of Lord Verney, cannot choose between his feelings for Margaret Fanshaw and in his favor. Through this novel, the author asks the question How many moral principles are people willing to sacrifice for a brief sense of superiority? It took a few seconds to give Tom the opportunity to explain the scene, the actor and his own resting place, his costume and the tenor of the strange womans tongue.
The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson
Mark Twain
This is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. His central intrigue revolves around two boys one born into slavery, with 1/32 black pedigree; on the other, white, born to be the master of the house. Two boys who look the same turn on in infancy. Each grows into a different social role.
Henry James
The Tragic Muse is dedicated to the conflict between the artist and society. Painter Nick Dormer suffers because he does not find recognition, actress Miriam Ruth, in the name of success, makes compromises with his conscience, understanding what the rich audience expects of her. However, the greatest success of this work was the image of Gabriel Nash.
The University of Criminals. The Janowska Camp in Lviv 1941-1944
Michał Maksymilian Borwicz
The book by Michał Maksymilian Borwicz (1911-1987), reissued for the first time after 68 years, is an unusual testimony of a prisoner of the Janowska Camp in Lviv, where even 200,000 Galician Jews might have died, according to historians. Borwicz’s book is written in the form of a historical short story. Reading it brings to mind associations with the famous book by Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, though all Borwicz’s characters are real. The book consists of two parts – The university of criminals and an extensive appendix, including four texts: an introduction (by Eleonora Bergman), Borwicz’s biography (by Edyta Gawron), an outline of the history of the Lviv Jews (by Leon Perlman) and the history of the Janowska Camp (by Adam Redzik).
Jack London
“The Valley of the Moon” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The novel The Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who leave city life behind and search Central and Northern California for suitable farmland to own. The book is notable for its scenes in which the proletarian heroes enjoy fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and their settling in the Valley of the Moon.