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Edgar Rice Burroughs
“A Princess of Mars“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel, the first of the Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
A Russian Proprietor and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy
In this work, the main character is Vasily Andreevich Brekhunov, this is the owner. And the worker, a man of about fifty, named Nikita, is from a neighboring village. The relationship of the owner with the workers is one of the most difficult topics not only in literature, but also in life. Leo Tolstoy in his story describes the characters of these people, comparing them. One miser, because the author is not in vain, gave this name to Vasily Andreevich. The second hero is not afraid of any work, flexible, but in his life, too, not everything is so smooth...
Honoré de Balzac
In a dark, narrow street in Paris lives an old widow and her pretty young daughter, sit by the window most days. They share a poor but contented existence, supporting themselves through embroidery work. They see a gentleman in a brown coat pass by in the mornings and return in the evenings. The mother always remarks that he appears either over-worked or in delicate health. The daughter ignores most of her remarks as her mother sees every passer-by as a possible protector for the daughter. But soon the gentleman begins to exchange glances with the daughter. A Second Home is a classic French romance novel by the great French novelist, Honoré de Balzac. It is an interesting investigation of a relationship between a normal person and a religious nutter.
Joseph Conrad
A Smile of Fortune is located on a beautiful island in the Pacific Ocean, on which the narrator, captain docked; ship suppliers are supposedly brothers who have not talked to each other for 18 years. One of the brothers, Ernest, is an assimilated citizen. He owes a lot of money, has parties, has taste and manners, and is trusted. He treats the half-blood servants as cruelly as the rest of the colonists. Another, Arthur, is an outcast, not because of his race or profession, although he was forced to make aggressive deals by beating his brother for incoming captains in order to get food and equipment contracts earlier than his brother
Jack London
“A Son of the Sun” 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. A Son of the Sun is a novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts the striking panorama of the South seas with adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers, pirates, and cannibals.
A.P. MIst
Sorin ma już wszystko. Karierę, sławę, kontrakty i miliony fanów. Jako wschodząca gwiazda futbolu dokładnie wie, czego chce od życia i jak to osiągnąć. Emocje i serce trzyma poza boiskiem, nie pozwalając, by cokolwiek go rozproszyło. Aż do dnia, gdy kontuzja przyjaciela sprowadza go do kliniki i stawia naprzeciw niego zamkniętą w sobie lekarkę, która nie ulega ani jego urokowi, ani pozycji. Rozmowa z Aurorą to starcie pełne napięcia, przez które mężczyzna po raz pierwszy czuje, że świat, który tak starannie zbudował, może się zachwiać. To nie miało prawa się wydarzyć. Nie między kimś, kto żyje w blasku, a kimś, kto nauczył się żyć w cieniu. A jednak... czasem właśnie zderzenie dwóch odmiennych światów przynosi najczystszą harmonię. Gra, która miała być tylko rozgrzewką, może się okazać najważniejszym meczem życia.
Honoré de Balzac
By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of nineteenth-century realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works and 48 unfinished works. The novel A Start in Life is part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Balzacs masterpiece. In much of Balzacs work, the aristocracy is portrayed as vain, duplicitous, and greedy. But in this novel, it is members of the working class who are mercilessly skewered when what starts out as a harmless prank rapidly snowballs into a comedy of errors with profound consequences. A comic novel in which an intrigue about property serves as the excuse for a trip in a public diligence, where a group of people try to mystify each other with strange tales of their lives.
Zofia Jeżewska
Ależ lekko napisana, jak piasek przesypuje się ze strony na stronę. Romantyczna , polityczna i sensacyjna. Wszystkie te wątki dopełniają się znakomicie w tej książce pełnej zagadek, niespełnionej miłości, wielkich wydarzeń politycznych Syrii lat 30tych, fascynujących opisów pustyni i wydobywanych spod niej zagadek historii. A wszystko dzieje się w Palmyrze, stolicy królowej Zenobii, którą odbudowuje z kamieni prof. Michałowski. W Syrii szybkimi krokami zbliża się czas wielkich zrywów niepodległościowych. Rewolucja wybuchnie za chwilę. W Palmyrze trwają wykopaliska i jest Ona – pół Francuzka-pół Polka, piękna i wyzwolona kobieta i On – też archeolog ale i syryjski patriota – który musi walczyć o swój kraj z Francuzami. Czy taki związek ma szansę w tym momencie ? ’’...Pragnę zwrócić uwagę na fakt, że tło historyczne dokładnie przestudiowano, a także znajomość Palmyry i wykopalisk archeologicznych z autopsii dały możność autorce oddania nie zafalszowanego, ale istotnego nastroju otoczenia, warunków i specyfiki badań archeologicznych w terenie. Nie wahałbym się powiedzieć, że znam tylko drugą książkę w literaturze światowej, która oddaje tak wiernie atmosferę obozu archeologicznego, a napisana jest ona przez żonę znanego archeologa angielskiego, A. Mallowan'a, słynną autorkę powieści detektywistycznych, Agatę Christie, p.t. « Murder in Mezopotomia », która stanowi do dnia dzisiejszego jeden z najbardziej poczytnych utworów…” Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski