Literatura
Thomas Hardy
The stories that make up The Changed Man were written at different points in Hardys life, but this collection was not published until 1913. Hardy wrote really excellent short stories many of his stories had the scope and complexity of a full-length novel. This collection of twelve stories; Tales of soldiers, shepherds, milkmaids and dukes often contain some elements of the creepy or supernatural to some extent.
Arthur Morrison
A Child of the Jago is London-born journalist Arthur Morrisons best known novel. It was first published in November 1896 and is set in a fictional East End slum known as the Jago, which Morrison based a real district called the Old Nichol. The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, who is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. The Perrott family, and their friends and enemies, must struggle for their very survival in the harsh environment they live within. Tension and desperation amid the crime and roughness is constant in the overcrowded slums of the East End, with fortune hard to come by and danger ever present. The author, who rejected the label realist, doesnt minimize the violence of the community and A Child of the Jago is an exciting tale indeed.
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol - a novella by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.
A Christmas Carol - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Dickens, Charles
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget. . . .
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is one of the most legendary stories by Charles Dickens. This edition contains the original 1843 illustrations by celebrated caricaturist John Leech. The story has long since become one of the most beloved stories in the English language. As much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths, this perennial favourite continues to delight new readers and rekindle thoughts of charity and goodwill. The tale begins on a cold and bleak Christmas Eve in London, exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooges business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas. He refuses his nephew Freds Christmas dinner invitation. At home that night, Scrooge is visited by Marleys ghost, who is forever cursed to wander the earth dragging a network of heavy chains, forged during a lifetime of greed and selfishness. Marley tells Scrooge that he has one chance to avoid the same fatehe will be visited by three spirits, one on each successive evening, and he must listen to them or be cursed to carry chains of his own, much longer than Marleys chains.
A Christmas Carol Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Dickens, Charles
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget . . .
George Orwell
“A Clergyman’s Daughter“ is a novel by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia.
Fred M. White
Fred M. White gives us the opportunity to plunge into the past of Gladys Brooke. The book begins with the perfect life of Gladys in a small town. Then we come back three years ago, where we find out that she has a brother. And they, too, then lived well, but in another place. The main character begins to notice the strange behavior of her brother. At one point, a calm and perfect life ends.
Franz Kafka
"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1917 by Franz Kafka. The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom (stablehand) in a pig shed.
Autor nieznany
A cóż z tą Dzieciną... A cóż z tą Dzieciną będziem czynili, Pastuszkowie mili, że się nam kwili? Zaśpiewajmy Jej wesoło I obróćmy się z Nią w koło, Hoc, hoc, hoc, hoc. Podobno Dzieciątko że głodne, płacze; Dlatego tak z nami nierado skacze: Więc ja Mu dam kukiełeczkę I masełka osełeczkę, Pa, pa, pa, pa. Czy bez Matuleńki płacze Dziecina Więc Ją do miłego zaprośmy Syna: Mama, mama do Dziecięcia, Utul tego płacz Panięcia, Ma, ma, ma, ma. Czy dlatego płacze ma Złota Duszka, Że nie ma Józefa w domu staruszka: Wiec Józefa zawołajmy, I ciesząc Je, zaśpiewajmy: Ta, ta, ta, ta. [...]Autor nieznanyAutor nieznany - hasło to odnosi się zarówno do utworów plastycznych i literackich, których autor pozostaje bezimienny, choć jest zapewne konkretną osobą, o której można by ustalić jakieś przypuszczalne informacje (jak np. o Gallu Anonimie czy Mistrzu Pięknej Madonny z Wrocławia), jak również do utworów będących najprawdopodobniej dziełem pewnej zbiorowości, np. cechu. W przypadku sztuk wizualnych szczególny rodzaj anonimowości zachowują autorzy tworzący w pracowniach wielkich mistrzów, wykonujący ich polecania, pomniejsze partie większych zamówień. Niemal detektywistyczne technologie, m.in.: badania wieku podłoża, prześwietlenie warstwy malarskiej podczerwienią, pozwalają współcześnie coraz lepiej identyfikować twórców. Czasami jednak można wskazać tylko krąg kulturowy twórcy, centrum artystyczne, pod którego wpływem autor tworzył oraz oszacować czas powstania dzieła. W przypadku literatury do dzieł o autorze zbiorowym zaliczyć można utwory ludowe lub niektóre dzieła starożytne, których powstanie ginie w mrokach dziejów: zrodzone w kulturze oralnej, były powtarzane i zapamiętywane przez kolejnych słuchaczy. Z czasem ktoś zapisywał zapamiętany utwór, niekiedy powstawało kilka niezależnych zapisów. Po epoce antycznej, kiedy twórczość miała zapewniać autorowi indywidualną, ,,imienną" nieśmiertelność - na początku średniowiecza za cnotę twórców uznawano anonimowość. Sztuka miała służyć chwale Boga, religii, kraju - instytucjom trwalszym od znikomego i mało istotnego jednostkowego bytu. Legendy, mity, wiele kronik czy pieśni - teksty ważne dla całych społeczności, to często dzieła, których autorów nie sposób wskazać.Kupując książkę wspierasz fundację Nowoczesna Polska, która propaguje ideę wolnej kultury. Wolne Lektury to biblioteka internetowa, rozwijana pod patronatem Ministerstwa Edukacji Narodowej. W jej zbiorach znajduje się kilka tysięcy utworów, w tym wiele lektur szkolnych zalecanych do użytku przez MEN, które trafiły już do domeny publicznej. Wszystkie dzieła są odpowiednio opracowane - opatrzone przypisami oraz motywami.
Guy Boothby
There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but as far as this is true, very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it is almost amazing. There are people involved in trade, some of whom are very profitable, about whom the world as a whole has never heard of, and which an ordinary Englishman, in all likelihood, would refuse to believe, even if the most reliable evidence had been provided before him.
Fred M. White
Frederick Merrick White has written many novels or short stories, many related to London. Modest stories in his spirit. A Clue in Wax is a simple, kind story. The story that even in a dark London place a bright life can occur.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
BEHOLD! cried Sabul Ahmid, with an upward sweep of his bare, brown arm, behold the Sacred Temple of the people of Astrea! I stood up in the boat, my portfolio under my arm. High on the mountains side, crowning a thick mass of laurel undergrowth, and flanked by a grove of deep, cool, byana trees, was the building to which my servant was pointing. The material whereof it was fashioned I could not at that distance determine. Only in the broad, tropical sunlight it flashed forth, a glorious and spotless white, as flawless and perfect as the purest marble or alabaster. Little minarets rose from the flat roof; and flowering shrubs, planted along the mountain terrace above, drooped about it, a brilliant scintilla of purple coloring. My fingers began to crave for my pencil. I turned to my guide with beaming face.
Fred M. White
A Crime on Canvas is a story about a rich Blantyres family, which is one of the richest families in England. A few years later, the influence of Blantyres does not disappear. They are just as influential in their environment. The eldest of the Blantyres family decided to rent out their mansion. However, many bad rumors go about him.
Jack London
Life and adventures during the Klondike Gold Rush are breathtakingly realistic. Frona Wells, the main character of the novel, is a strong, intelligent, courageous and at the same time unusually charming character in a word, a woman who is able to think, love, fight and share trials along with the best of men. Who is worthy of the hands and hearts of a confident and independent ruler of the North?
Jack London
“A Daughter of the Snows” 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 Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer.