Literatura
Eliza Orzeszkowa
A... B... C... Od wydawców Niniejsza nowela E. Orzeszkowej oparta jest na rzeczywistości, aż nadto dobrze pamiętnej starszemu pokoleniu ludności polskiej w b. zaborze rosyjskim. Sprawa Joanny Lipskiej, obwinionej i skazanej na karę za nauczanie małych dzieci, przypomina nam niedawne jeszcze czasy, kiedy nigdzie na ziemiach polskich, zagarniętych przez Rosję, nie wolno było uczyć po polsku, nawet abecadła, ci zaś, co uczyli, podlegali prześladowaniu i surowym karom. [...]Eliza OrzeszkowaUr. 6 czerwca 1841 r. w Miłkowszczyźnie Zm. 18 maja 1910 r. w Grodnie Najważniejsze dzieła: Nad Niemnem (1888), Cham (1888), Meir Ezofowicz (1878), Gloria victis (1910), Dobra pani (1873), A...B...C... (1873), Niziny (1885), Dziurdziowie (1885) Polska pisarka nurtu pozytywizmu znana pod nazwiskiem męża, Piotra Orzeszko, nazwisko rodowe: Korwin-Pawłowska. Publikowała pod pseudonimami: E.O., Bąk, Wa-Lit-No, Li...ka, Gabriela, Litwinka. Pierwszymi jej tekstami były powieści tendencyjne (Marta 1873); cele swojej wczesnej twórczości przedstawiła w rozprawach: Kilka uwag nad powieścią (1866) i Listy o literaturze (1873). Drugim etapem pisarskim Orzeszkowej był realizm (Nad Niemnem), oscylujący niekiedy w kierunku naturalizmu (Dziurdziowie). Teoretycznoliterackie opracowanie założeń powieści realistycznej znalazło się w rozprawie O powieściach T.T. Jeża z rzutem oka na powieść w ogóle (1879). Późne utwory noszą cechy prozy modernistycznej (tom Gloria victis). Najsłynniejsza powieść Orzeszkowej, Nad Niemnem, dotyczy tematu tożsamości narodowej, będąc jednocześnie uczczeniem powstania styczniowego, w którym autorka czynnie brała udział. Samo powstanie było bardzo ważną częścią jej życia - w swoim domu ukrywała ostatniego dyktatora tego zrywu narodowego, Romualda Traugutta, osobiście też organizowała zaopatrzenie i pomoc lekarską dla powstańców. Pisarka utrzymywała ścisłe kontakty ze środowiskiem literackim: M. Konopnicka była jej bliską przyjaciółką jeszcze z pensji; ożywiona korespondencja łączyła Orzeszkową z L. Méyetem i Z. Miłkowskim; była związana z tygodnikiem Bluszcz. Nominowana do Nagrody Nobla w 1905 r., przegrała jednak z H. Sienkiewiczem. Twierdziła, że literatura powinna odpowiadać za los społeczeństwa. autor: Bartłomiej SandomierskiKupując 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.
A Bid for Fortune. Or, Dr Nikolas Vendetta
Guy Boothby
Guy Boothby, an Australian writer, became famous thanks to his famous character the mysterious Dr. Nicolas, who has truly terrible power over people, and a clever con man hiding under the guise of gentlemen. The author deliberately introduces us into the story through a generally outsider who accidentally gets involved in the ups and downs of this story. And the riddle here is not who the criminal is, but what he needs from his victim.
Teresa Grabarska
Każdy człowiek to odrębny wszechświat. Opowiadania Teresy Grabarskiej oddają głos osobom, których w społeczeństwie nie słucha się uważnie - dzieciom, staruszkom, upośledzonym umysłowo. Empatyczna narracja pozwala zobaczyć świat ich oczami, zrozumieć motywy zachowań uchodzących za niegrzeczne czy niestosowne. Przede wszystkim jednak czytelnik może zrewidować własne postawy i wyrobić w sobie uważność na odmienne (co nie znaczy że gorsze!) perspektywy. Dla miłośniczek literatury obyczajowej, która przynosi ukojenie - w stylu pisarstwa Magdaleny Kordel.
Teresa Grabarska
Każdy człowiek to odrębny wszechświat. Opowiadania Teresy Grabarskiej oddają głos osobom, których w społeczeństwie nie słucha się uważnie - dzieciom, staruszkom, upośledzonym umysłowo. Empatyczna narracja pozwala zobaczyć świat ich oczami, zrozumieć motywy zachowań uchodzących za niegrzeczne czy niestosowne. Przede wszystkim jednak czytelnik może zrewidować własne postawy i wyrobić w sobie uważność na odmienne (co nie znaczy że gorsze!) perspektywy. Dla miłośniczek literatury obyczajowej, która przynosi ukojenie - w stylu pisarstwa Magdaleny Kordel.
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.
Guy Boothby
The city itself, climbing a hillside almost at the waters edge, was painted pale pink at sunset, and even the old Vesuvius, from the top of which a thin column of black smoke seemed a little less gloomy than usual. Because of heaven, the sky was a mass of golden and raspberry-colored, and this was reflected in the calm waters of the bay until the whole world turned into a real radiance. The evening could hardly be desired. And yet this is not the city, mountain or sunset that we must make, but the first movement of the conspiracy, which was ultimately destined to shake one of the greatest Empires that the Earth has ever seen.
R. Austin Freeman
John Osborne is a young gentleman who has left England for some, as of yet, unknown reason. He settles in Adaffia, an ends-of-the-earth type of town on the Gold Coast. Almost immediately he gets into a fight defending the only other white man in town, a drunken trader. And we see that Osborne is a tremendous fighter skilled at ju-jitsu, boxing, wrestling and strategy. These skills will come into play again and again, in a mutiny, a rebellion and other struggles with formidable opponents. His adventures at one point throw him into the company of a willful young lady who has an appetite for danger, and she and Osborne fall in love. Meanwhile back in England, a certain Dr. Thorndyke is investigating the crime that Osborne is supposed to have committed. This second half of the book is just as much fun as the first, involving bizarre searches for clues and meticulous examinations of minutiae, from mustache hairs to wormwood dust.
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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.
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.
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.