Literatura
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The main theme of the story dedication to his work. Fyodor Lukich never forgets about his students, nor about the ill-treatment that could be imposed on them by others. The end of the story is also interesting, because the reader can again see how devotional Fyodor Lukic really is. He advocates fair treatment to his students to the end.
Elle Kennedy
ODKRYJ EMOCJE NA LODZIE I MIŁOŚĆ POZA TAFLĄ W WYJĄTKOWEJ SERII OFF-CAMPUS! On wie, co to podbój, zarówno na, jak i poza lodowiskiem Allie Hayes przechodzi kryzys. Zakończenie studiów zbliża się wielkimi krokami, a ona wciąż stoi przed dylematem, którą ścieżkę kariery wybrać. Na domiar złego leczy złamane serce po rozstaniu z wieloletnim chłopakiem. Dziki seks bez zobowiązań, by zapomnieć, nie jest lekarstwem na jej problemy, ale nie sposób oprzeć się Deanowi Di Laurentisowi, przystojniakowi z drużyny hokejowej. Tylko ten jeden raz, bo mimo że przyszłość rysuje się niewyraźnie, to jasne jak słońce, że nie ma w niej miejsca dla króla jednorazowych numerków. Lans i pewność siebie nie wystarczy, by ją do siebie przekonać Dean zawsze dostaje to, czego chce. Dziewczyny, oceny, dziewczyny, uznanie, dziewczyny To kobieciarz, zgadza się, i póki co nie spotkał kobiety odpornej na jego wdzięki. Aż poznał Allie. Przebojowa blondynka zawojowała jego świat przez jedną noc i teraz chce, żeby zostali przyjaciółmi? O nie. To on mówi, kiedy jest koniec. Dean nie ustąpi w pogoni za swoim celem, ale gdy na drodze pojawiają się nieoczekiwane przeszkody, zaczyna się zastanawiać, czy nie nadszedł czas, by przestać zaliczaći oddać strzał prosto w serce. Cudownie seksowna historia z lawiną emocji, która cię bez reszty pochłonie.
Herbert George Wells
This charming, little-known fantasy by the author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds is also a sharply satirical look at the mores and moral of Edwardian England. During a family outing at the beach a family sees a young woman struggling further out in the water. Its only when they rescue her that they see that shes a mermaid. They quickly take her into the beach house, still unaware that the mermaid has planned the whole incident in order to meet a young man. Her motives are not quite clear; nor are her intentions of what she plans to do with the young man after she gets him, since she lives beneath the sea. On occasion she drops her guard and lets it be known she is death underwater. Will she be stopped in time from committing this dastardly deed? The Sea Lady takes a pretty good subject mermaid turned siren in proper British society and totally drops the ball.
The Sea Lions. The Lost Sealers
James Fenimore Cooper
This is a gripping maritime story about two whaling ships on a long and cold journey to the shores of Antarctica in search of dangerous goods. Two Sea Lions two ships, two captains, two crews! Will they become enemies or friends in the prickly ice that threatens to crush them all. And only the scarlet blood of whales, majestic animals, mixes with the white waves of the ocean in the silence of snowy cliffs.
Hugh Walpole
The story the mother-in-law the situation of the daughter-in-law, growing hatred, as motherhood possessions find disappointment. The final break looks like anti-climax. In the story, the story is reminiscent of The Daughter of Mr. Despondency by Anna Parrish, although Walpole dealt with his material more confidently, with great skill.
Hulbert Footner
The Fort Edward Hotel, better known as the Maroneys Hotel, looked in the middle of the streets like a packing box among soap dishes. Other habitats stretched out on both sides of the wrong double row. At eleven in the morning there were few humans in sight, because the black? ies were in murderous fettle, and anyway, the principal industry of the place was waiting for the railway. Strange things happen on these streets. The reader will not immediately be able to understand whats the matter.
Jack London
The Sea-Wolf is Jack Londons journey deep into the heart of darkness and madness that each person carries within themselves. It is the story of a Danish youth named Humphrey Hump van Weyden and his struggles against the sea, as well as his own inner demons. Humphrey Van Weyden is a gentleman, and academic, who has lived a soft life among civilized, like-minded people. He is on a steemer to visit a friend. On this trip, a fog settles and the ship gets struck and sinks. Mr Van Weyden lives, despite the frigid waters, and finds himself picked up by a seal hunting schooner headed to Japan. Mr Van Weyden is saved, but his nightmare just begins. Set in the Pacific Ocean, the book reveals how raw nature can cause a human being to lose their grip on reality. The novel explores the big questions through the philosophical conversations between the Captain Wolf Larsen (a Nietzschean superman, materialist, and man of terrific strength) and Humphrey van Weyden (an effete, bookish, man of morals).
Jack London
“The Sea-Wolf” 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 Sea-Wolf is a psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. It tells the story of a soft, domesticated protagonist — an intellectual man named Humphrey Van Weyden — forced to become tough and self-reliant by exposure to cruelty and brutality. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is set adrift in the Bay, eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen. Larsen is the captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the Ghost. Brutal and cynical, yet also highly intelligent and intellectual.