Literatura
Jack London
The main conflict of the story is dog-nature vs. wolf-nature, or nature vs. man. What happens to White fang, and how he goes through the many troubles that he has to. Growing up in the Yukon territory of Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush, he learned the law of the Wild at an early age: kill, or be killed, eat, or be eaten. Separated from his mother and traded from master to master, White Fang never grasped the concept of love, and violence was all that he knew. Having no teacher, he learned the rules of survival by experience. Then, a cruel man buys White Fang and turns him into a pit dog forced to fight for money. He save one day, a mixed dogwolf from the hands of a cruel man, and a brave friendship develops between the two. With beautifully realistic details of the harsh realities of life in the Yukon, White Fang is a grippingly original tale about morality and redemption that still stands as an American classic.
Jack London
“White Fang” 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. White Fang is the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
White Nights - a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. Like many of Dostoyevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited.
White-Jacket. Or, The World in a Man-of-War
Herman Melville
The novel The White Jacket by American writer Herman Melville is dedicated to swimming on the US military frigate. The novel, which is a chronicle only in part, describes in detail the life and life of naval sailors, their colorful figures, as well as the features of ships and naval service in that era. A number of philosophical, romantic and socio-political thoughts are presented.
Robert W. Chambers
This story is about the Crown Prince. Most of the world is against him and what he stands for. He expresses surprise at the position of the United States. This attitude is the natural result of various causes, among which are the following: Distrust of any aggressor on the part of a peace-minded nation.
Hulbert Footner
Mappin is a wealthy New York criminologist and author who is highly valued by the police and high society. He participates only in those crimes that really interest him. And in Who Killed the Husband he investigates solely because all the people around him beg him to take action. In this story, a detective investigates the murder of a banker. The killer who, according to the police have already found.
Wiechecki Stefan Wiech
Kolejny tom opowiadań powojennych Stefana Wiecheckiego czyli popularnego, słynnego, najbardziej warszawskiego z warszawskich pisarzy - Wiecha. Niniejszy tom obejmuje opowiadania opublikowane pierwotnie w latach 1945-49. I jak zwykle u Wiecha skrzą się humorem, a dobroduszny i zjadliwy humor Wiecha pasuje wszak też i do naszej rzeczywistości. A w szczegółach znajdziecie opowiadanie tytułowe!
Krzysztof Toeplitz
Dzieło autora scenariusza do ikonicznego serialu Czterdziestolatek! ,,Jak ci się podoba Ameryka?, ,,Dokąd podróżują Amerykanie?, ,,Czy można mówić o USA z mieszaniną zachwytu i niesmaku? oto niektóre z wciąż aktualnych pytań, jakie zadajemy sobie, myśląc o Stanach Zjednoczonych. ,,Wiadomości z tamtego świata to zbiór tekstów z pogranicza felietonu, eseju i reportażu, które stanowią zapis sześciotygodniowej wyprawy autora do Ameryki w 1971 r. Toeplitz zestawia tu własne wyobrażenia na temat ,,Wielkiego Kraju z tym, czego doświadczył podczas podróży do USA. Luźno związane ze sobą rozdziały stanowią udaną próbę pokazania realiów życia w Stanach Zjednoczonych lat 70-tych i wyjaśnienia, na czym polega np. rzekomy prowincjonalizm Amerykanów i ich bardzo skomplikowany stosunek do swojego pełnego sprzeczności kraju. Książka będzie lekturą idealną dla miłośników błyskotliwego reportażu, którzy z dystansem odnoszą się do etosu tzw. ,,American dream.