Literatura

In Search of the Unknown

Robert W. Chambers

The protagonist narrator serves as a common thread for stories that also feature humor. A young scientist travels the world in the footsteps of mysterious animals. This is an ironic and fantastic adventure of a self-confident biologist.

In Secret

Robert W. Chambers

The main character landed in New York that very morning. At that moment, he was standing in the bar of the Astor Hotel, sober enough not to tell the bartenders everything he knew, and drunk enough to talk too much in a place where the enemy is always listening.

[In Sophie's Diary]

Juliusz Słowacki

[In Sophie’s Diary] For poems, Sophie, ask me not, I pray.  When thou art back in Poland’s merry clime,  A flower will sing a song for thee each day,  A star at night will make for thee a rhyme.  Before the flower may die, before the star may fall,  Listen! They are the finest poets of them all. [...] Juliusz Słowacki Ur. 4 września 1809 r. w Krzemieńcu Zm. 3 kwietnia 1849 r. w Paryżu Najważniejsze dzieła: Kordian (1834), Anhelli (1838), Balladyna (1839), Lilla Weneda (1840), Beniowski (1840-46), Sen srebrny Salomei (1844), Król-Duch (1845-49); wiersze: Grób Agamemnona (1839), Hymn o zachodzie słońca (1839), Odpowiedź na ?Psalmy przyszłości? (1848) Polski poeta okresu romantyzmu, epistolograf, dramaturg. W swoich utworach (zgodnie z duchem epoki i ówczesną sytuacją Polaków) podejmował problemy związane z walką narodowowyzwoleńczą, przeszłością narodu i przyczynami niewoli. Jego twórczość cechuje kunsztowność języka poetyckiego. W późniejszym, mistycznym okresie stworzył własną odmianę romant. mesjanizmu i kosmogonii (system genezyjski). Studiował prawo w Wilnie, krótko pracował w Warszawie w Komisji Rządowej Przychodów i Skarbu oraz w Biurze Dyplomatycznym Rządu powstańczego 1831 r. Podróżował po Szwajcarii, Włoszech, Grecji, Egipcie i Palestynie. Osiadł w Paryżu, gdzie zmarł na gruźlicę i został pochowany na cmentarzu Montmartre. W 1927 r. jego prochy złożono w katedrze na Wawelu. autor: Katarzyna Starzycka   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.

In Strange Company. A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas

Guy Boothby

At Guy Booths Strange Company, Australian writer Guy Boothby put his passion for travel to work as food for his fiction. Although his first publication was a popular science story about traveling around his home country, he soon turned to fiction as an outlet for his work, focusing mainly on adventure adventures, secrets, and discovery stories. In the Strange Company was Boothby

In the Days of Drake

Joseph Smith Fletcher

This is a short story about a young English boy whose cousin is kidnapped by a Spanish nobleman. He ends up in Mexico and finds himself on a galley bound for Spain. Francis Drake raids a galley and rescues British slaves, bringing them back to England.

In the Days of the Comet

Herbert George Wells

In the Days of the Comet is set in early 20th century England and covers Willie, a socialist who is angry and frustrated with everything to do with the world he lives in. The only thing Willie finds beautiful and tranquil is the love of his life, Nettie. The story follows Willie and his lust for Nettie as he finds himself perplexed by what the love of his life decides to do. The comet is referred back to quite often and eventually, when it hits, it brings some sort of cleansing gas with it, ridding the world of hatred and jealousy. People can finally see the world for what beauty it really is. A fantastic tale of the worlds beauty and unity after the Great Change occurs. The novel is divided into three parts: Book I: The Comet; Book II: The Green Vapours; and Book III: The New World and each are distinctive in style, tone and mood.

In The Mayors Parlour

Joseph Smith Fletcher

This is a story of graft and corruption set in one of Fletchers favoured Northern towns. The mayor who is on a clean-up campaign is found dead in his parlour and our hero, his younger cousin, is determined to find out who killed him. Was he eliminated for this reason? There are entanglements involving city officials and his proposed reforms plus jealousy related to relationships. Lots of twists with a surprise murderer. The plot is cleverly centered around the inquest, which keeps being adjourned in hope of new evidence.

In the Misty Seas. A Story of the Sealers of Behring Strait

Harold Bindloss

When your country is small and poor, people have two choices. Some decide to stay and raise it from poverty, while others go to seafaring. So most New Zealanders did. So said one of the inhabitants of this country: Our country is a kind of difficult country, and most of our people go to sea from time to time when they cannot achieve more. In the same way, our main characters went to seafaring, where there were many prizes on their way.