Obyczajowa
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Last Days of Pompeii is a love story set in that Roman town just before the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried it and most of its citizens in ash. It draws a vivid portrait of the lifestyle of the Imperial Romans, their daily baths, symposia, and gladiatorial entertainments, their religious practices and their homes while presenting a busy plot full of decadent, diabolical seducers, religious fanatics, and glutinous parasites.The novel itself tells the story of the Athenian Glaucus, his love, the beautiful Ione, and a blind flower-girl Nydia, who is secretly in love with Glaucus. Threatening the love of Glaucus and Ione is Iones guardian, the decadent and deceitful Egyptian Arbaces, who lusts after Ione himself. An amazing historical-fiction novel, set out in a highly elaborate exquisite language.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nicklebys father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. Nicholas then has to protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking advantage of his sister Kate, and later his sweetheart, Madeline Bray, whose father is in debtors prison. A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle. After many adventures Nicholas finally triumphs over his Uncle, although his success is also tinged with sadness.
Elena Armas
Najbardziej ryzykowna gra to ta, w której stawką jest twoje serce. Adalyn Reyes ma idealnie zaplanowany każdy dzień: wstaje o świcie, jedzie do siedziby drużyny piłkarskiej Płomienie Miami, ciężko pracuje, wraca do domu. Kiedy nagranie jej starcia z maskotką drużyny wycieka do internetu i staje się wiralem, ta rutyna się kończy. Właściciel klubu nie zwalnia Adalyn, tylko daje jej nowe zadanie by odzyskać dobre imię, ma odbudować drużynę Zielonych Wojowniczek. Sęk w tym, że klub jest w Karolinie Północnej, zawodniczki trenują w strojach baletowych, hodują kozy i są dziewięciolatkami. Na szczęście w miasteczku przebywa Cameron Caldani, znany bramkarz, który mógłby pomóc Adalyn wprowadzić drużynę do wyższej ligi. Jednak po fatalnym pierwszym spotkaniu (słowa klucze: kogut, zderzak, noga Camerona) dziewczyna raczej nie ma co liczyć na współpracę. Ale jest zdeterminowana, by z niesfornych dzieciaków zrobić gwiazdy piłki nożnej z pomocą Cama lub bez niej. Najbardziej ryzykowna gra to ta, w której stawką jest twoje serce. Nawet na końcu świata gra toczy się dalej! Jeśli małe kózki i przeuroczy Cameron nie przekonają was do sięgnięcia po The Long Game, może zrobią to spicy sceny, które gwarantują wypieki na twarzy! Przyciąganie między bohaterami w książkach Eleny jest nie do podrobienia! Nawet lepienie z gliny może być hot ! Oliwia Panek, @ksia_zkowe Tylko Elena Armas potrafi stworzyć historię, która łamie serce i wyciska z oczu łzy, by po chwili otoczyć ciepłem i wywołać najczulsze uczucia. To się skończy książkowym kacem. I nie mówcie, że nie ostrzegałam! Natalia Miśkowiec, @prostymislowami Pokochałam tę książkę za humor i przewrotną fabułę, ale przede wszystkim za wywołanie ogromu emocji. Kilkukrotnie musiałam przerwać lekturę, aby powstrzymać napływające do oczu łzy. Nieraz do niej wrócę! Karolina Łukawska, @ksiazkidobrejakczekolada Zabawna relacja Adalyn i Camerona bardzo wciąga, sprawiając, że ciężko oderwać się od lektury. Ta historia was wzruszy i rozbawi. I sprawi, że uwierzycie w siebie. Małgorzata Wojtasik, @goszaczyta Czytając tę książkę, przekonacie się, jakie to uczucie mieć nieustannie szalejące motylki w brzuchu oraz uśmiech szczęścia na twarzy. Nigdy nie miałam dość Camerona i Adalyn oraz tego, jakim ciepłem otuliła mnie ich miłość. Elena Armas to królowa slow-burnów, które wywołują szybsze bicie serca! Weronika Czuryszkiewicz, @swiatromansow
Herbert George Wells
About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure. A successful author and Liberal MP Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life is thrown when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire. At first, he struggles to resist and remain focused upon his familiar political, personal and social life. But as he soon learns, it is harder than he could have imagined to turn his back on love. In the character of Richard Remington, Wells created a damning portrait of an insufferable, egoistic, pontificating windbag whose attempts to set an agenda to improve society whether to uphold the British Empire or allow women to play a greater part in social life pays no attention to the effects on the people he is supposed to represent.
Charles Dickens
1839. It tells the story of Nelly Trent and her grandfather as they wander the English countryside, north of London, trying to evade Daniel Quilp, probably Dickens most evil villain. Nells grandfather has borrowed money from Quilp to support a gambling habit and has lost everything, including the curiosity shop. But Quilp isnt sitting still, his spies are everywhere. Meanwhile a stranger is also looking for Nells grandfather. Dickenss depiction of the fate of his main characters is famously harrowing and unfailingly suspenseful, but not the least of its charms is that it is embellished with a supporting cast of figures as grotesque and colorful as anything in the Old Curiosity Shop itself.
The Passionate Friends. A Novel
Herbert George Wells
Although most famous for his sci-fi, Wells best work often deals with ordinary people having big thoughts in picturesque settings. The Passionate Friends is a fine representative example of this. Wells uses the changing relationships among childhood friends as the media for his thoughts on human relations on personal and global scales, and of what it all means. On the death of his father, Stephen Stratton writes a long and deeply personal letter to his son, hoping that, as his son becomes a man, he can benefit from Stephens experience and wisdom. As Stephen sets down his lifes history, he tells the remarkable story of his former lover, Lady Mary. With a lust for freedom and a fierce desire not to be owned by a man, she is a woman living ahead of her time until marriage threatens to ruin her. First published in 1913, The Passionate Friends is an inspiring love story between father and son, and man and woman.
The Pathfinder. or The Inland Sea
James Fenimore Cooper
In the third installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper takes his main character, here called the Pathfinder (Natty Bumppo) and examines his role as an explorer for British/Colonial forces in the forests and islands around the Great Lakes. The story is a classic historical adventure/romance and Bumppo falls in love, for the first and only time in the five novels, only to see his choice fall in love with another man a younger man and good friend of Nattys. The Pathfinder remains a classic and entertaining account of the American wilderness and of aspects of human experience in the New World. Probably the best of the five Leatherstocking novels.
Oscar Wilde
Possessing eternal youth and beauty produces exactly the same effect as sentencing a man to life without the possibility of parole. Both have nothing to lose and morals disappear before the desire for immediate self-gratification in all things. And so it is with Dorian Gray. Its a moral story so eventually his evil catches up with him and he dies, as does the criminal. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a fascinating novel in which a beautiful young man, under the poisonous influence of an older dandy, makes a bargain with the devil, according to which he stays young and charming while his portrait becomes a reflection of his conscience. Wildes novel is about youth and beauty versus experience; morality and the triumph of the senses over reason; sin and accountability; society, its hypocrisy and the depths of the human condition.