A Clergymans Daughter

George Orwell

Dorothy has always been a believer. Her father, a priest, helped her believe in God, and now the girl sincerely tries to be correct. She punishes herself for every misconduct, leads a household and an active social life, waiting with horror for censure. But one day she lost her memory. Now Dorothy is stuck with the vagabonds, where no faith exists.

A diabeł wciąż się śmieje

Régine Deforges

Czy w obliczu śmierci najbliższych można jeszcze cieszyć się z końca wojny i planować przyszłość u boku namiętnego kochanka, który okazuje się prawdziwą miłością? Ścigana za pracę na rzecz ruchu oporu Léa Delmas schroniła się w Paryżu i widziała jego wyzwolenie, a przy tym poznała okrutną prawdę na temat swoich żydowskich przyjaciół przebywających w obozach koncentracyjnych. Przełomem w życiu nad wyraz dojrzałej, jak na swój wiek panny Delmas, jest moment, gdy zdaje sobie ona sprawę z prawdziwych uczuć, jakimi darzy François Taverniera, jednego z głównych przywódców ruchu oporu. Z pomocą kochanka Léa przystępuje do odbudowy spalonej rodzinnej posiadłości Montillac, ale wciąż zmaga się z depresją po stracie Camille, Laurenta dArgilat oraz innych bliskich, których zabrała okrutna wojna... Na podstawie pierwszych czterech części cyklu w 2000 r. powstał francusko-włoski mini serial telewizyjny w reżyserii Thierryego Binisti. Przed wami trzecia część serii ,,Niebieski rower", można ją uznać za oddzielną historię lub czytać bez zachowania kolejności cyklu. Ta nietuzinkowa opowieść o zemście, nienawiści wobec wroga i miłości pokonującej wszelkie przeszkody, przypadnie do gustu każdemu, kto ceni wartką akcję oraz brawurowe połączenie wojennego romansu z wątkami historycznymi. Copyright (C) "Le diable en rit encore" by Régine Deforges Librairie Arthme Fayard, 1993. This audiobook is published by arrangement with Librairie Arthme Fayard, France.

A Diversity of Creatures

Rudyard Kipling

Despite the fact that, as the name implies, they are diverse in nature, most of these stories are affectionate satires with the participation of the social strata into which he belonged and who knew best of all a class of officers from a public school. The Honor of the War was a funny story of hooliganism in which Kipling seemed to fully endorse this practice; Regulus removes the lid from the can; while the Marines were a carefully crafted soldiers practical joke involving a horse and some fireworks

A House to Let

Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Ann Procter

A House to Let is a novella originally published in 1858 by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole was edited by Dickens, making it fit together seamlessly as a whole. This novella is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. It is about a house that has remained vacant for several years which as come to the notice of an elderly woman named Sophonisba. She wants to know why the house is vacant, which is what the various chapters set out to explain, through the histories of various tenants. A House of Let is a seriously underrated novella that captures the mystery and humor of a fabulous story of bygone days.

A London Life and Other Tales

Henry James

In this story, Henry James continues his favorite theme Old World vs New World. An American woman with a turbulent past, agitated, spontaneous, somewhat vulgar, but beautiful and not devoid of mind, sets out to join the European high society. For this, she tries to marry a young English Baronet on herself, a very stiff and cold man, but spellbound by that which he cannot understand. But this situation absolutely can not allow the mother of the baronet, a real English lady.

A Mad Marriage. A Novel

May Agnes Fleming

Mr. Gordon Carill marries Miss Rosamond Lovell, and then discovers that she is not the daughter of Colonel Lovell, but a girl with a low birth rate and a bad reputation, who was a concert singer. She is unusually beautiful, she is only eighteen years old, and the dark experiences of her past life, to put it mildly, had to hurry. In horror, she leaves her husband, who then pursues her.

A Passionate Pilgrim

Henry James

The narrator meets the American Clement Searle in a London hotel. Searle had long wanted to move to England, to run away from the routine of his life. However, he is physically ill and depressed because his lawyer cannot support his claim for a share in the out-of-town property currently owned by Richard Searle. The narrator and the main character are trying to solve this problem.

A Russian Proprietor and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

In this work, the main character is Vasily Andreevich Brekhunov, this is the owner. And the worker, a man of about fifty, named Nikita, is from a neighboring village. The relationship of the owner with the workers is one of the most difficult topics not only in literature, but also in life. Leo Tolstoy in his story describes the characters of these people, comparing them. One miser, because the author is not in vain, gave this name to Vasily Andreevich. The second hero is not afraid of any work, flexible, but in his life, too, not everything is so smooth...