Ludzie bezdomni

Stefan Żeromski

Bohaterem powieści Ludzie bezdomni jest Tomasz Judym młody lekarz. Tomasz odbywa praktykę lekarską w Paryżu gdzie poznaje panią Niewadzką, jej wnuczki Natalię Orszeńską i jej siostrę, oraz ich opiekunkę i przyjaciółkę, Joannę Podborską. Odbywa z nimi wycieczkę do Wersalu, a potem się rozstają. Judym wraca do Warszawy z zamiarem poświęcenia się walce z nędzą i pomocą najuboższym mieszkańcom. Wygłasza więc do warszawskich lekarzy płomienną mowę na temat uwłaczających ludzkiej godności warunków życia biedoty i postuluje jako obowiązek lekarzy pracę charytatywną wśród potrzebujących. Nie znajduje jednak zrozumienia w środowisku. Wyjeżdża do kurortu w Cisach i obejmuje tam posadę lekarza sanatoryjnego. W Cisach ponownie spotyka panią Niewadzką i zakochuje się w Joasi Podborskiej. Na skutek awantury z kierownictwem sanatorium opuszcza Cisy. Powieść osadzona jest w realiach końca XIX wieku i pokazuje idee pracy dla ludu oraz osobistego poświęcenia.

This Side of Paradise

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgeralds first novel, This Side of Paradise, focuses on several themes and illustrates some social and moral changes in America during the early 20th century. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Amory Blaine is utterly an idealist. He indulges in every sense of his dreams, to the point that it becomes detrimental to the state of his status in life. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgeralds original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgeralds youth and offers a poignant portrait of the Lost Generation. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking.

Wanda

Karl May

Wanda oder wilde Polka ist seit Kindertagen dem Baron Eginhardt von Säumen versprochen, den sie aber nicht liebt. Aber die örtlichen Schornsteinfeger und Feuerwehrmann Emil Winter findet heraus, dass der angebliche Baron ein Hochstapler und Erbschleicher ist. Ihm gelingt es zweimal, Wanda aus Lebensgefahr zu retten, und letztlich von Säumen alias Morelly als Schurken zu überführen und dingfest zu machen. Wird sein Wunsch nach einer falschen Überzeugung Baron erfolgreich, das Herz des geliebten Vandy gewinnen?

In den Tod geschickt

Edgar Wallace

Chicago während der Prohibition. Tony Perelli ist der Schmugglerkönig, doch geht er mit Erpressung, Schießereien und der Liquidierung unbequemer Leute zu weit? Er bekam Besuch in seinem Dachgarten hoch über den Lichtern von Chicago. Einer seiner Leute beschwerte sich darüber, dass man seinen Freund liquidiert hat. Die Folge: eine Hinrichtung ein Polizeieinsatz Maschinengewehrsalven am Stadtrand und mindestens ein Toter mehr als geplant...

Les Voyages de Gulliver

Jonathan Swift

Ce livre raconte les trois voyages de Gulliver: les Lilliputiens, les géants et le pays étonnant des Gingnamas. Le premier voyage a Liliputia est un excellent exemple de littérature daventure pour enfants. Dans cette partie du travail, nous apprenons comment Gulliver est devenu un voyageur en général, comment il est monté sur le bateau, puis dans le pays des Lilliputiens. Tous les événements ultérieurs et les aventures extraordinaires dans ce pays sont remplis dhumour.

Joshuas Vision

William J. Locke

During the war, Joshua Fendik became rich against his will and found for himself an entrance to social circles, completely new to him. In particular, he falls under the influence of Robins Dale, a sculptor who supports a useless husband abroad. Robins mothers Joshua and prompts him to try his hand with a chisel.

Zaślubiny śmierci

Leo Belmont

Fabuła powieści skupia się wokół postaci Mary Vetsery. Młodziutka dziewczyna jest ukochaną arcyksięcia Rudolfa. Powieść z elementami dramatu ukazuje tragiczne losy głównej bohaterki.

The Planet of Peril

Otis Adelbert Kline

Otis Adelbert Kline is best known for his purported novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1929, long before planetary romance became a conventional genre, he wrote Planet of Peril, a novel set on the planet Venus and written in the storytelling form of Burroughs Martian novels. He followed this with two sequels. This novel is a science-fiction adventure on a world of semi-barbaric nations, ferocious beasts, gigantic reptiles, and maidens in distress. In it, Robert Grandon of Earth exchanges his body with that of a captive Prince of the planet Venus. Of course being a earthmen he doesnt stay captive very long. Battles, swordfights, monsters, whirlwind of intrigue, danger, desperation and beautiful Queens vie for your attention as this story unfolds.

The Father Brown Stories

G.K. Chesterton

Brown is a short, inconspicuous provincial priest in a ridiculous wide-brimmed hat and an old umbrella. It is amazing how the author twisted the plot in an incredible way, fitting such a complex structure consisting of small details and nuances into such a small amount of stories. At the same time, Father Brown finds himself in the crime scene quite by accident. Either this is a social reception, then it comes back from the funeral, then by invitation. And always his figure in the crowd causes the least interest, and, more often, the bewilderment of others. And his analytical and deductive abilities forced others to drop his jaw to the floor from an incredible denouement of history.

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Is it about the fact that people are a flock of sheep? No, rather, how difficult it is to make the right choice without having enough information. And this topic is relevant in the current policy after two thousand years. She raises a lot of questions: Is Caesars murder a deliverance from a tyrant or a betrayal?

The Lost Trooper

Talbot Mundy

How can one start a fairy tale in the beginning, when it has so many beginnings, how many people it has in it? I do not see that these critics, who make up literary laws, have done a lot different than closing two thirds of the best fairy tales without letting them say about them. Anyway, as I say it; and as no one should listen, if he does not like it, Im going to start where I enjoyed what is happening in Berlin. Germany, which I have been visiting for a long time after the Bourgeois War for men who fought for it all to show themselves there without the need for police protection.

The Unwilling Vestal. A Tale of Rome Under the Caesars

Edward Lucas White

The Unwilling Vestalm, written by Edward Lucas White, tells the story of the difficult choice of the main character. Young girl in imperial Rome. She is in love with a young nobleman, but her father insists that she marry another man, Kalvaster, or becomea Vestal virgin. The woman becomes Vestal, one of the six virgin priestesses of the goddess Vesta, whose duty was to protect the sacred flame in the Temple of Vesta. If the flame ever goes out, it will have dire consequences for Rome.

The Gold of the Gods

Arthur B. Reeve

Guy Garrick, a detective who has made a scientific study of crime, has been the hero of a number of earlier short stories. In the present novel he is engaged in tracking down a gang of motor bandits. The police, the city detectives, the automobile detectives and Guy Garrick are all working on the problems, and the unravelling and subsequent glory of Garrick are very exciting. The eleventh volume in the chronicles of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, takes up the familiar and successful formula for a new round of adventures, written by Arthur B. Reeve. Reeve was an American mystery writer who created 82 Craig Kennedy mystery stories. An enjoyable collection, especially for those interested in sleuthing aided by science.

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Set in 16251628 when France is under threat, it recounts the adventures of a young nobleman named dArtagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although dArtagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age the mysterious Athos, bumbling Porthos and ambitious and romantic Aramis who lived under the French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, who reigned during the 17th and early 18th centuries and gets involved in affairs of the state and court. Together the friends must use all their guile and ingenuity to outwit the dastardly schemes of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the glamorous spy, Milady. With a plot that delivers stolen diamonds, masked balls, purloined letters, and, of course, great bouts of swordplay, The Three Musketeers is eternally entertaining!

Typee. A Peep at Polynesian Life

Herman Melville

Basically, it turns out that the Typee tribe untouched by civilization is children of nature, surrounded by the care and warmth of their native land, spending their easy days in the shade of a palm tree, eating the fruits of breadfruit, bananas and coconuts. Here, Melville begins to compare civilized countries with a clearly backward society and concludes that the former are at a lower stage of development. And the natives with their cannibalism and promiscuity are in many ways more advanced and healthy people in social and psychological terms.

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Alexandre Dumas pere

Dans ce roman Dumas réussit l développer franchement les relations humaines et le theme de la trahison pour aborder regrets, détermination et autres hantises de lesprit humain. grands coups de trésors, de secrets et de machinations, il nous conduit au gré des soubresauts du destin dEdmond Dantes! La magie et la dissimulation, la tromperie, lart du déguisement et les faux-semblants, et... la vengeance. Est-elle juste et facile vivre une fois accomplie?