The Kingdom of Earth

E. Phillips Oppenheim

John Peters is the dissolute Crown Prince of Bergeland. The nephew of the rapacious and immoral King. Grace Pellisier is an English American actress who meets a thoughtful, serious, hiker in the mountains of Switzerland. Bernhardt is the energetic Chief of the Secret Service, protecting the aging King, and constantly searching for The Watcher, the leader of the revolutionary republicans. Written during a period of intense anti-monarchy which saw the end of the Russian Tzar, Oppenheim is using the politics of Europe to imagine an alternative path to bloody revolution. And so on, and with the material of conspiracies, love and adventure the story is woven around the Prince with that peculiar polish in dialogue and fascinating coloring characteristic of the popular author.

Le Crime de lord Arthur Savile

Oscar Wilde

Le personnage principal Arthur un personnage tres contrasté. Des les premieres pages, il donne limpression dun jeune homme décent, beau et instruit. Cependant, une rencontre avec voyante de rue détruit completement cette image. En entendant la terrible prédiction concernant le meurtre quil doit commettre, Lord Arthur perd son visage humain de maniere irréversible. Planifiant un meurtre de leurs parents de sang-froid, le jeune homme ne souffre pas de conscience, ne tourmente pas les doutes

Przygody młodych Bastablów

Edith Nesbit

Przygody Młodych Bastablów to trzeci tom sagi o sześciorgu rodzeństwa, które w poprzednich tomach szukało skarbu i pisało złotą księgę dobrych uczynków. Dzieci nadal nie mogą narzekać na brak przygód. Ich wrażliwość nie pozwala im przejść obojętnie obok żadnego nieszczęścia każdemu z wielką ochotą pomagają, co rodzi wiele zabawnych, nieprzewidywalnych sytuacji.

Colonel Chabert

Honoré de Balzac

In 1807 Colonel Chabert, Napoleons beloved commander, is severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau. Taken for dead and buried in a mass grave, he manages to escape and wanders in poverty through Europe for 10 years, torn between life and death, oblivion and consciousness. Finally recovering his memories, he sets out for Paris to search for his wife who had been a prostitute before he married her and to reclaim his possessions. In the several years while he had been gone, his wife thinking he was dead had remarried and had two new children. She had also collected his existing fortune. In all, she was pretty happy the way things were. How could our colonel prove who he was? What arguments could he use against his former wife? The story has a surprising number of twists, and poses a number of questions about how our society really works and the analysis of human behavior, character and emotions, is, as usual in Balzac, sublime.

Poezje. Wybór

Juliusz Słowacki

Wybór wierszy z bogatego dorobku jednego z trzech wieszczy narodowych, autora Kordiana, Balladyny i Beniowskiego. Utwory Juliusza Słowackiego były zgodne z duchem epoki i ówczesną sytuacją narodu polskiego. Poeta podejmował w nich istotne problemy związane z walką narodowowyzwoleńczą, z przeszłością narodu i przyczynami niewoli, ale także poruszały uniwersalne tematy egzystencjalne. Jego twórczość liryczna, zebrana w tomie Poezje, wyróżniała się mistycyzmem, wspaniałym bogactwem poetyckich przenośni i języka. Jako liryk zasłynął pieśniami odwołującymi się do Orientu, źródeł ludowych i słowiańszczyzny. Był poetą nastrojów, mistrzem operowania słowem.

The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Sir Joseph is a brilliant surgeon from Australia who went mad after operating on vast numbers of soldiers during World War 1. His terrible hobby is cutting peoples heads open to steal bits of their brains. His wife is a former nurse who went mad alongside him. They are pursued across England and the continent by Mr. Daniel Rocke, codebreaker of the Foreign service: Miss Ann Lancaster, daughter of one of Londes victims, and Sir Francis Worton, known as Q20, head of the secret service. Londe adopts many disguises, and plots brilliant escapes. This short story collection also containing: The Scarlet Patch, The Terror of Elton Lodge, The House on Salisbury Plain, The Shaftesbury Avenue Murder and others.

Tajemniczy ogród

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Tajemniczy ogród opowiada o niezwykłym spotkaniu dwojga samotnych dzieci, z których każde nosi w sercu swoje krzywdy i troski. Miejscem ich spotkania jest stary, przytłaczający dom, w którym wciąż panuje nastrój nieukojonej żałoby. Dzieci, po przełamaniu pierwszych lodów, zawiązują przyjaźń, i wspólnie przywracają do życia bajkowy, zaniedbany ogród.

The Light Shines in Darkness. Drama

Leo Tolstoy

The drama The Light Shines reflects the events of Tolstoys life in the broadest, most typified generalizations. Therefore, it would be a gross mistake to fully identify the content of the drama with the life of Tolstoy, his family and those around him. Nevertheless, there is a close relationship between them. So, the drama of Nikolai Ivanovich Saryntsev is, of course, the drama of Tolstoy himself. In the person of Maria Ivanovna Saryntseva, some characteristic features of S. A. Tolstoy are outlined. The same should be said of the other characters in the play, which are very reminiscent of either Tolstoys family or those who came into close contact with his family. And the drunk Alexander Petrovich who appears in the fourth act is taken from real life. This is Tolstoys scribe, Alexander Petrovich Ivanov, a former officer who became trampless, an inhabitant of Rzhanovs house.

Der Mann im Hintergrund

Edgar Wallace

Ein paar Wochen nachdem ein Gefangener aus dem Gefängnis Sing-Sing entflieht, gibt es plötzlich mehrere Unterschlagungen im großen Stil. Ein Bankangestellter schenkt seiner Verlobten teuren Schmuck und schickt ihr ein dickes Bündel Dollarnoten. Zwei Fälle, die nur der berühmte Privatdetektiv Reeder lösen kann. Dort ist er der Spezialist für das Bankenwesen. Als in London eine Bank nach der andern durch Unterschlagungen im größeren Stil geschädigt wird, ist er es, der beigezogen wird.

Jerry of the Islands

Jack London

One of Jack Londons most beloved books is about the amazing adventures of the Irish Terrier Jerry. From birth, Jerry saw from his master only care and love. But once his life changed dramatically Jerry was on an island inhabited by some natives. The natural mind, resourcefulness and courage helped the extraordinary dog to avoid many dangers and even find a friend in a hostile tribe of natives.

Le Château des Désertes

George Sand

Nous sommes transportés vers une campagne idéalisée, o tout le monde se connaît, o lair est pur et les actions naturelles. Lintrigue est la fois simple et sans complications. Comme une comédie derreurs, il est construit sur les illusions des personnages: ils pensent tous que ce nest pas ce que cest. Et dans le mme temps, dans la pratique, tout est tres simple, les intrigues complexes se déroulent sans difficulté, ce qui est fourni par le narrateur le vieil avocat Chantebel.

Rogue Herries

Hugh Walpole

This chronicle tells of several generations of a family that lives in the Lake District in England, dating back to the late seventeen hundred. Hughs descriptions of this area are excellent. He had such a great love for him that he conveyed a great sense of his presence throughout all four novels. His characters also become so alive for the reader, because, I think, he is completely immersed in them.

Dwaj panowie z Werony

William Shakespeare

Tytułowi bohaterowie to Valentine i Proteus. Utwór opowiada o ich relacjach balansujących między przyjaźnią a miłością, który to temat często wracał w renesansowych rozważaniach. Wyprawa do Mediolanu stanie się dla obu polem nowych doświadczeń. W sprawę uwikłane są także kobiety, których obecność i działania zmuszają mężczyzn do konfrontacji z własnymi pragnieniami, ideałami i decyzjami.

The Ancient Allan

H. Rider Haggard

Many readers of the novels of Henry Rider Haggard like his main character Allan Quatermain. He goes back to the past. This adventure promises to be exciting. After all, there will be many exciting events on the way of the main character: hunting for lions, fighting a crocodile and a battle between different armies.

Domestic Peace

Honoré de Balzac

Domestic Peace, a short story by Honoré de Balzac, was originally published in 1831 under the French title of La Paix du Ménage and can be found in Scenes from private life (Scenes de la vie privee) in La Comedie Humaine. It takes place in November of 1809 at the height of Napoleons empire, a time of great splendor and decadence. Everyone whos anyone in the Parisian aristocracy is gathered at a grand ball at the home of the Comte de Gondreville. Two guys Martial and Comte de Montcornet are looking to engage into a romantic happening with Madame de Vaudremont and they find they are not the only ones, being that she has a tremendous fortune. Another girl appear who shades Madame de Baudremont. To complicate matters, Colonel Soulanges, one of Napoleons favorite military men, also shows an interest in the mystery woman, and angrily declares hell kill Martial if he so much as goes near her.

The Innocents Abroad. or The New Pilgrims Progress

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. When you dive into Mark Twains The Innocents Abroad, you have to be ready to learn more about the unadorned, ungilded reality of 19th century touring than you might think you want to learn. This is a tough, literary journey. It was tough for Twain and his fellow pilgrims, both religious and otherwise. They set out, on a June day in 1867, to visit major tourist sites in Europe and the near east, including Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, the Holy Land, and Egypt. The trip stimulates Twain to meditate on how the new world isdifferent from the old and engenders reflections on what a society must be like to be thought of as genuinely civilized.