Precious Bane

Mary Webb

Precious Bane is also the story of Gideon, the doomed brother of Prue, no less decisive, but with different motives. Determined to defeat the poverty of their farm, he devotes all his strength to making money. The only thing that distracts him from these ambitions is that he abandons her for a stronger attraction to his money.

Mapp and Lucia

E.F. Benson

The fourth installment of the popular series-a hilarious study of 1930s manner and pecking order-begins when Lucia Lucas rents a summer place-the home of Elizabeth Mapp-in the English village of Tilling. So begins a battle of one-upmanship, peppered with queenly airs, ghastly tea parties, and unnerving bridge evenings as the two combatants attempt to out-do each other to win social supremacy. The pompous Lucia and malignant Mapp are characters you will love to hate, wonderfully penned by E.F. Benson.

Alexanders Bridge

Willa Cather

Bartley Alexander is a civil engineer and world famous bridge builder. He is going through a midlife crisis. While married to Winifred, Bartley rekindles a relationship with Hilda Burgoyne from London. This connection torments the moral principles of Bartley.

Fileb

Platon

Fileb zaliczany jest do późnych dialogów Platońskich. Tak jak w pozostałych główną postacią jest Sokrates, który tutaj dyskutuje z Filebem o tym, czy najwyższe dobro polega na przyjemności, czy na mądrości. Z dialogu wynika, że ani przyjemność, ani wiedza same w sobie nie mogą być dobre, a dobro stanowi połączenie obu. Rozmówcy spierają się o to, która składowa powinna dominować w tym połączeniu i je określać. Sokrates wyraża pogląd zbieżny z przekonaniem samego Platona że to wiedza powinna być ograniczeniem dla przyjemności.

Promenades autour dun village

George Sand

Le lecteur tombe dans une ville colorée appelée Berry. Lauteur parle des habitants de cette ville, des paysages. Laccent est également mis sur les traditions rurales. Cette histoire va impressionner tout le monde.

Rozpruwacze. Powieść sensacyjna

Urke Nachalnik

Urke Nachalnik to pseudonim literacki Icka Borucha Farbarowicza (18971939), żydowsko-polskiego autora kryminałów. Człon Nachalnik pochodził od złodziejskiego pseudonimu Farbarowicza, który przez większość swojego życia był przestępcą. Twórczość literacką rozpoczął w więzieniu. Sławę przyniosły mu powieści kryminalno-sensacyjne, które świetnie oddawały realia przestępczego półświatka. Historia Rozpruwaczy zaczyna się od napadu na sejf pewnej hrabiny, podczas którego ginie policjant. Szaleńcze tempo akcji trzyma czytelnika w napięciu do samego końca.

Dr. Thorndykes Crime File. A Selection of His Most Celebrated Cases

R. Austin Freeman

Dr. John Thorndike is a fictional detective in a series of novels. He is a medical lawyer a doctor by origin, he turned to the bar and became one of the first, in modern terms, forensic experts. His decisions were based on his method of collecting all possible data.

Liberum veto. Wybór felietonów

Aleksander Świętochowski

Zbiór felietonów polskiego pisarza, publicysty i działacza społecznego, w którego pismach zawarte są założenia programowe pozytywizmu. Głosił idee postępu, krzewienia oświaty i kultury, walczył o równe prawa dla kobiet, Żydów, zwalczał konserwatyzm, wstecznictwo i klerykalizm. Wybrane w tomie felietony pochodzą z takich pism jak Nowiny, Prawda czy Myśl Narodowa.

Ревизор (Rewizor)

Николай Васильевич Гоголь, Nikołaj Wasiljewicz Gogol

«Ревизор» 2013 гениальная пьеса Гоголя, одна из лучших русских комедий. Гениальность сюжета состоит втом, что вцентре пьесы оказываются общественные пороки2013 взяточничество, казнокрадство, лень ибеззаконие, присущие людям независимо оттого, вкаком веке они живут.В маленьком городке ждут ревизора из Санкт-Петербурга, а потому местное население находится в нервном состоянии, которое и стало причиной роковой ошибки. За ревизора приняли случайного человека 2013 Хлестакова, мелкого чиновника, болтуна и картежника, который был проездом там, и, оставшись без денег, не мог покинуть гостиницу 2013 нечем было платить. И тут ему подвернулась удача 2013 сыграть роль ревизора, которому все местные чиновники желают угодить. Хлестаков бесконечно хвастается и врет, а полет его фантазии стимулируется испуганным воображением местного общества, которое готово верить любым словам лжеревизора, несмотря на их очевидную абсурдность.Главнымдействующим лицом пьесы является страх, возникающий после знаменитой фразы: «Кнам едет ревизор! », возрастающий отдействия кдействию ипарализующий всех героев вфинале пьесы; страх, так хорошо знакомый нечистым наруку чиновникам вовсе времена.

The Adventures of Romney Pringle

Cliffford Ashdown

From the author of the Thorndyke detective stories. The stories follow the adventures of Romney Pringle, a gentleman con man, thief and master of disguiseswho is not above using his keen observation and wits to track down other criminals. These twelve tales conjure up the authentic atmosphere of Victorian London and offer a thrilling alternative to the ascetic honesty of Sherlock Holmes!

A Cabinet Secret

Guy Boothby

The city itself, climbing a hillside almost at the waters edge, was painted pale pink at sunset, and even the old Vesuvius, from the top of which a thin column of black smoke seemed a little less gloomy than usual. Because of heaven, the sky was a mass of golden and raspberry-colored, and this was reflected in the calm waters of the bay until the whole world turned into a real radiance. The evening could hardly be desired. And yet this is not the city, mountain or sunset that we must make, but the first movement of the conspiracy, which was ultimately destined to shake one of the greatest Empires that the Earth has ever seen.

Ziska. The Problem of a Wicked Soul

Marie Corelli

Cairo is a city where European aristocrats come in winter to relax and admire the monuments of a great ancient civilization. And in the new season, the fabulously rich and mysterious beauty Princess Ziska becomes the main topic of all conversations. She doesnt seem to have a past. Her eccentric antics shock society. Her knowledge of the history of Ancient Egypt delights even scientists. She is surrounded by a crowd of fans, but nevertheless does not get close to anyone.

A Room of Ones Own

Virginia Woolf

The beauty of A Room of Ones Own is that it serves as an example of peace of mind, which, as Wooolf insists, is the defining quality of all great artists. Her transparent and elegant essay is devoted not only to the necessary material conditions of writing, but also to the self-overcoming of the creator. Virginia Woolf, in her essay, talks about a womans right to work. The writer considers a centuries-old story during which a woman was only a silent shadow of a man.

Dr Nikolas Experiment

Guy Boothby

Dr. Nicola invited Douglas Ingleby to help him in a mysterious experiment. Unemployed and undoubtedly curious, Ingleby agrees to follow Nikola to a remote castle to help him take care of the old man on the verge of death, Nicola is trying to perform a miracle. But will Inglebys loyalty to Nicolau withstand the contrary to the requests of the old mans great granddaughter, will the experiment give the desired result, and what is he going to do with the sinister Chinese who preys on him?

Rustlers of Beacon Creek

Max Brand

Another great tale by Frederick Schiller Faust who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand! The Kid was a lawmans worst nightmare. A fearsome gun-for-hire, he was a legend written in blood and carved in the tombstones of the men he killed. But this time he was facing an old enemy from his twisted past a man who had survived his bullet and lived for vengeance. This story filled with excitement, suspense, good guys and bad, and plot twists aplenty! Brand is a masterful story teller, slowly revealing his main characters unique idiosyncrasies, strengths and weaknesses that make them both human and admirable.

The Lowest Rung

Mary Cholmondeley

This book focuses on the social exclusion and marginalization of respectable women in the context of their response to risk. Of the four stories included in the collection, three deal with crime, deviance, or both.