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The Legacy of Cain

Wilkie Collins

This book not only wants to thrill its readers with a chilling story, but also touches on social issues in this case, the debate about whether there is a tendency to crime in a person. Blood is the genetic code, or can it be successfully counteracted by compassionate and virtuous parenting.

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The Raw Youth

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The protagonist in the novel is a young man of 19, Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the peasant woman Sophia. From childhood, he almost did not see his parents. He was sent to a special institution for rich children, where he was always humiliated and called, a footman. And after graduating from school he receives a letter from his father, in which he calls Arkady to St. Petersburg, where the main events of the novel take place with him.

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Powiastki filozoficzne. Wybór

Voltaire

Powiastka filozoficzna jako gatunek literacki rozwinęła się w oświeceniu, m.in. za sprawą Voltairea i Diderota. Pod płaszczykiem lekkiej narracyjnej formy, wykorzystującej satyrę obyczajową i wątki awanturnicze czy romansowe, propagowała idee filozoficzne i stawiała kluczowe dla danego nurtu pytania. Pisane ciętym, błyskotliwym, pełnym humoru językiem Powiastki Voltairea pozostają dziełem ponadczasowym, ilustrującym zamiłowanie autora do wolności i mądrości.

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Flowing Gold

Rex Beach

Calvin Gray is a swindler who won immediate sympathy from readers. Its sleek, stylish, smart and full of life. However, the best thing about him is that he is sincere, noble and always on the right side of the law.

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Ovingdean Grange

William Harrison Ainsworth

A historical romance with a lot of local flavor. The action takes place in the South Downs, England. Everything revolves around the Civil War.

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Freya of the Seven Isles

Joseph Conrad

This is an exciting saga located in the Indian Ocean basin, against the stormy backdrop of barely suppressed military operations between the Dutch and British merchant fleets, told by one of Conrads classic passages. After all, Freyas unique perspective on the sharply etched nature is one of Conrads most piercing studies of how power hunger can lead people to greatness or its opposite.

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Woyzeck

Georg Büchner

Dramat zainspirowany procesem sądowym tragicznego mordercy Woyzecka. Franz Woyzeck, mimo pełnienia służby wojskowej, nie posiada wystarczającej sumy pieniędzy, aby ożenić się z Marią, matką swojego dziecka. Ta zaś zakochuje się w postawnym majorze. Franz postanawia wyładować swoją frustrację na niewinnej osobie. Georg Büchner to niemiecki pisarz i rewolucjonista, a także wykładowca anatomii na uniwersytecie w Zurychu. Zmarł w wieku 23 lat na tyfus.

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Mountains of the Moon

T.C. Bridges

Jim was a tall boy, taller than Bart and probably a year older, and would have looked nice if not for his conceited expression. His hair was black as ink, he had very dark eyes, and his skin was darker than that of an ordinary Englishman. Behind him was a small plump guy who looked like a groom or nursery. The new arrival looked at his dogs, then turned to Bart.

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Cheyenne Gold

Max Brand

The most dangerous killer in Alaska, Menneval sends a certain Bill Ranger to California in search of information about his father and son Crosson. After many setbacks, Bill finally finds the Crossons in the woods. The life of father and son is shrouded in deep mystery. Bill will be with them to become a member of incredible adventures and bloody skirmishes.

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Pokonani

Hanna Cygler

Książka opowiada o barwnym i burzliwym życiu Hallmanów i Sarnowskich w niełatwych czasach odbudowy Polski i panującego w niej zamętu politycznego. Bohaterowie powieści próbują uwolnić się od koszmaru wojennych przeżyć, ale czy uwikłani w nie do końca nie wyjaśnione sprawy zdołają odzyskać utracony spokój... Ta pełna dramaturgii powieść skłania do refleksji nad wyborami, których dokonujemy każdego dnia i których dokonuje za nas historia.

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In Praise of a Suffolk Cottage

Mary Cholmondeley

Most of the stories were written in a cottage in Suffolk. Everyone now has a so-called cottage. This is a story about how a seemingly simple cottage won the heart of the protagonist and it happened for a reason.

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Wiersze. Wybór

Wacław Potocki

Wacława Potockiego do dziś uznaje się za jednego z najważniejszych poetów dawnej Polski. W swojej twórczości łączył rozliczne wątki charakterystyczne dla baroku: ziemiańskie, religijne, antyklerykalne oraz patriotyczne. Uprawiał różnorodne gatunki poetyckie: romanse, fraszki, poematy, pieśni. Jest też autorem staropolskiej epopei narodowej zatytułowanej Transakcja wojny chocimskiej....

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Скучная история (Nieciekawa historia). Из записок старого человека

Антон Павлович Чехов, Anton Pawłowicz Czechow

Одинокими мы приходим в этот мир и одинокими уходим из него. И только это есть несокрушимая истина. Живем мы тоже будучи одинокими, но столкновения с иными одиночествами рождает у нас иллюзию, что это не так. А вот те, кто осознает процесс собственного умирания, оказываются на самом ветродуе. Главному герою в полной мере досталась 201eчаша сия201d. «Скучная история» Антона Павловича Чехова (186020131904), впервые опубликованный в 1889 году 2013 это трагедия знаменитого ученого, благополучного и уважаемого человека, история, рассказанная 62 летним профессором Николаем Степановичем, более 30 лет прослужившем в университете, о жизни, взаимоотношениях с коллегами и домашними: женой, дочерью Лизой, воспитанницей Катей, о сложившихся привычках и представлениях...

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Dr. Delmores Secret

Fenton Ash

Dr. Delmores Secret is an absorbing tale of mystery by Fenton Ash, author of at least three Lost-World novels. Little is known about Aubrey/Atkins. He was involved in a scandal at the turn of the century and sentenced to nine months imprisonment for obtaining money by deception. After leaving prison he dropped the name Frank Aubrey and in his early 60s, following a three-year hiatus began writing as Fenton Ash.

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Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories

Maxim Gorky

The poem in prose Twenty-Six and One is based on the writers impressions related to life in Kazan and work in Semenovs bakery. Gorky considers the image of a tramp, revealing its negative qualities. The work tells about twenty-six bakers, attitude, feelings, the behavior of which is presented by the author as the attitude of one person. This is achieved by using Gorky a huge number of pronouns we are all

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A Crime of the Under-Seas

Guy Boothby

There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but as far as this is true, very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it is almost amazing. There are people involved in trade, some of whom are very profitable, about whom the world as a whole has never heard of, and which an ordinary Englishman, in all likelihood, would refuse to believe, even if the most reliable evidence had been provided before him.