La Comédie humaine. Volume I. Scenes de la vie privée. Tome I

Honoré de Balzac

Cest une histoire sur la façon dont, en contractant un mariage inégal, des personnes risquent de se retrouver dans une situation o ce mariage mme devient un fardeau et une torture. Balzac raconte lhistoire sans blâmer ni épargner personne. Ici et les parents qui ont vécu une vie vide, ici et Théodore, qui, la recherche de divertissement chic, jette sa jeune femme dans langoisse. Voici Augustine elle-mme qui, elle essaie de régler son malheur.

Benita. An African Romance

H. Rider Haggard

The main task of the heroes is to find the treasure. The trader heard the legend of the great treasure buried by the Portuguese party for hundreds of years before the last source tried to find it with the help of a mesmericist. The child was put into a trance and told his mesmerists details about the adventures and death of the unfortunate Portuguese men and women. With many other details, the boy so accurately described the burial of the great treasure and its exact position that the white man and the mesmerist could find the place where he was.

Off on a Comet. Or, Hector Servadac

Jules Verne

Jules Vernes novel Hector Servadac tells about the adventures of the captain of the French troops and his friends, who, as a result of an unprecedented disaster, fell on a fragment of the globe captured by a flying comet. Hector, his orderly, the Russian Count Timashev, a colony of English soldiers from Gibraltar, an Italian girl with a goat, a Jewish money-lender and another odd scientist are forced to organize their life in new conditions. The book contains a lot of information on astronomy, corresponding to the level of the second half of the XIX century.

Ben Hur. Opowiadanie historyczne z czasów Jezusa Chrystusa

Lewis Wallace

Juda Ben Hur jest bogatym żydowskim księciem, kupcem z Jerozolimy. Przyjaźni się z rzymskim żołnierzem, Messalą, którego zna od dziecka. Messala obecnie dowódca legionów rzymskich w Judei pragnie zdławić żydowską rebelię. Prosi o pomoc Ben Hura. Ten jednak odmawia udziału w bratobójczej walce. Wkrótce obok domu Ben Hura odbywa się uroczysta parada na cześć nowego namiestnika Judei. Siostra Ben Hura przypadkowo strąca dachówkę, która pechowo trafia w namiestnika. O czyn ten zostaje oskarżony Juda. Sądzi go sam Messala. Chociaż wie, że to był tylko wypadek, wysyła Judę na galery, a jego matkę i córkę do więzienia. Ben Hur poprzysięga zemstę... Jedna z największych powieści wszech czasów, pełna porywającej akcja, scen lirycznych i dramatycznych, w której wątki polityczne splatają się z miłosnymi.

Un billet de loterie

Jules Verne

Le theme principal de luvre est lhistoire touchante de lamour romantique dun homme et dune femme vivant en Norvege. Ils sappellent Gulda Hansen et Ole Camp. Ole va nager apres les fiançailles et Gulda reste dans son village natal, Telemark Daal. Ole écrit une lettre sa mariée dans laquelle il mentionne la richesse quil apporte avec lui. Gulda commence sinquiéter pour son fiancé.

LExilée

Pierre Loti

Lexilé nous emmene Venise, o Elizabeth, de plus en plus gravement malade, repose, mais toujours souriante, fait vivre ses invités des moments inoubliables au charme vénitien et lit des extraits de son livre: Dire que ce livre, presque toujours brillant, o il a mis le plus vivant de ses grandes âmes, est sans doute aujourdhui perdu, déchiré, brlé; que les hommes ne le liront jamais!

The Lady in Blue

Fred M. White

Fred M. White was a science fiction writer and wrote many spy stories. Events in the story The Lady in Blue take place in London. The main character, Rupert Kelso, returns from Norway and lives his usual life, until fate decided intervene. Kelso should assist in an investigation into the robbery of a gemstone.

Nicholas Goade, Detective

E. Phillips Oppenheim

E. Phillips Oppenheim was a popular 20th century writer best known for penning suspenseful thriller novels like The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown. Many of his more than 100 novels are still read today. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions. Nicholas Goade, Detective is a collection of short mysteries about a Scotland Yard detective on holiday. As he travels across England with his dog in his old car, he keeps stumbling across little mysteries. Its a cross between a classic police procedural and a 1930s update of Sherlock Holmes, with Goade solving odd cases through a combination of careful detective work, leaps of intuition, and his ability to understand and communicate with people.

The Touch of Abner

H.A. Cody

This is a novel that tells the story from a dramatic moment when Abner signs $ 1,000 to a shelter fund and detonates a financial bomb at a close gathering of Glucom people. Abner Andrews is a naughty old farmer who promises a thousand dollars, which he does not have, to a new shelter. How will he fulfill his promise, especially with a crooked lawyer, to prevent him?

Rewards and Fairies

Rudyard Kipling

A year has passed. Dan and Una have matured and again return to the village for the summer. There, Pak is already waiting for them with new stories and acquaintances, to again lead the children into the intricate labyrinth of British history, mythology and folklore.

Dr. Kildares Girl

Max Brand

In the crowded waiting room of Dr. Gillespie there were people of ten nations of more than ten degrees, from the old pugilist with rheumatism in his broken hands to the Indian mystic whose eyes already were forgetting this world; but little Florrie Adams took precedence over all of these. Her mother lagged breathless, a step behind, as Florrie was led quickly on by a nurse so pretty that the little girl had to keep looking up at that freshness and that bloom; and so her stumbling feet forgot their way.

The Cloven Foot

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The novel has two stories that at first glance seem unconnected, but most readers will be able to find out the connection. The first is about the situation of artificial inheritance. John Treverton must marry Laura Malcolm within a year or lose his inheritance. In another story, French ballerina Zaire Chico lives an absent-minded life in Parisian and London theaters. In the end, the mystery of the murder happens, and the rest of the plot focuses on that.

Lucy Gayheart

Willa Cather

Lucy Gayheart is well known in her small Nebraska town for her great looks, energy and piano playing. Everyone assumes that she will marry the son of banker Harry Gordon, including Harry, but at 18 she goes to Chicago to study piano and ends up making money accompanying the famous international vocalist when he spends time in Chicago. Her life, other peoples lives and peoples expectations changed forever.

Vixen

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Violet Tempest grows up in a happy home, the beloved only child of friendly and generous parents. She and her father spend days riding and hunting in the old forest that surrounds their house, and Violet is strong in heart and body, not smart, but very intelligent. The only possible flaw is that the mother of her best friend Rory, the ambitious lady Jane, does not approve of their close friendship.

Wenus w futrze

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Powieść Wenus w futrze stanowi literacki zapis eksperymentu z 1869 roku, w czasie którego Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch na pół roku stał się niewolnikiem baronówny Fanny von Pistor. Książka natychmiast po wydaniu zyskała światową sławę. Wywołała też olbrzymi skandal oraz zainicjowała szeroką dyskusję o dewiacjach seksualnych. Od nazwiska autora ukuto termin masochizm, co zaważyło na karierze oraz relacjach zawodowych i towarzyskich Leopolda von Sacher-Masocha.

Pillar Mountain

Max Brand

Loafer was a big dog who looked like a buffalo wolf; he was gray against one background and pale yellow against another; like a buffalo wolf, he had a great leonine body covered with a loose hide which humped in a wave above his shoulders at every lurch of his gallop. Strangers always said Wolf! when they saw him, and no one said Good dog! except his master.