Felix Holt, the Radical

George Eliot

Set during the time of the Reform Act of 1832, the story centers on an election contested by Harold Transome, a local landowner, in the Radical cause, contrary to his familys Tory traditions. Contrasting with the opportunism of Transome is the sincere, but opinionated, Radical Felix Holt. Against this background, the author George Eliot tells a love story and weaves a plot which has many elements of the sensation novel, such as illegitimacy, blackmail, and the discovery of an heiress, where the suspense is maintained until the end.

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser is a famous American prose writer, publicist and public figure. This is the story of the rise of the main character, the young provincial Caroline Meeber, achieved at the cost of numerous moral compromises, and the descent of the manager of a prestigious bar, George Hurstwood, to the bottom of life.

Dialogi. Humoreska dramatyczna. Proza poetycka

Janusz Korczak

Tom zawiera wybór utworów literackich Janusza Korczaka: Bezwstydnie krótkie, Senat szaleńców. Humoreska ponura, Sam na sam z Bogiem. Modlitwy tych, którzy się nie modlą. Korczak poświęcił życie pracy z dziećmi i propagowaniu idei poszanowania praw dziecka. Swoje poglądy formułował w postaci tekstów literackich zarówno dla dzieci, jak i dorosłych oraz publicystycznych.

Walizka PZ. Powieść

Aleksander Błażejowski

Aleksander Błażejowski (18901940) polski pisarz i dziennikarz, z zawodu prawnik. Sławę przyniosły mu cieszące się dużą popularnością powieści kryminalne. Walizka PZ to pierwsza część trylogii. Z tajemniczym morderstwem barona Teitelberga w willi na Grunewaldzie w Berlinie wiąże się zaginięcie nie mniej tajemniczej walizki z inicjałami PZ. Wkrótce okazuje się, że to ona stanowi główny trop, a rozwiązanie zagadki jej zawartości może być bardziej brzemienne w skutki niż rozwikłanie sprawy morderstwa.

The Common Law

Robert W. Chambers

This book is one of the most popular novels by Robert William Chambers and has been translated into several other languages around the world. A casual conversation with a model for his new project forces him to test his theories about creativity, society, and love, and he discovers that other people have their own ideas about how it should all work.

The Birds

Aristophanes

Pisfeter manages to convince the birds that their mission is to rule the world. According to his idea, the bird city of Tucekukuyshchyna is being built between heaven and earth; birds give wings to Pisfeter and Evelpid, Pisfeter becomes the ruler of the new city and puts into effect a plan whose goal is to take power from the Olympic gods. Birds intercept the smoke from the sacrifices that the gods feed on, persuade people to honor the birds as new gods and promise them protection for this.

Rinkitink in Oz

L. Frank Baum

Rinkitink in Oz is the tenth book in the Oz series written by L. Frank Baum, first published in 1916. It was originally written in 1905 as a stand alone fantasy work and subsequently rewritten as an Oz book. Therefore, most of the action takes place outside of Oz in neighboring fairy countries. Rinkitink, a plump jolly fellow, and his grouchy goat Bilbil assist Inga, the crown prince of Pingaree, in reclaiming his lost kingdom from invaders. Inga is helped in his efforts by three magic pearls: one, blue, giving him superhuman strength; one, pink, protecting him from harm; and one, white, providing him with words of wisdom. But when the pearls are lost, can Queen Ozma, watching events on her magic mirror, save the day? Thrilling tale of adventure from a master storyteller, Rinkitink in Oz is sure to enjoyed by Oz fans far and wide and by all who delight in tales of enchantment and adventure.

Riddles Read

Dick Donovan

Written by James Edward Preston Murdock (18431934), an author of mysteries, thrillers, and horror stories. For a time, his popularity rivaled that of Arthur Conan Doyle and he was certainly more prolific than Doyle. This collection of short stories dates from 1896: 1: In the Shadow of Sudden Death, 2: The Doom of the Star-gazer, 3: The Strange Story of Some State Papers, 4: The Problem of Dead Wood Hall, 5: Trapped, 6: The Riddle of Beavers Hill, 7: A Railway Mystery, 8: A Desperate Game

The River Riders

T.C. Bridges

Winter closed early over the great desert of the Northwest, and the first dense snow lay on the banks and covered dark trees with a white mantle. Ice formed under the river banks, and its huge layers crumbled under the sound of a choking stern wheel and rattled like broken glass on a track. In the snowy forest thickets, neither human dwellings nor living creatures were visible. The still air was bitter from the frost, and a dull red sun fell behind the distant hills.

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

The novel is about six friends who have known since childhood: Bernard, Louis, Neville, Susie, Ron and Ginny. After a few key episodes, their life appears from early childhood to the last days. As in most Virginia Woolf books, the plot as such is absent, it is entirely focused on the inner world of its characters, the flow of their thoughts and feelings, the whole story is an uncontrollable, bubbling flow, stream of thoughts, stream of life, stream of time.

W pomrokach wiary

Stefan Grabiński

W tomie W pomrokach wiary autorstwa Stefana Grabińskiego znajduje się sześć utworów: Puszczyk, Pomsta ziemi, Szalona zagroda, Wampir, Podzwonne i Klątwa. Każdy z nich na swój sposób eksploruje tematykę wiary, porusza kwestie wierzeń, przesądów oraz mechanizmów psychologicznych z pogranicza metafizyki, takich jak siła sugestii czy myślenie fatalistyczne. Stefan Grabiński (18871936) uznawany jest za jednego z najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli nurtu grozy w polskiej literaturze międzywojennej, o czym świadczy miano polskiego Poe lub polskiego Lovecrafta. Jest też wysoko ceniony w zagranicznych kręgach literatury grozy.

Dobre geny

Hanna Cygler

Rok 2006. 42-letnia Marta Wenta, mocno poraniona przez życie, staje wreszcie na nogi wyjeżdża z Gdańska do Warszawy i obejmuje stanowisko wiceprezesa państwowej agencji. Jest twórcza, oddana pracy i uczciwa. Na skutek nieoczekiwanych wydarzeń staje się mimowolnym uczestnikiem afery politycznej, która nagle przerywa jej błyskotliwą karierę. Od tej chwili Marta musi stawić czoła zarówno swoim przeciwnikom, jak i tym, których do tej pory uważała za przyjaciół. Rozwiązanie wielu jej problemów kryje się również w przeszłości, z którą zostaje skonfrontowana.

The Essays

Michel de Montaigne

Montaignes The Essays is an unusual book, largely due to the authors attitude to it. This is an exclusively everyday book, suitable for everyday use, in which the author does not discuss how the world works and where everything goes, but discusses the essential: how to raise children, how to build a married life, how to spend leisure time, etc. At the same time, Montaigne does not have a very high opinion of himself, although he praises him for his non-commitment to excesses and the measuredness of being.

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The tragic story of a young burgher, who could not find an answer to his feelings and rejected by society, was instantly translated into other languages and gave rise to a series of sequels and imitations the so-called Verterian. Over time, Werther, the rebellious martyr became one of the eternal images of world literature and introduced the sociopsychological phenomenon of verterism into European culture, associated with the melancholic mentality and the problem of suicide as the highest manifestation of free will.

Le Juif errant

Eugene Sue

Juif errant la légende biblique a commencé se répandre en Europe au 13eme siecle. Il sagit dun Juif qui sest moqué de Jésus sur le chemin de la crucifixion et qui a ensuite été maudit. Cest limage dun vagabond, qui dans lhistoire pourrait tre un marchand ou un escroc.

The Provincial Lady in America

E.M. Delafield

No one could have been more surprised than our Provincial Lady to receive an invitation from her American agent to travel transatlantic and embark upon a programme of lectures and signings. What follows after she sets foot on American soil is a series of whirlwind tours about the continent, and also including a trip to Canada. This is book 3 in the Provincial Lady series by English author E. M. Delafield.