Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Charles Dickens

Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people and are divided into four sections: Our Parish, Scenes, Characters, and Tales. The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction. The last section comprises fictional stories. It was Dickenss first book, published when he was twenty-four, and in it we find him walking the London streets, in theatres, pawnshops, law-courts, prisons, along the Thames, and on the omnibus, missing nothing, recording and transforming urban and suburban life into new terrain for literature. Originally, the sketches were published in various newspapers and periodicals from 1833-1836 before being published collectively in one volume. If you enjoy the works of Charles Dickens then this collection is highly recommended for your book collection.

The Dark Cottage

Mary Cholmondeley

The old man on the bed stirred uneasily, and his white beard twitched. His wide-open eyes looked at his son with a blank look, as Michael had looked at him all his life. With a slightly trembling hand, Serena poured a few drops into a spoon and pressed them into her half-open lips.

Miłość przestępcy

Urke Nachalnik

Urke Nachalnik to pseudonim literacki przedwojennego autora kryminałów pochodzenia żydowskiego, które właściwe nazwisko brzmiało Icek Boruch Farbarowicz. Karierę zawodową rozpoczął jako... złodziej, a z przestępczego półświatka wziął swój pseudonim. Wiele lat spędził w więzieniu, gdzie zajął się literaturą. Miłość przestępcy to jego powieściowy debiut z 1920 roku.

Dom otwarty. Komedia w trzech aktach

Michał Bałucki

Dom otwarty to trzyaktowa komedia Michała Bałuckiego, polskiego pisarza i publicysty z okresu pozytywizmu. Zaliczał się on do nurtu tak zwanych przedburzowców przełomu romantyzmu i pozytywizmu. Sztuka opowiada o średnio zamożnej rodzinie mieszczańskiej, która żyje ponad stan i naśladuje styl życia bogaczy. Rodzina postanawia wydać bal, który okazuje się być nieco problematyczny i przysparza wiele komplikacji towarzyskich oraz rodzinnych.

Crazy Rhythm

Max Brand

After 8 years in prison for murder, Jimmy Geary returns to his town Yellow Creek, and his past, and an ambush. Jimmy was very happy to see town again. But there are three men who arent happy to see Jimmy Geary return, and they conspire to make his stay this time very short... Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Max Brands remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest western authors of all time, Frederick Faust wrote under sixteen different pseudonyms, including the best known being Max Brand. Although he wrote under many genres, westerns were his forte. Max Brand leads the reader on a very authentic tale of the old west the way it was.

The Romance of His Life

Mary Cholmondeley

There are eight unrelated shorts in this book. The author tells us about the cottage she lives in and the memorable experience she had during the war.

Jerusalem

Selma Lagerlöf

Jerusalem är en roman i tv delar av den svenska författarinnan Selma Lagerlöf. Jerusalem utspelar sig i Dalarna och i Jerusalem under 1800-talet, där man fr följa ngra människor och deras närstende under flera r. Selma Lagerlöf skriver om mnga olika personer ur olika generationer, bland annat om dem som lever p den stora Ingmarsgrden, där man fr bekanta sig med deras, inte alltid s okomplicerade, relationer till varandra.

Nasi okupanci

Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński

Nasi okupanci to zbiór kontrowersyjnych felietonów jednego z najpopularniejszych polskich krytyków literackich i eseistów XX wieku Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego. Autor krytykuje w nich prawicową zaściankowość, toksyczną bogobojność oraz porusza tematy seksualności, małżeństwa czy macierzyństwa. Zyskał przez to wielu wrogów wśród duchownych, ale jednocześnie duże poparcie świeckiej części społeczeństwa, zajmującej się problematyką świadomego macierzyństwa i ułatwianiem rozwodów.

The Rover

Joseph Conrad

This is both mystery and romance; the latter creates one of the recurring difficulties in Conrad: it preserves the Victorian histrionic element, which sometimes may seem a little attractive. But overall, it is well read and much less burdensome than some of his novels. The Rover was Conrads last book and probably one of his most accessible stories.

The Ghost of a Chance

Mary Cholmondeley

The large, sumptuous room, with its dim oriental rugs and subdued lighting, a fine set of Indian paintings, and two exquisite rose-red lacquered cabinets, had great charm. The main character has just returned from China. Huge packing boxes, stacked one above the other in the hall, were no doubt full of wonderful acquisitions, china, embroideries, carpets. But he didnt seem to want to unpack them.

The Adventures of Tyler Tatlock, Private Detective

Dick Donovan

Dick Donovans detective was considered a great rival to Holmes. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Tyler Tatlock, Private Detective is a thrilling collection of mystery and adventure tales (21 in all) including The Queensferry Mystery in which a series of remarkable house burglaries take place during the winter months in Edinburgh. This series also includes Sherlockian titles such as The Sign of the Yellow Star, The Band of Three and The Clue of the Silver Jug.

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

An amazingly soft film adaptation of the novel, it subtly merges the past and present, here and there, because it is the world of feeling, and it is feeling, and not dry logic that determines what is important and what is not, turning the moment into eternity, and a trifle in event.. The author describes only one summer day in the life of the prosperous socialite lady Mrs. Dalloway. A meeting with an old acquaintance, Peter Welsh, her first love, opens the door to the world of memories, complex feelings, secret thoughts, mental anguish, dreams.

Candide. Or, The Optimist

Voltaire

Candide, who grew up in a rich mans family, who absorbed real mentor sermons on the fact that everything in the world happens for the better, serves its purposes and in general is accomplished in the best of all possible worlds, despite all the misfortunes that have happened to people this is also for the better. By the will of fate, Candide sets off on a round-the-world trip, where everyone literally screams that the world is unfair, misfortunes are often meaningless and lead only to great misfortunes, and people everywhere do not shy away from bribes, anger and self-interest. Besides the semi-mythical Eldorado, of course. But its not so easy to get into it. And its not so easy to get out of it.

The Double. A Petersburg Poem

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

In the book The Double Dostoevsky appears before the reader as a writer with an inimitable sense of humor. The author shows an extraordinary skill in describing comic episodes from life and makes the reader cheerfully laugh at the shortcomings of his characters and the comic nature of the situations. Before the reader St. Petersburg streets of the XIX century come to life, he will get acquainted with the mores of the inhabitants of St. Petersburg.

Kuszenie świętego Antoniego

Gustaw Flaubert

Najważniejsze dzieło Gustavea Flauberta, które sam autor nazywał dziełem całego swojego życia. Powstawało ono dwadzieścia pięć lat w trzech różnych wersjach. Ostatecznie autor zdecydował się wydać ostatnią z nich w 1874 roku. Święty Antoni spotyka się z wyznawcami różnych wierzeń, od chrześcijaństwa po heretyków, cudotwórców, szamanów, przedstawiających swoje poglądy i wiarę w Boga, co podważa jego wiarę i dotychczasową widzę o otaczającym go świecie.

7 to 12. A Detective Story

Anna Katharine Green

A tall, elegant middle-aged woman sat in front of a mirror, and the finishing touches of her rich toilet seat young woman were kneeling on the floor next to her. The noted picture, and this is not from belonging to the wealth and splendor observed everywhere, but from the character of two persons who, although of completely different composition, and possibly belong to the two extremes of society, were both remarkable for their strength and individuality of expression, but also the appearance of anxiety and suppressed anxiety that made them both look like the shadows of one deep dark thought