The Moonlit Way

Robert W. Chambers

Youth and life and happiness on the lunar path, and yet the path is not always silver for two glorious heroines. Nikhla Quellen, a dancer and beauty, is constantly entangled in a web of intrigue against which spies and secret service agents are plotting. Little Dulcie Soan finds herself in a whirlpool of excitement more than once.

Red Sky Over Thebes

Henry Bedford-Jones

The Sphinx Emerald passed into other hands to reappear centuries later when conquering Cambyses came storming into Egypt with his Persian legions... Readers are treated to authentic historical dramas, all centering on the mysterious jewel that seems to contain a miniature image of the sphinx. A great pulp extravaganza!

Зойкина квартира

Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Тридцатипятилетняя Зоя открывает на своей квартире швейную мастерскую, а под ее прикрытием устраивает дом свиданий. В качестве помощников к ней устраиваются обаятельный мошенник Аметистов и бывший дворянин, возлюбленный Зои Абольянинов. Зоя надеется заработать деньги, чтобы уехать во Францию, и поначалу ее бизнес развивается весьма успешно.

Ptaszki podług Arystofanesa

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Niemiecki polityk, uczony i poeta przełomu XVIII i XIX wieku Johann Wolfgang von Goethe jest uznawany za najwybitniejszego przedstawiciela literatury niemieckiej, mistrza klasycyzmu weimarskiego oraz prekursora romantyzmu. Do jego najwybitniejszych dzieł należą Cierpienia młodego Wertera, Król Elfów oraz Faust. Ptaszki podług Arystofanesa należą do nielicznych napisanych przez niego komedii.

Prince Roman

Joseph Conrad

Prince Roman is a Pole who relinquishes his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as an unknown soldier, resisting Russian oppression. In captivity, he has every opportunity to avoid punishment, but he declares his unconditional commitment to the liberation of Poland. As a result, he suffers a quarter century in the imperial equivalent of the Gulag Siberian mines in the ninth century, before returning to live in modest conditions in what should have been his own property, before devoting his life to helping other people.

Singoalla

Viktor Rydberg

Singoalla är en roman av Viktor Rydberg och handlar om kärleken mellan riddaren Erland Mnesköld och den mystiska Singoalla. Singoalla utspelas under 1340- och 1350-talen och handlar om en riddares son, Erland, som blir förälskad i dottern, Singoalla, till ett kringvandrande folk, romer, som rastar ngra dagar nära slottet. Deras första möte är vid bäcken som rinner genom den skog som tillhör Erlands fars slott. Detta blir ett kort möte d Singoallas folk ska ge sig av igen samma kväll. Erland kan inte glömma Singoalla och när hennes folk ett r senare tervänder och ber Erlands far om att f sl upp sitt läger i hans skog d de ska stanna en vecka och vänta in en annan grupp s ser Erland sin chans att f träffa henne igen.

Ravensdene Court

Joseph Smith Fletcher

On the same night, two brothers were killed at a distance of 400 miles from each other. Their bodies were apparently searched by the killers, but money and valuables were left on the corpses. What were the killers looking for? The author unravels the complex history associated with these two brothers.

Zanoni

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Zanoni, first published in 1842, was inspired by a dream. This piece of literature describes a fascinating story of love and occult aspiration. The main character is Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian who has lived since the Chaldean civilisation. He falls in love with a young opera singer, Viola Pisani but to Zanoni, falling in love means losing his power of immortality. The story develops in the days of the French Revolution in 1789.

Dr Nikola

Guy Boothby

Nicola is a very interesting and creepy character, you are never sure how much he will go and what evil he is really capable of. The main character is actually recruited and works together with Nicola as a partner, which shows Nicolaou a more personal side. He could still do evil supernatural acts, and the threat to the traitors was still faced with the realization that you would become worse if you cross him, but thats all.

The Wasps

Aristophanes

Old Philokleon was so addicted to attending court hearings that his son Bdelikleon locked him in the house and stretched a net around the house. He wants to ensure a quiet life for his father, but Philokleon does not at all want peace. Hes a cocky, like a choir made up of his old friends, judges, and he likes to convict. The choir appears on the stage in wasp costumes and tries to help Philokleon slip away, but Bdelikleon prevents this.

Folkungaträdet

Verner von Heidenstam

Bjälboarvet är en roman av den svenske författaren Verner von Heidenstam. Den handlar om striderna mellan Birger jarls söner Valdemar Birgersson och Magnus Laduls p 1200-talet.                           

The Sea Lions. The Lost Sealers

James Fenimore Cooper

This is a gripping maritime story about two whaling ships on a long and cold journey to the shores of Antarctica in search of dangerous goods. Two Sea Lions two ships, two captains, two crews! Will they become enemies or friends in the prickly ice that threatens to crush them all. And only the scarlet blood of whales, majestic animals, mixes with the white waves of the ocean in the silence of snowy cliffs.

A Horses Tale

Mark Twain

It was interesting how Twain switched between stories. For example, a horse started a story from a first-person perspective. At first, people told, then letters told about past events, often to characters who do not participate in the events of history, and, finally, animals told other animals about the dialogue.

Boscobel, or, The Royal Oak. A Tale of the Year 1651

William Harrison Ainsworth

The novel clearly includes a huge amount of historical research. And then there is the geography associated with it Charles always stops in the middle of his flight to admire this or that beautiful prospect. The author also gives us the latest news about what happened to all these places. The author uses Boscobel as a guide to follow Charles steps.

Dekameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Dekameron to zbiór stu nowel, kompozycyjnie porównywalnych do Baśni stu i jednej nocy, które opowiadają o kulturze i obyczajach w renesansowych Włoszech. Dekameron oznacza dziesięć dni, podczas których dziesięcioro mieszkańców Florencji opuszcza miasto w obawie przed szerzącą się zarazą. Podczas wędrówki każdy z nich opowiada historię na zadany temat. Historie te były na tyle kontrowersyjne, że powieść trafiła w XVI w. do indeksu ksiąg zakazanych.

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.