Le Comte de Monte-Cristo et autres romans historiques. MultiBook

Alexandre Dumas pere

Le roman dAlexandre Dumas Le comte de Monte-Cristo est considéré comme lune des uvres les plus marquantes de lécrivain, il peut sans aucun doute tre qualifié de chef-duvre littéraire. Cet ouvrage emmene les lecteurs en France au début du XIXe siecle, alors quil y avait de nombreuses contradictions politiques dans le pays. Les bonapartistes se sont battus secretement pour que Napoléon regne nouveau sur le pays, mais beaucoup avaient peur de sopposer ouvertement au gouvernement actuel, craignant une punition. Cest cette situation qui a joué une blague cruelle sur le personnage principal du livre. Collection de livres comprend les romans les plus populaires de lauteur: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Les Compagnons de Jéhu, Le Collier de la reine, Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge.

Hilda. A Story of Calcutta

Sara Jeannette Duncan

This book is about an actress and her growing up in a country full of secrets and strange people. Duff Lindsay faces a strange situation when he falls in love with Laura Filbert.

The Race of Life

Guy Boothby

It was almost night when this melancholy little party appeared at the main station. Dick, with great foresight, sent the food cart several miles to meet them, so my mother was relieved of pain when her husbands body was brought to his horse. Rude and rude, Dick was a thoughtful guy, and I firmly believe that he would go through fire and water to serve my mother, whom he greatly admired.

The Song of the Lark

Willa Cather

Young and ambitious Thea Kronborg leaves Moonstone, a fictional city in Colorado, for Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a pianist. The music teacher hears her voice and realizes that the girl has a gift for singing. He encourages her to continue studying vocals instead of piano.

The Black Robe

Wilkie Collins

The novel The Black Robe tells the story of a young rich heir who has fallen into the net of the Catholic Church. Only the devotion of his wife and love for his son allowed Luis Romain to throw off his heavy fetters and make the right decision.

Wódz narodu. Powieść z czasów młodości Tadeusza Kościuszki

Jerzy Orwicz

Pod pseudonimem Jerzy Orwicz ukrywała się Natalia Dzierżkówna (18611931) polska poetka, prozaiczka, tłumaczka, malarka i działaczka społeczna. Pochodziła z Podola, w Odessie zaangażowała się w działalność socjalistyczną. Po powrocie z zesłania zamieszkała w Warszawie, gdzie rozwinęła twórczość literacką i malarską. Rozgłos i uznanie przyniosły jej powieści biograficzne o Tadeuszu Kościuszce: Żywot wodza narodu (1909) i Od Dubienki do Racławic (1918).

The Gold Magnet

T.C. Bridges

The cold drizzle made Plymouth unhappy, and it was with a sigh of relief that Bruce Carey exchanged the greasy, dirty platform of North Road Station for the warm, well-lit comfort of a first-class night mail coupe for London. At first he thought that he would have a car, but when the train was getting ready to start, a man jumped into it and fell on the seat opposite Bruce. He was breathing heavily, as if running, and Bruce, looking at him, was struck by the expression on his face.

Ściana śmiechu

Światopełk Karpiński

Zbiór kilkudziesięciu satyr autorstwa Światopełka Karpińskiego wydany został w 1938 roku. Przedstawia codzienne oraz dosyć nietypowe zatargi mieszkańców przedwojennej Warszawy, które głównie mają swój finał przed sądem grodzkim. Znajdują się tu również opowiadania fantastyczne oraz pełen metafor obraz miasta nocą. Światopełk Karpiński to polski poeta i satyryk okresu międzywojennego. Do jego dzieł należy kilka zbiorów wierszy, takich jak Ludzie wśród ludzi, Mieszczański poemat, Trzynaście wierszy, a także utwory prozą: Kredą na parkanie i Ściana śmiechu.

The Mystery of an Artists Model

Fenton Ash

Written as Frank Aubrey, The Mystery of an Artists Model is a weird mystery with rationalized supernaturalism. 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.

Murder Me

Max Brand

Max Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior westerns like his Destry Rides Again, but Brand also wrote the Dr. Kildare series and numerous detective stories as well. Never before published in book form, this 1937 police procedural by veteran Brand introduces New York police detectives Campbell and ORourke. The pair investigate the apparent suicide of a philanthropist David Barry who was about to be accused of bribery and corruption prior to his death. Angus Campbell and Patrick ORourke can get the cuffs on the killer, therell be endless face-offs in which the five suspects hurl accusations at each other and reveal how many of them were popping in and out of the crowded murder scene on the fatal night.

The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In The Great Stone Face, Hawthorne compares different types of human activity. Most of them are aimed at finding success in society. But Hawthorne believes that the success of the Finnish businessman or general, who turned military affairs into a means of his personal career, or a clever politician who is uncleanly making his way to power, is an imaginary success. Even the poet, the creator of beautiful works of art, still retains a lot of vicious individualism and self-love, and only the humble young man Ernst, who devoted his life to serving people, selflessly doing good, won the favor of the author he gives preference to him and his selfless altruism proclaims the ideal of human life.

Chapters from My Autobiography

Mark Twain

Mark Twain bequeathed to publish his autobiography without cuts only a hundred years after his death, and she first saw the light in 2010. Now, finally, many readers can meet this amazingly witty book. Twains autobiography is very unusual: amusing episodes alternate with sad ones, sparkling jokes give way to serious reasoning and the large-scale personality of the writer, who has presented the world with many masterpieces, appears before us in all its versatility.

Blind Love

Wilkie Collins, Walter Besant

The loving heart of the protagonist of the novel, Iris, remains faithful to the master of her destiny. The conflict with the father does not prevent the lovers from connecting, but how does this story end?

The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson

Mark Twain

This is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. His central intrigue revolves around two boys one born into slavery, with 1/32 black pedigree; on the other, white, born to be the master of the house. Two boys who look the same turn on in infancy. Each grows into a different social role.

Legenda Młodej Polski. Studia ostrukturze duszy kulturalnej

Stanisław Brzozowski

Legenda Młodej Polski, określana jako rozprawa krytyczno-kulturowa, to jedno z najważniejszych dzieł Stanisława Brzozowskiego, uznanego krytyka literackiego, filozofa i pisarza okresu Młodej Polski. Brzozowski przeprowadził w nim wnikliwą analizę zjawisk sobie współczesnych: związków romantyzmu z Młodą Polską, kulturowych i społecznych uwarunkowań sytuacji polskiej. Z uwagi na bezkompromisową krytykę przekonań i postaw książka wzbudziła skrajne emocje od zachwytu do gwałtownej krytyki.

Żywot człowieka poćciwego. Fragmenty

Mikołaj Rej

Utwór wchodzi w skład tomu Źwierciadło wydanego w 1567/1568 w Krakowie. Stanowi podsumowanie dorobku literackiego Mikołaja Reja. Opisuje wzorcowy obraz ludzkiego życia niespiesznego, zanurzonego w pracach gospodarskich, sprawach rodzinnych, domowych, pełnego czułości dla świata i najbliższego otoczenia, optymizmu i radości z małych rzeczy. Porusza także tematy obowiązków obywatelskich oraz pogodzenia się z nieuchronnością śmierci.