An American Girl in London

Sara Jeannette Duncan

Mamie Vick from Chicago, USA travels alone to London to do some sightseeing, with the full approval of her family. Mamie does all the typical American tourist stuff; she visits Madame Tussauds, London Zoo, Epsom Derby, boat races in Oxford. The protagonist is full of little unexpected insights and surprises.

Leviathan. Or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan is a multilevel treatise that, by the type of gradation, begins to explain simple concepts, moving on to more complex categories, revealing the essence of a persons life, his actions and actions; essence of the state, supreme authority and contract; religion and Christianity. This book is very useful for understanding how the English Revolution influenced peoples minds; to understand some of the basics of English courts, moral philosophy. This book has had a great influence on the development of philosophy and is still read with great interest.

Michael

E.F. Benson

There has never been a city that would be so inimitable. Most trains, too, completely ignore its existence and pass through it on the way to more useful stops. The story was supposed to strengthen many people during the First World War. The book is full of sentimentalism, but it describes well the different scenes of everyday life.

Her Murderer

Mary Cholmondeley

A mysterious story of a murder, which, by the name, makes it clear that in tension the plot will hold on to the end. A phrase that makes you immediately pay attention to a sharp plot: I could not be really happy with a husband whose hands were red with gore.

Zdzich szuka matki. Powieść morska dla młodzieży

Jim Poker

Jim Poker to jeden z pseudonimów literackich Juliana Mieczysława Ginsberta (18921948), używany obok Inż. J.G. i Kpt. Nemo. Ginsbert był polskim inżynierem mechanikiem, porucznikiem Wojska Polskiego i komandorem porucznik Marynarki Wojennej. Pracował jako dziennikarz, pisarz, publicysta oraz reżyser w dziedzinie marynistyki. Brał udział w obu wojnach światowych. Zdzich szuka matki to podróżnicza powieść dla młodzieży. W ciepły i wzruszający sposób opowiada o przygodach chłopaka próbującego odnaleźć rodzicielkę.

The Younger Set

Robert W. Chambers

This is one of Chambers most popular novels. It has been translated into several other languages around the world. The story begins with who Selwyn is. Lots of questions, lots of mysteries. But that just makes it more interesting to read.

Śnieg. Dramat w czterech aktach

Stanisław Przybyszewski

Realistyczno-symboliczny dramat Stanisława Przybyszewskiego, po raz pierwszy wystawiony w 1903 roku. Opowiada o wydarzeniach, które rozgrywają się zimą w dworku szlacheckim. Kazimierz oraz Bronka, brat i żona Tadeusza, oczekują jego powrotu do domu. Pod nieobecność męża Bronka zaprasza również dawną przyjaciółkę Ewę. Nie wie jednak, że jest ona dawną miłością jej męża. Ich spotkanie burzy dotychczasowy spokój i harmonię w życiu Tadeusza.

Rhetoric

Aristotle

It can be seen from the book that at that time rhetoric was used to a greater extent in the courts, and Aristotle writes a lot about judicial speeches, how to convince judges and jurors, and sometimes goes into consideration of laws. Also, rhetoric was used in deliberative and laudatory speeches, in the modern century this is no longer so relevant. The second part of the book describes human passions. Aristotle, as always, in his style from all sides examined anger, mercy, shame, fear and other human passions, so that it was clear how to evoke a particular feeling in people in his speech.

In Search of the Unknown

Robert W. Chambers

The protagonist narrator serves as a common thread for stories that also feature humor. A young scientist travels the world in the footsteps of mysterious animals. This is an ironic and fantastic adventure of a self-confident biologist.

Baron Olson och andra historier

Sigge Strömberg

Baron Olsson och andra historier är en samling korta, blandade kserier om klurigheter, drskaper, ffänga, girighet mm.                                        

The New Magdalen

Wilkie Collins

The adopted daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is a beauty who is waiting for a profitable marriage. What is her past hiding? Will the Princess have the courage to turn into Cinderella, to sacrifice love and wealth?

The Doctrine of the Mean

Confucius

The Doctrine of the Mean is a text rich in symbolism and a guide to cultivation. The goal of the doctorine meaning is to maintain balance and harmony from the direction of the mind to a state of constant equilibrium. A person who follows the average is on the path of duty and should never leave it.

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

A woman named Lysistrata, determined to stop the senseless war, gathers women from all over Greece in the square in front of the Acropolis of Athens. She offers them until the men make peace do not sleep with them, do not give them, do not touch them! . With difficulty and after much debate and bickering, women agree. They take refuge in the Acropolis and do not admit anyone to themselves. The entire civilian population is divided into two camps: women and the elderly

Henry Dunbar. The Story of an Outcast

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Dunbar is the heir to a large English banking firm, but makes a serious mistake in his youth. His father and uncle expel him to India for his sins. Of course, everything is not so serious, since its isolation includes the leadership of their Indian branch. Then, after the death of his father, he returns to England. All this happens in the first few chapters!

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Little Kim meets an amazing man, a Tibetan llama, who descended from the mountains to the plains of India in search of a wonderful river. The Lama is kind, modest, but full of knowledge and driven by the idea of the Way and Wheel of life. Kim immediately becomes sympathetic to him and joins the llama on his journey. Kim feels that he would like to understand this man, to know him, "to appropriate him." Kipling very accurately expresses complex feelings, so on each page you can wait for the phrase phrase.

Tekturowy człowiek. Powieść

Aleksander Błażejowski

Tekturowy człowiek, ostatni tom trylogii osnutej wokół sekretów zaginionej walizki, przynosi wreszcie upragnione odpowiedzi. Romans baronowej Teitelberg zostaje nagle przerwany za sprawą ujawnienia prawdziwej tożsamości jej kochanka. Ten uporczywie usiłuje odnaleźć ukochaną. Jednak na jego drodze staje zagadkowa i przerażająca postać tekturowego człowieka. Bieg zdarzeń znów prowadzi do dawnej zbrodni w berlińskiej willi... Aleksander Błażejowski (18901940) polski pisarz i dziennikarz, zapisał się w historii jako autor pierwszej polskiej powieści kryminalnej.