Śmierć. Studium

Ignacy Dąbrowski

Śmierć. Studium to debiutancka powieść Ignacego Dąbrowskiego, wydana w 1893 r. Stanowi naturalistyczne studium osoby umierającej młodego człowieka, studenta, zaskoczonego przez śmierć u progu życia. Kontrowersyjna oraz wstrząsająco aktualna tematyka wynikająca z powszechności umieralności na suchoty na przełomie XIX i XX wieku zdecydowała o olbrzymiej poczytności książki. Sprzyjał jej także dekadencki nastrój epoki. Dziennik studenta dokumentuje kolejne fazy postawy wobec zbliżającej się śmierci: niedowierzanie, bunt, gniew, próby walki oraz pogodzenie się z wyrokiem. Jednak ostateczny wniosek jest jednoznaczny: wszyscy umieramy tak samo nieprzygotowani.

North of Fifty-Three

Rex Beach

Rex Beach is an American writer, playwright, and Olympic water polo champion. Big George was drinking and the little Arctic mining camp was paralyzed. He was central to the North Club.

Brother of the Cheyennes

Max Brand

Rusty Sabin was born to white parents but brought up by the Cheyenne Indians. Raised by Spotted Antelope and Bitter Root, Rusty, now known as Red Hawk, refuses the compulsory and brutal initiation into the tribe when he is fifteen. But in his twenties, Red Hawk sets out to take his place among white people. Rusty doesnt know much about the white mans ways especially a white man like Bill Tenney. A thief Tenney is only interested in one thing Rustys white stallion, considered sacred among the Cheyennes. Meanwhile Major Marston is determined to come between Rusty and his sweetheart, Maisry, and the Cheyennes do all they can to compel Rusty to return to his tribe. Brothers of the Cheyennes is the second installment of the Rusty Sabin trilogy by an American fiction author Max Brand.

Mother

Maxim Gorky

The novel Mother, one of Gorkys most popular works, was based on the mass demonstration of 1902 in the city of Sormovo. Hence, an exciting plot based on real events, with a sharp political struggle, secret gatherings, searches, arrests, and the selfless heroism of the main revolutionary hero Pavel Vlasov. However, the central image in the novel is Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, the mother of the hero, one of the most striking and exciting characters in Russian literature, symbolizing the eternal image of the Mother endowed with the gift of unlimited love and patience.

Marguerite de Valois

Alexandre Dumas

Alexander Dumas invites us to be guests at this wedding, which will soon be called bloody. Just a few days later, a tragedy will occur. Bartholomews night will happen, in which many Huguenots, including Admiral de Coligny, are destined to die. What will happen to the young Heinrich of Navarre, will he be able to avoid the fate of his co-religionists? And Margarita, what will be her behavior in the current difficult circumstances?

Zebranie amorów. Komedia heroiczna w jednym akcie

Pierre de Marivaux

Jednoaktowa komedia francuskiego pisarza i dramaturga Pierrea de Marivauxa, rozgrywająca się w realiach mitologicznych. Dwóch bogów miłości Amor, reprezentujący miłość cnotliwą, oraz Kupidyn, zwolennik gwałtownego pożądania musi udowodnić przed greckimi bogami, która z miłości jest bardziej właściwa dla ludzi. Obaj zmuszeni są do konkurencji, podczas której zalecają się do upersonifikowanej Cnoty.

Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver who marries one of his patients, a wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgeralds words, un homme épuisé (a used-up man). The novel explores how love can be won, lost, and perverted by the myriad forces that shape our lives, including money, illness, and politics.

The Owl Taxi

Hulbert Footner

Suppose you were a young and very rich New Yorker, and you suddenly lost all your money. Suppose you met a taxi-driver and for reasons good to both you agreed to exchange identities. Suppose, having started up Fifth Avenue in the old taxi at one a.m., you were about to admit your first fare when you discovered a dead body already occupying the car. Humor, espionage, romance, and adventure make this novel thrilling.

The Gay Rebellion

Robert W. Chambers

This book is not a flowing novel, but rather a collection of experiences. Young men with good looks and health are kidnapped and married to young women from the eugenics suffragette movement to breed a perfect race of beautiful and intelligent people.

Mapp and Lucia

E.F. Benson

The fourth installment of the popular series-a hilarious study of 1930s manner and pecking order-begins when Lucia Lucas rents a summer place-the home of Elizabeth Mapp-in the English village of Tilling. So begins a battle of one-upmanship, peppered with queenly airs, ghastly tea parties, and unnerving bridge evenings as the two combatants attempt to out-do each other to win social supremacy. The pompous Lucia and malignant Mapp are characters you will love to hate, wonderfully penned by E.F. Benson.

Детские годы (Lata dzieciństwa). Из воспоминаний Меркула Праотцева

Николай Семёнович Лесков, Nikołaj Siemionowicz Leskow

Великий русский писатель Н. С. Лесков стремился в своем творчестве постигнуть жизнь разных классов, социальных групп, сословий, создать многокрасочный, сложный, во многом еще не изученный образ всей страны в один из самых трудных периодов ее существования. Данная повесть возникла в сложный период пересмотра Н. С. Лесковым своего творческого и идейного пути. Писатель почувствовал потребность вернуться к годам киевской молодости, когда фрески древних художников впервые зажгли в нем огонь любви к творческому истолкованию мира. Поэтому не случайно, что повесть о Меркуле Праотцеве 2013 страстном и мятежном человеке, глубоко одаренном художнике, прошедшем через многие житейские испытания и очутившемся в келье монастыря, содержит много автобиографического материала. Действие в ней протекает в основном в Киеве в 40201350-е годы. В 1849 г. здесь впервые появился и юноша Лесков.

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.

Tales of the Fish Patrol

Jack London

This is a collection of short stories by Jack London. The action of the stories takes place in the bay of San Francisco, in the center of the plot is the activity of the local fish surveillance. The narration is conducted in the first person, the narrator is the owner of the reindeer sloop, chartered by a fishing company to patrol the bay in order to prevent illegal fishing methods. Another main character is Charlie Le Grant, if not involved in the events, then at least mentioned in each story.

Новь (Nowizna)

Иван Сергеевич Тургенев, Iwan Siergiejewicz Turgieniew

Последний роман великого русского писателя Тургенева посвящен народническому движению конца 60-x 2013 начала 70-х годов XIX столетия, которое вошло в историю под названием «хождение в народ». В романе 201eНовь201d раскрывается тема трагедии русского интеллигента, честного, умного, одаренного, но вечно мятущегося, не способного ни жить в мире с собой, ни отдаться любви, ни быть полезным обществу. Иван Сергеевич Тургенев принадлежит к числу писателей, внесших наиболее значительный вклад в развитие русской литературы второй половины XIX в. Реальная картина современной жизни в его произведениях овеяна глубоким гуманизмом, верой в творческие и нравственные силы родного народа, в прогрессивное развитие русского общества.

The Insulted and the Injured

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The book contains several topics: the relationship between a man and a woman before marriage, the betrayal of loved ones and their forgiveness, fathers and children. As the life stories of two women are almost the same, as Ivan tried to prevent the same end for Natasha. The breaking lives of good people because of unclean ones on hand.

Clung

Max Brand

Another great Western by Max Brand aka Frederick Faust, Clung is one his most memorable and intriguing characters. As a Western author, Brand did not shrink from controversial topics such as race relations in the Old West. There is a mystery about the birth of Clung, who is raised by an old Chinese man in a small Arizona town, but none about his skill with weapons. At first he shoots in self-defense, then recklessly to avenge an insult. With a price on his head, he begins a long journey that takes him far beyond the border country into strange and dangerous encounters. Here, readers will find the Eastern mysticism they seek, Confucian ethics, and a kind of loyalty they may not expect set against one thrilling action scene after another.