Ursula

Honoré de Balzac

Ursula novel is one of the pillars of the Scenes of Provincial Life section of Honoré de Balzacs story cycle The Human Comedy. Through a series of tragedies and coincidences, a kind and pious teenager named Ursula has been taken in by an octogenarian wealthy doctor, Denis Minoret. Inspired by Ursulas goodness, Minoret decides to make her his chief heir. This incites the ire of his other relatives, and a ruthless war for Minorets estate breaks out. In this book Balzac examines the manners and morals in the French provinces and penetratingly depicts the small-mindedness, avarice, and envy of the provincial lower middle classes. In Ursula, no limitations based on morality or decency will hold these people back in their effort to acquire wealth and influence.

Niebezpieczne związki

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Historia wielkich namiętności, intryg i romansów. Bohaterowie powieści markiza de Mertenil i jej dawny kochanek wicehrabia de Valmont prowadzą niebezpieczną grę o zabarwieniu erotycznym. Powieść pełna zmysłowych opisów i zaskakujących zwrotów akcji. Książka wywołała skandal obyczajowy. Powstało wiele ekranizacji powieści.

Szatan i Judasz (Tom 10). Szatan i Judasz. Ocalone miliony

Karol May

Szatan i Judasz. Ocalone miliony to dziesiąta część z 11-tomowego cyklu przygodowego autorstwa Karola Maya. Znani z innych serii bohaterowie przemierzają świat wzdłuż i wszerz są zawsze tam, gdzie coś się dzieje i gdzie potrzebna ich pomoc. Znakomicie radzą sobie w najtrudniejszych sytuacjach, dzięki czemu udaje im się ocalić wiele istnień. Nagrodą często bywają odnalezione skarby.

Najpiękniejsze baśnie polskie

Praca zbiorowa

Klasyka baśni dla dzieci. W zbiorze znalazły się m.in. takie baśnie jak: Szklana góra, Waligóra i Wyrwidąb, Twardowski, Kwiat paproci, Z chłopa król, Królowa Bałtyku, O śpiących rycerzach w Tatrach, O Panu Jezusie i zbójnikach czy O rycerzu miłującym.

The Dark Forest

Hugh Walpole

In the first novel, which takes place in Galicia during the retreat of the Russian army in 1915, the narrator tells of a tragedy that unfolds inside a triangle: John Trenchad Maria Semenov. The theme of spiritual love in the novel is promoted by the motive of white nights. It was during this period (on white nights) that John Trenchad met Mary.

A Thorny Path

Georg Ebers, Clara Bell

A nineteenth-century novel from a German Egyptologist and novelist who discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus in Luxor. Georg Ebers wanted to familiarize the public with the discoveries of Egyptologists. The novel really describes the hard life of Egypt in the 19th century. An unusual theme for the novel was chosen, but really interesting and exciting.

Night and Day

Virginia Woolf

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is her second novel and was published in 1919. But the novel is very forward-looking in its examination of relationships under the stress of the culture shift was occurring in the early 20th century. The story takes place in pre-war England and involves four characters and their relationships. Kathryn Hillbery the middle class privileged girl whose idea of success is marriage. Ralph Denham the middle class lawyer who supports his whole family and looks for his own peace of mind. William Rodney the mediocre poet and the suffragette, looking for the kind of romanticism one finds in books. Mary round out the main characters, involved in womens rights, who regards work as her precept of living. Also in the mix is Kathryns slightly ditzy mother who while working on a book seems to be easily distracted. The characters all work well together.

The Secret of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton

Have you wondered how the great detectives solved their cases? In The Secret of Father Brown, while visiting Flambeaus house Father Brown meets a curious American who has to know as some of his countrymen think Father Brown is using mystical powers. The fourth of the Father Brown detective story collections has something the first three did not: a framing sequence at the beginning and end, in which Father Brown explains to a curious person his method for solving crimes he becomes the criminal. In this collection he becomes several jewel thieves and murderers, all of whom carry out their crimes in bizarre circumstances. Father Brown, or rather Chesterton, takes opportunity on occasion to indulge in a bit of Catholic apologetic or homiletic, but it never takes over the story: it makes Father Brown that much more a priest and not just a mystery-solving machine.

La Tentation de saint Antoine

Gustave Flaubert

Flaubert a travaillé toute sa vie sur ce travail. Un poeme dramatique en prose sur la déception des possibilités de la connaissance. Le drame philosophique La tentation de saint Antoine est basé sur la légende dAnthony of Thebes, un saint chrétien sujet la tentation. Derriere les tentations dans lâme dun ermite, le désespoir sinstalle, suscitant des doutes dans la foi.

Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales

H. Rider Haggard

Rider Haggard, just like his main character in this story, is not indifferent to Ancient Egypt. The events of the four stories take place in Africa. Here several acts overlap: extraordinary courage and an epic clash of different cultures. The main theme remains unchanged: the theme of love, which lasts until death.

Wilcze gniazdo. Powieść z czasów krzyżackich

Zuzanna Morawska

Zuzanna Morawska przenosi czytelnika w czasy średniowiecznej Litwy. Lekko i ciekawie opowiada historię księcia litewskiego Giedymina, który planuje wydanie swojej córki Aldony za syna Władysława Łokietka. Czasy początków państwa polskiego, związki z sąsiadami Litwinami i Krzyżakami do dziś rozbudzają wyobraźnię nie tylko najmłodszych czytelników.

W żydowskich rękach

Michał Bałucki

Jedna z późniejszych powieści Michała Bałuckiego. Krytyczne spojrzenie autora na otaczającą go rzeczywistość i ówczesną sytuację polityczną Polski. Świat, w którym żyją bohaterowie powieści jest pełen przemocy i niesprawiedliwości.

Ten Years Later

Alexandre Dumas

The dArtagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas telling the story of the musketeer dArtagnan from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death as a marshal of France in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673. It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. DArtagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon he learns that his old comrades already have great projects in hand. Athos seeks the restoration of Charles II, while Aramis, with Porthos in tow, has a secret plan involving a masked prisoner and the fortification of the island of Belle-Ile. DArtagnan finds a thread leading him to the French court, the banks of the Tyne, the beaches of Holland, and the dunes of Brittany. The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the 3rd and largest continuation of the Musketeer saga, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After.

Sielanki

Szymon Szymonowic

Sielanki to najważniejsze dzieło Szymona Szymonowica. W dwudziestu utworach, wydanych w 1614 r. w Zamościu, widoczne są odwołania do Teokryta, twórcy sielanki jako gatunku literackiego, oraz do Wergiliusza i Jana Kochanowskiego. Sielanki napisane są językiem wykwintnym, poetyckim, o jasnej strukturze składniowej. Odegrały wielką rolę w rozwoju twórczości sielankowej. Ukazały się w momencie popularności i dużego zapotrzebowania na literaturę tego rodzaju. W zbiorze Sielanek znalazł się, niezaliczany do tytułowego gatunku, utwór Żeńcy. Stanowi on realistyczny obraz z życia wiejskiego. W scenie pracy żeńców bierze udział troje bohaterów: łagodna Oluchna, sprytna Pietrucha oraz Starosta, okrutny mężczyzna, który nadzoruje prace polowe i pogania żeńców batem.

The Riddle of the Mysterious Light

Thomas W. Hanshew

In The Riddle of the Mysterious Light, consulting detective Hamilton Cleek is en route to meet with Scotland Yard detective Narkom when hes intercepted by a roving gang of nefarious neer-do-wells. Can he muster his mighty intellect and physical prowess and hatch a plan to escape his captors? Hamilton Cleek is the central figure in dozens of short stories that began to appear in 1910 and were subsequently collected in a series of books. Cleek is a detective as remarkable as Sherlock Holmes. He has, however, the prime quality of always being in an apparently hopeless tangle of circumstances, and he has also the genius of getting out. The Cleek stories were written by Thomas W. Hanshew, until his death in 1914. His wife, Mary E. Hanshew, then took over this popular pulp mystery series.

Desert Gold

Zane Grey

Which is the true treasure, love or money? Prospecting in an Arizona border town, Richard Gale sees the possibilities of passion and gold when he finds himself trying to save a beautiful Spanish heiress. Love, adventure, and more wait in the Old West of Zane Greys western classic Desert Gold. When Richard Gale arrives in the border country of Arizona, he hopes for a brand new start. He soon finds himself embroiled in local trouble, however, when he and an old friend a Texas Ranger attempt a daring rescue. The victim, the daughter of a murdered rancher, has been kidnapped by a cruel bandit named Rojas. Challenging him means almost certain death for Richard, but as he escapes with the beautiful seorita into the desert, his adventure turns into something unexpected.