Faust. Eine Tragödie

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethes (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749 1832) Faust ist das Menschheitsdrama par excellence: Die ungeheuerliche Suche nach dem, was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält, führt auch den Gelehrtesten an die Grenzen des Verstandes. Goethes Faust, hat zum Helden den Menschen an der Grenzscheide von Mittelalter und Humanismus, den Gottesmenschen, der sich aus vermessenem Erkenntnistriebe der Magie, dem Teufel ergibt. Das Schicksal Fausts, der aus unersättlichem Wissensdrang einen Pakt mit dem Teufel schließt, wird zum Gegenstand eines metaphysischen Welthandels zwischen dem an die irrende, aber gute Menschheit glaubenden Gott-Vater und Mephistopheles, der Verkörperung des Bösen. In diesem Werk spiegeln sich alle Stufen von Goethes Entwicklung vom Sturm und Drang der Jugend über die Klassik der Reifezeit bis zum großartigen späten Stil Goethes wider. Bis heute besticht der Faust durch seine fulminante Kraft und Tiefe. Zu Recht gilt die Tragödie als das bedeutendste Werk der deutschen Literatur.

Siłaczka

Stefan Żeromski

Stanisława Bozowska bohaterka utworu Siłaczka to młoda kobieta, która marzyła o studiach medycznych. Trudne warunki materialne zmusiły ją jednak do rezygnacji z marzeń o nauce. Poświęciła się realizowaniu hasła pracy u podstaw wśród ludu. Została działaczką oświatową. Poświęciła się służbie społecznej, wobec której wszystko inne stało się niezmiernie małe i nieważne.

A Gent from Bear Creek

Robert E. Howard

The stories are humorously written as if told by Breckinridge Elkins, a hillbilly with no schooling. He and his kin live in the Humboldts in Nevada. Elkins is six feet six inches tall, is as strong as a grizzly bear. He can be just as bad tempered if riled. And there is a lot to rile him, especially his relatives.

Frankenstein. The Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

Victor Frankenstein experiences an idyllic childhood in Switzerland, surrounded by a loving family and accompanied by his adored cousin Elizabeth. He is fascinated by ancient philosophers whose grandiose ambitions included looking for an Elixir of Life. After the death of his mother, his first unhappy experience, he attends University in Germany where he applies his new-found knowledge of science to manufacture a human being of enormous size and strength.

Fantazy. Dramat w pięciu aktach

Juliusz Słowacki

Słowacki w dramacie polemizuje z przedmiotowym podejściem do miłości i kontaktów międzyludzkich. Wyraża rozdarcie między prawdą a kłamstwem, kreacją romantyczną a prawdziwym uczuciem, szczerością a obłudą.

Cantique de Noël

Charles Dickens

Pour lavare Ebenezer Scrooge, Noël est un jour de plus. Mais tout cela change lorsque le fantôme de son partenaire daffaires décédé apparaît. Il avertit Scrooge de changer davis avant quil ne soit trop tard. Lénorme popularité du livre a contribué au fait que Noël était la principale fete de lAngleterre victorienne, une période de divertissement et de charité.

The Fair God. Or The Last of the Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico

Lewis Wallace

Lewis Wallace writes a very credible account of the fall of the Aztec Empire. The account is penned by the fictional Viceroy Mendoza to the Emperor. The main character talks about his respect for the Aztec nation. This is a story about the conflict between the Spanish and the Aztecs.

1925. The Story of a Fatal Peace

Edgar Wallace

This book belongs to the pen of a well-known British author of mystery genre Edgar Wallace and was written during the Great War (the WW1). It is set in a possible 1925, ten years after the war has ended. Wallace utilized his experiences of the Boer War in two Future-War novels Private Selby and 1925: The Story of a Fatal Peace. 1925 accurately predicts that a short peace would be followed by a German attack on England. As you get closer to the end you wonder how on earth Wallace can bring all this to a happy ending. But he doesnt! The Germans are coming, and the British are easy prey. A warning indeed.

Happy Pollyooly. The Rich Little Poor Girl

Edgar Jepson

Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl is a bride story. Jepson continues the story of his twelve year-old heroine, Mary Bride, known as Pollyooly. She is still acting as housekeeper to the Honorable John Ruffin, keeping his rooms spotlessly clean and grilling his bacon to the right turn. John Ruffin gets a windfall that enables him to take a seaside holiday. He takes Pollyooly and her brother along with him. Twice in the course of the story she is called to act the part of Lady Marion Ricksborough, the little peeress whom she so remarkably resembles, and in the second instance is instrumental in effecting a reconciliation between the duke and duchess, Lady Marions father and mother.

Arizona Ames

This late-period Zane Grey is one of the best of his novels. Rich Ames didnt set out to be a gunslinger it was forced on him. After the bad guys try to ruin his twin sister Nesta, Ames grabs his pistols and the bloody gunfight follows. Unfortunately, his criminal actions forces him to flee from his beloved Nesta and his happy Tonto Rim home, pursued by the law and vengeful family members. Rich soon acquired the name Arizona Ames and for years after that fateful day his name struck fear into the hearts of bad men all over the West. Certainly he was quick with a six-gun; to be sure there were many notches in the Colt he threw with such lightning rapidity; but at his core he was a good man, forced into a life of wandering for protecting his kin. Arizona Ames is a classic western full of thrill and adventure, written by the granddaddy of them all Zane Grey.

Dead Mens Money

Joseph Smith Fletcher

Another fast-paced murder mystery by J.S. Fletcher told in the first person. He wrote about 200 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Golden Age. It was first published in 1920, and has just the right stock of truly good characters, balanced by a couple of nasties. A young apprentice solicitor in a rural English town bordering Scotland, is riding his bike through lonely stretches of countryside very late in the evening, to run a strange errand for a mysterious lodger at his mothers house. He finds a recently murdered body at the end of his ride, and the mysteries keep piling up from there.

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

Before the readers comes the legendary fairy tale about Alice. In the second volume of adventures the girl is in Zaderkalli, where the world is a chessboard. There, Alice meets the Black Queen, the White Knight, the Lion, the Unicorn, the Shaltay Boltay and many other incredible characters who have been pleasing to children and adults around the world for almost a hundred and fifty years. Children will love this book.

Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard

Joseph Conrad

Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, this story of revolution, deception, and self-betrayal centers on Nostromo, a handsome Italian sailor, who, like Costaguana, is being consumed by secret guilt and corruption. The story begins halfway through the revolution, employing flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men corrupting and destroying some, revealing the strengths of others.Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrads greatest novel. The ambiguous nature of good and evil, the importance of duty, common themes in all of Conrads novels, get an epic treatment in Nostromo. Published in 1904, the book has the feel of a modern novel. Its a book about revolutions, money, and character, told through different voices, different eyes.

The Golden Pool. A Story of a Forgotten Mine

R. Austin Freeman

This novel begins with Robert Englefield, a young Englishman, taking on a job with a vessel sailing for northern Africa. Once there, Englefield is placed in the position of running the store through which the captain sells and trades his goods. As Englefield spends more and more time at this outpost on the African coast, he hears stories a legendary mine in the interior of Africa where the priests capture unwary travelers and blind them to prevent escape. Purely out of curiousity, Englefield finally decides to go looking for this mine in spite of the obvious dangers presented to a white man traveling in the rural African interior. Once Englefield departs and inevitably runs into trouble, the story finally takes on some suspense and unpredictability.

The Openers of the Gate

Elizabeth Louisa Moresby

A collection of ten short stories of supernatural phenomena, psychic events and the occult. These stories are founded on the deepest and highest range of Asiatic thought though the scenes of some are in the West. That thought is as vital for the West as for the East. The background is fictional but the stories are all true. In this connection I draw attention especially to the two entitled respectively Hell and The Man Who Saw L. Adams Beck (E. Barrington). E. Barrington started writing her novels, which commonly had an oriental setting, at the age of sixty. She was also a distinguished writer of esoteric works such as The Story of Oriental Philosophy and The Splendor of Asia, and on Theosophy.

The Governor of Chi-Foo

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace was an English novelist, journalist and playwright, who was an enormously popular writer of detective, suspense stories, and practically invented the modern thriller. His popularity at the time was comparable to that of Charles Dickens one of Wallaces publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. The Governor of Chi-Foo is a rare short story collection, long out of print which contains 16 thrilling stories: The Witney Road, Mother o Mine, The Kings Brahm, The Greek Poropolous, The Treasure of the Kalahari and others. An exiting book full of intrigue and mystery, this book is a must-read for all fans of thrilling crime fiction. Edgar Wallace provides a thrill of another sort!