Autorki. Obrazek sceniczny w jednym akcie

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz to nie tylko autor niezapomnianych powieści i nowel, lecz także twórca sztuk scenicznych. Laureat literackiej Nagrody Nobla był także świetnym dramaturgiem. Sztuka Autorki ukazuje dwie dwunastoletnie siostry cioteczne Marynię i Helenkę. Panny postanowiły napisać nieprzyzwoitą powieść, wydać ją drukiem, a następnie zabawić się w dorosłych, którzy odebraliby im tę lekturę jako niedozwoloną dla młodzieży.

The Night Born

Jack London

Romance and adventure, the majestic nature and extreme conditions, strong and independent heroes Jack Londons stories are extremely popular, more than a hundred adaptations of works are known. In a small work, Born in the Night, the author shows how the benefits of civilization are inferior to the forest and to a huge concept called Freedom. A woman who stumbles upon abandoned bags of gold does not become a noble lady with a wardrobe, but leads a small tribe.

Bajki i przypowieści

Ignacy Krasicki

Zbiór Bajek i przypowieści został wydany przez Ignacego Krasickiego w 1779 r. Składa się ze 117 krótkich bajek epigramatycznych, podzielonych na cztery główne części i Przydatek (11 utworów), poprzedzonych wierszami Do dzieci i Wstęp do bajek. W większości są to utworzy oryginalne, chociaż niektóre nawiązują do bajek orientalnych, starożytnych (Ezop, Fedrus) i nowożytnych (Jean de La Fontaine, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert). Krasicki śmieje się w bajkach z ludzkich wad, głupoty i pospolitych przywar. Stara się jednocześnie wskazywać właściwe metody postępowania. Z lektury bajek wyłania się z nich dość ponury obraz rzeczywistości oraz wad Polaków. Wizja ta zostaje jednak przez poetę złagodzona humorem i ostrzem satyry. Bajki ujmują też czytelnika swą prostolinijnością, prostotą i jasnością konstrukcji.

Selected Stories

Talbot Mundy

The Soul Of A Regiment(Adventure, February 1912) SO long as its colors remain, and there is one man left to carry them, a regiment can never die; they can recruit it again around that one man, and the regiment will continue on its road to future glory with the same old traditions behind it and the same atmosphere surrounding it that made brave men of its forbears. So although the colors are not exactly the soul of a regiment, they are the concrete embodiment of it, and are even more sacred than the person of a reigning sovereign.The Pillar Of Light(Everbodys Magazine, Dec 1912)No birds twittered. There was nothing, either animal or human, amid the awful desolation of the Twelve Apostles, that seemed glad to greet the dawn. Aloes were the only thing that grew there, unless you count the sickly-looking patch of vegetables, some twenty feet by twenty, that succeeding reliefs of sergeants had coaxed on to the bald, hot hideous rock to make them homesick.Sam Bagg Of The Gabriel Group(The Saturday Evening Post, Mar 11, 1916)He was an even-tempered man, but it was not considered wise to approach him when he stood in that place, in just that attitude; and Luther, the imported half-breed missionary, hid himself among the plantains that formed the outer fringe of Baggs little garden, round the thatched bungalow.The Real Red Root(The Crescent, Jun 1919)BY birth and speech Dan Ivan is United States American, descended probably from Russian exiles, although he denies it and weaves theories to prove another derivation of his name. I met him first six thousand feet above sea level, where the lions were hungry on account of frosty nights and water was scarce; and hearing his voice before he came in view I thought at first it was a womans, for it was suggestive of a song about ideals.The Bell On Hell Shoal(The Passing Show, Jul 15, 1933)JOE MOLYNEUX told this story. We were sprawling on my rug on a Florida beach, staring at Hell Shoal, where the big new bell-buoy swam. The gulls and terns were waiting for the tide, half asleep on the abandoned hulk of Sharpes million-dollar yacht.The Avenger(This Week, May 16, 1937)"THERES only one thing worse than corruption when it comes to enforcing the law, and thats sentiment, said Quinn. He glanced through my library window at the distant row of eucalyptus. If I wasnt your friend, Id have raided that queer group at the end of your garden long before this. Theyre all tramps. Now I have a warrant for the one they call Sirdarhis right name is Duleep Singh. What makes you think hell be here tonight? Companions In Arms(Adventure, Nov 1937)John Lawrence Burnham joined the regiment in Flanders, nineteen, green from an English public school and Woolwich, rushed through special courses for the war. He had been born in Rajputana. The first words he had ever learned to speak were Rajasthani. His father, who had commanded the regiment, was killed near Dargai, and the only son, aged seven, went to England with his mother, to be schooled and, if he pleased, to forget and to be forgotten. He remembered. He used Rajasthani in his dreams, that were all of turbaned, bearded horsemen, the smell of harness, and the thunder of lance-shod squadrons knee-to-knee.Making 10,000(McClures Magazine, April 1913)"Said hed no time for hereditary boneheadsdashed if I know what a bonehead is, exactly, but Ill bet its something rudeand that he wouldnt let his daughter marry one on any terms! Said there were boneheads enough in the States, without coming across the water to find one! He added a lot of tommy-nonsense about the idea of an aristocracy being all wrong anyhow. So I asked him whether hed have liked me any better if Id been a brick-layer! The Lady And The Lord(The All-Story Magazine, Jun 1911)An actress who is not exactly in the first flight is bound to be more or less of a nomad; so there was nothing particularly astonishing in not hearing from Mrs. Crothers for several months. True, she might have written; but if she were ever to become famous, her autograph would be valuable for its very rarity, for she seldom wrote to anyone.Kitty Burns Her Fingers (The All-Story Magazine, Jul 1911)KITTY CROTHERS perennially hard up working at her profession for a few months, doing one-night stands all over the country, and returning to spend her hard-earned savings along Broadway we all of us knew and understood; but Kitty Crothers with money was something to make the gods on Olympus sit up and take notice.The Hermit And The Tiger(American Cavalcade, Nov 1937)It was many months before I saw a tiger, in full moonlight, in the graveyard at Mount Abu in Rajputana, where the legends on more than half the tombstones read from wounds inflicted by a tiger. He was insolent, arrogant, splendid, and I think he knew I watched him. At intervals he stood snarling and muttering as if he sneered at the names on the tombs of the men who had died of wounds from his ancestors fangs. It was a weird experience. I had no rifle. I could only watch.Mystic India Speaks(True Mystic Science, Dec 1938)MANY years ago, in Rajputana, the writer climbed several thousand feet above sea level for a moonlight view of an historic landscape. He was, in those days, an opinionated young Englishman, rather recently from public school, educated in the traditional white mans burden theory of empire and in the Church of England attitude toward religion. After months of wandering in India, it was only just beginning to dawn on his not very observant, nor particularly critical, but rather idly curious mind, that virtue is neither racial, national, nor even international, but universal; and that possibly lots of Western theories are wrong.

Zwierciadlana zagadka

Deotyma

Zwierciadlana zagadka to powieść słynnej improwizatorki romantycznej Jadwigi Łuszczewskiej, działającej pod pseudonimem Deotyma. Pisarka osadziła utwór w rozwijającej się powoli konwencji fantastycznonaukowej. Opowiada w nim zaskakującą historię lustra, które zapamiętuje wszystkie odbicia i dzięki temu umożliwia obserwację przeszłości. Jakie perypetie mogą z tego wyniknąć?

Les Enfants du capitaine Grant

Jules Verne

Le capitaine Grant sest embarqué dans un voyage dangereux pour établir une colonie écossaise sur les îles du Pacifique. Mais son navire est en ruine et seule une note moitié floue dans la bouteille contient des fragments dinformations concernant Grant. Lord Glenarvan ses risques et périls et poursuit une qute en emmenant avec lui les enfants du capitaine Mary et Robert. Le chemin des braves voyageurs séleve travers les montagnes et les pampas du continent américain, de la Nouvelle-Zélande, de lAustralie et des vastes étendues de locéan Pacifique, o de nombreuses aventures les attendent.

Sylvie and Bruno

Lewis Carroll

The main character is in front of 2 worlds. One is the real world. Another is a world that occurs during sleep. In real life, an ordinary man will introduce a quiet life. Communicates with friends, leads discussions. And in a dream, he dreams of meeting a ten-year-old princess Sylvie and her five-year-old brother Bruno. Sylvie and Bruno find out that their father is actually a fairytale king, and therefore they are a fairytale prince and princess. In the end, the two stories unite as Sylvie and Bruno begin to appear in the real world.

Die Macht der Drei

Hans Dominik

Im Jahr 1955 droht das britische Empire zu zerfallen, denn Kanada und Australien wollen einen Zollverbund mit den USA bilden. Letztendlich erklären nach kriegerischen Provokationen die Briten den USA den Krieg. In diesem Moment greift die Macht der Drei ein: Drei Männer (der Deutsche Sylvester Bursfeld, der Schwede Erik Truwor und der Inder Soma Atma) mit einer neuartigen, gefährlichen Waffe, dem telenergetischen Strahler. Sämtliches Kriegsgerät der Erde wäre wirkungslos gegen die Macht dieses Strahlers. Mit den telenergetischen Strahlen ist es möglich, jeden Punkt der Erde zu sehen und zu erreichen, Brände zu entfachen, Explosionen auszulösen und dadurch in Kämpfe einzugreifen. Die Drei möchten ihre Macht einsetzen, um der Erde einen neuen Krieg zu ersparen. Doch sie haben einen gefährlichen Gegner: Ein Amerikaner mit hypnotischen Fähigkeiten versucht mit allen Mitteln, die Macht an sich zu greifen.

The Young Forester

Zane Grey

This essay is often considered a childrens book, The Young Forester is following the young Kenneth, in his quest to become a forester. After he received his fathers permission to go west to work with a friend of childhood, Ken sees a devastating operation that cuts down the trees and leaves nothing behind. Throughout the text, Ken struggled with woodcutters to preserve the Penetrari Forest and the future of the industry. The book is written at a time when the United States government began to understand conservatism in communicating with the natural world; history is spinning around the same problems that many people have experienced. Between the main story, the strong characters and the perfectly detailed environment, this book made me be a forester.

The Ambassadors

Henry James

The novel comes from what is called Jamess late period. The writing is mannered, baroque, complex, and focused intently on the psychological relationships between his characters. There is very little plot here in the conventional sense. Much of the interest in the narrative is centred on the limitations of the principal character, from whose point of view the story is told. Lambert Strether is a morally upright, middle-aged American who feels that life has passed him by. He wants to do the right thing, but finds himself somewhat out of his depth when he visits Paris which Walter Benjamin called the capital of the nineteenth century. In general, The Ambassadors describes a visit to Europe in the early 20th century by Americans to find and retrieve a wayward family member, and the complex cross-cultural interactions between the Americans and the Europeans.

La Clique dorée

Émile Gaboriau

Quon naccuse personne. Je meurs volontairement. Je prie Mme Chevassat de porter leur adresse les lettres jointes. Henriette. Une jeune fille du comte de la Ville-Handry, Melle Henriette, vaincue par une vie difficile et dans une misere extreme décide de mourir. Un vieux brocanteur sauve la fille et trouve deux lettres quelle a laissé avant de mourir. Il les récupere discretement et cela va changer la destin tous les deux...

Gobseck

Honoré de Balzac

Originally published in 1830, here we have perhaps Balzacs best short work, named simply Gobseck. Gobseck is a marvelous sketch of a money-lender and miser in Paris during the early part of the nineteenth century who is a font of psychological insight when it comes to humankinds greed, vanity and other dark motives. His philosophy of never helping anyone because adversity is the greatest of all teachers was well known. He also believed that all the peoples of the world were really very much alike because money was the greatest common denominator. It gives us Gobsecks history through the eyes of Derville who later becomes the attorney for Colonel Chabert. Episodic in nature, the story moves rapidly, touching not only on Gobseck but on other characters of The Human Comedy, a collection of over 90 novels and stories in which Balzac attempts to depict all the myriad aspects of French society.

As a Thief in the Night

R. Austin Freeman

R. Austin Freeman was one of the best mystery writers ever and this book is one to prove it. Harold Monkhouse is a very sick man but no one including his doctor seems to know what is wrong with him. When he is found dead of arsenic poisoning, his brother demands an investigation and everyone in the household is a suspect. Who was behind this cruel death; the loving wife, Barbara; her friend, Madeline or Wallingford, the rather eccentric secretary? They all inherit something when Harold Monkhouse dies. Rupert, their loyal friend enlists the help of Dr. Thorndyke who with a lot of twists and turns solves the case. In researching the crime, Thorndyke and his charming assistant Polton do some fascinating analyses with X-rays. And the reader learns a lot about the versatility of arsenic in the hands of a creative murderer.

Goldelse

Eugenie Marlitt

Elisabeth lebt mit ihrem Bruder und ihren Eltern zusammen bis ihr Onkel sie dazu auffordert mit ihrer Familie auf sein Schloss Gnadeck zu ziehen, das seit Jahrhunderten von der adeligen Familie Gnadewitz bewohnt wird. Wird sie dort ihr Glück finden? Elisabeth, liebevoll wegen ihres schönen blonden Haares auch Goldelse genannt, kann sich nicht vorstellen was es bedeutet jemanden leidenschaftlich zu lieben und glaubt es gäbe keine andere Liebe als die zu Eltern und Geschwistern, bis sie sich in Herrn von Walde verliebt, der ihr anfänglich erst böse und dunkel erscheint. Schließlich heiraten sie doch und werden mit einem Kind ins Leben entlassen. Der melodramatische Roman erzählt die Geschichte der kranken Helene von Walde, die noch vor ihrem Tod ihren Bruder mit der Goldelse zusammenbringen möchte...

Dubliners

James Joyce

Life is full of missed opportunities and hard decisions. Sometimes its difficult to know what to actually do. Dubliners creates an image of an ever movie city, of an ever moving exchange of people who experience the reality of life. A collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce all set in Dublin and first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish Middle class life in around Dublin in the early years of the 20th Century. There are two types of stories in Dubliners. The first, and by far the most effective, are those associated with despair, nihilism and death. The second type deals with more ordinary aspects of modern life, the representation of the city and social exchanges. As a collection they provide an image of dark, murky city struggling to cope with the problems associated with rapid urbanisation.

The Trail to Yesterday

Charles Alden Seltzer

Originally published in 1913, it was one of the earliest works of Western fiction by Charles Alden Seltzer and played a significant role in popularizing that genre. A story of the Old West in which an American girl from the East finds herself confronted with a strange type of man dwelling in the shadow of an ancient grudge. Dakota, the man, first convinces her that he is a brute beyond redemption and then gradually wins her back to the belief in his own essential manliness. Before this happens, however, there has been an attempted bribe, an attempted murder that seems the response to the bribe and a wild ride through the night, that ends at Dakotas shack. Highly recommended for lovers of Western fiction.