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Anatol France

Rewolucja francuska, epoka terroru. Główny bohater Ewaryst Gamelin zdobywa pracę jako prawnik. Jego początkowa sprawiedliwość wraz z kolejnymi awansami i zmianą statusu społecznego ustępuje miejsca tyranii. Ewaryst skazuje niewinnych ludzi na śmierć.

Above the Law

Max Brand

Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author best known for his thoughtful Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres, he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. In his first western tale, Above the Law... Max Brand, villain, the bandit Black Jim, has the books of Scott, Shakespeare, Poe, Byron, Malory at his bunk. Poetic passages are found in practically every Max story. Black Jim loses his heart when he discovers love and a new identity in the Old West. Brands first western story is a timeless tale of new identity and love in the Old West.

The Blockade Runners

Jules Verne

The Civil War is tearing apart the North American United States. The Union Fleet blocked the Confederate seacoast, interrupting all sea trade, and European merchants suffer big losses from this. One of Glasgows trading houses is building a high-speed ship capable of breaking through the blockade and bringing unheard of profits. But on board the ship, not only those seeking benefits will set sail.

Nowele i opowiadania

Władysław Stanisław Reymont

Nowele i opowiadania Reymonta rozgrywają się zarówno w środowisku miejskim, jak i wiejskim. Cechą charakterystyczną tych utworów jest połączenie realistycznie traktowanej tematyki obyczajowej z naturalistyczną obserwacją rzeczywistości. Autor odtwarza ponury obraz świata nizin społecznych, życia, które poznał z autopsji. Odmalowuje w utworach straszliwą nędzę, wyzysk i izolację społeczną. W tomie znalazły się następujące utwory: Z ziemi chełmskiej, Pewnego dnia..., Przed świtem, Suka oraz Tomek Baran.

The Survivors of the Chancellor. Diary of J.R. Kazallon, Passenger

Jules Verne

The book Chansler. The Diary of a Passenger by J.-R. Casallon Jules Verne is based on real events, which gives her great interest. The theme of sea voyage of ships is one of the leading ones in the authors novels. On one of the cargo ships there was a fire of cotton, the crew and passengers were forced to build a raft and leave the ship, which was no longer rescue. The whole novel is dedicated to the misfortunes of the surviving people, whose fate is not at all enviable.

Summer

Edith Wharton

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Whartons Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young womans sexual awakening. Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behavior increasingly disturbs her. When a young city architect Lucius Harney visits for the summer, it offers Charity the chance to break free. But as they embark on an intense affair, will it bring her another kind of trap? Praised for its realism and honesty by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flauberts Madame Bovary, Summer remains as fresh and powerful a novel today as when it was first written.

The Darling and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This study is about how a rich man falls in love with a woman who simply does not care about him. He is confident that a woman will make his life better. After a moment, we observe the story of unloved people who had to get married. Of course, the end will be instructive for many readers.

Outlaws of Palouse

Zane Grey

Kidnapping Collie Younger: When Rod Brecken stole the most beautiful and outrageous flirting mistress who ever made the cowboy crazy, this is just the lesson she needs; but Rod may have tasted more than he can chew on. Palaces persecutors: Dale Brittenham follow the footsteps of the horse thieves to bring to justice before angry runners overtake them.

The Agony Column

Earl Derr Biggers

Geoffrey West falls in love at first sight with a girl in a hotel breakfasting with her father. Theyre all Americans, but the scene is London on the eve of the Great War. Both Geoffrey and his ladylove Marian are reading the personals (The Agony Column) of the Daily Mail. Later that day he has an idea to place an ad to catch her attention, and vows to send her a letter each day for a week to win her heart. Each letter becomes more interesting than the previous because West finds himself entangled in a murder mystery with new twists each day. To say more about what transpires would spoil the fun. The lightness of the story contrasts interestingly with the grim mood of England as Germany mobilizes.

The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Autor anonimowy

Confessions is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Heartfelt, incisive, and timeless, The Confessions of Saint Augustine has captivated readers for more than fifteen hundred years. The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. Philosophically and theologically brilliant, sincere in its feeling, and both grounded in history and strikingly contemporary in its resonance, The Confessions of Saint Augustine is a timeless classic that will persist as long as humanity continues to long for meaning in life and peace of soul.

Czerwone koło

Maurice Leblanc

Skomplikowana fabuła i narastające napięcie czynią tę powieść pasjonującą lekturą. Aura tajemniczości i grozy pozwalają zakwalifikować utwór jako świetny thriller. Zapraszamy do lektury...

Miss Brown of X.Y.O

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This novel was written in 1926, almost ten years after the Russian revolution. The nature and tragedy of the Soviet revolution and the new regime are clearly described in this novel. The ruthless and deadly power of Soviet communism tries to extend its reach to the Trade Unions of the postwar United Kingdom. The activities of various secret agents, civilian, commercial, military and cultural are described in this book.

Césarine Dietrich

George Sand

Événements se déroulant dans la ville de Berry. Les livres examinent la vulnérabilité des femmes de haut rang aux commérages et le concept selon lequel certaines femmes sont si inhabituelles que lamour et le mariage traditionnels ne peuvent tout simplement pas sintégrer leur vie. André est un jeune noble éduqué, mais sans métier ni ambition, lorsquil tombe amoureux de la belle et sensible Genevieve, créatrice de fleurs artificielles. Sa vie change completement apres une relation amoureuse.

The Ship of Ishtar

A. Merritt

The goddess of love and beauty was adrift on an enchanted ocean in a magic world. The myriad forces of satanic evil plagued the vessel of the red-haired, passionate goddess. Only one man, John Kenton, the American adventurer, WWI vet and archaeologist, could save Ishtars priestess from the black magic which divides her world from ours. Written in 1924, The Ship of Ishtar is a universally hailed classic of the fantasy novel by A. Merritt and is, on surface at least, an obvious early product of Pulps Golden Age. Merritt was influential upon the science fiction and fantasy world primarily through the imaginative power he displayed in the creation of desirable alternative worlds and realities.

The Secret Agent. A Simple Tale

Joseph Conrad

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in Londons Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. Verloc is part of a group of anarchists who believe in overthrowing the government and who also function as somewhat ineffective terrorists. The group mainly produces anarchist pamphlets called F.P. (The Future of the Proletariat) and hold private meetings among themselves. The agent is secretly employed by a foreign embassy, probably Russia, to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. The Secret Agent is a a story set earlier (1886) telling an allegory of terrorists and anarchists based in Edwardian England. The complicated plot is masterful, the prose sophisticated, and the characterizations full and engrossing. The death of an innocent is heartrending. Joseph Conrad is often considered the best writer of the 19th century.

Potop

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Potop to druga z trzech powieści historycznych będących częścią Trylogii Henryka Sienkiewicza. Akcja utworu rozgrywa się w latach 16551657 w okresie potopu szwedzkiego. W powieści przeplata się wątek walk polsko-szwedzkich z historią miłosną Andrzeja Kmicica i Oleńki Billewiczówny. Zaręczony z Oleńką Billewiczówną chorąży orszański Andrzej Kmicic opowiada się początkowo po stronie kolaborującego ze Szwedami potężnego rodu magnackiego Radziwiłłów. Uznany przez szlachtę i narzeczoną za zdrajcę, zaczyna poniewczasie rozumieć, że Radziwiłłom chodzi nie o dobro ojczyzny, lecz o własne interesy. Aby odkupić winy, pod przybranym nazwiskiem Babinicz bierze udział w obronie Jasnej Góry, własną piersią osłania króla Jana Kazimierza przed wrogami i bohatersko walczy z nieprzyjacielem.