Coming Up for Air

George Orwell

Insurance company agent George Fatty Bowling lives with his family in a featureless house among the same featureless houses in the London suburbs. When George wins some money at the races and is thinking about what to spend it on, he catches his eye on an advertising poster, and George begins to sort through his own memories memories of his childhood spent in Lower Binfield.

Pokonani

Hanna Cygler

Książka opowiada o barwnym i burzliwym życiu Hallmanów i Sarnowskich w niełatwych czasach odbudowy Polski i panującego w niej zamętu politycznego. Bohaterowie powieści próbują uwolnić się od koszmaru wojennych przeżyć, ale czy uwikłani w nie do końca nie wyjaśnione sprawy zdołają odzyskać utracony spokój... Ta pełna dramaturgii powieść skłania do refleksji nad wyborami, których dokonujemy każdego dnia i których dokonuje za nas historia.

Sztuka rymotwórcza. Poema we czterech pieśniach

Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski

Poemat składa się z czterech pieśni, w których omawiane są zasady poezji oraz formy poetyckie. Początkowo utwór miał funkcjonować jako pomoc dydaktyczna w szkołach, jednak zyskał on również popularność w środowisku poetów i czytelników poezji. Stanowi on adaptację francuskiego podręcznika poetyki klasycystycznej Sztuka poetycka Nicolasa Boileau. W przeciwieństwie do niego jednak nie uwzględnia takich gatunków, jak sonet, madrygał, rondo czy też ballada, za to opisuje polską fraszkę oraz bajkę.

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Little Kim meets an amazing man, a Tibetan llama, who descended from the mountains to the plains of India in search of a wonderful river. The Lama is kind, modest, but full of knowledge and driven by the idea of the Way and Wheel of life. Kim immediately becomes sympathetic to him and joins the llama on his journey. Kim feels that he would like to understand this man, to know him, "to appropriate him." Kipling very accurately expresses complex feelings, so on each page you can wait for the phrase phrase.

The Raw Youth

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The protagonist in the novel is a young man of 19, Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the peasant woman Sophia. From childhood, he almost did not see his parents. He was sent to a special institution for rich children, where he was always humiliated and called, a footman. And after graduating from school he receives a letter from his father, in which he calls Arkady to St. Petersburg, where the main events of the novel take place with him.

Peace

Aristophanes

An elderly wine grower Trigay, tired of the war and strife between the Greek cities, on a giant dung beetle goes to heaven to talk with Zeus. Arriving there, Trigay learns from Hermes that Zeus and the other gods are away, and instead of them, Polemos settled in the house of the gods. Polemos threw the goddess of peace Eiren into the cave and stoned him; together with the Horror that is serving him, he is going to powder the Greek cities in a huge mortar depicting a war.

Menon

Platon

Menon to jeden z Dialogów Platońskich. Przedmiotem dyskusji jest próba zdefiniowania cnoty. Utwór zawiera też wiele pojęć i argumentów, które w istotny sposób wpłynęły na rozwój zachodniej filozofii, głównie z zakresu teorii poznania oraz idealizmu. Z tego utworu pochodzi słynny paradoks Menona dotyczący poszukiwania wiedzy. Dialogi należą do wczesnej twórczości Platona, powstałej pod silnym wpływem myśli Sokratesa. To właśnie on jest główną postacią, a prowadzone przez niego rozmowy przybliżają definicje kluczowych pojęć filozofii Platońskiej.

Flirt z Melpomeną

Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński

Zbiór felietonów teatralnych Flirt zMelpomeną powstał na prośbę redaktora krakowskiego czasopisma Czas. Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński miał tymczasowo zastąpić jednego z etatowych recenzentów, aby napisać opinię na temat spektaklu Moliera pt. Świętoszek. Współpraca przedłużyła się na rok, podczas którego powstał ów zbiór. Intelektualny flirt z grecką muzą tragedii składa się na błyskotliwą kronikę krakowskich scen teatralnych.

Rainbows End

Rex Beach

The author wrote an adventure western about a time in the West when most young men who were old enough to ride went to East Texas to join Teddy Roosevelts Rough Riders to help during the invasion of Cuba. They will rise to glory and return as heroes.

Mątwa, czyli Hyrkaniczny światopogląd. Sztuka w jednym akcie

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Wydana w 1922 roku sztuka Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza przekracza granice realności i prawdopodobieństwa, łącząc w sobie groteskę, absurd oraz poważne rozprawy na tematy filozoficzne, społeczne czy egzystencjalne. Witkacy przedstawia swoje poglądy na temat religii, filozofii, sztuki, historii oraz społeczeństwa. Bohaterowie Mątwy to niespełnieni artyści, znudzeni zwyczajnym życiem, próbujący za wszelką cenę przełamać codzienną rutynę, aby zetknąć się z metafizyczną tajemnicą istnienia.

Фауст (Faust). Трагедия в двух частях

Иоганн Вольфганг фон Гёте, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Это одно из лучших литературных произведений, написанных Гете. Миф о безумном ученом, который готов заключить договор с Мефистофелем. Дьявол выполняет все его желания на Земле. Однако, расплата очевидна 2013 ученый должен служить дьяволу после смерти. Главный герой проживает и вправду прекрасный отрезок своей жизни. Он влюбляется и наслаждается прекрасным времяпровождением со своей возлюбленной. Но время сделки подходит к концу и время расплаты настало.

Phantom Fortune

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The plot of the book contrasts with the life of two ladies Hazelden, named Maria and Lesbia. Lady Mary Hazelden is much more meek and stereotypically feminine than other heroes of sensational novels such as Alicia Audley, Marian Halcomb and Magdalen Vanstone. She falls in love with a poor man named Mr. Hammond and is trying to learn how to work to compensate for her lower social status after she marries him. Her grandmother seems not to mind if she gets married because she has freckles and tanned skin, because the Victorian ideal of beauty probably resembles a vampire.

White-Jacket. Or, The World in a Man-of-War

Herman Melville

The novel The White Jacket by American writer Herman Melville is dedicated to swimming on the US military frigate. The novel, which is a chronicle only in part, describes in detail the life and life of naval sailors, their colorful figures, as well as the features of ships and naval service in that era. A number of philosophical, romantic and socio-political thoughts are presented.

The Death Star

T.C. Bridges

This old science fiction novel, Bridges, describes the Earth, largely devastated and devastated by terrible unrest in the solar system. The story tells about the adventures of seven people sailing in a wonderful airship of the future. There is a mortal battle between the two scientists: one is trying to build a new and better world on the ruins of the old, the other is a villain fighting to create a system that will finally destroy what remains on Earth.

By the Light of the Soul

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Marys mother was from New England and her conscience was abnormally active. Her father was from New Jersey, and his conscience, although no one would dare to say that she was flawed, did not prevent him from enjoying life in the least.

The Childerbridge Mystery

Guy Boothby

This book begins in Australia with a man and two adult children. They decide to return to England, but before leaving, an old enemy of his father appears. Son and daughter are surprised about him. In any case, they all move to England and buy a house, which is supposed to be inhabited by ghosts. All its owners saw them, and some were killed when they saw them. They are located in this village. Jamess son meets a young woman whom he falls in love with, but her grandfather will not allow them to marry and, later, even see each other.

Fentons Quest

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Women are forced to marry and forced to marry for money, not love. As in all her books, the basis is a mystery, and, like everything I read, for the reader, the screaming is obvious what is actually happening. But this does not detract from the expectations of history. The characters are well drawn, each with a distinctive style.

The Rape of Lucrece

William Shakespeare

This is a beautiful and touching poem. Shakespeare uses language and metaphor clearly and very accessible. This is a very sad poem, and he embodies the tragedy of events. Values, loyalty, virtue, shame and revenge are carefully studied. Lucretias rhetorical mastery, combined with an incredible ecphratic passage depicting Troy, creates a truly amazing poem.

Messengers Million

T.C. Bridges

Fat Mr. Horner might have changed his mind if he could have watched Gilberts face as he drove his rattling old motorcycle over the bridge and climbed the steep slope beyond. The young mans lips were clenched and his eyes were hard. These weekly trips to Taverton were the only gap in the deadly monotony of life in the works of Carnaby Clay, and he hated to return there, like a boy hates to return to school.

10 Most Famous Novels. MultiBook

John Buchan

One of the founders of the genre of espionage novel, but also an employee of British intelligence, and later a prominent political figure, whose career ended as Governor General of Canada. His first novel, Thirty-nine Steps, was a resounding success, published in 1915, in the midst of World War I. It first appears the charming image of Richard Hanney a hero who later wandered through the pages of Bakens novels, and the plot is associated with the activities of a group of German secret agents in England and Scotland. The multibook includes novels such as Sir Quixote of the Moors, John Burnet of Barns, A Lost Lady of Old Years, The Half-Hearted, A Lodge in the Wilderness, Prester John, Salute to Adventurers, The Path of the King, Midwinter, Witch Wood.

Житие одной бабы (Żywot pewnej baby). Из гостомельских воспоминаний

Николай Семёнович Лесков, Nikołaj Siemionowicz Leskow

Николай Семёнович Лесков (183120131895) 2013 писатель самобытный и мудрый, неукротимый и яркий 2013 прожил жизнь, полную 201eвсяческих терзательств201d: тревог, борьбы, изнурительного труда, духовных исканий и обретений, направленных на то, чтобы пробудить в людях 201eискру разумения о смысле жизни201d. Близкое знакомство с крепостными крестьянами, общение с крестьянскими детьми открыли будущему писателю своеобразие народного мировосприятия, столь непохожего на ценности и идеи образованных людей из высших сословий. Повесть 201eЖитие одной бабы (Из гостомельских воспоминаний)201d впервые опубликована в 1863 году под псевдонимом М. Стебницкий. Впоследствии Лесков значительно переработал повесть и дал ей новое название 2013 201eАмур в лапоточках201d. Известно, что писатель планировал поместить переработанный вариант во второй том 201eРассказов Стебницкого201d, однако при жизни автора вторая редакция повести так и не была напечатана.

Повести покойного Ивана Петровича Белкина (Opowieści świętej pamięci Iwana Piotrowicza Biełkina)

Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, Aleksandr Siergiejewicz Puszkin

Прозаический цикл «Повести покойного Ивана Петровича Белкина» был написан Пушкиным во время самого плодотворного творческого периода писателя 2013 осенью 1830 года, и затем издан анонимно. Включает в себя предисловие и пяти повестей, написанных от лица молодого помещика Ивана Белкина: «Выстрел», «Метель», «Гробовщик», «Станционный смотритель» и «Барышня-крестьянка». «Повести Белкина» рассказывают о России времен Пушкина и ее жителях: отставном гусаре Сильвио, гробовщике Адриане Прохорове, станционном смотрителе Самсоне Вырине, дочери богатого помещика Лизе Муромской и кавалеристе Бурмине.

Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends with a Biographical Sketch

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Correspondence with Knipper is interesting not only as a chronicle of the last years of Chekhovs life, not only as a valuable source of information about the first years of the Art Theater. Knipper took an exceptional place in Chekhovs spiritual life in recent years, and letters to her most fully reflect his inner world in those years, to the extent that Chekhov generally considered it necessary to open this inner world to other, even closest people. In letters to his wife, Chekhovs ability to say something important, significant in a playful form, as if by chance, without lengthy explanations, was especially pronounced.

The Man Who Was Afraid

Maxim Gorky

Like Byrons passionate sayings sounding on the tones of a wild and completely unsophisticated melody, this is Gorkys crazy, unbridled, powerful voice when he sings about the madness of the brave, barefoot dreamers who are proud of their idleness, who have nothing and fear nothing who is cheerful in his suffering, but unhappy in his joy.