The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In The Great Stone Face, Hawthorne compares different types of human activity. Most of them are aimed at finding success in society. But Hawthorne believes that the success of the Finnish businessman or general, who turned military affairs into a means of his personal career, or a clever politician who is uncleanly making his way to power, is an imaginary success. Even the poet, the creator of beautiful works of art, still retains a lot of vicious individualism and self-love, and only the humble young man Ernst, who devoted his life to serving people, selflessly doing good, won the favor of the author he gives preference to him and his selfless altruism proclaims the ideal of human life.

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser is a famous American prose writer, publicist and public figure. This is the story of the rise of the main character, the young provincial Caroline Meeber, achieved at the cost of numerous moral compromises, and the descent of the manager of a prestigious bar, George Hurstwood, to the bottom of life.

Dr. Delmores Secret

Fenton Ash

Dr. Delmores Secret is an absorbing tale of mystery by Fenton Ash, author of at least three Lost-World novels. Little is known about Aubrey/Atkins. He was involved in a scandal at the turn of the century and sentenced to nine months imprisonment for obtaining money by deception. After leaving prison he dropped the name Frank Aubrey and in his early 60s, following a three-year hiatus began writing as Fenton Ash.

Thieves Wit

Hulbert Footner

Thieves Wit is a detective story. Aspiring Confidential Agent in search of a pearl necklace. The villain sets up her lover, but the detective foils the evil plot. A story that keeps you in suspense until the end.

Czarny bóg. Powieść na tle współczesnego zamętu

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Trzech przyjaciół zaraz po zakończeniu studiów rozstaje się, a każdy z nich obiera zupełnie inną ścieżkę kariery. Wydawać by się moglo, że już nigdy się nie spotkają. Los jednak postanawia inaczej... Pesymistyczna, okrutna powieść Marii Rodziewiczównej o realich życia w zaborze rosyjskim.

Granatka. Facino Cane. Msza ateusza

Honoriusz Balzak

Desplein jest przenikliwym, bystrym, dobrze obeznanym ze strukturą i funkcjonowaniem ludzkiego ciała chirurgiem, który budzi zazdrość wśród swoich kolegów ze środowiska lekarskiego. Sceptycznie i cynicznie podchodzi do wszystkiego, co go otacza, i gardzi zarówno ludźmi, jak i przekonaniami. Jednak pewnego razu jego były uczeń Horacy Bianchon przyłapuje go na udziale we mszy świętej. Postawa doktora, zdeklarowanego od zawsze ateisty, wprawia Bianchona w zdumienie.

Kain. Misterium

George Gordon Byron

Lord George Byron to jeden z najwybitniejszych angielskich poetów i dramaturgów, żyjący w XIX wieku. Do jego głównych dzieł należą: Wędrówki Childe Harolda, Giaur, Narzeczona z Abydos oraz jego magnum opus Don Juan. Poeta wykreował tzw. bohatera bajronicznego tajemniczego indywidualistę i buntownika sprzeciwiającego się normom społecznym. Kain to misteryjna tragedia z 1821 roku, która na bazie wątków biblijnych stawia pytania o rolę Boga w życiu.

Let Loose

Mary Cholmondeley

A tale of the sinister afterlife of Sir Robert Depard, a local magnate who lived a dissolute life in Yorkshire. The story is told by an unnamed gentleman who travels around Holland with his brother-in-law (Mr Blake) to study architecture. The gentleman wonders why Mr. Blake never takes off his high collar around his neck.

Gasnące słońce. Powieść z czasów Marka Aureliusza

Teodor Jeske-Choiński

Gasnące słońce. Powieść z czasów Marka Aureliusza to powieść historyczna Teodora Jeske-Choińskiego, która została wydana w 1895 roku. Akcja toczy się w Rzymie oraz na pasie przygranicznym Cesarstwa Rzymskiego za czasów burzliwych wydarzeń w trakcie panowania Marka Aureliusza. Na tle powolnego upadku Cesarstwa Rzymskiego rodzi się miłość pomiędzy patrycjuszem Publiuszem Kwintyliuszem Warusem i Mucją Kornelią.

Through Russia

Maxim Gorky

The stories, united under the name Through Russia, were originally printed by M. Gorky in various periodicals and collections. In the series of short stories In Russia. M. Gorky refers to the image of the past in order to illuminate the paths to the future. The writer reflected the harsh truth of the life of little great people, life-giving and decorating the earth with their labor.

Police!!!

Robert W. Chambers

This story continues the fantastic stories of Dr. Percy, forever searching the world for zoological discoveries and love, and doomed to never find either. Our narrator, Dr. Percy, works at the Bronx Zoo. He is one of those brave adventurers who seek to dive into the depths of uncharted lakes and discover the remains of a tribe of cave dwellers or the existence of people with three eyes.

Vendetta!

Marie Corelli

Count Fabio Romani, whom everyone considers one of the victims of the cholera epidemic that raged in Naples at the end of the 19th century, rises from the dead... However, when he returns home, he realizes with horror: no one is waiting for him there... The beautiful wife Nina and Guidos best friend, who has been in a secret relationship for a long time, is planning a wedding and counting the days until the end of mourning.

The Acharnians

Aristophanes

This is the comedy of the ancient Greek comedian Aristophanes, the earliest of his plays that have survived to this day. Together with Mir and Lysistrata refers to the anti-war comedies of the author. It refers to a citizen who was so tormented by the constant wars waged by his state that he made peace on his own behalf with all his neighbors, and while the rest fought and endured hardships and poverty, he lived calmly, profitably traded in general, everything to envy.

Fileb

Platon

Fileb zaliczany jest do późnych dialogów Platońskich. Tak jak w pozostałych główną postacią jest Sokrates, który tutaj dyskutuje z Filebem o tym, czy najwyższe dobro polega na przyjemności, czy na mądrości. Z dialogu wynika, że ani przyjemność, ani wiedza same w sobie nie mogą być dobre, a dobro stanowi połączenie obu. Rozmówcy spierają się o to, która składowa powinna dominować w tym połączeniu i je określać. Sokrates wyraża pogląd zbieżny z przekonaniem samego Platona że to wiedza powinna być ograniczeniem dla przyjemności.

The Steppe

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The story of a boy Egor, who goes from his home to a gymnasium located in another city. This trip is the last event before the start of a new life away from mother and familiar places. Nothing unexpected happens on the way, but at the same time, there is a constant change of landscapes and moons of Egor, meetings with new people, both ordinary and of noble origin. The boy is a witness to the life of people whose path also lies through the steppe.

Baśnie i bajki europejskie. Wybór

Praca zbiorowa

Tom Baśnie i bajki europejskie zawiera zbiór popularnych historii, opowiadanych dzieciom w całej Europie. W książeczce można znaleźć zarówno baśnie i bajki niemieckie Jakuba i Wilhelma Grimmów (Kopciuszek, Czerwony Kapturek, Śnieżka), duńskie Jana Christiana Andersena (Dziewczynka z zapałkami, Księżniczka na ziarnku grochu, Królowa śniegu) czy rosyjskie Aleksandra Puszkina (Baśń o królu Sałtanie, Złota rybka), jak i tradycyjne polskie bajki o Panu Twardowskim czy Waligórze i Wyrwidębie.

Odyssée

Homer

Odyssée est lune des plus grandes ouvres de la littérature mondiale, une création riche en événements vivants et en beauté poétique. Les aventures dangereuses de Odyssée rusée et qui souffre depuis longtemps. Il devait se battre avec Poséidon pour visiter le pays des cannibales et des sorciers. Cest le poeme que vous voulez relire.

Leone Leoni

George Sand

Le roman Leon Leoni raconte comment son personnage principal est victime de sa fatale passion pour les cartes et comment son désintéressement sans fin pour lamour féminin souffre de son égosme et de sa dépravation. Juliette est une jeune fille. Elle est belle, pleine de désirs et despoirs, de rves de mariage heureux. Il apparaît ici lhorizon.Pas un homme, mais un idéal. Mais avec lavenement de Leone, toutes les aventures commencent.

Adventures of Buffalo Bill. From Boyhood to Manhood

Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood is one of the masterpieces by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, who was a prolific American author of dime fiction. Deeds of daring, thrilling peril and romantic incidents in the early life of W.F. Cody, the Monarch of Bordermen. It is a depiction of life and the ups and downs that are major influencing factors. The novel honestly portrays how fate plays with mankind and the turmoil that follow them. Thought-provoking! The author of The Masked Spy and over twenty Buffalo Bill titles, Ingraham plausibly claimed in 1900 to have written over 600 novels. Known as the King of Dime Novels, Prentiss Ingraham is an author who will be forever remembered for the image he created of the American West.

Raiders of Spanish Peaks

Zane Grey

Laramie Nelson and partners Lonesome Mulhall and Ted Tracks Williams work their way out to eastern Colorado to Spanish Peaks Ranch. There they meet a family from Ohio that has come west to start a new life and hopefully allow the husband and father to get well in the high and dryer climate. They purchase a ranch and then are in the process of loosing everything. As they soon find out, though, this deserted fort is equally suited for both protection and imprisonment. In fact, theyve been swindled into buying the longtime headquarters and hideout for a band of thieves and rustlers. Laramie, Lonesome and Tracks want to save this family. But in a place where there is no law but the law of the gun, can they? First published in 1938, the greatest writer of the American West, Zane Grey, brings a classic tale of drama on the frontier. Raiders of Spanish Peaks is a thrilling tale of a how a mans home is truly his castle.

Hans Frost

Hugh Walpole

Hans Frost is a great figure for his fans. The protagonist is the greatest writer. Hans Frost received his guests and graciously accepted the wonderful gift that his fans combined to buy for him. His books do not bring such a large income, and the wealth of his wife provides the luxury that he possessed from the time of their marriage. Natalies entry into his world is the catalyst that Hans needs to wake him from recession.

Les Révoltés de la Bounty

Jules Verne

Lhistoire raconte la rébellion du commandement du navire anglais Bounty survenu dans le Pacifique Sud. Léquipe dirigée par le second capitaine Christian sest rebellée contre la tyrannie du capitaine cruel Bly et la atterri avec des supporters sur le bateau, laissant derriere elle pour se défendre. De retour Tahiti, Christian emmene plusieurs autochtones dans le bateau afin de créer une colonie sur une île éloignée. Pendant ce temps, Bly, qui parvient atteindre lAngleterre, lance une expédition pour prendre le navire rebelle.

The Trail Driver

Zane Grey

A great story by the greatest novelist of the American West. This one is about the tough men and women who made their living by obtaining herds of cattle and driving them across large territories to be sold. Driving forty-five hundred longhorns is hard enough, but in addition to leading the biggest cattle drive in the history of the Chisholm Trail, Adam Brite and his ten trail-hardened partners have to contend with the fury of nature and man. They were going all the way from San Antonio to Dodge. They expected plenty of trouble. They got it... Lots of action, quick shooting, slow drawling cowboys. A romance with a girl masquerading as a boy horse wrangler, but her identity is early discovered so the proprieties remain unscathed.

The Prince

Niccol Machiavelli

The Prince is a treatise by statesman Niccolo Machiavelli. It was written in the Middle Ages, and published only after the death of the author. In it, Niccolo Machiavelli combines all the experience of managing the state, sharing his thoughts with readers. Although this book is largely instructive, it is not perceived as such. When you read, there is no feeling of boredom or the fact that an opinion is imposed on you with which you do not agree. The author enables readers to draw conclusions themselves. In the book you can see discussions about power and how to achieve it; these thoughts are concise and simple. In just a few theses, the author provides arguments confirming his point of view, drawing on the experience of past years.