The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

In the 1930s, George Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Orwell went further than just studying unemployment not wanting to watch from the outside, he learned what it is: to be a miner, live in slums, eat poorly and do backbreaking work in the mines. Everything he saw and wrote down helped him to clarify his feelings towards socialism. In this book, he explains why socialism, the only possible escape from the shocking conditions of life that he saw, turns off so many normal, respectable citizens.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Victor Hugo

The story of a love triangle from the Middle Ages. The young girl falls in love with the captain of the guard, who once saved her. But an aged priest falls in love with her. Both feelings are perverted, the priest pursues the girl, rolls his life downhill for the sake of love. The feeling of his religiosity is even more distorted. The girl is madly in love, she is also ready to give everything and die for the sake of a man who is absolutely indifferent to him and doesnt care when they want to hang the girl because of an attempt on him.

Brandenburg. Kraina słowiańskich mogił

Ludwik Stasiak

Ludwik Stasiak karierę artystyczną rozpoczął jako malarz. Tworzył w kręgu młodopolskiej bohemy artystycznej Małopolski, a także w ośrodkach europejskich. Po licznych podróżach powrócił jednak do rodzinnej Bochni. Z czasem jego zainteresowanie malarstwem ustąpiło miejsca literaturze, na którym to polu dał się poznać jako autor płodny i dociekliwy. Zasłynął jako badacz życia i twórczości wybitnego rzeźbiarza Wita Stwosza. Powieść historyczna Brandenburg należy do jego najpopularniejszych utworów.

Człowiek-maszyna. Człowiek-maszyna

Julian Offray De La Mettrie

Julien Offray de La Mettrie w swojej głównej pracy filozoficznej Człowiek-maszyna wyprzedza Darwina o całe stulecie. Autorowi rozprawy przyświeca rewolucyjna, ale i niebezpieczna jak na XVIII wiek myśl jawnie głosi on materializm. Jako lekarz, odwołując się do wiedzy oraz doświadczenia, podaje w wątpliwość istnienie duszy, a wszelkie czynności ludzkie, które są jej przypisywane, wiąże z funkcjonowaniem ciała. Dowodzi on, iż człowiek to istota całkowicie materialna, którego umysł działa jak maszyna.

The Owl Taxi

Hulbert Footner

Suppose you were a young and very rich New Yorker, and you suddenly lost all your money. Suppose you met a taxi-driver and for reasons good to both you agreed to exchange identities. Suppose, having started up Fifth Avenue in the old taxi at one a.m., you were about to admit your first fare when you discovered a dead body already occupying the car. Humor, espionage, romance, and adventure make this novel thrilling.

Beyond The City. The Idyll of a Suburb

Arthur Conan Doyle

Beyond the City explores the relationships between the residents of three adjoining homes. The cast of characters includes a widowed doctor with two daughters, a retired admiral with a wife and son, and a feminist living with her nephew. Destiny brings these three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle-class lives. As the web of lust and deceit draws these accidental neighbors ever closer, a financial scandal befalls one of them. An outside rank pirate is linked somehow to one of the neighbors. Who could it be? In this work, Conan Doyle exhibits the practiced subtlety and complexity for which he has become so well known.

Atlantis

Hans Dominik

Atlantis ist ein Science-Fiction-Roman (oder auch utopisch-technischer Roman) des Autors Hans Dominik. Atlantis wurde erstmals 1925 veröffentlicht. Man schreibt das Jahr 2000. die politische Lage ist gespannt: Das vereinigte Europa steht amerikanischen und afrikanischen Machtblöcken gegenüber, ein kühnes Projekt soll durchgeführt werden, um einen breiten Seeweg zwischen dem Atlantischen und dem Pazifischen Ozean zu schaffen. Die amerikanische Gesellschaft New Canal Cy. beabsichtigt, die Landenge von Panama zu sprengen. Ein Gutachten eines geheimnisvollen, anonymen J. H. beweist, dass als schreckliche Folge davon der Golfstrom umgeleitet würde und ganz Nordeuropa vereisen würde, Millionen Europäer sterben würden ein bewusster Plan der Amerikaner, die europäische Konkurrenz auf dem Weltmarkt zu schwächen. Doch die Sprengung wird durchgeführt. Die Azoren beginnen sich zu heben, und aus dem Atlantik taucht der vor 13000 Jahren versunkene Kontinent Atlantis.

The Count of the Saxon Shore

Alfred J. Church

So little is known from history about the last years of the Roman occupation that the writer of fiction has almost a free hand. In this story a novel, but, it is hoped, not an improbable, view is taken in an important event the withdrawal of the legions. This is commonly assigned to the year 410, when the Emperor Honorius formally withdrew the Imperial protection from Britain. But the usurper Constantine had actually removed the British army two years before; and, as he was busied with the conquest of Gaul and Spain for a considerable time after, it is not likely that they were ever sent back. Mr. Church is a most excellent writer, keeps the novel moving, the excitement on edge and the heroes and heroin coming alive on page after page after page consequently.

The Conan Saga

Robert E. Howard

This collection contains all of Robert E. Howards Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author. His Conan stories feature a young barbarian warrior who carves himself a kingdom and rules with a degree of wisdom and justice. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian age. Collected together in one volume are besides the poem Cimmeria A Poem and the essay The Hyborian Age Conans World Robert E. Howards tales of the legendary hero, as fresh and atmospheric today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines of more than eighty years ago: The Tower Of The Elephant, Rogues In The House , Shadows In The Moonlight and so many others.

Rozdzióbią nas kruki, wrony

Stefan Żeromski

Szymon Winrych glówny bohater Rozdzióbią nas kruki, wrony to powstaniec styczniowy, który choć zdaje sobie sprawę z tego, że powstanie dogorywa, nie poddaje się i walczy do upadłego. Uparcie dąży do celu. Nie straszny mu głód ani ziąb. Nie boi się też samotności. Jego zaciekłość i konsekwencja w działaniu to rezultat świadomości, że po klęsce powstania pałeczkę przejmą przeciwnicy walki narodowowyzwoleńczej. Nie chce dopuścić do tego, aby zwolennicy lojalizmu dowodzili, że powstanie nie miało sensu, a jedyne, co przyniosło, to niepotrzebny rozlew krwi.

The Bird of Paradise

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Mr. Hamer Wildburn, a young American, graduate of Harvard is wintering on the Mediterranean coast of France in his newly purchased yacht The Bird of Paradise, and is puzzled by the desire he finds in visitors coming aboard at different times to buy the vessel from him. One night he is awoken at 3 am by the cries of a beautiful, and wearing priceless emeralds, woman swimming alongside. She comes aboard and offers to buy the yacht for twice what he paid. The next day, the foreign minister of France also makes an offer to buy the yacht at an outrageous price. Soon a known terrorist develops a bomb to utterly destroy the boat and all its inhabitants. And so on, and with the material of conspiracies, French politics, love and adventure the story is woven around the yacht.

Nada the Lily

H. Rider Haggard

Nada the Lily is a historical novel. It tells about the origins of Umslopogaas, the illegitimate son of the Zulu king in the 19th century. Parts of the story are inspired by the real historical events and fairy tales that Haggard heard during his time in South Africa. Haggard portrays the Zulus as real peoplepeople with hopes and dreams, as well as flaws.

Gunmans Gold

Max Brand

An exciting Western tale of a honorable thief who steals from crooks and ends up saving a family from the ruthless and conniving hands of a cousin who is trying to insert himself into their fortunes. Theres lots of action with good characterizations and even some political and philosophical insights that gives the story a depth of being more than just an action yarn. Theres a hired investigator, who saves him repeatedly, at risk to himself, and there is a lovely girl who eventually sees through an ugly face to a heart of gold. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre.

The Younger Set

Robert W. Chambers

This is one of Chambers most popular novels. It has been translated into several other languages around the world. The story begins with who Selwyn is. Lots of questions, lots of mysteries. But that just makes it more interesting to read.

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

A woman named Lysistrata, determined to stop the senseless war, gathers women from all over Greece in the square in front of the Acropolis of Athens. She offers them until the men make peace do not sleep with them, do not give them, do not touch them! . With difficulty and after much debate and bickering, women agree. They take refuge in the Acropolis and do not admit anyone to themselves. The entire civilian population is divided into two camps: women and the elderly

Henry Dunbar. The Story of an Outcast

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Dunbar is the heir to a large English banking firm, but makes a serious mistake in his youth. His father and uncle expel him to India for his sins. Of course, everything is not so serious, since its isolation includes the leadership of their Indian branch. Then, after the death of his father, he returns to England. All this happens in the first few chapters!

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.

Le Morne-au-diable ou lAventurier

Eugene Sue

Laventurier Lugarto lun des personnages démoniaques les plus colorés de Sue. Il a 22 ou 23 ans, cest un mulâtre qui a hérité dune énorme fortune et on ignore comment il a obtenu le titre de comte et son blason. Sue souligne la maturation prématurée du héros, lépuisement de sa vie. En ce sens, il est proche des personnages romantiques.

Shadows on the Rock

Willa Cather

This is a historical fiction book depicting the French colonization of Canada and life in Quebec in the late 1600s. Euclid Auclair is a father and a widower. The little daughter took over the running of their home after the death of her beloved mother two years ago. She is twelve. Euclid and his family, wife and daughter, had come to Quebec eight years earlier, hired by the Governor General to be his physician.

Mor i Sutre

Hjalmar Bergman

Med mnga tillbakablickar och sidoskildringar s utspelar sig romanen under en enda dag vid gästgiveriet i Sutre. Huvudpersonen, krögerskan som enbart benämns Mor i Sutre drabbas av olyckor genom en rad tillfälligheter där ävenledes en Arnfelt (släkten frn En döds memoarer) spelar stor roll.

A Rogues Life

Wilkie Collins

This is a charming and highly readable novel written in the middle of the 19th century. This novel also combines the adventure and twists of a novel with a moderately upper-class protagonist. Frank sees work life as a problem, and by his 25th birthday, he has failed in medicine, portraiture, caricature, and even forgery. Disillusioned with life, he despaired of finding something to do until he met Alicia Dulcifer.

A Romance of Two Worlds

Marie Corelli

The main character, who is fond of music, being under the heavy pressure of a creative crisis, goes on a journey with her friends to improve her mental and physical health. There she meets an artist who once also became very discouraged, but who was lucky enough to be treated by a mysterious healer with fantastic abilities. In the midst of an ignorant society, a rumor has already been very successfully circulating about the doctor, as if he communicates with evil spirits, which is why his extraordinary skills. However, as it turns out later, the doctor is not at all a sorcerer and not a servant of Satan, but, on the contrary, a man of deep scientific interests and, even, achievements, to which he came purely thanks to sincere faith in God and the after life.

Poezje zebrane. (19221937)

Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, polska poetka oraz dramatopisarka, debiutowała trzema wierszami w Skamandrze (1922), z którego środowiskiem związała się na kolejne lata. Była poetką miłości opisywała ją w bezpośredni i naturalny sposób. Ceniła atmosferę i język codzienności. Jej poezja często wykonywana była w formie piosenek, między innymi przez Ewę Demarczyk, Czesława Niemena czy Krystynę Jandę.

Dr. Kildares Crisis

Max Brand

When young doctor James Kildare and his fiancée, nurse Mary Lamont, make plans for their wedding day, brother Mary Douglas arrives at her. Douglas asks Kildare to arrange an appointment with a wealthy Mr. Chandler, whose daughter Kildare rescued at Young Doctor Kildare to ask for a fund to create three subsidized trading schools to train unskilled workers. Kildare does not want to impose Chandler for ethical reasons, but is concerned that Doug, who hears nonexistent sounds, may be an undiagnosed epileptic.