Kobieta trzydziestoletnia

Honoriusz Balzak

Powieść Kobieta trzydziestoletnia Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Scen z życia prywatnego cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Główna bohaterka utworu, Julia, wyszła za Wiktora w przekonaniu, iż go ogromnie kocha. Dość szybko jednak okazało się, że było to tylko zauroczenie. Jak sama twierdzi, jej małżeństwo przemieniło się w legalną prostytucję. Z jednej strony nie potrafi kochać już swego męża, z drugiej zaś nie umie go zdradzić, by być szczęśliwą przy innym...

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare showed us the plays in the play. In the introduction, we see that the Lord decided to play a cruel joke on a drunken brazier. They brought him to the lords house, dressed him beautifully, and assured him that past life was only a dream. And at this moment there is a troupe of actors who show the main part of the play. Unfortunately, the author did not finish the whole thing.

The Greater Trumps

Charles Williams

Great trump cards a novel, brilliantly built on the basis of an ancient deck of tarot cards. This novel is filled with secrets, there are various signs, symbols, riddles. Everyone has different opinions about these secrets, no one can come to a common opinion. Witchcraft can still kill, and the supernatural must be defeated by the supernatural.

Walka z szatanem

Stefan Żeromski

Trzeci tom trylogii Stefana Żeromskiego Walka z szatanem , obejmującej panoramę życia polskiego w okresie przedwojennym i w latach pierwszej wojny światowej. Ciąg dalszy walki z szatanem o sprawiedliwszy świat. Ryszard Nienaski i jego ukochana żona Xenia nie żyją. On zginął z rąk członków organizacji z pogranicza podziemia anarchistycznego i bandytyzmu. Ona umarła na tyfus. Ich majątek oraz obowiązek wykonania testamentu spada na ojca Xeni, aferzystę i oszusta. Musi on stoczyć walkę o zachowanie tego łupu z niebezpiecznym pretendentem do udziału w bogactwie, malarzem Śnicą. Niektóre części utworu utrzymane są w poetyce drapieżnego naturalizmu. Wyróżniają się także obrazy życia czy to wielkomiejskiego Paryża, czy prowincjonalnej galicyjskiej Posuchy oraz obrazy wojny, kreślone z pasją wyrażającą antywojenny protest pisarza.

The Code of the West

Zane Grey

Georgianna Stockwell, a free-spirited young woman from the East, moves to the wilds of the Tonto Basin in Arizona and she creates a violent culture clash. She has been sent there by her parents and doctor for a change of scenery. It seems Georgianna had gotten herself lung problems due to all of her dancing and gadding about. Fortunately, her sister, Mary Stockwell is on the scene ready to take care of her younger sister and to show her how life should really be lived. But it seems Georgianna has realized something perhaps Mary has not. Men and women did not/do not stand on equal terms and this is something Zane Grey lets on that he was aware of as well by writing Georgiannas character. Cal Thurman is the love that is set aside as Georgiannas suitor. Mary and Enoch also come together in Code of the West, although without all of the bumps of Cal and Georgiannas relationship.

Fred Fearnots Revenge

Hal Standish

Fred usually travels. Returning from the West, where Fred Firno rescued Terry Olcott from a group of pastoralists who were going to lynch him by mistake, he found letters from the manager of his small investments in Dedham Lake that gave him a bit of anxiety. The reader undoubtedly remembers that during a visit to the upper part of the state he discovered a beautiful lake, covering about three hundred acres.

The Drum

A.E.W. Mason

Best known for The Four Feathers and the Hanaud detective novels, A.E.W. Mason wrote many novels. The Drum is an adventure novel by this British writer which was first published in 1937. This story is a rousing, Kipling-like adventure set in contemporary India, dealing with uprising and rebellion and a native prince caught between two worlds and forced into hiding. In it, murder and intrigue in a princely state on the Northwest Frontier of British India. A fairy drum no one must see beaten. A secret mission across the Hindu Kush and friendship between an Indian Prince and an English drummer-boy. All these are elements of The Drum which is one of two novels by A.E.W. Mason set in India. A pukka adventure in the days of the Raj.

The Stray Lamb

Thorne Smith

In The Stray Lamb, author Thorne Smith draws inspiration from his most famous works, the beloved Topper series. It follows mild-mannered investment banker, cuckold, ordinary, faithful, and dipsomaniac T. Lawrence Lamb. He is given a new perspective on life through the eyes of many different animals as he assumes the shape of many including a stallion, goldfish, dog, lion and many others. Mr. Lamb gains wisdom, fresh insight, and a new much needed exuberance for life as he exchanges the mundane for the slightly insane. Thorne Smith again shows his mastery of the comic fantasy tale as Lamb lurches from one mishap to another, reeling from his wifes abandonment and the actions of his headstrong daughter and reveling in the new opportunities that his excursions into animal form provide.