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.

Skin and Bones

Thorne Smith

Thorne Smiths imaginative novel Skin and Bones takes the concept of suffering for ones art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself; in other words, him found himself no more than a walking skeleton. Blands flesh does not merely become invisible but intangible. Can he make a life worth living with this condition? A great read, this book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any home, where it is sure to become a family favorite.

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.

Samuel Zborowski

Juliusz Słowacki

Utwór ukazuje wcielenia duchowe Eoliona, które ujawniają się w wizjach sennych, oraz opętnie jego ojca przez obcego ducha. Akcja dramatu rozgrywa się w niebie, na ziemi i w piekle, a wszystkie wątki łączy ze sobą postać Lucyfera, który ukazany jest jako duch buntu.

The Incredulity of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton

The Incredulity of Father Brown is the third collection of short mysteries by G.K. Chesterton about that character. In The Incredulity of Father Brown, all the stories involve murders and conflicts between Catholicism and atheism and spiritualism. We find the usual Chesterton moral landscape -- in which the author paints a picture of nature somehow mirroring the fact that something is very wrong. In The Incredulity of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton treats us to another set of bizarre crimes that only his stumpy Roman Catholic prelate has the wisdom and mindset to solve. As usual, Chesterton loves playing with early twentieth-century class distinctions, common-sense assumptions, and the often anti-Catholic biases of his characters.

An Old Maid

Honoré de Balzac

Immerse yourself in the inner workings of a quaint French village in this charming novel from Honoré de Balzac, an early master of literary realism. The work was dedicated to Balzacs brother in law, an engineer in the corps royal des ponts et chaussées, Eugene Midy de la Greneraye Surville. Brimming with finely observed details and Balzacs trademark insight into human motivations and morality, An Old Maid, the first book in The Jealousies of a Country Town, follows several men who have designs honorable and not-so-honorable on one of the villages wealthiest bachelorettes. Balzac takes time to carefully describe the house of Mademoiselle Cormon, in the city of Alençon, before entering directly into the heart of the matter. The portrait of Mademoiselle Cormon is one of the most successful in The Human Comedy. The author delivers in this novel one of his most nuanced analysis of a provincial towns social, political and financial affairs.

Tales of Unrest

Joseph Conrad

This collection of short works. Despite the fact that these are short stories, the author never ceases to amaze with his approach to his characters. The scene from Brittany Idiots is perhaps his most significant work. Here, Conrad describes a family cursed by a mental illness in a French village, and how the embryo difficulties affect parents.

Payable To Bearer

Talbot Mundy

Ikey Hole began to engage in his own business at the age of sixteen as an industrial climber, and when he was twenty, he was already a serious master of his profession. But since at that time in New York signboards began to go out of fashion, he began to master the specialty in the manufacture of firearms, because he was far-sighted and moved with time and progress.