Balladyna

Juliusz Słowacki

„Balladyna” to dramat autorstwa Juliusza Słowackiego, obok Adama Mickiewicza uznawanego powszechnie za największego przedstawiciela polskiego romantyzmu. Balladyna i Alina to siostry, mieszkające wraz z matką w ubogiej chacie w lesie. Nimfa, królowa jeziora Goplana, zakochana w kochanku Balladyny, Grabcu, przez swą zazdrość miesza się w ludzkie sprawy i gmatwa ich losy. Do chaty sióstr przyjeżdża bogaty książę Kirkor, wiedziony tam przez sługę Goplany, Skierkę. Goplana ma nadzieję, że Kirkor zakocha się w Balladynie, a wtedy Grabiec zostanie tylko dla niej. Jednak jej sługa, Skierka, sprawia, że książę zakochuje się w obu siostrach.

Revolution and Other Essays

Jack London

“Revolution and Other Essays” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.   Revolution and Other Essays is a series of essays by Jack London. The collection consists of these titles: Revolution, The Somnambulists, The Dignity of Dollars, Goliah, The Golden Poppy, The Shrinkage of the Planet, The House Beautiful, The Gold Hunters of the North, Fomá Gordyéeff, These Bones Shall Rise Again, The Other Animals, The Yellow Peril, What Life Means to Me.  

Nowele

Iwan Turgieniew

„Nowele” to zbiór utworów Iwana Turgieniewa, uznawanego za jednego z najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli literatury rosyjskiej oraz twórcę tak zwanego rosyjskiego realizmu krytycznego. „Nowele” to zbiór pięknych ośmiu utworów autorstwa Iwana Turgieniewa. W skład tego zbioru wchodzą takie wyjątkowe dzieła jak: „Lekarz powiatowy”, „Żywe relikwie” oraz „Śmierć”.

Tarzan and the Ant Men

Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Tarzan and the Ant Men“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.   This is the tenth novel in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society.  

Król naftowy

Karol May

„Król naftowy” to powieść przygodowa o tematyce Dzikiego Zachodu autorstwa Karola Maya. Osadnicy wplątują się w kłopoty związane z walką pomiędzy dwoma szczepami indiańskimi. Ich sytuacja wydaje się dramatyczna, jednak pojawienie się Winnetou i Old Shatterhand, daje nadzieję na przetrwanie.

The Cave Girl

Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The Cave Girl“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.   Blueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is swept overboard during a South Seas voyage for his lifelong ill health. He finds himself on a jungle island. His bookish education has not prepared him to cope with these surroundings, and he is a coward. He is terrified when he encounters primitive, violent men, ape-like throwbacks in mankind's evolutionary history. He runs from them, but when he reaches a dead end, he successfully makes a stand, astonishing himself.  

The Abysmal Brute

Jack London

“The Abysmal Brute” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Abysmal Brute is a novel by American writer Jack London. It is a short novel, and could be regarded as a novelette. In the story, a man who was brought up in a log cabin, and who is a newcomer to society, finds success as a boxer and recognizes corrupt practices in professional boxing.

You Never Can Tell

George Bernard Shaw

“You Never Can Tell” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.   The play is set in a seaside town and tells the story of Mrs. Clandon and her three children, Dolly, Phillip, and Gloria, who have just returned to England after an eighteen-year stay in Madeira. The children have no idea who their father is and, through a comedy of errors, end up inviting him to a family lunch. It was published as a part of Plays Pleasant, which also included Arms and the Man, Candida, and The Man of Destiny. Shaw titled the volume Plays Pleasant in order to contrast it with his first book of plays, Plays Unpleasant.