John Macnab

John Buchan

Written in 1925, the novel opens with three gentleman friends lawyer Sir Edward Leithen, banker John Palliser-Yeates, and Cabinet member Charles Lord Lamancha discovering that they all suffer a common and debilitating malady, a loss of zest for life, all desperate to relieve the ennui that has engulfed them. The solution can only be something devilish, with a dash of daring. Enlisting the aid of another friend, Scottish landowner Sir Archibald Roylance, the trio contrives a plot to poach game deer or salmon from the hereditary lands of three of Archies Highland neighbors under the guise of an assumed false identity, John Macnab. On this, they stake their reputations and the danger proves innervating. This novel is a light interlude within the Leithen Stories series an evocative look at the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle in Highland Scotland.

Les Aventures du capitaine Hatteras

Jules Verne

Equipage avec dix-huit personnes bord. Mais ni pendant la navigation, ni mme longtemps apres lui, aucun dentre eux ne connaissait ni le but du voyage ni mme le nom du capitaine. Les marins ont appris que lexpédition était dirigée par le célebre navigateur John Hatteras, qui sest donné pour mission ambitieuse de devenir le premier homme atteindre le pôle Nord.

Mary of Marion Isle

H. Rider Haggard

Mary of Marion Isle the penultimate novel by Henry Rider Haggard, which he wrote before his death. The young socialist doctor faced a series of obstacles in his life, and learned what unhappy love is. Then he found himself on a desert island. What will he do in this situation? By the way, Marion Isle is a real place and one of the Prince Edward Islands.

Jasnowłosa piratka

Paweł Staśko

Powieść wydana w końcowej fazie twórczości Staśki. Jedna z wielu powieści czołowego pisarza przedwojennej Polski. Jak potoczy się płomienny romans bohaterów? W tle powieści urokliwa puszczańska natura.

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcotts most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Four sisters are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother in a quiet Massachusetts town while their father serves as an army chaplain during the American Civil War. Here are independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg; or precocious and artistic Amy, the baby of the family. The charming story of these four little women and their wise and patient mother Marmee enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England was an instant success when first published in 1868 and has been adored for generations. Following the lives of the March sisters, the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. The novel has two sequels: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jos Boys (1871) and Jos Boys and How They Turned Out (1886).

Washington Square

Henry James

The main character Katherine is a girl who does not differ in anything special, but is at the same time quite an enviable bride, she has a good dowry. And the bridegroom appears on the horizon, love, everything, but the father is against their relationship, because this Maurice squandered all his fortune, and aunt Catherine, on the contrary, for real happiness. The whole book revolves around the relationship between Catherine and Maurice, Maurice and the girls father, Catherine and the aunt. The book interestingly spelled out the characters, but still truly breathes the feeling of the time in question. This is the beauty of this work.

Ubu Król, czyli Polacy

Alfred Jarry

Dramat autorstwa Alfreda Jarryego osadzony w konwencji teatru absurdu, sięgający do surrealizmu oraz groteski. Opowiada o losach pochodzącego z Francji Ubu, byłego króla Aragonii. Rusza on do Polski, gdzie zostaje rotmistrzem dragonów króla Wacława. Za namową żony zawiązuje spisek i dokonuje w Polsce zamachu stanu, wprowadzając okrutne i niesprawiedliwe rządy.

Między ustami a brzegiem pucharu

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Berlin, przełom XIX i XX wieku. Hrabia Wentzel młody arystokrata z Prus, w którego żyłach płynie polska krew zakochuje się w dumnej i pięknej dziewczynie z Wielkopolski, Jadwidze Chrząstkowskiej. Zdesperowany mężczyzna wszelkimi sposobami stara się podbić serce pięknej Jadwigi. Na przeszkodzie stoi nie tylko narzeczony panny, lecz także niewygodne pochodzenie. Przypadek zrządza, ze Wentzel ratuje dziewczynę napastowaną na ulicy przez pijanego barona Wertheima. Mimo pomocy Jadwiga nie chce się z nim spotkać. Ale hrabia łatwo nie daje za wygraną... Między ustami a brzegiem pucharu to ciekawa i wciągająca od pierwszego akapitu lektura.