La Reine Margot

Alexandre Dumas pere

Gloire Dieu, gloire la France! En cet heureux jour de la Saint-Barthélemy Marguerite de Valois, qui est la soeur de sa Majesté Charles IX, a épousé en justes noces Henri de Navarre, qui est prince des huguenots français. Alors, est-ce que les batailles entre catholiques et protestants viennent de prendre fin? Cest lheure est aux réjouissances, la fraternisation, au bon vin coulant flots dans les auberges de la capitale! Mais quelques sombres événements dans les rues de Paris...

Seven For A Secret. A Love Story

Mary Webb

Seven For A Secret is the story of a young girl who turns into a compassionate, passionate, loving woman, who is visible through the eyes of a shepherd poet who loves her. Gillian is nineteen when the romance opens, and she is a romantic star who wants to flirt with men to fall in love with her. Gillian, in many ways, still behaves like a child, and she is selfish, narcissistic, and stupid with others in her life. A kind and simple shepherd named Robert, working with her father, often becomes the goal of her coquetry.

Under the Greenwood Tree. A Rural Painting of the Dutch School

Thomas Hardy

This story began around Christmas, when a group of guys from the village of Melstock walked and sang carols. It was then that the cab driver Dick Dewey saw and fell in love at first sight with the new teacher Fancy Day who had just arrived. She is also looked after by a wealthy farmer Shiner, whom Father Day favors, and pastor Maybold, who considers himself the most suitable party for Fancy. But the story did not begin in vain on the fabulous days of Christmas - it will end festively.

Małe kobietki

Louisa May Alcott

Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w latach 60. XIX wieku w miejscowości Concord w stanie Massachusetts. Podczas gdy ojciec rodziny walczy w wojnie secesyjnej, jego cztery córki Jo, Meg, Amy i Beth zostały w domu z matką. Jest to opowieść o dorastaniu, poszukiwaniu miłości oraz odnalezieniu swojego miejsca na świecie. Książka zdobyła ogromne powodzenie. O jej sukcesie zadecydowała przede wszystkim sprawnie skonstruowana fabuła, przekonująco naszkicowane postacie i zabawne, z dużym dowcipem opisane sytuacje.

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

Before the readers comes the legendary fairy tale about Alice. In the second volume of adventures the girl is in Zaderkalli, where the world is a chessboard. There, Alice meets the Black Queen, the White Knight, the Lion, the Unicorn, the Shaltay Boltay and many other incredible characters who have been pleasing to children and adults around the world for almost a hundred and fifty years. Children will love this book.

Poskromienie złośnicy

William Shakespeare

Baptista Minola, bogaty mieszczanin z Padwy, chciałby wydać za mąż swoje córki: starszą humorzastą i nieznośną Katarzynę oraz łagodną i piękną Biankę. O ile do Bianki ustawia się kolejka adoratorów, którzy podstępem usiłują przekonać jej ojca, o tyle Katarzyna nie cieszy się niczyimi względami. Ojciec stawia jednak warunek: najpierw starsza. Czy Petruchiowi z Werony uda się poskromić złośnicę?

The Thing on the Doorstep

H.P. Lovecraft

The Thing on the Doorstep is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror fiction. Daniel Upton, the storys narrator, begins by telling that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will prove that he is not a murderer. He begins by describing Derbys life and career. Daniel Uptons relationship with his friend Edward Derby is abruptly changed after Edward becomes romantically involved with Asenath Waite. Asenaths father Ephraim dabbled in forbidden sorcery, and it looked like Asenath was following in her dads footsteps, performing mysterious occult experiments that caused Derby to become more and more unhinged... As Edwards behavior becomes more erratic and events unexplainable, Daniel investigates. There are two more prominent themes in The Thing on the Doorstep: mind-switching and gender.

Le pilote du Danube

Jules Verne

Le pilote du Danube fait partie dune série de romans de voyage. Le personnage principal du livre descend le long du grand fleuve international du Danube en bateau, de la partie supérieure la bouche, et traverse des aventures dangereuses. Cest lune des rares uvres de Jules Verne dans le genre policier, mais mme ici, lécrivain a pu montrer la grande habileté du romancier.