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Charlotte Brontë
Shirley, the second published novel by Charlotte Bronte, was released in 1849 amongst high anticipations by readers and critics after super success of Jane Eyre. Probably, it is the most suspenseful novel by Charlotte Bronte. The novel delicately combines classic Gothic motives motives, relatively speaking, are classically the detective. However, under the brilliant pen of Bronte, enthralling story becomes just a brilliant frame for the delicate, perfectly adjusted psychologically history of difficult relations of men and two female relations that are far beyond the traditional love triangle...
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevskys novels and stories delve deep into the mysteries of the mind. Characters grapple with the most basic questions of existence, including what it means to be moral, what it means to love, and what it means to be human. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevskys prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime. The other stories include: The Christmas Tree and Wedding, The Peasant Marey, A Gentle Creature, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Each story is engaging, relatively short and told in a similar style, usually featuring a male narrator who is troubled, lonely, intelligent and narcissistic.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The definite collection of Fitzgeralds short stories; edited and with a preface by the foremost Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli. The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the authors fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. This essential collection is ample testament to that statement, and a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history of American literature.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery, called Maud by family and friends and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. Montgomery published some 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems before her death in 1942. Because many of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, Canada and the Canadian province became literary landmarks. She was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. This book contains Lucy Maud Montgomerys short stories from the year 1896 to 1922. This great collection is full of her usual assortment of quirky, down-home, loyal, and loveable characters with honest and heart-warming stories.
H.C. McNeile
Sapper stories focus on the individuals than overall strategy. They describe what the things are like for the soldiers in the trenches. The story of an excellent young man, noble and deeply versed in the intricacies of etiquette. Most of the human race was unaware of its existence; but the ladies and gentlemen in the Mogmoth Emporium of Mogg considered him the ultimate arbiter of elegance. There is no direct story about the war, but there is a story about the man who helped many after the war.
John Buchan
Sick Heart River is the fifth book in the Edward Leithen series. This is Buchans last novel, about a man who is dying, and it must reflect Buchans own efforts to come to terms with his looming demise."Sick Heart River finds Leithen now in his late fifties facing a terminal diagnosis of turberculosis. Leithen has enjoyed a dazzling career as eminent barrister, member of Parliament, Cabinet minister, and attorney-general but with only months left to live, he leaves it all behind and takes up a whole new mission into the bleak arctic wilds of Canada. The friend of a friend, Francis Galliard, has gone missing in the North, and Leithen volunteers to find him and send him back, and so to die well, far away from the irking sympathy of his friends or the coddled atmosphere of the sick-room. But the North has some surprises in store for Leithen.
Szymon Szymonowic
Sielanki to najważniejsze dzieło Szymona Szymonowica. W dwudziestu utworach, wydanych w 1614 r. w Zamościu, widoczne są odwołania do Teokryta, twórcy sielanki jako gatunku literackiego, oraz do Wergiliusza i Jana Kochanowskiego. Sielanki napisane są językiem wykwintnym, poetyckim, o jasnej strukturze składniowej. Odegrały wielką rolę w rozwoju twórczości sielankowej. Ukazały się w momencie popularności i dużego zapotrzebowania na literaturę tego rodzaju. W zbiorze Sielanek znalazł się, niezaliczany do tytułowego gatunku, utwór Żeńcy. Stanowi on realistyczny obraz z życia wiejskiego. W scenie pracy żeńców bierze udział troje bohaterów: łagodna Oluchna, sprytna Pietrucha oraz Starosta, okrutny mężczyzna, który nadzoruje prace polowe i pogania żeńców batem.
Bolesław Prus
Utwór Sieroca dola opowiada o losach pewnego chłopca, który po śmierci najpierw ojca, a potem matki traci wszelką podporę w swym życiu. Jest skazany na łaskę i niełaskę obcych ludzi. Bolesław Prus - polski powieściopisarz, nowelista i publicysta okresu pozytywizmu. Jest autorem siedmiu powieści oraz kilkunastu nowel i opowiadań. Jego twórczość prozatorska należy do największych osiągnięć literatury polskiej. Popularność przyniosły mu powieści realistyczne Placówka, Lalka i Emancypantki oraz powieść historyczna rozgrywająca się w starożytnym Egipcie Faraon.