The Kingdom of Earth

E. Phillips Oppenheim

John Peters is the dissolute Crown Prince of Bergeland. The nephew of the rapacious and immoral King. Grace Pellisier is an English American actress who meets a thoughtful, serious, hiker in the mountains of Switzerland. Bernhardt is the energetic Chief of the Secret Service, protecting the aging King, and constantly searching for The Watcher, the leader of the revolutionary republicans. Written during a period of intense anti-monarchy which saw the end of the Russian Tzar, Oppenheim is using the politics of Europe to imagine an alternative path to bloody revolution. And so on, and with the material of conspiracies, love and adventure the story is woven around the Prince with that peculiar polish in dialogue and fascinating coloring characteristic of the popular author.

Le Crime de lord Arthur Savile

Oscar Wilde

Le personnage principal Arthur un personnage tres contrasté. Des les premieres pages, il donne limpression dun jeune homme décent, beau et instruit. Cependant, une rencontre avec voyante de rue détruit completement cette image. En entendant la terrible prédiction concernant le meurtre quil doit commettre, Lord Arthur perd son visage humain de maniere irréversible. Planifiant un meurtre de leurs parents de sang-froid, le jeune homme ne souffre pas de conscience, ne tourmente pas les doutes

Przygody młodych Bastablów

Edith Nesbit

Przygody Młodych Bastablów to trzeci tom sagi o sześciorgu rodzeństwa, które w poprzednich tomach szukało skarbu i pisało złotą księgę dobrych uczynków. Dzieci nadal nie mogą narzekać na brak przygód. Ich wrażliwość nie pozwala im przejść obojętnie obok żadnego nieszczęścia każdemu z wielką ochotą pomagają, co rodzi wiele zabawnych, nieprzewidywalnych sytuacji.

Colonel Chabert

Honoré de Balzac

In 1807 Colonel Chabert, Napoleons beloved commander, is severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau. Taken for dead and buried in a mass grave, he manages to escape and wanders in poverty through Europe for 10 years, torn between life and death, oblivion and consciousness. Finally recovering his memories, he sets out for Paris to search for his wife who had been a prostitute before he married her and to reclaim his possessions. In the several years while he had been gone, his wife thinking he was dead had remarried and had two new children. She had also collected his existing fortune. In all, she was pretty happy the way things were. How could our colonel prove who he was? What arguments could he use against his former wife? The story has a surprising number of twists, and poses a number of questions about how our society really works and the analysis of human behavior, character and emotions, is, as usual in Balzac, sublime.

Poezje. Wybór

Juliusz Słowacki

Wybór wierszy z bogatego dorobku jednego z trzech wieszczy narodowych, autora Kordiana, Balladyny i Beniowskiego. Utwory Juliusza Słowackiego były zgodne z duchem epoki i ówczesną sytuacją narodu polskiego. Poeta podejmował w nich istotne problemy związane z walką narodowowyzwoleńczą, z przeszłością narodu i przyczynami niewoli, ale także poruszały uniwersalne tematy egzystencjalne. Jego twórczość liryczna, zebrana w tomie Poezje, wyróżniała się mistycyzmem, wspaniałym bogactwem poetyckich przenośni i języka. Jako liryk zasłynął pieśniami odwołującymi się do Orientu, źródeł ludowych i słowiańszczyzny. Był poetą nastrojów, mistrzem operowania słowem.

The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Sir Joseph is a brilliant surgeon from Australia who went mad after operating on vast numbers of soldiers during World War 1. His terrible hobby is cutting peoples heads open to steal bits of their brains. His wife is a former nurse who went mad alongside him. They are pursued across England and the continent by Mr. Daniel Rocke, codebreaker of the Foreign service: Miss Ann Lancaster, daughter of one of Londes victims, and Sir Francis Worton, known as Q20, head of the secret service. Londe adopts many disguises, and plots brilliant escapes. This short story collection also containing: The Scarlet Patch, The Terror of Elton Lodge, The House on Salisbury Plain, The Shaftesbury Avenue Murder and others.

Tajemniczy ogród

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Tajemniczy ogród opowiada o niezwykłym spotkaniu dwojga samotnych dzieci, z których każde nosi w sercu swoje krzywdy i troski. Miejscem ich spotkania jest stary, przytłaczający dom, w którym wciąż panuje nastrój nieukojonej żałoby. Dzieci, po przełamaniu pierwszych lodów, zawiązują przyjaźń, i wspólnie przywracają do życia bajkowy, zaniedbany ogród.

The Light Shines in Darkness. Drama

Leo Tolstoy

The drama The Light Shines reflects the events of Tolstoys life in the broadest, most typified generalizations. Therefore, it would be a gross mistake to fully identify the content of the drama with the life of Tolstoy, his family and those around him. Nevertheless, there is a close relationship between them. So, the drama of Nikolai Ivanovich Saryntsev is, of course, the drama of Tolstoy himself. In the person of Maria Ivanovna Saryntseva, some characteristic features of S. A. Tolstoy are outlined. The same should be said of the other characters in the play, which are very reminiscent of either Tolstoys family or those who came into close contact with his family. And the drunk Alexander Petrovich who appears in the fourth act is taken from real life. This is Tolstoys scribe, Alexander Petrovich Ivanov, a former officer who became trampless, an inhabitant of Rzhanovs house.