Anima vilis

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Akcja powieści Anima vilis rozgrywa się na Syberii. Antoni Mrozowiecki to człowiek uczciwy i pracowity. Jest przez to nielubiany przez cwaniaka o nazwisku Szumski, który uważa go za konkurenta w rywalizacji o Marię, córkę doktora. Piękne opisy srogiej krainy, charakterystyka losów zesłańców, ich przeżycia oraz wielka miłość to główne zalety powieści.

Kiwony

Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz

ózef Domaszko właśnie zdał maturę. Ma romans z córką swej ciotki Natalką. Dewizą życiową tego zdolnego i ambitnego młodzieńca jest ulubione motto jego stryja Cezarego: Trzeba zawsze w życiu stosować się do tego, co jest przyjęte i uznawane przez szanowanych, poważnych i spokojnych ludzi. Stryj, który łożył na naukę Józefa, chce, żeby ten został literatem, ma w sobie wszak krew wieszcza Słowackiego. Powikłane losy naszego bohatera przedstawione są w książce Kiwony na niezwykle interesującym tle wydarzeń rozgrywających się w stołecznych redakcjach prasowych, salonach warszawskiej inteligencji i domach zamożnej burżuazji. Kiwonowatość, czyli lizusostwo przedstawicieli ówczesnych elit, ludzi pozbawionych inicjatywy i bezwolnie poddających się biegowi wydarzeń, to typowe zjawisko tamtych czasów.

Bull Hunter

Max Brand

Another great Max Brand western, first written in 1921. The story follows a cousin who was taken in by his uncle and his two sons. They make fun of him, and use his size and strength to do the hard chores they cant do. The huge, lumbering outlaw Bull Hunter intends to hunt down and kill the men responsible for his uncles death. When he finds out that the ringleader is already behind bars, he devises a clever plot to spring his nemesis in order to dispense his comeuppance, street justice-style. Enjoyable story that would appeal to those who like to see someone whos been bullied get a chance to rise above self doubt and circumstances.

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

This is one of the most uplifting of Dickenss novels. This book is certainly different from all the other books by Charles Dickens as it has no particular central character. Well all the other novels by Dickens have a strong connection with London but this story depicts Coketown and Coketown only, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. Hard Times is a very tragic and wonderfully described story of human oppression. Dickenss brilliant use of characterization can be seen in high form here and as always, his naming of his storys populace is entertaining by itself.

The First Distiller. A Comedy in Six Acts

Leo Tolstoy

Such was the breadth of Tolstoys talents that he was unsurpassed in stories, essays and plays. A play about a demon who was stuck on the theft of the souls of peasants. The story itself is a story about juvenile morality, which seems so heavy that Tolstoys footprints should be on every page.

Gegen das Weltgesetz

Kurd Lasswitz

Ein utopisches Märchen aus dem 39. Jahrhundert. Der Science-Fiction Roman spielt sich im Jahr 3877 ab. Der Science-Fiction Roman beginnt in Erziehunganstalt wo man den zukünftigen Weg seiner Kinder festlegen kann indem man das Gehirn der Kinder entsprechend erzieht. Im Jahre 3877 gehört den Eltern ein Drittel der Rindenschicht des Gehirns der Kinder, ein Drittel wird für das Kind aufbewahrt, wenn sich der Intellekt ausgebildet hat und das letzte Drittel wird von einer öffentlichen Anstalt für allgemeine Bildung präpariert.

The Second Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

If you read the stories of The First Jungle Book, you remember how, attaching the skin of Sher Khan to the Council Rock, Mowgli told the surviving wolves of the Zion pack that he would hunt one from now on, and how his brothers - four wolves - announced that they would hunt with him. But its hard to change life in one minute, especially in the jungle. The flock dispersed in disarray; Mowgli went to the cave of his wolves, lay down and slept all day and all night. Then he told Mother and Father Wolves everything that they could understand from his adventures among people, and when the boy made the morning sun play on the blade of his knife, the very one with which he skinned from Sher Khan, they agreed that their son learned something.

Greenmantle

John Buchan

A classic espionage and adventure novel set during The Great War, featuring the reckless Richard Hannay. Sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps and precursor to Mr. Standfast. Tasked with unraveling a mysterious message, Hannay travels through Germany and the Middle East, searching for the elusive religious leader Greenmantle. He is joined by three more of Buchans heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. However, they must begin the task with no clues except three words scribbled on a piece of paper Kasredin, cancer, and v.I. In different disguises the men take separate roads to Constantinople where they will meet and begin their search, if they all arrive safely and its a big if.