Koriolan

William Shakespeare

Tragedia autorstwa Williama Szekspira, której akcja rozgrywa się na początku V wieku naszej ery w Rzymie, tuż po wygnaniu Tarkwiniuszy. W mieście rozpoczynają się zamieszki, ponieważ ludzie coraz bardziej cierpią z powodu braku jedzenia, ubóstwa i coraz większej drożyzny. Zbuntowany lud za zaistniały stan rzeczy obwinia Gnejusza Marcjusza, wybitnego generała. Ten jednak nieprzychylnie patrzy na swój lud, uważając go za głupi i tchórzliwy motłoch.

The Analects

Confucius

This is a collection of judgments. In The Analects the mystical layer is completely absent, as well as the natural-philosophical problems. Outwardly unsystematically arranged aphorisms are united by the theme of creating an ideal social order, which for Confucius is an expression of the Tao in the Celestial Empire. Its implementation is possible as a result of self-improvement of a person through familiarization with writing / culture (wen).

Jane Field

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

At first glance, this may seem like a simple fairy tale, but Mary quickly and with lively sympathy brings the various characters and settings to life. The main question is: what will happen to Jane and her daughter?

Mr Wrays Cash Box, or, the Mask and the Mystery. A Christmas sketch

Wilkie Collins

This is a very hilarious story by Wilkie Collins. This book reads like sensational journalism from the 1800s or an old radio show. The characters are fun and cute, and the story moves quickly and leaves you with a smile on your face.

Manalive

G.K. Chesterton

Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chestertons works, Manalive follows the fun loving Innocent Smith who, after bringing joy to a boarding house, is charged with a series of crimes. Later accused even of murder and denounced for philandering everywhere he goes, Smith prompts his newfound acquaintances to recognize an important idea in most unexpected ways. In this delightfully strange mystery, Chesterton demonstrates why life is worth living, and that sometimes we need a little madness just to know we are alive.

Bobo. Studium powiastka

Janusz Korczak

Książka o dziecku i młodzieży ale nie dla młodzieży. Wydana w 1914 roku. Korczak kwestionuje w niej legendę beztroskiej szczęśliwości dziecka, podkreśla trudy i niepokoje dzieciństwa, antagonizmy między dziećmi a rodzicami. Janusz Korczak, właśc. Henryk Goldszmit (18781942), polsko-żydowski lekarz i pedagog, pisarz i publicysta. W swoich utworach propagował prawa dziecka oraz nowoczesne metody wychowawcze. Materiały do twórczości literackiej czerpał z bezpośredniej pracy dziećmi.

The Step on the Stair

Anna Katharine Green

I had turned the corner at Thirty-fifth Street and was halfway down the block in my search for a number I had just taken from the telephone book when my attention was suddenly diverted by the quick movements and peculiar aspect of a man whom I saw plunging from the doorway of a large office-building some fifty feet or so ahead of me.

Dr. Kildares Hardest Case

Max Brand

Lindley Parker Sessions, commandant of the Yard, stood with his hand on his hips and looked up. There is a saying that even the Devil would make a sailor if he could only learn to look up. However, the Rear Admiral was not staring at the leech of a sail; he was watching the ironworkers as they ran up a new portion of the ways. Welders did most of the construction in the Yard, but for lack of them at this point, Lieutenant Commander Henry Jervis, who supplied the engineering brains for the Rear Admiral, was using a riveting gang.