The White Wolf

Max Brand

If you like classic animal stories you will like this one for sure. Tucker Crosden bred his dogs to be champions. Yet even by frontiersmans brutal standards, bull terrier White Wolf was special. Tucker had great plans for the dog until it gave in to the blood-hungry laws of nature. He never thought that his prize animal would run at the head of a wolf pack one day and to be a leader among wolves in the San Jacinto Mountains or that a trick of fate would throw them together in a battle to the death. And White Wolf must choose between laws of nature or those of man. Max Brands action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world.

The Iron Trail

Rex Beach

Beach is at his best as an action adventure writer. You can feel the chill of the northwest glaciers and shudder at the threats of nature and unscrupulous people. Along with the man vs. nature plot, theres a tender romance off the beaten path.

Stracone złudzenia

Honoriusz Balzak

Stracone złudzenia to powieść Honoriusza Balzaca z cyklu Komedia ludzka. Opowiada ona o losach dwóch bohaterów: młodego, prowincjonalnego poety Lucjana Chardona de Rubempré, który wyjeżdża do Paryża, aby zrobić tam karierę dziennikarską, oraz Dawida Secharda, prowadzącego drukarnię. Obaj żyją w świecie ideałów, ale ich wielkie marzenia zostają skonfrontowane z bezwzględnym i obłudnym światem mieszczańskim.

The Guilty River

Wilkie Collins

Gerard Roiland, a typical Collins outsider, returns from college in Germany to take over his family estate at Trimley Dean and falls inappropriately in love with Kristel Toller, the daughter of one of his tenants. There is a mysterious deaf tenant who is also after Christelle.

Röda rummet. Skildringar ur artist- och författarlivet

August Strindberg

Boken handlar om Arvid Falk, August Strindbergs alter ego. Arvid strävar efter frihet och sanning. Pengar och ära kommer i andra hand. Hans äldre och dominerande bror som däremot strävar efter motsatsen blir mycket arg och skamsen när Arvid psts ha skickat in en avslöjande artikel till en tidning. Han hävdar att denna handling smutsar ner familjenamnet. Arvid tar sedan olika jobb, bland annat hos förläggaren Smith som ber honom skriva en reklamartikel, vilken ska f folk att köpa sjöförsäkringar. Arvid tycker inte om hyckleri, och tackar därför nej till jobbet, trots att han behöver pengarna.

Basil

Wilkie Collins

A young aristocrat falls in love with a shopkeepers daughter and is forced to hide his marriage to her from his relatives because of the existing class inequality. The hero of the novel is subjected to countless trials, which lead some of the characters to a tragic end.

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickenss tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

Bolesław Śmiały

Stanisław Wyspiański

Monolog wierszowany ukazuje konflikt między Bolesławem Śmiałym a biskupem Stanisławem, zabitym przez króla. Autor przedstawił konflikt z perspektywy Bolesława, ukazał przy tym liczne szczegóły z historii Polski. Wyspiański stosuje całą gamę aluzji i nawiązań, przeplata fakty własnymi sądami. W jego interpretacji konflikt został potraktowany symbolicznie, jako wciąż aktualny problem pomiędzy państwem a Kościołem.