The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, first published in 1922, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage of would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As they await the inheritance of his grandfathers fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice and disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness...

All the Sad Young Men

F. Scott Fitzgerald

All the Sad Young Men is a collection of nine short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It includes two of his most famous the beautifully elegiac The Rich Boy and Winter Dreams which feature wealthy protagonists the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green who struggle to come to terms with lost love. As with his other collections, its release was timed to follow the completion of his most recent novel, which was The Great Gatsby.

The Reckoning

Robert W. Chambers

It is historical fiction set during the Revolutionary War in northern New England. The protagonist has been a spy in New York for a long time and then uses his intimate knowledge of Native American Indians to aid the war effort during the latter part of the war.

Воительница (Wojownik). Очерк

Николай Семёнович Лесков, Nikołaj Siemionowicz Leskow

Домна Платоновна миловидная женщина, маленького роста, крупной комплекции, и с тяжелым характером. Живет она в столице, но родом из Мценска 2013 небольшого городка Орловской губернии. Ни про кого она не могла сказать доброго слова, все у нее были подлецами и мерзавцами. Те женщины, которым она когда-то помогла в очень щекотливом деле, в будущем начинали ее ненавидеть. Но Домна Платоновна не унывала, ненавидящим ее она воздавала сторицей, и продолжала свое не легкое дело, пристраивала женщин в хорошие руки. Повесть 201eВоительница201d, как и другие работы Н. С. Лескова, а именно 201eЖитие одной бабы201d, 201eЛеди Макбет Мценского уезда201d, посвящены женским судьбам. Самобытность характеров героинь, накал страстей, роковые обстоятельства вызывают глубокое сочувствие читателя, а богатство и разнообразие языка, особая живость рассказа придают убедительность повествованию.

King of the Dead

Frank Aubrey

Don Lorenzo and Arnold Neville lead separate expeditions to the South American interior whereupon they encounter the exiled king of the underground world. But can Neville help him reclaim his throne when the arch-priestess, Alloyah, raises an army of the dead? The sequel to The Devil-Tree of El Dorado and A Queen of Atlantis, King of the Dead is a novel among the most famous lost race novels written by the British author Frank Aubrey.

Strong-Hand Saxon. A Boys Adventure With a Canadian Scout in the North-West

T.C. Bridges

The boy knew all too well that his father was fighting to preserve the farm. The land was poor and they had three bad seasons. Unable to even pay for the labor, the farmer Holt and his seventeen-year-old son did almost all the work themselves, and sometimes it was hard work. They would not have known their neighbors, but the beasts themselves in the stables and stables lived better than Holt and his son.

Pharos, The Egyptian

Guy Boothby

There was a Victorian / Edwardian fascination with evil geniuses. Professor Moriarty, Fu Manchu, Count Fosco, Dracula, Dr. Nicola they and many others were hiding in the shadows, using their magnetism to persuade others to their will and their significant mental gifts for evil purposes. This is an exciting story for those who like the somewhat predictable traditions of late Victorian history.

Wódz narodu. Powieść z czasów młodości Tadeusza Kościuszki

Jerzy Orwicz

Pod pseudonimem Jerzy Orwicz ukrywała się Natalia Dzierżkówna (18611931) polska poetka, prozaiczka, tłumaczka, malarka i działaczka społeczna. Pochodziła z Podola, w Odessie zaangażowała się w działalność socjalistyczną. Po powrocie z zesłania zamieszkała w Warszawie, gdzie rozwinęła twórczość literacką i malarską. Rozgłos i uznanie przyniosły jej powieści biograficzne o Tadeuszu Kościuszce: Żywot wodza narodu (1909) i Od Dubienki do Racławic (1918).