The Secret Power

Marie Corelli

Morgana Royal is a beautiful, rich female fairy, endowed with a powerful mind, has a personal flying ship, communicates wirelessly with representatives of a superior race and reveals the secret of eternal life. But the wild beauty Manella becomes her rival in the fight for the heart of a selfish scientist who dreams of subduing the whole world with his destructive discovery.

Tracked to Doom. The Story of a Mystery and Its Unravelling

Dick Donovan

There are peaceful people and there are passionate people, and once in a while you encounter someone who is beyond passionate, and probably murderous. Such people often make very clever predators, changing name and lifestyle like chameleons. How many will you meet in this story? How many spies? Will the detective or the clever people prevail? Read on and discover the trail.

En herrgrdssägen

Selma Lagerlöf

En herrgrdssägen är en bok av den svenska författaren Selma Lagerlöf. Berättelsen beskriver en ung kvinnas kamp för att rädda studenten Gunnar Hede ur hans sinnessjukdom, där han är instängd bakom depression och ngest. Boken skildrar kärlekens styrka genom olika niver. Boken beskriver ocks relationer mellan människor som är helt olika och de fördomar som finns om de människor som är annorlunda. Boken är den första av Lagerlöf som delvis utspelar sig i Dalarna. Huvudplatsen för boken är annars herrgrden Munkhyttan, som har beskrivits som herrgrdens idé, paradisets lustgrd.

Judasz. Tragedia w czterech aktach

Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer

Czteroaktowa tragedia Kazimierza Przerwy-Tetmajera z 1917 roku. Opowiada historię jednego z apostołów, tytułowego Judasza, którego złe działania autor próbuje racjonalnie uzasadnić. Bohater jest zadłużonym, nieszczęśliwym człowiekiem, pogrążonym w konflikcie ze swoimi dziećmi oraz matką, która w dzieciństwie źle go traktowała. Szuka ukojenia wśród uczniów Jezusa, jednak przez związek z szaloną kobietą rujnuje relacje z pozostałymi apostołami.

Around the Moon

Jules Verne

The science fiction story describes the adventures of three friends: the founder of the Cannon Club, Impi Barbicane, captain Nicolas and the daredevil Michel Ardan. Travelers make a five-day flight around the satellite of our planet, spending time in scientific disputes and discussions and sharing important guesses and observations with each other. At the very beginning of the novel, Barbican states: Well, algebra is the same tool as a plow or plow, and a tool very useful for those who know how to handle it. Perhaps the words of one of the main characters of the work reflect the idea of the book: having knowledge in one area or another and knowing how to apply it correctly, a person can fly to the Moon, explore Mars or Venus, and calculate the latitude and longitude of any geographical object.

The Doctors Wife

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Isabelle Sliford is a young girl who dreams of the books she reads and lives to read them. She sees life through the eyes of Brion, Shelley, Shakespeare and Dickens. George Gilbert, a handsome young doctor, sees that she and she are so different from the girls he knows, falling in love with her. He is pragmatic, and she is a dreamer of all that is beautiful, which causes the gulf between them.

Portret Doriana Graya

Oscar Wilde

Dorian Gray, niezwykłej urody młodzieniec, ulega namowom malarza Bazylego Hallwarda i zgadza się pozować mu do portretu. Po jego ukończeniu, zachwycony efektem chłopak niefrasobliwie wypowiada życzenie, które wkrótce ma się zacząć spełniać. Równolegle dokonują się dwie przemiany ulegającego zepsuciu moralnemu Doriana i imponującego portretu, odzwierciedlającego prawdziwą naturę sportretowanego. Skandalizująca powieść Oscara Wildea od blisko półtora wieku fascynuje rzesze czytelników.

Taras Bulba

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

The book describes the events that took place in the first half of the 17th century, when the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks defended their rights. Taras Bulba is a grown man, a Cossack colonel meets his sons. She finished her studies and returned home, her mother is glad of their arrival, Taras makes fun of them and rejoices at how strong sons he grew up with. However, Taras wants his children to know what struggle, courage and honor are. And he decides to send them to the Zaporizhzhya Sich, so that they can see with their own eyes the war and feel it on themselves. He rides with them. There, his sons learn about the life of the Cossacks, about war, patriotism, fidelity. But only everyone is true to their ideals, and they choose different paths.