Powiastki filozoficzne. Wybór

Voltaire

Powiastka filozoficzna jako gatunek literacki rozwinęła się w oświeceniu, m.in. za sprawą Voltairea i Diderota. Pod płaszczykiem lekkiej narracyjnej formy, wykorzystującej satyrę obyczajową i wątki awanturnicze czy romansowe, propagowała idee filozoficzne i stawiała kluczowe dla danego nurtu pytania. Pisane ciętym, błyskotliwym, pełnym humoru językiem Powiastki Voltairea pozostają dziełem ponadczasowym, ilustrującym zamiłowanie autora do wolności i mądrości.

Orlando. A Biography

Virginia Woolf

A fascinating fantastic story about a beautiful young man Orlando, who comes from a noble family, is distinguished by intelligence and beauty, loves life, women, poetry and in general has a very impressive nature and subtle imagination, resists, as far as possible, the influence of light and gravitates to solitude. All the time he seeks the meaning of life and does not find it... One fine day Orlando wakes up... a woman also beautiful and noble, also delicately sensitive and also without meaning in life.

Portrait of a Man with Red Hair

Hugh Walpole

This is a terrible story about Harkness, a timid American who travels all over Europe with his etchings as his only friends. While in London, he meets a man at the club who recommends visiting a small town during his holidays. The next 24 hours completely change his life. He made friends with a frightened young woman who is unhappily married and meets a man with red hair, a rich and sadistic man who loves to influence others by hurting them.

A Lucky Dog

Max Brand

Seattle-born author who worked as a cowhand in California, attended Berkeley, joined then deserted the Canadian Army, and finally settled down to writing full-time. Max Brand was incredibly prolific and wrote numerous books under his birth name (Frederick Faust) and a variety of pseudonyms. He does it again in the eminently enjoyable novel A Lucky Dog. Hagger is a man on the run, a thief and would-be killer. Hes no good on a horse, and feels miserable and out of place in the snowbound high country. But, then, Hagger comes upon a white bull terrier, abandoned in a mountain cabin, and his whole life begins to change...

The Justice of Amru

Henry Bedford-Jones

Written in the cycle of tales by H. Bedford-Jones, The Justice of Amru tells how fanatic followers of Mohammed stormed out of Arabia in the seventh century to slaughter the Greek troops of the Great Eastern Empire and conquer Egypt... and again the strange Sphinx Emerald came to the scene to play its part in the unrolling historic drama.

Heart of the Sunset

Rex Beach

She was a brave young woman, born in the desert, alone, lost in the suffocating heat of the South Texas desert, with a sore throat from the drought. Elair Austin staggered to a watering hole she knew existed. And with him, she will find Texas Ranger David Lowe. She had no idea that this chance encounter at the only watering hole in fifty square miles of scorched desert would be the beginning of the greatest adventure of her life.

Wiersze. Wybór

Józef Czechowicz

Józef Czechowicz to słynny polski poeta awangardowy dwudziestolecia międzywojennego, uznany za jednego z najbardziej oryginalnych twórców swoich czasów. Do najbardziej charakterystycznych elementów jego twórczości należy asyndeton konstrukcja składniowa zaliczana do figur retorycznych polegająca na łączeniu zdań lub ich części bez użycia spójnika. Poezja Czechowicza jeszcze przed II wojną poruszała tematy katastrofy, strachu, przeczucia nadchodzącego niebezpieczeństwa.

La Tulipe noire

Alexandre Dumas pere

Ah! Dumas, Alexandre Dumas, le pere dhistoires exellentes! Cette fois-ci, il nous transporte en Hollande au XVIIeme siecle, le siecle que lon sait tre l-bas, celui de la tulipomanie, sorte de frénésie spectaculaire autour dun type floral du Proche-Orient récemment introduit dans le nord-ouest de lEurope, la tulipe. Cest mielleux, mais ce côté suranné du romantisme qui allie le sang, lhonneur, la justice grande échelle et lamour le plus ras-des-pâquerettes.