A Smile of Fortune

Joseph Conrad

A Smile of Fortune is located on a beautiful island in the Pacific Ocean, on which the narrator, captain docked; ship suppliers are supposedly brothers who have not talked to each other for 18 years. One of the brothers, Ernest, is an assimilated citizen. He owes a lot of money, has parties, has taste and manners, and is trusted. He treats the half-blood servants as cruelly as the rest of the colonists. Another, Arthur, is an outcast, not because of his race or profession, although he was forced to make aggressive deals by beating his brother for incoming captains in order to get food and equipment contracts earlier than his brother

Votes for Men

Mary Cholmondeley

Votes for Men by Mary Cholmondeley, a tribute to the famous suffragist play Votes for Women. It begins with in two hundred years, maybe less, which tells you everything you need to know about this suffrage era suffrage allegory.

Notes on Life and Letters

Joseph Conrad

This book is a collection of some of Konrads reviews and writings. The collection is divided into two parts, primarily the sections Letters, its reviews. The second section is called Life, but this is only true in a limited sense. It contains Conrads views on some of the pressing political issues of the day. They range from the Russo-Japanese War and the question of the independence of Poland to the death of the Titanic.

Драма на охоте (Dramat na polowaniu). Истинное происшествие

Антон Павлович Чехов, Anton Pawłowicz Czechow

Иван Камышев, состоятельный и красивый мужчина, предлагает в издательство свою рукопись с несколько патетическим названием «Драма на охоте». Редактор поначалу настроен скептически, но, начав читать, уже не может оторваться. Закрученная детективная интрига и чудовищный образ главного героя безраздельно завладевают воображением читателя еще и потому, что, по словам самого Камышева, его повесть автобиографична. 201eДрама на охоте201d 2013 одно из ранних произведений А. П. Чехова, в котором переплелись динамизм повествования и детективный сюжет что вовлекает читателя в водоворот драматических событий, приводящих к трагической развязке. Повесть написана в редком для Чехова жанре детективной истории. Известно, что сам автор, отрицательно относившийся к детективной литературе, никогда не возвращался к работе над этой повестью, не включал ее в собрание сочинений и практически не упоминал в переписке. 201eДрама на охоте201d написана и впервые опубликована в 1884 году под псевдонимом А. Чехонте.

Państwo

Platon

Dzieło filozoficzno-polityczne w formie dialogu. Zawiera syntezę Platońskich poglądów na temat funkcjonowania społeczeństwa. Porusza zagadnienia z zakresu etyki, filozofii politycznej, epistemologii, ontologii i etyki medycyny. Poprzez poszukiwanie odpowiedzi na pytanie, czym jest sprawiedliwość, Platon budował idealny wzorzec państwa. Z dzieła tego pochodzi też słynna metafora jaskini mit symbolizujący całokształt Platońskiego poglądu na rzeczywistość.

Wyllards Weird

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Wyllards Weird is a little-known sensational novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The story mainly concerns the riddle of a young girl who dies as a result of a fall from a train in motion. Was it a murder? Or was it suicide? Amateur detective makes his mission to solve the mystery at the request of old love. The discoveries he makes lead him to a double murder committed ten years ago. Were they connected? If so, then the same murderous hand struck again.

Peter Blue

Max Brand, Max Brand

This collection includes three short novels from one of the top three Western novelists of all time Max Brand (Frederick Faust). The stories here are character studies of outlaws, the lives they lead and the lies and myths that spring up about them. The title novel, Peter Blue, is an excellent character study. Blue, wounded in a gunfight, has lost the use of his gun hand and is desperately trying to learn to shoot with his left hand before his enemies realize how vulnerable he is. In the meantime, being hold up in one place, he, too, learns the values of a normal, fulfilling life until one of the gunmen he beat in the past comes to even the score. Now, Blue, with so much more to live for, is unable to defend himself. Or is he?

The Canary Murder Case

S.S. Van Dine

One of the best novels by the little American detective writer Van Dyne, The Canary Killing Case, takes the reader to New York sixty years ago, where amateur detective Filo Vance, a literary relative of Sherlock Holmes, brilliantly uses the deductive method to find the killer of the star Broadway at night nicknamed Canary.