The Pat Hobby Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Entertainingly artless and insensitive; by turns lazy and scheming, Hobby keeps his head just above water as the decades leave silent film behind. F. Scott Fitzgeralds collection of 17 humorous short stories paints a comic portrait of a man unwilling to accept his fate as a thing of the past.

The Magic Casket

R. Austin Freeman

The Magic Casket Thorndike solves the mystery of the box in order to locate a jewel stolen from a client and get rid of the dastardly Japanese who are after them in every way.

The Childerbridge Mystery

Guy Boothby

This book begins in Australia with a man and two adult children. They decide to return to England, but before leaving, an old enemy of his father appears. Son and daughter are surprised about him. In any case, they all move to England and buy a house, which is supposed to be inhabited by ghosts. All its owners saw them, and some were killed when they saw them. They are located in this village. Jamess son meets a young woman whom he falls in love with, but her grandfather will not allow them to marry and, later, even see each other.

The Little Red Foot

Robert W. Chambers

This is an adventure thriller about independence. The protagonist fights for the freedom of the United States, as well as for the love of his life. If you are a fan of the historical adventure novel, then this book is for you.

The Tenants of Malory

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Tenants of Malory is a sensational novel about two warring families, Verney and Fanshaw, and their mixed relationship. Arthur, the nephew of Lord Verney, cannot choose between his feelings for Margaret Fanshaw and in his favor. Through this novel, the author asks the question How many moral principles are people willing to sacrifice for a brief sense of superiority? It took a few seconds to give Tom the opportunity to explain the scene, the actor and his own resting place, his costume and the tenor of the strange womans tongue.

A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories

Robert W. Chambers

This novel is for lovers of romance novels. The author describes how a man meets a woman and their relationship develops. This romance will put you in a good mood as the love line will place you in pleasant memories.

London Pride. Or, When the World Was Younger

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This is a story about a knight who lost his wife during childbirth and his two daughters. The eldest daughter Hyacinth with a family monastery in Paris and Angela in a Flemish monastery with an aunt. The cloisters and surroundings were like night and day. The story of the reunion of the sisters after several years apart. The sisters have different moral values, but their sisterly cares prevail until forbidden love paves the way for despair. The author does not disappoint the Gothic romantic reader and the end, be he sad, but not all together are hopeless in the readers mind.

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Platon

Dialog Platoński, obok Państwa uważany za jedno ze szczytowych osiągnięć literackich Platona. Głównym tematem dialogu jest miłość (eros). Dialog ma skomplikowaną konstrukcję ramową o kilku poziomach narracji wydarzenia z uczty u Agatona referuje Apollodor na podstawie wieści zasłyszanych od innej osoby. Sedno stanowią przytoczone mowy uczestników uczty każda z nich opowiada o Erosie z innej perspektywy, zależnie od zajęcia lub charakteru opowiadającego.