Creatures That Once Were Men and Other Stories

Maxim Gorky

A collection of short stories by a popular and influential Russian author, the founder of the literary method of socialist realism and, possibly, the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote short stories, plays, memoirs and novels that touched the imagination of the Russian people, and was the first Russian author to sympathize sympathetically with characters such as tramps and thieves, emphasizing their daily struggle with insurmountable difficulties.

The Neer-Do-Well

Rex Beach

Father often asked Kirk Anthony to do a real job. But Anthony, despite almost idolizing his strong, successful father, just cant stop having a good time with his fathers money. He goes to fancy dinners, drives the latest cars, and treats his friends to sumptuous meals. Then a man steps in trying to get away from the law. At dinner, he persuades one of Anthonys drunken friends to play a terrible joke on him.

Armadale

Wilkie Collins

The hero of the novel, Armadel, decides how to deceive fate, become loved and fall in love for life. The mysteries of life are the mysteries of love, which are presented to us by the main characters of the novel, and it is up to the readers to decide which characters to side with. A cry of passion or the silent restraint of love this is how the heroes of the novel behave.

Jacques

George Sand

Le protagoniste du roman "Jacques" lincarnation des idéaux moraux élevés de lauteur. Personne ayant une expérience de vie difficile et un cur sensible, facilement guéri, plein de gentillesse et dardent soif damour, il se distingue par son humanité et sa noblesse des points de vue, son sens du devoir et son sens de la responsabilité personnelle légard du bonheur de ses proches.

Lélia

George Sand

Le roman Lelia est une confession sincere dune femme noble et belle, mais froide comme une statue, déçue par lamour; un sentiment a survécu dans son âme agitée le besoin de croire en lamour et peut-tre en lamour divin. Le jeune poete Stenio aime passionnément Lelia et tente en vain de la faire revivre. La tendresse et la poésie des personnages, la beauté enchanteresse du style ne peuvent laisser indifférent. Le livre, sil nest pas completement autobiographique, reflete en tout cas les sentiments personnels ressentis par lauteur.

Totem and Taboo. Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics

Sigmund Freud

Totem and Taboo is a work by Sigmund Freud in which he develops his theory of the origin of morality and religion. This is one of the most significant works of Sigmund Freud. This work is a large-scale and original, balancing on the verge of psychoanalysis, cultural studies and anthropology study of the characteristics of the psychosexual perception of a primitive man, a study still considered an absolute classic of psychoanalysis...

Błyskawice. Powieść historyczna z czasów rewolucji francuskiej

Teodor Jeske-Choiński

Błyskawice to powieść historyczna Teodora Jeske-Choińskiego, której tło stanowi zbliżająca się rewolucja w XVIII-wiecznej Francji. W trakcie burzliwych wydarzeń na próbę wystawiona zostaje miłość pomiędzy szlachcicem Gastonem de Clarac, konserwatystą oraz wielkim patriotą, a Zofią de Laval, zwolenniczką postępu i oświecenia. Połączyła ich miłość, pozycja społeczna oraz wspomnienia z dzieciństwa. Czy różne wizje świata zdołają ich rozdzielić?

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.