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.

Uczta

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.

Аня в стране чудес (Alicja w Krainie Czarów)

Льюис Кэрролл, Lewis Carroll

Алиса в Зазеркалье 2013 всемирно известная и любимая сказка не только для малышей, но и для взрослых. Хорошая детская литература 2013 одна из самых трудных для написания книг, потому что нужно бросать вызов, вовлекать, не прибегая к жизненному опыту, что и сделала Льюиса Кэрролл. Это история о приключениях Алисы в удивительных мирах. Она попадает в зеркальный мир, чтобы спасти своего друга. Однако, ей придется пройти много преград на пути, чтобы спасти друга.

Paying Guests

E.F. Benson

The story is set around the Wentworth mention, a small boarding house in Bolton Spa and its owners and lodgers. They are quite unlikable, mainly upper-middle-class English people who came to the Spa to cure their body illnesses, but also to fill the time and escape boredom despite having no passions, interests and work. A delightful book for anybody familiar with Bensons work, full of all the usual light, wit and satirical caricatures that Benson does so well.

Chronicles of Melhampton

E. Phillips Oppenheim

In the sleepy little Devonshire town of Melhampton, the lives of the village stalwarts are revealed in this charming collection of tales by Oppenheim. Mr Tidd, the manager of the local bank branch, has invested his life and savings in the education of his daughter, but has dipped into the banks funds to maintain appearances. On the eve of quarterly bank examiners visit, he is confronted with guilt and exposure. In another tale, the town veterinarian is conflicted about his desire to marry the serving girl at the local Melhampton Arms. Each of these stories presents a social or financial quandary typical of England at the time.

La Comédie humaine. Volume I. Scenes de la vie privée. Tome I

Honoré de Balzac

Cest une histoire sur la façon dont, en contractant un mariage inégal, des personnes risquent de se retrouver dans une situation o ce mariage mme devient un fardeau et une torture. Balzac raconte lhistoire sans blâmer ni épargner personne. Ici et les parents qui ont vécu une vie vide, ici et Théodore, qui, la recherche de divertissement chic, jette sa jeune femme dans langoisse. Voici Augustine elle-mme qui, elle essaie de régler son malheur.

Benita. An African Romance

H. Rider Haggard

The main task of the heroes is to find the treasure. The trader heard the legend of the great treasure buried by the Portuguese party for hundreds of years before the last source tried to find it with the help of a mesmericist. The child was put into a trance and told his mesmerists details about the adventures and death of the unfortunate Portuguese men and women. With many other details, the boy so accurately described the burial of the great treasure and its exact position that the white man and the mesmerist could find the place where he was.

Off on a Comet. Or, Hector Servadac

Jules Verne

Jules Vernes novel Hector Servadac tells about the adventures of the captain of the French troops and his friends, who, as a result of an unprecedented disaster, fell on a fragment of the globe captured by a flying comet. Hector, his orderly, the Russian Count Timashev, a colony of English soldiers from Gibraltar, an Italian girl with a goat, a Jewish money-lender and another odd scientist are forced to organize their life in new conditions. The book contains a lot of information on astronomy, corresponding to the level of the second half of the XIX century.