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.

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.