Riddles Read

Dick Donovan

Written by James Edward Preston Murdock (18431934), an author of mysteries, thrillers, and horror stories. For a time, his popularity rivaled that of Arthur Conan Doyle and he was certainly more prolific than Doyle. This collection of short stories dates from 1896: 1: In the Shadow of Sudden Death, 2: The Doom of the Star-gazer, 3: The Strange Story of Some State Papers, 4: The Problem of Dead Wood Hall, 5: Trapped, 6: The Riddle of Beavers Hill, 7: A Railway Mystery, 8: A Desperate Game

The River Riders

T.C. Bridges

Winter closed early over the great desert of the Northwest, and the first dense snow lay on the banks and covered dark trees with a white mantle. Ice formed under the river banks, and its huge layers crumbled under the sound of a choking stern wheel and rattled like broken glass on a track. In the snowy forest thickets, neither human dwellings nor living creatures were visible. The still air was bitter from the frost, and a dull red sun fell behind the distant hills.

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

The novel is about six friends who have known since childhood: Bernard, Louis, Neville, Susie, Ron and Ginny. After a few key episodes, their life appears from early childhood to the last days. As in most Virginia Woolf books, the plot as such is absent, it is entirely focused on the inner world of its characters, the flow of their thoughts and feelings, the whole story is an uncontrollable, bubbling flow, stream of thoughts, stream of life, stream of time.

W pomrokach wiary

Stefan Grabiński

W tomie W pomrokach wiary autorstwa Stefana Grabińskiego znajduje się sześć utworów: Puszczyk, Pomsta ziemi, Szalona zagroda, Wampir, Podzwonne i Klątwa. Każdy z nich na swój sposób eksploruje tematykę wiary, porusza kwestie wierzeń, przesądów oraz mechanizmów psychologicznych z pogranicza metafizyki, takich jak siła sugestii czy myślenie fatalistyczne. Stefan Grabiński (18871936) uznawany jest za jednego z najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli nurtu grozy w polskiej literaturze międzywojennej, o czym świadczy miano polskiego Poe lub polskiego Lovecrafta. Jest też wysoko ceniony w zagranicznych kręgach literatury grozy.

Dobre geny

Hanna Cygler

Rok 2006. 42-letnia Marta Wenta, mocno poraniona przez życie, staje wreszcie na nogi wyjeżdża z Gdańska do Warszawy i obejmuje stanowisko wiceprezesa państwowej agencji. Jest twórcza, oddana pracy i uczciwa. Na skutek nieoczekiwanych wydarzeń staje się mimowolnym uczestnikiem afery politycznej, która nagle przerywa jej błyskotliwą karierę. Od tej chwili Marta musi stawić czoła zarówno swoim przeciwnikom, jak i tym, których do tej pory uważała za przyjaciół. Rozwiązanie wielu jej problemów kryje się również w przeszłości, z którą zostaje skonfrontowana.

The Essays

Michel de Montaigne

Montaignes The Essays is an unusual book, largely due to the authors attitude to it. This is an exclusively everyday book, suitable for everyday use, in which the author does not discuss how the world works and where everything goes, but discusses the essential: how to raise children, how to build a married life, how to spend leisure time, etc. At the same time, Montaigne does not have a very high opinion of himself, although he praises him for his non-commitment to excesses and the measuredness of being.

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The tragic story of a young burgher, who could not find an answer to his feelings and rejected by society, was instantly translated into other languages and gave rise to a series of sequels and imitations the so-called Verterian. Over time, Werther, the rebellious martyr became one of the eternal images of world literature and introduced the sociopsychological phenomenon of verterism into European culture, associated with the melancholic mentality and the problem of suicide as the highest manifestation of free will.

Le Juif errant

Eugene Sue

Juif errant la légende biblique a commencé se répandre en Europe au 13eme siecle. Il sagit dun Juif qui sest moqué de Jésus sur le chemin de la crucifixion et qui a ensuite été maudit. Cest limage dun vagabond, qui dans lhistoire pourrait tre un marchand ou un escroc.