A Thorny Path

Georg Ebers, Clara Bell

A nineteenth-century novel from a German Egyptologist and novelist who discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus in Luxor. Georg Ebers wanted to familiarize the public with the discoveries of Egyptologists. The novel really describes the hard life of Egypt in the 19th century. An unusual theme for the novel was chosen, but really interesting and exciting.

Night and Day

Virginia Woolf

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is her second novel and was published in 1919. But the novel is very forward-looking in its examination of relationships under the stress of the culture shift was occurring in the early 20th century. The story takes place in pre-war England and involves four characters and their relationships. Kathryn Hillbery the middle class privileged girl whose idea of success is marriage. Ralph Denham the middle class lawyer who supports his whole family and looks for his own peace of mind. William Rodney the mediocre poet and the suffragette, looking for the kind of romanticism one finds in books. Mary round out the main characters, involved in womens rights, who regards work as her precept of living. Also in the mix is Kathryns slightly ditzy mother who while working on a book seems to be easily distracted. The characters all work well together.

The Secret of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton

Have you wondered how the great detectives solved their cases? In The Secret of Father Brown, while visiting Flambeaus house Father Brown meets a curious American who has to know as some of his countrymen think Father Brown is using mystical powers. The fourth of the Father Brown detective story collections has something the first three did not: a framing sequence at the beginning and end, in which Father Brown explains to a curious person his method for solving crimes he becomes the criminal. In this collection he becomes several jewel thieves and murderers, all of whom carry out their crimes in bizarre circumstances. Father Brown, or rather Chesterton, takes opportunity on occasion to indulge in a bit of Catholic apologetic or homiletic, but it never takes over the story: it makes Father Brown that much more a priest and not just a mystery-solving machine.

La Tentation de saint Antoine

Gustave Flaubert

Flaubert a travaillé toute sa vie sur ce travail. Un poeme dramatique en prose sur la déception des possibilités de la connaissance. Le drame philosophique La tentation de saint Antoine est basé sur la légende dAnthony of Thebes, un saint chrétien sujet la tentation. Derriere les tentations dans lâme dun ermite, le désespoir sinstalle, suscitant des doutes dans la foi.

Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales

H. Rider Haggard

Rider Haggard, just like his main character in this story, is not indifferent to Ancient Egypt. The events of the four stories take place in Africa. Here several acts overlap: extraordinary courage and an epic clash of different cultures. The main theme remains unchanged: the theme of love, which lasts until death.

Wilcze gniazdo. Powieść z czasów krzyżackich

Zuzanna Morawska

Zuzanna Morawska przenosi czytelnika w czasy średniowiecznej Litwy. Lekko i ciekawie opowiada historię księcia litewskiego Giedymina, który planuje wydanie swojej córki Aldony za syna Władysława Łokietka. Czasy początków państwa polskiego, związki z sąsiadami Litwinami i Krzyżakami do dziś rozbudzają wyobraźnię nie tylko najmłodszych czytelników.

W żydowskich rękach

Michał Bałucki

Jedna z późniejszych powieści Michała Bałuckiego. Krytyczne spojrzenie autora na otaczającą go rzeczywistość i ówczesną sytuację polityczną Polski. Świat, w którym żyją bohaterowie powieści jest pełen przemocy i niesprawiedliwości.

Ten Years Later

Alexandre Dumas

The dArtagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas telling the story of the musketeer dArtagnan from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death as a marshal of France in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673. It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. DArtagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon he learns that his old comrades already have great projects in hand. Athos seeks the restoration of Charles II, while Aramis, with Porthos in tow, has a secret plan involving a masked prisoner and the fortification of the island of Belle-Ile. DArtagnan finds a thread leading him to the French court, the banks of the Tyne, the beaches of Holland, and the dunes of Brittany. The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the 3rd and largest continuation of the Musketeer saga, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After.