Publisher: KtoCzyta.pl
Platon
Czy bogowie lubią to, co zbożne, dlatego że ono jest zbożne, czy też ono jest dlatego zbożne, że je bogowie lubią? to jeden z najważniejszych, a zarazem najbardziej nowatorski dylemat, jaki Platon zamieścił w swojej rozprawie pt. Eutyfron. Tytułowy bohater postanawia oskarżyć swojego ojca o zabicie niewolnika. W drodze do urzędu spotyka Sokratesa, który został oskarżony o bezbożność i psucie młodzieży. Nawiązuje się między nimi rozmowa, w której Eutyfron próbuje zdefiniować, czym tak właściwie jest bezbożność.
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. This novel is framed as several witness accounts to a fictious journalist and starts as an entertaining adventure yarn with even some pirate episodes, but the story looses steam at the half-way point when it turns into a very predictable society novel. Wallace follows his passions for horse-racing and adventure, and the title character in all his generosity and extravagance is clearly autobiographical. The story of a man who founds his own colony on an uninhibited island, returns to England to find true love and manages to keep the island out of the hands of various foreign powers.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
In this novel tells about Alexander, the head of a huge movement aimed at returning to Russia a more conservative government. And also about his beautiful spy love, Anna, who works against the gang of butchers for the Soviet chief.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A solitary cabin stood far away in the backwoods of Canada, outside all tracks of civilization, in a region which only the native Indians and a few daring trappers cared to penetrate. Rudely built of pine logs, it was ill-calculated to withstand the piercing cold and frost which, for nine months out of the twelve, holds this region in an iron grip. Around it, a small clearing had been effected, but the ground was many feet thick in snow, which, save where in front of the door it had been cut away, surrounded the frail little building, and reached up to the rude window.
Robert Louis Stevenson
These are fables in many there is morality, others clearly contain moralizing. However, fables are not only literary interest. This is a beautiful, filigree prose. The author defined the fable genre very broadly as a combination of elements of a story about dreams with a moralizing allegory.
Karel Čapek
W Czechach maszyny zwane karburatorami zaczynają wytwarzać bogów na masową skalę. Nadmiarem Absolutu zaczęto bombardować Anglię, aż w końcu na świecie nastała nieograniczona obfitość wszystkich ludzkich potrzeb. Ale jak się okazuje, ludziom potrzeba wszystkiego, tylko nie nieograniczonej obfitości. Ponadto Absolut w zależności od miejsca przybiera postać taką, na jaką jest zapotrzebowanie. W Polsce jest więc rodzajem alkoholu, w cesarstwie niemieckim został upaństwowiony, a w Czechach został indywidualistą.
Jules Verne
Dans le roman Face au drapeau, raconte le destin de Tom Rock, linventeur des moyens destructeurs dun pouvoir énorme. Le désir de tirer profit de son invention amene Rock la folie et son fulgurateur devient la propriété des pirates internationaux. Basé sur ce roman, le célebre film de Karl Zeman Le mystere de la banquise insulaire.
Carolyn Wells
A house party at a country house in Connecticut, reputedly a house under a curse. The owner dies mysteriously, and one of the house party vanishes. The characters of the wealthy murdered man, his young wife and his daughter, as well as those of the servants and detectives are more than usually convincing and the story altogether adapted for effortless fireside reading. While the reader is prevented from divining the solution too easily, a proper number of clues are conscientiously given and the events, nicely dovetailed together. Face Cards, written by an American author and poet Carolyn Wells, is a locked-room mystery in which crime and a family curse are interwoven, with plenty of creepy supernatural events thrown in, relating to exotic masks.