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Franz Kafka
"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1917 by Franz Kafka. The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom (stablehand) in a pig shed.
Jack London
“A Daughter of the Snows” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer.
Gerhart Hauptmann
“A Pippa tańczy!” to sztuka Gerharta Hauptmanna, niemieckiego dramaturga i powieściopisarza, laureata literackiej Nagrody Nobla. Sztuka ta, a właściwie bajka, podzielona jest na cztery akty i rozgrywa się w śląskich górach. Głównymi postaciami sztuki są, włoski technik hutniczy Tagliazoni oraz Pippa, jego córka.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“A Princess of Mars“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel, the first of the Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jack London
“A Son of the Sun” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. A Son of the Sun is a novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts the striking panorama of the South seas with adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers, pirates, and cannibals.
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - a novel by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met.
Eliza Orzeszkowa
"A...B...C..." to nowela jednej z najwybitniejszych polskich powieściopisarek Elizy Orzeszkowej. Była nominowana do Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury w 1905 roku, kiedy to członkowie Komitetu Noblowskiego uznali iż: "O ile w tekstach Sienkiewicza bije szlachetne polskie serce, to w twórczości Elizy Orzeszkowej bije serce człowieka". Nowela pod tytułem "A...B...C..." opowiada o tragediach prostych, biednych i bezradnych ludzi oraz o heroizmie i dostrzeganiu odrobiny dobra. W utworze młoda nauczycielka gromadzi wokół siebie dzieci miejskiej biedoty i uczy je czytać oraz pisać, nie wiedząc, iż prowadzenie szkoły bez zezwolenia jest przestępstwem, co później ją dogania.
Stanisław Wyspiański
„Achilleis” to oparty na motywach Iliady dramat Stanisława Wyspiańskiego, powstały w 1903 roku. Fabuła koncentruje się wokół oblężenia i upadku Troi, konstrukcja jest luźna, oparta na szybkiej zmianie planów i ostro kontrastujących pod względem nastroju scen. Utwór stanowi wyraz kontynuacji młodzieńczych zainteresowań Wyspiańskiego starożytnością.