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Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, often considered his masterpiece. Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband Charles Bovary in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating... Flauberts novel scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857, and it remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. Flauberts legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatched ability to convey a mental world through the careful selection of telling details, shine on every page of this marvelous work.
Pierre Loti
Madame Chrysantheme Pierre Loti est une combinaison inhabituelle dun travail superbement écrit et dune dureté morale indescriptible. Cest lhistoire dun marin français en vacances Nagasaki, au Japon, qui arrange une épouse temporaire avec laquelle il peut passer du temps jusqu ce que son navire reparte.
Henry James
The image of a young American woman is central to the story Madame de Mauves, which prefaces the Portrait of a Woman. Deceived by the wife of an impoverished French aristocrat who married her for her wealth, she won a moral victory over him, displaying, unexpectedly for him, intellectual subtlety and complete spiritual independence.
Edith Wharton
Even a short novel like Madame de Treymes shows you what a masterful writer Edith Wharton was. It is a captivating portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. Inspired by Whartons own entré into Parisian society in 1906 and reminiscent of the works of Henry James, it tells the story of two young innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive, and John Durham, her childhood friend who arrives in Paris intent on convincing Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead. In hopes of finding a solution, Durham meets with Fannys sister-in-law, the enigmatic Madame de Treymes, who suggests that she might be willing to appeal to her brother on his behalf if, that is, he will help settle her illicit lovers gambling debts. Such a proposition surely wont have a catch...
Hulbert Footner
"When Rogues Fall Out incorporates some wonderful conundrums to hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers. This book contains three interconnected stories. In the first, a respectable collector of antiques falls victim to temptation. In the second a police inspector is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a railway tunnel. This section includes an interesting essay on the early use of fingerprint evidence. The third is a classic locked room mystery where someone has been making use of a sealed room in a remote country house. All three are resolved together in the last few pages. The rogues of the title include three very different men engaged in stealing and fencing high-quality jewelry. One is a working-class robber; one a refined antiques dealer turned fence; and one a mysterious middleman with the appearance of a gentleman.
Hulbert Footner
Author Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) brought the excitement of the 1920s and 1930s to Madame Storey's cosmopolitan adventures, moving away from Edwardian and Victorian flavors of the mystery genre. Beautiful and aloof. Her secretary/narrator/companion is Bella Brickley. Rosika lives near Gramercy Park in NYC and has a pet monkey. She seems to solve cases by use of good guesswork, "practical psychology" and fortuitous prior knowledge of certain facts or people.
Walery Przyborowski
Legenda o zbóju Madeju, od którego imienia powstało madejowe łoże tortur, w fabularyzowanej historii z XI wieku. Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w okresie bezkrólewia, panującego po śmierci Mieszka II.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
This is a story about a romantic triangle. Two cousins, Lot and Burr, are in love with the main character. Madelon loves Burr, but Burr is unable to confess his feelings and believes he loves Dorothy Fair. Events leave Burr unjustly imprisoned, Lot gravely wounded and in danger of death, and Madelon ready to doom herself to save Burr.
George Sand
Mademoiselle Quintini est lhistoire dun prtre avec toute la sévérité de ses jugements. Les progres de lillumination reflétaient et annulaient lathéisme; sa mort est la liberté de discussion. Les progres de la moralité publique ont tué lhypocrisie; sa mort est une impunité, que tout le monde méprise.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo. The Mystery of the Suicide Tables
William Le Queux
Yes! Im not mistaken at all! Its the same woman! whispered the tall, good-looking young Englishman in a well-cut navy suit as he stood with his friend, a man some ten years older than himself, at one of the roulette tables at Monte Carlo, the first on the right on entering the roomthat one known to habitual gamblers as The Suicides Table. Are you quite certain? asked his friend. Positive. I should know her again anywhere. Shes very handsome. And look, too, by Jove! how she is winning!
May Agnes Fleming
This is a goose bump story. In early October, on one stormy night, when the wind blew into a storm, and rain fell on her. The main character walked in all the rain from the station. This helped her strike a mortal blow. But she would still die. She didnt want anything but to return to the old house and die.
Magenta und Solferino. Historisch-politischer Roman aus der Gegenwart. Band IIII
John Retcliffe
Sir John Retcliffes historisch-politische Romane sind im ureigensten Sinn mit Abenteuern angereicherte Tendenzromane, die das gesamte politische Geschehen seiner Zeit zum Inhalt haben. Magenta und Solferino ist ein historisch politischer Roman. John Ratcliffe, wie immer unübertroffen.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery is perhaps best known as the author of the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne, an 11 year old girl, the hero of a girls novel has become a worldwide bestseller, from Canada to Japan, for children to adults. In this story the author beautifully weaves four short stories together into an amazing plot. None of the eccentric Lesleys can agree on what to call Lorraines baby. Lorraine secretly likes the name Marigold... but who among the assorted aunts, uncles, grandmothers, and cousins would ever agree to such a fanciful and outlandish name as that? But when the baby becomes ill and is saved by a kindly doctor, the family wants to name her after him. And his name is... Marigold! A child with such an unusual name is destined for adventure. It all begins the day Marigold meets a girl in a beautiful green dress who claims to be a real-life princess...
Maria Rodziewiczówna
Magnat to wspaniała opowieść o marzeniach, uczuciach i dążeniu do wyznaczonego celu. Interesujący wątek miłosny nadaje powieści niezwykłego uroku. Aleksander Kalinowski, niegdyś dziedzic wielkich dóbr, jest obecnie rządcą magnatki Wojewódzkiej, swojej bogatej krewnej. Gdy sprzeciwia się jej ostatniej woli, traci względy i spadek. Dumny, nie chcąc być na niczyjej łasce, wyrusza na jedynym, pięknym koniu w daleką podróż do swojego szkolnego kolegi. Na miejscu okazuje się, iż obecny właściciel majątku to jego krewny. Aleksander kupuje dwór. Chce gospodarować i odzyskać dawną wielką fortunę. Zaczyna także bywać w towarzystwie i poznawać nowych ludzi. Pewnego dnia wpada mu w oko piękna hrabianka Gizela. Dziewczyna droczy się z nim, walczy na słowa. Kalinowski, chcąc uciec od uczucia, zajmuje się rolą. Unika pięknej magnatki. Jednak czy można oszukać serce? W Magnacie występują charakterystyczne rysy artyzmu Rodziewiczówny, takie jak: potężna siła w tworzeniu postaci porywających czytelnika energią swego witalizmu, niezwykła dynamika akcji wyrażona środkami najprostszymi, ale również najsilniej wzruszającymi, niezwykła pomysłowość wyobraźni w fabule i doskonała zwięzłość i przejrzystość budowy powieściowej.
Helena Mniszkówna
Kasia Zahojska główna bohaterka powieści jest ambitną i uzdolnioną szlachcianką studiującą na politechnice. Po ukończeniu studiów zostaje żoną hrabiego Edwarda Zebrzydowskiego. Mężowi przeszkadza charakter pracy żony. W końcu porzuca i ją i majątek aby podróżować przez długi czas po świecie. Kasia czuje się bardzo samotna i zaczyna coraz więcej rozmyślać o swoim bliskim koledze ze studiów Andrzeju Dęboszu mężczyźnie wprawdzie niższego stanu ale za to wielkiego umysłu. Czy Kasia będzie znów szczęśliwa u boku Andrzeja?
Jules Verne
Sur les routes des États-Unis, une mystérieuse voiture a été repérée qui roule deux fois plus vite que nimporte quelle voiture de course. Au large des côtes américaines, on a découvert un étrange navire profilé qui flotte sans laide du vent, de la vapeur ou dun moteur kérosene et part de toute poursuite. Dans le lac, isolé du réseau hydrographique, on remarque la présence dun sous-marin... Comment tous ces événements sont-ils liés les uns aux autres?