Видавець: KtoCzyta.pl
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallaces humorous tales of British Army life, centered around the characters of Smithy and Nobby. The stories, collected in 1905, are supposed to tell us about the every-day life of the soldiers and are supposed to be, in turns, funny, moving, or even sometimes tragic. This substantial collection of the Smithy stories finds our incorrigible hero and his scurrilous band of confederates malingering, scheming and conniving their way through life in the British Army during the First World War. Although this book like the earlier Smithy and The Hun was published during the First World War, the stories it contains, unlike the other book were all written and deal with events Pre-War.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
It is strange to find Mr. Phillips Oppenheim choosing as his hero an earnest politician with a love for social reform. Nobodys Man starts out as a standard whodunit murder mystery then makes an abrupt lane-change into British politics of the mid-1920s. Brigadier general Andrew Tallente, late of Parliament, is implicated in the death of his male secretary, the son of a classmate at Eton. Seems the younger man may have not only been having an affair with the heros American wife, but had stolen incriminating political documents. A political coup of sorts develops as the opposing party invites Tallente to lead them. Enter the lovely heiress-next-door, who becomes the heros champion, and perhaps, new flame.
Noc listopadowa. Sceny dramatyczne
Stanisław Wyspiański
Noc listopadowa to trzeci utwór Stanisława Wyspiańskiego poruszający temat powstania listopadowego. Akcja dramatu rozgrywa się podczas pierwszych godzin powstania (noc z 29 na 30 listopada 1830 roku) w Łazienkach Królewskich w Warszawie. Wyspiański, zafascynowany powstaniem, bardzo wiernie odwzorowuje jego przebieg oraz umieszcza w dramacie postaci historyczne, ukazując ich losy, lęki, niepowodzenia oraz opór.
Noc tysiączna druga. Komedia w jednym akcie
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
Komedia w jednym akcie autorstwa Cypriana Kamila Norwida, Powstała w 1850 roku, zalicza się ją do włoskich miniatur autora nieodkrytego za życia, darzonego natomiast wielką estymą w kolejnych pokoleniach. Tytuł utworu nawiązuje do fragmentu satyryczno-dygresyjnego poematu Don Juan poznański Ryszarda Berwińskiego. Noc tysiączna druga oznacza przełomową dla bohatera noc, która ma zakończyć dzieje jego miłości.
Walery Przyborowski
Walery Przyborowski, publikujący nieraz pod pseudonimem Zygmunt Lucjan Sulima (18451913), zasłynął jako jeden z pierwszych polskich autorów powieści kryminalnych. Właśnie do nich zalicza się Noc z 3 na 4 grudnia wydana w 1875 roku. Akcja powieści rozpoczyna się w mroczną, zimową noc, kiedy to dochodzi do tajemniczego morderstwa. Pozostawione na śniegu ślady stają się przedmiotem śledztwa prowadzonego przez wnikliwego sędziego Kobylańskiego. Oprócz kryminałów Przyborowski pisał także liczne powieści historyczne, w tym dla młodzieży, oraz prace naukowe dotyczące m.in. powstania styczniowego, w którym brał udział.
Jules Verne
Cest un roman daventures de lécrivain français Jules Verne. Guerre civile aux États-Unis, entre les États du Sud esclaves et les pays du Nord industrialisés. Laction se déroule dans la splendide Floride exotique. Parallelement aux actions militaires du roman, de nombreux incidents mystérieux sont décrits...
Norines Revenge, and Sir Noels Heir
May Agnes Fleming
Mr. Richard Gilbert, a New York lawyer, entering five minutes before the start, found only one place unoccupied near the door. The old hard farmer held the upper half and moved grumpily to the window when Mr. Gilbert took his seat. The month was March, the morning was snowy and blowing, slushy and slushy, as usual in the Canadian March morning. Mr. Gilbert, inwardly congratulating himself on having gotten a seat by the stove, opened the damp Montreal True Witness and settled down comfortably to read.
Emerson Hough
North of 36 is another magnificent novel by the author of The Covered Wagon. This is just a good old-fashioned western about the first cattle drive from Texas to Abilene. Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was an American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels. Houghs literary career grew out of his taking camping trips and writing about them for publication. His body of work eventually included 27 novels and hundreds of short stories and articles. Houghs early works included The Singing Mouse Stories, for children, and the nonfiction The Story of the Cowboy. He had his first major success in 1902 with his novel The Mississippi Bubble, which became a bestseller. Several of his works were adapted for film, including North of 36 which was first published in 1923.
Rex Beach
Rex Beach is an American writer, playwright, and Olympic water polo champion. Big George was drinking and the little Arctic mining camp was paralyzed. He was central to the North Club.
Jane Austen
The storys heroine is Catherine Morland, an innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austens Gothic parody.
Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard
Joseph Conrad
Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, this story of revolution, deception, and self-betrayal centers on Nostromo, a handsome Italian sailor, who, like Costaguana, is being consumed by secret guilt and corruption. The story begins halfway through the revolution, employing flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men corrupting and destroying some, revealing the strengths of others.Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrads greatest novel. The ambiguous nature of good and evil, the importance of duty, common themes in all of Conrads novels, get an epic treatment in Nostromo. Published in 1904, the book has the feel of a modern novel. Its a book about revolutions, money, and character, told through different voices, different eyes.
Joseph Conrad
Akcja Nostromo. Opowieści z wybrzeża rozgrywa się w II poł. XIX wieku w portowym mieście Sulaco w fikcyjnym latynoskim państwie. Josepha Conrada, autora takich uznanych powieści jak Jądro ciemności czy Lord Jim, zainspirowały własne doświadczenia z podróży do Ameryki Środkowej i Południowej, a także oderwanie się w 1903 roku Panamy od Kolumbii. Książka zawiera obszerną galerię postaci o pogłębionych portretach psychologicznych, uwikłanych w polityczne wydarzenia Costaguany. Nielinearna narracja skupia się na przeżyciach młodego marynarza Nostromo, przeplatają ją retrospekcje przywołujące innych bohaterów i zapowiadające przyszłe wydarzenia.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
A predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From Underground represents a turning point in Dostoyevskys writing towards the more political side. In this work, we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives, withdraws from that society into the underground. This story is an exposé of the irrational forces which underlie all human enterprises, however lofty. Yet even in the darkest moments Dostoevsky finds not only grim humor but also the possibility of redemptive love, embodied in suffering individuals and, above all, in the character of Liza. The books extraordinary style brilliantly violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted shocked its first readers and still shocks many readers today.
Joseph Conrad
This book is a collection of some of Konrads reviews and writings. The collection is divided into two parts, primarily the sections Letters, its reviews. The second section is called Life, but this is only true in a limited sense. It contains Conrads views on some of the pressing political issues of the day. They range from the Russo-Japanese War and the question of the independence of Poland to the death of the Titanic.
Victor Hugo
Lhistoire de Quasimodo qui est un carillonneur de Notre-Dame. Il est séparé du monde par la double fatalité de sa naissance inconnue et de sa nature difforme, emprisonné dans ce cercle, le pauvre malheureux sétait accoutumé que Notre-Dame est pour lui, selon quil grandissait et se développait, luf, le nid, la maison, la patrie, lunivers. Son destin croise le chemin dune jeune et belle gitane appelée Esméralda qui danse sur le parvis de Notre Dame...
Mary Cholmondeley
The story begins with Annette Georges choosing between two evil destinies. She is rescued by a kind woman who looks after her until she can live with her aunts in a village in little England along with a vicar and afternoon tea. There she meets and befriends various people, and her past seems to have some bearing on the lives of those she befriends.