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Louisa May Alcott
Do you ever feel like you are tied up in our times? Worrying too much about cell phones, fashions, and the latest whatevers? This book can set you straight. It gives you a peace of mind and fills you with simple pleasures. Polly Milton is a fourteen-year-old country girl raised on old-fashioned values and invited to Boston for an extended stay with her friend, Fanny Shaw. Quite the unlikely friendship since Fanny, despite being only two years older, is no longer just a girl, not poor, and not old-fashioned. Little does Polly know the breakers which lie ahead: flounces and frizzles and the height of fashion, girls who consider flirtation the true purpose of schooling, and one particularly beastly red-headed boy who insists on plaguing his sisters country friend. Will Polly ever learn to be like the other girls? And does she even want to? A timeless story by the author of beloved favorite Little Women.
Joseph Conrad
This book is somewhere morally difficult to read. It describes the travails of women. Peter Willems, a Dutchman by birth, a poor boy, leaves his miserable, joyless home in order to seek a better, more prosperous future. The sea will be a salvation for the boy. on the ship, he will find his home and his comrades in life.
William J. Locke
The Ancestor Jorico, the man who wants this, was in his prime a slave owner and a pirate, and yet in his older years lived a supposedly quiet, pious life of modest means. So what happened to all his wealth? And what does the hidden treasure map from Trinidad mean?
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A series of stories telling about the graceful crimes of a high class robber, a forger, a robber, a murderer. Stories in each of which are the same criminal, but under different names travels around the world, assuming new identities, avoiding militias and theft of fate. In one story, he helps the British intelligence in restoring critical documents from a foreign state. In another, he uses his skills to help a servant in trouble. In general, stories are of average quality, but they cover interesting situations. One in Jamaica, several others in Paris and London.
Andivius Hedulio. Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
Edward Lucas White
Edward Lucas White has written a number of historical novels, including Andivius Hedulio. Amazing story of a Roman during the reign of Commodus. This is an exciting adventure! You will feel that you are in ancient Rome.
George Sand
Paris, apparaît soudainement une belle inconnue, Paula Monty. Son nom excite et dérange les habitués de la vie sociale parisienne. Le voile du secret enveloppe sa vie dont le but est la vengeance de lépoux décédé. Cependant, lenqute scrupuleuse, presque policiere de la belle révele linattendu...
Andrew Tresholm. Adentures of a Reluctant Gambler
E. Phillips Oppenheim
At the corner corner in the restaurant of the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, four very excellent local unforgettable enjoy the noon banquet. Host director Robert was very energetic, with strong dark eyes. On the right side, Mr. Lyon, General Saint-Hilaire, sat with him with bright gray mustaches, who wore his impressive series of tapes with the air of the one who earned them.
Leo Edwards
Andy was an industrious young entrepreneur who grew increasingly rich from book to book, working as he did in advertising, in his airplane, the Comet Coaster, and looking for gold and helping erect profitable buildings. Blake meets new friends, three young men struggling to save an old carriage business from going to the wall. Will advertising help? Andy is enthusiastically hopeful. The later trickery of a junior employer puts the young advertising man in a bad hole. Things seem darker than ever for the tottering business. Then comes the idea of dropping carriages for coaster wagons.
Edgar Wallace
Angel Esquire (1919) is a great crime story by one of the masters of the genre. This novella revolves around the hunt for an inheritance, or rather the word to unlock the safe where the inheritance is safely stored. A nasty old millionaire dies, leaving clues to the combination of his safe where all his fortune is hidden, to several people, and the race is on! Will the beautiful innocent young girl whose father was swindled by the millionaire get to it first? Or will the criminal associates of said millionaire beat her? Its up to Angel Esquire, the famous and unorthodox detective to be sure that youth and innocence win!
Juliusz Słowacki
Poemat Juliusza Słowackiego wyrażający pesymistyczną wizję działań polskiej emigracji po klęsce postania listopadowego i jej walki o niepodległość. Uważa się, że poemat stanowił odpowiedź na Księgi narodu i pielgrzymstwa polskiego Adama Mickiewicza, do których nawiązuje stylistycznie. W utworze przedstawiono wędrówkę Anhellego po Syberii białym piekle polskich zesłańców.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Ania z Wyspy (Anne of the Island) to trzecia część z serii o Ani z Zielonego Wzgórza. W tym tomie Ania Shirley zaczyna naukę w Redmond College w Kingsport. Ciężko pracuje, by zdobyć upragniony tytuł magistra. W czasie wolnym od nauki spotyka się z nową przyjaciółką Filipą Gordon, ma też nowego adoratora, niejakiego Roya Gardnera. Nie zaniedbuje też starych znajomości. Kiedy dowiaduje się o chorobie Gilberta, uświadamia sobie, że go kocha
Bolesław Prus
Doskonały portret psychologiczny trzynastoletniej dziewczynki o imieniu Anielka. Dziewczyna jest córką dziedzica, który okazuje się próżniakiem i utracjuszem rujnującym rodzinny majątek. Anielka, będąc dziewczyną dobrą, wrażliwą i spostrzegawczą, przeżywa głębokie rozczarowanie, kiedy widzi, jak głęboko życiowa praktyka odbiega od oficjalnie głoszonych w jej środowisku zasad moralnych. Dom Anielki rozpada się z winy nieudolnego ojca, a ona sama także umiera w niedostatku, nie mogąc znieść śmierci matki.
Maria Rodziewiczówna
Akcja powieści Anima vilis rozgrywa się na Syberii. Antoni Mrozowiecki to człowiek uczciwy i pracowity. Jest przez to nielubiany przez cwaniaka o nazwisku Szumski, który uważa go za konkurenta w rywalizacji o Marię, córkę doktora. Piękne opisy srogiej krainy, charakterystyka losów zesłańców, ich przeżycia oraz wielka miłość to główne zalety powieści.
George Orwell
An ironic and at the same time sad story about the desecration of the ideas of socialism by tyrants, is told by the author in the form of a fairy tale, where the animals of an ordinary British farm act as people. Every animal and every bird is a socio-political type. The events in the book will remind the reader of the history of the Soviet state. Here we see events starting from the revolution and ending with the final collapse of all the hopes of the inhabitants of the court, the reduction of all sacred commandments to a simple and precise formula: All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Anioł kopalni węgla. Powieść dla młodzieży
Jules Verne
Niektórzy z mieszkańców często zbliżali się do krawędzi studni, służącej jako wejście do kopalni węgla, ale nikt z nich nie miał odwagi wejść do podziemi. Powiadano bowiem, że od chwili, kiedy kopacz wstępuje w koszyk zawieszony nad przepaścią, w którym spuszcza się do wnętrza kopalni, życie jego znajduje się w ciągłym niebezpieczeństwie. Mimo tego znalazła się młoda dziewczyna, która zmuszona była poświecić się pracy górniczej, by zarobić pieniądze potrzebne do opieki nad chorym ojcem.
Ann Veronica. A Modern Love Story
Herbert George Wells
First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, Ann Veronica, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science, or control her own life in any way. One Wednesday, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She has to fend off unwelcome advances from men who want to enslave her, and evade a different sort of imprisonment from an over-protective family. Ann Veronica herself strikes out, makes men friends, joins militant suffragette action... Its also a fascinating novel for what it says about the times, and its insights into contemporary social and scientific thought.
Leo Tolstoy
The story of all-consuming passion, the story of a married woman who fell in love with a handsome officer and threw her husband against everything: the opinion of the world, generally accepted morality, her conscience. This is a much deeper work than just a story of love and suicide. This is a book about the torment of conscience, about egoism, about hypocrisy, meanness and selfishness, about the search for oneself and ones place in this world. This is a book about life, about the life of officials and peasants, about faith, about religion, about respect.
Lew N. Tolstoi
Lew Tolstois Roman Anna Karenina spielt abwechselnd in Moskau, auf einem Landgut und in St. Petersburg und bietet eine ausgezeichnete Schilderung der russischen Gesellschaft in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Glücklos mit einem hohen Beamten verheiratet, verfällt die bezaubernde, kluge und sanftmütige Anna dem jungen Offizier Graf Wronski in unwiderstehlicher Liebe. Anna Karenina ist bereit, dieser Liebe alles zu opfern. Doch ihre Liebe scheitert und endet in Eifersucht, Hass und Verzweiflung. Schließlich richtet Anna sich selbst, aber auch ihren Mann und den Geliebten zugrunde. In der anderen großen Figur des Romans, dem Gutsbesitzer Lewin, hatte sich Tolstoi selbst verewigt.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Annabelle Pelissier, for his own reasons, allows Sir John Ferringhall to believe that she is his sister Hannah. Anna continues to cheat and bear the burden of her sisters reputation, which in any case in Paris is a coquette. Infinite complications occur when both sisters return to London. This is one of the most intriguing stories of E. Philips Oppenheim.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Annes back! She older and wiser and more beautiful with the additional charm of growing womanhood than that gangly red-headed girl that first came to Avonlea. This book follows Anne Shirley from the age of 16-18 during the two years she teaches at the Avonlea school. Anne discovers all of the joys and struggles of being a teacher and continuing her studies and friendship with Gilbert. To top this off, she must aid Marilla in the caring of two children whom Marilla has chosen to adopt: the naughty but adorable Davy, and the prim and slightly-dull Dora. Anne of Avonlea is the second book by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery in the Anne of Green Gables series. Written as fiction for readers of all ages, since the mid twentieth century, the literary classic has been considered a childrens novel.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley is an orphan girl in need of a family and the novel follows her adventures over the next five years. She may be scrawny and freckled with red hair but shes also loving and bright with imagination, smart, dutiful and hardworking. When shes mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, elderly siblings who plan to adopt a young boy to help around their farm in Canadas Prince Edward Island, Anne faces the prospect of securing a home and a loving family if she can prove shes worth keeping. Time will demand adult choices at a critical moment, choices that will change her life and affect those around her. First published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has spawned a slew of sequels and other related novels.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne, now Mrs. Doctor Blythe, is still sometimes as impetuous as when she was the girl from Green Gables. But with six lively children and hard-worked Gilbert to look after not to mention Gilberts disapproving aunt, Anne has to be practical too. She suddenly began to worry that perhaps her adored Gilbert no longer loved her. But how could he not? After all, she may have been older, but she was still the lively, irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, grown up. Shes ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again. Anne of Ingleside is the sixth book in the Anne Shirley chronology, and Montgomerys final published novel.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling Anne of Green Gables. This book tells the story of Anne Shirleys and her friends college years. As the security of home and childhood comforts fade, each must face the trials of being on their own. The novel kicks off when Anne decides to pursue her dream of a higher education, and subsequently leaves her two year teaching position at the school in Avonlea and begins her studies at Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her BA. A novel depicting the inevitable process of growing up, Anne of the Island is a perfect illustration of the challenging and sometimes awkward moments we all go through to achieve our full potential in life.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Windy Poplars is the fourth book in the Anne of Green Gables series by L. M. Montgomery. In this book, 22-year-old Anne Shirley has left college to serve as principal of Summerside High School and settles down in Windy Poplars. Here her biggest challenge is the high-status Pringles family who are not what one would expect them to be. The novel features a series of letters Anne sends to her intended, Gilbert Blythe, who is completing medical school. Annes sweet disposition and usual cheerful nature assure her happiness wherever she finds herself. Read Annes journey in her own words and find out how she overcomes the hard times.