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Baśnie i bajki europejskie. Wybór
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Tom Baśnie i bajki europejskie zawiera zbiór popularnych historii, opowiadanych dzieciom w całej Europie. W książeczce można znaleźć zarówno baśnie i bajki niemieckie Jakuba i Wilhelma Grimmów (Kopciuszek, Czerwony Kapturek, Śnieżka), duńskie Jana Christiana Andersena (Dziewczynka z zapałkami, Księżniczka na ziarnku grochu, Królowa śniegu) czy rosyjskie Aleksandra Puszkina (Baśń o królu Sałtanie, Złota rybka), jak i tradycyjne polskie bajki o Panu Twardowskim czy Waligórze i Wyrwidębie.
Hans Christian Andersen
Zbiór ponad 40 baśni i opowieści Hansa Christiana Andersena, stanowiących klasykę światowej literatury dziecięcej. W zbiorze zamieszczono najpopularniejsze baśnie, jak np. Brzydkie Kaczątko, Dzikie łabędzie, Calineczka, Królowa Śniegu i Mała Syrena, a także wiele innych nieco mniej popularnych utworów. Każdy przekaże najmłodszym czytelnikom ważne prawdy moralne, wzruszy, zadziwi, a czasem również rozbawi.
Baśń o Aladynie i o lampie cudownej
Bolesław Leśmian
Któż z nas nie zna baśni o Aladynie i jego magicznej lampie, która potarta wierzchem koszuli w niezwykły sposób uwalnia drzemiącego w niej od tysięcy lat potężnego dżina? Ta jedna z bardziej znanych opowieści pochodzących z Księgi tysiąca i jednej nocy tym razem w doskonałej literackiej adaptacji Bolesława Leśmiana. Do średniowiecznego Bagdadu przybywa zły czarownik. Chce odnaleźć młodzieńca o imieniu Aladyn. Wie, że przeznaczeniem chłopca jest przynieść magiczną lampę z zaczarowanego królestwa. Czarownik podaje się za brata ojca Aladyna i zdobywa jego zaufanie. Obiecuje młodzieńcowi spełnienie wszystkich jego marzeń. Stawia przy tym jeden warunek: Aladyn musi zdobyć lampę o cudownej mocy. Przypadek sprawia, że chłopiec uwalnia mieszkającego wewnątrz dżina...
Herbert George Wells
A charming tale of a young recalcitrant boys wanderings through England. Full of humour. It is a light tale, and one of Wells that holds up the best. Though young Bealby is determined to rise above his mothers servant status, no amount of struggle helps him to prevail. He reluctantly leaves his home for Shonts, a big country house, to work as a stewards boy. But a fateful weekend visit by distinguished personages, including the strange yet captivating Lord Chancellor, may give Bealby the opportunity to change his fate in this social comedy. What follows is an adventure that Bealby will not soon forget. First published in 1915 Bealby was originally entitled Bealby a Holiday.
H. Rider Haggard
Beatrice is one of the most emotional works written by Henry Rider Haggard. There are no crazy adventures, frightening battles or supernatural events, but there is everything for the soul, for easy reading. It tells of the ill-fated love between Beatrice Granger, an unmarried Welsh teacher, and Jeffrey Bingham, a wretchedly married lawyer who lives in London. It all starts after Beatrice saved Jeffreys life in a canoe accident during a huge storm. This is a story about a tangled love triangle, and possibly a pentagon.
Honoré de Balzac
This novel opens in the old town of Guerande which still enclosed by mighty walls and possesses moats still full of water. The houses have not changed and the streets are as they were one hundred years in the past. It is the family seat of the de Guenics. The old society of the town gather here to play cards and gossip, often about the younger generations. The son of the house, Calyste, is going to visit one of the main objects of this gossip and we learn of this persons past. While on this visit, Calyste hears of Beatrix de Rochefide who is coming to Guerande on a visit. Béatrix is an 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the Scenes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Balzac based the characters in this novel on real figures: Félicité des Touches, a celebrated musician and writer, is based on George Sand. Béatrix de Rochefide is based on Marie dAgoult (who wrote under the pen name of Daniel Stern); Gennaro Conti is based on Franz Liszt; Claude Vignon is based on Gustave Planche.
Joseph Conrad
Self-deception regarding his wife, inflicted on the good-natured captain of the ship and the like. the willingness to succumb to base men on the part of the painted woman. It truly demonstrates how even those who find themselves in the most extreme situations of life can find redemption, albeit at a terrible cost. And atonement is a rare thing in Conrad. And just to make sure you understand it, the final image of the captain is someone left alone and hopeless, despite his good deeds.
Hans Dominik
Professor Allgermissen löst das Problem der Gedankenübertragung. Forscher sind mit Hilfe von bestimmten Wellen in der Lage Gedanken zu lesen und zu beeinflussen. Politisch verfeindete Systeme machen sich die moderne Technik zu Nutze, um ihre Gegner auszuspionieren und gelangen somit an die unbeschränkte im geheimen geführte Macht. Professor wird jedoch wahnsinnig und stirbt daran. Einen Teil seiner Erfindung gelangt in die Hände des verbrecherischen Abtes Turi Chan, der mit dieser Macht einen Krieg der gelben Rasse gegen die Weißen entfesselt, der andere Teil in den Besitz des deutschen Erfinders Georg Astenryk. Sie werden zu heimlichen Herrschern über ihre Mitmenschen, sie bekämpfen einander mit allen Mitteln. Ein Kampf um die Weltherrschaft und das eigene Leben beginnt.
Jack London
Before Adam is a striking story about our distant Neanderthal ancestors, who are just starting to become aware of themselves as people. According to the plot of the story, the protagonist has dreams in which he watches a movie about his adventures in prehistoric times in the person of the Big Tooth boy living with his mother in a nest in a big tree... The author tried to diversify the heros dreams with various adventures: problems with his mother, constantly changing husbands; complex relationships between different subspecies of modern people; cruel relationships between people and so on.
Behind a Mask. Or, A Womans Power
Louisa May Alcott
Originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard. Louisa May Alcotts novel of romance and sexual intrigue is one of her lesser-known gems. Behind a Mask, or A Woman Power is a controversial novella; its tone and characterizations strike a markedly different chord from her best-known works, such as Little Women and Little Men. The plot of the novella is focused upon Jean Muir, who works as a governess for one of the rich families of Coventry to their sixteen-year-old daughter. She employs intrigues and manipulation to gain success in the society, starting from the family she works for. But is the beguiling Miss Muir all that she seems to be? Alcott beautifully delivers a sick and twisted tale of a woman and her arts. She put a completely new spin on Victorian literature, which could only be accomplished in American.
Anna Katharine Green
The last part of the book includes a chase that ends with a terrible snowstorm. The problem with this is that the twist discovered at the end is what the reader will suspect long before Mr. Grice does. She explains in detail the heart and souls of all her characters even Detective Grace.
Earl Derr Biggers
Biggers third book in the Charlie Chan series involves the detective in a case that spans decades and continents, culminating in the city of San Francisco. This time Charlie pulls aside the curtain that conceals a mystery far in the past. The plot links a present day murder with another murder some year previously, combined with a series of disappearances of young women. Charlie Chan is still trying to leave San Francisco after a vacation that turned into a job of detection. Once again hes kept from leaving by a case: the murder of Sir Frederick Bruce, ex-head of the Criminal Investigation Unit at Scotland Yard. Despite his retirement, Sir Frederick cant resist pursuing certain unsolved cases to their end. His end comes before his success, and its Charlie Chans fate to carry on. How Charlie gets involved is a part of the deliciously complex plot that the reader can look forward to.
William Le Queux
Of course the transaction is a purely private one. There is, I suppose, no chance of the truth leaking out? If so, it might be very awkward, you know. None whatever. Your Excellency may rely upon me to deal with these people cautiously. Besides, they have their own reputation to consideras well as ours. And how much do you say they offer? asked His Excellency in Italian, so that the English servants, if they were listening, should not understand. If you accept their conditions as they stand, they pay one hundred thousand francsfour thousand pounds sterlinginto your account at the Pall Mall branch of the Credit Lyonnais on Monday next, replied the other in the same language.
H. Rider Haggard
Belshazzar is the latest novel by Henry Rider Haggard. He wrote it shortly before his death. All events revolve around Ramose, a descendant of the Egyptian pharaoh and the Greek. He decides to radically change his life and go on adventures. As a result, this decision leads to the fall of Babylon at the hand of the Persian Empire under Cyrus.
Lewis Wallace
A Tale of the Christ one of the popular novels written by Lewis Wallace. It is considered the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century. The novel reflects the themes of betrayal, condemnation and redemption with a plot of revenge that leads to a story of love and compassion. It was the bestselling novel of all time.
Ben Hur. Opowiadanie historyczne z czasów Jezusa Chrystusa
Lewis Wallace
Juda Ben Hur jest bogatym żydowskim księciem, kupcem z Jerozolimy. Przyjaźni się z rzymskim żołnierzem, Messalą, którego zna od dziecka. Messala obecnie dowódca legionów rzymskich w Judei pragnie zdławić żydowską rebelię. Prosi o pomoc Ben Hura. Ten jednak odmawia udziału w bratobójczej walce. Wkrótce obok domu Ben Hura odbywa się uroczysta parada na cześć nowego namiestnika Judei. Siostra Ben Hura przypadkowo strąca dachówkę, która pechowo trafia w namiestnika. O czyn ten zostaje oskarżony Juda. Sądzi go sam Messala. Chociaż wie, że to był tylko wypadek, wysyła Judę na galery, a jego matkę i córkę do więzienia. Ben Hur poprzysięga zemstę... Jedna z największych powieści wszech czasów, pełna porywającej akcja, scen lirycznych i dramatycznych, w której wątki polityczne splatają się z miłosnymi.
Juliusz Słowacki
Beniowski, poemat dygresyjny Juliusza Słowackiego, przybliża wydarzenia konfederacji barskiej zbrojnego wystąpienia szlachty polskiej w obronie wiary katolickiej i niepodległości Rzeczpospolitej. Fabuła skupia się na podróżach awanturnika Maurycego Beniowskiego, przerywana jest jednak często uwagami narratora komentującymi różne sprawy publiczne.
H. Rider Haggard
The main task of the heroes is to find the treasure. The trader heard the legend of the great treasure buried by the Portuguese party for hundreds of years before the last source tried to find it with the help of a mesmericist. The child was put into a trance and told his mesmerists details about the adventures and death of the unfortunate Portuguese men and women. With many other details, the boy so accurately described the burial of the great treasure and its exact position that the white man and the mesmerist could find the place where he was.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Matravers is an Apostle of Aestheticism with fixed views of life, down to even its most trifling details. A poet, philosopher, and man of fashion who has no intimate friends. He writes for the London papers and reviews. One evening he is taken to the theater by a friend to see a Norwegian play by Istein, which he savages in his review. However the actress who plays the lead, Berenice, is brilliant, and is the same woman with whom he has been exchanging coy glances in the Park for six months. Slowly Matravers and Berenice grow closer. He writes a play for her which is a huge success. On the cusp of their romance....her past comes to light...
Lucjan Rydel
Betlejem polskie to widowisko jasełkowe Lucjana Rydla, powstałe w 1906 roku, wydane nakładem oficyny Fredleina w Krakowie, z ilustracjami Włodzimierza Tetmajera. Akcja odnosi się do sytuacji Polaków na początku XX wieku. W Betlejem polskim akcję budują przede wszystkim kolędy oraz fragmenty zaczerpnięte z szopki krakowskiej. Podczas śpiewania kolędy Dzisiaj w Betlejem aniołowie osłaniają naród polski przed zaborcą Herodem, zaś finał kolędy stanowi istne błaganie o wyzwolenie.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka wurde am 3. Juli 1883 in Prag geboren und starb am 3. Juni 1924. Er zählt zu den bedeutendsten Autoren deutschsprachiger Literatur und veröffentlichte neben seinen Romanen eine Vielzahl von Erzählungen. Betrachtung ist ein Sammelband mit 18 meist kurzen Prosatexten von Franz Kafka, der Ende 1912 erschienen ist. Bereits 1908 waren acht der Prosastücke mit dem Obertitel Betrachtung in der Zeitschrift Hyperion veröffentlicht worden. In Betrachtung werden Themen dargestellt, die Kafka auch im Weiteren immer wieder aufgriff, nämlich jugendliche Geselligkeit, zwischenmenschliche Abgrenzung, Junggeselleneinsamkeit und die Mühen des Kaufmannsdaseins.
J.M. Barrie
Scottish-born author and playwright Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) first established himself in the public eye as a writer of childrens books and humorous plays. He is best remembered for creating Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, whom he based on his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys. According to historians of Barries life and work, Better Dead is one of his earliest pieces, it is a novel about the challenges of finding ones place in the world. It combines sly humor with a compelling plot with elements of mystery and romance. The main character Andrew is a young Scotsman who heads to London after university because the job prospects are so poor back home. He finds himself as a probationary member of a secret society which engages in the murder of those in society it deems would be, as the title suggests, Better Dead.
Bettina. Komedia w jednym akcie
Alfred de Musset
Bettina to śpiewaczka operowa zakochana w uzależnionym od hazardu baronie Steinbergu. Na jego prośbę porzuca scenę i zamieszkuje w jego posiadłości we Włoszech. Pomimo wielu próśb baron nie zamierza rezygnować dla ukochanej ze swoich pasji. Na jej nieszczęście należy do nich gra w karty u mieszkającej po sąsiedzku księżnej. W końcu Steinberg przegrywa w grze większość swego majątku i uświadamia sobie, że nie będzie w stanie utrzymać swojej żony. Jednocześnie wciąż nie chce, aby ta wróciła na scenę. W noc, kiedy postanawia się odegrać, w pałacu pojawia się Margrabia Stefani, który niegdyś był wielbicielem Bettiny...
Zane Grey
Zane Greys first trilogy Betty Zane, The Last Trail, and The Spirit of the Border together in one volume. Betty Zane is an Eastern real life adventure story by Zane Grey based upon diaries kept by his great grandmother, Betty Zane, describing her life and adventures after she joined her brothers family near what is now Wheeling, WV in the late 1700s. It is the story of the last battle of the American Revolution, in which the heroine was a young, spunky, and beautiful frontier girl named Betty Zane. Life along the frontier, attacks by Indians, Bettys heroic defense of the beleaguered garrison at Wheeling, the burning of the Fort, and Bettys final race for life, make up this never-to-be-forgotten story. Well written historical fiction recommended to anyone interested in the decline of the indigenous North American. The writing is beautiful, especially the descriptions that take you vividly back to a place and time. The story is suspenseful and riveting, with plenty of excitement.