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Robert Louis Stevenson
These are fables in many there is morality, others clearly contain moralizing. However, fables are not only literary interest. This is a beautiful, filigree prose. The author defined the fable genre very broadly as a combination of elements of a story about dreams with a moralizing allegory.
Karel Čapek
W Czechach maszyny zwane karburatorami zaczynają wytwarzać bogów na masową skalę. Nadmiarem Absolutu zaczęto bombardować Anglię, aż w końcu na świecie nastała nieograniczona obfitość wszystkich ludzkich potrzeb. Ale jak się okazuje, ludziom potrzeba wszystkiego, tylko nie nieograniczonej obfitości. Ponadto Absolut w zależności od miejsca przybiera postać taką, na jaką jest zapotrzebowanie. W Polsce jest więc rodzajem alkoholu, w cesarstwie niemieckim został upaństwowiony, a w Czechach został indywidualistą.
Jules Verne
Dans le roman Face au drapeau, raconte le destin de Tom Rock, linventeur des moyens destructeurs dun pouvoir énorme. Le désir de tirer profit de son invention amene Rock la folie et son fulgurateur devient la propriété des pirates internationaux. Basé sur ce roman, le célebre film de Karl Zeman Le mystere de la banquise insulaire.
Carolyn Wells
A house party at a country house in Connecticut, reputedly a house under a curse. The owner dies mysteriously, and one of the house party vanishes. The characters of the wealthy murdered man, his young wife and his daughter, as well as those of the servants and detectives are more than usually convincing and the story altogether adapted for effortless fireside reading. While the reader is prevented from divining the solution too easily, a proper number of clues are conscientiously given and the events, nicely dovetailed together. Face Cards, written by an American author and poet Carolyn Wells, is a locked-room mystery in which crime and a family curse are interwoven, with plenty of creepy supernatural events thrown in, relating to exotic masks.
Jules Verne
The flag of the homeland, tells the story of Tom Rock, the inventor of a devastating means of tremendous power. The desire to cash in on his invention makes Rock crazy, and his fulgurator becomes the property of international pirates. Based on this novel, the famous film by Karl Zeman The Secret of the Back Island Cap.
H. Rider Haggard
Historical novel during the reign of King Henry VII. The story of Peter Brom, who kills a soldier of the Spanish ambassador. The only thing Peter wants is to be with Margaret. This brings them into contact with the powerful Spanish marquis Aguilar, who falls in love with Margaret and plays conspiracies and secret kidnappings, and sends her to Spain to convince her to marry him. Margaret with all her heart loves Peter, who, together with her father, pursues them to Spain in order to return her.
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Previously, it never occurred to anyone to write down fairy tales. They were told to each other, passed down from generation to generation... and if not for scientists, such as the Grimm brothers, many stories would not have reached us. The reader is not only acquainted with the famous fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, but also learns what a fairy tale is, when it appeared and how it changed. He learns about the life of the brothers Jacob and William and about their difficult work on fairy tales.
Platon
Fajdros to kolejna, zaraz po Uczcie, wybitna rozprawa filozoficzna Platona. Za murami miasta, nad rzeką Illisos odbywa się rozmowa Sokratesa z Fajdrosem na temat mowy wygłoszonej wcześniej przez retoryka Lizjasza. Poruszają oni różne kwestie dotyczące nieśmiertelności duszy, jej wędrówki przez kolejne wcielenia. Pojawia się tu jedna z najsłynniejszych alegorii Platona dotycząca duszy jako wozu zaprzęgniętego w dwa konie rozsądek oraz pożądanie. Platon ustami Sokratesa próbuje również udowodnić przewagę mowy nad pismem.