Smooth reading, very pretty, with graceful irony personifying superstition and fears in the unknown. The Apple Tree Table is a cool little ghost story where rationalistic skeptics were right, and i...
This short story is an excellent representative of the Victorian era Gothic prose. Bright, capacious, in the details and most importantly interesting. An elderly governess decided to share a scary ...
There are several patriotic stories of the Boer War period. Among Kipling’s most successful stories were those whose main characters were three rank and file in the Indian army, and in this c...
Twice-Told Tales is a two-volume collection of thirty-nine Hawthorne works, consisting of short works of art, allegories, and narrative essays. The greatest gift a reader receives when reading all ...
A chronicle of Anne’s early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together in the little „house of dreams” in the picturesque,...
„The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown” is an 1896 novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. Following the apparent murder of a man, a novelist comes under suspicion. Very enjoyable...
Good collection of stories. Black Canaan is a favorite of mine. I have some doubts that REH would have finished „The House” with the suicide of John Conrad, but it is a Lovecraftian end...
This chronicle tells of several generations of a family that lives in the Lake District in England, dating back to the late seventeen hundred. Hugh’s descriptions of this area are excellent. ...
The work gives an overview of sustainability and energy issues integrated in sustainable manufacturing providing a comprehensive insight into emerging perspective of energy sustainability and actio...
Publikacja to zbiór artykułów poświęconych zagadnieniom prowadzenia zespołów muzycznych, osadzonego w realiach współczesnego rynku kultury. Celem publikacji jest wymiana...
Przedstawiona monografia pt. „Innowacyjność w praktyce pedagogicznej w kontekście współdziałania rodziców – dziecka – nauczyciela” to kolejny, trzeci tom, kt&o...
One of Edith Wharton’s most famous novels – the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize – exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility during the sumpt...
„The Happy Average” is a novel of far more genuine merit than Mr. Whitlock’s former works. It is a realistic story of commonplace life in a small Ohio town, the realism being of t...
This is Edith Wharton’s earliest published collection of 8 short stories (1899). A selection consists: „Muse’s Tragedy”: Unrequited love between a poet and his muse. „...
Harmer John went to Italy to study art there. He was enraged by the desire to develop a plan to save the world. Life is a pure flame, and we live under the invisible Sun inside us... „We all ...
In this novel, for a change, the protagonist is a master, not students. We see events from the point of view of some boys, but it is new that readers are asked to look at things from the point of v...
Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She wrote more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children’s books. Af...
The book opens shortly before Christmas, many years ago. The city of Polchester was an old rickety building on a cliff above old grass. The house was a windy, creaky, bitten rain place where three ...
In the first novel, which takes place in Galicia during the retreat of the Russian army in 1915, the narrator tells of a tragedy that unfolds inside a triangle: John Trenchad – Maria – ...
This is a collection of short stories. These are rather atypical horror stories. After all, here the heroes are not afraid of ghosts or a monster. Namely, the behavior of the characters in the stor...