John Buchan’s own favourite among his novels, in which he dealt with the hypocrisy which can lie close to the surface of apparently god-fearing respectability. The story is set in the Scottis...
This novel demonstrates Dickens experimenting with building his own voice. The Pickwick Papers is a series of linear adventures, unlike the convoluted plots of Dickens’s later novels. In othe...
Bracia Wilhelm Karl i Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimmowie, niemieccy pisarze i uczeni, sięgnęli do korzeni europejskiej kultury i zebrali oraz opracowali tradycyjne podania, mity i opowieści ludowe. Niepoz...
Tytułowa Kaśka to prosta wiejska dziewczyna, która w poszukiwaniu lepszego życia przyjeżdża do miasta. Miasto okazuje się okrutne i plugawe, Kaśka z głową i sercem pełnymi ideałów wci...
W „Uczonych białogłowach” Molier wyśmiewa snobowanie się na intelektualizm, zwłaszcza w wydaniu kobiecym. Jak odbierany jest człowiek, który dużo czyta, ale mało rozumie? Molier ...
The book opens with an unnamed narrator’s description of a party held one Christmas Eve in England at which some friends have gathered to share ghost stories. One of the partygoers, Douglas, ...
Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his Western...
Bohaterem serii jest intrygująca postać o dwóch twarzach: wiktoriański gentelman Lord Edward Lister oraz słynny złodziej Raffles w jednej osobie. Jak w ogóle do tego doszło i co może ...
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened ...
This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like...
Diese Sammlung der 25 beliebtesten Weihnachtslieder soll vor allem dem Gesang in den Familien dienen. In diesem Buch sind die besinnlichsten deutschsprachigen Weihnachtslieder versammelt: von &bdqu...
The sequel to „The Drift Fence”, featuring the continuing story of Jim Traft and Molly Dunn and introducing Jim’s sister Glorianna, who finds more than she bargained for in the We...
R. Austin Freeman’s character Dr. Thorndyke is considered the first modern forensic scientist in literature. This is one of the oddities of detective fiction. The first part of this story is ...
Bogna Malinowska zasiada w radzie nadzorczej banku, w którym jej mąż – Ewaryst – pracuje jako referent. Uchodzi za skrupulatnego, obowiązkowego i uprzejmego urzędnika bankowego. ...
The story’s 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 ...
Losy hrabiny Anny Cosel – jednej z najsłynniejszych królewskich metres, kochanki Augusta II Mocnego. Władca zakochał się w Annie Cosel, kiedy była żoną jednego z jego ministr&oa...
In this breathless tale of bravery and battle, of white mans courage and red mans daring, Zane Grey has written one of his finest novels. The great western writer’s story of the buffalo hunte...
Polesie, wieś Hrywda. Rytm życia jej mieszkańców dyktują pory roku, odwieczny obyczaj, wiara i zabobon, splecione w nienaruszalny porządek rzeczy. Kalenik to sierota. Od śmierci rodzi...
Short mysteries involving the blind detective Carrados. Max Carrados is one of the most unusual detectives in all fiction. He is blind – and yet he has developed his other faculties to such a...