In America, in the rich family estate of Saddle Meadows, the Glendinning family leads a luxurious and carefree existence – Mrs. Glendinning rotates in the upper circles of local society; her ...
In The Great Stone Face, Hawthorne compares different types of human activity. Most of them are aimed at finding success in society. But Hawthorne believes that the success of the Finnish businessm...
Konsekwencje… Gdyby całkowicie przesądzały o tym, jakie decyzje podejmujemy, ludzki świat prawdopodobnie nigdy nie byłby uporządkowany. Ta myśl determinuje serię powieściową „Pochyłe n...
Originally published under the title „Proverb Stories” in 1882 by Louisa May Alcott, this collection of sweet stories with a high moral tone includes: „Kitty’s Class Day&rdq...
A mixture of romance and paranormal. The story of a child who belongs to the upper class. The main character, Archie, saw something strange in women. They wore skirts that might have hidden some ki...
„Rinkitink in Oz” is the tenth book in the „Oz” series written by L. Frank Baum, first published in 1916. It was originally written in 1905 as a stand alone fantasy work and...
„Sketches by „Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People” is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836. The 56 sketches concern London...
Wessex Tales contains seven stories, the first two of which are really very short – the rest are much longer. In this collection, Hardy explored the familiar themes of marriage and rural life...
Rudyard Kipling wrote the story of the New Army or Kitchener’s Army about the new battalions created for the Great War. Kipling wrote several stories about the war and describes the routine i...
Le lecteur tombe dans une ville colorée appelée Berry. L’auteur parle des habitants de cette ville, des paysages. L’accent est également mis sur les traditions rura...
En raison de la dissidence, une personne pourrait être envoyée sous le feu. C’était des temps brutaux. Cela poignarde leur courage, mais cela leur permet de survivre de no...
Consuelo fait partie des œuvres les plus célèbres et les plus populaires de l’écrivain français George Sand. Femme tempéramentale et romantique, Georg...
This story of temptation, love and betrayal formed the basis of the scripts of several film adaptations. The young beauty, the daughter of an impoverished descendant of an ancient aristocratic fami...
Ceci est une romance sociale. George Sand vante l’amour de son pays natal, Berry, et son idéal de réconciliation de classe à travers une image de l’environnement pa...
Rudyard Kipling, acting as a kind of proto-rooted journalist, spoke about aspects of the Royal Navy in World War I that usually do not receive so much attention. In sections on minesweepers, a merc...
Marcel de Blanchemon, veuve d’un baron qui ne lui a laissé que des dettes, pense pouvoir épouser un ouvrier socialiste du nom de Henri Lemore, malgré les préjug&ea...
There are two vampires in this story: the traditional bloodsucker Carmilla and the information vampire Laura. Ever since reading Pride and prejudice, she has suspected that a delicate „Englis...
Eugène Sue parle en détail de la vie de chacun des personnages, de sorte que certains deviennent de bons amis du lecteur, pour qui vous inquiétez jusqu’aux dernièr...
Kourroglou était le principal gangster en Perse. Les événements ont lieu au 17ème siècle. Il a volé des caravanes, mais malgré cela, Kourroglou &eac...