Prince Roman is a Pole who relinquishes his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as an unknown soldier, resisting Russian oppression. In captivity, he has every opportunity to avoid pun...
A unique poetic work, about which historians and critics, philosophers and even adherents of various mystical and esoteric teachings are desperately arguing about. Hell is a colossal funnel of conc...
This is a story of less than 100 pages, but in it Conrad demonstrates how many great writers do it, the simple and elegant power of short work. Here, a writer can briefly convey a compelling messag...
This is both mystery and romance; the latter creates one of the recurring difficulties in Conrad: it preserves the Victorian histrionic element, which sometimes may seem a little attractive. But ov...
Chcąc nie chcąc – a naprawdę nie chcąc! – Tekla zamieszkuje pod jednym dachem z przyszłą teściową, która, dość nieoczekiwanie dla wszystkich, tuż przed finansowo niekorzystnym dl...
Kołatanie serca, duszności, bóle brzucha – to typowe objawy płynące z ciała, jakie może wywoływać lęk. Zwykle osoby dotknięte zaburzeniami lękowymi, dawniej nazywanymi powszechnie nerw...
Zbliża się koniec czternastego stulecia. Wbrew apokaliptycznym przepowiedniom Kraków ma ważne powody do świętowania. Oto królowa Jadwiga wreszcie spodziewa się potomka. N...
The protagonist in the novel is a young man of 19, Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the peasant woman Sophia. From childhood, he almost did not see his parents. ...
The book contains several topics: the relationship between a man and a woman before marriage, the betrayal of loved ones and their forgiveness, fathers and children. As the life stories of two wome...
In the book „The Double” Dostoevsky appears before the reader as a writer with an inimitable sense of humor. The author shows an extraordinary skill in describing comic episodes from li...
The scene takes place in 1832, just 40 years after the fall of the royal family and about 15 years after the fall of Napoleon. There are we have characters who are designed to fight, perhaps for th...
Doctor Kildare approached just in time to hear Meg say to the officer, „"I heard a shot outside my apartment, then a crash. When I ran out, this man was lying on the landing... „&r...
Kolejny tytuł z serii młodzieńczych powieści i opowiadań Szczepana Twardocha! Pojedynki, wielkie namiętności i różne oblicza szaleństwa. Joachim von Egern, rotmistr...
Dwie poruszające historie amerykańskiego mistrza pióra, który jak nikt inny objawia prawdę o człowieku. „Księżyc zaszedł”, nowela, której posiadanie w ...
If you like classic animal stories you will like this one for sure. Tucker Crosden bred his dogs to be champions. Yet even by frontiersman’s brutal standards, bull terrier White Wolf was spec...
„The Face and the Doctor” is another short story by Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pe...
You don’t get a much more evocative opening than that for a Western novella called „Werewolf”, and the story lives up to both its title and that opening in ways you won’t ex...
Upalny sierpień, porzucony namiot, ślady zbrodni i zagadka, którą rozwiązać może tylko komisarz Bernard Gross. Drugi tom jednej z najpopularniejszych polskich serii kryminalnych...
Something natural or supernatural enters the soul of Andrew Creel, a commonplace and disaffected young man, and drives him into a swift game where death is a probability on the one side and love on...
Przemilczana i zapomniana historia w cieniu II wojny światowej. Jest rok 1947. W małym miasteczku na Podlasiu sześciu milicjantów odpiera ataki bandy Obucha na posterunek. Przec...