The main character, who is fond of music, being under the heavy pressure of a creative crisis, goes on a journey with her friends to improve her mental and physical health. There she meets an artis...
„A Smile of Fortune” is located on a beautiful island in the Pacific Ocean, on which the narrator, captain docked; ship suppliers are supposedly brothers who have not talked to each oth...
Theos Olwyn, a poet and a lost man, travels to a secluded monastery in search of a man who can take his soul. He finds him in Heliobas, a seer who has given up his parlor sessions for the sake of i...
AD 32. Tyr. Phenicia. Melqart’s cult. Temple prostitution, public executions, victims of newborns.Asherat runs away from home; she joins Jesus’ disciples and takes the name Susann...
Self-deception regarding his wife, inflicted on the good-natured captain of the ship and the like. the willingness to succumb to base men on the part of the „painted woman”. It truly de...
Utwór opowiada historię weneckiej damy Laury, której mąż Giuseppe (w skrócie „Beppo”), który zaginął na morzu przed trzema laty. Zgodnie z weneckim zwyczajem...
First published in 1860, „Brother Jacob” is a short story about deception, imperial venture, and self-interest by George Eliot in which she explores the relationship between the selfish...
Castles Legends. Castles in Poland is a collection of legends about fifty castles located in present-day Poland. This compilation contains both well-known stories, such as the Legend of the Wawel D...
Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda, profoundly affected by the...
David Copperfield - a novel by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. The novel features the character Dav...
Behind this rather prim title lies the hilarious fictional diary of a disaster-prone lady of the 1930s, and her attempts to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos. Written w...
Emilka ze Srebrnego Nowiu, powieść dla dziewcząt, autorstwa Lucy Maud Montgomery. Zawiera najwięcej wątków autobiograficznych, ze wszystkich utworów pisarki. Opowiada historię kilkuna...
Set during the time of the Reform Act of 1832, the story centers on an election contested by Harold Transome, a local landowner, in the „Radical cause”, contrary to his family’s T...
The plot takes place in England. Pastor John Walden, a forty-year-old „man of worship”, is presented as having a cheerful, optimistic personality, athletic build, and strong character. ...
This is the story of a young woman from England at the turn of the 20th century who learns the truth about her parents, and this knowledge sets her life on a path she is not ready for and those aro...
"Katedra Najświętszej Marii Panny w Paryżu – powieść Wiktora Hugo znana w Polsce również pod tytułem „Dzwonnik z Notre-Dame”, osadzona w czasach późnego średnio...
O trzy tysiące mil od Chimborazo, o sto mil od śniegów Cotopaxi, w najdzikszym łańcuchu podzwrotnikowych Andów znajduje się tajemnicza dolina – Kraina Ślepców. Niegdyś do...
The heroine of this story accompanies a recovering man and his sick daughter on a yacht trip to Scotland, where she discovers her soul mate and changes her life forever. At the beginning of the sto...
There has never been a city that would be so inimitable. Most trains, too, completely ignore its existence and pass through it on the way to more useful stops. The story was supposed to strengthen ...
Książka odzwierciedla głębokie zainteresowanie Yeatsa zachowaniem, propagowaniem i umiłowaniem irlandzkiej historii i kultury. Zawiera różne historie oparte na ludowych opowieściach irlandzk...