Events revolve around the daughter of a bankrupt magnate. She is viciously attacked by her disappointed governess, who has her marriage plans for her father, and Flora takes with her the belief tha...
Mark Twain bequeathed to publish his autobiography without cuts only a hundred years after his death, and she first saw the light in 2010. Now, finally, many readers can meet this amazingly witty b...
A romance originally published in 1922 that holds up very well into the 21st century. „Charles Rex” is a sequel of „The Hundredth Chance” written by Ethel May Dell (1881-193...
Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographieHistory of King Charles the First of England is a simple and sympathetic story of the life and reign of Char...
Charles the Second is the story of Prince Charles, who, after his father’s death, came to the throne. In a sense, this is a continuation of the book „Charles the First.” However, ...
The fifth of the Earl Derr Biggers Charlie Chan books books involves the Honolulu detective in a case of murder that stretches around the world, as members of a tour group are dying, one by one. Ch...
The main theme of the plot revolves around hunting for the legitimate descendant of a rich man whose great legacy was expected to be bestowed. And in this context, there are several more or less un...
Powieść Harriet Beecher Stowe porusza temat czarnoskórych niewolników żyjących na południu USA. Jej główny bohater, Tom, jest starym niewolnikiem. Po wielu latach ciężkiej służ...
Among the most prolific of all authors of adventure fiction was the redoubtable Edgar Wallace. During the peak of his success during the 1920’s, it was said that a quarter of all books read i...
Amidst the conspiracy of the Holy League to make the Duke of Anjou king, Bussy d’Amboise falls in love with a lady of the court of Henry III – a lady with a very jealous husband! This s...
Allan Quatermain helps his friend from Zulu Saduko win 100 cattle to buy his real love for Mameena. However, Mameena wants to marry another man – Allan Quatermain. This is a first-class adven...
The book, which at one time produced the most ambitious scandal in the history of British literature of the XIX century. This is a book that was desperately admired and equally desperately outraged...
This work is about how black stripes always alternate with white. Oh grief. Oh happiness. On the formation of the child as a person. About the first feelings, sensations and emotions. About first l...
The protagonist of the story – the old Imber from the White Fish tribe can cause conflicting feelings among readers – he killed many white people without much reason, at first glance. H...
M.P. Shiel is a British writer of West Indian descent. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances, published as serials, novels, and as short stories. „Children of the W...
Here are 10 stories to introduce readers of all ages to Charles Dickens and his Victorian England filled with orphans, expectations, and Christmas spirits, including adaptations of Dickens geared t...
„Chip of the Flying U”, published in 1906, was B.M. Bower’s first and best-known novel. The story is about a cattle ranch, run by a group of happy and hilarious young men, and own...
Akcja powieści „ Chłopi ” rozgrywa się pod koniec XIX wieku. We wsi Lipce trwają jesienne prace polowe. Najbogatszy gospodarz we wsi, Maciej Boryna, zamierza się ożenić, mimo iż jego dz...
Trzecia komedia Arystofanesa porusza temat edukacji oraz krytykuje nowe metody wychowania młodzieży stosowane przez Sokratesa i jego uczniów zwanych sofistami. Uważa się, że utwór poś...
On Prince Edward Island, where Anne Shirley grew up in the sea-sprayed town of Avonlea, there was no shortage of wonderful stories. In „Chronicles of Avonlea”, a delightful collection o...