„Powrót” to pierwsza część dylogii „Laus feminae”. Znany i ceniony w środowisku artystycznym literat Roman Turski powraca do Krakowa jako majętny biznesmen, co wzbudz...
Akcja utworu rozgrywa się we dworku, w trakcie obrad Sejmu Wielkiego, podczas których omawiane są reformy. Autor obrazuje konflikt między dwoma obozami politycznymi – konserwatystami o...
Aleksander Świda to człowiek dumny, hardy i honorowy, acz porywczy. Dla idei i miłości swojego serca jest gotów poświęcić życie. Pewnego dnia zostaje fałszywie oskarżony przez swego sąsiada,...
„Pożegnanie domu” stanowi drugą część planowanej trylogii autobiograficznej Zofii Żurakowskiej, której ze względu na zawieruchy dziejowe pisarce nie udało się dokończyć. Opowiada...
Tłumaczona na wiele języków powieść z roku 1925 autorstwa wybitnego polskiego twórcy Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza – malarza, literata i fotografa, eksperymentatora i teoretyk...
Akcja utworu „ Pójdźmy za Nim ” toczy się w starożytnym Rzymie. Patrycjusz Kajus Septimus Cinna prowadzi życie pełne zabaw. Ma jednak poczucie pustki i nie czuje się szczęśliwy. ...
‟Precaution” was written in the spirit of sentimental English novels on the theme of marriage. The author clearly holds the idea that the choice of a groom for her daughter is the moral duty ...
Precious Bane is also the story of Gideon, the doomed brother of Prue, no less decisive, but with different motives. Determined to defeat the poverty of their farm, he devotes all his strength to m...
The story of the imitation of man. After all, everyone has a person to whom you want to strive. There is a murder and a chase in Western Canada a few days before the advent of cars or even telegrap...
South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey...
This is a historical novel. The story revolves around the Jacobite rising and the invasion of Preston. The book is considered one of the author’s Lancashire novels.
„ Pride and Prejudice ” a novel about Elizabeth Bennet, who is a witty and independent young girl, lives in England with her four sisters, her mother, and her father. When Mr. Bingley, ...
From that famous foundry of fiction, fact and frivolity, author Carolyn Wells, comes another Fleming Stone detective story. When a popular playwright is found stabbed with his own pen made from a m...
In the historical novel „"Prince Otto"”, the romance of adventure is combined with the exact recreation of local color and historical setting. This novel is about Prince Otto,...
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...
„Prince Zaleski” (1895) represents Shiel’s contribution to the mystery genre, and is his answer to Sherlock Holmes. This is a set of three short detective mysteries– but the...
In this magnificent novel, love and death intertwine and dissolve into each other. But the characters are the perfect product of the best Victorian literature.
As a prophecy of modern warfare, this book, written before the Great War, is distinctly remarkable, as well as having the genuine Edgar Wallace sense of thrilling narrative. The centre of the plot ...
Ford Madox Ford was a prolific English novelist and poet in the early 20th century. Ford wrote the best-selling novel „The Good Soldier”, as well as the „Parade’s End”...
Powieść „Proboszcz z Tours” Honoriusza Balzaka należy do „Scen z życia prowincji” cyklu „Komedia Ludzka”. Ksiądz Franciszek Birotteau jest jednym z księży...