This is an exciting saga located in the Indian Ocean basin, against the stormy backdrop of barely suppressed military operations between the Dutch and British merchant fleets, told by one of Conrad...więcej »
A short story about an unhappy involuntary marriage. Family quarrels, like bad weather in the Russian wilderness: there is nothing worse than becoming an involuntary captive of a blizzard of someon...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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. ...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
„Gra na cztery” to współczesna powieść obyczajowa o dwóch skrzypaczkach z gdańskiej filharmonii, menadżerce kwartetu smyczkowego oraz dziennikarce kulturalnej. Każda z kob...więcej »
The small, plump and shy Dr. Doolittle is a wonderful doctor whose love of animals deprives his patients. But after his parrot Polynesia teaches him to speak in animal languages, the Doctor becomes...więcej »
Ludzie są na tyle szczęśliwi, na ile sobie pozwolą, powiedział kiedyś Abraham Lincoln. A Ty? Na ile sobie dzisiaj pozwolisz? Poznaj siedem barwnych opowieści i ich bohater...więcej »
One of Max Brand’s worth reading as an alternative to his western stories. Michael Clovelly might not have been the greatest swordsman ever to come to London town during the reign of the Merr...więcej »
O Wojtku z planety Uran to kosmiczna opowieść dla dzieci małych i dużych, od lat 4 do 100+. Jej siła i moc leży w prostocie i autentyczności, bo ta historia naprawdę się wydarzyła! Wszystko zaczęło...więcej »
The doctor must earn some money to repay the sailor for the boat he borrowed and subsequently smashed. He and his friends go to the circus to show off the Pushmi-pullyu at six pence a pop. After so...więcej »
Tommy learns how to communicate with animals, thanks to Doctor Dolittle. Tommy finds himself with a kind doctor on a thrilling and dangerous journey to find Long Arrow, the native American and son ...więcej »
O Antku, który poleciał na Uran to kosmiczna opowieść dla dzieci małych i dużych! Nasza międzyplanetarna przygoda zaczyna się pewnego deszczowego dnia, gdy Antek, lat 9, wyrusza w swoją pier...więcej »
One of the best classic novels in world literature. Jean Valjean, Cosette, Gavrosh – the names of the heroes of the novel have long become common nouns, the number of its readers for a centur...więcej »