„Cousin Pons” is one of the last and greatest of Balzac’s novels of French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature. The book tells...więcej »
This is a solid, basic cowboy story from B. M. Bower, an early work of hers on the standard ranching setting she writes many more times. This is one of her stories. This follows the life of a boy f...więcej »
Powieść „Córka Ewy” Honoriusza Balzaka należy do „Scen z życia prywatnego” cyklu „Komedia Ludzka”. Opowiada losy hrabiny Marii de Vandenesse. Kobie...więcej »
The moral of this story is clear to all, because it is relevant – envy. It was a large, beautifully furnished room, filled with priceless paintings, bronze and old furniture. It was the mansi...więcej »
After 8 years in prison for murder, Jimmy Geary returns to his town Yellow Creek, and his past, and an ambush. Jimmy was very happy to see town again. But there are three men who aren’t happy...więcej »
A collection of short stories by a popular and influential Russian author, the founder of the literary method of socialist realism and, possibly, the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th ce...więcej »
„Creep, Shadow! „ is the second novel in the Dr. Lowell series, preceded by „Burn, Witch, Burn! „. It’s short and it moves along very quickly but there’s plenty ...więcej »
Is murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose? Meet Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an...więcej »
This is another great collection of short stories by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrill...więcej »
On December 26, 2004, one of the largest earthquakes in human history occurred off the coast of Indonesia, causing a series of powerful tsunamis that hit countries bordering the Indian Ocean. Koh P...więcej »
It is the continuing saga of Max Brand’s finest heroine, Jack – Jacqueline Boone. Jack is blessed and cursed by the cross of Meilan when she meets Dix Van Dyck. Dix Van Dyck, is being p...więcej »
Originally published in 1901, „Crucial Instances” is the second collection of six short stories connected, as the title suggests, by a hinging moment in the narrative through which the ...więcej »
„Cud Mniemany, czyli Krakowiacy i Górale” to opera komiczna, uznawana za jedno z najwybitniejszych dzieł polskiego oświecenia. Osadzona w realiach wsi podkrakowskiej opisuje aktu...więcej »
„Cudaczek-wyśmiewaczek” to zbiór osiemnastu opowiadań dla dzieci o tytułowym Cudaczku-Wyśmiewaczku, czyli maleńkim stworzeniu chowającym się we włosach i ubraniach dzieci. Karmi ...więcej »
Miłosny trójkąt pomiędzy bogatą panną Basią Szeliżanką, zakochanym w niej Giano oraz Jerzym Zawiślakiem. Nie brak w nim namiętności, nutki grozy i mroku. Wszystko to rozgrywa się w XVII-wiec...więcej »
Spirit of Old Essex draws together Arthur Morrison’s lost treasure of a novel „Cunning Murrell”, a jocular tale of witchcraft, old salts, pugilists, smuggling and country life lon...więcej »
It was a brilliant good Saturday morning before the harvest, and the large market and curves of the streets in Norwich proceed with a continuous crowd of farmers, livestock, dealers, county ladies ...więcej »
Five people were seated around a table in the private office of a well-known solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn. Their expressions and general attitude were sufficiently disturbed to suggest that the...więcej »
Tragikomedia autorstwa Pierre’a Corneille’a, w tłumaczeniu Stanisława Wyspiańskiego, to opowieść o młodym rycerzu Rodrigu Díaz de Vivarze, zwanym również Cydem Walecznym. ...więcej »