The historical novel of the famous and my beloved French writer, a fiery patriot of his homeland, a convinced democrat and great humanist. Hugo, in his novel, imbued with the spirit of freedom and ...więcej »
The story of real men who sacrificed themselves for the sake of their homeland and family. McNeile pays attention to people, their psychological state. Great attention to how things are in the tren...więcej »
Despite his intellectual brilliance, successful career, and sizeable inheritance, Christopher Tietjens is a largely unhappy man. Tortured by his wife’s open infidelity, caught up in his own h...więcej »
A tragic incident leaves a girl from an aristocratic family without the right not only to an inheritance, but even to a family name. But the talented and energetic beauty is not going to surrender ...więcej »
Mr. Mason is here at his best. While working out very deftly an extremely intricate and clever plot, he gives us excellent characterization and a remarkably vivid series of glimpses into different ...więcej »
Two foundlings from the London Educational Home received the same name, which over the years led to disastrous consequences. Two lawyers are looking for the missing heir, in order to correct the in...więcej »
Edgar Wallace’s humorous tales of British Army life, centered around the characters of „Smithy” and „Nobby”. The stories, collected in 1905, are supposed to tell us ab...więcej »
It is strange to find Mr. Phillips Oppenheim choosing as his hero an earnest politician with a love for social reform. „Nobody’s Man” starts out as a standard whodunit murder myst...więcej »
„Noc listopadowa” to trzeci utwór Stanisława Wyspiańskiego poruszający temat powstania listopadowego. Akcja dramatu rozgrywa się podczas pierwszych godzin powstania (noc z 29 na ...więcej »
Komedia w jednym akcie autorstwa Cypriana Kamila Norwida, Powstała w 1850 roku, zalicza się ją do „włoskich” miniatur autora – nieodkrytego za życia, darzonego natomiast wielką es...więcej »
Walery Przyborowski, publikujący nieraz pod pseudonimem „Zygmunt Lucjan Sulima” (1845–1913), zasłynął jako jeden z pierwszych polskich autorów powieści kryminalnych. Właśni...więcej »
C’est un roman d’aventures de l’écrivain français Jules Verne. Guerre civile aux États-Unis, entre les États du Sud esclaves et les pays du Nord indust...więcej »
Mr. Richard Gilbert, a New York lawyer, entering five minutes before the start, found only one place unoccupied near the door. The old hard farmer held the upper half and moved grumpily to the wind...więcej »
„North of 36” is another magnificent novel by the author of „The Covered Wagon”. This is just a good old-fashioned western about the first cattle drive from Texas to Abilene...więcej »
The story’s heroine is Catherine Morland, an innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in ...więcej »
Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, this story of revolution, deception, and self-betrayal centers on Nostromo, a handsome Italian sailor, who, like Costaguana, is being cons...więcej »
Akcja „Nostromo. Opowieści z wybrzeża „ rozgrywa się w II poł. XIX wieku w portowym mieście Sulaco w fikcyjnym latynoskim państwie. Josepha Conrada, autora takich uznanych powieści jak ...więcej »
A predecessor to such monumental works such as „Crime and Punishment” and „The Brothers Karamazov”, „Notes From Underground” represents a turning point in Dostoy...więcej »
This book is a collection of some of Konrad’s reviews and writings. The collection is divided into two parts, primarily the sections „Letters”, its reviews. The second section is ...więcej »
L’histoire de Quasimodo qui est un carillonneur de Notre-Dame. Il est séparé du monde par la double fatalité de sa naissance inconnue et de sa nature difforme, emprisonn&...więcej »