A Canadian novelist Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942) wrote about 30 thrillers including ones with the character Jimmie Dale, aka Gray Seal and Smarlinghue, a safecracking Robin Hood who uses his cr...więcej »
This book gives a lot of interesting info about Napoleon the little. In this pamphlet, Hugo exposes the usurper, who declared himself emperor. The great writer stigmatizes the Napoleonic government...więcej »
The story of a love triangle from the Middle Ages. The young girl falls in love with the captain of the guard, who once saved her. But an aged priest falls in love with her. Both feelings are perve...więcej »
Arsene Lupin – le charmant héros des romans policiers de l’écrivain français Maurice Leblanc. Lupin révele des crimes enchevetrés, vole habilement des...więcej »
So in this work the reader appears to be one of the companions in the train. At first, there are usual discussions on a common topic, when everyone expresses his opinion, and then, leaving at his s...więcej »
This is a beautiful and touching poem. Shakespeare uses language and metaphor clearly and very accessible. This is a very sad poem, and he embodies the tragedy of events. Values, loyalty, virtue, s...więcej »
Un livre qui coupe le souffle... Un enfant est trouvé sur une plage anglaise. Il s’appelle Gwynplaine. Il et un bébé (dont la mère morte de froid) se mènent...więcej »
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 »
Candide, who grew up in a rich man’s family, who absorbed real mentor sermons on the fact that everything in the world happens for the better, serves its purposes and in general is accomplish...więcej »
Victor Hugo wrote many of his works while in exile, which lasted 19 years. He spent most of this exile on the English islands. The story begins with the description of the islands... Letyerri has t...więcej »
Best known for „The Four Feathers” and the Hanaud detective novels, A.E.W. Mason wrote many novels. „The Drum” is an adventure novel by this British writer which was first p...więcej »
These are fables – in many there is morality, others clearly contain moralizing. However, fables are not only literary interest. This is a beautiful, filigree prose. The author defined the fa...więcej »
It’s an exciting adventures of Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn – meeting with a ghost, finding a corpse, etc. Tom unexpectedly became a detective – the boy showed amazi...więcej »
The novel „"Roughing It"” is a book of memoirs by Mark Twain about the years of vagrancy in the Far West during the „"silver rush"”. The book begins with...więcej »
During the years of the American Civil War, the Cannon Club was founded in Baltimore, the participants of which were engaged in the invention and production of more and more powerful and modern art...więcej »
Life and adventures during the Klondike Gold Rush are breathtakingly realistic. Frona Wells, the main character of the novel, is a strong, intelligent, courageous and at the same time unusually cha...więcej »
1926. Arthur Cheney Train (1875-1945) was the former assistant district attorney in New York City. His interactions with clients, together with his experiences in the courtroom, provided the materi...więcej »
The elderly Mrs. Barry had one son, Mark, whom she passionately hoped to marry Lois Wilbur, his childhood friend. Nevertheless, Mark went to the city of Queens, where he fell in love and became eng...więcej »
The novel describes the adventures of passengers of the American whaling schooner brig „Pilgrim”, whose entire crew died as a result of a fight with a whale. It all started like that. T...więcej »
Such was the breadth of Tolstoy’s talents that he was unsurpassed in stories, essays and plays. A play about a demon who was stuck on the theft of the souls of peasants. The story itself is a...więcej »