A pleasant short story about Sir Arthur Savile, charming in her naivety and hypertrophied in her nobility. Ironic humor, a beautiful syllable, wise quotes, an English spirit and a non-standard pros...więcej »
Jack London, as part of his Nordic Tales series, raises a problem that is difficult to articulate clearly. This is a situation when a person is faced with the inevitability of a terrible painful de...więcej »
„Lost Illusions” is a serial novel, written by the French writer, Honoré de Balzac, between 1837 and 1843. It consists of: „Two Poets”, „A Distinguished Provinc...więcej »
The basic plot of this book is built around the reputation the Lloyds of London insurance firm had for ensuring all manner of unlikely propositions. Lord Harrowby is advised to marry a wealthy heir...więcej »
Love of life is not only the name of the story, but also the main quality of one of the characters. Such an acute, almost tangible desire took possession of man that he, exhausted by hunger, cold, ...więcej »
C’est l’histoire de l’actrice italienne Lucretia Floriani et du mépris spirituel du peuple, l’aristocrate slave, le prince Carol von Roswald. Les contemporains ont ap...więcej »
Ma confession – l’histoire de Léon Tolstoi a propos de la recherche de la foi. Il parle de son athéisme juvénile, qui l’a amené a 50 ans de déce...więcej »
This short story is an excellent representative of the Victorian era Gothic prose. Bright, capacious, in the details and most importantly interesting. An elderly governess decided to share a scary ...więcej »
Madame Bovary – un grand roman de l’écrivain français Gustave Flaubert. Le personnage principal, Emma Bovary, souffre de l’incapacité de réaliser ses r...więcej »
Madame Chrysanthème Pierre Loti est une combinaison inhabituelle d’un travail superbement écrit et d’une dureté morale indescriptible. C’est l’histoire ...więcej »
Even a short novel like „Madame de Treymes” shows you what a masterful writer Edith Wharton was. It is a captivating portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. Inspire...więcej »
‘"When Rogues Fall Out” incorporates some wonderful conundrums to hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers. This book contains three interconnected stories. In the first,...więcej »
Author Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) brought the excitement of the 1920s and 1930s to Madame Storey's cosmopolitan adventures, moving away from Edwardian and Victorian flavors of the mystery genre. B...więcej »
Sir John Retcliffes historisch-politische Romane sind im ureigensten Sinn mit Abenteuern angereicherte Tendenzromane, die das gesamte politische Geschehen seiner Zeit zum Inhalt haben. „Magen...więcej »
Sur les routes des États-Unis, une mystérieuse voiture a été repérée qui roule deux fois plus vite que n’importe quelle voiture de course. Au large d...więcej »
Maître Zacharius était un horloger célèbre et ses montres étaient très appréciées dans de nombreux pays. Les horlogers genevois ont maudit d&r...więcej »
This is a novel with catchy locations and characters. A man in a midlife crisis travels to a remote Kornish village with his wife. The strange happy village, where drunkenness is widespread and peo...więcej »
The first major novel by Herman Melville. This is a combination of pamphlet and melodrama, ethnics and esoterics, psychology and memoirs, a detective and travel notes, philosophy and poetry, woven ...więcej »
Alexander Dumas invites us to be guests at this wedding, which will soon be called „bloody”. Just a few days later, a tragedy will occur. Bartholomew’s night will happen, in which...więcej »