The tragic story of a young burgher, who could not find an answer to his feelings and rejected by society, was instantly translated into other languages and gave rise to a series of sequels and imi...więcej »
This story is about a girl whose family has lost everything. Despite his young age, Agnes makes an important decision for himself and his family to go to work as a governess. Those close, at first ...więcej »
The story is set around the Wentworth mention, a small boarding house in Bolton Spa and its owners and lodgers. They are quite unlikable, mainly upper-middle-class English people who came to the Sp...więcej »
E. F. Benson’s subject is always the petty concerns of petty people, but his talent is to make those concerns nearly as important to us as they are to his characters. For us, what happens to ...więcej »
”Down and out in Paris and London” is a dramatic and at the same time full of Orwell caustic humor autobiographical story of a young English intellectual, who lives in the capitals with...więcej »
Insurance company agent George „Fatty” Bowling lives with his family in a featureless house among the same featureless houses in the London suburbs. When George wins some money at the r...więcej »
In the 1930s, George Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Orwell went further than just studying unemployment ...więcej »
Dorothy has always been a believer. Her father, a priest, helped her believe in God, and now the girl sincerely tries to be correct. She punishes herself for every misconduct, leads a household and...więcej »
Located in the imaginary country of Pannonia, the irresistible novel by Guy Newell Boothby „Long Live the King” gives readers a place in the front row of the hectic life of royalty. Fro...więcej »
A Tale of the Christ – one of the popular novels written by Lewis Wallace. It is considered „the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century”. The novel reflects the...więcej »
The most popular pirate story ever written in English, featuring one of literature’s most beloved „bad guys,” Treasure Island has been happily devoured by several generations of b...więcej »