This is a historical novel about the American border during the American Revolutionary War. At this time, the United States border began at Fort Pitt, and the Ohio River was the main artery for ent...więcej »
The tale begins, like many books about Konrad, with a group of travelers gathered together and exchanging maritime stories. Falk is subtle and minimalistic, and perhaps only the writer of the great...więcej »
In the book „The Double” Dostoevsky appears before the reader as a writer with an inimitable sense of humor. The author shows an extraordinary skill in describing comic episodes from li...więcej »
This volume includes two novels, „The Shadow of a Great Man” and „The Tragedy with Corosco,” as well as historical stories. The Romans, who conquered Britain several hundred...więcej »
Since this is not a very famous story, and most of the pleasure that it provides depends on the surprise that the highlight in the story will present to the reader. Winston Bunter, who registered a...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 »
This is an exciting saga located in the Indian Ocean basin, against the stormy backdrop of barely suppressed military operations between the Dutch and British merchant fleets, told by one of Conrad...więcej »
This is both mystery and romance; the latter creates one of the recurring difficulties in Conrad: it preserves the Victorian histrionic element, which sometimes may seem a little attractive. But ov...więcej »
Prince Roman is a Pole who relinquishes his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as an unknown soldier, resisting Russian oppression. In captivity, he has every opportunity to avoid pun...więcej »
This is a story of less than 100 pages, but in it Conrad demonstrates how many great writers do it, the simple and elegant power of short work. Here, a writer can briefly convey a compelling messag...więcej »
This is both mystery and romance; the latter creates one of the recurring difficulties in Conrad: it preserves the Victorian histrionic element, which sometimes may seem a little attractive. But ov...więcej »
The protagonist in the novel is a young man of 19, Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the peasant woman Sophia. From childhood, he almost did not see his parents. ...więcej »
The book contains several topics: the relationship between a man and a woman before marriage, the betrayal of loved ones and their forgiveness, fathers and children. As the life stories of two wome...więcej »
Prawdy nie można pogrzebać na zawsze! Szesnastoletnia Odżibwejka Perry Firekeeper-Birch zawsze wiedziała, kim jest: bliźniaczką o buntowniczej naturze, niespokojnym duchem i najlepszą ...więcej »
One of Max Brand’s worth reading as an alternative to his western stories. Michael Clovelly might not have been the greatest swordsman ever to come to London town during the reign of the Merr...więcej »
Wyprawa po lepszą przyszłość może oznaczać wyprawę na "tamten świat". Ameryka, czasy pionierów, którzy z narażeniem życia przemierzają niekończące się stepy - w poszuk...więcej »
Zdziwisz się, jaka relacja może połączyć Cię z osobą, z którą nigdy z własnej woli byś się nie zbliżył. Ostatnią rzeczą, jakiej pragnie Milt Dale, to mieć towarzystwo w trakcie swoich ...więcej »
Koniec świata - dla niektórych, wbrew pozorom, to całkiem korzystna sytuacja... Z nieba spada tysiące zarodków kosmicznych Drzew, dotychczasowa struktura świata zmierza ku unice...więcej »
Czy Ziemia, jaką znamy, ma szansę w konkurencji z nieprzewidywalną, wciąż rozrastającą się tajemniczą strukturą? Drzewo to gigantyczna nanostruktura od wieków zamieszkała przez ludzi. ...więcej »
Ta reakcja łańcuchowa doprowadzi do kosmicznej katastrofy. Czy istnieje sposób, by ją zatrzymać? Po długiej wędrówce Thomas Farquahart dociera do Cytadeli - pustynnego fortu i s...więcej »