A Venetian story about deceptions and secrets, love and selflessness, cruelty and injustice that took place around the 18th century. This is a story about the adventures of the rich and the misadve...więcej »
This novel combines nostalgic autobiographical memories and social philosophy. The author gives a comprehensive view of colonial life and society in the state of New York in the mid-eighteenth cent...więcej »
Two surviving American sailors, Mark and Bob, found themselves on a bare volcanic rock in the middle of the ocean. Gradually, they manage to form a soil layer using silt, guano and algae. As a resu...więcej »
This book is meant to be read by young women at that tender age, when the feelings of their nature begin to act most insidiously on them, and when their minds are least prepared by reason and exper...więcej »
‟Precaution” was written in the spirit of sentimental English novels on the theme of marriage. The author clearly holds the idea that the choice of a groom for her daughter is the moral duty ...więcej »
The storyline is centered around a sea voyage. The story’s subtitle is ‟The Chase” and it picks up right away as the authorities try to get back a passenger who apparently owes money to...więcej »
At the center of one of Cooper’s most striking „nautical” novels is the life of the captain of the Dawn ship, full of exciting adventures. Sea brotherhood, battles with pirates, f...więcej »
The events of the novel take place not on the American continent, but in the very heart of Europe. Almost all the characters in the novel are forced in extreme circumstances to reveal themselves in...więcej »
This is a historical saga about the fate of three generations of the Littlepage family living in the New World. The novel tells about the people who heroically and bravely mastered the lands of the...więcej »
The novel takes place during the Mexican-American War. All main events take place on the ship. For Rose and her sweet aunt, this journey is meant to be rest, rejuvenation, and an escape from a worl...więcej »
In the center of the book is the life of a young man, Miles, who lives in America. He wants to become a sailor like his father. This is an exciting adventure story of the life of a ship captain. Se...więcej »
Feliks Bernatowicz (1786–1836) był polskim powieściopisarzem romantycznym i komediopisarzem. Zaliczał się do współtwórców rozwijającego się w okresie Królestwa Kon...więcej »
Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a bitter, ironic novel. The protagonist is Gordon Comstock, an unrecognized poet, failed writer, forced to work in an advertising agency to earn a living. He has a rea...więcej »
”Burmese Days” is an early novel by Orwell, in which the future great English writer enters into a kind of literary confrontation with his no less brilliant predecessor, Kipling. The li...więcej »
These are notes on the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1937, in which Orwell took part. The notes consist, as it were, of two parts: the story of an eyewitness participant and an analytical analysis. The...więcej »
Powieść Zygmunta Kaczkowskiego „Murdelio” z 1853 roku należy do cyklu „Ostatni z Nieczujów”. Jej akcja rozgrywa się na ziemiach polskich po pierwszym rozbiorze i konc...więcej »
Bohaterami powieści są europejscy przyrodnicy, badający faunę Afryki. Zostają jednak wciągnięci w niebezpieczną przygodę na afrykańskiej pustyni. Stają się mimowolnymi uczestnikami walk wioski murz...więcej »
Reid Thomas Mayne to amerykański pisarz pochodzenia irlandzkiego. Urodzony w 1818 roku w Irlandii Północnej, od 1840 przebywał w Stanach Zjednoczonych, zmarł w 1883 w Anglii. Uczestniczył w ...więcej »
Juliusz Verne (1828–1905) – francuski pisarz, dramaturg i działacz społeczny, jest powszechnie uważany za jednego z protoplastów fantastyki naukowej. „Tajemnicza wyspa&rdqu...więcej »
Powieść przygodowa dla młodzieży Roberta Louisa Stevensona (1850–1894) opublikowana w 1886 r. Jej akcja toczy się w Szkocji w XVIII w. i obficie nawiązuje do szkockiej historii. Bohaterem pow...więcej »