Czy demokracja jest przereklamowana? Według Franka Underwooda — tak. Dlaczego? Bohater House of Cards zaprasza nas za kulisy politycznej walki o najważniejsze stanowiska w państwie. Droga do Gabinetu Owalnego wybrukowana jest hipokryzją, a dotrzeć do niego może każdy, kto będzie wystarczająco przebiegły i bezwzględny. Chociaż wizja takiego świata może wzbudzać w nas trwogę, kultowy serial przyciągnął przed ekrany miliony widzów na całym świecie. House of Cards u...

A house party at a country house in Connecticut, reputedly a house under a curse. The owner dies mysteriously, and one of the house party vanishes. The characters of the wealthy murdered man, his young wife and his daughter, as well as those of the servants and detectives are more than usually convincing and the story altogether adapted for effortless fireside reading. While the reader is prevented from divining the solution too easily, a proper number of clues are conscien...

Planując przyszłość, zastanawiamy się nad rozwojem różnych sytuacji, na przykład gospodarczej w kolejnych latach, i próbujemy określić, jak będą one wyglądać. Najczęściej nie jesteśmy w stanie trafnie tego przewidzieć - w końcu ważne wydarzenia kształtujące przyszłość są z natury nieprzewidywalne. Istnieje jednak lepszy sposób, by przygotować się na to, co przyniesie los. Powinniśmy się zastanowić, co będzie takie samo za dziesięć lat, a co pozostanie nie...

Znajdziecie tu opowieści o piratach i księżniczkach, zamkach i królach – historie, które przypomną Wam, że cuda się zdarzają i że miłość jest silniejsza od śmierci. Pośród innych dzieci poznacie: Benjamina, pasterza, który oddał swoją pelerynę dziecku i spotkał się twarzą w twarz z Jezusem; Antoniego, który wyruszył w drogę by zostać księdzem, lecz wylądował na pirackim statku gdzie działy się cuda; Wacława, chłopca z sowieckiego obozu pracy, który wędrował z Ho...

The story „Midnight House” about the mysterious house. The owners, who went abroad. However, neighbors claim that they saw them in the city. This house is associated with ill-fated love and early death. For a long time, it was closed, but soon reopened...

Money often changes people’s lives. If you inherited a substantial amount of money would it change yours? Would you work or quit your job? Would you feel entitled to various privileges because of your wealth? Would you behave differently? These and other issues are the subject of the English novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Bleak House, like many of Dickens’ writings, is about various social issues. Bleak House is a satirical story about Dickens’ view of the British ju...

Mark, Jenna, Greyson i Polly mieszkają w nowoczesnym bunkrze. Ten podziemny świat zaspokaja ich niezbędne potrzeby. Posiada dobrze wyposażoną kuchnię, siłownię i basen, a nawet pewnego rodzaju muzeum. Jego zaopatrzenie wystarczyłoby na całe życie. Z dala od świata zewnętrznego bohaterowie starają się zachować zdrowie psychiczne, przestrzegając ustalonych procedur i przyjmując codziennie nieokreślone leki. Tyle że żadne z nich nie pamięta dokładnie, jak się tam znalazło, ani c...

“Heartbreak House” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Heartbreak House is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a position to guide Europe to safety failed to learn their proper business of political navigation". The "Russian ma...

„A House to Let” is a novella originally published in 1858 by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole was edited by Dickens, making it fit together seamlessly as a whole. This novella is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. It is about a house th...

”A House of Pomegranates” is the second collection of fairy tales by the brilliant writer, master of European aesthetics Oscar Wilde, author of the novel „Portrait of Dorian Gray”, plays „Salome”, „Fan Lady Windermere” and „Ideal Husband”, letters of confession „De profundis”, and also numerous short stories, short stories, poems and essays about art. The text is published in two languages, which allows you to fully appreciate the unique originality of the works belonging t...

Traveling through southern Florida, a New Yorker Don Counsel is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is holding the real killer captive on his yacht while detectives are searching for Counsel. Meanwhile a young Pen Broome tries to help Counsel out. Riever’s men find Counsel and trap him in a ballast bulkhead, but Pen rescues him. Will Counsel be able to prove his innocence?

Trójka wilków, którzy rządzą elitarną szkołą, i dziewczyna, która staje się ich celem.Elodie Stillwater właśnie została przeniesiona do jednej z najbardziej ekskluzywnych akademii w Stanach. Od razu orientuje się, że nie jest to tradycyjna szkoła. Panuje w niej mroczny i przesiąknięty lękiem klimat.Szkołą rządzi trzech bardzo bogatych chłopaków, którzy myślą, że mogą wszystko. I dla pozostałych uczniów lepszym wyjściem będzie schodzić im z drogi. Niestety Elodie już pierwszeg...

Umiejętne obchodzenie się z pieniędzmi wcale nie zależy wyłącznie od tego, co wiesz. Ważniejsze jest to, jak się zachowujesz. A zachowanie jest czymś, czego trudno nauczyć - nawet bardzo bystre osoby. Większość ludzi myśli, że pieniądze - inwestowanie, finanse osobiste i decyzje biznesowe - to przede wszystkim matematyka. Wystarczy mieć odpowiednie dane i wzory, aby się dowiedzieć, co dokładnie należy robić. Jednak w prawdziwym życiu ludzie nie podejmują decyzji finansowych ...

Znajdziecie tu opowieści o księciach i cyganach, biskupach i niedźwiedziach - historie, które przypomną Wam, że wiara jest szczególnie silna w młodych duszach, a zło nigdy nie może równać się z dobrem. Pośród bohaterów tej książki poznacie Bernarda, Mikołaja, Oswalda i Ruperta, Tomka, Józka oraz Kasię. Sowieckie krowy, obraz Matki Bożej, mała myszka, Wielkanocny kurczak oraz arka, rybki, osioł, a nawet dinozaur - wszyscy są tutaj w tuzinie uroczych op...

Edward Leithen is a young British lawyer who learns that one of his Oxford contemporaries, Charles Pitt-Heron, has just disappeared. Leithen learns from Pitt-Heron’s wife that he has been forced to flee. But a series of strange events that follow Pitt-Heron’s disappearance convinces Leithen that he is dealing with a sinister secret society. His suspicions begin to center on a wealthy, well-known, and intelligent businessman, who reveals himself to Leithen as an ardent anarc...

This is a mysterious story about The Corner House, where there are many secrets and various rumors about it. Some time ago, the Corner House was the center of what could be an exciting tragedy. Some of the neighbors could hear about the night cry, how to stamp their feet, about a beautiful woman with poison in her hand. No one ever revealed her secret, no one crossed her threshold. However, there is always someone brave who will do it.

A detective and very mysterious story. Mr. Sabin is called out of blissful retirement to search for his missing wife. He believes Lucille to be kidnapped by members of a secret society of aristocrats. It is interesting to watch Mr. Sabin control himself and walk with such dignity and aristocratic bearing and tact, even as he plots to save his own life and reunite with his beloved Lucille. „The Yellow Crayon” presents a fascinating picture of the political mindset of the day...

“The House of Pride” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The House of Pride is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of seven moving and thrilling stories such as: The House of Pride, Good-bye, Jack or The Sheriff of Kona.

Rogues in the House is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1934. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan inadvertently becoming involved in the power play between two powerful men fighting for control of a city. It was the seventh Conan story Howard had published.

There were various rumors about house No.13. There were no lights, badly painted blinds were always lowered, windows were black over the years. The feeling of loneliness and secrecy permeated the interior of No.13. Surprisingly there lived a young beautiful lady, about 20 years old. However, she was very frightened. And all this darkness was displayed on it.

Is Lily Bart a victim of circumstance or an agent of her own destruction? Edith Wharton’s acutely observed novel poses this question as it follows Lily’s tragic path through the country houses, card tables and drawing rooms of New York’s beau monde at the turn of the 20th century. Impoverished but well-born, Lily realizes a secure future depends on her acquiring a wealthy husband. Her desire for a comfortable life means that she will not marry for love without money, but he...

The spiritual romance of a soul in the Himalayas. An Englishman in India is so influenced by a group of converts to Buddhism that he travels to a monastic retreat in Tibet in the search for spiritual enlightment. The author, also known as E. Barrington, purports that the supernormal happenings in this romance novel are true and are founded upon the ancient Indian philosophy of Upanishads. Moresby was already sixty years old by the time she started writing her novels, which ...

Lord Thurso-Rainham is the type of vigorous man who is the victim of neuralgic headaches. He becomes addicted to the drugs he takes to counter their effects. All other attempts to cure Thurso from his addiction failed. There is one option to save his – to try Christian science, in which no one believes.

When Professor Godfrey St. Peter and his wife move into a new home, he begins to feel dissatisfied with the new turn in life. He continues his scientific work in his dusty laboratory in an old house, trying to return to his old life. Two of his daughters get married and leave their home, two sons-in-law appear in the family. This provokes a midlife crisis, making the professor feel like he has lost his will to live due to a lack of purpose.