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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, first published in 1922, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage of would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather’s fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice and disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness...

„The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. The story follows the enigmatic and mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby as he chases the object of his hopeless desire, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. The result is a chronicle of the drama and deceit that swirl around the lives of the wealthy, which cemented Fitzgerals’s reputation as the voice of his generation. The novel delves into the dark corners of the Jazz Age to tell a tragic tal...

Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, „Tales of the Jazz Age” includes two of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s better-known short stories, „The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and „The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald’s own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection of early 11 short stories shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along wi...

„Taps at Reveille” (1935) is a collection of 18 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1935 and dedicated to Fitzgerald’s agent Harold Ober. It was the fourth and final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published in his lifetime. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including „Crazy Sunday”, and „Babylon Revisited”, a story considered by many to be his masterpiece in the genre.

Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, „Tender Is the Night” is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver who marries one of his patients, a wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgerald’s words, un homme épuisé („a used-up man”). The novel explores how love can be won, lost, and perverted by the myriad forces that shape our lives, including money, illness, and ...

The definite collection of Fitzgerald’s short stories; edited and with a preface by the foremost Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli. The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the author’s fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. This essential collection is ample testament to that statement, and a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history ...

Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel „This Side of Paradise”, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three, „Flappers and Philosophers” was the author’s first iconic collection of short fiction. In these pages we meet Fitzgerald’s trademark characters: the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost Generation. This collection evokes 1920s America through the eyes of a writer ...

„All the Sad Young Men” is a collection of nine short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It includes two of his most famous – the beautifully elegiac „The Rich Boy” and „Winter Dreams” which feature wealthy protagonists – the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – who struggle to come to terms with lost love. As with his other collections, its release was timed to follow the completion of his most recent novel, which was „The Great Gatsby”....

Haneczka Gniecioszkówna to rezolutna dziewczynka, która kocha zwierzęta. Jej tato jest doskonałym szewcem i dziewczynka czasami odnosi klientom zreperowane przez niego buty. W ten sposób bohaterka o niebieskich oczach i blond włosach zawitała u narratora opowieści. W paru zdaniach wyjaśnia mu relacje pomiędzy mieszkańcami jej podwórka i zaprasza w odwiedziny, aby poznał kotkę Kukusię i psa Amorka. Ciepła i wciągająca lektura, z pewnością przypadnie do gustu miłośnikom książki...

Poruszająca historia konia Karego to doskonały wybór dla wszystkich, którym los zwierząt nie jest obojętny. Anna Sewell, wielka miłośniczka koni napisała w życiu tylko jedną książkę, a ta zapewniła jej miejsce w klasyce literatury światowej. To właśnie opowieść o pięknym koniu Karym poruszyła serca czytelników. Zwierzę poznajemy jako małego źrebaka, który przez kolejne lata trafia w ręce coraz to nowych właścicieli. Czasem trafia na osoby pełne troski i czułości, innym razem...

Pewna kotka, choć mała i figlarna, nosi doniosłe imię - Europa. Nazwano ją tak ze względu na charakterystyczną łatkę na grzbiecie. Wszyscy domownicy jedzą jej... z łapki, ale jak ułożą się jej relacje z okolicznymi pieskami? Ciepła i zabawna opowieść o perypetiach w świecie zwierząt. Bajka z walorami wychowawczymi, w stylu pisarstwa Janusza Korczaka.

Jedna z bardziej fascynujących powieści przygodowych o Afryce z czasów kolonialnych. Spodoba się fanom afrykańskich podróży Henryka Sienkiewicza. Afrykańskie plemiona kultywują wiarę w bóstwa i reinkarnację. Zdarza się, że przypadkowymi ofiarami ich wierzeń stają się biali najeźdźcy. Tak było w przypadku lady Luny Ragnall. Kobietę porwali czarnoksiężnicy z plemienia Kendahów, którzy są przekonani, że ta jest wcieleniem świętej kapłanki najwyższego bóstwa, tytułowego dziecięci...

Puch to kotek tyleż mały, co zarozumiały. Psoci na potęgę i widzi tylko czubek własnego nosa. Młody zwierzak jest jednak otoczony przez grupkę kocich i psich przyjaciół oraz wyrozumiałych ludzi, z opiekunką Katarzyną na czele. Przeżywa z nimi zaskakujące i zabawne przygody, aż w końcu... jego charakter ulega przemianie! Doskonała książka pozwalająca wczuć się w emocje i myśli zwierząt. Interesująca pozycja dla miłośników twórczości Marii Kownackiej.

Każda Wigilia jest magicznym wieczorem, ale dla Klary i jej brata szczególnie niezwykła okazała się ta, gdy w prezencie choinkowym otrzymali od ojca chrzestnego figurkę dziadka do orzechów. Od tego momentu dziewczynka zaczyna być świadkiem niezwykłych wydarzeń - nocami jej zabawki ożywają i pod przywództwem Dziadka do Orzechów toczą walkę z bezwzględnym Królem Myszy. Klara dowiaduje się, że historia tego zatargu wiedzie daleko w przeszłość - do czasów klątwy rzuconej przez My...

The action of the novel refers us to the events that took place on the eve of the struggle for the independence of the North American colonies. The heroes of the novel will have to face the distrust of their compatriots, survive their betrayal, withstand the pressure of a gang of Indians, courageously overcome all hardships.

‟Monikins” is a serious and caustic satire on the social mores of England and America at that time. Cooper ridicules both the aristocratic monarchy and the bourgeois republic with equal vigor. The first part of „Monikins” depicts the early years of John Goldencalf. John Goldencalf, by coincidence, is one of the wealthiest people in Europe of the nineteenth century.

In this book you will find a description of the life and way of life of the indigenous inhabitants of the country – Indians and white settlers; numerous hunting scenes. The novel will not leave indifferent either those who appreciate the sharp, constantly in suspense plot, or those who are interested in the conditions under which the development of the American continent was carried out at the beginning of the last century.

This novel is for those who are looking for a quick and easy read. The Flowers family lived in a small house in a wide grassy meadow that descended a few branches from the front door to a gentle silvery river. Directly across the river stood a lovely dark green mountain, and when a rainbow fell, as it often did, nothing could look more charming than it rose from the opposite bank of the stream against the backdrop of a wet, shady mountain.

The unfolding struggle for land in North America prompted Cooper to write a series of novels about the life and fate of large landowners. The main character, American Hedges Littlepage, and his elderly uncle have been living in Europe for a long time. But suddenly events begin in America that force them to go on a long journey, to their homeland.

This is a gripping maritime story about two whaling ships on a long and cold journey to the shores of Antarctica in search of dangerous goods. Two Sea Lions – two ships, two captains, two crews! Will they become enemies or friends in the prickly ice that threatens to crush them all. And only the scarlet blood of whales, majestic animals, mixes with the white waves of the ocean in the silence of snowy cliffs.

A slow paced story of love and self-sacrifice with thoughtful character development. In this novel, the heroine Sylvia is on the verge of receiving a large and unexpected inheritance. But soon an unexpected discovery leads to unexpected consequences as Sylvia dives deeper into family secrets.

The novel ‟Two Admirals” tells about the events from the history of the naval war between England and France in the middle of the 18th century. At the center of the novel is a touching story of long-term friendship between two admirals, Jevers Oakes and Dick Bluewater. Their relationship is intertwined with another storyline – the struggle for the inheritance left by the old baronet.

The young French robber Raoul Ivar appeared with his ship in a small harbor in the city of Porto Ferraio. He introduced himself as Jack Smith, but he was exposed: the English officer Griffin recognized the bold robber Raul Ivar in Smith. The British decide to capture his ship. A desperate adventurer is waiting for new challenges, but he is full of hope, courage and a thirst for freedom will help him in this struggle.

This is a historical novel written in the 1900s but set in 1680s Jamestown, Virginia. The plot revolves around the anger of the colonists over the Navigation Act, which robbed them of their profits from the tobacco crop. At the center of this little rebellion is the romance between Harry Wingfield, a gentleman tutor, and Mary Cavendish, a headstrong eighteen-year-old.