„Anna Karenina” to najważniejsza powieść psychologiczna w dorobku Tołstoja. Autor porusza w niej problem rodziny oraz prawa jednostki do szczęścia osobistego. Z wielkim rozmachem ukazuje społeczeństwo rosyjskie oraz złożone stosunki społeczne. To ponadczasowa powieść o uczuciu, które od początku było skazane na potępienie. Anna Karenina wiedzie dostatnie, stabilne i nieco nudne życie u boku dużo starszego męża. Piękna młoda kobieta spełnia się jako matka, ale nie stroni też o...

Wspaniała powieść o miłości, wierności, zdradzie, prawie jednostki do szczęścia i cenie, jaką trzeba i wolno za nie zapłacić. Dramat osobisty Anny, która dla namiętnej miłości porzuciła rodzinę, rozwija się równolegle z wątkiem społecznym. Klasyczna konstrukcja, głębia analizy psychologicznej, bogactwo treści ukazują mistrzostwo Lwa Tołstoja - pisarza i myśliciela, jednego z najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli literatury europejskiej XIX wieku.

The story of all-consuming passion, the story of a married woman who fell in love with a handsome officer and threw her husband against everything: the opinion of the world, generally accepted morality, her conscience. This is a much deeper work than just a story of love and suicide. This is a book about the torment of conscience, about egoism, about hypocrisy, meanness and selfishness, about the search for oneself and one’s place in this world. This is a book about life, a...

Each person at some point in his life begins an adventure, after which he is destined to look back with a sensation very close to surprise. Someone said that adventure is for adventure. The vocation of a sailor in these times of giant steamboats is so much different from what it was in the old days of sailing ships and long voyages, that with the most ordinary luck, a person could easily climb along the ridges from the apprentice to the skipper less danger than that with wh...

Guy Boothby, an Australian writer, became famous thanks to his famous character – the mysterious Dr. Nicolas, who has truly terrible power over people, and a clever con man hiding under the guise of gentlemen. The author deliberately „introduces” us into the story through a generally outsider who accidentally gets involved in the ups and downs of this story. And the riddle here is not who the criminal is, but what he needs from his victim.

Wygląda na to, że Elle Evans w końcu udało się poskromić niepokornego przystojniaka Noah Flynna. Jednak to nie koniec wyzwań. Kiedy Noah rozpoczyna naukę na oddalonym o trzy tysiące mil Uniwersytecie Harvarda, ich relacja oficjalnie wkracza w nową fazę – związku na odległość. Nie jest łatwo, w końcu pozostały im tylko SMS-y i wideorozmowy, a gdy w sieci ukazuje się post sugerujący, że w życiu Noah pojawiła się nowa przyjaciółka, Elle jest zdruzgotana.Jakby tego było mało, Ell...

Poznajcie oszałamiające bogactwo japońskiej kuchni – jej smaków, zapachów i rytuałów! Autor książki Sushi i cała reszta po dziesięciu latach zapragnął wrócić do Japonii, żeby głębiej wniknąć w kulturę jedzenia tego kraju i lepiej poznać jego mieszkańców. W nieco ponad trzy miesiące Michael Booth wraz z rodziną przejeżdża cały kraj: od podzwrotnikowej Okinawy na południu po Hokkaido na chłodnej północy – dla wielu Japończyków „koniec świata”, za którym znajduj...

At Guy Booth’s Strange Company, Australian writer Guy Boothby put his passion for travel to work as food for his fiction. Although his first publication was a popular science story about traveling around his home country, he soon turned to fiction as an outlet for his work, focusing mainly on adventure adventures, secrets, and discovery stories. In the Strange Company was Boothby

Nicola is a very interesting and creepy character, you are never sure how much he will go and what evil he is really capable of. The main character is actually recruited and works together with Nicola as a partner, which shows Nicolaou a more personal side. He could still do evil supernatural acts, and the threat to the traitors was still faced with the realization that you would become worse if you cross him, but that’s all.

The city itself, climbing a hillside almost at the water’s edge, was painted pale pink at sunset, and even the old Vesuvius, from the top of which a thin column of black smoke seemed a little less gloomy than usual. Because of heaven, the sky was a mass of golden and raspberry-colored, and this was reflected in the calm waters of the bay until the whole world turned into a real radiance. The evening could hardly be desired. And yet this is not the city, mountain or sunset t...

Poznaj blaski i cienie życia na dostatniej Północy!W krajach skandynawskich mieszkają najszczęśliwsi ludzie na świecie. Nie zmieniają tego nadzwyczaj wysokie podatki, jakie płacą Norwegowie, problemy z alkoholem Finów ani chłodne stosunki Szwedów z sąsiadami.Co decyduje o zadowoleniu społecznym w państwach Północy? Jaki wpływ ma na nie brak drastycznych różnic między mieszkańcami i jaki jest stosunek ludności do imigrantów? Czym jest i co o Skandynawach mówi „prawo Jante”?Mic...

This novel, filled with lots of action and romance, talks about the exploits of an attractive criminal mastermind who steals the heart of the main character of a fairy tale. The heroine is a first class woman. She is smart, beautiful, commanding and respected. She is all that a leader should be, demonstrates courage in the face of danger, and has never even been portrayed in any way not ideal.

The story of the liberation of a Russian prisoner from an island in eastern Siberia. A young English millionaire thinks he is saving the father of his beloved, famous nihilist; but when a person is safe, he discovers that he really shot down the most notorious diamond robber in the world. The story is full of sensations, and people who like such a fantasy will find it vibrant and lively from start to finish.

Australia-born writer Guy Newell Boothby burst onto the literary scene with a series of best-selling adventure action movies, but The Mystery of Clasped Hands discovers that Boothby is trying to try his hand at classic detective fiction. Fans of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle will love this exciting mystery.

Many changes, hesitations, lives at stake... It is not easy to put this story aside. It is unpredictable and full of action. When the presidents are fighting for a share of power, our hero can do everything to keep his honor and not get caught in the crossfire.

This book begins in Australia with a man and two adult children. They decide to return to England, but before leaving, an old enemy of his father appears. Son and daughter are surprised about him. In any case, they all move to England and buy a house, which is supposed to be inhabited by ghosts. All its owners saw them, and some were killed when they saw them. They are located in this village. James’s son meets a young woman whom he falls in love with, but her grandfather w...

A novel about a trio that robs some jewels, one of them escapes with them. This is followed by a whirlwind trip in Europe and Asia in pursuit of blood feud. Writing and plot points (despite the fact that they are more than a hundred years old) don’t feel obsolete.

There was a Victorian / Edwardian fascination with evil geniuses. Professor Moriarty, Fu Manchu, Count Fosco, Dracula, Dr. Nicola – they and many others were hiding in the shadows, using their magnetism to persuade others to their will and their significant mental gifts for evil purposes. This is an exciting story for those who like the somewhat predictable traditions of late Victorian history.

There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but as far as this is true, very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it is almost amazing. There are people involved in trade, some of whom are very profitable, about whom the world as a whole has never heard of, and which an ordinary Englishman, in all likelihood, would refuse to believe, even if the most reliable evidence had been provided before him.

Teby są wyraźnie przedzielone Nilem – żywi zajmują wschodni brzeg, a martwi zachodni. W małym, czteropokojowym domu o powierzchni 40 metrów kwadratowych żyje nawet 12 osób. Mało tego – większość osób ma w domu jeszcze osobną kaplicę. Wybór różnych rodzajów chleba jest niemal tak bogaty, jak współcześnie. Kobiety, mężczyźni, królowe i bogowie w Egipcie używają na co dzień wielu kosmetyków. Starożytny Egipt fascynuje od wielu lat. Nie tylko za sprawą monumentalnych piramid...

„It was raining a little before noon, and now, standing on the veranda of my station, looking at the blue lagoon with the edge of a boiling surf, I was lucky not only to have one of the best paintings in the South Pacific, but to clearly smell the sweet aroma of flowers jasmine and wild lime in the jungle that covered the hillside behind me. I went to one end of the veranda and stopped watching a group of local girls who were preparing a tappa at the nearest hut – then to t...

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. From decisions on the battlefield of life or death, which must be made in seconds, with thousands of soldiers hanging in the balance, to intense political negotiations in which every word and expression is important, and, of course, triumphs and trials of royal romance, this wide novel will sure...

This is the last of Dr. Nicholas Boothby’s novels staged in Venice, Italy. Nicola tells the story of her sad life, demonstrates her mystical ability to help people test themselves in another place and time, turns a man into a beast and leaves his palace in Venice, which has a bloody history, but it remains in the minds of those who met him.

Dr. Nicola invited Douglas Ingleby to help him in a mysterious experiment. Unemployed and undoubtedly curious, Ingleby agrees to follow Nikola to a remote castle to help him take care of the old man on the verge of death, Nicola is trying to perform a miracle. But will Ingleby’s loyalty to Nicolau withstand the contrary to the requests of the old man’s great granddaughter, will the experiment give the desired result, and what is he going to do with the sinister Chinese who ...