Należąca do kanonu literatury światowej Wojna światów jest bodaj najsławniejszą powieścią z gatunku science fiction. Kreujące apokaliptyczną wizję przyszłości dzieło angielskiego pisarza Herberta George'a Wellsa wywarło ogromny wpływ na rozwój literatury fantastycznej.Powieść opisuje inwazję wrogich przybyszów z kosmosu na Ziemię. Marsjanie pragną przejąć wszelką władzę nad ludźmi i przemienić ich w źródło swojego pożywienia.Autor w mistrzowskim stylu opisuje emocjonujący prz...

Pozostaje nam mistyka  Chrześcijanin przyszłości będzie musiał być mistykiem – stwierdził kiedyś słynny teolog katolicki Karl Rahner. Nam jednak rzadko udaje się „widzieć” Boga w sobie i wokół siebie. Autor zaprasza do podjęcia modlitwy kontemplacyjnej, która prowadzi do całkowitego poddania się miłości Bożej. Jest przekonany, że to jedyna droga do świętości. Zachęcając do tego, błyskotliwie cytuje Pismo Święte i wielu mistrzów duchowości, dzięki czemu pokazuje rozpiętość n...

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“Cashel Byron's Profession” is a novel 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.Cashel Byron's Profession is George Bernard Shaw's fourth novel. Shaw wrote five novels early in his career and then abandoned them to pursue politics, drama criticism, and eventually playwriting. The novel follows Cashel Byron, a world champion prizefighter, as he tries to woo wealthy...

“The Doctor’s Dilemma” 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.The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw. It is a problem play about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the demands of private medicine as a business and a vocation.

“Getting Married” 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.Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908, it features a cast of family members who gather together for a marriage. The play analyses and satirises the status of marriage in Shaw's day, with a particular focus on the necessity of liberalising divorce laws.

“Fanny's First Play” 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.Fanny's First Play is a play by George Bernard Shaw. It was first performed as an anonymous piece, the authorship of which was to be kept secret. However, critics soon recognised it as the work of Shaw. The mystery over the authorship helped to publicise it. It had the longest run of any of Shaw's ...

“Great Catherine” 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.“Great Catherine” is a play by George Bernard Shaw. The plot focuses on Captain Charles Edstaston, a very prim and proper British military attaché who, in 1776, is assigned to the Imperial Russiancourt in Saint Petersburg, and brings his equally prim fiancée, Claire, with him. In the midst of court in...

“Pygmalion” 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.Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights.

H.G. Wells znany przede wszystkim z wizjonerskich książek science-fiction, jak choćby Wehikuł czasu i Wojna światów, był również świetnym obserwatorem codziennego życia. Koła szansy to odpowiednik przezabawnej komedii romantycznej, której tłem jest rewolucja obyczajowa dokonująca się za sprawą… roweru.

"Wyspa" to utwór George'a Gordona Byrona, jednego z największych angielskich poetów i dramaturgów. Znany jest przede wszystkim jako autor takich dzieł jak "Giaur" czy "Mazepa". "W swojéj kajucie spoczął wódz waleczny,We wybór straży zaufał bezpieczny;We śnie Albjonu widział brzegi lube,Trudów nagrodę i zapasów chlubę,Bo swoje imię w tych umieścił rzędzie,Co śledzą drogi przez biegunów lody,Przebył najgorsze i resztę przebędzie,Dlaczegóż nie miał ...

"Melodie hebrajskie" to zbiór wierszy George'a Gordona Byrona, jednego z największych angielskich poetów i dramaturgów. Znany jest przede wszystkim jako autor takich dzieł jak "Giaur" czy "Mazepa". 
Ten wspaniały zbiór wierszy składa się z 23 pięknych utworów poetyckich, w tym takich dzieł jak Rozbita harfa, Płakałaś, Gdy śmierci chłód lub Po brzegach Jordanu.

"Giaur" to powieść poetycka George'a Gordona Byrona, jednego z największych angielskich poetów i dramaturgów.Znany jest przede wszystkim jako autor takich dzieł jak "Giaur" czy "Mazepa". Giaur to młody Wenecjanin który zakochuje się z wzajemnością w Gruzince Leili. Leila była niewolnicą, przymuszoną do małżeństwa z Hassanem. Jej pan i mąż od dłuższego czasu podejrzewał ją o zdradę, lecz dziewczyna swoim urokiem potrafiła rozwiać jego obawy....

The book, which at one time produced the most ambitious scandal in the history of British literature of the XIX century. This is a book that was desperately admired and equally desperately outraged. The poem that shocked the foundations of the foundations of morality and morality of its era and gave the world one of the most famous literary heroes of mankind – a hero without whom neither Pushkin Onegin nor Lermontov Pechorin would exist.

Jedność człowieka z Bogiem, do której prowadzi kontemplacja, już w człowieku istnieje. Aby ją odkryć, wystarczy zdać sobie z tego sprawę, i w ten sposób rozpocząć drogę modlitwy. To odkrycie jest pierwszym krokiem do tego, by dostrzec istotę swego człowieczeństwa, doświadczyć wewnętrznego spokoju i odkryć świętość wewnątrz – wspólnotę z Bogiem.Ojciec Martin Laird zachęca do poznawania Boga na drodze kontemplacji, to znaczy w milczeniu miłości. Wskazuje proste elementy służące...

Z jakiegoś powodu uważamy, że jeśli chcemy ruszyć przed siebie, potrzeba nam światła, które oświetlałoby drogę na dystansie wielu kilometrów. Na szczęście tak duży wgląd w przyszłość nie jest wymagany. Jadąc samochodem w nocy, widzimy bardzo mało; reflektory oświetlają drogę na niewielką odległość, poza którą istnieje tylko czarna noc. Jednak tych zaledwie kilka oświetlonych metrów wystarcza. Mamy dokładnie tyle światła, ile potrzeba.Martin Laird OSA, teolog duchowości i patr...

“Mrs. Warren's Profession” 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.The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam (brothel proprietor), who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter. This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898. They were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, not to entertain their audien...

“The Devil's Disciple” 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.“The Devil's Disciple” is Shaw's eighth play, and it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright. Set in Colonial America during the Revolutionary era, the play tells the story of Richard Dudgeon, a local outcast and self-proclaimed "Devil's disciple". In a ...

“The Admirable Bashville” 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.“The Admirable Bashville” is a short play based loosely on Shaw’s novel “Cashel Byron's Profession”. The play was written to protect American copyrights after the novel became unexpectedly successful in the United States.

“How He Lied to Her Husband” 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.How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy play by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904. In its preface he described it as "a sample of what can be done with even the most hackneye...

“Misalliance” 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.Misalliance is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. The play takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead, Surrey in Edwardian era England.It is a continuation of some of the ideas on marriage that he expressed in his play, Getting Married....

“Dark Lady of the Sonnets” 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.“Dark Lady of the Sonnets” is a short play by George Bernard Shaw. “THE BEEFEATER: Stand. Who goes there? Give the word.THE MAN: Marry! I cannot. I have clean forgotten it.THE BEEFEATER: Then cannot you pass here. What is your business? Who are you? Are you a true man?THE MAN: Far from i...

“Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress” 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.“Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress” is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, written in 1917.The play is obviously influenced by the Russian Revolution that year. It takes place in an imaginary country which has recently experienced a similar revolution. The two main characters are ...

"Lara" to powieść poetycka George'a Gordona Byrona, jednego z największych angielskich poetów i dramaturgów. Znany jest przede wszystkim jako autor takich dzieł jak "Giaur" czy "Mazepa". Utwór opowiada historię fatalnego powrotu hrabiego Lary do domu po latach spędzonych za granicą na podróżach po Orientu. Jeden z przypisów Byrona wyjaśnia, że chociaż imię „Lara” jest pochodzenia hiszpańskiego, „żadna okoliczność lokalnego lub narodowego opisu ni...