Henryka Krzeczkowski (1921–1985) to oficer komunistycznego wywiadu i mentor młodych konserwatystów, wychowanek żydowskiego gimnazjum i członek redakcji katolickiego „Tygodnika Powszechnego”, który zmieniał nazwiska i fabularyzował swój życiorys, będąc przy tym człowiekiem prawym i konsekwentnym. Książka Karpińskiego w mistrzowski sposób pozwala dociec, kim był Henryk Krzeczkowski, zrozumieć, na czym polegała siła jego oddziaływania i życiowa strategia, w której zmyślenie skry...

Henryk Wieniawski to największy polski skrzypek, który w wieku ośmiu lat został studentem Paryskiego Konserwatorium. Przez kolejne lata życia nieustannie podróżował po świecie i grał po kilkaset koncertów rocznie. Uwielbiany przez publiczność, przyjmowany brawami, obsypywany kwiatami i prezentami, żył w ciągłej podróży ze skrzypcami.   To o nim jest ta historia.  Wiele w swoim życiu podróżowałem. Również ze skrzypcami.Przekonałem się też, że na czterech strunach tego ins...

Basia – zwana Hajduczkiem ze względu na swoją odwagę i pomoc w złapaniu złodzieja obrazu – odwiedza z klasą muzeum noblisty. Tam poznaje kustosza – starszego, pełnego energii i sympatycznego pana Mosia. Razem z nim wyrusza w podróż do najmłodszych lat życia pisarza. Pałaszując ciastka, oglądając autentyczne listy i portrety Sienkiewicza, wsłuchuje się w opowieść o rodzinie powieściopisarza, jego próbach pisarskich, pracy w gazecie, podróży do Ameryki, pierwszych drukowanych ...

Książka poświęcona działaniom wojennym toczonym przez 1 Front Ukraiński przeciwko niemieckiej Grupie Armii "A" i "Środek". W wyniku tych operacji prawie cała południowa Polska wraz z Zagłębiem Dąbrowskim, Górnym Śląskiem i Opolszczyzną została uwolniona od Niemców. Rozważania autora koncentrują się głównie na planach stron walczących oraz ich realizacji na polu walki. Pokazują proces przygotowania i zabezpieczenia operacji pod względem logistycznym, medycznym i sanitarnym. Uk...

Kampania francuska, w której nieustępliwość żołnierzy dorównywała geniuszowi ich wodza, składała się z trzech różnych części. Trwający od 25 stycznia do 8 lutego okres pierwszy odznacza się groźnymi postępami aliantów. Na próżno Napoleon odnosi zwycięstwo pod Brienne, na próżno przez dwanaście godzin utrzymuje się pod La Rothière, walcząc przeciwko trzykrotnie większym siłom, w końcu i tak zarządza odwrót. Sytuacja wydaje się katastrofalna, koniec wojny bliski, a jej rezultat...

W roku 1643 Ludwik Burbon zwany Kondeuszem Wielkim został wyznaczony na dowódcę wojsk francuskich walczących z Hiszpanami. Walki te, podobnie jak poprzednie, w których Kondeusz brał udział, były częścią ostatniego etapu wojny trzydziestoletniej, w której katolicka Francja walczyła po stronie protestantów przeciw katolickiemu cesarzowi.

This historical chronicle spans a period of thirty years in English history. Starting from the death of King Henry the Fifth in 1422 and ending with the Battle of Castillon in 1453. Lancaster pays for the usurpation of power and the death of the real king. British troops are defeated in battles with France. In England, civil strife and civil war begin.

The plot of the play is based on the struggle of King Henry IV with former allies. The Earl of Northumberland and his influential relatives, to whom the king owes a great deal to the throne, are not satisfied with their position under the new government and are rebelling. In addition to political troubles, Henry IV is tormented by problems of a personal nature: his heir Henry leads a hectic life, spending time in the company of the dissolute fat man Sir John Falstaff and hi...

The play is a continuation of another Shakespeare’s work – „Richard the Second”. The famous historical drama „Henry IV, Part 1” takes place at the beginning of the fifteenth century, in England. The plot of the play revolves around the confrontation of the king with his rebel vassals.

The play of W. Shakespeare „King Henry VI” was written in 1590-1592. Its events take place during the war of England with France and at the beginning of the war of the Scarlet and White Roses, which led to a feudal anarchy and untold misfortunes. The limp, unable to rule the country, King Henry becomes a toy in the hands of his power-hungry wife – Queen Margarita and her lover – the Duke of Suffolk...

Nowhere else has Shakespeare demonstrated his gift to turn the chronicle into a drama so vividly and visibly as in the third part of Henry VI. In the previous two plays, battle scenes are also reproduced: in the first part, the battle in France is displayed especially vividly and vividly, but only in the last play of the trilogy the playwright managed to show almost the entire course of the Rose War in two hours of presentation: from the consequences of the first battle in ...

The main character Katherine is a girl who does not differ in anything special, but is at the same time quite an enviable bride, she has a good dowry. And the bridegroom appears on the horizon, love, everything, but the father is against their relationship, because this Maurice squandered all his fortune, and aunt Catherine, on the contrary, for real happiness. The whole book revolves around the relationship between Catherine and Maurice, Maurice and the girl’s father, Cath...

Roderick Hudson is the first novel by Henry James. Although Roderick was a poor man, but he had a great talent, about which he was not even aware. In the afternoon, he was an ordinary student, and after university he was an outstanding sculptor. One day, by a happy coincidence, he meets the wealthy connoisseur of Rowland Mullet, a man who recognizes his genius and becomes his mentor.

The Italian Watch is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to its fullest. Throughout the book, he is constantly returning to the beauty and delights of Italian life, despite being too often significant shortcomings. Venice and Rome are undergoing the most extensive treatment.

Mrs. Gareth has been collecting works of art in her Pointon manor all her life, and now, after her husband’s death, she must, according to English customs, hand over the manor to her son Owen. The trouble is that the limp Owen is under the influence of his bride, Mona Brixton, who dreams of taking up Poynton’s hands and closing access for Mrs Goret forever. And Mrs. Gareth decides to fight for her treasures.

The book is about history, but not the one that is written in dry letters in the textbook, but the one into which the time machine takes you and lets you live the days, months in the body of another person, a contemporary of the time you are reading about. It is about religion, but not about what they preach in churches, without the right to question, but about its origins, causes, development, problems, transformation over time, our perception of it in the modern world, as...

The Finer Grain – a collection of small stories. The „A Round of Visits” is a thoughtful tragedy that triggered the opening of „Watch and Trusteeship”. The Bench of Desolation, located in an English seaside town, is a touching story of reconciliation after some very offensive and bitter misunderstandings.

The action revolves around three characters: a young and beautiful maiden who travels around America with fiery speeches about the importance of women; her mentor, a lonely and cold lady who despises the whole male race. Different ideals are presented by the rivalry of Olive Chancellor and her cousin Basel Ransom for influencing the young girl Vera Tarrant, who has a strong oratorical gift. The social plan of this novel is concluded in the struggle of the conservative views...

The narrator meets the American Clement Searle in a London hotel. Searle had long wanted to move to England, to run away from the routine of his life. However, he is physically ill and depressed because his lawyer cannot support his claim for a share in the out-of-town property currently owned by Richard Searle. The narrator and the main character are trying to solve this problem.

The Tragic Muse is dedicated to the conflict between the artist and society. Painter Nick Dormer suffers because he does not find recognition, actress Miriam Ruth, in the name of success, makes compromises with his conscience, understanding what the rich audience expects of her. However, the greatest success of this work was the image of Gabriel Nash.

The main character, an aspiring artist, hires a faded noble couple, Monarchs, as models after they have lost most of their money and need to find some kind of work. They are „real” in the sense that they are beautifully of the aristocratic type, but they turn out to be inappropriate for the artist’s work. The artist must finally get rid of the monarchs, especially after his friend and colleague, artist Jack Hawley, criticized the work in which monarchs are represented....

”The Aspern Papers” is one of the masterpieces of the writer’s „small” prose, the plots of which are based on the collision of European and American cultural consciousness, the „point of view” of an individual and social stereotypes, the „book” perception of the world and individual experience. The tragicomic search by the hapless biographer of the lost letters of the great poet is the conflict of this story.

Some Stories by Henry James is a small collection of tales. The best story is considered „Brooksmith”, about a butler who descends into the depths when the master dies, whom he apparently forced to serve. After that, „The Real Thing” is published about an emaciated couple desperately trying to find a way to make a living.

In the hope of a successful marriage, Eugene, Baroness Münster, and her younger brother, the artist Felix, descendants of Wentworth, come to Boston. Having settled in the neighborhood, they become close friends with the young Wentworths – Gertrude, Charlotte and Clifford. Witness and sophistication of Eugene, along with the cheerfulness of Felix create a difficult combination with Puritan morality, frugality and the intrinsic dignity of Americans.