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The story „Father Sergius” is one of Tolstoy’s most deeply personal works. This is a story about leaving. This is her main topic, and all the more curious, that its meaning did not develop immediately, with the accumulation of some own spiritual experience, which he was in no hurry to put on paper, and even more so – to publish.

”War and Peace” is not just a classic novel, but a real heroic epic, the literary value of which is not comparable to any other work. The writer himself considered it a poem, where the private life of a person is inseparable from the history of the whole country. Events and impressions from a peaceful life do not leave characters during the war, on the contrary, they come to life more strongly in their souls. War for them is a test of the importance and significance of man....

A small work describes the whole life, the meaning of all life on this Earth. The point is that people live by God, people love, they have a heart, they live not for their needs, not for their own good. And it simply struck the appearance, the rebuke of the Angel, how he watched everything, how he smiled at the hearty people who have faith. As a person blossoms after doing good, and faith becomes even stronger.

The book tells about the young prince, in whose soul changes suddenly occurred and he realized that his life was empty, that he was swallowed by empty acquaintances and his life needed to be changed. He began to change it radically. The kick was a meeting with a girl whom he seduced many years ago. He saw how his rash act changed the life of another person.

The wreck of the ships of the Spanish Golden Armada off the Scottish coast generates a lot of rumors and superstitions. At the invitation of his uncle, Gordon Darnaway, young Charles visits these places and, through the roar of the breakers, nicknamed the Jolly Fellows, tries to uncover the mystery of the ships „Christ-Anna” and „Espirito Santo” in order to secure the future for himself and his beloved.

This novel, according to many critics, could become one of the main masterpieces of the XIX century. However, Stevenson’s premature death from tuberculosis did not allow him to end it. Only six chapters were written, which were then published in some collected works. This is Stevenson’s attempt to write a psychological action novel, which clearly shows the confrontation between the Father and the Son. A rude, cruel judge is Lord Hermiston, however, a master of his craft, a ...

In the historical novel „"Prince Otto"”, the romance of adventure is combined with the exact recreation of local color and historical setting. This novel is about Prince Otto, who is not very concerned about government affairs and problems, and he devotes all the time to hunting and other entertainments. Once during a hunt, he stumbles upon ordinary peasants who did not recognize him and agreed to shelter him for the night. During the evening dinner, the unrecognized prince...

This is a collection of three stories, which includes small tales. So the fairy tale „The Story of a Lie” talks about how, having returned to England after a trip to Paris, young Richard Nasby quarrels with his father. He also reduces acquaintance with Esther, whom he soon falls in love with. Another tale, „The Body Snatcher,” tells how a lonely living in the small town of Fetts accidentally meets a person from his past – visiting London doctor McFerlen.

A tale of fierce internecine feud that destroyed Lord Henry Darrissdire and his older brother James, also called the ruler of Ballantre. The story of their deaths is described by a devoted servant of the clan – old Ephraim McKellar. The novel tells how easy it is to lose honor and how difficult it is to preserve what is dear to you when money and power are at stake...

The novel, which remained unfinished, was restored from the author’s drafts. The fascinating story of the French youth, who during the Napoleonic Wars was one of the many British prisoners of war. The story of his dangerous and fascinating adventures and a difficult, multifaceted political game in which he unexpectedly found himself drawn into. The book you are reading, literally holding your breath...

Readers are invited to one of the writer’s best novels, The Black Arrow. The exciting adventures of his heroes take place in the heroic times of the war of the Scarlet and White Roses. The brilliantly twisted plot is replete with everything necessary: terrible secrets, courageous love, uncompromising valor and unexpected outcomes have been attracting readers of all ages for many years.The mystery of the gloomy Tanstoll forest and deadly black arrows can captivate even the m...

Very engaging tale of the South Seas, by the author of „Mutiny on the Bounty,” who was quite familiar with the area. This book has the same seafaring merit but is set in the pearl atolls of the southwestern Pacific. Into „The Pearl Lagoon” Charles Nordhoff wove his love and knowledge of the South Pacific islands and their people. It is his only story written through the eyes of young people. It is an adventure story about a California young boy, Charlie Selden who leaves hi...

Ronald Makivor and Jack Bangles decided to find the „peacock throne” of Shah Jehan, who, as they say, Nadir Shah took away from Delhi. Their adventures begin with fleeing wide legs from the rebellious sepoys. Over time, they enter the service of the Afghan prince – a model of knightly honor – who must have been very unlike his compatriots, unless they are greatly offended by the general message. In his company, they go through amazing experience and see that they are fighti...

Mr. Richard Gilbert, a New York lawyer, entering five minutes before the start, found only one place unoccupied near the door. The old hard farmer held the upper half and moved grumpily to the window when Mr. Gilbert took his seat. The month was March, the morning was snowy and blowing, slushy and slushy, as usual in the Canadian March morning. Mr. Gilbert, inwardly congratulating himself on having gotten a seat by the stove, opened the damp Montreal True Witness and settle...

This is a scatter shot collection of short stories and poems that really have nothing to do with each other. Most of them come from Kipling’s early years, so some stories are good. Night Mail is the only science fiction; then there is a fantastic story about a haunted house, almost made up as a detective story, and in the less haunted genre, the couple moves to an old estate and finds that the bonds of earth and blood are stronger than human travels.

As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. While the three ghosts that visited Ebenezer Scrooge was Charles Dickens’ most famous apparitions, his interest in the supernatural did not end there. „Three Ghost Stories” includes three different stories that are true Gothic classics and were sensational for their time and continue to hold up well, thanks to Charles Dickens’ superb s...

A set of six amazing short stories by Joseph Conrad. However, these six stories are not in the same vein, they differ: themes and ideas. These stories do not so much illuminate anything as they tell an interesting story. The professor, a character from an earlier novel, appears briefly and tells us about his possible fate.

Scottish-born author and playwright Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) first established himself in the public eye as a writer of children’s books and humorous plays. He is best remembered for creating Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, whom he based on his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys. According to historians of Barrie’s life and work, „Better Dead” is one of his earliest pieces, it is a novel about the challenges of finding ...

Wonderful tale set in the provincial town of Besançon, and focusing on the de Watteville family – the fiercely religious and independently wealthy wife, the ineffectual husband, who absents himself, spending his days working his lathe and 19-year-old daughter, Rosalie. She falls in love with the mysterious stranger who took up residence a few yards away from her family’s home. Through her maid, herself in love with Savarus’s butler, Rosalie intercepts Savarus’s letters to P...

Powieść inspirowana prawdziwymi wydarzeniami.Jest rok 1943. Wschodnie rubieże Rzeczpospolitej zajmowane są raz przez wojska sowieckie, raz przez niemieckie, Ukraińcy zapominają o latach dobrych stosunków i mordują swoich sąsiadów. Na tym wstrząsającym tle Autor opisuje głęboko wzruszającą historię. Ośmioletni Henryk zostaje oddany przez rodziców do swojego wuja na tzw. przezimowanie. W trakcie zabawy powoduje zaprószenie ognia, od którego zajmuje się cała obora. Przestraszony...

Koniec sierpnia 1922 roku. Z Władywostoku wyrusza kilkusetosobowy oddział pod dowództwem generała Anatolija Piepielajewa, żeby przyjść z pomocą powstaniu, które wybuchło w Jakucji przeciwko bolszewickiej władzy. Zaczyna się pasmo dramatycznych zmagań z syberyjską przyrodą, głodem, chłodem, wreszcie z oddziałami czerwonych. Ów zapomniany epizod wojny domowej w Rosji miał dwóch bohaterów: idealistę i poetę Piepielajewa i po drugiej stronie barykady jego głównego przeciwnika, ...

Abigail traci wszystko i nie ma zbyt dużych szans na normalne życie. Gdy odkrywa, kim jest Mesjasz i dołącza do Jego wyznawców, odnajduje też nowy cel i sens życia. Może jednak czeka ją dobra przyszłość? Tymczasem coraz większe prześladowania rozpraszają rozrastającą się grupę chrześcijan „aż po krańce ziemi”. A Abigail grozi małżeństwo z niewłaściwym mężczyzną.O rękę ślicznej Abigail zabiega dwóch zalotników. Jeden jest owdowiałym bogatym kupcem szukającym matki dla swoich d...

Z pewnością jest to niezwykła sytuacja, mieć osiemnastoletnią matkę, gdy samemu ma się już dwanaście lat. Ale jeśli jesteś sierotą, a ona twoją ciocią – i jedyną matką, jaką znasz – no cóż, sprawdza się to całkiem dobrze.Dlatego tak się zaniepokoiłem usłyszawszy, że dziadek i wujek Charlie rozmawiają o znalezieniu odpowiedniego męża dla cioci Lou!Przecież trzeba było jakoś temu przeciwdziałać. Nie mogłem stać z boku i patrzeć, jak nasza rodzina się rozpada. Dziadek z wujkiem ...

Marysieńka Sobieska: wiek nie do końca ustalony, pochodzenie niepewne, wykształcenie przeciętne, inteligencja powyżej normy, spryt zaskakujący, temperament chłodny, uroda zniewalająca, ambicja niezmierzona, znak zodiaku Rak, królowa Polski od roku 1774 do 1796. Ukochana małżonka Jachniczka, czyli króla Jana III Sobieskiego. Pani na Wilanowie. Nimfa, Róża, Bukiet, Esencja, Astrea – czyli „jedyne serca i duszy kochanie”, kobieta o dwóch skrzydłach: purpurowym, miłosnym i pulsuj...