The storybook „On the Makaloa Mat” tells the story of the lives of natives and whites in the Hawaiian Islands. The story, which gave the name to this brilliant collection, is considered one of the best works about love in world literature. Each story has common features: firstly, they all describe some side of life in the Hawaiian Islands, and secondly, these are all the memories of old people, or people close to them in age, wise by experience. And, of course, the local fl...

Zbiór znakomitych opowiadań sławnego amerykańskiego pisarza ukazujących piękno nie tylko ciała, ale także dusz i serc kobiet dalekiej mroźnej północy, a wszystkie opisane tu przygody czy zdarzenia za tło mają wspaniała, chociaż surową Alaskę z jej niezapomnianymi krajobrazami, z jej przyrodą. Zbiór zawiera osiem opowiadań, są to: Serce Kobiety, Keesh, syn Keesha, Żona z plemienia Siwash, Zamążpójście Lit-Lit, Śród lasów Północy, Historia Jees Uck, Przemyślny Porportuk, Negore...

Po szkockim powstaniu w 1745 roku rodzina wysyła Rabbiego MacKenziego do bezpiecznej Norwegii. Bliscy boją się angielskich represji, bo wszyscy w okolicy wiedzą, że rodzina Seony, narzeczonej Rabbiego, walczyła po stronie szkockich rebeliantów.Po powrocie Rabbie na próżno szuka ukochanej – Seona i jej bliscy zniknęli bez śladu. Jest zrozpaczony, ale życie ma swoje prawa. Gdy mieszkający w sąsiedztwie lord Kent proponuje mu małżeństwo ze swoją córką Avaline, Rabbie się zgadza....

Elam Harnish is by nature a player to whom his whole life seems to be a game. Skillfully and cynically playing, Harnish makes millions. A successful businessman lives by the laws of the jungle until he meets the stenographer Didon Mason. From this moment, his life under the beneficial influence of love changes, he becomes a spiritual person. Once he finds a gold mine, and the former excitement lights up in his eyes.

Tytułowy bohater, Christopher Bellew, to młody człowiek z dobrego domu, wykształcony, mieszkaniec wielkiego miasta, pracujący w redakcji jednej z gazet. Kiedy podczas spotkania ze stryjem dowiaduje się o planowanej wyprawie na Alaskę, decyduje się wziąć w niej udział. Przez pierwsze dni podróży Christopher (Kit) odkrywa swoją słabość fizyczną oraz kompletny brak przygotowania do twardego życia pioniera i poszukiwacza złota. Wyśmiewany przez wytrawnych podróżników i niejednokr...

Autor przedstawia m.in. tajną misję dyplomatyczną Tadeusza Kościuszki oraz relacje Kajetana Węgierskiego i Juliana Ursyna Niemcewicza z ich podróży po Stanach Zjednoczonych i spotkań z ówczesnymi osobistościami amerykańskimi.Autor okładki: Marcin LabusSPIS TREŚCIOd Autora PIERWSI POLACY W AMERYCE PÓŁNOCNEJ Początki osadnictwa polskiego W oczach historyków i polityków POLACY W WOJNIE O NIEPODLEGŁOŚĆ STANÓW ZJEDNOCZONYCH Tadeusz Kościuszko Kazimierz Pułaski Mniej znani bohatero...

“The Call of the Wild” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively more primi...

The book tells about the Neanderthal tribe: life, hunting, customs, their relationship. The life of ancient people is difficult and full of hardships, but they are happy. Their happiness is in unity. There is a clash with others. Neanderthals are at a lower stage of development, but they recognize themselves as people: they have a language, they care for the elderly and children, maintain fire, bury the dead... But the principle of Others – The strongest survives; Kill befo...

Books about the future are always interesting to read in order to reflect on what may await us if we do not take certain actions. Usually we imagine that in many years science and technology will reach a new level, people will become more and more developed both physically and mentally, but Jack London in his novel shows a completely different world in which there is no science, medicine is replaced by quackery, and people become worse and worse, gradually sinking morally. ...

„Martin Eden” is one of the most famous novels of the famous American writer Jack London. The novel is largely autobiographical – the writer, like his hero, emerged from the bottom of society and achieved outstanding success in literature exclusively by his own efforts. Martin Eden, who comes from the very bottom of the social ladder of American society at the beginning of the 20th century, falls in love with a young girl, Ruth, who belongs to the bourgeois class. Seeing in...

Love of life is not only the name of the story, but also the main quality of one of the characters. Such an acute, almost tangible desire took possession of man that he, exhausted by hunger, cold, chills, illness, dislocation, hallucinations and other troubles that can await a lonely generational man in the forest. He survived the battle with a bear, with a wolf, with his mind and body, persuading him to rise again, persuading him to survive. The story is small in volume, w...

This is a small storybook. Events that mostly revolve around one person. All his life in Hawaii, Percival Ford lived in the belief that he was following the path of his father, and there was nothing better than missionary virtue and moderation. But his pride was hit by that knowledge of which he had no idea, although it had been with him since childhood.

A white man bought an Indian woman as a wife. Bought without any romantic feelings, bought for help. The girl did her job: cooked, fed dogs, paved the way for teams. And the point is not in servile worship of the master, but in the fact that she saw in her husband an honest and courageous man trying to save other people from hunger and cold. They hoped for him, and she, at the cost of her life, helped her husband keep her word.

“Theft” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.Theft is a political piece set in Washington, DC. A Congressman, Howard Knox, is ready to reveal the corrupt practices of Anthony Starkweather, a wealthy industrialist. To complicate matters, Starkweather's daughter is helping Knox. The play's underlying anti-capitalist theme is also found in some of London's ot...

“The Acorn-planter: A California Forest Play” is a play by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Acorn-Planter was published the year that Jack London died. It is a play designed to be mostly sung accompanied by background music. It follows a tribe of California natives who react to the first presence of white settlers. The story then follows the tribe at a later da...

“Burning Daylight” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that yearand it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entre...

“Martin Eden” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of se...

“The Mutiny of the Elsinore” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a novel by the American writer Jack London first published in 1914. The novel is partially based on London's voyage around Cape Horn on the Dirigo in 1912.The character "De Casseres", who espouses nihilistic viewpoints similar to the ideas of French philosopher ...

“The Night-born” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Night-born is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of ten moving and thrilling stories such as: The Night-Born, The Madness of John Harned, When the World was Young or To Kill A Man.

“The Scarlet Plague” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London.. The book was noted in 2020 as having been very similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today.

“A Son of the Sun” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.A Son of the Sun is a novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, b...

Jack London (właśc. John Griffith Chaney), amerykański pisarza przełomu XIX i XX wieku, autor powieści i opowiadań z wątkami autobiograficznymi. London miał niezwykle barwne życie. Samouk, był m.in. gazeciarzem, trampem, kłusownikiem, marynarzem, poszukiwaczem złota w Klondike i reporterem. Jako korespondent wojenny relacjonował konflikt rosyjsko-japoński w 1905 r. i wojnę domową w Meksyku. W jego twórczości często pojawia się motyw samotnej walki człowieka z panującym porz...

Jack London (właśc. John Griffith Chaney), amerykański pisarza przełomu XIX i XX wieku, autor powieści i opowiadań z wątkami autobiograficznymi. London miał niezwykle barwne życie. Samouk, był m.in. gazeciarzem, trampem, kłusownikiem, marynarzem, poszukiwaczem złota w Klondike i reporterem. Jako korespondent wojenny relacjonował konflikt rosyjsko-japoński w 1905 r. i wojnę domową w Meksyku. W jego twórczości często pojawia się motyw samotnej walki człowieka z panującym porz...

The Sea-Wolf is Jack London’s journey deep into the heart of darkness and madness that each person carries within themselves. It is the story of a Danish youth named Humphrey „Hump” van Weyden and his struggles against the sea, as well as his own inner demons. Humphrey Van Weyden is a gentleman, and academic, who has lived a soft life among civilized, like-minded people. He is on a steemer to visit a friend. On this trip, a fog settles and the ship gets struck and sinks. Mr...