“Gösta Berling“ to powieść Selmy Lagerlöf, szwedzkiej pisarki, laureatki Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury.Powieść ta łączący w sobie elementy legend skandynawskich z tradycją chrześcijaństwa. Värmlandia, kraina malowniczo położona pośród wodospadu, jeziora, pól i gęstych lasów, gdzie często gościły diabły i czarownice. U bogatej pani majorowej, w pięknym dworze mieszka dwunastu zawadiaków. Legenda głosi , że majorowa trzymała rezydentów w pogotowiu na usługi diabła, a za...
“Dziewczyna z bagniska“ to powieść Selmy Lagerlöf, szwedzkiej pisarki, laureatki Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury.
Akcja powieści obraca się wokół młodej Helgi, której pracodawca nie chce się przyznać, że jest ojcem jej dziecka. Ta wzruszająca powieść wzbudza podziw dla bohaterki, która, choć zbłądziła w młodości, to poprzez wrodzoną uczciwość walczy o miłość i szacunek innych.
“Cmentarna lilia” to powieść Selmy Lagerlöf, szwedzkiej pisarki, laureatki Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury.“— Znamy artystów, rzekła pani Blomgren, którzy podejmują dzieci z ulicy, uczą swego rzemiosła i następnie korzystają z ich pracy. Niejednemu uda się wyhodować gwiazdę, i ciągnąć z niej duże dochody. My tego nie pragniemy bynajmniej, marzymy tylko o tem, aby dożyć czasu i zobaczyć jak Ingryda błyszcząc cekinami i klejnotami, skakać będzie przez obręcze, z konia na ...
“Wyspa skarbów” to powieść przygodowa autorstwa szkockiego pisarza Roberta Louisa Stevensona opowiadająca o losach piratów, poszukujących ukrytego skarbu.Bohaterem książki jest Jim Hawkins, chłopak, który pracuje w tawernie „Admiral Benbow”. Traf sprawia, że bierze on udział w wyprawie poszukującej – na podstawie tajemniczej mapy – skarbu legendarnego kapitana piratów Flinta. Nikt się jednak nie spodziewa, że wśród załogi statku znajdą się dawni towarzysze Flinta, którzy prag...
“Chata wuja Toma” to słynna powieść amerykańskiej pisarki i działaczki społecznej Harriet Beecher Stowe.Powieść porusza temat czarnoskórych niewolników żyjących na południu USA. Impulsem do jej napisania było uchwalenie w 1850 roku przez Kongres Stanów Zjednoczonych ustawy przeciwko ukrywaniu zbiegłych, czarnoskórych niewolników. Książka, ukazująca przemoc i bezwzględność z jaką traktowano Afroamerykanów, stała się ważnym ideowym argumentem liberalnej Północy w walce o zniesi...
“Wenus w futrze” to powieść autorstwa Leopolda von Sacher-Masocha oparta częściowo na elementach autobiograficznych. Od nazwiska autora tej powieści - Leopolda von Sacher-Masocha, pochodzi określenie masochizm. Główny bohater wyznaje zakochanej w nim pięknej kobiecie – Wandzie, swoje skryte pragnienia. Marzy o kobiecie idealnej, która będzie okrutnie się z nim obchodzić, bić go i traktować jak niewolnika.
The Hound of the Baskervilles - a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.Dr James Mortimer calls on Sherlock Holmes in London for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the yew alley of his manor on Dartmoor in Devon. The death was attributed to a heart attack, but according to Mo...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.This collection of stories consists of: A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League A Case of Identity The Boscombe Valley MysteryThe Five Orange Pips The Man with the Twisted Lip ...
The Lost World - a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.It is a novel concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous peo...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.This collection of stories consists of: "The Adventure of Silver Blaze""The Adventure of the Cardboard Box""The Adventure of the Yellow Face""The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk""The Adventure of the Gl...
The Sign of the Four - is a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.The Sign of the Four is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Set in 1888, The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and ...
The Poison Belt - a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.Challenger sends telegrams asking his three companions from The Lost World— Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee— to join him at his home outside London, and instructs each of them to 'bring oxygen'. During their journey there, t...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - a collection of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.This collection of stories consists of: "The Adventure of the Empty House""The Adventure of the Norwood Builder""The Adventure of the Dancing Men""The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist""The Adventure of the Priory ...
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - a novel by Daniel Defoe, an English trader, writer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations.The book starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in England. He bought a little farm in Bedford and had three children: two sons and one daughter. Our hero suffered a distemper and a desire to see "his island." He could talk of nothing els...
Moll Flanders - a novel by Daniel Defoe, an English trader, writer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations.It is usually assumed that the novel was written by Daniel Defoe, and his name is commonly given as the author in modern printings of the novel. However, the original printing did not have an author, as itwas an apparent autobiography. The attribution of Moll Flanders to Defoe...
Roxana - a novel by Daniel Defoe, an English trader, writer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations.Roxana is an example of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional characters (yet "drawn from life"), despite the fact that they are women. Roxana, which narrates the moral and spiritual decline of a high society courtesan, differs from other Defoe works becaus...
The Deerslayer - a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life created a unique form of American literature.This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer": a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York, who objects to the practice of taking scalps, on the grounds that every living thing should follow "the gifts" of its nature, which would keep European A...
The Last of the Mohicans - a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life created a unique form of American literature.The novel is set primarily in the area of Lake George, New York, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman N...
The Gambler - a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature.The first-person narrative is told from the point of view of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman de Grieux and has mortgaged his property in Russia ...
The Idiot - a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature.The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligen...
The Brothers Karamazov - a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature.Set in 19th-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into questions of God, free will, and morality. It is a theological drama dealing with problems of faith, doubt and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia, w...
White Nights - a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature.Like many of Dostoyevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited....
Crime and Punishment - a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature.Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg, who formulates a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money. Before the killing, Raskolnikov believes that with the mone...
