“Bezwstydnie krótkie” to utwór Janusza Korczaka, polsko-żydowskiego lekarza, pedagoga, pisarza i publicysty, który był prekursorem działań na rzecz praw dziecka.Zbiór mikrodialogów opublikowany przez Korczaka w 1926 roku. To osobliwe dzieło o charakterze satyrycznym zawiera fragmenty rozmów, jakie mogli prowadzić Polacy w połowie lat dwudziestych XX wieku.
“Pani Hańska“ to dzieło Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego, wybitnego polskiego intelektualista i literata.“Skąd ta potrzeba skazywania lub uniewinniania, tu gdzie jedyną drogą jest rozumieć? czemu ta tendencja, aby w jakiejś lapidarnej formułce zamknąć stosunek dwojga ludzi, ciągnący się przez siedmnaście lat, stosunek skomplikowany tyloma czynnikami, snujący się w warunkach tak zupełnie odmiennych od dzisiejszych? Czy my dziś, w epoce już nie kolei żelaznych i telegrafu, ale aeropla...
“Piekło kobiet“ to zbiór feljetonów Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego, wybitnego polskiego intelektualista i literata.Tadeusz Boy Żeleński w tym błyskotliwym zbiorze felietonów, przeciwstawia się karaniu kobiet za przerywanie ciąży. Karanie kobiet, to “zbrodnia prawa karnego”. Pisze też o obłudzie tych, którzy głosząc “prawo do życia płodu” grożą kobiecie więzieniem, nie troszcząc się jednocześnie o jej i przyszłego dziecka warunki bytowe."Piekło kobiet" to książka radykalna, odważna...
“Marzenie i pysk“ to zbiór felietonów Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego, wybitnego polskiego intelektualista i literata.Felietony w tym zbiorze dotyczą różnych kwestii, przede wszystkich jednak społecznych i obyczajowych takich jak relacje z Kościołem, problem seksualności czy traktowania kobiet. Od powstania wielu z nich minęło już 90 lat, ale nadal są one aktualne i wzbudzają wiele emocji.
“Nasi okupanci“ to zbiór felietonów Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego, wybitnego polskiego intelektualista i literata.Autor porusza w swoich felietonach problematykę związaną z aspektami seksualności, małżeństwa i macierzyństwa, konfrontując realia społeczne z nakazami wywodzącymi się z nauki Kościoła katolickiego. Przez tego typu publikacje Boy narażał się duchownym oraz ortodoksyjnemu społeczeństwu, zyskał jednak rozgłos wśród środowisk świeckich zajmujących się świadomym macierzyń...
“Jak skończyć z piekłem kobiet?“ to esej Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego, wybitnego polskiego intelektualista i literata.Esej ten dotyczy kwestii świadomego macierzyństwa. Publicysta zwraca uwagę na sytuację kobiet, które ze względu na tradycyjne postrzeganie ciąży jako błogosławieństwa, muszą znosić wszelkie tego konsekwencje. Zapładniane niekiedy w akcie małżeńskiego gwałtu, wychowujące już kilkoro dzieci w skrajnym ubóstwie, nie mają dostępu do środków zapobiegania ciąży oraz sp...
“Dziewice konsystorskie“ to zbiór felietonów Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego, wybitnego polskiego intelektualista i literata.Publicysta zajmuje się w tym zbiorze felietonów kwestią anulowania małżeństwa – problemami wynikającymi z niemożliwości zawarcia ślubu innego niż kościelny, z czym wiąże się niemożliwość otrzymania rozwodu. Boy-Żeleński zwraca uwagę na niedostosowanie prawa do realiów, obłudę w postępowaniu wielu księży, a także występuje jako obrońca praw kobiet, które najcz...
Robinson Crusoe - a novel by Daniel Defoe, an English trader, writer, and spy. He is most famous for this novel, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations.The book is presented as an autobiography of the title character – a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued.The novel has gone on to become ...
The Casebook 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 the Illustrious ClientThe Adventure of the Blanched SoldierThe Adventure of the Mazarin StoneThe Adventure of the Three GablesThe Adventure of the Sussex ...
“The Mucker“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.This is the first book in the Mucker series. Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind and has only meager ethics - never giving evidence against a friend or leaving someone behind. He...
“The Return of the Mucker“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.This is a second book in the Mucker series. Billy returns to his old Chicago haunts intending to clear his name. His time with Barbara imbued him with faith in the law and justice. However, he soon realizes that the system is more interested in finding someone guilty than in finding the guilty party. Awaiting the v...
“The Girl from Hollywood“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.The story alternates between the all-American Pennington family on their remote California ranch and a young Hollywood actress.The Penningtons have a beautiful estate, and affectionate relationships with their children, Custer and Eva. Custer has had an "understanding" with neighbor and childhood friend Grace Evans for a...
“The Lost Continent“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.In 2137, Pan-American Navy Lieutenant Jefferson Turck is commander of the aero-submarine Coldwater, tasked with patrolling the 30th meridian from Iceland to the Azores. Disaster strikes when the vessel's anti-gravitation screens fail, dooming it to wallow upon the surface of the ocean, and the engines fail, leaving it adrift....
“The Mad King“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.Set in the fictional European kingdom of Lutha, the protagonist is a young American named Barney Custer, of Beatrice, Nebraska, who is the son of an American farmer and a runaway Luthan princess, Victoria Rubinroth. Unaware of his royal blood, much less that he is a dead ringer for his relative Leopold, the current king of Lutha, B...
“The Oakdale Affair“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.This is the third book in the Mucker series.In the home of Jonas Prim, president of an Oakdale bank, a thief makes off with a servant's clothing and valuables belonging to Prim's daughter Abigail. Abigail is thought to be absent visiting Sam Benham, whom her parents want her to marry. When the Prims discover the theft and lea...
“The Efficiency Expert“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.One of a small number of Burroughs' novels set in contemporary America as opposed to a fantasy universe, The Efficiency Expert follows the adventures of Jimmy Torrance as he attempts to make a career for himself in 1921 Chicago. The book is remarkable for the criminal livelihoods of the hero's friends. It was also admitted...
“The Cave Girl“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.Blueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is swept overboard during a South Seas voyage for his lifelong ill health. He finds himself on a jungle island. His bookish education has not prepared him to cope with these surroundings, and he is a coward. He is terrified when he encounters primitive, violent men, ape-like throwba...
“The Girl from Farris's“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.„JUST what Mr. Doarty was doing in the alley back of Farris’s at two of a chill spring morning would have puzzled those citizens of Chicago who knew Mr. Doarty best.To a casual observer it might have appeared that Mr. Doarty was doing nothing more remarkable than leaning against a telephone pole, which in itself might hav...
“The People That Time Forgot“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
The People That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel, the second of his Caspak trilogy. The trilogy includes “The Land That Time Forgot”, “The People That Time Forgot” and “Out of Time's Abyss”.
“Out of Time's Abyss“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
Out of Time's Abyss is a fantasy novel, the third of his Caspak trilogy. The trilogy includes “The Land That Time Forgot”, “The People That Time Forgot” and “Out of Time's Abyss”.
“The Land That Time Forgot“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.The Land That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel, the first of his Caspak trilogy. The trilogy includes “The Land That Time Forgot”, “The People That Time Forgot” and “Out of Time's Abyss”.
