Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary non...
Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of manners, education, marriage and money in the British Regency. Pride and Prejudice retains the fascination of modern readers...
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the cover page where the author's name might have been.It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, both of age to marry.The novel follows the young women to their new home with their widowed mother, a meagre cottage on the property of a distant relative, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. The novel is ...
Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814. The novel tells the story of Fanny Price starting when her overburdened family sends her at age 10 to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle, through to her marriage. Mansfield Park is perhaps Austen's most controversial novel due to its brief mention of the British slave trade, and the fact that Fanny's uncle and benefactor, Sir Thomas, owns a plantation in the We...
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the first sen...
Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, in 1803, but it wasn't until after her death in 1817 that it was published, along with her other novel Persuasion. The novel is a satire of the Gothic novels popular at the time of its first writing in 1798–99. This "coming of age," story revolves around the main character, Catherine, a young and naïve "heroine," who entertains us on her journey of self-knowledge as she gain...
Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death.The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt, at the same time as the wars come to an end, putting sailors on shore. They rent their home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife’s brother, Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth, had been engaged to Anne in 1806, and now ...
Sanditon And Other Miscellanea contains:Plan of a NovelSanditonThe WatsonsCancelled Chapter of "Persuasion"Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the...
„Ziemia obiecana” to słynna powieść Władysława Reymonta. Tematem powieści jest mechanizm „robienia pieniędzy” przez jej trzech bohaterów, z których jeden jest Polakiem (Karol Borowiecki), drugi Niemcem (Max Baum), a trzeci Żydem (Moryc Welt). Różnice pochodzenia i obyczajów nie dzielą ich, wręcz przeciwnie – wykorzystują je dla skutecznego działania i wygrywania z konkurencją.
"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka.The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror."In the Penal Colony" describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin before l...
"Andersen’s Fairy Tales" is a compilation of 12 magnificent fairy tales created by Hans Christian Andersen.
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"The Metamorphosis" is a masterpiece by Franz Kafka."One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in compar...
Jack Calder właśnie powrócił ze szkoły do rodzinnego domu w nadmorskiej miejscowości Berwick. Pewnego dnia mężczyzna znajduje na plaży rozbitka, który ma ze sobą skrzynkę pełną złotych monet. Nie zważając na przestrogi swojego przyjaciela Jima, Jack oferuje przybyszowi gościnę. Gość szybko zaskarbia sobie sympatię otoczenia, ale roztacza też wokół siebie aurę tajemniczości.
„Powiastki filozoficzne” to zbiór wybitnych filozoficznych powiastek autorstwa Voltaire’a.Spis treści:„KANDYD CZYLI OPTYMIZM”„ZADIG czyli LOS”„TAK TOCZY SIĘ ŚWIATEK…”„HISTORYA DOBREGO BRAMINA.”„MIKROMEGAS.”„MEMNON CZYLI MĄDROŚĆ LUDZKA.”„HISTORYA PODRÓŻY SKARMENTADA.”„BIAŁE I CZARNE.”„JEANNOT I COLIN.”„PROSTACZEK.”„CZŁOWIEK O CZTERDZIESTU TALARACH.”„BIAŁY BYK.”„USZY HRABIEGO CHESTERFIELD I KAPELAN GUDMAN”...
