"Sonety Erotyczne" autorstwa Adama Mickiewicza są zwane również miłosnymi lub odeskimi. Powstały w latach 1825-26. Mickiewicz opracował na nowo i włączył do cyklu kilka wcześniejszych utworów, napisanych jeszcze w Wilnie i Kownie, a odzwierciedlających uczucia poety do Maryli, ukrytej pod imieniem Laury. Inspiracją dla pozostałych były różne odeskie przygody miłosne Mickiewicza.
"Sonety krymskie" to cykl 18 sonetów Adama Mickiewicza, stanowiących opis podróży poety na Półwysep Krymski latem i jesienią 1825. Utwory stanowią pierwszy cykl sonetów w literaturze polskiej, a także zapoczątkowały „sonetomanię” wśród pisarzy epok romantyzmu i Młodej Polski, który naśladowali oraz nawiązywali do dzieła Mickiewicza.
"Grażyna" to klasycystyczny poemat epicki Adama Mickiewicza, często określany również jako powieść poetycka.Pod względem tematyki oraz realiów historycznych "Grażyna" jest pokrewna wydanemu w pięć lat później "Konradowi Wallenrodowi" − oparta jest na motywie zaczerpniętym z Iliady Homera: pierwowzorem zagniewanego Litawora jest Achilles, zaś Grażyny – Patroklos. Tematem dzieła jest waleczny czyn „niewiasty z wdzięków, a bohatera z ducha”, dokonany w imię wyższości racji ogóln...
"Księgi narodu polskiego i pielgrzymstwa polskiego" to utwór poetycki, broszura publicystyczna o charakterze politycznym napisana przez Adama Mickiewicza i wydana w grudniu 1832 roku w Paryżu. Utwór powstał w najbardziej płodnym literacko okresie życia Mickiewicza, krótko po upadku powstania listopadowego, tuż po napisaniu Dziadów części III, a bezpośrednio przed powstaniem Pana Tadeusza.
"Ballady i romanse" to zbiór ballad Adama Mickiewicza, wydany w 1822 w Wilnie jako część pierwszego tomu Poezyj. Uważany jest za początek rozwoju gatunku ballady w literaturze polskiej oraz za manifest polskiego romantyzmu. Jednocześnie Ballady i romanse pozostają w związku z gatunkami literackimi poprzedniego okresu, zwłaszcza z dumą, dumką i sielanką.
Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester. In its internalisation of the action—the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry - Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private con...
The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel's popularity led to Shirley's becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel, Shirley was an uncommon – but distinctly male – name and would have been an unusual name for a woman.
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Set six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The mirror which inspired Carroll remains displayed in Charlt...
Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.
The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth, and is a first-person narrative from his perspective. It describes his maturation, his career as a teacher in Brussels, and his personal relationships.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell". She died the following year, aged 30. Although Wuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature, contemporary reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals of the day regarding religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality....
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...
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...
"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...
"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1917 by Franz Kafka.The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom (stablehand) in a pig shed.
