„Próbom” Michela de Montaigne’a przypisuje się stworzenie nowego gatunku literackiego – eseju. Zebranie w tomie teksty poruszają zróżnicowaną tematykę, odznaczają się bardzo subiektywnym spojrzeniem. Montaigne sporo miejsca poświęca sobie, analizując różnorodne aspekty swojego życia: myśli, uczucia, podświadomość. Wykazuje przy tym erudycyjne obycie, które nadaje „Próbom” wyjątkowego charakteru.
Powieść przygodowa, będąca pierwszą częścią tzw. dużej trylogii Juliusza Verne’a. W trakcie rejsu jachtu „Dunscan”, który należy do lorda Glenarvane’a, zostaje złowiony rekin. Podczas patroszenia drapieżnika załoga statku odnajduje list w butelce. Jego treścią jest apel o pomoc. Autorem listu jest kapitan Grant, którego statek zaginął dwa lata wcześniej. Rozpoczynają się poszukiwania...
An ironic and at the same time sad story about the desecration of the ideas of socialism by tyrants, is told by the author in the form of a fairy tale, where the animals of an ordinary British farm act as people. Every animal and every bird is a socio-political type. The events in the book will remind the reader of the history of the Soviet state. Here we see events starting from the revolution and ending with the final collapse of all the hopes of the inhabitants of the cour...
„Romeo i Julia” to dramat angielskiego pisarza Williama Szekspira, napisany we wczesnym stadium jego kariery, a wydany w 1597 r. Historia dzieje się w Weronie i Mantui. Członkowie dwóch zwaśnionych rodzin, zakochują się w sobie. Pewnego dnia Romeo Montecchi dowiaduje się o balu w domu rodziny Capuletich, gdzie ma pojawić się jego wybranka. Udaje się tam wraz z grupą przyjaciół i poznaje Julię. Wkrótce dochodzi do pierwszych pocałunków tych dwojga. Pod osłoną nocy Romeo udaj...
Tom „Baśnie i bajki europejskie” zawiera zbiór popularnych historii, opowiadanych dzieciom w całej Europie. W książeczce można znaleźć zarówno baśnie i bajki niemieckie Jakuba i Wilhelma Grimmów („Kopciuszek”, „Czerwony Kapturek”, „Śnieżka”), duńskie Jana Christiana Andersena („Dziewczynka z zapałkami”, „Księżniczka na ziarnku grochu”, „Królowa śniegu”) czy rosyjskie Aleksandra Puszkina („Baśń o królu Sałtanie”, „Złota rybka”), jak i tradycyjne polskie bajki o Panu Twardows...
Despite being a horror story about necromancers, mutated creatures and summoning rituals, The Case of Dexter Ward is at its heart a cautionary tale about knowledge. As the story progresses, the full extent of Charles Dexter Ward’s madness is slowly revealed until the evil of the past seems ready to burst into the present with horrific consequences. Charles Dexter Ward is the scion of a well established Providence family who begins investigating esoteric matters and discover...
Akcja powieści toczy się w światku żydowskich handlarzy i bankierów. Z kasy banku dzielnicy Nalewki znika duża suma. Kasjer odpowiedzialny za bezpieczeństwo gotówki leży martwy w swoim mieszkaniu. Podejrzenia padają na młodego pracownika banku. Co tak naprawdę wydarzyło się na Nalewkach? Zagadkę zamierza rozwiązać wywiadowca policyjny Fryga. Powieść kryminalna ukazująca klimat Warszawy za czasów carskiej okupacji.
One of the only L.M. Montgomery books featuring an older heroine, „The Blue Castle” is widely hailed as a reader favorite and is filled with humor and romance. Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love. She lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. One day, an unexpected medical diagnosis changes everything for Valancy and, for the first time in her dull grey life, she rebels. From then on things begin to change. Rebelling against he...
„Narkotyki”, czyli „Nikotyna, alkohol, kokaina, peyotl, morfina, eter + appendix” to publicystyczny utwór Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza, w których wyraża on swoje poglądy na temat zażywania narkotyków oraz stanów, które za ich sprawą można osiągnąć. Choć autor zastrzega się, że pisze całkiem poważnie, trudno nie odnieść wrażenia, że utwór głęboko przesiąknięty jest ironią.
Czy zdarzyło się Wam kiedyś spełnić swoje największe marzenie? Fantastyczne uczucie, prawda? Ale co, jeśli zorientujecie się niespodziewanie, że to było zupełnie inne marzenie? Albo że nie to marzenie było dla Was najważniejsze? Marzenia z terminem ważności to opowieść o pogoni za marzeniami. O ich spełnianiu, o odwadze i jej braku, a także, co się dzieje, gdy zapominamy o tym, co dla nas jest najważniejsze i zaczynamy spełniać cudze marzenia. A wszystko opowiedziane pr...
There has never been a city that would be so inimitable. Most trains, too, completely ignore its existence and pass through it on the way to more useful stops. The story was supposed to strengthen many people during the First World War. The book is full of sentimentalism, but it describes well the different scenes of everyday life.
„Young Dr. Kildare” is the first in a popular series of eight novels by writer Max Brand, beginning in 1940 and finishing in 1943. Brand this time has young Dr. Kildare take on a special case to force his beloved Gillespie to take a rest from the research job which is draining him. The case involves a fear neurosis in the daughter of a multimillionaire, and Kildaire uses unorthodox means to get to the bottom of it. He has an ingenious way of bringing her out of darkness, and ...
Twelve-year-old Tommy is left to fend for himself. Thanks to endurance, ingenuity and a wonderful union with the grizzly bear, whose mother he helped, the boy survives. When Tommy gets older, he and the bear set off for the valley, where they prevent the killing of an indestructible horse. The horse, bear and Tommy become legend – and the expedition is about to capture or kill Tommy.
Loafer was a big dog who looked like a buffalo wolf; he was gray against one background and pale yellow against another; like a buffalo wolf, he had a great leonine body covered with a loose hide which humped in a wave above his shoulders at every lurch of his gallop. Strangers always said „Wolf! „ when they saw him, and no one said „Good dog! „ except his master.
The Montana Kid, „El Keed” south of the border, slips a marriage noose to join Mateo Rubriz, prince of Mexican outlaws, in a wild cross-border raid. The target: a gold and emerald crown stolen by the governor of Duraya from the church under his protection. In Duraya, Montana and Rubriz have no problem getting into the governor’s fort, even finding the crown. It’s the getting out that nearly undoes them!
Jimmy Kildare used to get away from the hospital every afternoon and go over to Tom McGuire’s saloon on the avenue. He always drank two beers. An interne in the accident room has to have the brains in his fingertips in good order all day long, but two beers don’t get very far between a man and himself if he has a bit of head on his shoulders, and Jimmy Kildare had.
„Lindley Parker Sessions, commandant of the Yard, stood with his hand on his hips and looked up. There is a saying that even the Devil would make a sailor if he could only learn to look up. However, the Rear Admiral was not staring at the leech of a sail; he was watching the ironworkers as they ran up a new portion of the ways. Welders did most of the construction in the Yard, but for lack of them at this point, Lieutenant Commander Henry Jervis, who supplied the engineering ...
In the crowded waiting room of Dr. Gillespie there were people of ten nations of more than ten degrees, from the old pugilist with rheumatism in his broken hands to the Indian mystic whose eyes already were forgetting this world; but little Florrie Adams took precedence over all of these. Her mother lagged breathless, a step behind, as Florrie was led quickly on by a nurse so pretty that the little girl had to keep looking up at that freshness and that bloom; and so her stumb...
When young doctor James Kildare and his fiancée, nurse Mary Lamont, make plans for their wedding day, brother Mary Douglas arrives at her. Douglas asks Kildare to arrange an appointment with a wealthy Mr. Chandler, whose daughter Kildare rescued at Young Doctor Kildare to ask for a fund to create three subsidized trading schools to train unskilled workers. Kildare does not want to impose Chandler for ethical reasons, but is concerned that Doug, who hears nonexistent sounds, m...
After graduating from medical school, Dr. James Kildar returns to his small hometown where his proud parents Stephen and Martha Kildar and childhood friend Alice Raymond expect him to join his father in his medical practice. However, he is more ambitious, although he is not sure what he wants to do. He recruited as an intern at New York Hospital.
