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Tom zawiera pięć najpiękniejszych powieści Josepha Conrada, angielskiego pisarza i publicysty polskiego pochodzenia. Problematykę jego utworów prozatorskich można określić jako psychologiczną. Conrad stawia rozmaite pytania moralne. Jakie są granice odpowiedzialności człowieka w obliczu zagrożenia przychodzącego z zewnątrz? Jakim próbom charakteru jest w stanie sprostać człowiek? Jakie jest znaczenie ludzkiej solidarności? Akcja wielu utworów powieściowych autora rozgrywa s...

Cykl powieściowy Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego, jednego z najwybitniejszych polskich twórców prozy historycznej. W „Hrabinie Cosel” autor przedstawia tragiczne losy jednej z najsłynniejszych królewskich metres, Anny Cosel, kochanki Augusta II Mocnego. Powieść „Brühl” przedstawia postać Henryka von Brühla, doradcy i faworyta króla Augusta III. Powieść „Z siedmioletniej wojny”, która jest ostatnią częścią tzw. trylogii saskiej, to utwór nawiązujący do poczytnych zachodnioeuro...

Zbiór sześciu najpopularniejszych powieści historycznych Wacława Gąsiorowskiego, polskiego powieściopisarza, dziennikarza i publicysty, a także scenarzysty. Utwory te nawiązują przede wszystkim do epopei napoleońskiej i powstania listopadowego. Autor opisuje w nich wiele autentycznych postaci z tamtych czasów. Multibook zawiera następujące powieści: "Pigularz" "Huragan" "Rok 1809 Powieść historyczna z epoki napoleońskiej" "Pani Walewska Powieść historyczna z epok...

Un livre qui coupe le souffle... Un enfant est trouvé sur une plage anglaise. Il s’appelle Gwynplaine. Il et un bébé (dont la mère morte de froid) se mènent jusqu’à un bateleur qui voit que Gwynplaine a été mutilé, atrocement défiguré. Pour les faire vivre, l’homme montera un spectacle mettant en scène l’orphelin. L’enfant est alors connu sous le nom de L’Homme qui Rit.... l’histoire du monstre avec un beaux coeur, comme dans Notre-Dame de Paris.

The story of a love triangle from the Middle Ages. The young girl falls in love with the captain of the guard, who once saved her. But an aged priest falls in love with her. Both feelings are perverted, the priest pursues the girl, rolls his life downhill for the sake of „love.” The feeling of his religiosity is even more distorted. The girl is madly in love, she is also ready to give everything and die for the sake of a man who is absolutely indifferent to him and doesn’t ...

Victor Hugo wrote many of his works while in exile, which lasted 19 years. He spent most of this exile on the English islands. The story begins with the description of the islands... Letyerri has two loves in life – his ship Durand and his niece Deryushetta. Letyerri, due to the machinations of his companion Kleben, is losing the ship. The ship is destroyed, but the steam engine itself is intact. Deryushetta’s hand is promised to someone who will be able to return him an ex...

The historical novel of the famous and my beloved French writer, a fiery patriot of his homeland, a convinced democrat and great humanist. Hugo, in his novel, imbued with the spirit of freedom and humanity, shows the greatness of the revolutionary coup of the end of the 18th century, the fearlessness and heroism of the French revolutionary people, who staunchly defended their homeland from counter-revolutionary rebels and from foreign interventionists. Glorifying the courag...

This book gives a lot of interesting info about Napoleon the little. In this pamphlet, Hugo exposes the usurper, who declared himself emperor. The great writer stigmatizes the Napoleonic government of the Second Empire for despotism and terror, for the destruction of the last democratic freedoms. Hugo is outraged by the venality of the clergy, who recognized the „crook”.

In the collection „New Arabian Nights”, the descriptions of the adventures of the fantastic prince of Bohemia are replaced by the mysterious atmosphere of the „Pavilion on the Hill”, vivid pictures of medieval France give way to the real facts of the series of villainous murders that formed the basis of the horror story „The Thief of Corpses”. And, as always with Stevenson, the reader will be pleased with a tense entertaining plot, picturesque figurativeness of speech, and ...

Published in 1896 by a Canadian author of juvenile fiction James MacDonald Oxley (1855-1907), „The Boy Tramps Or, Across Canada” features adventures across Canada. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Oxley J. MacDonald attended Dalhousie University and Harvard. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1878. He ended up working for the Sun Life Assurance Company and spent the remainder of his life working for them in Toronto. He started writing in 1889 and wrote 31 books for ...

Joseph Balsamo, a skilled doctor, sorcerer, great master of the Masonic Order, whose network of intrigues includes many influential figures of the highest society of European countries. Bazzamo could command the fate of other people, was a magician, stood at the head of the mysterious society that rules the world – Massonov. Everything is subject to him: time, people, events, except for one – his beloved woman, the beautiful Lorenza.

This story is not as simple as it seems. It has two plans. The first is adventure literature, for which the first two parts of the book are responsible in these two books, he actually describes adventures, and it is these two journeys that are adapted for children. Whereas in the adult version all four journeys and in each of these stories we observe how Swift uses his pamphletist gift and, using the grotesque, satire and hyperbole, rigidly ridicules the morals and attitude...

It was interesting how Twain switched between stories. For example, a horse started a story from a first-person perspective. At first, people told, then letters told about past events, often to characters who do not participate in the events of history, and, finally, animals told other animals about the dialogue.

The name of Joan of Arc became a legend: an illiterate village girl, standing at the head of the French army, delivered her country from English rule and enthroned the king, who later betrayed her. In the novel by Mark Twain, the story of Jeanne – her childhood, her victories and death – is presented to the reader on behalf of her friend and secretary. This is a story about a great and noble soul, about a disinterested female heart that can withstand any load, even beyond t...

The town of Gedliberg boasted of the purity of its morals and virtuous humility. But once the city fathers had the opportunity to pass a test for these qualities. Some eccentric bequeathed a huge amount of money to his benefactor from Gedliberg, whose name does not remember. It remains only to go and impersonate the heir...

This is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. His central intrigue revolves around two boys – one born into slavery, with 1/32 black pedigree; on the other, white, born to be the master of the house. Two boys who look the same turn on in infancy. Each grows into a different social role.

This short story is an excellent representative of the Victorian era Gothic prose. Bright, capacious, in the details and most importantly interesting. An elderly governess decided to share a scary story from her past by the fireplace. When the woman was still young, she went to help her aunt for an ancient old woman who had survived from her mind. It was a little uneasy when Madame Crowley got up from her bed in a crazy outfit, in high heels, with long nails and false eyebr...

”The Tenants of Malory” is a sensational novel about two warring families, Verney and Fanshaw, and their mixed relationship. Arthur, the nephew of Lord Verney, cannot choose between his feelings for Margaret Fanshaw and in his favor. Through this novel, the author asks the question – How many moral principles are people willing to sacrifice for a brief sense of superiority? It took a few seconds to give Tom the opportunity to explain the scene, the actor and his own resting...

There are two vampires in this story: the traditional bloodsucker Carmilla and the information vampire Laura. Ever since reading Pride and prejudice, she has suspected that a delicate „English rose” is a threat to others. A married-up girl living in the wilderness will complicate the life of anyone, whether you are at least a rich bachelor, even an ancient vampire. Information hunger pushes to terrible crimes. Dying from boredom, the girl will turn inside out any guest for ...

Rudyard Kipling wrote the story of the New Army or Kitchener’s Army about the new battalions created for the Great War. Kipling wrote several stories about the war and describes the routine in which recruits, officers, and other ranks passed before they were sent to battle fronts. Fans of Kipling’s writings will love this brief treatise on citizen soldiers in England.

There are several patriotic stories of the Boer War period. Among Kipling’s most successful stories were those whose main characters were three rank and file in the Indian army, and in this collection there are three stories that try to repeat this formula with the navy. The most interesting are the stories that examine some of the most significant new technologies of the time – automobiles, radio, and electricity.

„Lost Illusions” is a serial novel, written by the French writer, Honoré de Balzac, between 1837 and 1843. It consists of: „Two Poets”, „A Distinguished Provincial at Paris”, „Eve and David”, starting in provincial France, thereafter moving to Paris, and finally returning to the provinces. The story of Lucien Chardon, a young poet from Angouleme who tries desperately to make a name for himself in Paris, is a brilliantly realistic and boldly satirical portrait of provincial ...

Awakening is one of the greatest works in American literature. Brilliant beauty Edna Pontellier, together with her husband and two wonderful kids, spend the summer in the resort town of Grand Isle. Edna’s unexpected meeting with Robert, a charming young man, suddenly changes the calm and measured life of a woman. Awakening was recognized only many years later.

„Great Expectations” is one of the most famous and much-loved novels by the great master of Victorian prose, Charles Dickens, that has become one of English languages greatest and most recognized stories. Here Dickens tells the story of the growth and development of young Philip Pirrip („Pip”) who begins his life as an orphan, neglected and abused, by his sister. Through a series of chance encounters, Pip rises above his disadvantaged beginnings to become a gentleman in eve...