Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a story of selfishness, greed, and hypocrisy. The central character is old Martin Chuzzlewit, whose selfishness and cynicism, combined with his great wealth, cause him to mistrust everyone around him. Also a major character in the story is his relative, Mr. Pecksniff, an accomplished hypocrite, who covers his avarice with a mask of smooth piety and humility. Martin Chuzzlewit is a picaresque novel, which follows the genre convention o...
The young educated gentleman Guy Mannering, after leaving Oxford, is travelling alone through some of the wilder parts of Scotland. After losing his way at nightfall, he is directed to Ellangowan, the home of Mr Godfrey Bertram at the time of the birth of Henry Bertram. By request of the father of a newborn baby, Guy made a horoscope in which the child was predetermined the ordeals from the fifth to the twenty-first years of life. The most incredible adventures are waiting ...
The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. When you dive into Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, you have to be ready to learn more about the unadorned, ungilded reality of 19th century „touring” than you might think you want to learn. This is a tough, literary journey. It was tough for Twain and his fellow „pilgrims”, both religious and otherwise. They set out, on a June day in 1867, to visit ...
The protagonist in Rob Roy is Francis Osbaldistone not the title character! Francis a spoiled son of a rich London businessman,who would rather write poetry than work for his father. Sent to his uncle’s estate as punishment in northern England, bordering simmering Scotland. He soon becomes involved in a feud with his cousin Rashleigh (youngest and smartest of six brothers!). A woman Diana is the main reason.This being 1715 a revolt soon brakes out, Rashleigh steals importan...
Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby’s father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. Nicholas then has to protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking advantage of his sister Kate, and later his sweetheart, Madeline Bray, wh...
This novel demonstrates Dickens experimenting with building his own voice. The Pickwick Papers is a series of linear adventures, unlike the convoluted plots of Dickens’s later novels. In other words, we follow our heroes from one stop to the next and meet interesting characters, rather than unraveling a mystery. The novel is a late example of the picaresque, a style of story in which we follow a rough, but still likable, hero through his adventures.The Pickwick Club sends M...
The tongues of London high society gossips begin to wag when John Harmon --a young man whose inheritance depended on his marrying a woman he had never met-- is found dead in the River Thames. The fortune passes into the hands of the working-class Boffins, who take into their new home both Bella Wilfer (Harmon’s would-be bride), and a mysterious secretary known as Rokesmith. Meanwhile, Lizzie Hexam, the daughter of the boatman suspected of Harmon’s murder, is pursued by two ...
Роман „Мастер и Маргарита” без преувеличения является великим литературным творением XX века. Пик творчества Михаила Булгакова, роман, над которым он работал до последнего дня своей жизни, а, умирая, сказал: „Может это и правильно... Что я мог написать после „Мастера”? „. В «Мастере и Маргарите» есть все: веселое озорство и щемящая печаль, романтическая любовь и колдовское наваждение, магическая тайна и безрассудная игра с нечистой силой. Фантастический и в тоже время реали...
Роман «Обломов» Гончарова входит в трилогию с двумя другими произведениями Гончарова – «Обрыв» и «Обыкновенная история». В романе автор выводит важную для того время проблему российского общества – «обломовщину», сделав имя главного героя Ильи Обломова нарицательным. Что такое «обломовщина»? Это определенный образ жизни, пассивная жизненная позиция, ничегонеделание, каждодневное лежание на диване, апатия.. Эта проблема актуальна и в нынешнее время. Человек, страдающий облом...
Powieść przygodowa Karola Maya rozgrywa się na Dzikim Zachodzie, wśród plemion indiańskich Komanczów i Apaczów. Tytułowy Czarny Mustang to podstępny wódz Komanczów, który zamierza zaatakować osadę robotników kolejowych. Na drodze realizacji jego planów stają Winnetou i Old Shatterhand. Z pomocą przyjaciół, w szalonym tempie zawalczą o życie wielu niewinnych ludzi.
Karol May rzadko zabiera czytelników do Chin, więc tym bardziej warto skorzystać z nadarzającej się okazji i odwiedzić z grupą podróżników ten niezwykły kraj. Emocji i ekscytujących przygód jak zwykle nie zabraknie, a dodatkową atrakcją będzie specyficzna sceneria Państwa Środka. Wraz z podróżnikami zanurzymy się w chińskiej kulturze i religii oraz zachwycimy chińskimi krajobrazami.
Czy Indianie obchodzą święta Bożego Narodzenia? Pewnie zwykle nie, ale jeśli mają europejskiego przyjaciela w osobie Old Shatterhanda, mogą spotkać się z tą piękną tradycją. Powieść rozpoczyna się w czasie Bożego Narodzenia, jeszcze w Europie, w młodości Old Shatterhanda. Po przybyciu na Dziki Zachód Old Shatterhand przywozi ze sobą swoją kulturę i kolejne święta obchodzi wśród Indian na Dzikim Zachodzie.
This is one of the most uplifting of Dickens’s novels. This book is certainly different from all the other books by Charles Dickens as it has no particular central character. Well all the other novels by Dickens have a strong connection with London but this story depicts Coketown and Coketown only, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. Hard Times is a very tragic and wonderfully described story of human oppression. Dickens’s brilliant use of characterization can...
Written two years before Jane Eyre, The Professor was Charlotte Bronte’s first novel and was based on her experiences in Brussels. The story is one of love and doubt, as the hero, William Crimsworth, seeks his fortune as a teacher in Brussels and finds his love for the good Anglo-Swiss girl, Frances Henri, severely tested by the sensuously beguiling and manipulative headmistress, Zoroaïde Reuter. On the other hand, the social protest sounded distinctly in this novel that is...
Fenimore Cooper is known for everyone who were interested in Indians and their life in childhood. Almost everyone knows the name of Cooper’s favorite hero, wandering from novel to novel – Natanael, Bampo. The hero of „The Last of the Mohicans” is Hawkeye. The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans – Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye – live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters of a British ...
Powieść fantastyczna dla najmłodszych. Losy władców dwóch państw – Pawlagonii i Krymtatarii. Książę Lulejko – mimo iż powinien zasiadać na tronie – wiedzie beztroski żywot. Jest narzeczonym pięknej Angeliki, córki uzurpatora. O względy dziewczyny walczy też przystojny książę Bulbo. Miłość, magia i przygoda.
The Deerslayer is an exciting story about the adventures of the woodsman known as Deerslayer and his Delaware Indian friend, Chingachgook. The novel presents the violence and unpredictability of life in a place where only a few white hunters and hunting parties of Indians have ever set foot. The interface between the wilderness and civilization, the pristine life of nature and the impact being made on it by human beings, makes this a fascinating story about a clash of value...
”Shirley”, the second published novel by Charlotte Bronte, was released in 1849 amongst high anticipations by readers and critics after super success of „Jane Eyre”. Probably, it is the most „suspenseful” novel by Charlotte Bronte. The novel delicately combines classic Gothic motives – motives, relatively speaking, are classically the „detective”. However, under the brilliant pen of Bronte, enthralling story becomes just a brilliant frame for the delicate, perfectly adjuste...
Villette is Charlotte Bronte’s last novel, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. However, the novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as in its acute tracing of Lucy’s psychology, particularly Bronte’s use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her protagonist is suffering internall...
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. Mr. Dombey, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florence. The firm is nearly ruined by a trusted employee named Carker who also runs away with...
Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, is the story of Amy Dorrit, a kind and compassionate young woman who is born impoverished and becomes wealthy, but retains her goodness and strength of character throughout. Little Dorrit is a novel of family loyalty. The story of a girl who is taking care of a large family and her love for the rich young man, and at the same time sarcastic description of English society – the debtors ’ prison of the Marshalsea, financial practice and corr...
In the third installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper takes his main character, here called the Pathfinder (Natty Bumppo) and examines his role as an explorer for British/Colonial forces in the forests and islands around the Great Lakes. The story is a classic historical adventure/romance and Bumppo falls in love, for the first and only time in the five novels, only to see his choice fall in love with another man – a younger man and good friend of Natty’s. The Pathf...
Money often changes people’s lives. If you inherited a substantial amount of money would it change yours? Would you work or quit your job? Would you feel entitled to various privileges because of your wealth? Would you behave differently? These and other issues are the subject of the English novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Bleak House, like many of Dickens’ writings, is about various social issues. Bleak House is a satirical story about Dickens’ view of the British ju...
Wciągająca historia opisana przez mistrza młodzieżowej literatury przygodowej Karola Maya, należąca do sagi rodu Rodrigandów. Akcja ulokowana jest w Ameryce. Wyobraźnię rozpala ukryty w górskich jaskiniach skarb, wokół którego narastają intrygi, a bohaterowie rywalizują, stosując nie zawsze czyste metody. Jak potoczą się losy skarbu i komu będzie pisane zwycięstwo?
