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The Brothers Karamazov – ebook
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. Set in 19th-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into questions of God, free will, and morality. It is a theological drama dealing...Data dostępności:
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Guerre et Paix – ebook
Léon Tolstoï
Ce livre appartient a la catégorie de l’éternel, car il traite de tout, de la vie et de la mort, de l’amour et de l’honneur, du courage et de l’héroisme, de la gloire et de l’héroisme, de la guerre et de la paix. Le roman le plus célebre au monde d’un écrivain de génie pour le troisieme siecle a obligé les lecteurs a faire preuve d’empathie pour les héros. Un roman sur l’âme russe, sur le mode de vie...Data dostępności:
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The Descent of Man and Other Stories – ebook
Edith Wharton
„The Descent of Man and Other Stories” is the third collection of ten short fiction from Edith Wharton, first published in 1904. It includes the title piece „Descent of Man,” as well as „The Other Two,” „Expiation,” „The Lady’s Maid’s Bell,” „The Mission of Jane,” „The Reckoning,” „The Letter,” „The Dilettante,” „The Quicksand,” and „A Venetian Night’s Entertainment”. Wharton dissecting some of the...Data dostępności:
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The Bronze Hand – ebook
Carolyn Wells
The steamship Pinnacle leaves New York on its way to Liverpool. Suspicions are raised and cast when a first class passenger, a shrewd oil man, is murdered, his head battered in by blows of the sinister bronze hand, modeled from Rodin’s original, which the victim had prized as his mascot. The apparent motive is theft of jewelry for his new wife, whom no one can track down, not even knowing if the marriage...Data dostępności:
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Modernizmy Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej – ebook
Ewa Paczoska Izabela Poniatowska
Zebrane w tomie artykuły ukazują z rozmaitych perspektyw doświadczenie nowoczesności zapisane w kulturze i literaturze Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Autorzy prezentują kształtowanie się modernistycznej „wspólnoty pytań” w naszym regionie, podejmują próbę redefinicji europejskich miejsc „centralnych” i „peryferii”, omawiają też takie zjawiska jak literatura popularna i film czy miejsce Lwowa w kulturze...Data dostępności:
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Prince Zaleski – ebook
M.P. Shiel
„Prince Zaleski” (1895) represents Shiel’s contribution to the mystery genre, and is his answer to Sherlock Holmes. This is a set of three short detective mysteries– but the stories are clever and even wonderfully creepy at times – which can only be solved by Prince Zaleski the world’s greatest historian! It includes the following mysteries: „The Race of Orven”, „The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks”,...Data dostępności:
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The Passenger from Calais – ebook
Arthur Griffiths
Thrilling detective novel taking place in the Engadine Express from Calais to Lucerne. It is a well-planned, logical detective story of the better sort, free from cheap sensationalism and improbability, developing surely and steadily by means of exciting situations to an unforeseen and satisfactory ending. A mysterious woman, followed by two detectives, shows up at the last minute to book a compartment...Data dostępności:
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Initials Only – ebook
Anna Katharine Green
A detective story first published in 1911, it is one of the book of Ebenezer Gryce series, „Initials Only” deals with the case of beautiful young heiress Edith Challoner. She is murdered in the writing room of a luxury hotel while nobody is near her, and no shot is heard and no bullet found in the deadly wound. She is seemingly stabbed to death, yet no one was seen near her. How then was she killed?...Data dostępności:
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The Frontier – ebook
Maurice Leblanc
If you think Maurice Leblanc’s literary output begins and ends with his series of mysteries featuring criminal mastermind Arsene Lupin, check out this tense thriller set in the years leading up to World War I. „The Frontier” is a classic war story and is that old idea of the conflict between the old and the new, between fathers and sons, and between the intense convictions of yesterday and tomorrow....Data dostępności:
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As a Man Lives – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Positively every one, with two unimportant exceptions, had called upon us. The Countess had driven over from Sysington Hall, twelve miles away, with two anamic-looking daughters, who had gushed over our late roses and the cedar trees which shaded the lawn. The Holgates of Holgate Brand and Lady Naselton of Naselton had presented themselves on the same afternoon. Many others had come in their train,...Data dostępności:
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