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Between the Acts – ebook
Virginia Woolf
The author describes us only one day. One summer day of 1939. England. Between the Acts – plays devoted to the history of England and presented on the stage of the amateur theater, a drama of misunderstanding and alienation in real life of the main characters of the novel is played. Between acts, the ideals and hopes of people standing on the threshold of World War II are crumbling, the whole world...Data dostępności:
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The Storm – ebook
Max Brand
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.Data dostępności:
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The Fall of the House of Usher – audiobook
Edgar Allan Poe
In the haunting tale of 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' Edgar Allan Poe masterfully weaves a narrative rife with melancholy, dread, and the supernatural. When the unnamed narrator arrives at the crumbling mansion of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, he is plunged into a world of decay and madness. As the boundaries between reality and nightmare blur, the house itself becomes an echoing character,...Data dostępności:
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The Death Star – ebook
T.C. Bridges
This old science fiction novel, Bridges, describes the Earth, largely devastated and devastated by terrible unrest in the solar system. The story tells about the adventures of seven people sailing in a wonderful airship of the future. There is a mortal battle between the two scientists: one is trying to build a new and better world on the ruins of the old, the other is a villain fighting to create...Data dostępności:
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Because of the Dollars – ebook
Joseph Conrad
Self-deception regarding his wife, inflicted on the good-natured captain of the ship and the like. the willingness to succumb to base men on the part of the „painted woman”. It truly demonstrates how even those who find themselves in the most extreme situations of life can find redemption, albeit at a terrible cost. And atonement is a rare thing in Conrad. And just to make sure you understand it, the...Data dostępności:
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The City of No Escape – ebook
T.C. Bridges
The bottom of the gorge was filled with old lava, black and fragile, like bottle glass, but the rocks that endlessly rose on both sides on an African night were made of limestone. Everything was still like death. Even the jackal did not cry under the stars. For a while no sound was heard except for the gentle shuffling of Nick’s legs as he slowly descended the steep slope. The darkness was terribly...Data dostępności:
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The Mirror of the Sea – ebook
Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad’s Mirror of the Sea was a compelling read. From love to death, Conrad explains all this, using his life in the sea to match the human condition. The Mirror of the Sea is mainly about the adventures of Joseph Conrad when he was at sea. In the adventures described above, the author discusses the risks, struggles and dangers of sailing for sailors. While he and the crew sailed, they often...Data dostępności:
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The Council of Lithuanian Jews 1623-1764 – ebook
Anna Michałowska-Mycielska
The Council of Lithuanian Jews (Lithuanian Vaad) was the central representative organ of the Jews in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It operated for nearly one and a half centuries (1623-1764), touching all spheres of the Jewish community's life. It undertook important initiatives for the benefit of its constituency at diets and dietines (legislative assemblies of the nobility), at the courts of the...Data dostępności:
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The Analects – ebook
This is a collection of judgments. In „The Analects” the mystical layer is completely absent, as well as the natural-philosophical problems. Outwardly unsystematically arranged aphorisms are united by the theme of creating an ideal social order, which for Confucius is an expression of the Tao in the Celestial Empire. Its implementation is possible as a result of self-improvement of a person through...Data dostępności:
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The Last Vendée – ebook
Alexandre Dumas
The scene takes place in 1832, just 40 years after the fall of the royal family and about 15 years after the fall of Napoleon. There are we have characters who are designed to fight, perhaps for the last time, to ask the royal family again. This book focuses on a specific area in France, not in France as a whole.Data dostępności:
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