Krotka nowela Kraszewskiego, w ktorej tytulowy bohater, Bartlomiej, podejmuje sie wraz z Rupertem i Suchym, ze starca zrobic mlodego czlowieka. Zeby tego dokonac prosza o pomoc pana Gimmela – diabla. Cena za jego pomoc jest dusza ludzka.
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Satyra na wojsko i wojne, ukazujaca absurdy ostatnich lat istnienia Austro-Wegier, najczesciej tlumaczona powiesc czeskiej literatury oraz najslynniejszy zolnierz – Jozef Szwejk.Przed laty przez lekarska komisje wojskowa urzedowo uznany za idiote i zwolniony z armii, zyje spokojnie w Pradze, handlujac psami. Rozgadany bywalec knajp, przy kazdej okazji gotow do przytoczenia odpowiedniej anegdoty z zycia zwyklych ludzi, lojalny obywatel, manifesta ...
Pericord i Brown dokonali wspolnie wielu wynalazcow. Ich umiejetnosci doskonale sie uzupelniaja – pierwszy to geniusz tworczy, a drugi, praktyczny, doskonale rozumie projekty wspolpracownika i wciela je w zycie.Wspolnicy pracuja nad kolejnym wynalazkiem – maszyna latajaca. Prototyp jest juz prawie gotow i niebawem mozna bedzie go przetestowac. W ostatnich etapach pracy miedzy wspolnikami pojawia sie kwestia sporna: komu nalezy sie patent? Wynala ...
Jest druga polowa XII wieku, czasy rozbioru Polski – cztery dzielnice rzadzone sa przez synow Boleslawa Krzywoustego. Najstarszy z nich, Wladyslaw, jest ksieciem zwierzchnim, seniorem. Zona namawia go do wystapienia przeciwko braciom i zyskania wladzy nad calym krajem. Przeciw niemu wystepuje moznowladztwo z Piotrem Wlastem na czele, ktory chce utrzymac postanowienia ustawy sukcesyjnej Krzywoustego, za co przyjdzie mu zaplacic wysoka cene.Powies ...
"The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaw ...
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel ...
"The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. Th ...
"Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noel Coward ...
