Ta kategoria dedykowana jest współczesnym czytelniczkom literatury kobiecej. Bardzo szeroki wybór romansów, kryminałów, powieści obyczajowe, poruszająca literatura kobieca, erotyki, harlequiny polskich i zagranicznych autorów. Każda lubiąca czytać kobieta znajdzie coś szczególnego dla siebie.
Polecamy literaturę Sergiusza Piaseckiego, Stanisława Srokowskiego, Diany Palmer czy w końcu Blanki Lipińskiej.
Pisanie opowiadań jest jak trzymanie w ręku pestki i tworzenie wokół niej czereśni. Albo śliwki – mówi o swojej twórczości Zdeněk Svěrák. Podwójne widzenie to zbiór dziewiętnastu opowiadań, z których pierwsze powstało powstało w roku 1966 a ostatnie w 2008. Pestką każdego z nich jest codzienność i dlatego każdy może tu odnaleźć znajome sytuacje i znajomych ludzi.Wyrafinowany, inteligentny humor, miejscami zadziorny, miejscami podszyty smutkiem, niesamowity zmysł obserwacji i nieprzeciętne wyczucie języka (co dla Tłumaczy, jak sami przyznają, stanowiło nie lada wyzwanie) charakteryzują każdą opowieść, którą tworzy Svěrák. Podwójne widzenie to także jeszcze jeden dowód na to, że Czesi to mistrzowie formy, ciętej ironii i empatii w prawdziwie Hrabalowskim stylu.
Prezentowane opowiadania zostały uhonorowane podwójną nagrodą Magnesia Litera w kategorii Nagroda Czytelników (2004 i 2012), a także podwójnym tytułem „Czeski Bestseller” (2008 i 2011). W 2014 r. otrzymał nagrodę im. Miroslava Švandrlíka przeznaczoną dla autorów najlepszych książek humorystycznych.
Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes are dramatized through personal struggles. John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience with his socialist duty, risking his life and liberty in the process. His daughter Mary is caught between two lovers, from opposing classes – worker and manufacturer. And at the heart of the narrative lies a murder which implicates them all.
Mary Barton was published in 1848, at a time of great social ferment in Europe, and it reflects its revolutionary moment through an English lens. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote her first novel about the world in which she lived – Manchester at the height of the industrial revolution. As the wife of a Unitarian minister she was solidly middle-class;but she also had close contact with the working classes around her, sympathised with them, and represented their extreme distresses in her fiction. She is radical in taking on their dialect, imagining the realities of their lives, and placing a working woman at the centre of her fiction. If to our eyes her vision remains limited, it was an honest vision, for which she was much criticised in her own time, by her own class.
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long.
Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.
A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic.
With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based largely on Emma Gifford, who became Thomas Hardy's first wife. Elfride's vivacious nature attracts several lovers, but she is beset by sexual prejudice, and the ensuing ironies reveal the constraints of her times.
A Pair of Blue Eyes provides an engaging and moving experience for today's readers.
With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the city, trapped for a winter in snowbound Starkfield, readers glimpse the hidden histories of this austere and beautiful land. Piecing together the story of monosyllabic Ethan Frome, his grim wife, Zeena, and Mattie Silver, her charming cousin, Wharton explores psychological dead-lock:frustration, longing, resentment, passion.
First published in 1911, the novella stunned its public with its consummate handling of the unfolding drama, and has remained for many readers the most compelling and subtle of all Wharton’s fiction.
Zajrzyj do Malowniczego. Tu czas płynie wolniej, a marzenia stają się rzeczywistością
Magda otrzymuje tajemniczy list z francuskiej kancelarii. Niebawem Malownicze zatrzęsie się od plotek o spadku. Wszyscy będą chcieli wiedzieć, czy z dnia na dzień Magda stanie się bajecznie bogata. Ona jednak ma inne kłopoty. Musi wreszcie odpowiedzieć sobie na najważniejsze pytania: czy chce dalej być z Michałem i jak ma wyglądać ich wspólne życie. Odpowiedź nie jest taka prosta.
Sto pięćdziesiąt lat wcześniej, gdzieś w u podnóża Gór Świętokrzyskich, Sabina ryzykując życie angażuje się w spisek przeciwko zaborcom. Adam kocha ją do szaleństwa i za wszelką cenę uchronić przed niebezpieczeństwem. Przewrotny los jednak chce inaczej.
Co łączy tak odległą historię Sabiny z Magdą? Czy sekret z przeszłości pomoże jej odnaleźć swoje przeznaczenie i spełnić marzenia?
Podobnie jak moi bohaterowie, ja też mocno wierzę w to, że czasowi trzeba dać czas, by marzenia i nadzieje mogły się ziścić.
Magdalena Kordel
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Magdalena Kordel jest autorką bestsellerowych serii „Uroczysko” i „Malownicze”, które sprzedały się już w blisko 100.000 egzemplarzy. Pisać zaczęła, by poradzić sobie z trudną przeszłością, ale szybko okazało się, że jej książki stały się balsamem dla duszy tysięcy czytelników. W tym roku wraz z Krystyną Mirek założyła Klub Dobrych Emocji – miejsce, w którym każdy może się dzielić dobrem: FB/KlubDobrychEmocji/
Nagrody: Commonwealth' Prize; Dobbie Award Writers
Dziesięcioletnia Jennifer Day mieszka w małym górniczym miasteczku pełnym tajemnic. W otaczającym ją świecie dorosłych poszukuje przyczyn śmierci swojej nastoletniej siostry Beth. Próbując uporządkować ostatnie miesiące z jej życia, Jennifer odsiewa prawdę od kłamstw, ale mimo to wciąż natrafia na sekrety i kolejne pytania. Czy śmierć Beth była wypadkiem? Czy Jennifer lub ktokolwiek inny mogli ją uratować?
Oczami Jennifer widzimy, jak jej siostra podejmuje nieudaną próbę przekroczenia progu dorosłości, a rodzina ulega powolnemu rozkładowi. W tej nagradzanej powieści Karen Foxlee doskonale uchwyciła smak dorastania w małym miasteczku oraz złożoność życia rodzinnego.
Metafory zawarte w tej historii i soczysta proza… przytrzymają czytelników aż do samego poruszającego zakończenia.
Publishers Weekly, USA
Proza Karen Foxlee jest realistyczna i przekonująca, ale największą zaletą tej powieści jest wiarygodna kreacja młodej narratorki.
Age
To niezwykła powieść.
Sydney Morning Herald
Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature.
Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority?
The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchisement, the drama of Luddite machine-breaking, and the divisive effects of the Napoleonic Wars.
But Charlotte Brontës particular strength lies in exploring the hidden psychological drama of love, loss and the quest for identity. Personal and public agitation are brought together against the dramatic backdrop of her native Yorkshire. As always, Brontë challenges convention, exploring the limitations of social justice whilst telling not one but two love stories.
Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest. Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him, the lama seeks redemption from the ‘Wheel of Life’. Kim becomes involved in the ‘Great Game’, undertaking espionage for the British rulers.
This engrossing and moving novel, with its diversity of memorable characters, offers many insights into political, religious and social tensions.
‘As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved…It was good, good, good…’
Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity when published in 1928. It became an international bestseller, and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel. It has influenced how love between women is understood, for the twentieth century and beyond.
The Professor is Charlotte Brontës first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels. But as a man, William has freedom of action, and as a writer Brontë is correspondingly liberated, exploring the relationship between power and sexual desire.
William's first person narration reveals his attraction to the dominating directress of the girls' school where he teaches, played out in the school's 'secret garden'. Balanced against this is his more temperate relationship with one of his pupils, Frances Henri, in which mastery and submission interplay. The Professor was published only after Charlotte Brontës death; today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme creative imagination.
This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin’s extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and twelve uncollected tales.
The Awakening is a strikingly modern, evocative story of self-discovery and female emancipation, set in the sensuous environment of Southern Louisiana, where the young Edna Pontellier reclaims her own individuality, refusing to be defined by her roles of wife and mother.
Chopin’s stories are brilliantly observed, compassionate and often humorous, alert to the foibles, weaknesses and small triumphs of her characters. Overshadowed by the relatively recent fame of The Awakening, they contain some of the best work of this remarkably original author.
In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century.
The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this framework Lawrence's essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the 'rainbow' of the title is his unifying motif.
His primary focus is on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social circumstances, a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations. Young Ursula Brangwen, whose story is continued in Women in Love, is finally the central figure in Lawrence's anatomy of the confining structures of English social life and the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on the human psyche.
Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark areas of the human psyche, all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend of deadly seriousness and wild humour. In Notes from Underground, the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife’s suicide. In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has no equal.
Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685).
It is also a moving love story told through the life of the young farmer John Ridd, as he grows to manhood determined to right the wrongs in his land, and to win the heart and hand of the beautiful Lorna Doone.
Continuously in print since its first publication in 1869, Lorna Doone has remained perennially popular with a wide readership ever since.
The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon’s classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder.
It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines.
Combining elements of the detective novel, the psychological thriller and the romance of upper class life, Lady Audley’s Secret was one of the most popular and successful novels of the nineteenth century and still exerts a powerful hold on readers.
Voltaire is held to be one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and has often been seen as one of the thinkers who prepared the way for the French Revolution. This volume contains: Zadig (1748), the story of a young man who becomes king of Babylon; Candide (1759), Voltaire’s most famous tale of all; and (in a new translation) The Ingenu (1767), in which the hero, raised by Huron Indians, discovers the ways of Europe. The heroes of these tales are young, handsome, talented, and naive. All three are animated by Voltaire’s sparkling wit, but also by his dark satire of ancien régime society. The volume closes with a new translation of Nanine, Voltaire’s three-act comedy which was seen, first as dangerously meritocratic, then as anti-revolutionary. The hero falls in love with a servant girl: but will he overcome society’s prejudice and marry her?
Obszerny tom opowiadań i miniatur arcymistrza wieloznaczności i głębi zawiera takie perły, jak Kolonia karna, Wyrok, Przemiana, Jama czy Budowa chińskiego muru, ale też mniej znane utwory na czele z Troską ojca rodziny, Prometeuszem, Milczeniem syren, Prawdą o Sanczo Pansie.
TO SPOD PIÓRA TEJ WIKTORIAŃSKIEJ PISARKI WYSZŁY OPOWIEŚCI: „CRANFORD”, „PÓŁNOC I POŁUDNIE”, „RUTH”, „ŻONY I CÓRKI”...
Po śmierci wikarego w miasteczku Combehurst wdowa po nim, pani Browne, sama wychowuje dwoje dzieci w domu na wrzosowisku. Maggie i Edward to rodzeństwo różnego temperamentu. Maggie wydaje się podporządkowana bratu we wszelkich kwestiach. A on maksymalnie wykorzystuje ten układ.
Kilka lat później, gdy oboje są już dorośli, Maggie staje przed dylematem: ocalić brata od więzienia, a tym samym zerwać z narzeczonym w zamian za zatuszowanie malwersacji Edwarda.
I wybór, którego młoda kobieta dokonuje, wprawi wszystkich w zdumienie...
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) to obok sióstr Bronte chyba najpopularniejsza brytyjska pisarka XIX wieku. Przyjaciółka Charlesa Dickensa, który cenił ją za wyśmienitą prozę. Doskonale też oddawała w swych historiach sytuację kobiet w ówczesnej epoce.
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