cultural

Ten tourists from England, Ireland, America and France, six men and four women are on a vacation trip down the Nile in 1895. Without warning they are captured by Islamic terrorists, and the possibility of rescue becomes more remote with each passing day. Their choice is a stark one: either convert to Islam and become slaves for the rest of their lives or die. In this story, the reader is swept out...

„"California Joe, the Mysterious Plainsman"” is a book first published in 1900 written by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham who was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a professional military officer throughout the 1860s, and a prolific author of books on the American West. It is a dime novel, a very short novel, about the life of a young man who acts as if he is immortal. At first, many characters in the book...

Krzysztof ma osiem lat, gdy zaczyna się jego wieloletnia przyjaźń z Bogusiem, którego ojciec jest wysoko postawionym działaczem partyjnym. Chłopiec jeszcze nie wie, co właściwie oznacza termin „partyjna szycha”, ale starszy od niego o dwa lata kolega, któremu pozycja ojca daje poczucie wyjątkowości i bezkarności, staje się dla niego mentorem i przewodnikiem w drodze do dorosłości. Coraz...