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At the beginning of the story, walking along an incline, some of Tolstoy’s characters lie, commit robberies and even killings. The author allows his heroes to experience feelings of satisfaction and complete impunity, after they have committed terrible atrocities. Pelageyushkin, going to the massacres, is content with one own impunity. Tolstoy conducts his heroes in hellish circles: all terrible crimes...

A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. A second edition was published in 1871 which included previously unpublished Jane Austen writings. A family project, the biography was written by James Edward Austen-Leigh but owed much to the recollections of Jane Austen's many relatives. However, it was the decisions...

Mistrz batuty szczerze i barwnie, nie skąpiąc anegdot, w szesnastu chronologicznie i tematycznie ułożonych rozdziałach opowiada o swoim życiu, rodzinie, zainteresowaniach, a przede wszystkim o bogatym dorobku artystycznym. Artysta wprowadza czytelników w świat zarówno wspaniałych dzieł muzycznych, jak i znakomitych śpiewaków, instrumentalistów, słynnych orkiestr oraz wielkich kompozytorów. Opisuje...