poems

The poet’s career is always full of pitfalls and difficulties. On the one hand, there is a danger of gaining popularity too easily, and on the other, the discouraging effect of a lack of audience. Mrs Greenock is in danger. Some of her poems, which from time to time appeared in a local newspaper, attracted a lot of undeserved attention. The book is about high art.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, called „Maud” by family and friends and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. Montgomery published some 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems before her death in 1942. Because many of the novels were set on Prince...

Przełom XIX i XX wieku. Cora Cash jest jedyną dziedziczką ogromnej fortuny, co czyni ją najbogatszą panną w Ameryce. Jest niewiarygodnie piękna i uprzywilejowana. Wychowała się w domu wzorowanym na Wersalu, a na jej debiutancki bal przyszło ośmiuset gości. Jest pewna, że każde drzwi stoją przed nią otworem. Jednak gdy matka zabiera ją do Anglii, by tam znaleźć dla niej odpowiednio urodzonego narzeczonego,...

In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for „The Age of Innocence”. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. „Tales of Men and Ghosts” (1910) consists of ten masterful ghost stories that listed here in chronological order of their original publication...