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Ostatni Sejm Rzeczypospolitej is the first volume of a trilogy of works by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taken together these works describe the situation in Poland around 1794. Overall the trilogy paints a positive picture of the disparate classes uniting to force through a revolution. The first volume focuses on the politicking which resulted in the ratification of the Second Partition of Poland.

"Nienasycenie" is a novel by the Polish writer, dramatist, philosopher, painter and photographer, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, written in 1927 and first published in 1930. The utopian story takes place in the future, around 2000. After a battle, Poland is overrun by the army of the last and final Mongol conquests modelled on the Bolshevik revolution. The nation becomes enslaved to a fictional Chinese leader Murti Bing. His emissaries give everyone a special pill called DAVAMESK B 2 which takes away their ability to think and their will to resist. East and West become one, in faceless misery fuelled by sexual instincts.

No page of history is more crowded with thrilling interest than that which records the uprising of the Hungarians, in 1848-49, in a gallant attempt to recover their constitutional rights. The events of that stirring period, even when related by the sober pen of the annalist, read more like romance than reality; and thus they cannot fail to lend themselves admirably to the purposes of historical fiction. Maurus Jokai (1825 - 1904) was a Hungarian novelist who took part as a journalist in the revolution of 1848. He wrote about 200 novels, including Timar's Two Worlds, Black Diamonds, and The Romance of the Coming Century. He became the best-known man in Hungary in his day, for he was not only an author, but a financier, a statesman, and a journalist as well."

Fermenty continues the story of one of Reymont's most famous characters - Janka Orlowska, the protaganist of Komendiantka. The book takes place mostly in Bukowiec, the village where her father works as a station chief on the Warsaw-Vienna line.

"A láthatatlan ember" is a novel by the Hungarian writer Géza Gárdonyi, published in 1901. In the opinion of some people, including Gárdonyi himself, it is his best work. The narrator and hero of the novel is a young Byzantine freedman of Priscus nicknamed Zeta who travels with him to Attila. He falls in love with Emmo, the daughter of a Hunnish nobleman. He commits himself to slavery among the Huns in the hope of eventually marrying her, to some extent going native among them.

The short story is a fundamental part of the greatness of American literature. Nearly every author of note has turned their hand to it at some point in their career. This volume contains a broad selection of authors and styles including O. Henry, Mark Twain and others.

The Peasants is a novel written by Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Wladyslaw Reymont in four parts between 1904 and 1909. In The Peasants, Reymont created a more complete and suggestive picture of country life than any other Polish writer. He presents the colourful reality of the "spoken" culture of the people better than any other author. This is one of the most important works of modern Polish literature and has been translated into 25 languages. This volume contains the final two parts - Wiosna and Lato.

Rozmarné léto je humoristická novela ceského spisovatele Vladislava Vancury z roku 1926. Celá novela se odehrává v Krokových Varech na rece Orsi behem trí dnu chladného cervna. Dej zacíná v Antonínových lázních, kdy behem rozpravy trí prátel (krom Antonína jeste kanovník a major) se objeví potulný kouzelník Arnostek, který je pár triky pozve na vecerní predstavení.

Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire. He is most famous for his 1921 novel We, a story set in a dystopian future police state. Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the CPSU following the October Revolution. Due to his use of literature to criticize Soviet society, Zamyatin has been referred to as one of the first Soviet dissidents. This volume contains three of his earliest works of short fiction: A Provincial Tale, A Godforsaken Place and The Islanders.

Den siste atenaren, Viktor Rydberg's most ambitious novel, was published in 1859. It also turned out to be his last for 30 years. This, his best-known novel, offers a contrast between Rydberg's admiration for classical antiquity and his critical attitude to dogmatic Christianity. This struggle is set in Athens, in the time of the last pagan emperor, Julian the Apostate, during the transition from Platonic paganism to Christianity. The novel advocates a philosophy founded on the noblest elements of both ideologies

Fyodor Sologub was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose. This volume contains his best known short stories.

Triumph of Death is a play in three acts by Russian writer Fyodor Sologub. Although better known as a novelist Sologub published numerous plays throughout his life, of which Triumph of Death is the best known.

The Peasants is a novel written by Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Wladyslaw Reymont in four parts between 1904 and 1909. In The Peasants, Reymont created a more complete and suggestive picture of country life than any other Polish writer. He presents the colourful reality of the "spoken" culture of the people better than any other author. This is one of the most important works of modern Polish literature and has been translated into 25 languages. This volume contains the first two parts - Jesien and Zima.

"A Decayed Family" is the unfinished final novel in Leskov's "Stargorod Chronicles." Each novel features a strong female character: virtuous, courageous, noble and reasonably humane.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man is an 1850 novella by Ivan Turgenev. It is written in the first person in the form of a diary by a man who has a few days left to live as he recounts incidents of his life. The story has become the archetype for the Russian literary concept of the superfluous man.

Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written from 1831-1832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol, who had spent his life in today's Ukraine up to the age of nineteen, was twenty-two. He put his early impressions and memories of childhood into these pictures of peasant life. This was Gogol's groundbreaking work, though not his first, and formed the core of his style, especially his sense of the macabre. It was this collection that proved he was a new power in Russian literature with unique innovation and a carefully arranged mingling of the horrifying and the humorous.

Old Times in Plodomasovo is a novel by Nikolai Leskov which was first published in 1869 and later formed a trilogy, with The Cathedral Clergy and A Decayed Family. The chronicles were based on Leskov's own childhood reminiscences, stories he had heard of ways and lives of different families of the Oryol Governorate, in the 1830s and 1840s. One episode concerning the marriage of 50-year-old Plodomasov and 15-year-old Marpha might have had bearings on his own family history. His aunt Natalya Petrovna Alferyeva in 1824 as a teenager became the wife to 50-year-old landowner Strakhov, who proved to be a jealous and tyrannical husband.

"Smoke and Ash" is the third of three novels which make up Sologub's "Created Legend" series. It follows Yakov Poltinin who has a secret ambition to accomplishing something on a grand scale, something that would cause a lot of talk. He decides to steal and destroy a miracle-working ikon...

"Syzyfowe prace" is a novel by Polish author Stefan Zeromski which first appeared in the magazine Nowa Reforma in 1897. The novel is based on the author's personal experiences as a child and adolescent in the Russian-controlled Congress Poland. It is a portrait of his school and its students' attempts to resist the policy of Russification imposed by the Tsarist authorities. The title refers to the Greek myth of Sisyphus, and portrays the attempts to indoctrinate the students as an occasionally successful, but ultimately doomed to failure, endeavor.

"Queen Ortruda" is the second of three novels which make up Sologub's "Created Legend" series. It follows Yakov Poltinin who has a secret ambition to accomplishing something on a grand scale, something that would cause a lot of talk. He decides to steal and destroy a miracle-working ikon...

The Tattooer is the first publish work by Junichiro Tanizaki, one of the major authors in the modern Japanese tradition. In the story, a tattoo artist inscribes a giant spider on the body of a beautiful young woman. Afterwards, the woman's beauty takes on a demonic, compelling power, in which eroticism is combined with sado-masochism. The story foreshadows many of the archetypes which reappear in many of Tanizaki's later works.

This volume contains translations of Chekhov's short stories published in 1882. The Chekhov represented here is by no means the confident, near-perfect craftsman who produced some of humanity's best short stories and plays. The artist presented here is a young man willing to experiment but searching for his style and voice. In a way, it can serve as inspiration for any aspiring writer that even the best are not born great, but rather achieve greatness through a relentless dedication to their craft.

"Drops of Blood" is the first of three novels which make up Sologub's "Created Legend" series. It follows Yakov Poltinin who has a secret ambition to accomplishing something on a grand scale, something that would cause a lot of talk. He decides to steal and destroy a miracle-working ikon...

Roman Duka Begovic predstavlja vrhunac Ivanovog pripovijedanja. Prepun je slavonizama, tudica i onomatopejskih rijeci. Osjeca se i utjecaj vojnickog rjecnika . Tu je Kozarac postigao ispreplitanje govornog jezika a jezikom i ritmom slavonskog becarca. On opisuje tradicije u Slavoniji te roman mozemo usporediti s dokumentom.

The Petty Demon was written by Fyodor Sologub over a period of ten years from 1892-1902. The novel depicts the soul of sinister teacher sadistic Ardalyon Borisovich Peredonov, lost in a dull meaningless life in a provincial town. Envy, anger and selfishness bring him to the edge of complete delirium and loss of reality.

A Life for the Tsar is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. The original Russian libretto, based on historical events, was written by Egor Rozen. It premiered on 27 November 1836 at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg. The historical basis of the plot involves Ivan Susanin, a patriotic hero of the early 17th century who gave his life in the expulsion of the invading Polish army for the newly elected Tsar Mikhail, the first of the Romanov dynasty, elected in 1613.

Henryk Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist, novelist and the Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis. Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces. In the late 1870s he traveled to the United States, sending back the travel essay "Za chlebem" that won him popularity with Polish readers

"Bad Dreams," written by Fyodor Sologub in 1895, is considered the first "decadent" novel in Russian literature. It follows Login, a teacher in provincial Russia, tortured by existential angst who escapes through his dreams and the hope of finding love.

Komediantka is a novel by Wladyslaw Reymont published in 1896. The novels centres on 22 year-old Janka who is facing a key decision: whether to accept a marriage proposal from a man she respects but does not love. Her horizons are broadened by the arrival of a band of travelling theatrical group and he discovers a passion for acting. Her father then forces her to chose between acting and marriage.

Singoalla is a romantic story out of the Middle Ages, permeated with a poetic nature-mysticism, about the tragic love between a knight and a gypsy girl. It was written in 1858 by Viktor Rydberg, who was described as Sweden's last Romantic and was generally regarded in the first rank of Swedish novelists.