youth

Possessing eternal youth and beauty produces exactly the same effect as sentencing a man to life without the possibility of parole. Both have nothing to lose and morals disappear before the desire for immediate self-gratification in all things. And so it is with Dorian Gray. It’s a moral story so eventually his evil catches up with him and he dies, as does the criminal. „The Picture of Dorian Gray”...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, „This Side of Paradise,” focuses on several themes and illustrates some social and moral changes in America during the early 20th century. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Amory Blaine is utterly an idealist. He indulges in every...

Książka Roku "The Times". Olśniewająca, pełna cierpkiej ironii i oryginalna powieść o ambitnej sierocie, która w dziwnych, niespokojnych czasach przeistacza się w legendarną Madame Tussaud. W roku 1761, w niewielkiej alzackiej wiosce na świat przychodzi dziewczynka o ogromnym sercu. Po śmierci rodziców mała Marie trafia do terminu u chudego jak szczapa, ekscentrycznego rzeźbiarza znanego...