Jozef Šimo Livres

Anne, an eleven year old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

The second book of red-haired Anne Shirley's adventures. Five years after coming to Green Gables, Anne is 'half past sixteen' and about to start teaching at her old school, set on inspiring youthful hearts and minds with ideals and ambitions. But some of her pupils only respond to very different methods. Meanwhile the young orphan Davy and the Avonlea Improvement Society bring their own headaches for a harum-scarum girl trying to grow up.

This novel was placed number 16 in the best novels of the XXth century, and is considered a real american classic. The ambitious but ill-educated and immature Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents who force him to participate in their street missionary work, and on reaching young adulthood takes low-status jobs as a soda jerk and then as a bellhop at a top Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to alcohol and prostitutes, something he starts to enjoy...

Mladý milionár Rex Walton dostane od vydierača Kupieho list, aby vo vlastnom záujme upustil od sobáša s krásnou Donnou Colemanovou, lebo ak nie, pride o svoj milión libier. Pol hodiny pred sobášom Waiton a jeho milión zmizne – a toto je predzvesť mnohých záhadných udalostí, až kým inšpektor Sepping, inak Waltonov priateľ, smutne presláveného Kupieho neodhalí. Celý príbeh, napísaný Wallaceovým nenapodobniteľným štýlom, speje na konci k rozuzleniu, ktoré je pre tohto majstra napätia také príznačné.

Historický román odohrávajúci sa v Amerike v časoch občianskej vojny. Ústrednou témou je láska a vzťah odvážnej Scarlett k Rhettovi ktorá sa vymyká vtedajšej spoločenskej šablóne.