The scientific detective known as the „American Sherlock Holmes” pursues a ruthless arch villain in this high-stakes suspense novel. „The Exploits of Elaine” is a collection...więcej »
Wallace was a prolific author responsible for several series of popular novels featuring bold adventurers and crime fighters. For his series set in the highly evocative world of West Africa he crea...więcej »
The battle in the meadowlands of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the Caliph of Bagdad and his Turkish allies had broken the onrushing power of Doubeys ibn ...więcej »
”The Aspern Papers” is one of the masterpieces of the writer’s „small” prose, the plots of which are based on the collision of European and American cultural conscious...więcej »
Victorian Socialist Romance. Enoch Strone is a book-loving rustic loner who lives in a remote hand-built cabin. He works as a mechanical engineer in the industrial town of Gascester. One evening he...więcej »
If you have interest in finance, mining and sailing which is largely centered around those 3 topics in this novel, you are welcome! „Young Lord Stranleigh” is a thrilling tale of romanc...więcej »
Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today he’s almost completely forgotten. Butler, the author...więcej »
Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was the earliest writer of spy fiction as understood today, inventing the „rogue male” school of adventure thrillers and writing over 150 novels of...więcej »
Young beauty Eustace Way, passionate, self-willed, selfish and ambitious, eager to break out of the hateful rural outback into a “different life”, full of splendor, fun and pleasure. Me...więcej »
The world of Kipling’s stories is complex and rich, representing essentially an encyclopedia of the plot experience of the best English and American storytellers of the XIX century. They are ...więcej »
Na czym polega skuteczność rosyjskiej propagandy? Jak to możliwe, że przez ostatnich sto lat, Rosja trzyma w emocjonalnym szachu wielokrotnie silniejszy od niej pod każdym względem Zachód?więcej »
„Ferragus” is an 1833 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the „Scenes de la vie parisienne” section of his novel sequence „La Comédie...więcej »
Looking for a satisfying, meticulously exciting adventure with which to while away an afternoon? Look no further than „Squadron of the Damned”, a short story from one of the most early ...więcej »
Originally published in 1926, „Dr. Night” is the first story from the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). Aidan de Brune was a big name in Australian literat...więcej »
Dr. Beechington knew how difficult it was to live in genteel poverty. He was determined his daughter Mary should marry a wealthy man but Mary wasn’t so sure. Should she obey her father or fol...więcej »
Prawo obowiązujące w Jordanii bywa bezwzględne wobec kobiet, a surowa obyczajowość sprawia, że w rolę sędziów nierzadko wcielają się bliscy. Nic dziwnego, skoro seks przedmałżeński sprowadza...więcej »
„Rilla of Ingleside” is a coming-of-age novel written in 1921 by L.M. Montgomery that focuses on the youngest daughter of the beloved Anne Shirley, now Mrs. Blythe from the „Anne ...więcej »
The fisherman loosened his knife in its scabbard. The gesture was instinctive, for what he feared was nothing a knife could slay, not even the saw-edged crescent blade of the Yuetshi that could dis...więcej »
Sam Steele is now captain of a ship – an old and battered craft, but his own command. He is sailing it around South America to California. A storm forces Sam’s ship to the Panamanian co...więcej »
This is a well-written book with a fast-changing storyline. One of Drummond’s colleagues dies in a mysterious way. The main character wants to find out the cause of death. There were no trace...więcej »