Humorous novel set in Riverbank, a fictionalized Muscatine, in a Mississippi River town. Pastor David Dean and his wife take up residence in this town, Iowa in the 1850s and learn how unaccepting a...więcej »
Don Carlos to książę austriacki, syn Filipa II. Z powodów politycznych król musi wziąć za żonę wybrankę serca księcia, co skazuje księcia na ogromne cierpienie. Postanawia on wyjechać...więcej »
Satyryczny poemat dygresyjny, pisany w latach 1818–1824, w którym George Gordon Byron odwraca historię Don Juana – tym razem zamiast uwodzić, sam jest uwodzony przez liczne kobie...więcej »
Komedia Moliera przywołuje na poły legendarną postać hiszpańskiego szlachcica, słynącego z urody i uroku osobistego, a jednocześnie bezceremonialnego traktowania kobiet. Don Juan Moliera to cyniczn...więcej »
Szlachcic Alonso Kechani, przybrawszy imię Don Kichota z La Manchy, wyrusza ze swym giermkiem w świat, bronić czci damy swego serca, Dulcynei z Toboso. Hoża wieśniaczka staje się w jego oczach najp...więcej »
Frederick Schiller Faust penned his finest when he wrote his literary famous Westerns utilizing the pen name Max Brand. „Donnegan Gunman’s Reckoning” has a thoughtful storyline wh...więcej »
Max Brand is an American writer, considered one of the best authors working in the Western genre. A gunman’s reckoning is his understanding, and here, we have several gunmen and women, one in...więcej »
Maurice Leblanc, père d’Arsène Lupin, raconte nous les mystérieuses et extraordinaires histoires. Cette fois l’action se déroule autour de formidable h&eacut...więcej »
Originally published in 1908, while Baum was resident in Coronado, California, „Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz” is considered one of the „darker” of the Oz tales. However, it ...więcej »
Various people had tried, and failed, to break the strong will of Diana Ford. Her lawyers, for instance, thought they could dissuade her from coming to England. Her cousin, Gordon Salisbury, found ...więcej »
Not all buried treasure is found in a pirate’s chest... A chill-packed mystery from the master of suspense. This is what Aidan de Brune is all about, a complex, old fashioned mystery, with a ...więcej »
”Down and out in Paris and London” is a dramatic and at the same time full of Orwell caustic humor autobiographical story of a young English intellectual, who lives in the capitals with...więcej »
British novelist Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), was a Reuters war correspondent who wrote thrillers to earn additional money. He also wrote Hollywood screenplays and died while drafting...więcej »
Victor Whitechurch, a clergyman who became a mysterious writer, well known for his detective story Railroad Stories, was admired by Ellery Queen and Dorothy L. Sayers for „impeccable conspira...więcej »
Nicola is a very interesting and creepy character, you are never sure how much he will go and what evil he is really capable of. The main character is actually recruited and works together with Nic...więcej »
Dr. Nicola invited Douglas Ingleby to help him in a mysterious experiment. Unemployed and undoubtedly curious, Ingleby agrees to follow Nikola to a remote castle to help him take care of the old ma...więcej »
„Dr. Delmore’s Secret” is an absorbing tale of mystery by Fenton Ash, author of at least three Lost-World novels. Little is known about Aubrey/Atkins. He was involved in a scandal...więcej »
Edward Bellamy is an American writer who wrote the novel Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process. This story is about a doctor who seemingly did good deeds. He wanted to eliminate painful memories from the ...więcej »
After graduating from medical school, Dr. James Kildar returns to his small hometown where his proud parents Stephen and Martha Kildar and childhood friend Alice Raymond expect him to join his fath...więcej »
When young doctor James Kildare and his fiancée, nurse Mary Lamont, make plans for their wedding day, brother Mary Douglas arrives at her. Douglas asks Kildare to arrange an appointment with...więcej »