Chesterton’s last novel is a reflection of his first novel. Michael Herne, the librarian at Seawood Abbey, is asked to play the part of a medieval king. He not only takes his role seriously b...więcej »
Traveling through southern Florida, a New Yorker Don Counsel is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is holding the real killer captive on his yacht while detectives...więcej »
Written as Frank Aubrey, „The Mystery of an Artist’s Model” is a weird mystery with rationalized supernaturalism. Little is known about Aubrey/Atkins. He was involved in a scandal...więcej »
„The Huntress” written by Hulbert Footner who was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River a...więcej »
„The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. The story follows the enigmatic and mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby as he chases the ...więcej »
The third novel in the series, „Lucia in London” continues the adventures of Benson’s famously irrepressible characters, and bring them into hilarious conflict. Using her best soc...więcej »
„The Devil-Tree of El Dorado” concerns the discovery of the legendary city of Manoa in British Guiana, high atop Mt. Roraima, at that date an incredibly remote part of the world. Most d...więcej »
"Dotychczasowa wiedza Autorki monografii na temat funkcjonowania sektora publicznego, sposobów reali-zacji jego zadań, wykorzystania ku temu nowoczesnych rozwiązań i znaczenia w tym pro...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 »
Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel „This Side of Paradise”, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three, „Flappers and Philosophers” was t...więcej »
Much the best of the Atkins adventures, with an imaginative sweep that causes one to forget momentarily the plot and character cliches. Altogether, „Ethel Verney” (1911) is a fairly goo...więcej »
A novel series by G.K. Chesterton of four intertwined novellas whose central characters appear to be involved in murder, fraud, theft and treason. Are these friends involved in crimes? Are these in...więcej »
Książka jest wznowieniem wydania z 1948 roku.„Spór o związek duszy z ciałem” to kolejna książka z serii Józef Pieter finansowana przez Fundację im. Profesora J&oacut...więcej »
Set during the time of the Reform Act of 1832, the story centers on an election contested by Harold Transome, a local landowner, in the „Radical cause”, contrary to his family’s T...więcej »
The fourth installment of the popular series-a hilarious study of 1930s manner and pecking order-begins when Lucia Lucas rents a summer place-the home of Elizabeth Mapp-in the English village of Ti...więcej »
Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, „Tales of the Jazz Age” includes two of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s better-known short stories, „The Curious Case o...więcej »
Penned by George Eliot, „Romola” is an intense, gripping historical novel set in 15th-century Italy. In the narrative, Tito, a handsome but scheming Greek opportunist, marries Romola, t...więcej »
Don Lorenzo and Arnold Neville lead separate expeditions to the South American interior whereupon they encounter the exiled king of the underground world. But can Neville help him reclaim his thron...więcej »
A strange and inescapable force lures Frank Heberdon, socially prominent young lawyer, on to life of crime, and he finds his lovely rescuer in a denizen of the underworld where they join forces. Th...więcej »
A lot of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. «A Strange Story» is a mystery novel, which is told from the perspective of Dr....więcej »