Helen Vardon narrates her own story and one in which Dr. Thorndyke barely features until the final chapters. Helen Vardon contracts to a marriage without full knowledge of the circumstances regardi...więcej »
Dunbar is the heir to a large English banking firm, but makes a serious mistake in his youth. His father and uncle expel him to India for his sins. Of course, everything is not so serious, since it...więcej »
Novalis to pseudonim niemieckiego poety i prozaika, jednego z najważniejszych przedstawicieli wczesnego romantyzmu. Studiował on prawo, filozofię i nauki przyrodnicze, pracował jako urzędnik. W pog...więcej »
The Ambassador’s office was indeed a very thankless one, while my own position as second secretary of the Paris Embassy was a post not to be envied, even though it is popularly supposed to be...więcej »
A mysterious story of a murder, which, by the name, makes it clear that in tension the plot will hold on to the end. A phrase that makes you immediately pay attention to a sharp plot: „I coul...więcej »
Eastern society girl Beatrice Lansell, on a visit to her brother’s Montana ranch, is being pressured by her social-climbing mother to accept her English nobleman suitor, Sir Redmond Hayes. Sh...więcej »
There are hours of promises, and zero hour; promises initially, which are sometimes even sweeter than their execution. Jacqueline Lanier did not fully realize the time of heyday, and therefore cont...więcej »
A large, square wooden veranda covered by a red and white awning, above a wide silent sweep of flowing river, whose huge rocks, worn smooth through a thousand ages, raised their backs about the str...więcej »
Mit seiner bildgewaltigen Meistererzählung „Herr und Knecht” (1895) schuf der große russische Dichter und Humanist Leo Tolstoi eine zeitlose Parabel auf die Macht der Mitmens...więcej »
Friedrich Gerstäcker veröffentlichte eine Vielzahl von Erzählungen, Romanen und vor allem Berichte über seine verschiedenen Reisen, die ihn zu einem der meistgelesenen und bekan...więcej »
In this story, the already familiar hero, Allan Quatermain, tries to explain the mysteries of Africa. Here Quatermain unearths and destroys the cult of the priest, exploiting the remnants of a dyin...więcej »
Hide and Seek is a story about love, betrayal, hardship and forgiveness. Mr. Valentine Blyth is an artist. While working in the countryside, painting portraits of babies and sometimes portraits of ...więcej »
Clorinda is for everyone except her husband and a few old people. She was so sweet and dignified. However, she was born Cooper. She was a plump woman who, at sixty, still retained the girl’s ...więcej »
Zwei Großkonzerne wollen – nachdem sie die Atomkraft bereits nutzbar gemacht haben – die atmosphärische Elektrizität für sich gewinnen. Parallel steht die Entdeckun...więcej »
Bogini miłości Afrodyta mści się na Hippolytosie, który jest czcicielem dziewiczej bogini Artemidy. Bogini sprawia, że w Hippolytosie zakochuje się jego własna macocha Fedra. Fedra stara się...więcej »
This story continues the picturesque and interesting novels of Munda about Raj and the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. If you like to read the British thriller of the early 1900s, you will ...więcej »
„Bad News for Bad Men” is an excellent classic story by the incomparable Max Brand (Frederick Faust). Great read with Max’s leading off to unexpected places with characters you co...więcej »
One of many recommended westerns by this prolific author. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary western...więcej »
Illustrated edition with almost 40 original illustrations by Alfred Gilbert, Gilbert Holiday, Sidney Paget, Walter Paget and Arthur Twidle. „His Last Bow” (also known as „T...więcej »
Max Brand (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. Orphaned at an early age, Faust ...więcej »