An expedition in the 1920s is looking for a lost tribe in India, sacred Lamu and jade, which has magical properties. Very interesting fairy-tale story, so rich in details, that comes a sense of pre...więcej »
At the beginning of the book about the wanderings on the ship. The way Melville describes everything is indescribably delightful. With amazingly alluring tongue, he knows all readers life on board ...więcej »
Akcja utworu „ Omyłka ” toczy się w małym miasteczku w przededniu powstania styczniowego oraz w jego trakcie. Nastoletni Antek mieszka wraz ze swoją matką i opiekunką, jego starszy brat...więcej »
Readers are invited to a book by an outstanding English philosopher, psychologist, sociologist and economist John Stuart Mill, which explores the problem of civil liberty of the individual. Accordi...więcej »
The storybook „On the Makaloa Mat” tells the story of the lives of natives and whites in the Hawaiian Islands. The story, which gave the name to this brilliant collection, is considered...więcej »
Rupert Bascoe and Wakefield are the main characters of the story. They rode in the night express. They were familiar, even more, they had an affair. However, Miss Wakefield did not trust her partne...więcej »
Everyone has opinions about evolution, but how many people have actually read Charles Darwin? If you haven’t done so yet, you’re missing out on what is surely one of the greatest books ...więcej »
Set in Chicago, and written in 1931 by Edgar Wallace, „On the Spot” truly reflects the horror of gang life in Prohibition Chicago. Tony Perelli, the gang boss, recruits men for his gang...więcej »
A prolific Australian novelist, Guy Boothby was noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. In 1894 he published On the Wallaby; or, Through the Eas...więcej »
„Ona” to historia wielkiej miłości i ogromnego cierpienia. Tytułowa „ona” to panienka Konstancja Skowrońska, nazywana Kostusią. Jest sierotą wychowywaną przez wujostwo. W ma...więcej »
This novel is an amazing mixture of adventure, romance and political intrigue. Roosevelt’s most trusted spy must flee for his life by escaping into the European countryside.więcej »
Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866 1946), an English novelist, was a major and successful writer of genre fiction, particularly thrillers. Among his books are „The Betrayal”, „The Av...więcej »
”The Secret of One Night” tells about the life and love of three young women: Cyril Hendrick, daughter of a handsome, beggar, bastard; her best friend Sidney Owenson, a naive heiress; a...więcej »
A detective story which solves in an exceedingly clever manner the inexplicable death of a prosperous stockbroker and the secret of his life. The reader’s attention is first caught by a myste...więcej »
This is the story of a young man who strives with all his might to free himself from the oppressive patriarchal atmosphere of life in the Midwest. The hero rejects the fate destined for him and cho...więcej »
Utwór historyczny Jędrzeja Kitowicza, który jako pierwszy opisał życie w Polsce w XVIII w. nie z perspektywy władców czy słynnych postaci, ale zwykłych ludzi. Dzieło podzielone...więcej »
„ Opowieść wigilijna ” to bez wątpienia najsłynniejsze opowiadanie o Wigilii, która okazało się niespodziewanym sukcesem Karola Dickensa. Ebenezer Scrooge, ską...więcej »
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). Porter’s 400 short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endin...więcej »
„Orangen und Datteln” vereinigt in sich einige der Reiseerzählungen Karl May’s. Dies ist ein Sammelband mit Kurzerzählungen des berühmten Autors. Enthalten sind: &b...więcej »
Amos Lee Mappin is a great detective. A sad man came to him asking him to find his granddaughter, Mary Stannard. The detective soon discovers that she has stood up her wedding party. Mappin found s...więcej »