American writer Zane Gray is a popular author of Western adventure novels, one of the „founding fathers” of this genre. From his pen came out over 60 books, many of which became subject...więcej »
One of the founders of the genre of „espionage” novel, but also an employee of British intelligence, and later a prominent political figure, whose career ended as Governor General of Ca...więcej »
Zane Gray was an American author, known on both sides of the ocean for his Westerns – popular novels and adventure stories that represented a solid, idealized image of the Old West. From his ...więcej »
Charlotte Bronte wrote „Shirley” in difficult days for her: at this time her brother Branwell and two sisters, Emily and Ann, died of tuberculosis. Another novel about Jane Eyre, who wa...więcej »
He is a French writer whose adventure novels made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. He was also a playwright and journalist. Having hired several assistants, he writes no...więcej »
These are the legends of courageous people who conquered the vast expanses of the American Wild West. The heroes of Max Brand’s westerns are cowboys, gunfighters, sheriffs – the fearles...więcej »
A novel was born and developed in literature, which we call classic English in terms of both plot and character of the heroes and style of presentation. Victorian books became the standard for many...więcej »
For many generations of readers, Herbert Wells, author of The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Food of the Gods, and a number of other science fiction novels, has been and remains a great s...więcej »
The name Howard Phillips Lovecraft thundered to the whole world as a standard of horror literature. Gifted with the art of exquisite literature, he wrote about terrible shadows in the corner and th...więcej »
The story of all-consuming passion, the story of a married woman who fell in love with a handsome officer and threw her husband against everything: the opinion of the world, generally accepted mora...więcej »
„Ardistan und Dschinnistan” gehört zu den bedeutendsten Spätwerken Mays, in denen er sich immer mehr von seinen abenteuerlichen Reiseerzählungen, durch die er seinen Ruhm...więcej »
The fifth of the Earl Derr Biggers Charlie Chan books books involves the Honolulu detective in a case of murder that stretches around the world, as members of a tour group are dying, one by one. Ch...więcej »
Ce livre appartient a la catégorie de l’éternel, car il traite de tout, de la vie et de la mort, de l’amour et de l’honneur, du courage et de l’héroisme...więcej »
Erleben Sie die Abenteuer des Kara Ben Nemsi, der an Sklavenjäger und -händler gerät und zusammen mit Reis Effendina, einem Offizier des Vizekönigs, versucht, dem Einhalt zu geb...więcej »
In this last written adventure, the plot unfolds with an intriguing scenario. Wealthy and hospitible Dudley Ward gathers together Charlie Chan along with Ellen’s three later husbands to his l...więcej »
Le roman d’Alexandre Dumas «Le comte de Monte-Cristo» est considéré comme l’une des œuvres les plus marquantes de l’écrivain, il peut sans a...więcej »
Die Trilogie „Old Surehand” ist ein paradigmatisches Werk des Übergangs und der Wandlung Karl Mays. Mit der Hilfe von Old Wabble, dem „König der Cowboys”, will Old...więcej »
The death of Hollywood actress Shelah Fane in her Waikiki beach house brings Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police to seek the identity of the killer. The story behind her murder is linked with the t...więcej »
„The Collected Short Stories” is a collection of short adventure stories from pioneering American fantasy and science fiction writer David Wright O’Brien (1918–1944). A neph...więcej »
One of the most famous novels of the Canadian writer Lucy Mod Montgomery. A single brother and sister living on a farm decide to adopt a boy from a shelter in Nova Scotia so that he becomes an au p...więcej »