Akcja Tajemniczego pamiętnika rozpoczyna się od zbrodni dokonanej na tyleż zamożnym, co tajemniczym człowieku nazwiskiem Gerner. Z biegiem czasu jednak sprawa zatacza coraz szersze kręgi, pojawia s...więcej »
Jules Verne: Tajemniczy rybak. Le Pilote du Danube. Powieść w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i francuskiej. Version bilingue: polonaise et française. Fragment: „Oto od kilk...więcej »
October Jones to zbuntowana młoda kobieta, po śmierci ojca oddana na wychowanie wujowi. Zgodnie z testamentem w dniu 21. urodzin powinna wyjść za mąż - tylko wówczas jej opiekun dostan...więcej »
Młody mężczyzna podający się za Antoniego Korskiego wcale nie był człowiekiem zepsutym do szpiku kości. Członkiem bandy włamywaczy stał się z braku lepszych możliwości i po prostu wykonywał polecen...więcej »
W Tałtach, małej mazurskiej wiosce, w willi znanego piosenkarza pięciu starych przyjaciół świętuje Nowy Rok. Niestety, jeden z nich nie doczeka pokazu fajerwerków... Dwa miesiące p&oa...więcej »
This book is meant to be read by young women at that tender age, when the feelings of their nature begin to act most insidiously on them, and when their minds are least prepared by reason and exper...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 »
„Taps at Reveille” (1935) is a collection of 18 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1935 and dedicated to Fitzgerald’s agent Harold Ober. It was the fourth and fina...więcej »
Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, „Tender Is the Night” is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver who marries one of his patients,...więcej »
The narrator is a widower with two daughters, living happily into a rather troubling middle age and pushing away his daughter’s suitors so that his daughters would live with him a little long...więcej »
Love humor writing? Can’t get enough of classic adventure tales? First published in 1902, „The Adventures of Gerard” are the autobiographical reminiscences of an old fictional bri...więcej »
People rule here. They define the laws of life and death. They can kill animals to eat them. They can excoriate them, play with their suffering, modify their bodies—simultaneously claiming th...więcej »
Lorelei Knight’s parents want to get rich on her beauty. They send her to New York to be on a „girl show”. Bob Wharton, the dissolute son of a millionaire, falls in love with a gi...więcej »
One of the greatest western authors of all time, superstar pulpsmith Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. ...więcej »
This is the story of what happened to a dozen malcontents who could no longer tolerate dirty business in Europe and politicians at home. This is an exciting story that will keep you in suspense unt...więcej »
Many men were indebted to the trader in Flambeau, and many considered him a friend. The latter never explained why, other than that he did them a favor, and in the North that matters a lot.więcej »
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, first published in 1922, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage of would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch: they are be...więcej »
There are typical characters in this book: the villains are very evil, while the heroes and heroines are beautiful, brave and wise. However, there is romance, adventure and suspense in this book, a...więcej »
Since this is not a very famous story, and most of the pleasure that it provides depends on the surprise that the highlight in the story will present to the reader. Winston Bunter, who registered a...więcej »
The Black Rider,” originally published in 1925, is set in Spanish California at the time when the eastern colonies of this country were still ruled by Great Britain. In the novella The Black ...więcej »