It is the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierre’s revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly being thwarted. It appears that Sir Percy Blakeney – the cunning and ...
Powieść gotycka, która opisuje dzieje historyczne. Nawiązuje do walk wrześniowych z 1831 roku, jakie toczyły się pod Warszawą. Główny bohater odkrywa ruiny zamku i poznaje intrygującą...
Inspired by accusations of venality leveled at the men who captured Major Andre (Benedict Arnold’s co-conspirator, executed for espionage in 1780), Cooper’s novel centers on Harry Birch...
John Buchan’s own favourite among his novels, in which he dealt with the hypocrisy which can lie close to the surface of apparently god-fearing respectability. The story is set in the Scottis...
This novel demonstrates Dickens experimenting with building his own voice. The Pickwick Papers is a series of linear adventures, unlike the convoluted plots of Dickens’s later novels. In othe...
Bracia Wilhelm Karl i Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimmowie, niemieccy pisarze i uczeni, sięgnęli do korzeni europejskiej kultury i zebrali oraz opracowali tradycyjne podania, mity i opowieści ludowe. Niepoz...
Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his Western...
Bohaterem serii jest intrygująca postać o dwóch twarzach: wiktoriański gentelman Lord Edward Lister oraz słynny złodziej Raffles w jednej osobie. Jak w ogóle do tego doszło i co może ...
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened ...
This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like...
The sequel to „The Drift Fence”, featuring the continuing story of Jim Traft and Molly Dunn and introducing Jim’s sister Glorianna, who finds more than she bargained for in the We...
R. Austin Freeman’s character Dr. Thorndyke is considered the first modern forensic scientist in literature. This is one of the oddities of detective fiction. The first part of this story is ...
Losy hrabiny Anny Cosel – jednej z najsłynniejszych królewskich metres, kochanki Augusta II Mocnego. Władca zakochał się w Annie Cosel, kiedy była żoną jednego z jego ministr&oa...
In this breathless tale of bravery and battle, of white mans courage and red mans daring, Zane Grey has written one of his finest novels. The great western writer’s story of the buffalo hunte...
Short mysteries involving the blind detective Carrados. Max Carrados is one of the most unusual detectives in all fiction. He is blind – and yet he has developed his other faculties to such a...
Sixteen In Nome is narrated by young Joe May, an Arizonian who has come to Alaska to "make his stake for a ranch." Joe May, a starving, overgrown youth, had provided a small service for H...
Powieść historyczno-przygodowa opowiadająca historię szlachcica o pseudonimie Morgan, który przewodzi tajnemu stowarzyszeniu „Towarzyszy Jehudy”. Ich celem jest restauracja monar...
Dalszy ciąg przygód z serii „Ród Rodrigandów”. Na ratunek mieszkańcom hacjendy del Erina spieszy Czarny Gerard, który udaremnia zamach. Następnie, pod nieobe...
„Fortune’s Christmas” is a short story by Max Brand originally published in December 20, 1924. Brand was an American author best known for his thoughtful Westerns under the pen na...