On the same night, two brothers were killed at a distance of 400 miles from each other. Their bodies were apparently searched by the killers, but money and valuables were left on the corpses. What ...
Joseph Smith Fletcher is an English journalist and writer. He wrote over 230 books on a wide variety of topics, both fiction and non-fiction, and was one of the most prolific English mystery writer...
This book is a collection of short stories about one of Sherlock Holmes’ most prominent rivals: Dr. Thorndyke and Jervis. Doyle’s characters may be better, but Freeman spins a lot of my...
Dr. John Thorndike is a fictional detective in a series of novels. He is a medical lawyer – a doctor by origin, he turned to the bar and became one of the first, in modern terms, forensic exp...
In the center of the book is the life of a young man, Miles, who lives in America. He wants to become a sailor like his father. This is an exciting adventure story of the life of a ship captain. Se...
Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a bitter, ironic novel. The protagonist is Gordon Comstock, an unrecognized poet, failed writer, forced to work in an advertising agency to earn a living. He has a rea...
Insurance company agent George „Fatty” Bowling lives with his family in a featureless house among the same featureless houses in the London suburbs. When George wins some money at the r...
”Down and out in Paris and London” is a dramatic and at the same time full of Orwell caustic humor autobiographical story of a young English intellectual, who lives in the capitals with...
The setting for „The Garden Murder Case”, the ninth detective novel by S.S. Van Dine, featuring stylish intellectual detective Philo Vance, is a rooftop penthouse. Vance receives a not-...
These are notes on the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1937, in which Orwell took part. The notes consist, as it were, of two parts: the story of an eyewitness participant and an analytical analysis. The...
In the 1930s, George Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Orwell went further than just studying unemployment ...
”Burmese Days” is an early novel by Orwell, in which the future great English writer enters into a kind of literary confrontation with his no less brilliant predecessor, Kipling. The li...
An ironic and at the same time sad story about the desecration of the ideas of socialism by tyrants, is told by the author in the form of a fairy tale, where the animals of an ordinary British farm...
Dorothy has always been a believer. Her father, a priest, helped her believe in God, and now the girl sincerely tries to be correct. She punishes herself for every misconduct, leads a household and...
Mijają trzy miesiące, odkąd Sarah nie płaci czynszu. Zarządzająca nieruchomością Jenn wchodzi do małego londyńskiego mieszkania, gdzie gra radio, a na małym stole jadalnym stoją nakrycia dla trzech...
Seria: Interdisciplinary Humour Research (1), ISSN 2719-8235 Niniejsza monografia przedstawia propozycję tłumaczenia humoru w literaturze dziecięcej opartą na teorii przestr...
Powieść wybitnego amerykańskiego pisarza Marka Twaina, należąca do światowegokanonu literatury dziecięcej. Historia o zamianie ról nastoletnich chłopców, księcia z żebrakiem, kt...
"A prolonged whistle reminded all the passengers there were only five minutes left until the train’s departure. I, Kazik, was among them for in just five minutes my great trip to Africa ...
The Touch of an Angel is the extraordinary story of a child's survival of the Holocaust. Henryk Schönker was born in 1931 into one of the most prominent and highly esteemed Jewish families of ...
Dear Reader,can you imagine that you have lost your own shadow? Well, this is what happened to the hero of the fairy tale about the lost shadow, the title Felix the trudger. If you are ...