This is a historical saga about the fate of three generations of the Littlepage family living in the New World. The novel tells about the people who heroically and bravely mastered the lands of the...
The novel takes place during the Mexican-American War. All main events take place on the ship. For Rose and her sweet aunt, this journey is meant to be rest, rejuvenation, and an escape from a worl...
This novel combines nostalgic autobiographical memories and social philosophy. The author gives a comprehensive view of colonial life and society in the state of New York in the mid-eighteenth cent...
Two surviving American sailors, Mark and Bob, found themselves on a bare volcanic rock in the middle of the ocean. Gradually, they manage to form a soil layer using silt, guano and algae. As a resu...
Theos Olwyn, a poet and a lost man, travels to a secluded monastery in search of a man who can take his soul. He finds him in Heliobas, a seer who has given up his parlor sessions for the sake of i...
The author draws attention to the catastrophe of the future – the destruction of the world as a result of careless and deliberate poisoning by human beings of the atmosphere, earth, seas and ...
Thieves Wit is a detective story. Aspiring Confidential Agent in search of a pearl necklace. The villain sets up her lover, but the detective foils the evil plot. A story that keeps you in suspense...
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...
‟Precaution” was written in the spirit of sentimental English novels on the theme of marriage. The author clearly holds the idea that the choice of a groom for her daughter is the moral duty ...
The storyline is centered around a sea voyage. The story’s subtitle is ‟The Chase” and it picks up right away as the authorities try to get back a passenger who apparently owes money to...
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...
Izabela Moszczeńska-Rzepecka (1864–1941) była publicystką i rzeczniczką emancypacji kobiet, feministką oraz działaczką społeczną. Założyła Ligę Kobiet Polskich Pogotowia Wojennego. Napisała w...
Przedwojenna powieść kryminalna, która ukazywała się w odcinkach w prasie. Spadki, a zwłaszcza pozostające po zamożnych przodkach fortuny, od dawna rozpalały wyobraźnię i budziły żądze. Niek...
Feliks Bernatowicz (1786–1836) był polskim powieściopisarzem romantycznym i komediopisarzem. Zaliczał się do współtwórców rozwijającego się w okresie Królestwa Kon...
„Niesamowita opowieść” to tom nowel autorstwa Stefana Grabińskiego, zawierający takie tytuły jak „Kochanka Szamoty”, „Na tropie”, „Spojrzenie”, &bdqu...
Nowela opowiada historię hiszpańskiego żołnierza José, którego miłość do pięknej Cyganki Carmen zwiodła na złą drogę. Aby zaskarbić sobie uczucie wybranki, bohater wikła się w środowi...