Легендарная гладиатриса Гипсикратия, бывшая скифянка, покорила арену и стала любимицей толпы. Но она все еще помнит Великую Степь и жаждет вернуться к дочери, оставшейся во владениях царя Митридата...
This is a historical novel written in the 1900s but set in 1680s Jamestown, Virginia. The plot revolves around the anger of the colonists over the Navigation Act, which robbed them of their profits...
This novel is dedicated to the generation of builders of the first railway in the West. This subtle powerful novel and very touching. Beautifully written in sharp, stingy language that enhances the...
A collection of poignant stories about art and artists, about those who love them and those who don’t. Every story in this book is about artists and disappointment. Three stories are Western,...
This is historical fiction. The author retells the classic struggle of Xerxes’ invasion of Greece leading to Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataea. Seen through the eyes of a fictional Athenian, i...
Фотограф Дмитрий Быков готовится к новому опасному путешествию. Он собрал экспедицию отчаянных сорвиголов, чтобы совершить спуск по самой длинной подземной реке мира. Рискованная затея оборачиваетс...
The novel tells about the life of a French missionary in the southwestern United States. In the center of the novel are two Frenchmen, Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Veillant, who left Europe...
The action takes place in Virginia five years before the Civil War. The story shows the impact of slavery on Saphira Colbert, a woman of spirit and common sense who is frighteningly capricious in d...
Никто и никогда не видел слез гордой скифской царицы Арпаты. После того как ее отец, великий владыка Атей, погиб в бою, она заняла его трон, при этом обратив свое сердце в скалу. Неприступность и к...
The stories in this collection mostly take place in New York and Boston, and are all about artists–writers, musicians, sculptors–and their relationship to society. There are stories of ...
This book is about the civil war in Lancashire. Like any war, this story cannot but leave impressions after itself. You will be immersed in history and characters.
The protagonist narrator serves as a common thread for stories that also feature humor. A young scientist travels the world in the footsteps of mysterious animals. This is an ironic and fantastic a...
Tomek Sawyer to urwis jak ich mało, a każdy dzień wypełniają mu niesamowite przygody. Pirackie życie na bezludnej wyspie? Poszukiwanie ukrytych dawno temu skarbów? Odkrywanie przerażających ...
Судан, кінець XIX століття. Лідер повстанців Магді оголошує джихад єгипетській владі та підданим Британської імперії. Місто Хартум опиняється в облозі. Удень і вночі барабани магдистів співають про...
This is a historical novel. The story revolves around the Jacobite rising and the invasion of Preston. The book is considered one of the author’s Lancashire novels.
Those who think they recognize the Comtesse de Vassart are undoubtedly mistaken. Mornak, long dead, is safe in his disguise. No trains with treasures were actually sent from the arsenal in Brest to...
An American classic about Swedish immigrants in the Midwest. There lived in Nebraska a clever and beautiful woman named Alexandra Bergson, and she had three brothers. The older ones were greedy sel...
The action is completely framed as a fantasy. In this story, the atmosphere of the imprisonment of a madman (and possible recovery) and a villain, the story of his keeper, is completed.
The heroes learn about the fictional city of Karkos, where the King in yellow rules, and two suns shine in the sky, and this circumstance becomes the beginning of mystical changes in their destinie...
The protagonist Destin is a poor gentleman who meets his soul mate and together they create Green Mouse Lmtd to further his search for a soul mate through psychic waves.