One of the founders of the genre of „espionage” novel, but also an employee of British intelligence, and later a prominent political figure, whose career ended as Governor General of Ca...
“1984“ is a novel by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four....
He is a French writer whose adventure novels made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. He was also a playwright and journalist. Having hired several assistants, he writes no...
A novel was born and developed in literature, which we call classic English in terms of both plot and character of the heroes and style of presentation. Victorian books became the standard for many...
Guy Boothby, an Australian writer, became famous thanks to his famous character – the mysterious Dr. Nicolas, who has truly terrible power over people, and a clever con man hiding under the g...
The city itself, climbing a hillside almost at the water’s edge, was painted pale pink at sunset, and even the old Vesuvius, from the top of which a thin column of black smoke seemed a little...
A Christmas Carol - a novella by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. A Christmas Carol recounts the sto...
“A Clergyman’s Daughter“ is a novel by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian nov...
A chance meeting in the Warwick Castle leads to an unusual acquaintance. An American who was born and raised in Connecticut shares his diary, which describes in detail his journey to England in the...
There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but as far as this is true, very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it is almost amazing. Th...
“A Daughter of the Snows” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction....
It was interesting how Twain switched between stories. For example, a horse started a story from a first-person perspective. At first, people told, then letters told about past events, often to cha...
Seattle-born author who worked as a cowhand in California, attended Berkeley, joined then deserted the Canadian Army, and finally settled down to writing full-time. Max Brand was incredibly prolifi...
“A Princess of Mars“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. A Princ...
“A Son of the Sun” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.<...
A Tale of Two Cities - a novel by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. A Tale of Two Cities is set in Lo...
The noisy success of this perky book, which was based on Mark Twain’s impressions of his trip to Europe and Palestine, opened the way for the journalist to great literature. A guy from the sh...
“Adventure” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
This book is about adventure and willingness to discover foreign cultures as well as the inner self. Little Redhead is visiting various faraway lands. In each, she meets fortune-telling creatures. ...
Monon heals her wounds on Sicily, trying to open a new chapter in her life. She devotes every spare moment to painting while revisiting secrets and mysteries from the past – in order to calm ...