The book that will keep your attention until the very last page! A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katherine Green is one of the first detective stories to ever be published in USA. Her novels are kn...
Weird mystery with rationalized supernaturalism featuring private detective Matthew Grimlock. „A Studio Mystery” is a secret, and there is not much of a secret about the murder of the a...
Henry Rider Haggard wrote adventure novels. A Tale of Three Lions is an exciting story about the dangerous adventure of a young girl, Harry. She wants to join her father, who became a celebrity, th...
„A Tale of Two Cities” is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens and it is one of his most tragic works. The plot centers on the years leading up to the French Revolution and cu...
Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, justly famous for her „Anne of Green Gables” series, wrote two novels in her career that were explicitly intended for adults. „A Tangled Web&...
A nineteenth-century novel from a German Egyptologist and novelist who discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus in Luxor. Georg Ebers wanted to familiarize the public with the discoveries of Egyptol...
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...
An exciting science fiction adventure, in which two Edwardian schoolboys Gerald Wilton and Jack Lawford journey on a trip to Mars, where they have various adventures and help to suppress a revolt. ...
Hugh Pendexter was an American author who also wrote under the pseudonyms H. P. and Faunce Rochester. The main character is hiding from a man who does not give him peace of mind. He came to one of ...
Taramis, Queen of Khauran, awakened from a dream-haunted slumber to a silence that seemed more like the stillness of nighted catacombs than the normal quiet of a sleeping place. She lay staring int...
Aaron Rodd, who was a shy and awkward being, felt unexpectedly at his ease. He was even anxious for further conversation. He had a rather long, pale face, with deep-set eyes and rugged features. He...
The whaling schooner with an incomplete crew returns to America, after not very successful trades. On board is the owner’s wife with the child, their cousin Benedict, an analogue of Paganel a...
Sir John Retcliffe, der eigentlich Herrmann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche heißt, war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, aber er war auch bei der Preußischen Geheimpolizeit tätig, arbeitete...
This novel is served with a psychological detective dressing. In reality, this is a mixture of experiences, feelings and thoughts of the protagonist, describing events that in any case should end i...
Dramat Stanisława Wyspiańskiego, oparty na motywach „Iliady”, wydany w roku 1903. Skupia się na wydarzeniach, które rozegrały się podczas oblężenia Troi. Składa się z luźno powią...
A mixture of romance and paranormal. The story of a child who belongs to the upper class. The main character, Archie, saw something strange in women. They wore skirts that might have hidden some ki...
This is a scatter shot collection of short stories and poems that really have nothing to do with each other. Most of them come from Kipling’s early years, so some stories are good. Night Mail...
Powieść Elizy Orzeszkowej, przybiera formę listownego dwugłosu – korespondencji między Seweryną Zdrojowską oraz Tomaszem Rodowskim. Listy Tomasza pisał początkowo Tadeusz Garbowski, jednak ni...
George Eliot’s (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) first full-length novel, „Adam Bede” paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, self-deception and redemption. Fir...
The novel „Adventure” in an acute, exciting form tells about the life of American and European settlers on the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean. The main characters are no less pat...