The novel is set in the fictional town of Templeton, modeled after the village of Cooperstown. In the novel, the Effingham family returns to Templeton from New York. The central theme is the state ...
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...
Sztandarowa powieść Aleksandra Dumas’a ojca. Bohaterem książki jest 19-letni Edmund Dantes – marynarz idealista. Niebawem ma zostać awansowany na kapitana statku i ożenić się z wybranką...
Powieść opowiada o początkach „kariery” Arsène’a Lupine’a. Kierowany honorem ratuje on przed śmiercią pewną tajemniczą piękność – hrabiankę Cagliostro. Kobieta ...
A true adventure story involving the unlikely hero Dickson McCunn, retired successful businessman and former greengrocer who sets out on a walking holiday in the Scottish Borders. There he meets a ...
Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w czasie wojen napoleońskich. Działania wojenne sprowadzają Floriana Gotartowskiego na terytorium polskie, gdzie w jednym z polskich dworków poznaje on piękną Zof...
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...
The main character landed in New York that very morning. At that moment, he was standing in the bar of the Astor Hotel, sober enough not to tell the bartenders everything he knew, and drunk enough ...
Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels...
Jimmy Kildare used to get away from the hospital every afternoon and go over to Tom McGuire’s saloon on the avenue. He always drank two beers. An interne in the accident room has to have the ...
This fantasy novel would make a wonderful addition to any bookshelf and is highly recommended for fans and collectors of seminal works. A fantastic satire about the Art Nouveau poet and his eight d...
Ivanhoe, the son of a Saxon nobleman, returns to England from the Crusades. Prince John is Regent in the absence of his brother, King Richard the Lionhearted who is imprisoned in Austria. Saxons ha...
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...
Jaragu, a boy from the jungle, was surprised in his life when a giant bird, making a loud buzzing sound, descended on a beach in Central America and froze as if it had been killed, but something si...
Max Brand (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, an extremely popular fictional character, and other beloved fictional ch...
Again the strange Sphinx Emerald came to the scene to play its part in the unrolling historic drama. This series about the Sphinx Emerald constitutes, as has been said, a veritable Outline of Histo...
„John Burnet of Barns” was Buchan’s first fully realised, full-length work of fiction. The author’s third novel is story of adventure, treachery and revenge, set in the Scot...
Written in 1925, the novel opens with three gentleman friends – lawyer Sir Edward Leithen, banker John Palliser-Yeates, and Cabinet member Charles Lord Lamancha – discovering that they ...
Ekscytujące przygody Cyrana de Bergerac, czyli Kapitana Czarta, rozgrywają się w dawnym Paryżu. Składa się na nie skomplikowana intryga miłosna, towarzyszące jej perypetie oraz tajemnice, któ...
Bohaterami powieści są europejscy przyrodnicy, badający faunę Afryki. Zostają jednak wciągnięci w niebezpieczną przygodę na afrykańskiej pustyni. Stają się mimowolnymi uczestnikami walk wioski murz...