Set in the late 1920s-early 1930s, „When the Gangs Came to London” is rated as one of Edgar Wallace’s best work by fans of his genre of crime fiction. Two rival gangs from Chicago...
This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like...
The final, and certainly climactic, adventure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor George Edward Challenger is 1928’s „When the World Screamed”. It is another Professor Cha...
”When the World Shook” is a classic story, written by H. Rider Haggard, telling about the horror of a ghost town. The plot revolves around three friends – one absolutely unshakabl...
Outside the city of Sycaster, they found small villages. In the villages themselves, the observant traveler often finds traces of old houses, which, no doubt, were picturesque and calculated in tho...
Fleming Stone №23. On the eve of her marriage to Rodney Sayre, Emily Duane disappears. She had left her Hillside Park home to visit the hospital but never arrived there. Foul play is feared when Ji...
Mystical incidents occur in „"While She Sleeps."” Miss Loveapple – extremely lucky woman. She was always lucky in life, so to speak, the card turned that side. However, ...
Settle in for a whimsical, thoroughly enjoyable whirlwind tour through the prodigious imagination of American short-story master O. Henry. When he wrote the following, he may have discounted his ow...
Doctor Kildare approached just in time to hear Meg say to the officer, „"I heard a shot outside my apartment, then a crash. When I ran out, this man was lying on the landing... „&r...
„Whispering Death” (1931) is the third adventure in the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). This third story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into ...
A man ends up stabbed to death on a street in London’s Tidal Basin, victim of the almost mythical murderer roaming the streets of London, the Devil of Tidal Basin. But why is another bandit s...
The main conflict of the story is dog-nature vs. wolf-nature, or nature vs. man. What happens to White fang, and how he goes through the many troubles that he has to. Growing up in the Yukon territ...
The novel „The White Jacket” by American writer Herman Melville is dedicated to swimming on the US military frigate. The novel, which is a chronicle only in part, describes in detail th...
This story is about the Crown Prince. Most of the world is against him and what he stands for. He expresses surprise at the position of the United States. This attitude is the natural result of var...
Mappin is a wealthy New York criminologist and author who is highly valued by the police and high society. He participates only in those crimes that really interest him. And in ’Who Killed th...
„Wiele hałasu o nic” to historia dwójki młodych zakochanych, którzy przeżywają swoją pierwszą miłość. Tytuł odnosi się do zachowania młodych kochanków, którz...
Ambroży Jenialkiewicz to człowiek, który ma wielkie plany, zawsze z powodzeniem realizuje świetne pomysły, knuje wyśmienite intrygi i zarządza wielkimi majątkami. A przynajmniej tak mu się w...
„Wielki człowiek z prowincji w Paryżu” to druga część powieści „Stracone złudzenia” autorstwa Honoriusza Balzaca. Młody Lucjan, początkujący prowincjonalny poeta, wyrusza do...
Villon François, średniowieczny, paryski poeta, choć ukończył Uniwersytet Paryski i uzyskał tytuł magistra sztuk wyzwolonych, wybrał życie awanturnika i przestępcy. Burzliwe doświadczenia i ...
„ Wierna rzeka ” opisuje okres powstania styczniowego. Po przegranej bitwie pod Małogoszczem do zrujnowanego majątku Niezdoły dociera ciężko ranny powstaniec, książę Józef Odrową...