The science fiction story describes the adventures of three friends: the founder of the Cannon Club, Impi Barbicane, captain Nicolas and the daredevil Michel Ardan. Travelers make a five-day flight...
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...
It was almost night when this melancholy little party appeared at the main station. Dick, with great foresight, sent the food cart several miles to meet them, so my mother was relieved of pain when...
This is the last of Dr. Nicholas Boothby’s novels staged in Venice, Italy. Nicola tells the story of her sad life, demonstrates her mystical ability to help people test themselves in another ...
„The Collected Short Stories” is a collection of short adventure stories from pioneering American fantasy and science fiction writer David Wright O’Brien (1918–1944). A neph...
Dr. Nicola invited Douglas Ingleby to help him in a mysterious experiment. Unemployed and undoubtedly curious, Ingleby agrees to follow Nikola to a remote castle to help him take care of the old ma...
The book begins with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Judith, and we regret her death, as she was one of the most dominant and memorable characters in this series, starting with the seco...
Nicola is a very interesting and creepy character, you are never sure how much he will go and what evil he is really capable of. The main character is actually recruited and works together with Nic...
Many changes, hesitations, lives at stake... It is not easy to put this story aside. It is unpredictable and full of action. When the presidents are fighting for a share of power, our hero can do e...
The reader will meet with the wise caliph – Prince Florisel, with the insignificant but important villain-Dynamite, with the new Scheherazade – the charming clever Clara, and with liste...
Gracie Allen in this case is not a famous artist, but a worker in a perfume factory. She involuntarily gives the enchanted Philo Vance all the important clues in this murder of a gangster, in those...
A novel about a trio that robs some jewels, one of them escapes with them. This is followed by a whirlwind trip in Europe and Asia in pursuit of blood feud. Writing and plot points (despite the fac...
The Young Changed Book is a book that takes the year 1920 and makes it seem like a disguise. London in 1920 – and young people, standing in the center of the present, with extraordinary oppor...
„It was raining a little before noon, and now, standing on the veranda of my station, looking at the blue lagoon with the edge of a boiling surf, I was lucky not only to have one of the best ...
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...
Walpole wrote horror novels that tended to be more psychological than supernatural, with mysticism underlying thoughtfulness. The Inquisitor is a murder thriller set in a haunted village. This nove...
This book begins in Australia with a man and two adult children. They decide to return to England, but before leaving, an old enemy of his father appears. Son and daughter are surprised about him. ...
The book has a lot of scientific component from various fields: geology, paleontology, botany, zoology, physics. But everything is very accessible and understandable. The plot focuses on a explorat...
”Birds of Prey” is the first part of the story of Charlotte and her family and friends. At first, the birds of prey are a little confusing, since each of the first few chapters is a sep...
Children come to this world with knowledge of the world that they left, and spiritual connection with him through the satellite, which they just call their Friend. Some adults can grow up without l...