Na arenie politycznej walki najsilniejszą emocją jest strach. Po upadku rządu Margaret Thatcher brytyjska scena polityczna, trzymana dotąd żelazną ręką, ulega rozchwianiu. W kolejnych wyborach władzę obejmuje słaby Henry "Hal" Collingridge. Tak przynajmniej widzi go Mr. Urquhart - polityk o wybujałych ambicjach, który próbuje wykorzystać chaos w życiu politycznym kraju do swoich celów. Przedstawia premierowi misterny plan przetasowań w rządzie, a gdy ten nie daje się przekon...

Znajdziecie tu opowieści o piratach i księżniczkach, zamkach i królach – historie, które przypomną Wam, że cuda się zdarzają i że miłość jest silniejsza od śmierci. Pośród innych dzieci poznacie: Benjamina, pasterza, który oddał swoją pelerynę dziecku i spotkał się twarzą w twarz z Jezusem; Antoniego, który wyruszył w drogę by zostać księdzem, lecz wylądował na pirackim statku gdzie działy się cuda; Wacława, chłopca z sowieckiego obozu pracy, który wędrował z Ho...

Znajdziecie tu opowieści o księciach i cyganach, biskupach i niedźwiedziach - historie, które przypomną Wam, że wiara jest szczególnie silna w młodych duszach, a zło nigdy nie może równać się z dobrem. Pośród bohaterów tej książki poznacie Bernarda, Mikołaja, Oswalda i Ruperta, Tomka, Józka oraz Kasię. Sowieckie krowy, obraz Matki Bożej, mała myszka, Wielkanocny kurczak oraz arka, rybki, osioł, a nawet dinozaur - wszyscy są tutaj w tuzinie uroczych op...

A house party at a country house in Connecticut, reputedly a house under a curse. The owner dies mysteriously, and one of the house party vanishes. The characters of the wealthy murdered man, his young wife and his daughter, as well as those of the servants and detectives are more than usually convincing and the story altogether adapted for effortless fireside reading. While the reader is prevented from divining the solution too easily, a proper number of clues are conscien...

Mark, Jenna, Greyson i Polly mieszkają w nowoczesnym bunkrze. Ten podziemny świat zaspokaja ich niezbędne potrzeby. Posiada dobrze wyposażoną kuchnię, siłownię i basen, a nawet pewnego rodzaju muzeum. Jego zaopatrzenie wystarczyłoby na całe życie. Z dala od świata zewnętrznego bohaterowie starają się zachować zdrowie psychiczne, przestrzegając ustalonych procedur i przyjmując codziennie nieokreślone leki. Tyle że żadne z nich nie pamięta dokładnie, jak się tam znalazło, ani c...

”A House of Pomegranates” is the second collection of fairy tales by the brilliant writer, master of European aesthetics Oscar Wilde, author of the novel „Portrait of Dorian Gray”, plays „Salome”, „Fan Lady Windermere” and „Ideal Husband”, letters of confession „De profundis”, and also numerous short stories, short stories, poems and essays about art. The text is published in two languages, which allows you to fully appreciate the unique originality of the works belonging t...

“Heartbreak House” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Heartbreak House is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a position to guide Europe to safety failed to learn their proper business of political navigation". The "Russian ma...

„A House to Let” is a novella originally published in 1858 by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole was edited by Dickens, making it fit together seamlessly as a whole. This novella is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. It is about a house th...

This is a collection of many tales. „Porridge Pot" is a German folk tale from the Grimm Brothers collection, perhaps one of the most famous and beloved from early childhood. This is a story about how one girl received as a present from an old woman a pot that cooks porridge itself, it is only necessary to pronounce a magic spell. The girl carried the pot to her mother, but when she decided to use it, she forgot how to order the pot to stop in time. The pot boiled so much po...

“Widowers' Houses” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Widowers' Houses was the first play by George Bernard Shaw to be staged. This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898. They were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, not to entertain their audiences – as the traditional Victorian theatre was expected to – but to ra...

Traveling through southern Florida, a New Yorker Don Counsel is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is holding the real killer captive on his yacht while detectives are searching for Counsel. Meanwhile a young Pen Broome tries to help Counsel out. Riever’s men find Counsel and trap him in a ballast bulkhead, but Pen rescues him. Will Counsel be able to prove his innocence?

Trójka wilków, którzy rządzą elitarną szkołą, i dziewczyna, która staje się ich celem.Elodie Stillwater właśnie została przeniesiona do jednej z najbardziej ekskluzywnych akademii w Stanach. Od razu orientuje się, że nie jest to tradycyjna szkoła. Panuje w niej mroczny i przesiąknięty lękiem klimat.Szkołą rządzi trzech bardzo bogatych chłopaków, którzy myślą, że mogą wszystko. I dla pozostałych uczniów lepszym wyjściem będzie schodzić im z drogi. Niestety Elodie już pierwszeg...

The story „Midnight House” about the mysterious house. The owners, who went abroad. However, neighbors claim that they saw them in the city. This house is associated with ill-fated love and early death. For a long time, it was closed, but soon reopened...

Money often changes people’s lives. If you inherited a substantial amount of money would it change yours? Would you work or quit your job? Would you feel entitled to various privileges because of your wealth? Would you behave differently? These and other issues are the subject of the English novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Bleak House, like many of Dickens’ writings, is about various social issues. Bleak House is a satirical story about Dickens’ view of the British ju...

Elitarna szkoła magii, zakazana moc i mroczna miłość w znakomitej, chwytającej za serce serii fantasy YA.Czternaście szkół. Dwanaście lat. Dziewięć miast.17-letnia Quell Janae Marionne uciekała przez całe życie. Ona i jej matka przenosiły się z miejsca na miejsce, aby ukryć przed światem mroczną magię, płynącą w żyłach dziewczyny. Ktoś jednak odkrył ich sekret, a one znów muszą uciekać, bo jeśli Quell zostanie złapana, zginie.Aby ukryć się przed polującymi na nią morderca...

In „The House in the Mist,” weary traveler Hugh Austin happens upon a house in a village whilst seeking shelter on a misty night. The house is open, and initially the reception he gets is quite strange to him, he then realizes that he was taken for the relative of a dead man and that the gathering he encounters is a meeting of relatives regarding an inheritance that was left. By the time they find out the deceased had long-held vengeance on his mind, it is too late. „The Ho...

Two main assistants of our hero help their friend astrologer to solve the mystery. After all, Imer Lamb was locked in a sanatorium for killing his friend. Is he mad or the victim of a devilish conspiracy? Many secrets that readers must solve.

No second glance was needed to realise the pitiful truth. The man seated there in his fine library, with the summer sunset slanting across the red carpet from the open French windows, was blind. Since his daughter Gabrielle had been a pretty, prattling child of nine, nursing her dolly, he had never looked upon her fair face. But he was ever as devoted to her as she to him.

Barnes Place – the house, fascinated everyone who saw it. However, his host, Ralph Enderby, didn’t care much about him and saw the house as a week-end office where he entertained his friends and weaved those business schemes which had made his name a byword amongst the City men who knew. One evening Enderby, as always was not at home. This took advantage of an attacker who tried to steal something from the safe. It turned out that it was a girl who was unhappy with the frau...

The novel begins in Paris on the wedding night of Sally and Rex Garrett. A former member of the French Foreign Legion Rex mysteriously disappears on the night of his wedding. At The Pigeon House, a lonely inn, a band of conspirators await the arrival of a deserter from the Foreign Legion, who is their „key man” in their plan to start an uprising in French Morocco. The conspirators have also driven the bridegroom’s closest friend into exile and a shameful death, which means ...

Aleksandr Petrovich lives through a spiritual re-awakening that culminates with his release from the prison camp. The narrator has been sentenced to penalty deportation to Siberia and ten years of hard labor for murdering his wife. Published in 1861, „House of the Dead” is a semi-autobiographical work based upon Dostoevsky’s exile to Siberia where he was punished with „hard labor” after he was initially convicted to be punished by death by firing-squad for his involvement i...

Lord Thurso-Rainham is the type of vigorous man who is the victim of neuralgic headaches. He becomes addicted to the drugs he takes to counter their effects. All other attempts to cure Thurso from his addiction failed. There is one option to save his – to try Christian science, in which no one believes.

If you enjoy a fast moving Western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, you’ll like "The Seven Mile House" by Max Brand. Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Brand’s remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest Western authors of all time. Max Brand leads the reader on a very authentic tale of the old west the way it was. Brand’s action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the ...

When Professor Godfrey St. Peter and his wife move into a new home, he begins to feel dissatisfied with the new turn in life. He continues his scientific work in his dusty laboratory in an old house, trying to return to his old life. Two of his daughters get married and leave their home, two sons-in-law appear in the family. This provokes a midlife crisis, making the professor feel like he has lost his will to live due to a lack of purpose.