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Druga powieść pisarza, który kryje się pod pseudonimem Melquiades. Wzorowy syn, który podał do sądu całą swoją rodzinę; kura, która ma dziwne konszachty z cyganami; tajemnica nawiedzonego domu. Oraz tajemniczy hobbysta z dalekiej przyszłości, który postanowił poznać dawno zapomnianą istotę, aby dowiedzieć się, dlaczego mówiono o niej: Człowiek to brzmi dumnie! Po lekturze tej książki będziesz mógł odpowiedzieć, na ile to prawdziwe hasło. Twoim przewodnikiem w tej szalon...

Maleńka Vassey traci rodziców i trafia do domu dziecka, a potem do antypatycznej ciotki. Zahukana i nieśmiała nie potrafi odnaleźć się w świecie, aż pewnego dnia poznaje w szkole cudownego chłopaka, który wydaje się jak ze snu. Jednak czy to przypadek, że pojawia się on po tym, jak wtargnęła w tajemnicze miejsce kultu, znajdujące się w lesie, przed czym ostrzegał ją zaprzyjaźniony gajowy? Kim jest ów chłopak? Pragnie jej miłości czy może... zguby?

Dziewczynki z miasta przypatrują się pracom gospodarskim na wsi. Oglądają oprząt i karmienie zwierząt gospodarskich, dojenie krów. Przyglądają się pracom polowym: sianokosom, żniwom i wykopkom. Obserwują też życie codzienne mieszkańców wsi. Wieczorami dziewczynki wysłuchują różnych opowieści babci, czasami strasznych. Pola – dziewczynka twórcza i pełna wyobraźni wymyśla różne gry i zabawy.Dzieci bawią się w sklep, w teatr czy w cyrk. Organizują zawody sportowe na łące i wielk...

„Remedium na śmierć. Historie prawdziwe” Marcina Michała Wysockiego, to zbiór bardzo ciekawych impresji; niepowiązanych ze sobą opowiadań, których wspólną osią są losy Polaków urodzonych przed II Wojną Światową. Oczami bardzo młodych ludzi, a czasem nawet dzieci, obserwujemy realia okupacyjnego życia, które było udziałem tysięcy rodaków w tamtym okresie. Pomimo, iż poszczególne historie są bardzo różnie opowiedziane, zarówno pod względem formy, jak i sposobu nar...

W układzie książki wyróżniamy wstęp, trzy rozdziały oraz zakończenie. We wstępie został przedstawiony cel, jak również teza główna, tezy pomocnicze oraz charakterystyka układu pracy i literatury. W rozdziale pierwszym omówione podstawowe dla prezentowanego zagadnienia pojęcia, m.in. „governance”, „europeizacja” i „wymiar sprawiedliwości” oraz „sprawiedliwość” i „biurokracja”. W tej części pracy przedstawione również metody badań oraz teoria europeizacji. W rozdziale drugim do...

Książka Marleny Krupy z jednej strony opisuje i analizuje obecność tekstów Jana od Krzyża w polskiej kulturze XX wieku, a z drugiej – jak pisze prof. dr hab. Beata Baczyńska w recenzji wydawniczej – „dotyka istoty ontologii dzieła sztuki i jego metafizycznego oddziaływania, roli twórcy we współczesnym świecie – twórcy, który odczuwa potrzebę doświadczania numinosum”. Refleksjom tym towarzyszą rozważania dotyczące kwestii języka jako medium ekspresji niewyrażalnych treści o ch...

Tytuł Polska literatura postkolonialna niesie za sobą trzy znaczenia. Po pierwsze, odzwierciedla podjętą w historycznych rozdziałach tomu próbę odczytania literatury polskiej od czasu rozbiorów w XVIII wieku do migracji poakcesyjnej w XXI stuleciu za pomocą heurystyki postkolonialnej. Po drugie, poddaje krytycznej rewizji polską literaturę badawczą zainspirowaną przez anglojęzyczną naukę postkolonialną. Po trzecie, głosi, że literaturę polską po 1795 roku cechują zn...

Zimą 1914 roku Marie Boratyńska postanawia odwiedzić po raz pierwszy Korbielowo – posiadłość, w której urodził się i wychował jej nieżyjący już ojciec. Rodzinne animozje sprawiły, że krewni z jego strony byli do tej pory obcymi dla niej ludźmi. Teraz jednak nadarza się okazja, by to zmienić. Marie odpowiada na zaproszenie Emilii, swojej kuzynki i nowej właścicielki Korbielowa, chcąc zburzyć narosły przez lata mur rodzinnych nieporozumień i pretensji. Czy kobietom uda się zbli...

Wielka Wojna w Europie spowodowała, że to, co wcześniej spędzało sen z powiek Marie Boratyńskiej, nagle straciło na znaczeniu. Wszystkie rodzinne nieporozumienia, tęsknoty, uczucia zostały przyćmione przez dramatyczne wydarzenia związane z wojenną zawieruchą. Młoda kobieta rzuca się w wir pracy w szpitalu, gdzie dniem i nocą dogląda rannych, próbuje ulżyć w bólu konającym żołnierzom oraz pokonać własne, narastające z każdym dniem, zmęczenie. Wkrótce nadchodzi wiadomość z fron...

Christopher Berry-Dee, kryminolog i autor bestsellerów o seryjnych mordercach, tym razem stara się wniknąć w głąb psychiki kobiet, które nie tylko zabijały, ale robiły to wielokrotnie. Morderczynie, zwłaszcza seryjne, są znane znacznie mniej niż seryjni mordercy. Z tego powodu nowe studium Christophera Berry’ego-Dee szokuje wyjątkowo. Autor pisze o takich zbrodniarkach jak „Lee” Wuornos, która zabijała przypadkowych mężczyzn, Beverley Allitt, morderczyni dzieci, cz...

Książka Katarzyny Person o Żydowskiej Służbie Porządkowej w getcie warszawskim opisuje skomplikowaną i dwuznaczną sytuację, w jakiej znaleźli się mężczyźni, którzy zdecydowali się na ulicach zamkniętej żydowskiej dzielnicy kierować ruchem, sprawdzać czystość chodników, zapobiegać wykroczeniom, a następnie — łapać ludzi przeznaczonych na śmierć w Treblince. Z tego powodu już wtedy zostali wykluczeni z żydowskiej wspó...

W niniejszym opracowaniu przyjęto podział problemów społecznych na trzy grupy. Do pierwszej zaliczono problemy ograniczające lub wręcz uniemożliwiające zaspokojenie podstawowych potrzeb życiowych, które gwarantuje egzystencję człowieka. W grupie tych problemów omówiono szczegółowo: bezrobocie, bezdomność i ubóstwo. W grupie drugiej przedstawiono problemy świadczące o problemach związanych z utratą przez człowieka poczucia sensu życia i skutkujące ucieczką od rzeczywistości w ...

Maria i Rafał wydają się dla siebie stworzeni. On pracuje w stadninie, ona jest menadżerką w dobrze prosperującym sklepie. Planują wspólne życie.Gdy w Marii zakochuje się jej szef, a w Rafale narzeczona tegoż – nikomu nie przyjdzie do głowy, że te wydarzenia nakręcą całą spiralę zdrad, przemocy, rozstań i… śmierci? 

„Wziął ze stolika strzykawkę i pociągnął tłok. Strzykawka wypełniła się powietrzem. Z uśmiechem wbił igłę w żyłę kobiety. Upajał się tą chwilą. Wiedział, że staruszka umrze w ciągu kilku minut. Trudniejsze zadanie czekało go z Antonim. To było kwadrans temu. Teraz siedział na krześle i obserwował wiszące ciało. Kusiło go, żeby je rozbujać. – Pobujamy się, dziadziusiu? – spytał, naśladując dziecięcy głosik.Zaśmiał się, dumny ze swojego żartu. Nie zdecydował się na rozkołysanie...

Gdy czarny kot przebiegnie Ci drogę, czeka Cię... wiele przygód! Mała Irka to rezolutna dziesięciolatka, mieszkanka Warszawy. Pewnego dnia spotyka na swojej drodze małą czarną kotkę, której nadaje imię Czarka. W tym samym czasie z Cyrku Numer Pięć ginie czarna pantera. Wkrótce okazuje się, że te dwa pozornie niezwiązane ze sobą wydarzenia łączy o wiele więcej, niż mogłoby się wydawać… „Opowieść o sile przyjaźni między człowiekiem a zwierzęciem. O radzeniu sobie z tęsk...

Osobiste świadectwo kobiety, żony alkoholika. W bardzo prosty, bezpośredni, komunikatywny, a zarazem mądry i pogłębiony sposób autorka, Daphne K., dzieli się swoim doświadczeniem zmagań z nałogiem męża, odkrywania drogi Al-Anon, korzeni swojego współuzależnienia, a także swoich wątpliwości związanych z połączeniem tego wszystkiego z wiarą (jest zaangażowana w ruch Odnowy w Duchu Świętym, posługuje modlitwą wstawienniczą).Książkę czyta się „jednym tchem”. Autorka ma dar przeka...

Mija osiemdziesiąta rocznica śmierci Bolesława Leśmiana i zarazem sto czterdziesta rocznica jego urodzin. Mimo upływu lat twórczość autora Sadu rozstajnego (1912), Łąki (1920), Napoju cienistego (1936) oraz Dziejby leśnej (1938) fascynuje nadal. Więcej: fascynuje coraz bardziej! Dzisiaj mamy już pewność, że miejsce Leśmiana jest na szczycie Parnasu polskiej literatury, obok takich twórców jak Jan Kochanowski, Adam Mickiewicz, Cyprian Ka...

The main theme of the plot revolves around hunting for the legitimate descendant of a rich man whose great legacy was expected to be bestowed. And in this context, there are several more or less unscrupulous people who trace this genealogy, some of which turn into the best people who are deeply immersed in betrayal and continue to remain evil until the very end. He seems so respectable on the surface, but his covert actions and manipulations with others were reprehensible....

A wonderful life story, with secrets and romance, where the strongest human feelings and impulses win in a difficult moral struggle. The author has beautifully written the image of Elinor, first an impressionable teenager, and after a sensible, kind, loving girl. A lot of interesting, unexpected moments and turns, a secret investigation, secrets associated with the legacy of the old aristocrat and his will, which became an apple of discord between the characters of the book...

Women are forced to marry and forced to marry for money, not love. As in all her books, the basis is a mystery, and, like everything I read, for the reader, the screaming is obvious what is actually happening. But this does not detract from the expectations of history. The characters are well drawn, each with a distinctive style.

Dunbar is the heir to a large English banking firm, but makes a serious mistake in his youth. His father and uncle expel him to India for his sins. Of course, everything is not so serious, since its isolation includes the leadership of their Indian branch. Then, after the death of his father, he returns to England. All this happens in the first few chapters!

Edward, a handsome young soldier, considers Mary a charming child. John, the widow, is sick and poor, and asks Edward to keep an eye on Mary after his imminent death, whenever that happens. John stands in line, behind several other relatives, to inherit a huge mansion and income, and he warns Edward if he ever happens before his own death, beware of the evil relative who is next in line after himself because this person will do everything to snatch the inheritance from Mary...

The heroes of this novel became victims of intrigue with the tuned arms of a golden-haired beauty who knew how good she wanted only luxury and honors. The reader after the first chapter understands what the heroine is hiding for the secret, although the villain will be more accurate, because throughout the novel she brings the rest only evil, the meaning of which they understand much later. The ball of intrigue that she had been spinning all this time would eventually be un...

This is a story about a knight who lost his wife during childbirth and his two daughters. The eldest daughter Hyacinth with a family monastery in Paris and Angela in a Flemish monastery with an aunt. The cloisters and surroundings were like night and day. The story of the reunion of the sisters after several years apart. The sisters have different moral values, but their sisterly cares prevail until forbidden love paves the way for despair. The author does not disappoint th...

Milly Darrell isn’t the narrator, but the story is based around her. Mary Crofton is a new governess who meets her in school, and agrees to spend her vacation with Milly. She soon has to deal with the intrigues of Milly’s evil stepmother Augusta and possessive cousin Julian. Fortunately, Mary figures out that Milly is being poisoned thanks to noticing the wrong cork on a medicine bottle. Augusta’s no Lady Audley.

Events unfold in England. Two friends who lived a wild life in their youth meet a rich but innocent heiress. Everyone plans to marry her, but for various reasons – one for her wealth, another for true love. Who will win her hand?

This book is romance, mystery, murder, Christian and the best part of lost love. The main character listened to the often told story, kneeling in the firelight, at her aunt’s knee, a ruddy glow gently touched her light soft hair and a brighter forehead, her large blue eyes looked with love on Mrs. Tregonell’s face. „And he was a widower, Aunt Diana,” she repeated with an expression of disgust, as if something had clenched her teeth.

The plot of the book contrasts with the life of two ladies Hazelden, named Maria and Lesbia. Lady Mary Hazelden is much more meek and stereotypically feminine than other heroes of sensational novels such as Alicia Audley, Marian Halcomb and Magdalen Vanstone. She falls in love with a poor man named Mr. Hammond and is trying to learn how to work to compensate for her lower social status after she marries him. Her grandmother seems not to mind if she gets married because she ...

Two different riddles, three villains, one of which was really the darkest paint, three murders, one suicide, the abduction of a child, three strong Victorian women – one of them is unusually tragic, the other is quite a deceiver, like Becky Sharp, and divine retribution. Suffice it to say that one of the main characters is a young woman who lives with a man who claims to be a father, but exploits and intimidates her, and when this villain, Black Milsom, actually kills the ...

The novel has two stories that at first glance seem unconnected, but most readers will be able to find out the connection. The first is about the situation of artificial inheritance. John Treverton must marry Laura Malcolm within a year or lose his inheritance. In another story, French ballerina Zaire Chico lives an absent-minded life in Parisian and London theaters. In the end, the mystery of the murder happens, and the rest of the plot focuses on that.

Isabelle Sliford is a young girl who dreams of the books she reads and lives to read them. She sees life through the eyes of Brion, Shelley, Shakespeare and Dickens. George Gilbert, a handsome young doctor, sees that she and she are so different from the girls he knows, falling in love with her. He is pragmatic, and she is a dreamer of all that is beautiful, which causes the gulf between them.

The plot tells the story of Ida Pallizer, the daughter of a poor Anglican pastor. Miss Pugh’s teacher and a wealthier student named Urania Pallizer often taunts and makes silly remarks about her poverty. The best line from this part of the book is when Ida is excluded. Miss Pugh says: „You can stay here as long as you need to pack your bags. Not that it takes a long time. „

Antonia Thornton is raised to be a religious skeptic by her father, but has doubts after meeting with Oxford Methodists, such as Stobard. Lord Killrush is impressed by her beauty and intelligence and suggests making her his mistress. Dying from consumption, as people did in the old days, Killrush agrees to marry her. Provided that she marries no one.

Antonia Thornton is raised to be a religious skeptic by her father, but has doubts after meeting with Oxford Methodists, such as Stobard. Lord Killrush is impressed by her beauty and intelligence and suggests making her his mistress. Dying from consumption, as people did in the old days, Killrush agrees to marry her. Provided that she marries no one.

Violet Tempest grows up in a happy home, the beloved only child of friendly and generous parents. She and her father spend days riding and hunting in the old forest that surrounds their house, and Violet is strong in heart and body, not smart, but very intelligent. The only possible flaw is that the mother of her best friend Rory, the ambitious lady Jane, does not approve of their close friendship.

Wyllard’s Weird is a little-known sensational novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The story mainly concerns the riddle of a young girl who dies as a result of a fall from a train in motion. Was it a murder? Or was it suicide? Amateur detective makes his mission to solve the mystery at the request of old love. The discoveries he makes lead him to a double murder committed ten years ago. Were they connected? If so, then the same murderous hand struck again.

Ernest Brammah Smith is best-known for two series, the Max Carrados books about a blind detective, all of whose Perceptions are enormously enhanced, and a series of tales in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. This collection of eight Kai Lung stories came out in 1940, two years before the author’s death. They show the same wit as the earlier ones. The China which Kai Lung inhabits has numerous features of t...

This early work by Ernest Bramah Smith was originally published in 1911. „The Moon of Much Gladness Related by Kai Lung” is the fourth book in the Kai Lung series. The China which Kai Lung inhabits has numerous features of the fantasy Land of Fable, and many of the embedded tales are fantasy; all are told in an ornate manner which ironically, often hilariously, exaggerates the old Chinese tradition of understatement and politesse. Ernest Bramah was born was near Manchester ...

Working name of UK author Ernest Brammah Smith (1868-1942) for all his writing; he is best-known for two series, the Max Carrados books about a blind detective, all of whose Perceptions are enormously enhanced, and a series of tales in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. At the height of his fame, Bramah’s mystery tales, featuring the blind detective, appeared alongside Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holm...

Czy mamy zapominać dobrych poetów z przeszłości, dlatego że byli tylko dobrymi poetami? Przecież to bardzo wiele: być dobrym poetą i stworzyć przez lata dziesiątki niezwykłych wierszy, wśród nich takie, które, mimo pozornej prostoty, ciągle stanowią dla nas zagadkę. Leopold Staff był nauczycielem poetów XX wieku a równocześnie wiecznym uczniem rzemiosła poetyckiego. Jego twórczość prowadziła nieustanny dialog z kulturą polską i podtrzymywała jej związek z tradycją europejską....

Nick Primeon jest młodym, bezdomnym wyrzutkiem, zbiegiem z armii kosmicznych Uzurpatorów. Jego życiowe credo jest proste – jako najemnik walczy po tej stronie konfliktu, po której może akurat więcej zarobić. Przerwy w pracy spędza w podejrzanej spelunie, pijąc i czekając na kolejne zlecenie, dzięki któremu zdoła uregulować rachunek. Któregoś dnia właściciel baru traci cierpliwość i wydaje się, że Nicka nic już nie uratuje, ale właśnie wtedy w drzwiach pojawia się tajemnicza p...

Co wiedzą poeci? Adam Zagajewski udziela na to pytanie sprzecznych odpowiedzi. „Nic nie wiedzą, ale zapisują pojedyncze metafory” – mówi w jednym z wierszy, gdy w innym sugeruje: „A może tylko udawaliśmy, że nic nie wiemy…”  Poezja, podobnie jak śpiew, rodzi się „tam gdzie oddech”, ale to, co najważniejsze ukryte jest w milczeniu, „śpiewa to, co milczy”. W jej odbiorze ważne są więc osobiste, pozbawione uprzedzeń wrażenia. Zapytałam o nie krytyków i naukowców, profe...

Największą wartością zawartych w tej książce opowieści jest ich autentyczność i szczerość. To prawdziwe losy kobiet, które odważyły się pokazać twarz i odsłonić to, co zazwyczaj starannie jest skrywane: domową przemoc, seksualną agresję, poniżenie i upodlenie ze strony najbliższych. Mówią do nas swoimi słowami, bez retuszu i koloryzowania. Przełamały własny strach i społeczne tabu, ale nie mają w sobie nic z ofiary. To kobiety wojowniczki, choć mijając je na ulicy, nie uwie...

This is the story of a Cambridge student, Olva Dune, who commits murder. Ironically, the moment he commits his crime, he feels the presence of God. Perhaps a hundred years ago, March Square could boast of such excellent ignorance, but fashion is changing to prevent, perhaps, our own being too easily annoyed.

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 opportunities circling around her, ready and eager to take advantage of these opportunities, eager to draw conclusions in the world made.

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 second volume. During the conspiracy, Vanessa’s father dies in tragic circumstances and the love triangle between Vanessa, Ellis and Benji deepens. Two new characters will appear in this book: the younger brothers Sally and Tom. And let’s hope someone post Judith’s memories. As a hist...

Beautiful, but affordable spelling. The characters, especially Janet, were incredibly versatile. They are well-rounded and sympathetically written, and each has its own natural conclusion, making for a very satisfactory ending. If you like a well-written, historical, adult novel with a definitively optimistic ending, then try Wintersmoon.

It’s a little book composed of an unfinished novel written in a completely different style than other Mary Webb novels, and a collection of short stories and drafts that appeared in various publications. The style fit the story of a young boy who fell in love and leaves to fight in the Crusades. A pearl-like prose and a fairy tale, eerie in turn and beautifully strange.

Precious Bane is also the story of Gideon, the doomed brother of Prue, no less decisive, but with different motives. Determined to defeat the poverty of their farm, he devotes all his strength to making money. The only thing that distracts him from these ambitions is that he abandons her for a stronger attraction to his money.

„The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady” book is the author’s description of a fantasy land inhabited by lovers. It is a travel guide to the mythic land of Arcardy which, according to the map on page 35, is just over the Delectable Mountains from the Land of Hearts Desire and is bordered by the State of Matrimony and the Sea of Dreams. Arcady is transversed by the Road To Wealth and the River Lethe, is just over the Great Divide from the State of Blessed Singleness. The c...

„The Man Who Fell Through the Earth” is a traditional mystery novel by American author Carolyn Wells, set in 1920-s in New York. A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of an office door followed by a shot from the office across the hall. He goes to investigate. He finds no sign of either victim or assailant despite the fact that no one could have passed him in the hallway witho...

A pleasant short story about Sir Arthur Savile, charming in her naivety and hypertrophied in her nobility. Ironic humor, a beautiful syllable, wise quotes, an English spirit and a non-standard prose of life. At the dinner party, the young and noble Sir Arthur Savile finds out that from now on he does not allow him to live in peace and marry his girlfriend. After a night of thought, he makes a gentleman’s decision, requiring him to act in a non-gentlemanly manner.

Once they started a new interesting game in pseudonyms, which led to funny and curious consequences. Each time he came to London, he was convicted of only marrying a man named Ernest. Upon learning of an advanced friend, Algerie decides to play him, for which he goes to Jack’s country estate, where he impersonates his brother Ernest, who immediately falls in love with charming Cecilia. Only friends forgot how important it is to be serious, because Ernestov and lies were too...

South Seas Adventure Novel, written in 1925 by Gordon Ray Young (1886-1948) a journalist in Chicago and San Francisco, literary editor of the Los Angeles times, and author of over forty novels. During his time in Los Angeles, Young befriended the writer Paul Jordan-Smith and the painter Edward Middleton Manigault. As such, this book was dedicated to the memory of the painter Middleton Manigault who was born in London, Ontario, and started his career there. „Seibert of the I...

The story of a boy who was deceived in his property. He is assisted in his trouble by a nobleman who, for various romantic reasons, accepted clothes without accepting the practice of a robber. After a series of exciting adventures, both of them succeeded not only in saving the betrothed nobleman from evil hands, but also in restoring the guy’s property.

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 guise of gentlemen. The author deliberately „introduces” us into the story through a generally outsider who accidentally gets involved in the ups and downs of this story. And the riddle here is not who the criminal is, but what he needs from his victim.

The city itself, climbing a hillside almost at the water’s edge, was painted pale pink at sunset, and even the old Vesuvius, from the top of which a thin column of black smoke seemed a little less gloomy than usual. Because of heaven, the sky was a mass of golden and raspberry-colored, and this was reflected in the calm waters of the bay until the whole world turned into a real radiance. The evening could hardly be desired. And yet this is not the city, mountain or sunset t...

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. There are people involved in trade, some of whom are very profitable, about whom the world as a whole has never heard of, and which an ordinary Englishman, in all likelihood, would refuse to believe, even if the most reliable evidence had been provided before him.

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 Nicola as a partner, which shows Nicolaou a more personal side. He could still do evil supernatural acts, and the threat to the traitors was still faced with the realization that you would become worse if you cross him, but that’s all.

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 man on the verge of death, Nicola is trying to perform a miracle. But will Ingleby’s loyalty to Nicolau withstand the contrary to the requests of the old man’s great granddaughter, will the experiment give the desired result, and what is he going to do with the sinister Chinese who ...

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 place and time, turns a man into a beast and leaves his palace in Venice, which has a bloody history, but it remains in the minds of those who met him.

There was a Victorian / Edwardian fascination with evil geniuses. Professor Moriarty, Fu Manchu, Count Fosco, Dracula, Dr. Nicola – they and many others were hiding in the shadows, using their magnetism to persuade others to their will and their significant mental gifts for evil purposes. This is an exciting story for those who like the somewhat predictable traditions of late Victorian history.

Each person at some point in his life begins an adventure, after which he is destined to look back with a sensation very close to surprise. Someone said that adventure is for adventure. The vocation of a sailor in these times of giant steamboats is so much different from what it was in the old days of sailing ships and long voyages, that with the most ordinary luck, a person could easily climb along the ridges from the apprentice to the skipper less danger than that with wh...

At Guy Booth’s Strange Company, Australian writer Guy Boothby put his passion for travel to work as food for his fiction. Although his first publication was a popular science story about traveling around his home country, he soon turned to fiction as an outlet for his work, focusing mainly on adventure adventures, secrets, and discovery stories. In the Strange Company was Boothby

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 her husband’s body was brought to his horse. Rude and rude, Dick was a thoughtful guy, and I firmly believe that he would go through fire and water to serve my mother, whom he greatly admired.

Located in the imaginary country of Pannonia, the irresistible novel by Guy Newell Boothby „Long Live the King” gives readers a place in the front row of the hectic life of royalty. From decisions on the battlefield of life or death, which must be made in seconds, with thousands of soldiers hanging in the balance, to intense political negotiations in which every word and expression is important, and, of course, triumphs and trials of royal romance, this wide novel will sure...

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 fact that they are more than a hundred years old) don’t feel obsolete.

A prolific Australian novelist, Guy Boothby was noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. In 1894 he published On the Wallaby; or, Through the East and Across Australia, an account of the travels of himself and his brother, including a description of their journey across Australia from Cooktown to Adelaide. He wrote over 50 books over the course of a decade.

„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 paintings in the South Pacific, but to clearly smell the sweet aroma of flowers jasmine and wild lime in the jungle that covered the hillside behind me. I went to one end of the veranda and stopped watching a group of local girls who were preparing a tappa at the nearest hut – then to t...

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. In any case, they all move to England and buy a house, which is supposed to be inhabited by ghosts. All its owners saw them, and some were killed when they saw them. They are located in this village. James’s son meets a young woman whom he falls in love with, but her grandfather w...

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 everything to keep his honor and not get caught in the crossfire.

The Marriage of Esther, surrounded by a messy community of settlers on a remote island off the coast of Australia, combines the best qualities of a classic action-adventure film with an ingeniously crafted riddle – and right in the middle of all this is a heartbreaking novel.