The master mystery-story teller presents an omnibus of his spine-chilling stories. „The Edgar Wallace Reader of Mystery and Adventure” is a collection of short stories that include „On the Witney Road”, „The Pick-Up”, „Kid Glove Harry”, and thirteen others. Edgar Wallace was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist who produced popular detective and suspense stories and was in his time „the king” of the modern thriller. Wallace’s literary output – 175 books, 24 plays,...

Explore the compelling universe of Edgar Allan Poe with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 5. Immerse yourself in "Spellbinding Tales of Gothic Terror and Eerie Suspense" that will transport you to the depths of Poe's mesmerizing imagination.In "The Raven," brace yourself for a chilling encounter as a lone protagonist grapples with an enigmatic visitor that will send shivers down your spine with every turn of the page. Feel the relentless beating of your own heart in "The T...

Zbiór dwudziestu najlepszych opowiadań grozy w wersji dwujęzycznej angielsko-polskiej wzbogacony ponadczasowymi ilustracjami kilku artystów oraz informacjami o autorze. Proponowane wydanie dzieł Edgara Allana Poe to bogaty zbiór liczący 20 oryginalnych utworów w języku angielskim oraz 20 bardzo dobrych tłumaczeń tychże opowiadań wykonanych przez Bolesława Leśmiana. Dodatkowo publikację wzbogacono pełnymi informacjami o życiu i śmierci pisarza - w języku angi...

Immerse yourself in the chilling genius of Edgar Allan Poe, the undisputed master of gothic horror. From macabre feasts within forgotten castles to gruesome murders and tales of the prematurely buried, Volume Four of this essential collection unravels Poe's darkest imaginings. Encounter talking ravens, vengeful spirits, and the haunting whispers of madness in these unforgettable tales.Are you ready for a spine-tingling literary adventure? Enter the twisted and captivating wor...

Explore the compelling universe of Edgar Allan Poe with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 1. Immerse yourself in "Spellbinding Tales of Gothic Terror and Eerie Suspense" that will transport you to the depths of Poe's mesmerizing imagination.In "The Raven," brace yourself for a chilling encounter as a lone protagonist grapples with an enigmatic visitor that will send shivers down your spine with every turn of the page. Feel the relentless beating of your own heart in "The T...

CZYTAJ - SŁUCHAJ - ĆWICZPOSZERZAJ SŁOWNICTWO - UTRWALAJ - UCZ SIĘ WYMOWY CZYTAJ – dzięki oryginalnemu angielskiemu tekstowi opowiadań przyswajasz nowe słówka, uczysz się ich zastosowania w zdaniach i poszerzasz słownictwo. Wciągająca fabuła książki sprawi, że nie będziesz mógł się oderwać od lektury, co zapewni regularność nauki. Czytanie tekstów po angielsku to najlepsza metoda nauki angielskiego.SŁUCHAJ – pobierz bezpłatne nagranie oryginalnego tekstu Short Stories dos...

Explore the compelling universe of Edgar Allan Poe with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 2. Immerse yourself in "Spellbinding Tales of Gothic Terror and Eerie Suspense" that will transport you to the depths of Poe's mesmerizing imagination.In "The Raven," brace yourself for a chilling encounter as a lone protagonist grapples with an enigmatic visitor that will send shivers down your spine with every turn of the page. Feel the relentless beating of your own heart in "The T...

Explore the compelling universe of Edgar Allan Poe with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 3. Immerse yourself in "Spellbinding Tales of Gothic Terror and Eerie Suspense" that will transport you to the depths of Poe's mesmerizing imagination.In "The Raven," brace yourself for a chilling encounter as a lone protagonist grapples with an enigmatic visitor that will send shivers down your spine with every turn of the page. Feel the relentless beating of your own heart in "The T...

W dalekiej przyszłości możliwe stało się utrzymywanie przy życiu mózgu człowieka pozbawionego reszty ciała, a eksploracją odległych rejonów kosmosu zajmują się cyborgi sterowane ludzkimi umysłami, zdolne do funkcjonowania tam, gdzie nie przeżyłaby żadna biologiczna istota. Szansę życia po śmierci otrzymuje tytułowy Edgar, któremu szkielet i sowite wynagrodzenie funduje jedna z korporacji zajmujących się badaniem przestrzeni kosmicznej. Niestety, czas Edgara j...

Zmierzch 23 czerwca 1858 roku, Bolonia. W domu żydowskiego kupca Momolo Mortary rozlega się nagły łomot. U drzwi stoi dwóch oficerów inkwizycji z rządowym poleceniem zabrania z domu sześcioletniego Edgarda. Powodem jest rzekomy potajemny chrzest chłopca udzielony przez służącą, a według prawa Państwa Kościelnego, któremu przewodzi wówczas papież Pius IX, katolik nie mógł być wychowywany przez żydowskich rodziców. Edgardo zostaje przewieziony do Rzymu, gdzie ma dorastać pod ...

Edgara Allana Poego nie trzeba nikomu przedstawiać. Niewielu jednak zdaje sobie sprawę, że autor pionierskich powieści detektywistycznych, przerażających opowiadań i nastrojowej poezji zasłynął też czymś innym: miłością do nauki. Rzucając światło na epokę, w której granice oddzielające literaturę i badania naukowe zostały zatarte, najnowszy biograf pisarza ujawnia ambicję Poego rozwijania i kwestionowania ludzkiej wiedzy. Autor Zagłady domu Usherów, nawet gdy intensywnie prac...

Człowiek, według Poego, gdyby był w stanie odrzucić ciało, przestałby istnieć na własny rachunek, i wtedy stałby się koniecznie Bogiem. Ale to jest niemożebne, inaczej przypuścićby należało, że czynność Boża może wrócić nazad, coby ją robiło bezcelową. Człowiek jest stworzeniem. Stworzenia są to myśli Boże. A myśl nie może być jak tylko nieodwołalną. Zatem śmierć nawet nie uwolni nas od ciała. Da nam tylko inne, doskonalsze, doskonałe zupełnie, skończone, nieśmiertelne. I wsz...

Życie Edgara Poe jest opłakaną tragedią. Śmierć jego straszliwym rozwiązaniem, o grozie spotęgowanej nadto trywialnością. Wszystkie znane dokumenty utwierdzają w przekonaniu, że Stany Zjednoczone były dla Poego tylko obszernym więzieniem, które przebiegał z gorączkowym podnieceniem istoty stworzonej do oddychania powietrzem bardziej wonnym, aniżeli w tej wielkiej barbarii oświetlonej gazem – i że życie jego wewnętrzne duchowe, czy to poety, czy nawet nałogowca był...

Here is Edgar Wallace’s famous stage-play as told by Robert Curtis in story form with all the dramatic excitement and suspense that thrilled theatre-goers. Robert Curtis was the private secretary to British crime writer Edgar Wallace. Curtis and Wallace met for the first time in 1913, before parting following the outbreak of World War One, as Curtis had to do his military service. In 1918 he was reunited with Wallace who employed him as his secretary, he had the task of cop...

Edgar Wallace is continuing to introduce readers to Mr. J. G. Reeder, one of the least glamorous of all fictional detectives. Mr. J. G. Reeder is neither a police detective nor an amateur crime-fighter, nor is he a private detective. In fact he is employed by the Bank of England, and acts as a kind of consultant to Scotland Yard. This is vintage Wallace, with no great depths but a good deal of humor and plenty of engaging goings-on along Wallace’s beloved Thames. Wallace wa...

„The Council of Justice” is the sequel to much-lauded „The Four Just Men”, a novel which caused a sensation way back in 1905 by encouraging readers to guess the mystery ending. The Four Just Men, in this second of Wallace’s ingenious series of thrillers, pit themselves against The Red Hundred, an organization dedicated to international anarchy, led by the charismatic and beautiful assassin, the Woman of Gratz. As always, the avengers’ methods are meticulously planned and ru...

An excellent crime novel which contains a cunning villain, love, revenge and locked room murder by the master of British thrillers. The hero John Lexman, is a mystery writer, like the author himself, and is married to a lovely woman who hides a secret. The Greek aristocrat, Remington Kara is stunningly handsome and immensely rich and he nurses an unrequited passion for Lexman’s wife. When Lexman gets himself into financial problems with an Albanian moneylender, the plot beg...

In this 1923 mystery by Edgar Wallace, Jesse Trasmere is thrifty and does not trust banks, so he keeps all of his money in his prison-like house. Although his nephew, Rex Lander, receives a generous allowance from his uncle, it is not enough for his extravagant lifestyle. Trasmere breaks with routine and informs his valet, Walters, that he is going out of town for a while to avoid an acquaintance from his past. One day he turns up dead, in a completely locked vault, the onl...

Best remembered for penning the screenplay for the classic film „King Kong”, author Edgar Wallace was an astoundingly popular luminary in the action-adventure genre in the early twentieth century. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, joining the army at 21, he was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and The Daily Mail. This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1923. „The Books of Bart” is a novel of relationships and d...

This is an enjoyable short story by Edgar Wallace, set in England during the 1920’s. „The Green Rust”, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three books he published in 1919. It begins at the English home of the severely ill American millionaire, John Millinborn. With him are his best friend, Kitson, and a local doctor, the Dutch van Heerden. He is murdered, stabbed to death in his sick bed in the first chapter, having just left his fortune to his niece, Oliva, whom he has nev...

Thomas Maple lives on Crystal Palace Road with his niece Verity. He works for a firm of bank note engravers. However, the dollar bills he shows Wentworth Gold are forgeries – perfect except for the missing Treasury sign. When Verity meets her new employer she develops serious misgivings, and arriving back home she can hear a menacing voice. „"A Debt Discharged"” is a novel about forged dollar bills and a young girl’s investigations into her suspicious new employer. These we...

This book belongs to the pen of a well-known British author of mystery genre Edgar Wallace and was written during the Great War (the WW1). It is set in a possible 1925, ten years after the war has ended. Wallace utilized his experiences of the Boer War in two Future-War novels „Private Selby” and „1925: The Story of a Fatal Peace”. „1925” accurately predicts that a short peace would be followed by a German attack on England. As you get closer to the end you wonder how on ea...

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 suddenly sighted in Tidal Basin as well? What connection had the Devil with White Face? Superintendent Mason, one of the Yard’s Big Five wanted to know, and what Superintendent Mason wanted to know he generally found out. Criminals knew him as „Sympathetic” Mason, because of his curious ...

This collection includes 7 mystery short stories, set in Victorian England. These stories depict adventures and misadventures of Elegant Edward, a charming London crook and his attempts to commit the perfect crime. The stories are pleasant and well written and definitely a product of their time and place. Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include „The Four Just Men”, „Sanders of the River”, and „J. G. Re...