W książce autor pragnie przybliżyć podstawowe idee i myśli Jana Henryka Pestalozziego oraz wskazać możliwości ich praktycznego wdrożenia. Nie uda się nam bowiem ulepszyć edukacji tylko organizacyjną gorliwością i większymi nakładami finansowymi. Sukces edukacyjny nastąpi wówczas, gdy baczyć będziemy na owe ponadczasowe zasady, które zidentyfikował i sformułował dla potomności Pestalozzi. Swoich czytelników autor upatruje w osobach nie tylko związanych z kształceniem, lecz ta...

„Martin Hewitt, Investigator” is a collection of late Victorian short stories linked by the protagonist, Martin Hewitt. This book chronicles seven of Hewitt’s cases, and gave rise to his reputation as England’s „second-best-detective”. They are tales of impossible to solve crimes that Hewitt was able to crack by piecing together a few clues where the police detectives had failed. Like the Holmes stories, the author did not want the detective to talk about his own cases in t...

Spirit of Old Essex draws together Arthur Morrison’s lost treasure of a novel „Cunning Murrell”, a jocular tale of witchcraft, old salts, pugilists, smuggling and country life long lost, together with additional background information on Morrison’s research and inspiration. „Cunning Murrell” is a fictionalized biography of James Murrell, also known as Cunning Murrell, who was an English cunning man, or professional folk magician. In this capacity, he reportedly employed mag...

„Tales of Mean Streets”, published in 1894, is a collection of short stories describing the appalling conditions that many working people endured. These stories are a brilliant evocation of a narrow, close-knit community, that of the streets of London’s East End. Having lived and worked there, he author knew that East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but neither criminals nor paupers. Here Arthur Morrison chronicles their advent...

„Green Ginger” is one of the humorous story from mixed collection of sixteen short stories by the author of the Martin Hewitt, Investigator series. Collects several mysteries, including a „Cunning Murrell” tale, also „The Seller of Hate”, a deal-with-the-Devil story, and „The Chamber of Light”, a humorous ghost story of psychic investigator driving the poor spectres to distraction. The stories are well written and definitely a product of their time and place. Arthur George ...

Morrison’s literary reputation is mostly based on his realistic novels and short stories about slum life in London. In addition, he wrote detective fiction that is openly derivative of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Possessed with a wide and free-ranging curiosity, Morrison wrote both fiction and nonfiction works on diverse subjects, from Japanese art to occultism, and participated in English literary life well into World War II. In 1930 Arthur Morrison moved...

Sulla to jedna z najbardziej kontrowersyjnych postaci w historii Republiki Rzymskiej. Wybitny wódz, oddany ideałowi rzymskiego przeznaczenia, często przedstawiany jest jednak jako pospolity tyran lub despota. Biografia autorstwa Arthura Keaveneya, po raz pierwszy wydana przeszło dwadzieścia lat temu, zmieniła ten pogląd na rzecz bardziej złożonego wizerunku człowieka, który obsesyjnie wierzył, że – jako Sulla Feliks – obdarzony jest łaską bogów. Sulla dorastał w ubóstwie...

Niepokojąca powieść walijskiego pisarza, debiutującego jako autor skandalizujących opowiadań grozy, a potem niesłusznie wtłaczanego w ramy tego gatunku, podczas gdy jego hipnotyczna, klarowna proza je przekracza. Znać tu fascynację antykiem i mroczną zmysłowością, a także wirtuozowską muzyczność języka. Bohater powieści w młodym wieku przeżywa dziwną inicjację, i to go naznacza. Jego późniejsze lata w Londynie, gdzie próbuje zostać pisarzem, to próba zrozumienia, c...

Guy Garrick, a detective who has made a scientific study of crime, has been the hero of a number of earlier short stories. In the present novel he is engaged in tracking down a gang of motor bandits. The police, the city detectives, the automobile detectives and Guy Garrick are all working on the problems, and the unravelling and subsequent glory of Garrick are very exciting. The eleventh volume in the chronicles of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, takes up the familiar...

Arthur J. Rees is a past master in the art of fashioning ingenious mystery-detective yarns and „The Moon Rock” is one of his best. The author’s many admirers will find keen enjoyment and many puzzling moments in their endeavors to solve the mystery. Robert Turold had spent his life trying to prove his claim to an ancient title. Yet, when it seems he is about to finally succeed, his body is found in a remote cottage on the Cornish coast, an apparent suicide. Detective Branne...

An ancient English country house with a storied and bloody history is the setting for this intriguing mystery. The new Mrs. Meredith has invited all her friends from her freer, wilder life in London to meet with her at her husband’s family home. However, she is seemingly taken ill and can’t accompany the party on their final jaunt to a neighbor’s house after dinner. Later she is dead of a gunshot wound, an heirloom pearl necklace is missing, and Scotland Yard is homing in o...

„The Gold of the Gods” was first published in 1915. By then, Arthur Benjamin Reeve’s series of mysteries involving Professor Craig Kennedy and his sidekick, journalist Walter Jameson, had become something of a household name. Altogether, he wrote 18 novels featuring these two characters, and several short stories. Our story follows a theft of an ancient Inca dagger from an archeology professor. He asks Kennedy to assist in bringing it back. But there are threats beyond ones...

Detective Kennedy and his sidekick Walter Jameson are called in by a District Attorney to look into the murder of an actress in the middle of shooting a movie called „The Black Terror”. What follows is figuring out the puzzling trail of a calculating killer. Kennedy performs detailed tests in his laboratory and he eventually finds what caused the death of the film star, but he must still go through lots of adventures until he finds the murderer as well. The book is highly e...

The scientific detective known as the „American Sherlock Holmes” pursues a ruthless arch villain in this high-stakes suspense novel. „The Exploits of Elaine” is a collection of short stories about a beautiful young woman Elaine, who’s father was murdered by the mysterious gang leader The Clutching Hand, and who is subsequently terrorized by him and his gang. Using the latest advances in forensic science, the professor Craig Kennedy and his loyal sidekick, newspaper reporter...

Newspaperman Walter Jameson is assigned to shadow his friend Professor Craig Kennedy for a month to report on how he solves mysterious crimes and to give „an intimate picture of the man and his work.” Basically, Kennedy’s a scientist who uses his superior scientific knowledge and a bunch of contraptions he makes to expose the criminals. „The Dream Doctor” is the third book in the Dr. Kennedy series written by Arthur B. Reeve, the short stories were stitched together into ps...

Wychowanie to ogromne zobowiązanie. Jak dobrze formować własne dzieci? Jak unikać błędów wychowawczych?Czasem nam się wydaje, że nie damy już dłużej rady, że jesteśmy złymi rodzicami, że nie mamy talentu do tworzeniu rodziny. Ale rodzicielstwo to nie "magiczne" natchnienie i talent, który po prostu się posiada. To doświadczenie i praca. Aby lepiej dawać sobie radę z rodzicielskim powołaniem, aby wiedzieć na jakim fundamencie zbudować trwałą i mocną rodzinę, sięgnij po te ksią...

The novel, which remained unfinished, was restored from the author’s drafts. The fascinating story of the French youth, who during the Napoleonic Wars was one of the many British prisoners of war. The story of his dangerous and fascinating adventures and a difficult, multifaceted political game in which he unexpectedly found himself drawn into. The book you are reading, literally holding your breath...

American lawyer and writer, Arthur Cheney Train, also called Arthur Chesney Train, was a prolific author of legal thrillers. His most popular work featured recurring fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt who became „the best known lawyer in America,” particularly after the appearance of „Yankee Lawyer”, an immensely popular book that purported to be Tutt’s autobiography. Published in 1923, these short stories take place in the ethnic, racial, social melting pot of early Twentie...

Doskonała lektura dla miłośników książek – fascynująca opowieść o historii bibliotek i ludzi, którzy je budowali, od starożytności po erę cyfrową. Znane na całym świecie, zazdrośnie strzeżone przez prywatnych kolekcjonerów, budowane przez stulecia i niszczone w jeden dzień, ozdobione złoceniami i freskami albo wypełnione wygodnymi pufami i rysunkami dzieci – historia bibliotek jest bogata, różnorodna i obfitująca w nieoczekiwane zdarzenia. W książce Biblioteki historycy A...

Treścią tej książki jest pięć różnych historii, z których trzy pierwsze dzieją się gdzieś pod koniec dziewiętnastego wieku, a dwie ostatnie w końcówce dwudziestego. Każda z nich jest inna i każda z nich w inny sposób porusza temat spraw ostatecznych. Pozornie zwyczajne, lecz naruszające utarte przekonania i prowokujące do własnych przemyśleń.Arthur de FerUrodzony w Gdańsku, od ponad czterdziestu lat zamieszkujący w przeuroczej nadmorskiej dzielnicy miasta. Był grafi...

1926. Arthur Cheney Train (1875-1945) was the former assistant district attorney in New York City. His interactions with clients, together with his experiences in the courtroom, provided the material for the more than 250 short stories and novels he would write during his lifetime. Train wrote dozens of stories about fictional lawyer Ephraim Tutt in the Saturday Evening Post. He also coauthored two science fiction novels with eminent physicist Robert W. Wood. After 1922, he...

Powieść "Jej inne życie" opowiada o kobiecie, która postanowiła zerwać z dotychczasowym życiem i urządzić się na nowo zmieniając swoją tożsamość. Buduje swoje inne życie dręczona obawami przed odkryciem jej tajemnicy. Akcja dzieje się w połowie lat pięćdziesiątych nieco alternatywnej wersji historii powszechnej. Dlatego znajdują się w niej odniesienia do istniejących, lub nieistniejących już miejsc, oraz wspominane nazwiska osób naprawdę kiedyś żyjących.

Mr. Ephraim Tutt never met a hard luck story he didn’t like. The rare lawyer happy to forego his fee, Tutt specializes in defending the downtrodden against the powerful and the corrupt. In Manhattan and his hometown of Pottsville, New York, he argues cases involving murder, forgery, and theft, always finding some arcane legal point to save the day – much to the chagrin of the prosecution. In this delightful collection, Tutt brings his sharp mind and genial wit to bear on th...

America’s wisest and kindliest lawyer tackles a series of impossible cases and wins. Mr. Ephraim Tutt is a wily old lawyer who supported the common man and always had a trick up his sleeve to right the law’s injustices. Based on author Arthur Train’s experiences working in the offices of the New York District Attorney, „Old Man Tutt „ is a must-read for fans of legal mysteries. Arthur Cheney Train, also called Arthur Chesney Train, was an American lawyer and writer of legal...