”The Ladybird will refuse to have anything to do with the affair, my dear fellow. It touches a woman’s honour, and I know her too well.” „Bah! We’ll compel her to help us. She must.” „She wouldn’t risk it,” declared Harry Kinder, shaking his head. „Risk it! Well, we’ll have to risk something! We’re in a nice hole just now! Our traps at the Grand, with a bill of two thousand seven hundred francs to pay, and ‘the Ladybird’ coolly sends us from London a postal order for twenty...

From a derelict shed adjoining a lonely road which stretched for miles across the Norfolk fens, a strange shape slid silently into the night mist. It was a motor-car of an unfamiliar design. The body, of gleaming aluminium, was of unusual width, and was lifted high above the delicate chassis and spidery bicycle wheels that seemed almost too fragile to bear the weight of an engine.

Some year and a half ago, my friend and erstwhile neighbour. Dr. Archibald More d’Escombe, died suddenly, and shortly after his decease I received from his solicitors a sealed packet addressed to me in his handwriting, with instructions that it was not to be opened until after his death.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) powszechnie uważany jest za jednego z największych klasyków dwudziestowiecznej poezji światowej. Jako poeta jest również dobrze znany z polskich przekładów. Pojawiały się u nas także tłumaczenia jego dramatów i opowiadań, wydano poświęconą mu rzetelną monografię. Brakowało natomiast dotąd publikacji esejów pisarza. Niniejszy wybór jest pierwszą ich książkową prezentacją w naszym kraju. Szkice Yeatsa rzucają wiele światła na jego ...

“Rosa alchemica” to utwór William Butler Yeats, laureata Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury, poety, dramaturga i filozofa."Rosa alchemica" przenosi nas w świat XIX-wiecznych alchemików i okultystów i tym samym wprowadza atmosferę tajemniczości i stawia zagadki, które czytelnik bardzo chciałby rozwiązać. Żyjący w odosobnieniu poszukiwacz wiedzy tajemnej czuje się wyczerpany bezowocnością samotnych dążeń, gdy pewnego dnia odwiedza go niepokojący gość i proponuje wstąpienie d...

Jedna z książek z serii o A. J. Rafflesie, złodzieju-dżentelmenie, której autorem jest Ernest William Hornung – angielski pisarz. Seria ta spowodowała w owym czasie pewien szok kulturowy, ponieważ jej bohaterem jest nie policjant lub detektyw broniący prawa i porządku, ale przestępca (a raczej para przestępców, bo Raffles zwykle działa w parze ze swoim przyjacielem i narratorem tej serii opowiadań, Bunnym Mandersem). Budzą oni w dodatku sympatię czytelnika, który kibicuje ich...

Książka odzwierciedla głębokie zainteresowanie Yeatsa zachowaniem, propagowaniem i umiłowaniem irlandzkiej historii i kultury. Zawiera różne historie oparte na ludowych opowieściach irlandzkich, a związane z Hanrahanem Rudym, które autor opracował w stylu pięknej mowy krainy Kiltartan – irlandzkiej baronii i parafii, na której terenie mieszkał, co zapewne nie bez wpływu było na ukochanie tego właśnie folkloru i dogłębne jego poznanie. Podobnie jak w „Tajemniczej róży” i tu wi...

Richard Longsworth is the main character. The book begins to find him young, carefree and autonomous. He is the master of his own destiny and owes nothing to anyone. Soon he meets Maria Kurkuas, the heroine.

For a person unaccustomed to the imposing religious ceremonies of the Catholic Church, it was a delightful sight to observe all the pomp and splendor displayed at this high celebration. The papal choir now and then sang the melodic masses characteristic of worship, and hundreds of centers spread all-consuming spirits around.

Although it is a work of fiction and the story, dialogue and structure are perfect, the historical facts and perspective are very reliable as the author was a university professor specializing in this period. You will see how the pagan religions of that time influenced men and women. This book will appeal to fans of historical novels about the Roman Empire.

This is a gothic classic. Very atmospheric. This amazing and attractive story, written in the highest times of our Faustian civilization, the majestic poetics of romanticism, and today, in these godforsaken times of fate and despair, shines with mysterious darkness.

The novel clearly includes a huge amount of historical research. And then there is the geography associated with it – Charles always stops in the middle of his flight to admire this or that beautiful prospect. The author also gives us the latest news about what happened to all these places. The author uses Boscobel as a guide to follow Charles’ steps.

Królestwa ogarnia chaos, gdy trzy rywalizujące ze sobą armie toczą zaciekły bój o władzę. Młoda królowa Szarych Wilków walczy o tron z pomocą nieprawdopodobnej grupy złożonej z buntowników, których łączy jeden cel – pokonać bezwzględną cesarzową ze wschodu.Wymówione posłuszeństwoWojownicza Alyssa ana’Raisa zrobiłaby wszystko, by bronić swego domu, Fells, i swego dziedzictwa, linii Szarych Wilków. Uwięziona przez cesarzową Celestynę, została zmuszona do wykorzystywan...

We all got up from tea in the hall, made our way to the drawing-room, and thence into the morning-room, which opened out of it. There was plenty of daylight still. James came in after us, and went straight up to a framed panel portrait which stood with others on a small table in a remote corner. It showed a tall handsome, clean-shaved man of three or four and thirty, of fine physique, seated astride a chair, his arms folded across the back of the chair as he faced the camer...

We were standing together in the small shabby bedroom of the boarding-house wherein I lived in Granville Gardens, facing the recreation ground close to Shepherd’s Bush Railway Station. The stifling July day was at an end, and the narrow room was lit by the soft hazy glow of the fast-fading London sunset. Through the open window came the shouts of children at play upon the „green” opposite, mingled with the chatter of the passers-by and the ever-increasing whirr of the elect...

A grey, sunless morning on the Firth of Tay. Across a wide, sandy waste stretching away to the misty sea at Budden, four men were walking. Two wore uniform–one an alert, grey-haired general, sharp and brusque in manner, with many war ribbons across his tunic; the other a tall, thin-faced staff captain, who wore the tartan of the Gordon Highlanders. With them were two civilians, both in rough shooting-jackets and breeches, one about forty-five, the other a few years his juni...

These strange facts would never have been placed on record, nor would this exciting chapter of an eventful life have been written, except for two reasons: first, because the discovery I made has been declared to be of considerable importance to scientists, bibliophiles, and the world at large; and, secondly, because it is my dear wife’s wish that in order to clear her in the eyes of both friends and foes nothing should be concealed, misrepresented, or withheld.

On this particular morning, about ten o’clock, the seafront was already full of men in flannels and lounge-suits, and women in garments of muslin and other such flimsy materials usually affected at the seaside, for stifled and jaded Londoners had flocked down there, as usual, to enjoy the sea air and all the varied attractions which Southport never fails to offer.

„It is imperative that active steps must be taken to preserve England’s supremacy, and at the same time frustrate this aggressive policy towards us which is undoubtedly growing. I need not tell you that the outlook is far from reassuring. As a diplomatist you know that as well as I do. The war-cloud which rose over Europe at the end of the last Administration is still darkening. It therefore behoves us to avoid a repetition of the recent fiasco at St. Petersburg with regard...

An interesting classic mystery, yes, I guess I could say enjoyable but to a certain extent... At first you are dragged to the edge of your seat wondering whats going to happen next or what the hell does this unusual introduction mean, then you’re hit with a bunch of senarios that keep you wanting to just continue to the next chapter to see what will happen, then you realise that some of what you may have suspected in the beginning IS the conclusion to the plot...

Frank Burgoyne, newly rich through inheritance, falls madly and improbably in love with a beautiful but mysterious Russian and becomes unwittingly and unknowingly embroiled in an international plot punctuated by a series of murders. Burgoyne suffers several bewildering experiences, including incarcerations in Russia and England, and he is constantly questioning his love’s motivations and fealty.

“Opowiadania o Hanrahanie Rudym” to zbiór opowiadań William Butler Yeats, laureata Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury, poety, dramaturga i filozofa.“Opowiadania o Hanrahanie Rudym” to zbiór opowiadań ludowych spisanych przez Yeatsa, w których opisujące on wieś irlandzką oczami urojonego bajarza. Zbiór ten zawiera różne historie oparte na ludowych opowieściach irlandzkich, a związane z Hanrahanem Rudym, które autor opracował w stylu pięknej mowy. Widać w nich zainteresowani...

“Tajemnicza róża” to utwór William Butler Yeats, laureata Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury, poety, dramaturga i filozofa.Znakomite dzieło Yeatsa przybliża czytelnikowi nie tylko folklor irlandzki, ale także przybliża go do ezoteryki, która była czymś niezwykle ważnym w życiu tego genialnego mistrza pióra. Pikanterii utworowi dodaje szczypta erotyzmu ukazanego w formie dość nieprzyzwoitej, aby nie użyć dosadniejszego określenia.

“Poezja” to zbiór wierszy William Butler Yeats, laureata Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury, poety, dramaturga i filozofa.W skład tego zbioru wchodzą takie wspaniałe wiersze jak: Gdy posiwiejesz, Ephemera, Smutek pasterza, Szaleństwo króla Golla, Śmierć Cuhoolina, Troska miłości, W ogrodzieśmy się spotkali czy Wyspa na jeziorze w Innisfree