Egipt to jedna z najstarszych i najbardziej intrygujących cywilizacji świata. W tej książce znajdziemy wielkie mity i legendy – o potężnym Ra, bogu słońca i stwórcy świata, czy też dramatyczną historię Ozyrysa, Izydy i Seta; opowieść o zdradzie, śmierci, miłości i zemście, która na trwałe zapisała się w egipskiej mitologii i wywarła wpływ na wyobrażenia dotyczące życia pozagrobowego. Nie zabrakło także Horusa – bohatera i mściciela, symbolizującego triumf dobra nad złem. Au...

Czy zdarza ci się myśleć, że jesteś człowiekiem w pewien sposób wybrakowanym i bezwartościowym? Czy wykazujesz przesadną wrażliwość na wszelkie formy krytyki, a zarazem czujesz skrępowanie, słysząc komplement lub pochwałę? Czy masz wrażenie, że większość ludzi radzi sobie z życiem lepiej niż ty? Poczucie, że jest się gorszym od innych i niedopasowanym, często ma źródło w negatywnych doświadczeniach z dzieciństwa. Jeśli zdarzyło ci się dorastać w bardzo krytycznym, ...

The main plot of the story is a dying man and his will. Having no relatives, the man wants to give his money to someone worthy and resembling a woman whom he loved and lost too early. Most of the book is devoted to various actions of the characters, reactions and plans for this money – millions in the title. The book also has a love story.

A detective story which solves in an exceedingly clever manner the inexplicable death of a prosperous stockbroker and the secret of his life. The reader’s attention is first caught by a mysterious letter, the key to the situation, and is held to the end by a series of ingenious devices. A dying stockbroker accuses one of his sons of his murder. Can Mr. Gryce and Caleb Sweetwater get to the bottom of the mystery. A young lawyer, who witnesses the murder decides to help. A ni...

Originally published between 1894 and 1900, „A Difficult Problem” is a collection of ten short works of mysterious fiction by Anna Katharine Green. These ten short stories include the mystery and crime stories as their basic theme. This whodunit collection brings to you some of Green’s finest crime mysteries to keep you at your toes: „The gray madam”, „The bronze hand”, „Midnight in Beauchamp Row”, „The staircase at the Heart’s Delight” and others. Anna Katharine Green (Nov...

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...

„The Woman in the Alcove „ is the third book in the Caleb Sweetwater series. The spinster-detective in the novel is Miss Van Arsdale, a member of the high society in New York and a woman who is short and plain in appearance. Against all odds, Rita Van Ardsdale has landed the man of her dreams and is blissfully in love. But her shot at happily ever after seems to be fading when her fiancé is accused of murder. It falls to Rita to crack the case and clear her beloved’s name. ...

Was the little girl, who appears to have been everybody’s darling, kidnapped for money? Nobody comes forward asking for a ransom. Did she sneak down to the river and drown? In „The Millionaire Baby”, a young detective Mr. Trevitt has more than one reason for desperately wanting to solve the mysterious case of little Gwendolen, a millionaire’s daughter who missed since the afternoon of August the 16th from right under the nose of her nurse. Our detective soon meets the widow...

Intoxicated by success, the crowd walked along the street, screaming and screaming, while broken glasses and women’s cries marked her progress. In a few minutes they will be ahead. Suddenly a second doorbell rang. This time the negro stopped before opening it.

On the night of his wedding, Sinclair flosses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison and he feels sure it can only be one of two people, his intended wife, or her cousin, Dorothy. He goes to his friend Mr. Worthington and together they fight against time to find who has the poison and stop them using it. Too late, whoever took it has used it and now there is death in the house, is it suicide or murder? „The Amethy...

„Masterpieces of Mystery” is a scintillating collection of suspenseful stories of murder and mayhem from pioneering American detective-story writer Anna Katharine Green, one of the first female writers of detective fiction. Green’s many thrillers were characterized by logical construction and a knowledge of criminal law. Her stories are full of mystery and written in an elegant manner, true to the time period in which the story is set. This collection includes the classic s...

Celebrated as one of the most important early female writers of detective fiction, Anna Katherine Green was lauded for her meticulous plotting and attention to detail. In this classic mystery novel, a universally beloved woman Agatha Webb and a household servant are found dead. Would her husband do it for money matters? Or would it be the rich and well-connected Mr. Fredrick, who ran away into the woods? Detective Caleb Sweetwater works to untangle the plot that involves bl...

„The Forsaken Inn” by Anna Katharine Green is an exceptional novel of gothic horror set in late 18th-century Revolutionary America. Told from the perspective of a Mrs. Truax, the owner of an inn, „The Forsaken Inn” is a locked-room mystery that keeps readers guessing about what has happened. Edwin Urquhart, loved by two sisters, chooses to marry the elder. Arriving at the Forsaken Inn for their honeymoon, they occupy an apartment containing a secret chamber. That night, the...

„I had turned the corner at Thirty-fifth Street and was halfway down the block in my search for a number I had just taken from the telephone book when my attention was suddenly diverted by the quick movements and peculiar aspect of a man whom I saw plunging from the doorway of a large office-building some fifty feet or so ahead of me”.

The last part of the book includes a chase that ends with a terrible snowstorm. The problem with this is that the „twist” discovered at the end is what the reader will suspect long before Mr. Grice does. She explains in detail the heart and souls of all her characters – even Detective Grace.

Anna Katharine Green was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America, received praise for her accurate, well plotted stories. Her novels have always been one of the groundworks of mystery and detective fiction and The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow is a great example of the ingenious and thrilling story. In this novel, a young woman is killed by an arrow in the middle of the museum, so all of the other visitors are closed inside while the crime is investigated! A g...

Porywająca opowieść o surowym świecie skandynawskich bogów – od stworzenia świata po wizję ragnaröku Tęcza tworząca migotliwy most pomiędzy światami bogów i ludzi. Wąż tak ogromny, że oplata cały świat. Naszyjnik tak piękny, że nawet boginię doprowadza do szaleństwa... Wielkie skandynawskie sagi są pełne magii i bohaterskich czynów. Roger Lancelyn Green znanym od niepamiętnych czasów mitom o wędrówkach Odyna, młocie Thora, śmierci Baldra czy ostatniej bitwie nadał now...

GENIALNA POWIEŚĆ HISTORYCZNA O PEŁNEJ PASJI KOBIECIE, CZARNEJ KARCIE W HISTORII PSYCHIATRII I O KIEŁKUJĄCYM, NIEUNIKNIONYM KOSZMARZE. Od kiedy jej brat odebrał sobie życie po pierwszej wojnie światowej, Ruth Emeraldine decyduje się pomagać ludziom cierpiącym z powodu chorób psychicznych. Zakochuje się w charyzmatycznym Robercie Apterze – genialnym lekarzu i orędowniku nowej radykalnej terapii – lobotomii. Ruth wierzy, że jest to cudowny lek. Kiedy jednak jej mąż traci kontrol...

A detective story first published in 1911, it is one of the book of Ebenezer Gryce series, „Initials Only” deals with the case of beautiful young heiress Edith Challoner. She is murdered in the writing room of a luxury hotel while nobody is near her, and no shot is heard and no bullet found in the deadly wound. She is seemingly stabbed to death, yet no one was seen near her. How then was she killed? Among Miss Challoner’s personal belongings are found letters signed with in...

A brief early American detective novella written in 1883 by Anna Katharine Green that tells the story of a detective who arrives in a small town in Massachusetts in an attempt to investigate counterfeiters possibly connected to a series of mysterious letters addressed only to X Y Z. While he is questioning the postmaster, he learns of the Benson family and their super secretive lifestyle. They are rich and reclusive. The detective feels there is something amiss and switches...

Susan Kaiser Greenland przedstawia skuteczne metody kształtowania umiejętności skupienia u dzieci, kontrolowania emocji i reagowania na każdą sytuację ze spokojem, życzliwością i współodczuwaniem z użyciem technik mindfulness i medytacji. Autorka przedstawia w książce sześćdziesiąt prostych i przystępnych zabaw, pomocnych we wprowadzaniu uważności w codzienne życie. Rozwijane i testowane w ciągu wielu lat pracy z dziećmi oraz ich opiekunami, są one przeznaczone dla młody...

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935), known as the „Mother of the Detective Novel”, is one of the first American writers of detective fiction. She was recognized for realism and well plotted story of her mystery stories. A tale of two families, betrayal, revenge, and murder, The Circular Story, written in 1902, is still an absorbing and notable work. We highly recommend this book to fans of classic detective fiction!

After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York aged detective inspector Mr. Gryce calls on the skills of Miss Amelia Butterworth to help him solve this most puzzling crime. In „Lost Man’s Lane” the author Anna Katharine Green shows that she has lost none of her cunning in inventing an intricate and absorbing plot, and in unfolding it carefully bit by bit by the agency of her chosen hero or heroine. This is classic Gr...

The story of a strange, impenetrable, charming woman. Miss Hurd is certainly a very unusual person: „Miss Hurd in the garb of a working woman, and with a working woman’s bundle in her lap, but striking as ever in her appearance – possibly more so, –and as conspicuous among the mass of commonplace people surrounding her as she had ever been when clad in the habiliments of a lady and moving among persons of her own rank in life”.