Zestaw jest literackim kursem językowym i zawiera 3 ebooki: - „Lord Jim” Joseph Conrad (wydanie dwujęzyczne polsko-angielskie).- „Z przygód Sherlocka Holmesa. Tłumacz grecki” Arthur Conan Doyle (wydanie dwujęzyczne polsko-angielskie). - podręcznik z ćwiczeniami: „Nauka języka angielskiego z książką dwujęzyczną” Marta Owczarek.  Pakiet ebooków jest pełnym kursem językowym łączącym przyjemność czytania z praktyczną nauką języka angielskiego. Zestaw fascynujących ...

Joseph P. Cray is an American manufacturer who has just completed a year serving coffee to the troops in France during World War 1. He is motivated by good will, and also to escape his American second wife who is the head of a temperance organization. With sybaritic glee, he returns to London, dons civilian garb, and enjoys his first cocktail. He is soon joined by his daughter, the beautiful Lady Sara Sittingbourne, who lives in London. Together the two seek „adventure” in ...

Wiek IV jest periodem rozkwitu wymowy chrześcijańskiej na Wschodzie. Wszystko to, co wydali wielkiego od czasów Augusta w zakresie krasomówstwa sofiści i retorowie greccy i rzymscy, pod względem polotu myśli, głębokości uczucia a niekiedy i piękności formy nie może iść w porównanie z dziełami wielkich mówców chrześcijańskich IV wieku. Lecz wymowa chrześcijańska jest zupełnie odmienną od pogańskiej. Dla pogan mowa była widowiskiem a mównica była teatrem; o treść ...

Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 – 30 January 1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. Jackie Farnish has grown up in a grindingly poor household, and as she reaches adulthood she resolves to do whatever is necessary to claw her way out of poverty. She is loved by her childhood playmate Joe Bartle, but takes him for granted and feels that he lacks the spark or ambition to match...

This novel takes place in the London parish of Paddington. The story opens with the murder of an old Jewish pawnbroker. Our Scottish hero, Andrew Lauriston, a penniless aspiring writer, has the misfortune of finding the body, and is accused of killing and robbing the old man. But then it’s found the pawnbroker had had in his possession an extraordinary South African diamond worth over eighty-thousand pounds – a diamond that’s now missing. It falls to Melky Rubenstein to unr...

Viner stumbles upon the body of a murdered man whilst just following through his ordinary day routines. Little does he know that this find would make him a key figure in solving a big mystery. Well its soon discovered that the murdered man’s name was Ashton and some important documents were stolen from him, but the true purpose for killing him and his real identity and that of his charge, make for a rather excitingly interesting murder-mystery... Nevertheless, Mr. Fletcher ...

„The Talleyrand Maxim" belongs to the pen of an outstanding British journalist and writer Joseph Smith Fletcher. Linford Pratt is a suave and clever law clerk looking for a chance to better himself. Opportunity knocks when he gets possession of a rich man’s will that would mean the ruin of the present heirs. His thoughts turn to blackmail, since he assumes the wrongful heirs would pay a high price to hang onto their wealth. Pratt’s personal hero is the subtle, wily diplomat...

This novel, first published in 1922, is a good example of J. S. Fletcher’s complex plots. The story starts with a famous actor gone missing in suspicious circumstances in northern England. But other dark deeds soon take our attention. Copplestone, the young dramatist, helping to solve the mystery, found himself suddenly in love; and the solution and his happiness were discovered together. In the search for Oliver, we find ourselves on a wild and lonely coast off the North S...

This is a story of graft and corruption set in one of Fletchers favoured Northern towns. The mayor who is on a clean-up campaign is found dead in his parlour and our hero, his younger cousin, is determined to find out who killed him. Was he eliminated for this reason? There are entanglements involving city officials and his proposed reforms plus jealousy related to relationships. Lots of twists with a surprise murderer. The plot is cleverly centered around the inquest, whic...

Another fast-paced murder mystery by J.S. Fletcher told in the first person. He wrote about 200 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the „Golden Age”. It was first published in 1920, and has just the right stock of truly good characters, balanced by a couple of nasties. A young apprentice solicitor in a rural English town bordering Scotland, is riding his bike through lonely stretches of...

A quaint and idyllic English community is rocked to its very core when a dead body of a man is found and foul play is suspected. Did he fall or was he pushed? The inquest records a verdict of death by misadventure but more than one person is dubious about the death. But with few clues to go on and no likely suspects, it appears that the brutal crime may remain unsolved. There’s another murder, lots of behind the scenes investigation into burial and marriage records, questio...

Fans of golden-era mysteries will relish the twists and turns of J. S. Fletcher’s „The Chestermarke Instinct”. This cleverly crafted mystery begins with what seems like a common enough occurrence: a bank manager is late for work one morning. But what first appears to be simply a matter of a missed train soon is revealed to be a much more vexing problem. Has the manager, formerly a pillar of honesty, absconded with the missing bank’s items, or has something more sinister occ...

„The Borough Treasurer” (1921) by J.S. Fletcher is a tale of blackmail, murder and a secret quarry. He has quite a large cast of interesting characters in this one, and manages to bring them all to life with great detail. This novel tales place in an obscure small town by the Yorkshire moors – an ideal spot for two ex-cons to start life over. Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and...

Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a beautiful woman stops his car to ask for directions to Scotland. Odd time to be traveling so far and in such a hurry, but Allerdyke’s mind is elsewhere. When he finally arrives in Hull, he finds his cousin dead in his hotel room and a valuable consignment of jewels missing. Allerdyke’s only clue rests with that woman hurrying off to Scot...

When an elderly man’s body is found on the steps of chambers in the Midde Temple, one of the Inns of Court, it falls to newspaperman Frank Spargo and Detective-Sergeant Rathbury to solve the crime. There is no indication as to the idetity of the corpse, whose pockets are completely empty apart from a scrap of paper bearing the names and chambers address of an aspiring young barrister. Who is the victim? Why was he killed? Who is the murderer? These are the questions that Sp...

Proza Josepha Conrada od ponad stu trzydziestu lat wywiera wpływ na największych artystów. „Jądro ciemności”, „Lord Jim” czy „Nostromo” stały się inspiracją dla takich mistrzów, jak T.S. Eliot, Francis Ford Coppola, Bob Dylan czy Czesław Miłosz. Trudno bowiem znaleźć pisarza, który równie przenikliwie potrafiłby opisać kondycję ludzką na styku kultur, w przecięciu tego, co stereotypowo uznajemy za cywilizowane i barbarzyńskie, oczywiste i obce. Ten wielki ironista podważa d...

Odkąd Szol ogarnął część hrabstwa Lancashire, w której mieszka Sprytek, chłopiec ukrywał się wraz z braćmi w piwnicy. Teraz bracia nie żyją, zaklęcia ochronne przestają działać i Sprytek musi na zawsze opuścić rodzinny dom. Trafia na zamek i po przejściu próby zostaje jednym z czerwi, pomagających badać tajemniczy Szol - plamę mroku, która rozlewa się coraz szerzej, a każda żywa istota w jej granicach ginie bądź zostaje koszmarnie odmieniona. To już nie ludzie ani zwierzęta -...

Być może najbardziej aktualna powieść Josepha Conrada! Jeśli zamach za pomocą bomby ma wywrzeć wpływ na opinię publiczną, musi być czymś efektowniejszym niż akt zemsty lub terroryzmu. Musi dążyć tylko do zniszczenia. Zniszczenie i nic innego, każdy inny cel musi być wykluczony. Wy, anarchiści, powinniście dowieść czarno na białym, że jesteście bezwzględnie zdecydowani zmieść z oblicza ziemi cały ustrój społeczny. Ale jak wbić ten przerażający absurd w głowy klasy średnie...

Asymilacja i proces utożsamiania się człowieka z obcą ojczyzną ukazane z dwóch perspektyw: przez Nikolaja Brandeisa, który usilnie stara się nie być zaszufladkowany, oraz Pawła Bernheima, żyda, który utracił własną tożsamość.

Lęk to książka, która wyjaśnia najbardziej palące kwestie zdrowia psychicznego, wskazując naukowe podstawy zaburzeń strachu i lęku. Zaburzenia lękowe dotykają miliony osób na całym świecie, stanowiąc jeden z najbardziej rozpowszechnionych problemów zdrowia psychicznego. Joseph LeDoux, który wraz z członkami swojego laboratorium przoduje w wysiłkach badawczych, zmierzających ku zrozumieniu i skutecznemu leczeniu lęku, w niniejszej książce wyjaśnia całą gamę zaburzeń, ich ...

An ambiguous story many consider to be Conrad's best work, it is a story of remorse and of the effort to regain self-respect for a deed of fatal and unexpected cowardice. The sea and secluded Eastern settlements are the background.

The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time, Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in...

This is a decidedly powerful story of an uncommon type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction... All the leading characters in the book – Almayer, his wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's native lover – are well drawn, and the parting between father and daughter has a pathetic naturalness about it, unspoiled by straining after effect. (Conrad's first novel.)

A novel treating of the underworld of London life--the underworld of anarchists and spies. Verloc, "the secret agent," is ostensibly an anarchist, but in reality a spy of one of the big Embassies. He keeps a dim, disreputable shop in side street of Soho, where he lives with his wife, Winnie, his wife's mother, and his half-witted brother-in-law, Stevie. Verloc in his heavy and slothful way is a domesticated man and well pleased with his comfortable existence. So that he is ho...