Literatura
The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown
E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown is an 1896 novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. Following the apparent murder of a man, a novelist comes under suspicion. Very enjoyable period piece with lovely descriptions and intense love between hero and heroine. He has to clear his name, as main suspect in a murder and he had sworn revenge and had taken an assumed name. Flashbacks to Italy. Full of rich and influential people with touch of Dickens with Benjamin Levy, the private sleuth who is obsessed with money. The author has acquired an admirable technique of the sort demanded by this novel of intrigue and mystery. Readers of Mr. Oppenheims novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship.
Fred M. White
Wendover is a journalist with Fleet Streets Daily Herald. He, like any other journalist, is at the epicenter of events. On the day in question his mind is occupied with a criminal conspirator and a slim blonde beauty. Not knowing what he will face, but he sets off on the most important journey of his life, with the hope of uncovering a crime.
The Mystery of Sgt Adela White
Marcin Brzostowski
The Mystery of Sgt Adela White is a short story whose protagonist, inspector Franco Fog, known from The Vengeance of Women and Hot Dagger of the Spanish Temptress, faces the challenge of solving the riddle of a theft of a priceless diamond ring – the main prize in the Miss Police Contest. However, when the problem finally seems to be solved, some new trials and tribulations occur. Let’s see how the meeting with a desperate female sergeant will end for Franco Fog.
The Mystery of the Clasped Hands
Guy Boothby
Australia-born writer Guy Newell Boothby burst onto the literary scene with a series of best-selling adventure action movies, but The Mystery of Clasped Hands discovers that Boothby is trying to try his hand at classic detective fiction. Fans of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle will love this exciting mystery.
The Mystery of the Four Fingers
Fred M. White
The main characters of this story are a wealthy lawyer named Jim Gourdon and his tanned, adventurous friend Gerald Wenner traveling the world who amazes Gurdon and readers with his own story about the alleged millionaire Fenwick, his daughter, and some other noteworthy characters. After all, Fenwick has recently become a millionaire, it seems that posing as another. And his daughter is full of past secrets.
Valentine Williams
In the dark days just before the outbreak of WW1, Philip Clavering, a British Secret Service agent, is despatched to Europe to recover a gold box carried by a now dead agent, the box holding a deep secret. But the Kaisers man, Dr. Grundt, alias Clubfoot, is also on the trail of that box and its secrets. The chase is on! The Mystery of the Gold Box is the fourth in the seven book series about the evil Dr. Adolph Grundt. He answers to no one except the Kaiser. Hes a big man with a clubfoot. Since hes behind a lot that goes on his nickname is the Crouching Beast. The first in the series is The Man With The Clubfoot (1918), written as Douglas Valentine and the last entry is Courier To Marrakesh (1944). Dr. Grundt is an over the top villain but that makes the series even better. A hard boiled mystery, suspense, and espionage thriller.
William Le Queux
The youth in the multi-coloured blazer laughed. Youd have to come and be a nurse, he suggested. Oh, Id go as a drummer-boy. Id look fine in uniform, wouldnt I? the waitress simpered in return. Dennis Burnham swallowed his liqueur in one savage gulp, pushed back his chair, and rose from the table.
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
Anna Katharine Green
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 good classic mystery that we recommend very highly!
Fred M. White
Ravenspurs is a quiet, dignified family, as rich and respectable as they come. However, recently they have become victims of mysterious crimes. But who is behind these tragedies? The last of the family must figure out before the whole line is destroyed.
Bram Stoker
Archibald Hunter was spending his annual vacation in Cruden Bay, Scotland when he sees two women and a man walking abreast. Suddenly, he has a vision of the man carrying a coffin and the two women walking behind. Just as suddenly, he sees the three walking normal again. As this was happening, Archie was being watched by an old woman, Gormala. She had seen Archies shocked look at what he had just seen and tells him that he has the gift of Second Sight. According to Gormala, both he and she are Seers, and she proposes an alliance to solve the centuries-old Mystery of the Sea. Archie discovers a chest full of old documents he believes contain a coded message revealing the location of a lost treasure of the Spanish Armada. And then there is Marjory, the beautiful American girl Archie saves from drowning. Who is she, and why is she being pursued by a vicious gang of criminals and the American Secret Service?
Carolyn Wells
Another thrilling mystery by author Carolyn Wells. Instead of prison time, former governor, Samuel Appleby, sentences his former rival, Daniel Wheeler to imprisonment on his homestead with a very strange addendum. He then endeavors to convince Mr. Wheeler to endorse his sons candidacy for governor with a promise of commuting his sentence. In the meantime, Samuel Appleby is murdered in Wheelers study, with a bullet through his heart. With not enough clues to proceed in their investigation, the local authorities call in master sleuth Fleming Stone and his sidekick Terence McGuire or Fibsy as hes more commonly known. The discovery of the identity of the murderer has many twists and turns filled with love, devotion, gumshoe dialog, and weird circumstances that will delight the reader in a most unusual way.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux, known as the author of fantastic detectives. The Mystery of the Yellow Room this intriguing and confusing story is a classic of detective literature. The main mystery of the novel: how could a crime be committed in a locked room, in which there are no signs of penetration? This is a hard brainteaser for readers.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Mystery Road an antique book written by E Phillips Oppenheim follows the heroine on her journey to true love and independence from family pressures. An orphan French girl, Myrtile, who is living with her stepfather horrifies at the prospect to marry to a local barkeep and runs away from the farm. Struck by Myrtiles desperation and beauty, two Englishmen rescue her and bring her to Monaco with them, buy her new clothes, and try to find her a respectable position. One of them Christopher falls in love with her. The emergence of her true nature, and the evolution of their relationships forms the basis of the plot. Its all great fun and Oppenheim keeps the action moving along swiftly, as he always did. Wonderful entertainment and highly entertaining.
G.K. Chesterton
Meet Auberon Quin. He is a man to whom the world is a punchline; a dangerous man, for he cares for nothing but a joke. And meet Adam Wayne to whom the joke is quite serious. When Quin is appointed King of England, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. When Adam Wayne is appointed Provost of Notting Hill, he proposes to be patriotic about it and takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. Amidst the chaos of confusion, the stirring speeches, the epic battles, and the all-pervading Chesterton wit, The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a cry for renewed life in a deadened world a call that compels mankind to fight for the small things, if only for the sake of fighting for something.
Rex Beach
Father often asked Kirk Anthony to do a real job. But Anthony, despite almost idolizing his strong, successful father, just cant stop having a good time with his fathers money. He goes to fancy dinners, drives the latest cars, and treats his friends to sumptuous meals. Then a man steps in trying to get away from the law. At dinner, he persuades one of Anthonys drunken friends to play a terrible joke on him.
Rex Beach
American Norvin Blake travels to the island of Sicily to attend the wedding of his good friend, Count Martel Savigno. However, the mafia appears in the story, which leads to tragic events on the night before the wedding. The main character has to find out who ordered the killer.
Fred M. White
What is it like to know that you will die soon? Our main character knew that. 22-year-old Mary Dashwood knew that she had only a few minutes left to live. Her horse was galloping wildly when she heard the mans smooth, firm voice. But the man had not come for Mary. Instead, hed come with a deathbed message and a long-standing grudge.
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling wrote the story of the New Army or Kitcheners Army about the new battalions created for the Great War. Kipling wrote several stories about the war and describes the routine in which recruits, officers, and other ranks passed before they were sent to battle fronts. Fans of Kiplings writings will love this brief treatise on citizen soldiers in England.
Herbert George Wells
About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure. A successful author and Liberal MP Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life is thrown when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire. At first, he struggles to resist and remain focused upon his familiar political, personal and social life. But as he soon learns, it is harder than he could have imagined to turn his back on love. In the character of Richard Remington, Wells created a damning portrait of an insufferable, egoistic, pontificating windbag whose attempts to set an agenda to improve society whether to uphold the British Empire or allow women to play a greater part in social life pays no attention to the effects on the people he is supposed to represent.
Wilkie Collins
The adopted daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is a beauty who is waiting for a profitable marriage. What is her past hiding? Will the Princess have the courage to turn into Cinderella, to sacrifice love and wealth?
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Turmoil over Thurlow House. The new tenant of the garden house has barely moved in when a grisly murder happens. Is Mister Brown, the new tenant guilty? Who is he, anyway? His past is shrouded in mystery and nobody seems to know anything about him other than that he is wealthy? Strange things continue to happen... The New Tenant is a devious mystery from the the prince of storytellers Phillips Oppenheim who wrote nearly 150 novels during his career. Very much in the genre of The Woman in White and other late Victorian mysteries, this book evolves slowly, with lengthy descriptions of setting, scenery, and society. If you like British style mysteries, this ones for you!
The New Yorker. Biografia pisma, które zmieniło Amerykę
Michał Choiński
Dokładnie sto lat temu przy kawiarnianym stoliku w Hotelu Algonquin na Manhattanie grupa inteligentnych i wygadanych przyjaciół wpadła na pomysł założenia gazety. Miała wyrażać wielkomiejskiego ducha Nowego Jorku, być wyrafinowana i dowcipna. The New Yorker szybko stał się czymś znacznie więcej. Zmienił dziennikarstwo i Amerykę. Po publikacji reportażu Hiroszima, pokazującego ogrom zniszczeń wywołanych zrzuceniem bomby, Albert Einstein poprosił redakcję o 1000 egzemplarzy tego numeru. Drukowany w odcinkach Eichmann w Jerozolimie Hanny Arendt stał się najgłośniejszym dziełem filozoficznym XX w. Reportaż śledczy o przestępstwach seksualnych Harveya Weinsteina stał u początku ruchu #MeToo. Okładki magazynu na życzenie Baracka Obamy zdobiły ściany Białego Domu. A komiksy i żarty Charlesa Addamsa dały początek słynnej Rodzinie Addamsów. Michał Choiński opowiada o ekscentrycznych dziennikarzach, wielkich pisarzach i pisarkach, ikonicznych okładkach i przełomowych tekstach. A także pyta o przepis na sukces, czyli jak stworzyć ambitne pismo, które w dobie internetowej walki o klikalność zbudowało trwałą relację z milionami wiernych czytelników. Michał Choiński amerykanista, stypendysta Fulbrighta na Uniwersytecie Yale, profesor na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskiego. Przeprowadził wywiady z ponad 50 redaktorami New Yorkera, zgromadził setki nagrań, a w archiwum magazynu i w The New York Public Library dokonał unikalnych odkryć. Jedyny Polak, któremu redakcja New Yorkera tak mocno uchyliła drzwi swojego świata. Specjalizuje się także w literaturze amerykańskiego Południa.
The New Yorker. Biografia pisma, które zmieniło Amerykę
Michał Choiński
Dokładnie sto lat temu przy kawiarnianym stoliku w Hotelu Algonquin na Manhattanie grupa inteligentnych i wygadanych przyjaciół wpadła na pomysł założenia gazety. Miała wyrażać wielkomiejskiego ducha Nowego Jorku, być wyrafinowana i dowcipna. The New Yorker szybko stał się czymś znacznie więcej. Zmienił dziennikarstwo i Amerykę. Po publikacji reportażu Hiroszima, pokazującego ogrom zniszczeń wywołanych zrzuceniem bomby, Albert Einstein poprosił redakcję o 1000 egzemplarzy tego numeru. Drukowany w odcinkach Eichmann w Jerozolimie Hanny Arendt stał się najgłośniejszym dziełem filozoficznym XX w. Reportaż śledczy o przestępstwach seksualnych Harveya Weinsteina stał u początku ruchu #MeToo. Okładki magazynu na życzenie Baracka Obamy zdobiły ściany Białego Domu. A komiksy i żarty Charlesa Addamsa dały początek słynnej Rodzinie Addamsów. Michał Choiński opowiada o ekscentrycznych dziennikarzach, wielkich pisarzach i pisarkach, ikonicznych okładkach i przełomowych tekstach. A także pyta o przepis na sukces, czyli jak stworzyć ambitne pismo, które w dobie internetowej walki o klikalność zbudowało trwałą relację z milionami wiernych czytelników. Michał Choiński amerykanista, stypendysta Fulbrighta na Uniwersytecie Yale, profesor na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskiego. Przeprowadził wywiady z ponad 50 redaktorami New Yorkera, zgromadził setki nagrań, a w archiwum magazynu i w The New York Public Library dokonał unikalnych odkryć. Jedyny Polak, któremu redakcja New Yorkera tak mocno uchyliła drzwi swojego świata. Specjalizuje się także w literaturze amerykańskiego Południa.
The New Yorker. Biografia pisma, które zmieniło Amerykę
Michał Choiński
Dokładnie sto lat temu przy kawiarnianym stoliku w Hotelu Algonquin na Manhattanie grupa inteligentnych i wygadanych przyjaciół wpadła na pomysł założenia gazety. Miała wyrażać wielkomiejskiego ducha Nowego Jorku, być wyrafinowana i dowcipna. The New Yorker szybko stał się czymś znacznie więcej. Zmienił dziennikarstwo i Amerykę. Po publikacji reportażu Hiroszima, pokazującego ogrom zniszczeń wywołanych zrzuceniem bomby, Albert Einstein poprosił redakcję o 1000 egzemplarzy tego numeru. Drukowany w odcinkach Eichmann w Jerozolimie Hanny Arendt stał się najgłośniejszym dziełem filozoficznym XX w. Reportaż śledczy o przestępstwach seksualnych Harveya Weinsteina stał u początku ruchu #MeToo. Okładki magazynu na życzenie Baracka Obamy zdobiły ściany Białego Domu. A komiksy i żarty Charlesa Addamsa dały początek słynnej Rodzinie Addamsów. Michał Choiński opowiada o ekscentrycznych dziennikarzach, wielkich pisarzach i pisarkach, ikonicznych okładkach i przełomowych tekstach. A także pyta o przepis na sukces, czyli jak stworzyć ambitne pismo, które w dobie internetowej walki o klikalność zbudowało trwałą relację z milionami wiernych czytelników. Michał Choiński amerykanista, stypendysta Fulbrighta na Uniwersytecie Yale, profesor na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskiego. Przeprowadził wywiady z ponad 50 redaktorami New Yorkera, zgromadził setki nagrań, a w archiwum magazynu i w The New York Public Library dokonał unikalnych odkryć. Jedyny Polak, któremu redakcja New Yorkera tak mocno uchyliła drzwi swojego świata. Specjalizuje się także w literaturze amerykańskiego Południa.
The Nigger of the Narcissus. A Tale of the Sea
Joseph Conrad
The Nigger of the Narcissus was written in 1896 and is loosely based on Conrads own experiences as a sailor; in 1884, Conrad made a voyage on the real Narcissus from Bombay to Dunkirk as a Second Mate, and some of the events described in his novella may be based on adversities Conrad and his fellow-sailers had to contend with. And yet, Conrads third novel is much more than just an accout of adventures at sea partly based on fact and experience. In The Nigger of the Narcissus, Conrad powerfully expresses his emotional leanings towards a seafaring life but he also unfolds a rather pessimistic worldview, maybe an even more pessimistic one than in many of his later works. An absolutely engrossing tale that takes place on board of the Narcissus, a ship bound for England. It explores the microcosm on board of this ship and examines human nature and power relations as more and more strain is put on the crew.
Jack London
Romance and adventure, the majestic nature and extreme conditions, strong and independent heroes Jack Londons stories are extremely popular, more than a hundred adaptations of works are known. In a small work, Born in the Night, the author shows how the benefits of civilization are inferior to the forest and to a huge concept called Freedom. A woman who stumbles upon abandoned bags of gold does not become a noble lady with a wardrobe, but leads a small tribe.