Obyczajowe
Tales of the Jazz Age – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, „Tales of the Jazz Age” includes two of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s better-known short stories, „The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and „The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald’s own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection of early 11 short stories shows a comic genius at...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
Richelieu Raids a Tomb – ebook
Henry Bedford-Jones
„Richelieu Raids a Tomb” is the fourteenth installment about the Sphinx Emerald from a Canadian-American historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer H. Bedford-Jones. Here the malign magic of the Sphinx Emerald works its spell anew in one of the famous dramas of history. And again the strange Sphinx Emerald came to the scene to play its part in the unrolling drama.Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
The Passing of the Sphinx Emerald – ebook
Henry Bedford-Jones
The final series about the strange and mysterious gem „The Passing of the Sphinx Emerald” constitutes a veritable Outline of History – or perhaps „Highlights of History” would be more accurate. For this reason the greatest event in all history could not be left out. Here, then, we see in Santa Fe, the story of this malign and magic jewel, which began in Ancient Egypt, comes to its strange conclusi...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
Privy Seal – ebook
Ford Madox Hueffer
Ford Madox Ford was a prolific English novelist and poet in the early 20th century. Ford wrote the best-selling novel „The Good Soldier”, as well as the „Parade’s End” series. „Privy Seal” is the second novel in the well-known „Fifth Queen” trilogy that recreates Tudor England in a masterful story of court intrigue, romance, and betrayal. Here Ford focuses on the figure of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
The Sphinx Emerald – ebook
Henry Bedford-Jones
Imagine a single artifact that has been involved with every era and event from ancient Egypt to post-WWII.That’s the Sphinx Emerald. A strange jewel that wrought mischief and magic as it passed from hand to hand down the ages starts its strange eventful dramatic history here in Ancient Egypt... and crosses the paths of both simple folk and famous men such as Alexander the Great, Saladin, Richard the...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
The Mystery of an Artist’s Model – ebook
Fenton Ash
Written as Frank Aubrey, „The Mystery of an Artist’s Model” is a weird mystery with rationalized supernaturalism. Little is known about Aubrey/Atkins. He was involved in a scandal at the turn of the century and sentenced to nine months imprisonment for obtaining money by deception. After leaving prison he dropped the name Frank Aubrey and – in his early 60s, following a three-year hiatus – began writing...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
The Bride of the Sphinx – ebook
Henry Bedford-Jones
A strange jewel that wrought mischief and magic as it passed from hand to hand down the ages starts its strange eventful dramatic history. Now almost in our own day the Sphinx Emerald turns up in Cairo to work its malign magic in a memorable drama. „The Bride of the Sphinx” is the seventeenth story of the popular series about the Sphinx Emerald.Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
Short Stories – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The definite collection of Fitzgerald’s short stories; edited and with a preface by the foremost Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli. The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the author’s fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. This essential collection is ample testament to that statement,...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
The Temple of Fire – ebook
Fenton Ash
„The Temple of Fire, or The Mysterious Island” (1905), the author’s seventh novel out of an eventual 14. It is an absorbing lost-world adventure, characterized by vividly imaginative. Francis Henry Atkins – British speculative fiction writer, working mainly under two pseudonyms (Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash) in sequence, was extremely successful and influential. He played an important role in the History...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
The Fifth Queen Crowned – ebook
Ford Madox Hueffer
This is three novels bound as one. The wonderful „Fifth Queen” trilogy by Ford Madox Ford (1873 – 1939) is about Katharine Howard, the 5th wife of Henry VII which present Katharine Howard’s arrival at the Court of Henry VIII, her eventual marriage to the king, and her death. Depicting some of the era’s most notorious figures, including Thomas Cromwell, Throckmorton, Bloody Mary, and the King himself,...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
The Haunted and the Haunters – ebook
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a prolific Victorian novelist, member of Parliament, and Secretary of State for the colonies, wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction. The protagonist of this book thinks that all stories related to ghosts, could be explained with a reasonable point of view. Now he has to solve the mystery of...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
Red Sky Over Thebes – ebook
Henry Bedford-Jones
The Sphinx Emerald passed into other hands – to reappear centuries later when conquering Cambyses came storming into Egypt with his Persian legions... Readers are treated to authentic historical dramas, all centering on the mysterious jewel that seems to contain a miniature image of the sphinx. A great pulp extravaganza!Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
The Eye of the Sun – ebook
Henry Bedford-Jones
More thrilling adventures from the master story tell H. Bedford-Jones! This series about the Sphinx Emerald constitutes, as has been said, a veritable Outline of History – or perhaps „Highlights of History” would be more accurate. For this reason the greatest event in all history could not be left out. Here, then, we see the Holy Family during the exile in Egypt.Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
The Last Pharaoh – ebook
Henry Bedford-Jones
Meet another great pulp extravaganza, №3 in the amazing cycle of tales from Henry Bedford-Jones published in the mid-1940s. That strange bewitching jewel, the Sphinx Emerald, plays another part in world drama when a Mata Hari betrays the Egyptians, and Artaxerxes of Persia storms up the Nile to take over the ancient kingdom of the Pharaohs.Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
The Return of Don Quixote – ebook
G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton’s last novel is a reflection of his first novel. Michael Herne, the librarian at Seawood Abbey, is asked to play the part of a medieval king. He not only takes his role seriously by thoroughly researching the Middle Ages, when the play is concluded, he refuses to take off the costume... Set in the early 20th Century, this is the intriguing story of the rise of a new Don Quixote who introduces...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
The Great Gatsby – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
„The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. The story follows the enigmatic and mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby as he chases the object of his hopeless desire, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. The result is a chronicle of the drama and deceit that swirl around the lives of the wealthy, which cemented Fitzgerals’s reputation as the voice of his generation....Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
Tender Is the Night – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, „Tender Is the Night” is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver who marries one of his patients, a wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgerald’s words, un homme épuisé („a used-up man”). The novel explores how love can be won, lost, and perverted...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
Mam już dość. Jak pokonałam domowego hejtera – ebook
Danuta Awolusi Joanna Warpas
Pięć kobiet, pięć historii. Pięć rozwodów. Autorki książki Danuta Awolusi i Joanna Warpas oddają głos kobietom, które przeszły przez piekło i postawiły się swoim oprawcom. Solidarnie i z przekonaniem pokazują siłę kobiet, które po latach upokorzenia, bezsilności i paraliżującego strachu, dokonały zmiany w swoim życiu. “Mam już dość. Jak pokonałam domowego hejtera” - autentyczne, poruszające...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
Dave Grohl. Oto moje (po)wołanie. Wydanie II – ebook
Paul Brannigan
Kim, do k**** nędzy, jest Dave Grohl?! Nowe wydanie, rozszerzone o nowe rozdziały, najrzetelniejszej biografii na rynku! Poznaj kompletną historię jednego z największych geniuszy rocka ! Oto moje (po)wołanie jest porywającą opowieścią, której bohaterami są Nirvana, Foo Fighters , Queens of the Stone Age i Them Crooked Vultures,a które łączy postać Dave’a Grohla. Bazując na ekskluzywnych...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
King of the Dead – ebook
Frank Aubrey
Don Lorenzo and Arnold Neville lead separate expeditions to the South American interior whereupon they encounter the exiled king of the underground world. But can Neville help him reclaim his throne when the arch-priestess, Alloyah, raises an army of the dead? The sequel to „The Devil-Tree of El Dorado” and „A Queen of Atlantis”, „King of the Dead” is a novel among the most famous „lost race” novels...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
Top 10
- 1.Schronisko, które spowijał mrok
- 2.Wiosna przynosi ukojenie
- 3.Spotkasz mnie nad jeziorem
- 4.Skradziona tożsamość. Spadkobierca
- 5.Wśród burz
- 6.Przemiana
- 7.Krąg życia
- 8.Rozwódki Konstancina
- 9.Uniwersum Metro 2033: Paryż Uniwersum Metro 2033: Paryż. Lewy Brzeg
- 10.Zbrodnie na podsłuchu Tom 1: Przepraszam, tu był trup