culture

A simply amazingly creative novel by one of the best of the pulp-era authors, originally published 1931. While searching for lost Inca treasure in South America, American mining engineer, Nicholas Graydon stumbles across a lost civilization. A culture both more barbarous than our own and more civilized; more advanced and yet in some ways primitive. Is it a strange and highly advanced technology, or...

A family of flag-flaunting United States acquire an historic English mansion from the thoroughly prim, thoroughly British Lord Canterville. Throw in a murderous, aesthetically-minded ghost with a penchant for high drama and theater, and you have a classic, joy-inducing tale of clashing cultures, progress vs. tradition, and Wilde’s self-mockery of his own philosophy of decadent aestheticism. Wilde emphasized...

This historical novel tells of a romantic young English captain in Scotland who strives for love, harmony and peace during the Jacobite rebellion in 1745. He becomes one of the leaders of the insurrection directed against the English. There is romance and adventure in this tale as our young hero is forced to test his loyalties to his country and the love of his life. Its unprecedented success prompted...

Thriller psychologiczno-sądowy. Jedna z najważniejszych powieści grozy ostatnich lat. Szkocja, 1869 rok. W zapomnianej przez Boga i ludzi osadzie zostaje popełnione potrójne morderstwo. Do winy przyznaje się siedemnastoletni Roderick Macrae. Czy rzeczywiście jest odpowiedzialny za zbrodnię. Co mogło sprawić, że postanowił zrealizować swe krwawe zamiary? Czarujące, mroczne i genialnie napisane. „The...