paradise

Those who think they recognize the Comtesse de Vassart are undoubtedly mistaken. Mornak, long dead, is safe in his disguise. No trains with treasures were actually sent from the arsenal in Brest to the port of Lorient.

Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel „This Side of Paradise”, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three, „Flappers and Philosophers” was the author’s first iconic collection of short fiction. In these pages we meet Fitzgerald’s trademark characters: the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost...

Nie przegap zachwycającej sagi autorki bestsellerów nr 1 „Sunday Timesa” Dilly Court! Paradise Row, Londyn. Grudzień 1865 r. Śnieg pada gęsto, gdy Sally Suggs pracuje niestrudzona, by zarobić przynajmniej na chleb na świąteczny stół. Jej ojciec, doświadczony handlarz starociami, zaniemógł, więc przejęła jego obowiązki. Wkracza w świat mężczyzn i brutalnej konkurencji, a rywal Sally – Finn Kelly...

Written in the form of an autobiography, it describes the life of the eponymous narrator Robinson Crusoe. After surviving a terrible shipwreck, Crusoe discovers he is the only human on an island far from any shipping routes or rescue. At first he is devastated, but slowly, with patience and imagination, he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he lives with no human...