poetry

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare was written by G.K. Chesterton and published in 1908. Ostensibly about a secret policeman investigating anarchists, it becomes a surreal and philosophical novel. It is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates...

The protagonist in Rob Roy is Francis Osbaldistone not the title character! Francis a spoiled son of a rich London businessman,who would rather write poetry than work for his father. Sent to his uncle’s estate as punishment in northern England, bordering simmering Scotland. He soon becomes involved in a feud with his cousin Rashleigh (youngest and smartest of six brothers!). A woman Diana is the main...

Groźny cień - The Great Shadow - La Grande Ombre – książka w trzech wersjach językowych: polskiej, angielskiej i francuskiej. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) – szkocki pisarz, wolnomularz, spirytysta, czołowy przedstawiciel nurtu powieści detektywistycznych, w których głównym bohaterem jest Sherlock Holmes.Doyle pochodził z ubogiej arystokratycznej rodziny. Jego ojciec, alkoholik i narkoman,...