Young Maurice Teyl, just turned 21, shy, non-drinker, non-smoker and the richest man in America, has been raised by his rigid Grandmother on a remote ranch in California but he shuns the limelight....
A wonderful old fashioned spy story set in the 1930’s. Like other Oppenheim romances of diplomacy, intrigue and espionage, this latest one poses a critical situation in the relationships of...
E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and...
Why not destroy someone’s memory in the hope that they will remember past lives. It turned out that this is a reverse scenario of Pygmalion. He fell in love with the girl and then destroyed her. I...
„Inaczej pamiętam, inaczej przemijam" – pisze w swoim nowym tomie wierszy Zbigniew Jasina. Czy „inaczej" znaczy tu bardziej? Czy wprost przeciwnie: mniej,dzięki czemu intensywniej? A może...
"W cieniu Golgoty" nie jest powieścią religijną, nie jest także sensu stricto książką historyczną. To bardziej rozprawa filozoficzna, stawiająca fundamentalne pytania o początki...
Muzyka jest fuzją sprzeczności. To najmocniej emocjonalna i bezpośrednia ze sztuk, nieprzystępna do jednoznacznego zdefiniowania i ujęcia w teorię, tak jak skomplikowane do ujęcia są uczucia....
Trawestując Jarry’ego można napisać, że „rzecz dzieje się w S., to znaczy wszędzie". Jest to tylko część prawdy o "Schyłku", bo w istocie książka ta to autorski przewodnik po końcu...
Detective Inspector John Dickins seated himself in silence. It was not the first of such conferences to which he had been summoned, but this time everyone knew that the situation was critical. He...
Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was the earliest writer of spy fiction as understood today, inventing the „rogue male” school of adventure thrillers and writing over 150 novels of all sorts....
„The Mystery Road” an antique book written aby E Phillips Oppenheim follows the heroine on her journey to true love and independence from family pressures. An orphan French girl, Myrtile, who is...
A collection of nineteen stories, aby Edward Phillips Oppenheim, mostly from the 1890’s and early 1900’s, published in magazines, and collected in 1913. Ghost stories, bizarre adventures, strange...
Wiersze producent Maja brzmią tak, jakby powstały przed stuleciem. Najlepiej się czują w środowisku konwencji wiersza regularnego, rymowanego wyraźnie, trafnie, zręcznie, ale nierzadko i z...
"Elegijny dziennik podróży" - taką formułą można najkrócej opisać zbiór Grażyny Obrąpalskiej, gromadzący akcydensy odwiedzanych miejsc świata połączone w patchwork ze strzępami...
Mr. Hardross Courage is a wealthy young Englishman whose life has been carefree and uneventful. He plays cricket for his county, he attends to the management of his estates, he serves as a local...
It was a brilliant good Saturday morning before the harvest, and the large market and curves of the streets in Norwich proceed with a continuous crowd of farmers, livestock, dealers, county ladies...
Lord Evelyn and a group of seven like-minded esthetes make up „The Ghosts” a cabal of social arbiters, of whom the mere mention is regarded as a faux pas. They are imbued with almost mystical power...
In this remarkable 1927 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a great conference has been called in London to renegotiate the war debt. It is clear that Germany is suffering, and all of Europe is...
Malcolm Gossett is a Scotland Yard detective, fed up żeby the endless conferences and hierarchy of The Yard, he resigns his position and establishes himself as a private investigator, specializing...
A detective and very mysterious story. Mr. Sabin is called out of blissful retirement to search for his missing wife. He believes Lucille to be kidnapped by members of a secret society of...
Roman Ciepliński literaturę traktuje z powagą i gra o duże stawki. Jego książka wyrasta i z innych tekstów, i z życia. Autor namiętnie i bezustannie dyskutuje z wielkimi duchami – Platonem,...
In this novel tells about Alexander, the head of a huge movement aimed at returning to Russia a more conservative government. And also about his beautiful spy love, Anna, who works against the gang...
Julian Orden, son of a British aristocrat attends a dinner party and meets Catherine, a young woman of mixed antecedents – British and Russian. She is entrusted with important documents. When she...