Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London, half-starved, both mentally and physically. His cousin, Douglas, has everything and even buys Beatrice, Philip’s fiancée. He strangles Douglas,...
Arnold (a writer), Allan (an artist) and Arthur (works in finance) all live together. Once their attention is caught aby a middle age man and a young girl about sixteen who seems frightened. They...
The mystery żeby E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) starts out in the Sierra Nevada mountains, 500 miles from San Francisco, at a gold mining camp. Bryan came to America from England, chasing a man...
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...
Wiersze producent Maja brzmią tak, jakby powstały przed stuleciem. Najlepiej się czują w środowisku konwencji wiersza regularnego, rymowanego wyraźnie, słusznie, zręcznie, ale nierzadko i z...
Trawestując Jarry’ego można napisać, iż „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...
Muzyka jest fuzją sprzeczności. To najbardziej emocjonalna i bezpośrednia ze sztuk, nieprzystępna do jednoznacznego zdefiniowania i ujęcia w teorię, tak jak niełatwe do ujęcia są uczucia. Blisko...
"W cieniu Golgoty" nie jest powieścią religijną, nie jest również sensu stricto książką historyczną. To bardziej rozprawa filozoficzna, stawiająca fundamentalne pytania o początki...
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 aby 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 żeby members of a secret society of...
"Elegijny dziennik podróży" - taką formułą można najkrócej opisać zbiór Grażyny Obrąpalskiej, gromadzący akcydensy odwiedzanych miejsc świata połączone w patchwork ze strzępami...
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....
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...
„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, żeby Edward Phillips Oppenheim, mostly from the 1890’s and early 1900’s, published in magazines, and collected in 1913. Ghost stories, bizarre adventures, strange...
The six stories in Part I of this book trace the early career of Peter Benskin. He is a public school graduate with a small private income who joins the police force in London. After an early...
Roman Ciepliński literaturę traktuje z powagą i gra o spore stawki. Jego książka wyrasta i z innych tekstów, i z życia. Autor namiętnie i nieustannie dyskutuje z wielkimi duchami – Platonem,...
Impatient of the numerous checks which had held up his car all the way from Croydon, Gerald Jennerton let down the window and looked out. London, he realised at once, was swallowing him up. Not the...
A mystery story that involves the revolution in Portugal. Arnold Chetwode never intended to become involved in international intrigue. Arnold, a gently born young man in impecunious circumstances,...
A very interesting and early novel is extremely popular in the 1920s and 1940s by the famous author E. Phillips Oppenheim. It differs from its later works, here are considered more gloomy themes...