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...
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...
Rodzina Jondrette, złożona z ojca, matki, dwóch nastoletnich córek Eponiny i Anzelmy oraz dwunastoletniego Gavroche'a żyje w paryskie ruderze. Ich sąsiadem jest Mariusz Pontmercy. Narrator cofa...
Powieść Nędznicy łączy elementy powieści realistycznej z silnymi elementami romantycznymi, lecz także fragmentami o charakterze eseistycznym. Można wręcz powiedzieć, iż jest to synteza gatunków:...
Rok 1922. Większość mieszkańców Zełwąg w pobliżu Mikołajek, stanowiących stanowczo zżytą społeczność, staje się Mormonami. Rok 1998. W podmrągowskich lasach ktoś podpala na kamieniach ofiarnych...
Jacob’s Ladder begins: Seated at breakfast on that memorable July morning, Jacob Pratt presented all the appearance of a disconsolate man. His little country sitting-room was as neat and tidy as...
The story of a gallant soldier who is dismissed his regiment, and disowned by his father, because he has been found guilty, on „false evidence,” of cowardice in the field. He changes his name, and...
This is another collection of interlinked short stories about the good life in Monte Carlo and Beausoleil after the first World War. Ten stories about Peter Hames, the former Inspector on the New...
Oppenheim was famous for his hundreds of spy and espionage novels. This is not one of them. It’s billed as a novel of social intrigue and as a story of revenge without violence and moves quickly....
Turmoil over Thurlow House. The new tenant of the garden house has barely moved in when a grisly murder happens. Is Mister Brown, the new tenant guilty? Who is he, anyway? His past is shrouded in...
A novel of crime and conscience aby Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946), the self-styled „prince of storytellers.” „The Profiteers” was written about the stock market post-World War I and...
Positively every one, with two unimportant exceptions, had called upon us. The Countess had driven over from Sysington Hall, twelve miles away, with two anamic-looking daughters, who had gushed...
W dorobku pisarskim Virginii Woolf listy stanowią szczególną pozycję. Podobnie jak dziennik, pisała je poprzez całe życie, nieraz po kilka dziennie. Do najbliższych, rodziny, przyjaciół,...
Pewnego dnia na stół operacyjny młodej, stojącej u progu kariery pani neurochirurg trafia Włodzimierz, znany wydawca i kolekcjoner. To poznanie zmieni dotychczasowe życie ich obojga. Łucja, która...
Though dated stylistically, this novel has the makings of a decent movie thriller. The story takes place between the Anschluss, the Nazi takeover of Austria, March 1938, and the invasion of Poland...
This 1907 novel was one of the early popular novels of society żeby E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story revolves around the conflict between a gentleman’s obligation to defend the honor of a lady, and...
Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa early in his career. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the company to which he sold the mine....
The marathon supports the radical form of general strikes to put the entire English industry on its knees and begin a long struggle for the redistribution of wealth. In many eloquent speeches, he...
The long boat train which had only a few minutes before started from Dover Pier Station on its way to Victoria came to an unexpected halt alongside the almost deserted platform of the Town Station....
"Połączenie powieści obyczajowej, satyry, farsy i romansu łotrzykowskiego. Utwór opisuje podróż po Anglii dobrodusznego pana Pickwicka, twórcy nowej teorii głowaczy, i jego groteskowych...
"Amy Dorrit, urodzona i wychowana w więzieniu, opiekuje się swym ojcem osadzonym tam przed laty za długi. Nie zna innego świata, lecz staje się w tym ponurym miejscu prawidłową duszą,...
Powieść przez niektórych uważana za największe dzieło Czechowa. W nieznacznej szpitalnej oficynie znajduje się sala nr 6 dla chorych umysłowo. Mieszka tam pięcioro ludzi, pomiędzy innymi głuptak...
A novel written in 1912. These are good Victorian or Edward tales about representatives of the English upper class who are engaged in uncovering crimes, espionage, good deeds and shrouded żeby...