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John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada’s Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers, most notably „The Thirty-Nine Steps”, and it is for these that he is now best remembered. „A Lodge in the Wilderness” (1906)...

Considered one of Wells most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wells’s tale is a panoramic view of an unravelling society. A semi-autobiographical satire of Edwardian advertising and patent-medicines. The story follows the life of a young man, George, and his Uncle Edward. Edward invents an elixir called TONO-BUNGAY and hires his nephew...

Debiut twórcy serialu Detektyw ! Roy Cady radził sobie jak dotąd doskonale. Uzbrojony w metalową pałkę dwumetrowy brodacz, postrach niesolidnych dłużników w Nowym Orleanie, nie jest może zbyt lubiany, ale na pewno skuteczny. Do czasu. Wiadomość o toczącej go śmiertelnej chorobie i zdradziecka pułapka, w jaką wpada podczas zdawać by się mogło rutynowej roboty zmuszają go do zerwania z dotychczasowym...