First-time visitors to the Louvre cannot help but be impressed by the sheer scope of the collections before them. This guide does not aim to cover absolutely everything, but to provide a comprehensive overview with a selection of nearly 600 masterpieces from Antiquity to the mid-19th century.
The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel’s household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as ‘the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels’, The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear.
Rewolucja i miłość w cieniu gilotyny?Była to najlepsza i najgorsza z epok, wiek rozumu i wiek szaleństwa, czas wiary i czas zwątpienia, okres światła i okres mrok�w, wiosna pięknych nadziei i zima rozpaczy? ? tak rozpoczyna swą niezwykłą Opowieść o dw�ch miastach Charles Dickens. Słowa te są zapowiedzią dramatycznych wydarzeń przedstawionych w książce z epickim rozmachem.Paryż i Londyn w przededniu Wielkiej Rewolucji Francuskiej. Ten burzliwy okres ukazany jest przez pryzmat los�w młodego francuskiego arystokraty, niesprawiedliwie uwięzionego lekarza, jego c�rki i angielskiego prawnika. Po osiemnastu latach spędzonych w Bastylii doktor Manette wychodzi na wolność. Szczęśliwie, już na angielskiej ziemi, rozpoczyna drugie życie u boku c�rki Lucie. Tam przecinają się drogi dw�ch mężczyzn: zbiegłego z Francji Karola Darnaya i błyskotliwego adwokata Sydneya Cartona, samotnika i pijaka, kt�rych połączy miłość do jednej kobiety ? c�rki doktora. Wskutek dramatycznego splotu okoliczności bohaterowie są zmuszeni porzucić spokojne ulice Londynu i przybyć do Paryża pod rządami krwawego terroru. Porwani w wir wydarzeń zostaną poddani ciężkiej pr�bie.
Contemporary / British English Meet the Larkin family They enjoy a wonderful country life, never worrying about money, work -- or the law. But then, one day, a man arrives from the tax office. Is the taxman going to change the Larkin's lives? Or is his life going to change forever?
Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of Victorian culture, conventional and conservative women sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
"Four short stories of murder and mystery, in which Edgar Allan Poe wrote about terrible people who lead strange lives."--Amazon.com
