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In the course of his Special Patrol duties Commander John Hanson resolves the unique and poignant mystery of "toma annerson."

A novel from the creator of Fu Manchu about a mysterious muslim organization in pursuit.

«Le Mystérieux Docteur Cornélius, ce chef-d'oeuvre du roman d'aventures scientifico-policieres, ce roman du monde moderne ou, par les tableaux de la nature exotique, son gout policier de l'intrigue, son penchant métaphysique, son don de visionnaire scientifique, mon ami Le Rouge a fait la somme...

Ce cycle de huit romans, publiés de 1863 a 1875, est a rapprocher de la série des Rocambole de Ponson du Terrail, qui connaissait un grand succes depuis 1857. Il a été popularisé par une série télévisuelle datant de 1967, du temps de l'ORTF... Les «Habits noirs» est le signe de l'appartenance...

Dans le train qui l'emmène en voyage de noces à Ramsgate, Valéria Woodville pense aux semaines qui ont précédé son mariage : sa rencontre avec Eustache, ses rapides fiançailles avec lui, l'inquiétude de son oncle pour ce projet de mariage faute d'informations sérieuses sur la situation personnelle...

Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories she published in American Magazine between 1911 and 1913. The stories featured Emma McChesney: smart, savvy, stylish, divorced mother, and Midwest traveling sales representative...

La visión de Aristóteles en comentarios sobre la Felicidad, la Virtud y la Amistad. Se complementa con el libro Etica a Nicomano y esta edición posee un apéndice apócrifo que trata sobre el Vicio.

Las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes es un libro que recopila cuentos policíacos escritos por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle en donde el protagonista es su celebre detective privado "Sherlock Holmes". El libro original fue ilustrado por Sidney Paget. Aquí se cuentan las primeras aventuras de Sherlock Holmes.

Pandora's Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the first is Earth Spirit [1895]), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". G. W. Pabst directed a silent...

The Young Buglers, A Tale of the Peninsular War is a book by British author G.A. Henty. It was published by Blackie and Son Ltd, London. It tells of the Peninsula War through the eyes of two orphaned brothers, Tom and Peter Scudamore.

"'Give me Liberty, or give me Death'!" is a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention. It was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the Virginia House...

I am sensible that the Title of this little Book will, to the Generality of People, seem too high a Flight; that it will be looked upon as the Effect of a fanatical Spirit, carrying Matters higher than the Sobriety of Religion requires. I have only one Thing to ask of such People, that they will suspend...

Friedrich Nietzsche Filozof, filolog klasyczny, pisarz. W latach szkolnych z zamiłowaniemoddawał się poznawaniu niemieckiej muzyki klasycznej od Bacha iMozarta po Beethovena oraz poezji romantycznej (szczególnie wielkiewrażenie zrobiły na nim utwory nowo odkrytego Hölderlina). Studiowałfilologię...

German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) derived his mathematical laws of planetary motion from astronomical data meticulously collected by Tycho Brahe, who, as he was dying, beseeched young Kepler to use the data to discover the laws of motion of the planets. Based upon Kepler's laws, Sir Isaac...