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The Man in Grey is set in Napoleonic France in 1809, and is comprised of nine inter-connected short stories about the mysterious Man in Grey’s adventures in tracking down Royalist criminals for the government.

Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is holding the real killer captive on his yacht while detectives are searching for Counsel. Pen Broome, who lives with her father on their rundown estate, tries...

A comedy in three acts

Bien que terminée après la mort de J.-O. Curwood, l’histoire de sa vie, présentée ici, est en majeure partie l’œuvre du romancier. James Oliver Curwood, dit Jim Curwood, né le 12 juin 1878 à Owosso, au Michigan (États-Unis), et mort dans la même ville le 13 août 1927, est un romancier...

A Relíquia é um romance do escritor português Eça de Queirós, publicado em 1887. O autor deu-lhe como subtítulo, a agora célebre frase sobre a nudez forte da verdade – o manto diáfano da fantasia. A obra é influenciada pela Vida de Jesus, São Paulo de Ernest Renan e Memorias de...

Tudo começa com a descrição da casa – “O ramalhete”- Lisboa, mas que nada tem de fresco ou de campestre. O nome vem-lhe de um painel de azulejos com um ramo de girassóis, colocado onde deveria estar a pedra de armas. Afonso da Maia casou-se com Maria Eduarda Runa e deste casamento...

A Capital é um romance do escritor português Eça de Queirós publicado postumamente em 1925. A obra "A Capital" relata a história da ambição social, profissional e pessoal da personagem principal, Artur...

Le strade sono luride e le case fatiscenti. Nei vicoli si agitano mercanti di avanzi ed agenzie di pegni. Questo è il «ventre di Napoli», la vita delle strette stradine dove il Sole più non arriva e, con esso, anche le istituzioni, cieche di fronte ad una realtà abbastanza aberrante e lontane...

In the long slog of the Hundred Years’ War, the English forces’ decisive victory in the Battle of Agincourt proved to be a key turning point. In this gripping historical novel from G. P. R. James, a tender human drama unfolds against the backdrop of the epic battle.

When Dale Hathaway heard a knock at her door late one winter evening, she had no idea that her life was about to turn upside down. But suddenly she and a handsome young journalist were caught up in a desperate mission: saving the life of an abandoned baby! Could they bring the poor waif back from...

“Madame,” one of the most brilliant personalities in French society before the War, runs a circle of dashing young adventurers, who commit all sorts of crimes, the members sharing the proceeds. The Virgins consist of Public School men and ‘Varsity men who are virgins in crime until they bind...

This novel was originally published under the title A Daughter of the Marionis and was reprinted several times. The story of a vendetta, makes a capital plot for the novelist who takes characters from Southern life for his story, and in Margharita, “a daughter of the Marionis,” we have a not impossible...

By the Gods Beloved was first published in Britain in 1905 and was later released in America under the title The Gates of Kamt. Mark and Hugh are school friends. Mark has visited Hugh's house, whose father is an archaeologist and Egyptologist and where there is an odd museum, complete with mummies....

A Ilustre Casa de Ramires é um romance realista da terceira fase do escritor português Eça de Queirós. Publicado em 1900, representa a sua maturidade intelectual e o apogeu do seu estilo como escritor, onde a crítica corrosiva e a ironia cáustica que haviam marcado a segunda etapa da sua produção...