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On their wedding day, a young couple--Florence, daughter of an Oxford academic and a successful businessman, and Edward, an earnest history student with little experience of women--looks forward to the future while worrying about their upcoming wedding night.

"Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf’s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel’s disparate cast. A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical...

"It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from 'the enemy within'--Nazis posing as ordinary citizens. With pressure mounting, the intelligence service appoints two unlikely spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man and a woman from among the colorful guests at Sans Souci, a seaside hotel. But this assignment is no stroll along the promenade--N...

"When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her antiquated nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs. Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs. Lancaster talks about "something behind the fireplace," Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in a spine-chilling adventure which could spell death for either of them..."-- Provided by publisher.

"Instead of choosing to wed a wealthy landowner and settle for a comfortable life, Dorothea Brooke decides to marry Edward Casaubon -- a dull scholar who is her senior by a few decades. Dorothea hopes the union will afford her with the opportunity to share in her husband's intellectual pursuits, but even her best efforts can't save the disastrous marriage. Meanwhile, idealistic doctor Tertius Lydgate has progressive ideas about the medical field,...

Published shortly before his death, 'Kept in the Dark' is one of Anthony Trollope's most captivating short stories. The young Cecilia Holt falls in love with George Western and the pair are soon engaged to be married. George confides in Cecilia his experience of a previous engagement, but harbours such ill-will towards his former match that Cecilia cannot bring herself to share the tale of her own earlier broken engagement. Cecilia's ex-fiancée plots...

"Boję się strzelać" powtórzył Haydock bezradnie. Ale w tej samej chwili huknął strzał. Kobieta zachwiała się i upadła, nie wypuściwszy Betty z objęć. Mężczyźni podbiegli do niej. Pani Sprout trzymała w ręku dymiący rewolwer. Dygotała gwałtownie, źrenice miała rozszerzone. Jak automat przeszła kilka kroków i stanęła. Tomasz ukląkł przy ciałach. Obrócił je ostrożnie. Zobaczył twarz kobiety, spostrzegł niezwykłe,...

"Amerykanka Jane Finn ma cenne dla brytyjskiego rządu dokumenty, dlatego depczą jej po piętach: pan Brown - "człowiek związany z bolszewikami", wywiad oraz bogaty kuzyn z Ameryki. W sam środek afery wpadają także Tommy i Tuppence, marzący o ekscytujących przygodach. Nadstawiają karku (dosłownie!), by zdemaskować Browna, uchronić Anglię przed szerzącym się komunizmem i odkryć... wzajemną miłość! Tommy i Tuppence debiutują w tej...