Editora: Delhi Open Book
Agnes Grey, A Novel is the first novel by English author Anne Brontë, first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry.
The game is afoot. Dive into the foggy, gas-lit alleys of Victorian London, where no crime is too complex for the ultimate master of deduction. From scandalous royal secrets to bizarre underground leagues, the city's official police force is utterly baffled. Enter Sherlock Holmes, the world's only consulting detective, alongside his loyal friend and chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson. Together, they navigate the treacherous underworld and high-society drawing rooms of England. Armed with razor-sharp intellect, unparalleled observational skills, and a penchant for the bizarre, Holmes tackles the seemingly impossible. But with adversaries ranging from cunning blackmailers to ruthless bank robbers, one misstep could prove fatal for the iconic duo. The stakes are high, the danger is real, and the clues are hidden in plain sight. Why you will love this classic mystery: If you crave intricately plotted whodunits, brilliant amateur sleuths, atmospheric gaslamp thrillers, and twisty deductive logic, this timeless collection will hold you spellbound. Fans of historical crime fiction, police procedurals, and cerebral mysteries will find themselves mesmerized as Holmes pieces together the puzzles that nobody else can. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician whose unparalleled creation of Sherlock Holmes forever revolutionized the detective genre. His works remain some of the most widely read and influential literary masterpieces in the history of crime fiction.Ver livro
Unlock the magic of "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a timeless tale of renewal and discovery. Mary Lennox, a spoiled and lonely orphan, finds herself in her uncle's gloomy Yorkshire estate. Her curiosity leads her to an abandoned and hidden garden. As she breathes life back into it, Mary, along with newfound friends Colin and Dickon, experiences a profound transformation. Through nature's healing power, the garden becomes a sanctuary of hope, friendship, and inner growth.Ver livro
Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American masters of fantasy and the supernatural. Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled him to read omnivorously, and as a shy imaginative child he began to invent what would in his adult life become a whole macabre fantastic world of his own, peopled by creatures out of his own weird imagination. As an adult he was retiring, almost a recluse. Tall, thin and pale, but with bright alert eyes, he was much given to wandering his native city in the dark hours of the night, and he became a devoted student of its antiquities. Although he began to write early he had nothing published until he was in his twenties. He set many of his stories around the imaginary town of Arkham, and invented an entire mythology of his own, its core being the demoniac cult of Cthulhu, based on the lore or legend that the world was at one time inhabited by another race who, in practising black magic, lost their foothold or were expelled, yet live on outside, ever ready to take possession of this earth again. Since his early death in 1937 his stories have continued to attract attention and praise from an ever-growing audience.Ver livro
When a brilliant but blind scholar dies, his legacy leaves behind more than books and unfinished theories. What remains is a presence—subtle at first, then impossible to deny. The Beast with Five Fingers is a masterwork of early 20th-century supernatural horror, where intellect, skepticism, and rational explanation steadily erode under the pressure of something that should not exist. Set within shadowed libraries, lonely houses, and candlelit rooms, the story follows a man of science confronted by an entity that moves with purpose, memory, and malice—yet defies every known law of nature. W. F. Harvey builds terror not through spectacle, but through accumulation: strange movements in the dark, marks left behind, doors opened without cause, and the growing certainty that the human hand—once trained, disciplined, and educated—may not be finished with its work after death. Calm, intelligent, and deeply unsettling, this is horror rooted in restraint and psychological dread rather than violence. A classic of supernatural fiction, The Beast with Five Fingers remains as disturbing today as when it first appeared, posing a quiet but unforgettable question: What happens when skill, intention, and will survive the body? Narrated by Myriam Berger, this audiobook brings a refined, atmospheric voice to one of the most enduring and chilling ghost stories of the Edwardian era.Ver livro
Mary Stuart from her return to Scotland to Carberry Hill - Darnley, Rizzio, Bothwell and the six years in which she lost everything. Hewlett wrote her sympathetically and without deciding the Casket Letters question. This edition is bound with a gallery of 42 plates, among them paintings by François Clouet, Hans Muelich and Abu al-Hasan, ranging in date from 1528 to 1910.Ver livro
Texas and Mexico in the 1840s: adventurers, filibusters and a war that neither government quite admits to, seen by an Irish officer who fought in it. Mayne Reid served in the Mexican war, was wounded at Chapultepec, and wrote his novels from the ground he had crossed. The politics are hot and partisan; the descriptions of the country are the reason he was read across Europe. Fifty-five plates range from Sorolla's Valencian markets to David Roberts's Italian squares, matching Reid's eye for the country his characters ride through.Ver livro
