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A crime thriller featuring Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in which a mild-mannered minister attending a dinner is poisoned, but no trace of poison can be found, and there seems to be absolutely no motive.

Elizabeth Bennet's early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by his arrogant pride.

In nineteenth-century England, two sisters are drawn into unhappy romances despite the cool judgment of one and the emotional intensity of the other.

While enjoying a stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. A satire on the gothic mode typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, 'Northanger Abbey' is a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels.

Emma tries to impose her match making ideas on everyone and finds that sometimes she should desist. As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right--perhaps even her "duty"--To arrange the lives of others. Considered by most critics to be Austen's most technically brilliant achievement, "Emma" sparkles with ironic insights into self-deception, self-discovery, and the interplay of love and power

July, 1700, Rome. Atto Melani - once a celebrated castrato soprano, now a spy in the service of King Louis XIV, the Sun King - mingles with other high- ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. The main topic of conversation is the grave illness of the Pope and the approaching demise of Charles II, King of Spain.

11 September 1683, Rome. The citizens of the city wait anxiously for the outcome of the battle of Vienna as Ottoman forces lay siege to the defenders of Catholic Europe. Meanwhile, a suspected outbreak of plague causes a famous tavern to be placed under quarantine. While detained there, French spy Atto Melani discovers a secret network of passages under the city. They lead him into the Roman underworld and the startling discovery of a plot to assassinate the pope and a plan to use the plague as a weapon of mass destruction in the battle between Islam and the West…

Děj románu zavádí čtenáře do historicky věrného a působivého prostředí antických Pompejí, do doby po velkém výbuchu sopky Vesuvu. Ústřední postava malíř Labius odjíždí z Říma do Pompejí, aby zde pracoval na obnově výzdoby výbuchem poškozených domů. Zde prožívá svůj úspěch, lásku i politické intriky. Netuší však, že se blíží druhý výbuch sopky, sice zatím vzdálený v čase, ale naprosto fatální pro město.

A spa stay turns into a homicidal holiday... A bit snobbish and a trifle high-strung, Sybil Foster prides herself on owning the finest estate in Upper Quintern and hiring the best gardener. In fact, she is rapturous over the new asparagus beds when a visit from her unwelcome stepson sends her scurrying to a chic spa for a rest cure, a liaison with the spa's director...and an apparent suicide. Her autopsy holds one surprise, a secret drawer a second. And Inspector Roderick Alleyn, C.I.D., digging about Upper Quintern, may unearth still a third...deeply buried motive for murder.

Kniha obsahuje dva psychologicky laděné milostné romány z padesátých let 20. století od populární francouzské autorky. — Oba romány, resp. románové novely (Za měsíc, za rok, 1957; Dobrý den, smutku, 1954) zachycují složité problémy a vnitřní konflikty milostných vztahů hrdinek, náležejících převážně k francouzské intelektuální vrstvě té doby. Komorní příběhy těchto žen líčí autorka v obou prózách s maximální objektivitou, bez sentimentality a falešné citovosti.