Este unul dintre romanele româneşti de spionaj care s-a bucurat la vremea apariţiei un real succes. Triumful literar s-a datorat nu numai intrigii, ci şi faptului ca romanul a fost scris într-o perioada în care publicul...
Breathtaking adventure during the French Revolution (1793) as Harry Sandwith, a young Englishman is hired to be a companion to the sons of a nobleman. Throughout the story, Harry is called upon to summon his courage as he rescues his French...
“I wish most heartily that something would happen,” Harry Parkhurst, a midshipman of some sixteen years of age, said to his chum, Dick Balderson, as they leaned on the rail of her majesty's gunboat Serpent, and looked gloomily at the turbid...