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Going Some – ebook
Rex Beach
Four cowboys leaned over the barbed-wire fence that marked the dividing line between the Centipede Ranch and their own, gazing mournfully into a summer night that only distant southwestern countries know. The great yellow stars hung thick and low, so low that it seemed as if an outstretched hand might rip them off, and the silent air swept over the thousands of open miles of land lying fresh and fragrant...Data dostępności:
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War of the Classes – ebook
Jack London
“War of the Classes” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. War of the Classes is a series of essays by Jack London. The collection consists of these titles: The Class Struggle, The Tramp, The Scab, The Question of the Maximum,A Review, Wanted: A New Land of Development,...Data dostępności:
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The People That Time Forgot – ebook
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The People That Time Forgot“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. The People That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel, the second of his Caspak trilogy. The trilogy includes “The Land That Time Forgot”, “The People That Time Forgot” and “Out of Time's Abyss”.Data dostępności:
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Out of Time's Abyss – ebook
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“Out of Time's Abyss“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. Out of Time's Abyss is a fantasy novel, the third of his Caspak trilogy. The trilogy includes “The Land That Time Forgot”, “The People That Time Forgot” and “Out of Time's Abyss”.Data dostępności:
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The Mysterious Island – ebook
Jules Verne
A storm, an eruption of a volcano, pirate attacks, a mysterious captain Nemo and, of course, a story of survival on a piece of land in the ocean are interwoven into the adventurous plot of the novel „The Mysterious Island” offered to the reader: resourceful heroes thrown by a hurricane onto a desert island themselves make sugar and melt steel. They make bricks, wool, sulfuric and nitric acid, nitroglycerin...Data dostępności:
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Fruits of Culture – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
In the morning, men from the Kursk province arrive at the Zvezdintsev’s house. Their appearance alarms the valet Fyodor Ivanovich, he tries to send uninvited guests to the courtyard, but the maid Tanya intervenes for the walkers: the peasants are her countrymen, in addition, one of them is the father of the barman Semyon, with whom the girl intends to associate fate. When Tanya finds out that the master...Data dostępności:
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Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon – ebook
Jules Verne
The daughter of the wealthy owner of the hacienda Joam Garral marries, and the whole family accompanies the bride and groom on a trip to the wedding venue. The giant raft, the genghada, will serve them all as transport, and the greatest river of the Amazon world is the road. The general joy over the upcoming trip is somewhat overshadowed by the doubts of the head of the family: for many years he had...Data dostępności:
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Typee – ebook
Herman Melville
Basically, it turns out that the Typee tribe untouched by civilization is children of nature, surrounded by the care and warmth of their native land, spending their easy days in the shade of a palm tree, eating the fruits of breadfruit, bananas and coconuts. Here, Melville begins to compare civilized countries with a clearly backward society and concludes that the former are at a lower stage of development....Data dostępności:
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Plain Tales from the Hills – ebook
Rudyard Kipling
A wonderful book written in beautiful language, with love for the native land and its history. Despite the fact that all sorts of wars, illnesses and deprivations often flash in the stories, in general the atmosphere is very pleasant, and the book gives a feeling of warmth and tranquility. English guys Dan and Una, brother and sister, meet Elf Pak. He tells them once brought to England, the god Wiland,...Data dostępności:
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The Return of the Native – ebook
Thomas Hardy
Young beauty Eustace Way, passionate, self-willed, selfish and ambitious, eager to break out of the hateful rural outback into a “different life”, full of splendor, fun and pleasure. Meanwhile, after several years of service as a manager in a Paris jewelry salon, Clime Ibright returns to his Blooms End estate, who also wants to live a different life - to settle in his native land and open a school...Data dostępności:
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