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A Start in Life – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of nineteenth-century realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled „The Human Comedy” (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works and 48 unfinished works. The novel „A Start in Life” is part of the „Scenes of Private Life” section of Balzac’s masterpiece. In much of Balzac’s...Data dostępności:
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The Red Rat’s Daughter – ebook
Guy Boothby
The story of the liberation of a Russian prisoner from an island in eastern Siberia. A young English millionaire thinks he is saving the father of his beloved, famous nihilist; but when a person is safe, he discovers that he really shot down the most notorious diamond robber in the world. The story is full of sensations, and people who like such a fantasy will find it vibrant and lively from start...Data dostępności:
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Inside the Lines – ebook
Earl Derr Biggers Robert Welles Ritchie
Inside the Lines is a drama that developed during the First World War. The story about a business woman who came to New York to visit her department store. She meets an officer in the British signal corps. He escorts her to Paris and advises to quickly complete his business and return to America before the start of the war. But our heroine does the opposite and is in difficult circumstances.Data dostępności:
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The Yellow Face – ebook
Fred M. White
A young, ambitious lawyer, Jack Masefield has his own problems and suspicions. He is in love with a beautiful young Clair and is convinced that her guardian, the famous criminologist Spencer Anstruther, is himself a criminal and plays some kind of mysterious game, and that posters on the streets are part of his scheme. This book captures from the start. And each page that you flip reveals new and new...Data dostępności:
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Saul and the Spinster – ebook
Aidan de Brune
A murder is committed in a seedy nightclub... weird vandalism in a leading fashion salon... are they connected? An exiting page tuner full of intrigue and mystery, „Saul and the Spinster” is a must-read for all fans of thrilling crime fiction. A mysteriously complicated plot make this Aidan de Brune book great fun with the twists coming thick and fast. He provides a thrill of another sort! If you haven’t...Data dostępności:
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San Francisco – ebook
Magda Działoszyńska-Kossow
Zbudowane w połowie XIX wieku dzięki gorączce złota, San Francisco od początku przyciągało ludzi poszukujących wolności, bogactwa, możliwości zaczęcia od nowa. To miasto marzeń, kontrkultury, ruchu LGBT, muzyki, sztuki i wina. Mekka artystów i niebieskich ptaków. Dom Janis Joplin i Grateful Dead. Intelektualne zaplecze Doliny Krzemowej, centrum start-upów i najnowszych technologii. Magda Działoszyńska-Kossow...Data dostępności:
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The Cossacks – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
The main character of the story, Dmitry Olenin, is close to the author both in spiritual experience and in moral aspirations. Like Tolstoy, he finds himself in the Caucasus in an attempt to start a new life, „"in which there will be no more mistakes, there will be no remorse, and probably there will be only happiness."” But instead of imagining paintings on the way to the Caucasus in the spirit of...Data dostępności:
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Norine’s Revenge, and Sir Noel’s Heir – ebook
May Agnes Fleming
Mr. Richard Gilbert, a New York lawyer, entering five minutes before the start, found only one place unoccupied near the door. The old hard farmer held the upper half and moved grumpily to the window when Mr. Gilbert took his seat. The month was March, the morning was snowy and blowing, slushy and slushy, as usual in the Canadian March morning. Mr. Gilbert, inwardly congratulating himself on having...Data dostępności:
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Brentwood – ebook
Grace Livingston Hill
„Brentwood” is a romance novel of a young woman adopted by a well to do couple. Marjorie Wetherill had always known she was an adopted child; her adoptive parents, the Wetherills, whom Marjorie loved deeply, had made no secret of it. But when she faces her first Christmas alone after her parents’ deaths, she starts to wonder about finding her first family. A letter among Mrs. Wetherill’s things gives...Data dostępności:
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The Pigeon House – ebook
Valentine Williams
The novel begins in Paris on the wedding night of Sally and Rex Garrett. A former member of the French Foreign Legion Rex mysteriously disappears on the night of his wedding. At The Pigeon House, a lonely inn, a band of conspirators await the arrival of a deserter from the Foreign Legion, who is their „key man” in their plan to start an uprising in French Morocco. The conspirators have also driven...Data dostępności:
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