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8 Best Weird and Fantasy Stories – ebook
H.P. Lovecraft
The name Howard Phillips Lovecraft thundered to the whole world as a standard of horror literature. Gifted with the art of exquisite literature, he wrote about terrible shadows in the corner and that which was inaccessible to ordinary mortals, but only to the elect. His contemporaries and today’s heroes of horror stories pay their tribute to Lovecraft’s tales. The multibook includes the most read novels...Data dostępności:
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The War in the Air – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Bert Smallways is the unlikely protagonist, a kind of Edwardian Mod, not interested in a steady career, always looking for a good time, riding his proto-scooter down to Brighton at the weekends. When Bert is accidentally scooped up by a German fleet, on its way to launch a surprise attack on the United States, he finds himself with a front row seat to the greatest war that has ever been – the war in...Data dostępności:
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Skin and Bones – ebook
Thorne Smith
Thorne Smith’s imaginative novel „Skin and Bones” takes the concept of suffering for one’s art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself; in other words, him found himself...Data dostępności:
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – ebook
James Joyce
James Joyce first wrote Portrait as a one-thousand page novel, full of well-developed scenes and long explanations of Stephen’s motives, but he decided to trim it into a short book with a new sort of style. The novel tells the story of the first twenty years of Stephen Dedalus – a young Catholic boy growing up in late 19th century Ireland. As the title suggests, this is the story not just of a young...Data dostępności:
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The Night Life of the Gods – ebook
Thorne Smith
In „Night Life of the Gods”, we meet Hunter Hawk, wealthy eccentric scientist in 1920s America, who, after numerous explosions, manages to invent an „atomic ray” that turns living beings into statues, and a second ray that restores them to their original state. With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art of transforming...Data dostępności:
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