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In Strange Company – ebook
Guy Boothby
At Guy Booth’s Strange Company, Australian writer Guy Boothby put his passion for travel to work as food for his fiction. Although his first publication was a popular science story about traveling around his home country, he soon turned to fiction as an outlet for his work, focusing mainly on adventure adventures, secrets, and discovery stories. In the Strange Company was BoothbyData dostępności:
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The Gold Idol – ebook
Fenton Ash
Welcome to the „The Gold Idol” book, were we present to you one of the best work of remarkable author of „pulp fiction” Francis Henry „Frank” Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-sf Pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. Despite his commercial success at the time, little is known about Atkins’ personal life. His son was writer Frank Howard Atkins...Data dostępności:
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Twelve Men – ebook
Theodore Dreiser
Twelve Men – biographical stories. Each story individually is an autobiographical essay, a portrait of an individual. If we consider the works as a whole, as a collection, then we can trace the history of the author’s life: adolescence in Indiana, work as a newspaper reporter, freelance writer, worker at a railway station, magazine editor.Data dostępności:
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The First Part of Henry the Fourth – ebook
William Shakespeare
The play is a continuation of another Shakespeare’s work – „Richard the Second”. The famous historical drama „Henry IV, Part 1” takes place at the beginning of the fifteenth century, in England. The plot of the play revolves around the confrontation of the king with his rebel vassals.Data dostępności:
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Graveyard Rats – ebook
Robert E. Howard
Despite an aversion to the detective formula, he wrote the tales in Graveyard Rats during the same years he chronicled the adventures of Conan. This collection features a new introduction by scholar Don Herron, editor of „The Dark Barbarian,” the definitive look at the life and work of Robert E. Howard.Data dostępności:
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His Name His Fortune – ebook
Max Brand
Max Brand (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was...Data dostępności:
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Opowieści ucieszne – ebook
Poggio Bracciolini Włodzimierz Olszaniec Mikołaj Olszewski
Pierwsze polskie tłumaczenie Liber facetiarum Poggia Braccioliniego, nieznanego utworu piętnastowiecznej łacińskiej literatury renesansowej, na który złożyło się ponad 270 moralizujących, rubasznych, niekiedy skandalizujących, opowiastek. Dzieło to wywarło znaczny wpływ na twórczość wielu autorów, w tym rodzimych twórców: Mikołaja Reja i Jana Kochanowskiego. ******** Jocose Tales The first...Data dostępności:
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The Master of the Shell – ebook
Talbot Baines Reed
In this novel, for a change, the protagonist is a master, not students. We see events from the point of view of some boys, but it is new that readers are asked to look at things from the point of view of the teacher. Mark Ralesford is a young gentleman who has just become engaged. He is also ready to start work after graduation and travel around the world. He is accepted as a teacher and home master...Data dostępności:
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The Girl at Bullet Lake – ebook
H.A. Cody
For the main character, his daily work became a real torment. That he told his doctor. He had to drag himself to the office every morning, and always left him tired at the end of the day. He had never experienced anything like it before. His old friend Dr. Bradbury, in whom he was sure, would give him something to build him, and in a short time he would be as good as ever. But this order to leave the...Data dostępności:
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Work – ebook
Louisa May Alcott
A story about a nineteenth-century woman’s search for a meaningful life through work outside the family sphere, „Work: A Story of Experience” is at once Alcott’s exploration of her personal challenges and a social critique of America, examining women’s independence, the moral significance of labor, and the goals to which a woman can aspire. The story depicts the struggles of a young woman trying to...Data dostępności:
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