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The Divine Lady – ebook
Elizabeth Louisa Moresby
This is the story of England’s greatest admiral and his beautiful mistress, Lady Hamilton. Introduced to high society as a host and maid figure Emily Hart is wild and rebels against her violent master. Soon she is taken on by a new man, yet he struggles to reconcile his cool nature and expectation of restraint with her irrational outbursts. Emily is educated in the arts and painted by her beloved Romney...Data dostępności:
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Did She Fall? – ebook
Thorne Smith
This early work by Thorne Smith was originally published in 1930. James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American author who specialized in supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. „Did She Fall? „ (1930) is a straight murder mystery whose dialogue shows occasional traces of Smith’s wisecracking energy. America’s bawdiest, wittiest writer turns his talents to a startling novel of murder,...Data dostępności:
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The Planet of Peril – ebook
Otis Adelbert Kline
Otis Adelbert Kline is best known for his purported novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1929, long before planetary romance became a conventional genre, he wrote „Planet of Peril”, a novel set on the planet Venus and written in the storytelling form of Burroughs’ Martian novels. He followed this with two sequels. This novel is a science-fiction adventure on a world of semi-barbaric nations,...Data dostępności:
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The Wallet of Kai Lung – ebook
Ernest Bramah
„The Wallet of Kai Lung” is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. These tales of an unlikely but marvelous China are classic works of fantasy, with each story holding a story-within-a-story. Ernest Bramah’s Kai Lung is a storyteller in an imagined China, telling tales of earnest examination...Data dostępności:
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The Island of Doctor Moreau – ebook
Herbert George Wells
On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau’s assistant he is taken to the doctor’s island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...The main plot, a shunned biologist, Dr. Moreau, attempting...Data dostępności:
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Ballada o Czarnym Tomie – ebook
Victor Lavalle
Ludzie przybywają do Nowego Jorku w poszukiwaniu magii i nic ich nie przekona, że jej tam nie ma. Charles Thomas Tester żyje z naciągania frajerów. Kantuje mieszkańców Harlemu, Flushing Meadow i Red Hook, żeby zapewnić sobie i ojcu dach nad głową i coś do jedzenia. Wie, że odpowiednio dobrany garnitur potrafi rzucić silny czar, a futerał na gitarę zapewnia mu niewidzialność. Zdaje sobie również sprawę,...Data dostępności:
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Biltmore Oswald – ebook
Thorne Smith
A comic diary about entering life in the Navy. Published in 1918 and written for the Naval Reservist journal „The Broadside” while the author Thorne Smith was in the Navy, it is a series of short vignettes poking fun at the culture of the time in general and the military in particular. It’s the diary of Biltmore Oswald, a hapless naval recruit with no appreciable talents besides befriending animals...Data dostępności:
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Kai Lung’s Golden Hours – ebook
Ernest Bramah
The second volume of amusing Chinese fantasies. A captivating collection that’s ripe for rediscovery, „Kai Lung’s Golden Hours” stands as the very best of these beguiling books. As with other Kai Lung novels, the main plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the presentation of the gem-like, aphorism-laden stories told by the protagonist Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. With the...Data dostępności:
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In the Days of the Comet – ebook
Herbert George Wells
„In the Days of the Comet” is set in early 20th century England and covers Willie, a socialist who is angry and frustrated with everything to do with the world he lives in. The only thing Willie finds beautiful and tranquil is the love of his life, Nettie. The story follows Willie and his lust for Nettie as he finds himself perplexed by what the love of his life decides to do. The comet is referred...Data dostępności:
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The Voyage Out – ebook
Virginia Woolf
Rachel Vinrace sets out on a voyage from the confines of her home in England, where she is raised by her spinster aunts, to the exotic coast of South America in the early twentieth century. But more than just the physical journey from one shore to another, „The Voyage Out” is a story of the transformation of this essentially unworldly girl to a more self-possessed woman in love with the seemingly enlightened...Data dostępności:
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