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The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra – ebook
William Shakespeare
With a strong spirit and body, people who are ready to endure all sorts of hardships and difficulties for the sake of the cause of their whole life, their blood, their feats inscribing their names in the history of mankind, also end up being tested, which turn out to be stronger than them. And for the sake of this, a person is able to erase his entire former life overnight. This happens with Anthony,...Data dostępności:
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The Old Secretaire – ebook
Fred M. White
In Woodside Manor, there was an old servant – a terrible man, almost ninety years old, with thick white eyebrows and sharp black eyes – who recalled the tragedy – Silas Brooks, the valet of the unfortunate Arundel Secretan. But even he never spoke about it, but only listened when the story was mentioned with suspicion and hatred, flashing in his evil dark eyes. The servants said he was crazy – that...Data dostępności:
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Red Belts – ebook
Hugh Pendexter
The whole story revolves around the Northern Valley, which at the end of the 18th century had a great debt for the state, about 5 million. This noble kingdom, from which the state of Tennessee was to be created, was conquered by the confiscation and rifles of the settlers over the mountains and cost North Carolina neither blood nor money. The republic was too young to develop. This is a historic event...Data dostępności:
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The Gods of Bal-Sagoth – ebook
Robert E. Howard
...Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, two sailors find traces of a lost civilization – and memories of their own impossible part in it! ...The „last words” of an operatic tenor bring the music of hell to the man who destroyed him....Turlogh O’Brien, mighty Gaelic warrior who serves no master but gold and blood, battles for a kingdom against the fearful ancient gods of Bal-Sagoth. All together for...Data dostępności:
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Red Blades of Black Cathay – ebook
Robert E. Howard
The singing of the swords was a deathly clamor in the brain of Godric de Villehard. Blood and sweat veiled his eyes and in the instant of blindness he felt a keen point pierce a joint of his hauberk and sting deep into his ribs. Smiting blindly, he felt the jarring impact that meant his sword had gone home, and snatching an instant’s grace, he flung back his vizor and wiped the redness from his ey...Data dostępności:
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Her Royal Highness – ebook
William Le Queux
A large, square wooden veranda covered by a red and white awning, above a wide silent sweep of flowing river, whose huge rocks, worn smooth through a thousand ages, raised their backs about the stream, a glimpse of green feathery palms and flaming scarlet poinsettias on the island opposite, and beyond the great drab desert, the illimitable waste of stony, undulating sands stretching away to the infinite,...Data dostępności:
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Rowdy of the Cross L – ebook
B.M. Bower
Rowdy Vaughn is a goodhearted but somewhat uncouth range rider whose attempts at wooing the local schoolteacher are hampered by a longstanding blood feud. The problems start when Jessie’s brother turns out to be a good-for-nothing kind of guy who had done some nasty things to Rowdy in the past. The subplot, concerning Rowdy’s employer’s attempts to find pasture for his cattle during a drought, provides...Data dostępności:
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Silvertip’s Chase – ebook
Max Brand
Bill Gary was blinded by the agony of torn flesh. Red sparks of pain flared through him. He saw Frosty, his mouth dripping with blood, ready to spring again. Bill struck at the leaping form ... and missed. The wolf’s teeth were at his throat! Bill Gary was dead. But this only encouraged the fortune seekers. For securely fastened around the killer wolf’s neck was a collar containing the location of...Data dostępności:
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A Study in Scarlet – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrated edition with original illustrations by Richard Gutschmidt, a famous German painter, book illustrator and graphic artist. „A Study in Scarlet” is the first Sherlock Holmes book written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr John H. Watson meets the great detective Sherlock Holmes and together they solve a case of murder, in which Watson is amazed at Holmes’ „science of deduction”. The only clues...Data dostępności:
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Wojna Burów z Zulusami 1837-1840. Epizod z dziejów Zululandu i Natalu w XIX wieku – ebook
Michał Leśniewski
Książka jest pierwszą w literaturze światowej monografią konfliktu między Zulusami i Burami, do jakiego doszło w latach 1836–1848, w czasach tak zwanego Wielkiego Treku, czyli marszu Burów z Kolonii Przylądkowej w głąb południowoafrykańskiego interioru. Ta ważna wojna do dzisiaj wykorzystywana jest jako źródło symboliki zarówno przez afrykanerski nacjonalizm (np. bitwa nad Blood River), jak i afrykański...Data dostępności: