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The Crimson Circle – ebook
Edgar Wallace
The mysterious Crimson Circle is a high-level protection society: pay them, or you die. Every wealthy man goes in fear of them if he’s smart, and dies if he isn’t. This is a criminal genius who recruits people in trouble, rescues them with help or cash, and puts them to work on robbery, blackmail and murder. At least one man is dead after refusing to pay L100,000. Will there be more bodies? The Circle...Data dostępności:
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The People of the Black Circle – ebook
Robert E. Howard
The king of vendhya was dying. Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared. Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold- domed chamber where Bhunda Chand struggled on the velvet-cushioned dais. Beads of sweat glistened on his dark skin; his fingers twisted the gold-worked fabric beneath him. He was young; no spear had touched him, no poison lurked in his wine.Data dostępności:
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Ciemna materia – ebook
Rae Armantrout
Wiersze jednej z najbardziej rozpoznawalnych współczesnych poetek amerykańskich, uhonorowanej Nagrodą Pulitzera oraz National Book Critics Circle Award. Misternie skonstruowane aranżacje, precyzyjne poetyckie mechanizmy, które angażują szerokie spektrum pewnych siebie poglądów na temat otaczającego nas świata i poddają je przenikliwemu testowi na sens, logikę i spójność. Lektura obowiązkowa!Data dostępności:
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Persuasion – ebook
Jane Austen
Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. The story begins seven years after the broken engagement of Anne Elliot to then Commander Frederick Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her...Data dostępności:
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The Divine Comedy – ebook
Dante Alighieri
A unique poetic work, about which historians and critics, philosophers and even adherents of various mystical and esoteric teachings are desperately arguing about. Hell is a colossal funnel of concentric circles, the tapering end of which is adjacent to the center of the earth. Having passed the threshold of hell, in which the souls of indecisive, insignificant people dwell, they enter the first circle...Data dostępności:
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Rok magicznego myślenia – ebook
Joan Didion
„Rok magicznego myślenia” to przejmująca opowieść wybitnej amerykańskiej dziennikarki i eseistki o żałobie po śmierci męża i chorobie córki. Joan Didion z ogromną uważnością przypatruje się najbardziej granicznym doświadczeniom w swoim życiu, analizując własne uczucia i reakcje, a jej piękna i precyzyjna narracja dotyka uniwersalnego znaczenia tych doświadczeń. „Rok magicznego myślenia” został wyróżniony...Data dostępności:
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrated edition with original illustrations by Sidney Edward Paget, a famous British illustrator, best known for his illustrations that accompanied Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories in „The Strand” magazine. „The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” is a collection of eleven Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes, his friend Watson (or his brother Mycroft) work to solve the mysteries...Data dostępności:
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The Beast in the Jungle – ebook
Henry James
At the reception in the rich manor there are not the first youth mister and also not a young lady anymore. Both belong to the same circle of birth, but the financial affairs of a man are in somewhat better condition. It all seems to him that he is meant for something great and terrible that will destroy his own life and the lives of loved ones – like a sudden fit of madness or, yes, how many anything...Data dostępności:
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The Marble Faun – ebook
Nathaniel Hawthorne
At the center of the novel is a group of four characters. These are two young American artists, Hilda and Kenyon, who were brought to Rome by a thirst to comprehend the secrets of art, and their friends – the artist Miriam and the young Donatello, who are introduced into this circle not by a passion for art, but by love for Miriam. Everyone is struck by the similarity of the count with the famous statue...Data dostępności:
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The Hillman – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
John Strangeways lives the life of a country Gentleman farmer with his puritan brother in the hills of Cumberland. Far from the world of cities and noise he lived the clean, healthy, out-of-door life. When actress Louise Maurel’s car breaks down near their farm, she is forced to seek refuge with the misogynist brothers. Love ensues. Life no longer was quite the same to him, and in a short time he followed...Data dostępności:
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