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- Odkryj fascynujący świat średniowiecznych wierzeń i legend dzięki książce Sabine'a Baring-Goulda, która przenosi czytelnika w mroczne i tajemnicze zakamarki historii. "Osobliwe mity Wieków Średnich" to wyjątkowy zbiór najciekawszych mitów, które od wieków inspirowały i intrygowały ludzi, opowiedzianych zarówno w wersji polskiej, jak i angielskiej. W tomie znajdziesz legendy o takich postaciach jak...
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- Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction. This novel is an Oppenheim classic from 1919 about a high society villain: characteristic of Oppenheim’s typical works, with the characters living in luxury, and a very flowing and exact story. Much of Oppenheim’s work possesses a unique escapist charm, featuring protagonists...
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- Five people were seated around a table in the private office of a well-known solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn. Their expressions and general attitude were sufficiently disturbed to suggest that their gathering was of no ordinary moment. A grey-haired, untidy looking woman in seedy black was tapping the mahogany table in front of her with long, ill-cared for nails, and breathing quickly. A fat, red-cheeked...
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- Lovers of detectives and mysteries, this story will appeal. Gilray’s body was found in his office. It is curious that Gilray died a week after his servant was also found dead. But the journalist Philip Temple suspects that there is something wrong in this case, too many coincidences.
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- An interesting read. Ken and Hal go canoeing in Mexico. The writing has a very early 20th century feel to it, it almost feels as though I’m watching an old classic movie on Saturday afternoon. It provides a curious insight into the beginnings of writing adventure novels.
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Papierowa Bajka to opowieść o pewnej starej, porzuconej w kącie gazecie. Wydawała się szara i zwyczajna, ale tylko na pierwszy rzut oka... Produkcja dźwięku: Piotr Cudak Okładka: fioletowe ilustracje Muzyka: Curious by Nicolai Heidlas Walk-IksonData dostępności:
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- The story „Father Sergius” is one of Tolstoy’s most deeply personal works. This is a story about leaving. This is her main topic, and all the more curious, that its meaning did not develop immediately, with the accumulation of some own spiritual experience, which he was in no hurry to put on paper, and even more so – to publish.
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- Miss Mapp came to the village of Tilling to expose many of the inhabitants there. Mappa must defeat the small and sad curious villagers. People have many questions about the Royal Family. Though there are superstitions that only young people can live in Tilling. However, our main character breaks these stereotypes. After all, she is old, but very smart.
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- Being some Curious Records concerning the Craft and Cunning of Theodore Drost, an enemy alien in London, together with certain Revelations regarding his daughter Ella The pair had been discussing certain schemes to the detriment of the English: schemes which, in the main, depended upon the crafty old Drost’s expert knowledge of high-explosives.
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- Flush tells the story of the curious, determined boy Noah Underwood, his tough, persistent sister Abby and their unusual father, who defends everything that he believes is right. Papa Noah is imprisoned for drowning in the shoes of the Coral Queen Dusty Muleman casino. Noah’s father did not do this for any good reason, the true reason is that he thinks that Dusty discharges sewage into the ocean, where...
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- Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, „Tales of the Jazz Age” includes two of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s better-known short stories, „The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and „The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald’s own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection of early 11 short stories shows a comic genius at...
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- “When God Laughs & Other Stories” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. When God Laughs & Other Stories is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of twelve moving and thrilling stories such as: When God Laughs, A Wicked Woman, Make Westing or The Curious Fragment....
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- Dr. Nicola invited Douglas Ingleby to help him in a mysterious experiment. Unemployed and undoubtedly curious, Ingleby agrees to follow Nikola to a remote castle to help him take care of the old man on the verge of death, Nicola is trying to perform a miracle. But will Ingleby’s loyalty to Nicolau withstand the contrary to the requests of the old man’s great granddaughter, will the experiment give...
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- Once they started a new interesting game in pseudonyms, which led to funny and curious consequences. Each time he came to London, he was convicted of only marrying a man named Ernest. Upon learning of an advanced friend, Algerie decides to play him, for which he goes to Jack’s country estate, where he impersonates his brother Ernest, who immediately falls in love with charming Cecilia. Only friends...
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- Siamese twins – twins Chang and Eng Bunker, who were born with fused bodies. They lived 63 years, had good health, were married, had normal children. In 1829 they were brought to America, then they were taken and shown in Europe. Knowing the twins personally, the author took the liberty of telling about the curious details of their private life, which never penetrated the press.
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- The long tapers flickered, sending the black shadows wavering along the walls, and the velvet tapestries rippled. Yet there was no wind in the chamber. Four men stood about the ebony table on which lay the green sarcophagus that gleamed like carven jade. In the upraised right hand of each man a curious black candle burned with a weird greenish light. Outside was night and a lost wind moaning among...
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- Drums of Sunset was published in eight parts. Steve and Hard Luck, his newfound companion (or is he? The curious should check those back issues linked above!), are hot on the trail of a host of criminals ranging from ‘Navajoes’ to a ring of counterfeiters. Pieces of the mystery that have plagued Steve for six installments are starting to come together. And oh, the CLIFFHANGER! Steve and Hard Luck are...
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- So strange, indeed, were all the circumstances, and so startling the adventures that befell me in my search after truth, that until to-day I have hesitated to relate the narrative, which is as extraordinary as it is unique in the history of any living man. If it were not for the fact that a certain person actively associated with this curious drama of our latter day civilisation, has recently passed...
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- Have you wondered how the great detectives solved their cases? In The Secret of Father Brown, while visiting Flambeau’s house Father Brown meets a curious American who has to know as some of his countrymen think Father Brown is using mystical powers. The fourth of the Father Brown detective story collections has something the first three did not: a framing sequence at the beginning and end, in which...
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- Co kryje mgła? Maciek i Radek wracają z Himalajów. Wyprawa kończy się dla Maćka amputacją nogi, co pozostawia w chłopaku trwały ślad. Maciek zmaga się z depresją. Radek tworzy w mediach społecznościowych kanał reporterski The Curious. Otrzymuje maila od niejakiego Szajby. Jest on przyjacielem Romki, która przeżyła spotkanie z niezidentyfikowaną istotą skrywającą się we mgle nad biebrzańskimi bagnami....
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