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- Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.
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- Best known for „The Four Feathers” and the Hanaud detective novels, A.E.W. Mason wrote many novels. „The Drum” is an adventure novel by this British writer which was first published in 1937. This story is a rousing, Kipling-like adventure set in contemporary India, dealing with uprising and rebellion and a native prince caught between two worlds and forced into hiding. In it, murder and intrigue in...
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- Henry Rider Haggard was known as English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. „Joan Haste” – a novel about a girl of extramarital origin with a single mother. Torn from the love of captain Henry Graves. Joan is experiencing exile in the London family of Dickensy and the pursuit of the pursuer of the Victorian era.
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- A classic novel blending romance, adventure, and science fiction, „"The Tremendous Event"” is sure to appeal to fans of Leblanc’s detective fiction. This romantic adventure novel set after the ocean floor beneath the English Channel emerges and links Britain and France. During the chaos following the disaster bands of vicious criminals and looters roam the newly exposed land. Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc...
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- A true adventure story involving the unlikely hero Dickson McCunn, retired successful businessman and former greengrocer who sets out on a walking holiday in the Scottish Borders. There he meets a young English poet, and both soon become embroiled in the plot of an international gang to capture a Russian princess. With the help of the Gorbals Die-hards, an indomitable gang of urchins from Glasgow,...
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- This book is about adventure and willingness to discover foreign cultures as well as the inner self. Little Redhead is visiting various faraway lands. In each, she meets fortune-telling creatures. They help her understand the complexity of the world, friendship and love. Redhead is a lecturing book filled with short educational stories for intermediate learners of the English language. Lose yourself...
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- King Solomon’s Mines is the first English adventure novel, which takes place in Africa. Allan Quatermain – the protagonist of the story, an ambitious and courageous guy who is ready to give a helping hand to difficult times. He recruits the same adventurers as his assistants and the group advances in search of the missing brother of one of the detachments. As a result, readers can watch not only the...
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- Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Inne tytuły ‘Trzej panowie Garrideb’ i ‘Przygoda trzech Garridebów’. John Garrideb, radca prawny z Moorville w Kansas, poszukuje ludzi mających to samo nazwisko co on. Odnalezienie ich jest warunkiem odziedziczenia spadku pozostawionego przez innego posiadacza tego rzadkiego nazwiska. Odnaleziony został...
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- This is another great collection of short stories by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers and spy novels, and who wrote over a 100 of them. He was the self-styled „prince of storytellers., generally regarded as the earliest writer of spy fiction as we know it today, and invented the ’Rogue...
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- Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Bezrobotny urzędnik Hall Pycroft otrzymuje ofertę pracy w dużym biurze maklerskim. Kilka dni przed podjęciem pracy odwiedza go zagadkowy osobnik, przedstawiający się jako Artur Pinner, proponując zatrudnienie w swojej firmie ze znacznie wyższą płacą pod warunkiem, iż Pycroft zrezygnuje z poprzedniej...
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- This historical novel tells of a romantic young English captain in Scotland who strives for love, harmony and peace during the Jacobite rebellion in 1745. He becomes one of the leaders of the insurrection directed against the English. There is romance and adventure in this tale as our young hero is forced to test his loyalties to his country and the love of his life. Its unprecedented success prompted...
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- In Alberta, Canada, young Fred’s family awaits the return of their father who is looking for a site for a new home for them. But just as he return, bloodhounds seeking the thief who stole a box containing hundreds of dollars trace the scent to Fred’s father. Fred sets out to find Athabasca Bill who may have information that will prove that his father is innocent. Elizabeth Marchant (1862–1941) was...
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- M.P. Shiel is a British writer of West Indian descent. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances, published as serials, novels, and as short stories. „Children of the Wind” adventure set in South Central Africa. A lost race novel. An English scientist learns that the „White Queen” of the Wa-Ngwanyas is his own cousin and heiress to a fortune of which she is being kept in ignorance....
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- Morrison, a novelist and short-story writer, is most often remembered for a series featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, but before that, he wrote several grim and violent books about life in the London slums. „The Hole in the Wall” is one of the most gripping adventure stories ever written. Stephen Kemp goes to live with his mysterious grandfather after his mother’s death, and is gradually drawn...
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- First published in 1918. Ethel M. Dell was an English writer of popular romance novels. You will find some fascinating glimpses of the period in her books, as well as a substantial dose of romance and adventure. There were two of them as unlike as two men could be. Sir Eustace, big, domineering, haughty, used to sweeping all before him with the power of his personality. The other was Stumpy, small,...
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- Edgar Jepson was a prolific English writer whose career spanned from the eighteen-nineties to the nineteen-thirties. He achieved fame principally for his entertaining mainstream detective and adventure stories, although he also wrote two fantasies, „The Horned Shepherd” and „The Garden at 19”. If you enjoy the works of Edgar Jepson then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection....
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- Edgar Alfred Jepson was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. The story „Pollyooly. A Romance of Long Felt Wants and the Red Haired Girl Who Filled Them” (1912) takes place prior to World War I. Pollyooly, whose given name is Mary Bride, is the 12-year-old housekeeper of John Ruffin,...
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- „The Teeth of the Tiger” was written in the year 1914 by Maurice Leblanc (translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos). Leblanc was a French novelist and short story writer known for creating the character Arsene Lupin, who is the French counterpart to the English Sherlock Holmes. This is one of three novels about Lupin written in World War 1. Complicated murder mystery in which Arsene Lupin, in his...
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- Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Z elitarnej szkoły ucieka syn księcia Holdernesse. Wiadomo, że chłopiec tęskni za matką (książę i jego żona są w separacji), zaś w przeddzień ucieczki otrzymał od ojca list, który zabrał ze sobą. Równocześnie zaginął jeden z wykładowców nazwiskiem Heidegger. Sądząc po tym co znaleziono w ich pokojach,...
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- Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Do doktora Watsona zgłasza się pacjent z ciężką raną. Victor Hatherley, inżynier hydraulik, opowiada, że został zatrudniony przez pułkownika Lysandera Starka do ustalenia przyczyn awarii maszyny służącej rzekomo do prasowania w brykiety ziemi foluszniczej (stosowanej do folowania tkanin). W zamian za...
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