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The Virgin of the Sun – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
Haggard explores love, friendship, and women during an adventure across the Atlantic and South America. In The „Virgin of the Sun”, the author also explores the Inca myth associated with the rise of one of America’s greatest pre-Columbian leaders, Pachacuti. After several small adventures and misfortunes, our hero, Hubert, meets and befriends a strange man from a strange land. This story is filled...Data dostępności:
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A Honeymoon in Space – ebook
George Griffiths
George Griffiths became famous for the first novels about interplanetary travel. Lenox, Earl of Redgrave, made the greatest scientific discovery in the history of the world: a flying ship, capable of escaping from the gravity of the Earth and rising to the stars. Lenox steals his sweetheart, because she is going to marry the one she doesn’t love. He stole her and brought her out of this world – literally....Data dostępności:
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle – ebook
Hugh Lofting
Tommy learns how to communicate with animals, thanks to Doctor Dolittle. Tommy finds himself with a kind doctor on a thrilling and dangerous journey to find Long Arrow, the native American and son of the Golden Arrow, who is considered the greatest living naturalist in the world. This is both an adventure story and a strong call for compassion for animals. The main character found a man in spirit and...Data dostępności:
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The Deliberate Detective – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
The adventures of Mr. Stanely Brooke, „The Deliberate Detective”. E. Phillips Oppenheim’s detective Stanley Brooke unearths the strange and criminous underbelly of London, but the greatest challenge he tackles is how to capture the heart of his beautiful but grim partner, Constance. This detective contributed to the foundation of the genre’s history. The collection also includes the following stories:...Data dostępności:
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Seven Mile House – ebook
Max Brand
If you enjoy a fast moving Western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, you’ll like "The Seven Mile House" by Max Brand. Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Brand’s remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest Western authors of all time. Max Brand leads the reader on a very authentic tale of the old west the way it was. Brand’s action-filled stories of adventure and...Data dostępności:
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Chip Traps a Sheriff – ebook
Max Brand
Max Brand’s action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world. „"Chip Traps A Sheriff"” is one of his work. Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Brand’s remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest western authors of all time. Max Brand leads the reader on a very authentic tale of the old west the way it was. Brand...Data dostępności:
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Gobseck – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
Originally published in 1830, here we have perhaps Balzac’s best short work, named simply „Gobseck”. Gobseck is a marvelous sketch of a money-lender and miser in Paris during the early part of the nineteenth century who is a font of psychological insight when it comes to humankind’s greed, vanity and other dark motives. His philosophy of never helping anyone because „adversity is the greatest of all...Data dostępności:
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Niusia from Schindler’s list – ebook
Magda Huzarska-Szumiec
A personal memoir, detailing the life of Niusia Horowitz-Karakulska and her family, penned by Magda Huzarska-Szumiec, interwoven with chapters covering Oskar Schindler’s wartime exploits and his famous list. Magda Huzarska-Szumiec takes us back to the grimmest moments of World War II, showing what Niusia experienced as a child in the Krakow ghetto and two concentration camps. And yet this story contains...Data dostępności:
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Clovelly – ebook
Max Brand
One of Max Brand’s worth reading as an alternative to his western stories. Michael Clovelly might not have been the greatest swordsman ever to come to London town during the reign of the Merry Monarch, Charles the Second, but if a better man ever wielded a blade, he had not yet stepped forth to claim the distinction. Seeking gold with which to elevate his beggarly fortunes, Clovelly chances to encounter...Data dostępności:
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Crazy Rhythm – ebook
Max Brand
After 8 years in prison for murder, Jimmy Geary returns to his town Yellow Creek, and his past, and an ambush. Jimmy was very happy to see town again. But there are three men who aren’t happy to see Jimmy Geary return, and they conspire to make his stay this time very short... Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Max Brand’s remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest western authors...Data dostępności:
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