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The House of the Dead – ebook
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Aleksandr Petrovich lives through a spiritual re-awakening that culminates with his release from the prison camp. The narrator has been sentenced to penalty deportation to Siberia and ten years of hard labor for murdering his wife. Published in 1861, „House of the Dead” is a semi-autobiographical work based upon Dostoevsky’s exile to Siberia where he was punished with „hard labor” after he was initially...Data dostępności:
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House of Cards – ebook
Michael Dobbs
Na arenie politycznej walki najsilniejszą emocją jest strach. Po upadku rządu Margaret Thatcher brytyjska scena polityczna, trzymana dotąd żelazną ręką, ulega rozchwianiu. W kolejnych wyborach władzę obejmuje słaby Henry "Hal" Collingridge. Tak przynajmniej widzi go Mr. Urquhart - polityk o wybujałych ambicjach, który próbuje wykorzystać chaos w życiu politycznym kraju do swoich celów. Przedstawia...Data dostępności:
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House of Cards – audiobook
Michael Dobbs
Na arenie politycznej walki najsilniejszą emocją jest strach. Po upadku rządu Margaret Thatcher brytyjska scena polityczna, trzymana dotąd żelazną ręką, ulega rozchwianiu. W kolejnych wyborach władzę obejmuje słaby Henry "Hal" Collingridge. Tak przynajmniej widzi go Mr. Urquhart - polityk o wybujałych ambicjach, który próbuje wykorzystać chaos w życiu politycznym kraju do swoich celów. Przedstawia...Data dostępności:
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The House of the Seven Gables – ebook
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the novel The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the founders of American literature, once again, after a series of short stories and the famous Scarlet Letter, addresses the Puritan past and present of his homeland, New England. Legends and legends from national and family history, animated by the author’s fantasy on Gothic themes, add up to the chronicle of the age-old confrontation...Data dostępności:
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The Little Lady of the Big House – ebook
Jack London
This is the story of a love triangle between Dick Forrest, a wealthy landowner and a great businessman, his wife Paola and friend Graham, who came to visit them, so to speak. A lot of people gather at Forrest Estate. Among them are vagabond philosophers who live in the land of Dick, artists, musicians, etc. And among the constant dinners, entertainment, etc., fateful events take place.Data dostępności:
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The House of the Four Winds – ebook
John Buchan
Third and final part of the Dickson McCunn trilogy, where he and the usual sidekicks fall into a plot involving an exiled prince’s attempt to regain the throne despite the efforts of bad guys to keep him from it. The novel is set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia in the early 1930s. It concerns the involvement of some Scottish visitors in the overthrow of a corrupt republic and...Data dostępności:
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The Fall of the House of Usher – audiobook
Edgar Allan Poe
In the haunting tale of 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' Edgar Allan Poe masterfully weaves a narrative rife with melancholy, dread, and the supernatural. When the unnamed narrator arrives at the crumbling mansion of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, he is plunged into a world of decay and madness. As the boundaries between reality and nightmare blur, the house itself becomes an echoing character,...Data dostępności:
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The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii – ebook
Jack London
This is a small storybook. Events that mostly revolve around one person. All his life in Hawaii, Percival Ford lived in the belief that he was following the path of his father, and there was nothing better than missionary virtue and moderation. But his pride was hit by that knowledge of which he had no idea, although it had been with him since childhood.Data dostępności:
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A House to Let – ebook
Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins Elizabeth Gaskell Adelaide Ann Procter
„A House to Let” is a novella originally published in 1858 by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole was edited by Dickens, making it fit together seamlessly as a whole. This novella is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue...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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