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- A storm, an eruption of a volcano, pirate attacks, a mysterious captain Nemo and, of course, a story of survival on a piece of land in the ocean are interwoven into the adventurous plot of the novel „The Mysterious Island” offered to the reader: resourceful heroes thrown by a hurricane onto a desert island themselves make sugar and melt steel. They make bricks, wool, sulfuric and nitric acid, nitroglycerin...
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- On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau’s assistant he is taken to the doctor’s island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...The main plot, a shunned biologist, Dr. Moreau, attempting...
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- Welcome to the important and meaningful adventure novel of Francis Henry Atkins which is „The Sunken Island: or the Pirates of Atlantis”, appeared in 1904. Frank Atkins (1847-1927), who has written under several names, including Frank Aubrey and here as Fenton Ash. He was a British writer of „pulp fiction”, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers, writing at least three Lost-World novels...
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„Szybko, podejdźcie, zaraz zobaczycie coś, czego nie widzieliście na oczy - połykacz ognia, zaklinaczka węży, teraz, na żywo!“ - tak do freak showu naganiał widzów konferansjer na Coney Island. Coney Island - dzielnica Nowego Jorku, gdzie miasto łączy się z oceanem, niegdyś stolica światowej rozrywki, cyrków, wesołych miasteczek - to wciąż rezerwuar estetyki, idei, marzeń i lęków, z których...Data dostępności:
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- „Sky Island” was the second of three titles written by Baum featuring a spunky girl from California, Trot, and her companion, the old sailorman, Cap’n Bill. L. Frank Baum had hoped to end the Oz series and introduced Trot and Cap’n Bill in „The Sea Fairies”. In „Sky Island”, Button Bright has found a magic umbrella, which allows him to go anyplace in the world in seconds. He meets Trot and Cap’n Bill...
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- South Seas Adventure Novel, written in 1925 by Gordon Ray Young (1886-1948) a journalist in Chicago and San Francisco, literary editor of the Los Angeles times, and author of over forty novels. During his time in Los Angeles, Young befriended the writer Paul Jordan-Smith and the painter Edward Middleton Manigault. As such, this book was dedicated to the memory of the painter Middleton Manigault who...
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- After escaping from the headhunters’ village, Bomba brings Casson and Sobrinini to stay at his friend Pipina’s after which Sobrinini reveals vital information to Bomba about his family and tells of a man, Japazy, who hated Bomba’s father as well as Cody Casson. She tells Bomba to seek out Japazy on Jaguar Island to learn more. He begins his journey to find Japazy... Lacking the visual element, the...
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- „Anne of the Island” was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling „Anne of Green Gables.” This book tells the story of Anne Shirley’s and her friends’ college years. As the security of home and childhood comforts fade, each must face the trials of being on their own. The novel kicks off when Anne decides to pursue her dream of a higher education, and subsequently leaves her two year teaching...
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- Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. This novel is framed as several witness’ accounts to a fictious journalist and starts as an entertaining adventure yarn with even some pirate episodes, but the story looses steam at the half-way point when it turns into a very predictable society novel. Wallace follows his passions for horse-racing and adventure, and the title...
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- Often called the father of science fiction, British author Herbert George Wells literary works are notable for being some of the first titles of the science fiction genre. „Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island” is a 1928 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a young Englishman Arnold Blettsworthy who, after being betrayed by a business partner, is advised to go travelling in an attempt to recover...
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- The most popular pirate story ever written in English, featuring one of literature’s most beloved „bad guys,” Treasure Island has been happily devoured by several generations of boys–and girls–and grownups. Its unforgettable characters include: young Jim Hawkins, who finds himself owner of a map to Treasure Island , where the fabled pirate booty is buried; honest Captain Smollett, heroic Dr. Livesey,...
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- Tom Armstrong, commonly known by the common name of Captain Armstrong, could boast the amount of knowledge that he had or the discoveries he made. However, he is already 5 years retired. Armstrong’s companion, named Harold Coventry, was a young man of about six-and-twenty years. Like his companion, the sea was his passion, and although he was not a very wealthy man, he managed to explore every sea....
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- Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści Treasure Island / Wyspa Skarbów R. L. Stevensona to atrakcyjna pomoc dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów powieści, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacja została przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach średniozaawansowanych, jednak dzięki dwujęzycznej wersji książki mogą z niej korzystać czytelnicy dopiero rozpoczynający...
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- Zaprojektowanie ogrodu przy rezydencji na Long Island pozwoliłoby początkującej architekt zieleni Isabelli Orsini zaistnieć na rynku. Z wielką nadzieją, że dostanie tę pracę, jedzie na spotkanie z właścicielem posiadłości Riem D’Aquilą. Prześladuje ją jednak pech. Po drodze rozbija samochód i spóźnia się kilka godzin. Drzwi otwiera jej młody i niezwykle przystojny zarządca majątku i mówi, że...
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- Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Ania z Wyspy (ang. Anne of the Island), Ania na Uniwersytecie – książka autorstwa Lucy Maud Montgomery, wydana po raz pierwszy w 1915 roku. Trzecia część z serii o Ani z Zielonego Wzgórza. W tym tomie Ania Shirley zaczyna naukę na uniwersytecie w Redmond (Redmond College) w Kingsport, gdzie zamierza...
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- 1936. „Sanctuary Island” is a crime novel by the pioneer of detective fiction Edgar Wallace (an adaption by Robert Curtis). Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London, England in 1875. He received his early education at St. Peter’s School and the Board School, but after a frenetic teens involving a rash engagement and frequently changing employment circumstances, Wallace went into the military....
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- Fenton Ash (pseudonym for Francis Henry Atkins) also known as Fred Ashley, Frank Aubrey (1840 – 1927), wrote a number of „scientific romances” beginning with „The Devil Tree” (1896). He was involved in a scandal at the turn of the century and sentenced to nine months imprisonment for obtaining money by deception. After leaving prison he dropped the name Frank Aubrey and – in his early 60s, following...
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- Not all buried treasure is found in a pirate’s chest... A chill-packed mystery from the master of suspense. This is what Aidan de Brune is all about, a complex, old fashioned mystery, with a highly unlikely solution. De Brune’s novel „Douchard’s Island” was published in 1931. Other novels by De Brune were reputedly published in the USA under various pseudonyms, but these have not been traced. Aidan...
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- The famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson tells about the exciting and dangerous adventures of young Jim and his older comrades who set off in search of a pirate treasure. Jim had to face such serious tests that an adult could not stand. But the courage, nobility, honesty and kindness of this wonderful boy helped him cope with all the difficulties!
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- The protagonist, the real adventurer Jim Maitland returns to England. There he meets a charming girl, Judy Draycott, who needs his help. She tells the story of her brother Arthur, who knew where the treasures were hidden, but he was killed. Judy decides to first get to the treasure and asks Jim to help her.
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