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The Gold Idol – ebook
Fenton Ash
Welcome to the „The Gold Idol” book, were we present to you one of the best work of remarkable author of „pulp fiction” Francis Henry „Frank” Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-sf Pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. Despite his commercial success at the time, little is known about Atkins’ personal life. His son was writer Frank Howard Atkins...Data dostępności:
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Cadets of the Dolphin – ebook
Fenton Ash
Welcome to the important and meaningful boys’ adventure novel of Francis Henry Atkins which is „The Cadets of the Dolphin”. Aubrey, Frank (pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins) was a British writer of „pulp fiction”, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers. Despite his commercial success at the time, little is known about Atkins’ personal life.Data dostępności:
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The Heart’s Highway – ebook
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
This is a historical novel written in the 1900s but set in 1680s Jamestown, Virginia. The plot revolves around the anger of the colonists over the Navigation Act, which robbed them of their profits from the tobacco crop. At the center of this little rebellion is the romance between Harry Wingfield, a gentleman tutor, and Mary Cavendish, a headstrong eighteen-year-old.Data dostępności:
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Notwithstanding – ebook
Mary Cholmondeley
The story begins with Annette Georges choosing between two evil destinies. She is rescued by a kind woman who looks after her until she can live with her aunts in a village in „little England” along with a vicar and afternoon tea. There she meets and befriends various people, and her past seems to have some bearing on the lives of those she befriends.Data dostępności:
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Big Brother and Other Stories – ebook
Rex Beach
This is a simple and sweet book. A story about a little sister who doesn’t like being teased by her older brother. But one day she starts to notice that it’s just a tease and she doesn’t give him the power to upset her. He gets bored and joins in her fun.Data dostępności:
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Elya Who Lives on the Moon – ebook
Людмила Каштан
Each of us has a unique world inside. The book «Elya Who Lives on the Moon» is the embodiment of the fantasies of the author Sundara (Lyudmila Kashtan) and her daughter Kateryna, who supplemented it with her drawings. Let the story of little Elya inspire you to make your dreams come true!Data dostępności:
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The „Canary” Murder Case – ebook
S.S. Van Dine
One of the best novels by the little American detective writer Van Dyne, The Canary Killing Case, takes the reader to New York sixty years ago, where amateur detective Filo Vance, a literary relative of Sherlock Holmes, brilliantly uses the deductive method to find the killer of the „star” Broadway at night nicknamed Canary.Data dostępności:
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The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches – ebook
Herman Melville
Smooth reading, very pretty, with graceful irony personifying superstition and fears in the unknown. The Apple Tree Table is a cool little ghost story where rationalistic skeptics were right, and it turns out that there is a mundane explanation. And oddly enough for Melville, at the end there is even a message of pro-Christianity.Data dostępności:
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Topsy-Turvy – ebook
Jules Verne
In the story, the heroes of one of his most famous books about a trip to the moon, enterprising Americans, gather again to use their huge guns. But for what? In order for the recoil from the cannon to make the Earth bend a little, so that some lands are in other latitudes, warmer. The world community is concerned about this venture and is sluggishly opposing.Data dostępności:
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The Tempest – ebook
William Shakespeare
One of Shakespeare’s later plays. The plot focuses on the confrontation between the Duke of Milan, the Wizard of Prospero, and his brother Antonio. The latter, with the help of the Neapolitan king, takes power from his brother. Prospero, with his little daughter Miranda, was expelled from Milan. On a dilapidated ship they were sent to the open sea.Data dostępności:
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The Blithedale Romance – ebook
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A group of people is a powerful mixture of competing ambitions, and its idealism finds little satisfaction in agriculture. Instead of changing the world, Blithedale community members individually follow selfish paths that ultimately lead to tragedy. Hawthorne’s tale simultaneously mourns and saturates a rural idyll, not unlike the history of America in the 19th century as a whole.Data dostępności:
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Carried by Storm – ebook
May Agnes Fleming
A mystical and a little detective story. A dark and terrible tragedy occurred within the walls of this gloomy red farmhouse. In this room a man was killed – stabbed to death. A riddle for a real detective. Only an attentive reader will understand everything in advance.Data dostępności:
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The Inheritors – ebook
Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Hueffer
„The Inheritors” is a little-known book of two main British writers. The plot is based on a political scheme to undermine the British Empire, based on a Congo-like colonial enterprise and manipulated by journalists. The main character claims that she is from the Fourth Dimension and works to replace the human race.Data dostępności:
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The Point of Honor – ebook
Joseph Conrad
Conrad stresses that the narrative clearly shows that the duel really benefited two. Combat competitions made every job and strive a little harder, forced the will to survive and win in a personal fight as seriously as the desire to survive the bloody years of the Napoleonic war. Both are officers in Napoleon’s army, and both are „to the core”.Data dostępności:
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The Nursery „Alice” – ebook
Lewis Carroll
This is a simplified version of Alice in Wonderland for the little ones. Added a few new digressions that still add color to this children’s fiction. Easy to read and easy to understand, which is the most important. As always, amazing creatures will meet on the path of the protagonist.Data dostępności:
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – ebook
Lewis Carroll
This is a story about a little girl Alice, who falls into a fantasy world. This world is fundamentally different from where she lived. There are many fantastic substances. She meets her friends and friends and she is the way through. „Alice in Wonderland” is a truly rare book: a book that can entertain and enlighten both a child and an adult.Data dostępności:
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The Devil’s Guard – ebook
Talbot Mundy
Talbot Mundi „The Devil’s Guard” is a little intertwined and is definitely the source of another novel about Jimgrim „Nine Unknown”. The character of Jimgrim is a transposed image of Munzi from the Algan Quatermaine Haggar. In this mysterious story, he is looking for a hidden mysterious country of Shamballa, encountering good and evil characters in his occult incidents.Data dostępności:
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1Q84. Tom 3 – audiobook
Haruki Murakami
Dalsze losy Aomame i Tengo. Czy wreszcie się spotkają? Ona ukrywa się przed członkami sekty Sakigake, którzy grożą jej zemstą za zamordowanie Lidera, a on czuwa przy łóżku nieprzytomnego ojca w mieście kotów. Czy mściciele trafią na ślad Aomame? Czy Tengo i Aomame wreszcie się spotkają? Czy wydostaną się ze świata Little People i dwóch księżyców, czy też na zawsze pozostaną w zaskakującej rzeczywistości...Data dostępności:
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1Q84. Tom 3 – ebook
Haruki Murakami
Dalsze losy Aomame i Tengo. Czy wreszcie się spotkają? Ona ukrywa się przed członkami sekty Sakigake, którzy grożą jej zemstą za zamordowanie Lidera, a on czuwa przy łóżku nieprzytomnego ojca w mieście kotów. Czy mściciele trafią na ślad Aomame? Czy Tengo i Aomame wreszcie się spotkają? Czy wydostaną się ze świata Little People i dwóch księżyców, czy też na zawsze pozostaną w zaskakującej rzeczywistości...Data dostępności:
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The Adventures of a Modest Man – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
The narrator is a widower with two daughters, living happily into a rather troubling middle age and pushing away his daughter’s suitors so that his daughters would live with him a little longer. A younger neighbor persuades him to buy a pig and then bets that the boredom of life has so eclipsed his intelligence that he won’t be smart enough to stop someone from stealing it. If the narrator loses the...Data dostępności:
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