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- Little Red Riding Hood is a young girl, so called because of the red cloak she wears. One day her mother asks her to take some food to her sick grandmother, who lives in a clearing in the nearby forest. On the way to her grandmother, she meets an apparently friendly wolf, and since she had many friends in the animal kingdom, sees no harm in stopping to talk with him. But the wolf is not as he appears...
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- Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866 1946), an English novelist, was a major and successful writer of genre fiction, particularly thrillers. Among his books are „The Betrayal”, „The Avenger”, „The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton”, „The Devil’s Paw”, and „The Evil Shepherd”. Many of Oppenheim’s works appeared as newspaper or magazine serials before they were published in book form. The serial versions of...
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- Deep beneath the ocean lay the beautiful and magical kingdom of King Neptune. He had six mermaid daughters, the youngest of whom was considered to be unsurpassed in her beauty. They lived a wonderful and carefree existence in their underwater arcadia. The world beyond was an uncertain and dangerous place and for this reason all mermaids were forbidden to travel up to the surface before their fifteenth...
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- Kim byli piraci - romantycznymi morskimi włóczęgami czy też straszliwymi zbrodniarzami bez zasad? Jak często pirat sięgał po kordelas lub pistolet? Czy chętnie ruszał do ataku na równie dobrze uzbrojone okręty jak jego? W jakich warunkach wolał ostrzeliwać przeciwnika z daleka, a kiedy decydował się na abordaż? Odpowiedzi na wszystkie te pytania z mistrzowską dociekliwością udziela Benerson Little,...
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- Podobnie jak w Tajemniczym ogrodzie Frances Hodgson Burnett na głównego bohatera wybiera małą dziewczynkę - Sarę, która trafia na pensję prowadzoną przez pannę Minchin. Nagła śmierć ojca odmienia jej życie - zostaje służącą, okrutnie traktowaną przez nauczycielki. Co się stało na pensyi? to tłumaczenie pierwszej, wydawanej w odcinkach wersji historii pt. Sara Crew. Późniejsza Little Princess to już...
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- Mroczny klimat współczesnego Londynu, towar wart miliony, tajny agent Interpolu, mafijne powiązania polityków ze światem przestępczym, tajemnicza piękność oraz zaskakujące zakończenie - „Cold Little Hand” to wyjątkowa książka do nauki angielskiego. Dzięki lekturze wciągającej kryminalnej historii połączysz naukę z przyjemnością czytania, a przy okazji: poznasz współczesne angielskie słownictwo,...
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- One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives. These were largely adventure narratives with elements of crime or mystery, and usually combined a bombastic sensationalism with hammy violence. In this exciting page-turner, originally published in...
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- Here it is ! We are presenting the series comprising 12 most popular Fairy Tales ever. Beautiful illustrations; easy, clear and comprehensible narration; clever, always up-to-date stories - these are only few features out of many this version is filled with. Ebooks we are about to publish are created the way to move a reader to the bygone times where the fiction mingles with wisdom of our forefathers,...
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- Here it is ! We are presenting the series comprising 12 most popular Fairy Tales ever. Beautiful illustrations; easy, clear and comprehensible narration; clever, always up-to-date stories - these are only few features out of many this version is filled with. Ebooks we are about to publish are created the way to move a reader to the bygone times where the fiction mingles with wisdom of our forefathers,...
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- Here it is ! We are presenting the series comprising 12 most popular Fairy Tales ever. Beautiful illustrations; easy, clear and comprehensible narration; clever, always up-to-date stories - these are only few features out of many this version is filled with. Ebooks we are about to publish are created the way to move a reader to the bygone times where the fiction mingles with wisdom of our forefathers,...
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- Here it is ! We are presenting the series comprising 12 most popular Fairy Tales ever. Beautiful illustrations; easy, clear and comprehensible narration; clever, always up-to-date stories - these are only few features out of many this version is filled with. Ebooks we are about to publish are created the way to move a reader to the bygone times where the fiction mingles with wisdom of our forefathers,...
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- Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, is the story of Amy Dorrit, a kind and compassionate young woman who is born impoverished and becomes wealthy, but retains her goodness and strength of character throughout. Little Dorrit is a novel of family loyalty. The story of a girl who is taking care of a large family and her love for the rich young man, and at the same time sarcastic description of English...
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- Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, „Little Women”. Four sisters are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother in a quiet Massachusetts town while their father serves as an army chaplain during the American Civil War. Here are independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth;...
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- Now married, the warm-hearted and fiesty Jo Bhaer (nee March) couldn’t be happier. Jo, along with her husband Professor Friedrich Bhaer, operates the Plumfield Estate School, an unconventional school based on individuality and diversity. Plumfield is a haven for poor orphans which is attended by 12 adopted boy and Jo’s own two sons. Although Plumfield is a place of trust and warmth, the boys occasionally...
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- These are Victorian melodramas set in England with a strong focus on the class system, but in the end that’s what makes the stories so special. There are several common themes of Wilkie Collins, including the general theme of the return of a character presumed dead. Great for readers of Victorian fiction.
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- This book gives a lot of interesting info about Napoleon the little. In this pamphlet, Hugo exposes the usurper, who declared himself emperor. The great writer stigmatizes the Napoleonic government of the Second Empire for despotism and terror, for the destruction of the last democratic freedoms. Hugo is outraged by the venality of the clergy, who recognized the „crook”.
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- This is an adventure thriller about independence. The protagonist fights for the freedom of the United States, as well as for the love of his life. If you are a fan of the historical adventure novel, then this book is for you.
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- At Sydney’s scandalous Artist’s Ball... a gunshot... a falling body... Call Inspector Knox of the CIB. „The Little Grey Woman” is rather short story and moves along very quickly but there’s plenty of tension and some genuinely creepy moments. Recommended for lovers of the offbeat. The Artists’ Ball was a real, and occasionally scandalous, costume ball held in Sydney for many years. Aidan de Brune walked...
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- „The Little Gentleman from Okehampstead” is a collection of connected stories about Mendel Honeywood, a diminutive insurance agent who skips out on his family and his hometown of Okehampstead, Massachusetts, and arrives in England, without a cent, to enter into a life of „crime”. He meets up with James Van Clarence Smith, disinherited scion of the wealthy American millionaires, and Lady Felicia Lakenham,...
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- Utwór opowiada historię kilkuletniego ubogiego amerykańskiego chłopca; Cedryka, który niespodziewanie wraz z matką zostaje sprowadzony do Wielkiej Brytanii, by zamieszkać z nieznanym mu niezwykle bogatym dziadkiem. Pewnego dnia odwiedza ich angielski prawnik Havisham z wiadomością od dziadka młodego Cedryka, hrabiego Dorincourta, milionera, który gardzi Stanami Zjednoczonymi i był bardzo rozczarowany,...
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