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The Faith of Men and Other Stories – ebook
Jack London
This is a situation when a person is faced with the inevitability of a terrible painful death. A choice arises before him, which is worse: to accept a painful end, clinging to life until the last breath, or to die voluntarily. This story is not about man’s courage, but about his weakness for money, his passion for profit. And such a passion destroys man in man. And then there is nothing left but money....Data dostępności:
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The Dark Star – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
Jim Nyland, an artist with a touch of Irish in his blood, becomes an amateur adventurer among professional spies who, in the style of the Hitchcockian protagonist, treat the danger in which he finds himself as nothing more than fun.Data dostępności:
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”God Wills It!” – ebook
William Stearns Davisan
Richard Longsworth is the main character. The book begins to find him young, carefree and autonomous. He is the master of his own destiny and owes nothing to anyone. Soon he meets Maria Kurkuas, the heroine.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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The Pot of Gold and Other Stories – ebook
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
This novel is for those who are looking for a quick and easy read. The Flowers family lived in a small house in a wide grassy meadow that descended a few branches from the front door to a gentle silvery river. Directly across the river stood a lovely dark green mountain, and when a rainbow fell, as it often did, nothing could look more charming than it rose from the opposite bank of the stream against...Data dostępności:
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King of the Range – ebook
Max Brand
Carrick Dunmore seemed to be nothing more than a happy-go-lucky cowboy whose main pastimes were drinking and sleeping. He wasn’t the kind of man who could challenge Jim Tankerton, the outlaw chief whose cruel violence terrorized the countryside. But Dunmore had a few tricks to outwit old Jim... One of many recommended westerns by this prolific author. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12,...Data dostępności:
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Trzech panów w łódce nie licząc psa – ebook
Jerome Klapka Jerome
Trzech panów w łódce (nie licząc psa) , oryginalny tytuł angielski Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) - humorystyczna powieść angielskiego pisarza Jerome'a K. Jerome'a wydana w 1889 roku. Fabuła utworu obejmuje przygotowania i samą wycieczkę trzech młodych mężczyzn łodzią po Tamizie między Kingston i Oksfordem, a przerywana jest bardzo licznymi anegdotycznymi dygresjami. Powieść do dzisiaj...Data dostępności:
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A Lost Lady of Old Years – ebook
John Buchan
John Buchan was a Scottish author and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. He wrote a series of books that follow the adventures of Richard Hannay, an expatriate Scot who was first introduced in the classic novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. Set in Scotland in 1745, during the Jacobite Rebellion, this dark story of loyalty and betrayal on the road to Culloden Moor recounts the adventures...Data dostępności:
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Sketches by Boz – ebook
Charles Dickens
„Sketches by „Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People” is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people and are divided into four sections: „Our Parish”, „Scenes”, „Characters”, and „Tales”. The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction. The last section comprises fictional stories. It was Dickens’s...Data dostępności:
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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – ebook
DANIEL DEFOE
Having returned safely home, Robinson Crusoe marries and starts a family. Peace is not for Robinson, he hardly hangs out in England for several years: thoughts about the island are haunted him day and night. He even buys a farm, intends to engage in rural labor, to which he is so accustomed. After the death of his wife, nothing else keeps him in England, Robinson is overcome by the old wanderlust,...Data dostępności:
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