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A Modern Utopia – ebook
Herbert George Wells
H.G Wells wrote many tales of adventure and exploration, which were fascinating to early twentieth century readers as transportation to faraway lands was so difficult back then. Wells’ „Modern Utopia” was first published in 1905. It set the scene for many modern, scientific utopias and dystopias. The story is set on a planet very like earth. The Utopian Planet differs from earth in that the inhabitants...Data dostępności:
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Images Between Series and Stream – ebook
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The direct impulse for the undertaking was the experience of scientific work and exchange during the COVID-19 pandemic as a first-hand touch of the “poetics of disappearance” (p. 16). It is, needless to say, an experience with which the writer of these words deeply sympathizes, as most of the people nowadays probably do. Therefore, the book can claim a wide appeal, resulting not only from...Data dostępności:
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8 Best Fantasy Novels – ebook
Herbert George Wells
For many generations of readers, Herbert Wells, author of The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Food of the Gods, and a number of other science fiction novels, has been and remains a great science fiction writer, whose work has had an important influence on the development of the scientific genre fiction in the 20th century as a whole. The possibilities of science and the power of the human...Data dostępności:
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The Thing That Walked in the Rain – ebook
Otis Adelbert Kline
Those readers who had been charmed by Otis Adelbert Kline’s swashbuckling sci-fi adventures would not have long to wait before they were treated to that novel’s follow-up thrill ride. „The Thing That Walked in the Rain” provides another interplanetary adventure. Considered by many to be the only true equal of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Otis Adelbert Kline was a master of the sword and planet genre. From...Data dostępności:
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The Gap in the Curtain – ebook
John Buchan
When Sir Edward Leithen leaves London to spend Whitsuntide as a guest at Flambard, he has no idea of the extraordinary sequence of events about to unfold. Among the collection of fellow guests, some of whom he knows and some he doesn’t, is the extraordinary mind of Professor Moe, a scientist who decides to select some of the houseguests as subjects for his latest experiment. He declares that he can...Data dostępności:
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Kai Lung’s Golden Hours – ebook
Ernest Bramah
The second volume of amusing Chinese fantasies. A captivating collection that’s ripe for rediscovery, „Kai Lung’s Golden Hours” stands as the very best of these beguiling books. As with other Kai Lung novels, the main plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the presentation of the gem-like, aphorism-laden stories told by the protagonist Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. With the...Data dostępności:
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The Iron Heel – ebook
Jack London
The Iron Heel is a distopian utopian socialist novel, told in first person by someone that have read the manuscript finded in a oak, hidden 600 years ago that tolds the life and adventures of a socialist activist Avis Everhard and her husband Ernst Everhard executed in 1932. The Iron Heel is a story with stories within stories...it’s about a past, a present, and a future...all told from the perspective...Data dostępności:
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Fanny Hill – ebook
John Cleland
Fanny Hill , also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland. It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history of literature. The book is written as a series of letters from Frances „Fanny” Hill to an unknown woman, with Fanny justifying her life-choices to this individual. This fictional account of a young woman’s unconventional route...Data dostępności:
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Sleeping Beauty (Śpiąca królewna) English version – ebook
Charles Perrault
Sleeping Beauty has enchanted generations of readers, young and old alike. The king and queen have a fervent wish; to bear a son or daughter. Their wish is answered when a beautiful princess is born. Unfortunately, at the banquet to celebrate the daughter’s birth, an evil fairy places a curse on the child, when she is fifteen she will be pricked by a spinning wheel and fall into a deep slumber....Data dostępności:
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Złodziejka książek – ebook
Markus Zusak
Światowy bestseller, na podstawie którego powstał film wytwórni Twentieth Century Fox. Liesel Meminger swoją pierwszą książkę kradnie podczas pogrzebu młodszego brata. To dzięki „Podręcznikowi grabarza” uczy się czytać i odkrywa moc słów. Później przyjdzie czas na kolejne książki: płonące na stosach nazistów, ukryte w biblioteczce żony burmistrza i wreszcie te własnoręcznie napisane… Ale Liesel...Data dostępności:
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