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- Set in Paris during the French Revolution, „The Mesmerist’s Victim” tells the story of two star-crossed lovers whose romance blooms at an extremely inopportune moment in European history. Will they be able to find happiness together, or will they be swallowed up in the tumult of radical political and social change? „The Mesmerist’s Victim” is the second in Dumas’ fictional series on the French Revolution....
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- This is a wonderful romantic story. All events take place in the forests of New Brunswick at the time of the arrival of the Loyalists. A charming tale of perseverance and loyalty to King George after the American Revolution. It hooks each historical basis.
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- An adventure is something that happens outside the course of ordinary life. We can’t go on an adventure all the time, but an adventure story will take you right to that adventure. With no time to scout for a library, now these books are at our fingertips. „The Hero of the People” is the fifth book in the fictional series on the French Revolution by the famous French author Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre...
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- Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, this story of revolution, deception, and self-betrayal centers on Nostromo, a handsome Italian sailor, who, like Costaguana, is being consumed by secret guilt and corruption. The story begins halfway through the revolution, employing flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men – corrupting and destroying...
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- This is the story of the border war during the Revolution and immediately after it. The hero is captured during the Indian raid. He respects his Indian friends even in those bitter years when he fights with them like a border ranger. In the book you can feel the spirit of the time.
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- „Zanoni”, first published in 1842, was inspired by a dream. This piece of literature describes a fascinating story of love and occult aspiration. The main character is Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian who has lived since the Chaldean civilisation. He falls in love with a young opera singer, Viola Pisani – but to Zanoni, falling in love means losing his power of immortality. The story develops in the...
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- Armed with a donkey cart filled with rum, cheese and a tavern signpost, pub owner Humphrey Hump and Captain Patrick Dalroy, a crimson-haired giant with a tendency to burst into song, take to the road in this rollicking, madcap adventure, encountering revolution, romance, and a cast of memorable characters. In this hilarious, satirical romp, G.K. Chesterton demonstrates his intense distrust of power...
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- „Paul Clifford” is a novel published in 1830 by Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) who was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. It tells the life of Paul Clifford, a man who leads a dual life as both a criminal and an upscale gentleman. Paul Clifford tells the story of a chivalrous highwayman in the time of the French Revolution. This is the novel that first...
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- L’anéé 1793, Bretagne du nord. «Quatre-vingt-treize» est un récit de l’époque de la Révolution française et aussi une histoire de trois personnages symboliques: un vieil aristocrate, le marquis de Lantenac, son neveu, Gauvain, un noble rattaché aux humbles Cimourdain, père adoptif de Gauvain. Ici il y a les situations angoissantes et beaucoup de rebondissements. Pris en presse entre la loi et la raison,...
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- Pierre Loti, natif de Rochefort, a nommé ainsi le château de La Roche-Courbon en le voyant, ainsi que le parc, en total abandon lorsqu’il rendait visite à sa soeur domiciliée à Saint Porchaire. Ce château avait en effet été abandonné par ses propriétaires successifs depuis la révolution française jusqu’à la fin du XIXème siècle. C’est Pierre Loti qui s’est inquiété de la situation et a „réveillé les...
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- Le roman «Le chevalier de maison rouge» fait partie d’une série des romans d’Aleksandre Dumas de la Révolution française. L’histoire, aventures, beaux ou mauvais sentiments, nobles hommes ou immondes humains nous entraînent dans la France de la terreur. La description d’une terrible époque, quand Louis XVI a été guillotiné, Le Tribunal révolutionnaire institué et Marie-Antoinette, enfermée au temple,...
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- „A Tale of Two Cities” is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens and it is one of his most tragic works. The plot centers on the years leading up to the French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. The novel, first and foremost, follows several characters including Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite...
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- French author of famous swashbuckler novels Alexandre Dumas again chooses 18th century France for his milieu. No musketeers in this one, for it is the Queen, Marie Antoinette, who needs defending. Set a few years before the deluge of the French Revolution this plot is convoluted beyond belief; schemes, counter-measures, vicious personal agendas, love-struck young people, royal revenge and ecclesiastical...
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- This swashbuckling yarn is the continuation of the story in „Memoirs of a physician,” „The Queen’s necklace,” and „Six Years Later”. „The Countess of Charny or, The Execution of King Louis XVI” is the seventh in Dumas’ series on the retelling of the French Revolution. Known as one of the important early figures in the burgeoning genre of historical fiction, Alexandre Dumas spent much of his life chronicling...
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- „The Last Trail” is the 3rd and final instalment to the Frontier Trilogy by Zane Grey. The American Revolution is over, but the violence continues in the Ohio Valley. A woman is kidnapped from Fort Henry by a band of renegades and hostile Ohio Valley Indians. She’s fortunate to have protectors who will go to any length to rescue her. Now, Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane take pursuit. With no hope of...
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- Although this book was listed in a collection of Richard Hannay stories, Hannay makes only a brief appearance at the beginning. Begins in the pleasant atmosphere of a country house in the Scottish borders, where Richard Hannay is the guest of his old friend, Sandy Arbuthnot. The action is set in Olifa, a fictional country on the west coast of South America. When Sandy Arbuthnot’s friend John Blenkiron...
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- An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel. In Eldorado, Sir Percy becomes involved in one of the most famous plots of the French Revolution, the attempt to rescue the child heir (son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette) to the French throne from imprisonment in Paris and spirits him away to Holland. He willingly walks into an ambush in an attempt to rescue his brother-in-law....
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- Zane Grey’s first trilogy – „Betty Zane”, „The Last Trail”, and „The Spirit of the Border” together in one volume. „Betty Zane” is an „Eastern” real life adventure story by Zane Grey based upon diaries kept by his great grandmother, Betty Zane, describing her life and adventures after she joined her brother’s family near what is now Wheeling, WV in the late 1700’s. It is the story of the last battle...
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- Mieszkanie w centrum Wrocławia, konto bankowe, które samo się uzupełnia, niekończące się imprezy i całkowity brak obowiązków. Życie Jasmin jest idealne do momentu, gdy dziewczyna przekracza linię i z dnia na dzień traci wszystko, włącznie z ukochaną babcią. Pozostając bez wyboru, Jasmin decyduje się wyjechać do Tunezji, gdzie mieszka jej ojciec. Czy bezinteresowna miłość nieznanej rodziny ma szansę...
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- Pustelnia parmeńska. La Chartreuse de Parme. Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i francuskiej. Version bilingue: polonaise et française W powieści tej Stendhal opowiada dzieje Fabrycego del Dongo - młodszego syna mediolańskiego arystokraty i bogacza. Fabrycy, nie mogąc znaleźć w rodzinnym domu szczęścia i miłości ucieka z Italii i przyłącza się do armii Napoleona (wątek autobiograficzny)....
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