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The Pool of the Black One – ebook
Robert E. Howard
The Pool of the Black One is one of the original short stories starring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan becoming the captain of a pirate vessel and encountering a remote island with a mysterious pool that has powers of transmutation.Data dostępności:
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Tales of Breckinridge Elkins – ebook
Robert E. Howard
Breck Elkins is a hillbilly from Bear Creek, a fictional location in the Humboldt Mountains of Nevada. He is „mighty of stature and small of brain"–a physically huge and imposing figure, and his reputation as a short-tempered and ferocious fighter often precedes him throughout the Southwest. He is usually found in the company of Cap’n Kidd, his equally fierce and cantankerous horse.Data dostępności:
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Secret Sharer – ebook
Joseph Conrad
This is a story of less than 100 pages, but in it Conrad demonstrates how many great writers do it, the simple and elegant power of short work. Here, a writer can briefly convey a compelling message in an economic way. The situation is in the southern seas, and we see that our narrator takes his first command near the Gulf of Thailand. A strange young captain finds refuge and harbors another man, and...Data dostępności:
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The Pat Hobby Stories – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Entertainingly artless and insensitive; by turns lazy and scheming, Hobby keeps his head just above water as the decades leave silent film behind. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s collection of 17 humorous...Data dostępności:
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Flappers and Philosophers – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel „This Side of Paradise”, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three, „Flappers and Philosophers” was the author’s first iconic collection of short fiction. In these pages we meet Fitzgerald’s trademark characters: the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost...Data dostępności:
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All the Sad Young Men – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
„All the Sad Young Men” is a collection of nine short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It includes two of his most famous – the beautifully elegiac „The Rich Boy” and „Winter Dreams” which feature wealthy protagonists – the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – who struggle to come to terms with lost love. As with his other collections, its release was timed to...Data dostępności:
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Tales of the Fish Patrol – ebook
Jack London
This is a collection of short stories by Jack London. The action of the stories takes place in the bay of San Francisco, in the center of the plot is the activity of the local „fish surveillance”. The narration is conducted in the first person, the narrator is the owner of the reindeer sloop, chartered by a fishing company to patrol the bay in order to prevent illegal fishing methods. Another main...Data dostępności:
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The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories – ebook
W.H.H. Murray
The rumble of merry conversation mixed with the mumble of a stream; and from time to time a piece of a sweet song broke from melodious lips, short, energetic, melodious like a bobolink, rushing up from clover heads. And before the mighty shadow, gloomily lying on the great plain on the prairies, stretching east for a thousand miles, turned into darkness, active, happy workers gave the bivouac the kind...Data dostępności:
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Smoke Bellew – ebook
Jack London
The famous cycle of novels and short stories by the American writer Jack London is a peculiar and unique painting of life in inhuman conditions, where people still manage to remain human beings. The story is about a man who found the courage, courage and power to exchange the clerk’s prosperous, but dull and boring life for danger, the exciting and fascinating fate of an adventurer in the wild lands...Data dostępności:
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The Turtles of Tasman – ebook
Jack London
The twelfth volume of the Complete Works by the prominent American writer Jack London includes the famous Tesman Turtles short story book. This book, written by the hand of a mature master, was the last work published during his lifetime. The stories included in the collection are characterized by a sharp, exciting plot, paradoxical, unexpected outcomes, and at the same time lyricism, understanding...Data dostępności:
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