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The Golden Pool – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
This novel begins with Robert Englefield, a young Englishman, taking on a job with a vessel sailing for northern Africa. Once there, Englefield is placed in the position of running the store through which the captain sells and trades his goods. As Englefield spends more and more time at this outpost on the African coast, he hears stories a legendary mine in the interior of Africa where the priests...Data dostępności:
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The Whisperer in Darkness – ebook
H.P. Lovecraft
The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. An Arkham university professor is contacted by a farmer living in a remote part of Vermont, who claims to have evidence of aliens living in the hills and mining a mysterious metal. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood,...Data dostępności:
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The Dunwich Horror – ebook
H.P. Lovecraft
Master of horror writes a story of true forces of evil. There are six short stories that comprise this edition of The Dunwich Horror. The story beats a lot of modern writers in prose, characters and plot. The story started of well and gave us a spooky small village setting with the odd family of a Grandfather, deformed Albino mother and inhuman grandson and the strange events surrounding his birth...Data dostępności:
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The Innocence of Father Brown – ebook
G.K. Chesterton
Father Brown is one of the Hound’s greatest crime fighters and his creator, Chesterton, one of the masters of the short crime story. Father Brown is the second among the Great literary detectives, right after Sherlock Holmes. In some ways, Father Brown was a continuation of what Chesterton wrote in his classic Orthodoxy.The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery...Data dostępności:
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The Disintegration Machine – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
„The Disintegration Machine” is a story featuring Doyle’s famous character Professor Challenger. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in January 1929. The story centers on the discovery of a machine capable of disintegrating objects and reforming them as they were. This short story is a part of the „Challenger series”, a collection of stories about the wealthy eccentric adventurer Professor...Data dostępności:
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The Adventures of Gerard – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
Love humor writing? Can’t get enough of classic adventure tales? First published in 1902, „The Adventures of Gerard” are the autobiographical reminiscences of an old fictional brigadier soldier who served under Napoleon. He never hesitates to embellish his own bravado, importance, and attractiveness to the ladies, to such an extent that it can’t help but be humorous. Etienne Gerard, a hussar of the...Data dostępności:
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The Incredulity of Father Brown – ebook
G.K. Chesterton
The Incredulity of Father Brown is the third collection of short mysteries by G.K. Chesterton about that character. In The Incredulity of Father Brown, all the stories involve murders and conflicts between Catholicism and atheism and spiritualism. We find the usual Chesterton „moral landscape” -- in which the author paints a picture of nature somehow mirroring the fact that something is very wrong....Data dostępności:
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Kidnapped – ebook
Robert Louis Stevenson
The story is set in 1751 and the author has successfully narrated the story keeping in mind the history of the time. If you love adventure stories then you simply cannot ignore this fast-moving adventure which promises to keep the reader engrossed from start-to-finish. The plot follows young David, who is cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle, and kidnapped into servitude on a sailing ship....Data dostępności:
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The Confidence-Man – ebook
Herman Melville
A post-modern masterpiece; a century ahead of its time. The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony,...Data dostępności:
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His Last Bow – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrated edition with almost 40 original illustrations by Alfred Gilbert, Gilbert Holiday, Sidney Paget, Walter Paget and Arthur Twidle. „His Last Bow” (also known as „The Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes”) contains eight stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, „His Last Bow. An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes”. Edition contains a brief preface, by „John H. Watson, M.D.”,...Data dostępności:
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