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Hawtrey’s Deputy – ebook
Harold Bindloss
In the fashion of the high prairie, romance and trust are acquired, lost, destroyed and acquired again... Sketchy mortgages and vague speculations will make us guess. The main character goes on a strange sea adventure to stop thinking about unhappy love. This is a story about a love triangle with unusual plot twists.Data dostępności:
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Tales of Hearsay – ebook
Joseph Conrad
This collection of four stories. One of the stories is Prince Roman. It tells about the Polish people and their hero. The conversation was about aristocracy. How did this discredited item come about? However, neither the great Florentine artist, who did not close his eyes at death while thinking about his city, nor Saint Francis, who blessed the city of Assisi with his last breath, were barbarians...Data dostępności:
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Ardath – ebook
Marie Corelli
Theos Olwyn, a poet and a lost man, travels to a secluded monastery in search of a man who can take his soul. He finds him in Heliobas, a seer who has given up his parlor sessions for the sake of isolation and worship of God. A night of thinking and talking leads to Alwyn writing an epic poem for free, which he packages and mails to his publisher. He also meets an angel named Edris who tells him to...Data dostępności:
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Godfrey Morgan – ebook
Jules Verne
Godfrey Morgan, the young nephew of „a strikingly rich man” William Kolderup and his future heir, believes that his life is extremely boring. He would like to fill her with adventures and travels, and is not going to marry – as his uncle wants – without having made at least a trip around the world. Mr. Kolderup is a resourceful and wise man, and, thinking, he agrees to Godfrey’s venture. Uncle William...Data dostępności:
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The Mahatma and the Hare – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard describes the plight of the protagonist. He loses his wife and daughter in a car accident, as he thinks through his fault. The main character goes into great depression and begins to drink. When the man was thinking about suicide, a stranger named Joren appeared and told him not to worry. He tells him about reincarnated souls and life after death. Joren teaches him to transcend...Data dostępności:
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Tales of El Borak – ebook
Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such hero as Francis Xavier Gordon. Texas gunfighter F. X. Gordon traveled the world before settling in 1920s Afghanistan. The Afghans dubbed him „El Borak” for his quick...Data dostępności:
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Castle Gay – ebook
John Buchan
„Castle Gay” is the second of Buchan’s three Dickson McCunn books and is set in south west Scotland in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the 1920s. The plot revolves around the self-discovery of a media mogul named Craw, who is firstly the subject of mistaken identity and then the target of Balkan extremists who wish to use his newspapers to influence their political cause. Mr. Craw’s journey is...Data dostępności:
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Rodney Stone – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
As well as penning some of the most popular detective fiction, Conan Doyle also wrote thrilling adventure stories. „Rodney Stone” is a combination of both. Nelson, Beau Brummell, Fox and King George III himself appear in a tale at the heart of which is, as one character says, „a pretty conspiracy – a criminal, an actress and a prize-fighter, all playing their parts”. The book is narrated by Rodney,...Data dostępności:
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