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The Odyssey – ebook
A classic for the ages, „The Odyssey” recounts Odysseus’ (Ulysses) journey home after the Trojan War. After the end of the war, Ulysses and his companions decide to return home, but in the middle of the path a horrible storm deviates them from the original route. Just one more difficulty, they have to face monsters like Cyclops and Mermaids, always overcoming them with cleverness astuteness. During...Data dostępności:
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Skin and Bones – ebook
Thorne Smith
Thorne Smith’s imaginative novel „Skin and Bones” takes the concept of suffering for one’s art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself; in other words, him found himself...Data dostępności:
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The Mirror of Kong Ho – ebook
Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah was an English author who wrote popular books in many different genres including humor, detective fiction and science fiction. A lively and amusing collection of letters sent from a highly bemused Chinaman sojourning amongst the English barbarians in the first decade of the 19th century to his revered father back home, with a view to coming to grips with their inferior culture, which...Data dostępności:
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The Island of Doctor Moreau – ebook
Herbert George Wells
On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau’s assistant he is taken to the doctor’s island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...The main plot, a shunned biologist, Dr. Moreau, attempting...Data dostępności:
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The Oakdale Affair – ebook
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The Oakdale Affair“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. This is the third book in the Mucker series. In the home of Jonas Prim, president of an Oakdale bank, a thief makes off with a servant's clothing and valuables belonging to Prim's daughter Abigail. Abigail is thought to be absent visiting...Data dostępności:
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Księżniczka – ebook
WŁADYSŁAW REYMONT
„Księżniczka„ to powieść Władysława Reymonta, pisarza, prozaika i nowelisty, laureata Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury. “ Odczytywano głośno te wiadomości, a każde słowo targało duszę zgrozą, oburzeniem, gniewem i nienawiścią tak żywą, iż zaszemrały klątwy i złorzeczenia. Tłumy zadygotały niby bór, zafalowały gwałtownie, i naraz głuchy pomruk wybuchnął grzmotem strasznej nienawiści. —...Data dostępności:
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The Croquet Player – ebook
Herbert George Wells
A soul-corrupting evil invades the remote English village of Cainsmarsh, infesting the minds of the local residents. Dark events are plaguing its people. An elderly woman stiffens in dread at her own shadow; a terrified farmer murders a scarecrow; food prepared by others is eyed with suspicion; family pets are bludgeoned to death; loving couples are devoured by rage and violence. People are becoming...Data dostępności:
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The Doings of Raffles Haw – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors spread like wildfire about him. When his home is overtaken by workmen and strange boxes are seen coming and going, it only adds to the intrigue. Robert and Laura are his nearest neighbors and are soon delighted to meet this eccentric new addition to the small English...Data dostępności:
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The Voyage Out – ebook
Virginia Woolf
Rachel Vinrace sets out on a voyage from the confines of her home in England, where she is raised by her spinster aunts, to the exotic coast of South America in the early twentieth century. But more than just the physical journey from one shore to another, „The Voyage Out” is a story of the transformation of this essentially unworldly girl to a more self-possessed woman in love with the seemingly enlightened...Data dostępności:
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Jak gdybyś tańczyła – ebook
Diane Chamberlain
Czy kłamstwo jest lepsze od najgorszej prawdy? Czy wydarzenia z przeszłości mogą wpłynąć negatywnie na przyszłość? Czy rodzina może nas skrzywdzić? Jak pogodzić się z prawdą? Molly ma fajne życie, ciekawą pracę, kochającego męża i… pilnie strzeżoną tajemnicę z przeszłości. Ich rodzina wkrótce się powiększy – pojawi się w niej adoptowane dziecko, tymczasem Molly walczy z niepewnością i lękiem. Czy...Data dostępności:
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