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Wings in the Night – ebook
Robert E. Howard
Wings in the Night collects Robert E. Howard’s fiction and prose published in Weird Tales Magazine from July 1932 to May 1933. These works represent literary stepping-stones to Howard’s infamous Cthulhu mythos stories and his most famous character of all -- Conan the Cimmerian -- and ably demonstrate that each of Howard’s stories improved and added to his formidable skills as a master of fantasy and...Data dostępności:
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The Missionary – ebook
George Griffiths
In the epicenter of events, the main character and his bright faith, as well as the book he wrote. Many of the books in the collection have not been produced for decades, and therefore the writer’s book was not available to the general public. The goal of the publishing program is to facilitate quick access to this huge reservoir of literature. This is a significant literary work that deserves to return...Data dostępności:
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The Thing That Walked in the Rain – ebook
Otis Adelbert Kline
Those readers who had been charmed by Otis Adelbert Kline’s swashbuckling sci-fi adventures would not have long to wait before they were treated to that novel’s follow-up thrill ride. „The Thing That Walked in the Rain” provides another interplanetary adventure. Considered by many to be the only true equal of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Otis Adelbert Kline was a master of the sword and planet genre. From...Data dostępności:
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V. – ebook
Thomas Pynchon
Obejmujące sześćdziesiąt lat poszukiwania V. prowadzą czytelnika przez Aleksandrię, Paryż, Maltę, Florencję, Afrykę i Nowy Jork – ale kim, gdzie lub czym jest V.? Sprośna, czasem smutna, często zabawna /V/ stała się współczesnym klasykiem. Niezwykła książka – /Sunday Telegraph/ Wariaci ścigają aligatory w kanałach ściekowych w chaotycznej, obejmującej cały świat pogoni za V., podczas gdy różne...Data dostępności:
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The Forged Coupon and Other Stories – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
At the beginning of the story, walking along an incline, some of Tolstoy’s characters lie, commit robberies and even killings. The author allows his heroes to experience feelings of satisfaction and complete impunity, after they have committed terrible atrocities. Pelageyushkin, going to the massacres, is content with one own impunity. Tolstoy conducts his heroes in hellish circles: all terrible crimes...Data dostępności:
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War and Peace – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
”War and Peace” is not just a classic novel, but a real heroic epic, the literary value of which is not comparable to any other work. The writer himself considered it a poem, where the private life of a person is inseparable from the history of the whole country. Events and impressions from a peaceful life do not leave characters during the war, on the contrary, they come to life more strongly in their...Data dostępności:
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The Author of Beltraffio – ebook
Henry James
In this story, a mother allows her only child, a seven-year-old boy, to die of diphtheria only so that he will never be subjected to the corrupting influence of the books written by his father, which she deeply condemns. Anyone who imagines motherly love and at least once saw the torment of a child restlessly darting in his crib, fighting for every breath, would never have invented such a monstrous...Data dostępności:
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The Gambler – ebook
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Inspired by Dostoevsky’s own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, „The Gambler” is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich working in the household of an imperious Russian general. He begins gambling to win enough money...Data dostępności:
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Notes from the Underground – ebook
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
A predecessor to such monumental works such as „Crime and Punishment” and „The Brothers Karamazov”, „Notes From Underground” represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky’s writing towards the more political side. In this work, we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives, withdraws from that society into the underground....Data dostępności:
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Out O’ Luck – ebook
Thorne Smith
James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and supernatural transformations. Smith’s literary debut was „Biltmore Oswald” (1918), the comic fictional diary of a hapless naval recruit, drawing heavily on wartime experience with...Data dostępności:
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