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Matorni’s Vineyard – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
In an interesting precursor to the later „I Spy” television series, the novel follows the activities of a young British tennis professional, Mervyn Amory, who is spending the season in Monte Carlo. While traveling from Paris on Le Train Bleu, he meets an Italian secret agent who is carrying documents which show the treachery of the dictator Matorni. Matorni is a thinly disguised Mussolini. (The title...Data dostępności:
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Major Haynes of the Secret Service – ebook
Edgar Wallace
„Major Haynes of the Secret Service” is a fine series of Wallace stories about wartime espionage. During the First World War Edgar Wallace wrote a number of morale-boosting tales about the skill and derring-do of the British military and intelligence services, mostly in the form of series published under such titles as „Tam o’ the Scoots,” „Companions of the Ace High,” and „Clarence-Private”. Several...Data dostępności:
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Patria – ebook
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include „The Four Just Men”, „Sanders of the River”, and „J. G. Reeder”. In this work, the spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing „preparedness” fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the...Data dostępności:
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Czerwony smok – ebook
Thomas Harris
„Makabryczny, mocny, porywający thriller… Wstrząsający.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer Seryjny morderca w czasie pełni zabija całe rodziny w ich własnych domach. Napastnik, któremu policja nadała pseudonim „Zębowa Wróżka”, okalecza swoje ofiary w charakterystyczny sposób. Zabójca opętany jest wizją przemiany w tytułowego czerwonego smoka – przerażającej postaci z akwareli Williama Blake'a Wielki czerwony...Data dostępności:
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The House of Mirth – ebook
Edith Wharton
Is Lily Bart a victim of circumstance or an agent of her own destruction? Edith Wharton’s acutely observed novel poses this question as it follows Lily’s tragic path through the country houses, card tables and drawing rooms of New York’s beau monde at the turn of the 20th century. Impoverished but well-born, Lily realizes a secure future depends on her acquiring a wealthy husband. Her desire for a...Data dostępności:
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The Count of Monte Cristo – ebook
Alexandre Dumas
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time, along with „The Three Musketeers”. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. It centers on Edmond Dantès who is wrongfully...Data dostępności:
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Real Dramas – ebook
Fred M. White
Frederick Merrick White (1859–1935) wrote a number of novels and short stories under the name „Fred M. White” including the six „Doom of London” science-fiction stories, in which various catastrophes beset London. These include „The Four Days’ Night”, in which London is beset by a massive killer smog; „The Dust of Death”, in which diphtheria infects the city, spreading from refuse tips and sewers;...Data dostępności:
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Mike Flannery On Duty and Off – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today he’s almost completely forgotten. The selections in „Mike Flannery On Duty and Off” book include three humorous stories, „Just Like a Cat,” „The Three Hundred” and „Fleas Will Be Fleas,” by this American humorist, whose first success, „Pigs is Pigs” (1906), remained...Data dostępności:
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Under Western Eyes – ebook
Joseph Conrad
This novel is considered to be one of Conrad’s major works and in subject matter is close to The Secret Agent. It is also full of conflict about the historical failures of revolutionary movements and ideals. Razumov is a career-motivated young man, unwillingly trapped in a political situation. As he travel to Geneva (from St. Petersburg), brings hope that he is going to go back to his normal life,...Data dostępności:
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The Scarlet Pimpernel – ebook
Emmuska Orczy
The scene is set in the terrorized Paris of revolutionary France in the 1800’s. During this time period nobody was safe from the horrifying grasp of „Madame la Guillotine” which claimed hundreds of lives every day. The Scarlet Pimpernel is England’s national hero, a rescuer of French aristocrats from under the guillotine in France. He’s also Sir Percy Blakeny, husband of Marguerite Blakeney nee St....Data dostępności:
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