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Beatrix – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
This novel opens in the old town of Guerande which still enclosed by mighty walls and possesses moats still full of water. The houses have not changed and the streets are as they were one hundred years in the past. It is the family seat of the de Guenics. The old society of the town gather here to play cards and gossip, often about the younger generations. The son of the house, Calyste, is going to...Data dostępności:
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The Titan – ebook
Theodore Dreiser
„Titan” is the second part of Theodore Dreiser’s famous „Trilogy of Desire”, which is based on the life story of the American millionaire C. Yerkes, who played a significant role in the development of the public transport system in Chicago and the London Underground.Data dostępności:
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Dr. Thorndyke’s Case-Book – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
This book is a collection of short stories about one of Sherlock Holmes’ most prominent rivals: Dr. Thorndyke and Jervis. Doyle’s characters may be better, but Freeman spins a lot of mysteries based on reasoning.Data dostępności:
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Dr. Thorndyke’s Crime File – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Dr. John Thorndike is a fictional detective in a series of novels. He is a medical lawyer – a doctor by origin, he turned to the bar and became one of the first, in modern terms, forensic experts. His decisions were based on his method of collecting all possible data.Data dostępności:
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Milly Darrell – ebook
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Milly Darrell isn’t the narrator, but the story is based around her. Mary Crofton is a new governess who meets her in school, and agrees to spend her vacation with Milly. She soon has to deal with the intrigues of Milly’s evil stepmother Augusta and possessive cousin Julian. Fortunately, Mary figures out that Milly is being poisoned thanks to noticing the wrong cork on a medicine bottle. Augusta’s...Data dostępności:
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The Aspern Papers – ebook
Henry James
”The Aspern Papers” is one of the masterpieces of the writer’s „small” prose, the plots of which are based on the collision of European and American cultural consciousness, the „point of view” of an individual and social stereotypes, the „book” perception of the world and individual experience. The tragicomic search by the hapless biographer of the lost letters of the great poet is the conflict of...Data dostępności:
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Frank Merriwell, Junior’s, Golden Trail – ebook
Burt L. Standish
Frank Merriwell, Junior’s, Golden Trail- the story is not much different from other author’s stories. The plot is based on the adventures of the protagonist. Frank tries to talk about a dream that has been tormenting him for a long time. All this is not just so, the dream has a great value on the further development of the plot. Such an intriguing development of the plot doesn’t let the reader get...Data dostępności:
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The Song of Leonard Cohen – audiobook
Harry Rasky
"'Harry, this is Leonard. I just wanted you to know I watched your film on me and it struck me I never thanked you enough at the time for the magnificent gift you gave with that film. Call me.' Then he left his personal number.' – Harry Rasky, April 2000. No other book about Leonard Cohen gets so close to the man, his city, his poems and songs, his friends, his background, and the many original influences...Data dostępności:
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Arsène Lupin. 12 Novels and Short Story Collections – ebook
Maurice Leblanc
Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created by French writer Maurice Leblanc. Arsène Lupin is a literary descendant of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail’s fictional character Rocambole. Like him, he is often a force for good, while operating on the wrong side of the law. Those whom Lupin defeats are worse villains than he is. The book includes the following works: The Extraordinary...Data dostępności:
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Ursula – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
„Ursula” novel is one of the pillars of the „Scenes of Provincial Life” section of Honoré de Balzac’s story cycle „The Human Comedy”. Through a series of tragedies and coincidences, a kind and pious teenager named Ursula has been taken in by an octogenarian wealthy doctor, Denis Minoret. Inspired by Ursula’s goodness, Minoret decides to make her his chief heir. This incites the ire of his other relatives,...Data dostępności:
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