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The Plunder Pit – ebook
T.C. Bridges
„Short and stout as he was, Pip could handle a boat with any man, and the speed with which he got the sail up and tied down the reef points was worth watching. As he finished, the great arch of cloud swept over the sun, wiping, out its bright light. Then with a roar the wind was on them”.Data dostępności:
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A Fight for Fortune – ebook
T.C. Bridges
A pair of seventeen-year-old boys leaves the house to make their way to fate in the Far Eastern seas. „It must be my hands that are at fault, then,” replied Clive. „I’ve been trying everywhere for the past three weeks, and can’t get taken on. I came down here to look up Captain Brereton, an old friend of my father’s. He’s skipper and part owner of a tramp steamer, the Sphinx. I hoped to cadge a passage...Data dostępności:
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Queen of the Black Coast – ebook
Robert E. Howard
Hoofs drummed down the street that sloped to the wharfs. The folk that yelled and scattered had only a fleeting glimpse of a mailed figure on a black stallion, a wide scarlet cloak flowing out on the wind. Far up the street came the shout and clatter of pursuit, but the horseman did not look back. He swept out onto the wharfs and jerked the plunging stallion back on its haunches at the very lip of...Data dostępności:
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Red Shadows – ebook
Robert E. Howard
The moonlight shimmered hazily, making silvery mists of illusion among the shadowy trees. A faint breeze whispered down the valley, bearing a shadow that was not of the moon-mist. A faint scent of smoke was apparent. The man whose long, swinging strides, unhurried yet unswerving, had carried him for many a mile since sunrise, stopped suddenly. A movement in the trees had caught his attention, and he...Data dostępności:
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The Secret of Smoking Swamp – ebook
T.C. Bridges
Set against a Florida background, this story tells of the adventures of Bill Picton and his young companions who trail a gang of moonshiners through the steaming, sluggish swamp-lands. Fitzgordon had never in his life before been in a tropical swamp, and the very first thing he did was to get both feet tangled in a coil of tough bamboo vine, and come down flat on his face on the wet black „muck.” The...Data dostępności:
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All Aboard for Ararat – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Short story told as an allegory set in the future, in form of narrative, with some trenchant remarks on the current situation, and a brilliant introduction to which the balance fails to measure up. Dialogs between God and Mr. Noah Lammock planning a new Ark in which the best of mankind may be rescued from the new flood of war and horror. Wells-Lammock querying of Biblical history is irreverent but...Data dostępności:
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The War in the Air – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Bert Smallways is the unlikely protagonist, a kind of Edwardian Mod, not interested in a steady career, always looking for a good time, riding his proto-scooter down to Brighton at the weekends. When Bert is accidentally scooped up by a German fleet, on its way to launch a surprise attack on the United States, he finds himself with a front row seat to the greatest war that has ever been – the war in...Data dostępności:
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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth – ebook
Herbert George Wells
What happens when science tampers with nature? Mr. Bensington and Mr. Redwood create a new food material, Herakleophorbia, later called Boomfood, they hope will have beneficial uses to mankind. They come up with a substance that causes flora, fauna, and people to become giants. At first, there are giant nettles, mushrooms – but then it ramps up, with giant rats that can take down and eat horses and...Data dostępności:
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Mambo dżambo – ebook
Ishmael Reed
Odwieczny pojedynek Seta z Ozyrysem i zadawnione porachunki Krzyżaków z templariuszami ożywają na nowo w Ameryce lat 20. XX wieku trawionej bakcylem Dżes Gru, pandemią, która z ogniska zapalnego w Nowym Orleanie prze w kierunku Nowego Jorku przeżywającego renesans harlemski. Ishmael Reed (ur. 1938) – poeta, eseista, powieściopisarz, Jeden z najbardziej rozpoznawalnych pisarzy afroamerykańskich....Data dostępności:
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