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Master and Man – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
„"Master and Man"” is the story of L. N. Tolstoy about two people caught in a terrible snowstorm. The owner throws his worker to save his life, but he himself cannot get out... Faced with death, he rethinks his life. The merchant achieved a lot. Vasily Andreevich Brekhunov: opened a shop, two taverns, a mill, several estates... And all through his tireless passion for accumulating goodness and frugality....Data dostępności:
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Beyond Good and Evil – ebook
Friedrich Nietzsche
„Beyond Good and Evil” is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written. This work rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil and demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a „slave morality”. It promotes a philosophy that celebrates the present...Data dostępności:
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The Bird Cage – ebook
Eimar O’Duffy
Eimar Ultan O’Duffy (29 September 1893 – 21 March 1935), born in Dublin in 1893, was a novelist, poet, playwright and satirist. The Irish Theatre Company produced two of his plays, and a later play „Bricriu’s Feast” was published, though not produced, in 1919. His other publications include „The Wasted Island” (1919), „King Goshawk and the Birds” (MacMillan, 1926) and a series of mystery novels including...Data dostępności:
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No Other Tiger – ebook
A.E.W. Mason
Mr. Mason is here at his best. While working out very deftly an extremely intricate and clever plot, he gives us excellent characterization and a remarkably vivid series of glimpses into different settings and phases of life. Beginning in the opulent lands of India, home of enchantment, color and adventure, the novel „No Other Tiger” becomes a mystery that begins with a tiger hunt across Asia. The...Data dostępności:
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Fighting Stars – ebook
H.A. Cody
Although Charles Stanfield was a wealthy man he was far from happy. Everything that money could buy was at his command. He had merely to give the order and it would be fulfilled without delay. From a worldly point of view he was an outstanding example of a prosperous man who had fought his way to the top of the ladder of success. By many he was admired for his keen business qualities; by others he...Data dostępności:
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Edith Percival – ebook
May Agnes Fleming
The day was very hot. The crew lay in groups, idly, near the deck. The captain – a stately man of about forty or so – stepped up and down a quarter of the deck – now letting his eyes wander around his people or give them some order. His companion was young, three to four years younger than him, with a frank beautiful face and laughing brown eyes. His look of careless ease was very different from the...Data dostępności:
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Sketches of Young Gentlemen – ebook
Charles Dickens
Following the phenomenal popularity of „Sketches by Boz”, Dickens produced two short volumes of „Sketches of Young Gentlemen” and „Sketches Young Couples"’. Dedicated to „The Young Ladies of the United Kingdom of Great Britain” as well as to other young ladies, „Sketches of Young Gentlemen” scrutinizes in a very witty and humorous fashion certain familiar characteristics of Victorian men and women....Data dostępności:
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Guy Garrick – ebook
Arthur B. Reeve
Newspaperman Walter Jameson is assigned to shadow his friend Professor Craig Kennedy for a month to report on how he solves mysterious crimes and to give „an intimate picture of the man and his work.” Basically, Kennedy’s a scientist who uses his superior scientific knowledge and a bunch of contraptions he makes to expose the criminals. „The Dream Doctor” is the third book in the Dr. Kennedy series...Data dostępności:
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The Bishop’s Jaegers – ebook
Thorne Smith
If you’re in the mood for a wildly hilarious comic romp, give Thorne Smith’s „The Bishop’s Jaegars” a read. Mad, hilarious, degenerate, or simply fun fantasy? Only the reader can decide. Adrift and listless, a wealthy coffee heir Peter Van Dyke is searching for meaning in life. His young secretary Jo decides to shake things up and help him get back on track. Although he is engaged to another, she has...Data dostępności:
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The Boss of the Lazy Y – ebook
Charles Alden Seltzer
The story concerns a complicated, angry, daredevil son, Calumet Marston, who returns to his boyhood homestead to find his hated father dead and a stranger, a woman named Betty, in charge. Her family had aided his father, and now she is „"the boss"”. He also left a testimony which states that Calumet must give a practical demonstration of reform in character if he wants to inherit his father’s money,...Data dostępności:
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