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Midnight House – ebook
Ethel Lina White
The story „Midnight House” about the mysterious house. The owners, who went abroad. However, neighbors claim that they saw them in the city. This house is associated with ill-fated love and early death. For a long time, it was closed, but soon reopened...Data dostępności:
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The Auction Block – ebook
Rex Beach
Lorelei Knight’s parents want to get rich on her beauty. They send her to New York to be on a „girl show”. Bob Wharton, the dissolute son of a millionaire, falls in love with a girl. When Lorelei finds out her father is ill and needs money, she marries Bob even though she doesn’t love him. Bob’s father cuts his allowance and Bob is forced to go to work.Data dostępności:
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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet – ebook
William Shakespeare
In this edition of Romeo and Juliet you will find the original text of the play of William Shakespeare. The edition was annotated an illustrated. Thanks to this study guide you will discover the theme of ill-fated love, Shakespeare’s background, detailed biography and historical events that influenced Romeo and Juliet.Data dostępności:
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The Schoolmaster and Other Stories – ebook
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The main theme of the story – dedication to his work. Fyodor Lukich never forgets about his students, nor about the ill-treatment that could be imposed on them by others. The end of the story is also interesting, because the reader can again see how devotional Fyodor Lukic really is. He advocates fair treatment to his students to the end.Data dostępności:
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Gates of Empire – ebook
Robert E. Howard
The castles of the Twelfth Century, fortresses rather than mere dwellings, were built for defense, not comfort. The hall through which the drunken band was hallooing was broad, lofty, windy, strewn with rushes, now but faintly lighted by the dying embers in a great ill-ventilated fireplace. Rude, sail-like hangings along the walls rippled in the wind that found its way through.Data dostępności:
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Jezebel’s Daughter – ebook
Wilkie Collins
The heroine of the novel, Mina, the only daughter of Madame de Fontaine, is in love with Fritz. But Fritz’s father is opposed to his son’s marriage and believes that Mina and her mother encroached on the family’s wealth. Suddenly, the groom’s father, Mr. Koehler, falls ill, and Madame de Fontaine gives the sick man a miraculous medicine. She cures him of a fatal illness. But this medicine turns out...Data dostępności:
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The Stoat – ebook
Lynn Brock
We meet a man named Margesson, who suffers from a mentally ill wife and two harmful children. Unfortunately, Margesson will soon not only die, but also his offspring. Traveling to Ireland – the author was Irish – plays a decisive role in understanding the strange sequence of events that are deeply rooted in the past. The darkness of Brock’s books is more fashionable these days than when they were written,...Data dostępności:
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A Passionate Pilgrim – ebook
Henry James
The narrator meets the American Clement Searle in a London hotel. Searle had long wanted to move to England, to run away from the routine of his life. However, he is physically ill and depressed because his lawyer cannot support his claim for a share in the out-of-town property currently owned by Richard Searle. The narrator and the main character are trying to solve this problem.Data dostępności:
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Beatrice – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
Beatrice is one of the most emotional works written by Henry Rider Haggard. There are no crazy adventures, frightening battles or supernatural events, but there is everything for the soul, for easy reading. It tells of the ill-fated love between Beatrice Granger, an unmarried Welsh teacher, and Jeffrey Bingham, a wretchedly married lawyer who lives in London. It all starts after Beatrice saved Jeffrey’s...Data dostępności:
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Polowanie na mafię – ebook
Alfonso Sabella
Wspomnienia jednej z najskuteczniejszych osób zwalczających włoską mafię Sycylia, lata dziewięćdziesiąte. Na czele prokuratury w Palermo staje Gian Carlo Caselli. Na jednego ze swoich podwładnych mianuje on młodego, niestroniącego od wykorzystywania nowinek technologicznych i uciekającego się do przeróżnych sztuczek prokuratora Alfonso Sabellę, który szybko staje się jednym z najbardziej znanych...Data dostępności:
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