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White Nights – ebook
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
White Nights - a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. Like many of Dostoyevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He...Data dostępności:
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Notes from Underground – ebook
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground - a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. Notes from Underground is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator...Data dostępności:
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The Joyful Delaneys – ebook
Hugh Walpole
Hugh Walpole skillfully weaves these plot threads and half a dozen others into this increasingly exciting saga. His characters leave the page in a living, breathing color; his descriptions are better than photographs, including sounds, smells, tastes and emotions, as well as vivid visual descriptions; he skillfully plays on our feelings, including us as good colleagues, sharing the views of his fantastic...Data dostępności:
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The Wyvern Mystery – ebook
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
There are two vampires in this story: the traditional bloodsucker Carmilla and the information vampire Laura. Ever since reading Pride and prejudice, she has suspected that a delicate „English rose” is a threat to others. A married-up girl living in the wilderness will complicate the life of anyone, whether you are at least a rich bachelor, even an ancient vampire. Information hunger pushes to terrible...Data dostępności:
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The Live Corpse – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
In the play „The Living Corpse”, the famous Russian writer L.N. Tolstoy appears as a playwright. It is filled with intense psychological collisions, complex images of heroes, ambiguous and with that vitally revealed throughout the whole story. And, as always, the themes of love, kindness and human destiny are in the foreground. The play is based on real events, it was popular at the beginning of the...Data dostępności:
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Tales and Fantasies – ebook
Robert Louis Stevenson
This is a collection of three stories, which includes small tales. So the fairy tale „The Story of a Lie” talks about how, having returned to England after a trip to Paris, young Richard Nasby quarrels with his father. He also reduces acquaintance with Esther, whom he soon falls in love with. Another tale, „The Body Snatcher,” tells how a lonely living in the small town of Fetts accidentally meets...Data dostępności:
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The Glory of Clementina Wing – ebook
William J. Locke
The best novel that Mr. Lock has written since he created his masterpiece. He put all his strength into it... history is a real story with a real plot, real people, real human emotions and real character development. History keeps you from beginning to end. You cannot lay it down. And over this story there is a constant play of that light humor and fantastic fun, which Mr. Locke alone among the living...Data dostępności:
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Before Adam – ebook
Jack London
„Before Adam” is a striking story about our distant Neanderthal ancestors, who are just starting to become aware of themselves as people. According to the plot of the story, the protagonist has dreams in which he „watches a movie” about his adventures in prehistoric times in the person of the Big Tooth boy living with his mother in a nest in a big tree... The author tried to diversify the hero’s dreams...Data dostępności:
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David Blaize and the Blue Door – ebook
E.F. Benson
To forget about the real world – the dream of every person. There are times when you want to feel something fantastic. A little boy had this dream. In a dream, he wanted to see his living parents and enjoy this time. The boys began to experience drowsiness around the time when they were ten years old, although they could still have random waking moments, and soon after that they would fall asleep and...Data dostępności:
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The Shadow of the Dead Hand – ebook
Fred M. White
Roy Kindermere hated one thing more than anything else: the business of „Man from Blankney”, whom he was forced to make a living. He had no choice because he quarreled with the last of his relatives. Mrs. Leverson is ready to pay Roy to attend her party, where guests can meet with the heir of Count Kindale. And Roy, desperate for money, readily joined this scheme.Data dostępności:
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