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The Hesitation of Miss Anderson – ebook
Sara Jeannette Duncan
Duncan Sara Jeannette has written 22 works of fiction, many with international themes. The main characters have certain freedoms living among the limits of the Empire. The resulting stories combine a sophistication of manner and movement that is reminiscent of Henry James.Data dostępności:
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The Redskins, or, Indian and Injin – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
The unfolding struggle for land in North America prompted Cooper to write a series of novels about the life and fate of large landowners. The main character, American Hedges Littlepage, and his elderly uncle have been living in Europe for a long time. But suddenly events begin in America that force them to go on a long journey, to their homeland.Data dostępności:
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The Chainbearer – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
This is a historical saga about the fate of three generations of the Littlepage family living in the New World. The novel tells about the people who heroically and bravely mastered the lands of the Wild West, as well as the tragic fate of the indigenous people of America – the Indians. Under the onslaught of aliens and the advancing civilization, they had to give up their lands.Data dostępności:
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Son of the White Wolf – ebook
Robert E. Howard
Francis Xavier Gordon was a living legend in the Middle and Far East. The boars called him El Borac, „Swift,” the title earned by his awkward abilities with a gun, a knife and a sword. Now, the mighty El Borak must stretch its forces to prevent the Turkish uprising, protect the hermits from murders and stop the dangerous amir without allowing him to seize control over India.Data dostępności:
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The Short Stop – ebook
Zane Grey
This is a small baseball story about a good young man who does his best to make a living. He has a widow and brother with disabilities. An interesting understanding of the history of early baseball. A bit of romance, a bit of an intrigue, basically a baseball and a pure search for a place in life. It was first published in 1909.Data dostępności:
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The Adventures of a Modest Man – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
The narrator is a widower with two daughters, living happily into a rather troubling middle age and pushing away his daughter’s suitors so that his daughters would live with him a little longer. A younger neighbor persuades him to buy a pig and then bets that the boredom of life has so eclipsed his intelligence that he won’t be smart enough to stop someone from stealing it. If the narrator loses the...Data dostępności:
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Manalive – ebook
G.K. Chesterton
Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton’s works, „Manalive” follows the fun loving Innocent Smith who, after bringing joy to a boarding house, is charged with a series of crimes. Later accused even of murder and denounced for philandering everywhere he goes, Smith prompts his newfound acquaintances to recognize an important idea in most unexpected ways. In this delightfully strange mystery,...Data dostępności:
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Last Post – ebook
Ford Madox Hueffer
First published in 1928, „Last Post” is part four of Ford Madox Ford’s hugely successful „Parade’s End” tetralogy. It is about Christopher Tietjens and his life, with World War I as the backdrop. This book is set during a few hours of a day in June, where Tietjens is making a living as a dealer of old furniture. The series has taken the reader from before the war, to during it, and this final novel...Data dostępności:
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A Queen of Atlantis – ebook
Frank Aubrey
Frank Aubrey, the author of „The Devil Tree of Eldorado,” has ventured again to write a wild and romantic tale of adventure. „A Queen of Atlantis” is the second of his trilogy of novels. This story relates the discovery of a telepathic race living in the Sargasso Sea. A wonderful tale of the mythical continent, told with outstanding imaginative ingenuity, chronicling the adventures of the near-immortal...Data dostępności:
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying – ebook
George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a bitter, ironic novel. The protagonist is Gordon Comstock, an unrecognized poet, failed writer, forced to work in an advertising agency to earn a living. He has a real talent for composing slogans, but his work inspires him with disgust, it seems to be a caricature of literary creativity. He despises material values and the vulgarity of the everyday way of life, the symbol...Data dostępności:
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