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One of Ours – ebook
Willa Cather
This is the story of a young man who strives with all his might to free himself from the oppressive patriarchal atmosphere of life in the Midwest. The hero rejects the fate destined for him and chooses military adventures in France during the First World War.Data dostępności:
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To the Last Man – ebook
Zane Grey
Imagine if Romeo and Juliet were set among the sheep ranching families of Arizona. Add in a heavy dash of frontier action and adventure, and that neatly sums up the plot of Zane Grey’s „To the Last Man”, which follows a blossoming romance among members of feuding clans in the vast open plains of the Wild West. „To the Last Man” is the story of Arizona’s Pleasant Valley War, one of the most legendary...Data dostępności:
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Child of Storm – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
Allan Quatermain helps his friend from Zulu Saduko win 100 cattle to buy his real love for Mameena. However, Mameena wants to marry another man – Allan Quatermain. This is a first-class adventure with increasing intrigue that will interest the reader. The story, where everything is combined: war, politics and sex.Data dostępności:
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The Case of the Man in the Shroud – ebook
Max Brand
In a sinister cabaret the dancing feet of Anthony Hamilton tap out a message of life or death for an uncrowned czar. Anthony Hamilton, head of the U.S. counter-espionage service, flew to Monte Carlo when it was rumored that the Number One secret service agent of Japan, Henri de Graulchier, was planning a coup that would bring on another World War. „"The Case of the Man in the Shroud"” is a novelette...Data dostępności:
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A Man Could Stand Up – ebook
Ford Madox Hueffer
1926. A Novel. The third in a series that includes „Some Do Not” and „No More Parades”. It chronicles the life of Christopher Tietjens, „the last Tory”, a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. The novel opens on Armistice Day and follows the fortunes of Tietjens and Valentine Wannop, until their paths finally cross...Data dostępności:
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Tender Is the Night – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, „Tender Is the Night” is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver who marries one of his patients, a wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgerald’s words, un homme épuisé („a used-up man”). The novel explores how love can be won, lost, and perverted...Data dostępności:
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Robbers’ Roost – ebook
Zane Grey
A classic story of imperiled love on the western frontiers of nineteenth-century America. Jim Tex Wall is searching for three men who killed his wife and stole his horses and finds them working for a gang of cattle rustlers engaged in a turf war with a rival gang of outlaws. Finding his horses he joins the gang that are now riding them. Caught in the battle between the gangs when one double-crosses...Data dostępności:
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Spirit of the Border – ebook
Zane Grey
This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories, the novel is the second in a trilogy. It deals with historical characters and incidents in the Ohio Valley in the late 18th century, especially with the foundation of Gnaddenhutten, a missionary village intended to bring Christianity to the Indians of Ohio, despite the violent opposition of both Indians...Data dostępności:
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No More Parades – ebook
Ford Madox Hueffer
Despite his intellectual brilliance, successful career, and sizeable inheritance, Christopher Tietjens is a largely unhappy man. Tortured by his wife’s open infidelity, caught up in his own heated affair, Tietjens attempts to put his past behind him by volunteering to fight for his country. Tragic and emotionally piercing, „No More Parade’s” by Ford Madox Ford, is a story of romance, war and betrayal...Data dostępności:
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The Pilot – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
In The Pilot (1824), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Bold, vigorous, original, it is a tale of high adventure that vividly captures the majesty and power of the seafaring life. Cooper drew on his direct knowledge of ships and sailors to present a truer picture of life on the sea than had ever before achieved in literature. As a boy of seventeen he had experienced...Data dostępności:
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