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The Saving Clause – ebook
H.C. McNeile
A collection of nine superb Sapper stories. Of course, in the stories are present Ronald Standish and Bulldog Drummond. Two indispensable hero. They again take up their lovely deal, begin to solve various crimes. They are crazy in their own business. Detectives are so obsessed with crime that they are ready to do anything.Data dostępności:
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The Silver Thorn – ebook
Hugh Walpole
This is an exciting collection of 15 stories. Indeed, there are some who are very good – there is a sad and exciting „Silly old fool” about a canon who believes that a woman cares for him, and „Engraving” sees how an obsessed husband goes against his wife’s desires, collecting engravings. Other great stories are Little Donkeys with Raspberry Saddles, gentle Chinese Horses about two women and a man,...Data dostępności:
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Ethan Frome – ebook
Edith Wharton
In the early years of the 20th century, life on a farm in Massachusetts is not easy. The New England winters are hard; snow and ice cover the fields for months, and the nights are long and cold. For a poor farmer like Ethan Frome, life has few bright moments. He works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But...Data dostępności:
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The Adventures of a Suburbanite – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
A city man moves to the suburbs with humorous results – gardening, automobiling, and golfing become new avocations. The book „The Adventures of a Suburbanite” includes two chapters on golf: „The Royal Game” and „Advanced Golf.” The subjects of humor in this book are mostly the two neighbors’ opposing opinions about all aspects of domestic and rural life, the gardening, and a variety of slapstick troubles...Data dostępności:
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The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
„The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown” is an 1896 novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. Following the apparent murder of a man, a novelist comes under suspicion. Very enjoyable period piece with lovely descriptions and intense love between hero and heroine. He has to clear his name, as main suspect in a murder and he had sworn revenge and had taken an assumed name. Flashbacks to Italy. Full...Data dostępności:
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The Golden Beast – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was the earliest writer of spy fiction as understood today, inventing the „rogue male” school of adventure thrillers and writing over 150 novels of all sorts. In „The Golden Beast”, a woman curses her lover’s father, a baron, who had her gamekeeper father hanged. Years afterward, three of the baron’s descendants disappear in a manner that baffles Scotland Yard,...Data dostępności:
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The Girl with the Golden Eyes – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
„The Girl with the Golden Eyes” is the third part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled „Ferragus” and part two is „The Duchesse de Langeais”. The three stories are frequently combined under the title „The Thirteen”. It tells the story of a rich and ruthless young man in nineteenth century Paris caught up in an amorous entanglement with a mysterious beauty. Henri de Marsay, a young dandy who is obsessed...Data dostępności:
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Lord Jim – ebook
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim, Conrad’s most famous work, is also his most extensive examination of a persistent theme: the conflict between an individual’s inner moral code and his or her outward actions. Jim, the well-loved son of an English parson, goes to sea to make a name for himself. With his youthful, romantic aspirations for the sea, he is physically powerful; he has „Ability in the abstract.” Throughout Conrad’s...Data dostępności:
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Sexy Bastard 2 – ebook
Eve Jagger
Drugi tom ekscytującej serii o niepokornych mężczyznach autorstwa bestsellerowej Eve Jagger Kiedy Cash Gardner widzi kobietę, od razu wie, czego by się napiła i co mógłby z nią robić w łóżku. Ten najgorętszy barman w Atlancie ma perfekcyjnie opanowane dwie umiejętności – serwowanie kolorowych drinków i dziki seks. Młoda i ambitna prawniczka Savannah szuka prawdziwej miłości. Gdy wchodzi do...Data dostępności:
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Jądro ciemności - Heart of Darkness – ebook
Joseph Conrad przeł. Aniela Zagórska
Jądro ciemności (tytuł oryginalny Heart of Darkness) - opowiadanie Josepha Conrada jest powszechnie uważane za znaczące dzieło dla angielskiej literatury i część kanonu kultury zachodniej.Ta niewielkich rozmiarów książka jest uważana za jedno z najważniejszych dzieł (obok Lorda Jima i Nostromo) w dorobku pisarza. Doczekała się adaptacji filmowej i stała się inspiracją dla innych twórców. Jądro ciemności...Data dostępności:
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