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The Second Deluge – ebook
Garrett P. Serviss
The protagonist is a rich scientist who predicts the onset of a new flood due to the passage of the Earth through a nebula. Instead of panic, people had laughter, because no one believed in his words. They thought he was crazy. While everyone was laughing, the mad scientist built the ark. The rains did not stop. The world is sinking, but will the main character survive?Data dostępności:
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – ebook
Mark Twain
A chance meeting in the Warwick Castle leads to an unusual acquaintance. An American who was born and raised in Connecticut shares his diary, which describes in detail his journey to England in the VI century. Darkness and horror, hunger and poverty – the main companions of the time. Wild laws, the incredible power of the church and the nobility, unlimited faith in words. Absolutely implausible, but...Data dostępności:
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The Gods of Bal-Sagoth – ebook
Robert E. Howard
...Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, two sailors find traces of a lost civilization – and memories of their own impossible part in it! ...The „last words” of an operatic tenor bring the music of hell to the man who destroyed him....Turlogh O’Brien, mighty Gaelic warrior who serves no master but gold and blood, battles for a kingdom against the fearful ancient gods of Bal-Sagoth. All together for...Data dostępności:
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Skin and Bones – ebook
Thorne Smith
Thorne Smith’s imaginative novel „Skin and Bones” takes the concept of suffering for one’s art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself; in other words, him found himself...Data dostępności:
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The Mirror of Kong Ho – ebook
Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah was an English author who wrote popular books in many different genres including humor, detective fiction and science fiction. A lively and amusing collection of letters sent from a highly bemused Chinaman sojourning amongst the English barbarians in the first decade of the 19th century to his revered father back home, with a view to coming to grips with their inferior culture, which...Data dostępności:
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Madame Bovary – ebook
Gustave Flaubert
„Madame Bovary” is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, often considered his masterpiece. Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband Charles Bovary in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life...Data dostępności:
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The Voyage Out – ebook
Virginia Woolf
Rachel Vinrace sets out on a voyage from the confines of her home in England, where she is raised by her spinster aunts, to the exotic coast of South America in the early twentieth century. But more than just the physical journey from one shore to another, „The Voyage Out” is a story of the transformation of this essentially unworldly girl to a more self-possessed woman in love with the seemingly enlightened...Data dostępności:
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The Woman in White – ebook
Wilkie Collins
Often considered one of the first mystery novels, The Woman In White follows protagonist Walter Hartright, an art teacher, as he has a mysterious late night encounter on a London street with a lost woman, dressed all in white, who he later finds out had escaped from an asylum. The figure of this woman and the words they exchanged during their meeting come to haunt Walter, even as he accepts a job at...Data dostępności:
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Gdzie się podziałeś, Buzzie Aldrinie? – ebook
Johan Harstad
Rok 1999. Ostatni rok przed wkroczeniem ludzkości w nowe tysiąclecie. Mattias przyszedł na świat trzydzieści lat wcześniej, w noc pierwszego lądowania człowieka na Księżycu. Pracuje jako ogrodnik, a jego największym marzeniem jest nieprzeszkadzanie nikomu, pozostanie anonimowym trybikiem w wielkiej maszynerii wszechświata. Od ośmiu lat jest z tą samą dziewczyną, ma pracę, którą kocha, oraz wielkie...Data dostępności:
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Motörhead. Ochlejmordy i zadymiarze – ebook
Martin Popoff
Opowieść o początkach Motörhead. „Gramy muzykę do tańca, ale za szybko, żeby dało się do niej tańczyć” Dla hardkorowych fanów Motörhead i dla każdego, kto oddycha rock’n’rollem! Najlepszy skład Motörhead - Ian „ Lemmy ” Kilmister, „ Fast ” Eddie Clarke i Phil „ Philthy Animal ” Taylor. Piekło, które wywołali na scenie...Data dostępności:
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