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The Devil-Tree of El Dorado – ebook
Frank Aubrey
Frank Aubrey was a pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-science fiction pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. The first and most successful of the three was „The Devil Tree of El Dorado: A Romance of British Guiana”, which capitalized on the contemporary interest in the Roraima Plateau lying athwart the disputed border...Data dostępności:
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She and Allan – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
Ayesha is an example of a strong and stately woman. It is a 2000-year-old woman who still looks amazing for her age, rules the tribes in Africa. Despite the unwelcome arrival of the British on her land. She extends a helping hand to them. Suddenly, she falls in love with one of the researchers of this group. But can such love be?Data dostępności:
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Potwory północnoamerykańskich jezior – ebook
Nathan Ballingrud
Zbiór nominowany do nagród World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award i Bram Stoker Award. Serial telewizyjny na jego podstawie, z udziałem Kaitlyn Dever, Kelly Marie Tran, Jonathana Tuckera, Taylor Schilling i innych, jest dostępny na platformie Hulu. Nagrodzony Shirley Jackson Award zbiór opowieści gotyckich i niesamowitych Ballingruda bada najmroczniejsze i najbardziej samotne zakamarki współczesnego...Data dostępności:
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Animal Farm – ebook
George Orwell
An ironic and at the same time sad story about the desecration of the ideas of socialism by tyrants, is told by the author in the form of a fairy tale, where the animals of an ordinary British farm act as people. Every animal and every bird is a socio-political type. The events in the book will remind the reader of the history of the Soviet state. Here we see events starting from the revolution and...Data dostępności:
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Glorious Apollo – ebook
Elizabeth Louisa Moresby
E. Barrington is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Louisa Moresby, a British-born novelist who became the first prolific, female fantasy writer in Canada. She wrote very quickly, attributing her productivity to her sparse vegetarian diet and Buddhist habits of mental discipline; her best-selling fictional biography of Byron, „Glorious Apollo”, took only one month to complete. A bestseller in the 1920s, „Glorious...Data dostępności:
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The Radium Seekers – ebook
Fenton Ash
Early science fiction, a cult classic, an enjoyable adventure. The story opens when our hero and his friends go to South America to look for radium, which has anti-gravity properties, and battle with a race of cruel Inca-type people who use the radium to fly, and disguise themselves as giant birds and terrorize the locals. „The Radium Seekers” is a fairly good novel written by Frank Aubrey. Francis...Data dostępności:
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A Studio Mystery – ebook
Frank Aubrey
Weird mystery with rationalized supernaturalism featuring private detective Matthew Grimlock. „A Studio Mystery” is a secret, and there is not much of a secret about the murder of the artist Arnold. The suspicions of the reader fall at once on Gustave. There is a certain ingenuity, however, in the working out of the motive of the crime. Altogether, „A Studio Mystery” is a fairly good specimen of its...Data dostępności:
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In Polar Seas – ebook
Fenton Ash
The works of Fenton Ash are highly prized among bibliophile collectors of classic sci-fi and fantasy. Fenton Ash was a pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-science fiction pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. „In Polar Seas” is a romance of adventure in the frozen North, targeted mainly at juvenile readers but billed...Data dostępności:
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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat – ebook
Ernest Bramah
The Kai Lung books are really short-story collections, whose disparate, rambling tales are knitted together by framing narratives featuring the eponymous travelling storyteller. The third in Bramah’s Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. „Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat”, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his...Data dostępności:
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Burza piaskowa – audiobook
James Rollins
Spektakularny wybuch Eksplozja w British Museum niszczy bezcenne dzieła sztuki z Półwyspu Arabskiego. Zgodnie z oficjalną wersją, doszło do niej w wyniku uderzenia pioruna kulistego. Nie potwierdzają tego jednak wyniki specjalistycznych badań zrujnowanych eksponatów: metal i drewno wykazują promieniowanie podobne do tego, z jakim zetknięto się podczas uderzenia w Ziemię meteorytu tunguskiego. Tajemnicza...Data dostępności:
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