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In Search of the Unknown – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
The protagonist narrator serves as a common thread for stories that also feature humor. A young scientist travels the world in the footsteps of mysterious animals. This is an ironic and fantastic adventure of a self-confident biologist.Data dostępności:
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The Shoulders of Atlas – ebook
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A slow paced story of love and self-sacrifice with thoughtful character development. In this novel, the heroine Sylvia is on the verge of receiving a large and unexpected inheritance. But soon an unexpected discovery leads to unexpected consequences as Sylvia dives deeper into family secrets.Data dostępności:
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The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
This volume includes two novels, „The Shadow of a Great Man” and „The Tragedy with Corosco,” as well as historical stories. The Romans, who conquered Britain several hundred years ago, received orders to return to their homeland, besieged by barbarian troops. And at that moment a British deputation came to the Roman governor to ask for self-government.Data dostępności:
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O Pioneers! – ebook
Willa Cather
An American classic about Swedish immigrants in the Midwest. There lived in Nebraska a clever and beautiful woman named Alexandra Bergson, and she had three brothers. The older ones were greedy self-satisfied people, the younger one was a spoiled egoist, and she devoted her whole life to making sure they had a good life. I thought only about crops, livestock and land plots, but I didn’t think about...Data dostępności:
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All the Sad Young Men – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
„All the Sad Young Men” is a collection of nine short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It includes two of his most famous – the beautifully elegiac „The Rich Boy” and „Winter Dreams” which feature wealthy protagonists – the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – who struggle to come to terms with lost love. As with his other collections, its release was timed to...Data dostępności:
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The Life of Timon of Athens – ebook
William Shakespeare
A very instructive story about not doing good is not getting evil. The main character is a tragic personality. At first he loved people with all his soul, who was eager to help them selflessly and ruined as a result of this, in one day he would know all human ingratitude, self-interest and anger. In anger, Timon of Athens kills one of his insulters, for which he is expelled from Athens.Data dostępności:
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Her Reputation – ebook
Talbot Mundy
There are hours of promises, and zero hour; promises initially, which are sometimes even sweeter than their execution. Jacqueline Lanier did not fully realize the time of heyday, and therefore contours of young charm were not tempered by the usual self-affirmation. Therefore, when she was under the care of Desmoe, she knew that between the emotions of gratitude, the philosophy that comes later in life...Data dostępności:
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The Sheriff Rides – ebook
Max Brand
Ernest Pontifex, son of a clergyman, leads a life of disarray. Ernest struggles with orthodoxy, lives in the slums, is thrown into prison, and eventually marries Ellen. Saved by the discovery that Ellen is already married, Ernest received an inheritance, and is able to devote his life to literature, finally winning self-respect and success. One of many recommended Westerns by this prolific author....Data dostępności:
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Clung – ebook
Max Brand
Another great Western by Max Brand aka Frederick Faust, Clung is one his most memorable and intriguing characters. As a Western author, Brand did not shrink from controversial topics such as race relations in the Old West. There is a mystery about the birth of Clung, who is raised by an old Chinese man in a small Arizona town, but none about his skill with weapons. At first he shoots in self-defense,...Data dostępności:
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My Life – ebook
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The theme of the „little man”, which appeared in many of Chekhov’s short stories, was also touched on in the novel „My Life”. The main character, Misail Poloznev, a nobleman by birth, becomes a simple worker. In order to live the way he wants, he breaks with his father. He is opposed to lies and hypocrisy, namely they, in his opinion, reign among the intelligentsia. The quote of the old house painter...Data dostępności:
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