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Old-Ugly Face

Talbot Mundy

The Tibetan lama, with a great sense of joy, leads two people from the west to enlightenment, fighting with enemies in Tibet in this interesting story of adventure and spiritual discoveries. This is Mundis latest novel, The sequel to the dramatic dragon gates. The Nazi expedition in Tibet is torn apart by American and British agents of the special services.

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Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickenss tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

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Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens großer Roman zieht den Leser bis heute mit Sprachwitz, Spannung und nicht zuletzt mit der schonungslos realistischen Schilderung der Armut im England seiner Zeit in seinen Bann. Oliver Twist ist eines der berühmtesten Kinderbücher der Welt. Der Waisenjunge Oliver Twist wächst in kläglich Elend auf. Er kommt zu einem Leichenbestatter in die Lehre, flieht ohne einen Pfennig nach London und gerät in die Fänge des Hehlers Fagin, der eine Bande jugendlicher Taschendiebe anführt. Er gerät mitten hinein in die Welt des Verbrechens. Doch Oliver trifft auch auf liebenswerte Menschen, die Mitleid mit ihm haben und ihm helfen. Und schließlich kommt Erstaunliches über seine Herkunft ans Licht.

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Oliwer Twist

Karol Dickens

Powieść Oliwer Twist to dzieło ukazujące życie XIX-wiecznego społeczeństwa angielskiego i prawa nim rządzące. Tytułowy bohater jest sierotą. Wraz z innymi pozbawionymi rodziny dziećmi został umieszczony w sierocińcu. Cierpi tam głód i zimno. Nieludzkie traktowanie dzieci z przytułku niejednokrotnie kończy się dla nich śmiercią. Oliwer, któremu udało się przeżyć mimo wszystko, w dniu swoich dziewiątych urodzin zostaje zabrany do kolejnego przytułku. Ma w nim zdobyć wykształcenie i nauczyć się pożytecznego rzemiosła. Tu także jest głodzony i poniewierany. Gdy pewnego dnia prosi o dokładkę, zostaje wyrzucony i odtąd musi sobie radzić sam. Naturalną koleją rzeczy chłopiec trafia do środowiska przestępczego, gdzie uczy się, jak przetrwać i walczyć o swoje...

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Om. The Secret of Ahbor Valley

Talbot Mundy

An expedition in the 1920s is looking for a lost tribe in India, sacred Lamu and jade, which has magical properties. Very interesting fairy-tale story, so rich in details, that comes a sense of presence in India a hundred years ago.

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Omoo. A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Herman Melville

At the beginning of the book about the wanderings on the ship. The way Melville describes everything is indescribably delightful. With amazingly alluring tongue, he knows all readers life on board the ship, the relationship between the crew. Later, when the main character and his friend appeared in Tahiti, he describes the life of the islanders, how they spend their daily lives, and how modern civilization comes to them, trying to adjust them to themselves, to remove them from their centuries-old everyday life.

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On the Makaloa Mat

Jack London

The storybook On the Makaloa Mat tells the story of the lives of natives and whites in the Hawaiian Islands. The story, which gave the name to this brilliant collection, is considered one of the best works about love in world literature. Each story has common features: firstly, they all describe some side of life in the Hawaiian Islands, and secondly, these are all the memories of old people, or people close to them in age, wise by experience. And, of course, the local flavor, customs, features of native life, their adaptation and survival after the arrival of whites all this is written simply amazing.

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One Clear Call

Ladbroke Black

This novel is an amazing mixture of adventure, romance and political intrigue. Roosevelts most trusted spy must flee for his life by escaping into the European countryside.