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Satanstoe, or, the Littlepage Manuscripts. A Tale of the Colony

James Fenimore Cooper

This novel combines nostalgic autobiographical memories and social philosophy. The author gives a comprehensive view of colonial life and society in the state of New York in the mid-eighteenth century, blending all these elements with storytelling skill.

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Życiorys własny przestępcy

Urke Nachalnik

Urke Nachalnik, właśc. Icek Boruch Farbarowicz, to przedwojenny autor kryminałów pochodzenia żydowskiego. Związany był z przestępczym półświatkiem, skąd zaczerpnął swój pseudonim literacki. Podczas wieloletniego pobytu w więzieniu z powodzeniem przekuwał swoje gangsterskie doświadczenia na literaturę. Życiorys własny przestępcy z 1920 roku to powieść oparta na wątkach autobiograficznych. Znalazła ona kontynuację w tomie Żywe grobowce z 1934 roku. Pisarską karierę Nachalnika przerwał wybuch II wojny światowej.

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Billy Angel, Trouble Lover

Max Brand

Max Brand (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was killed while serving in Italy. Billy Angel, Trouble Lover is the rare pulp Western story from the womans point of view. Mr. Brand writes a fair romance story too. Packed with enough action and romance to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the novel also addresses a wide range of important themes with insight and sensitivity.

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All for Adventure

Fenton Ash

Fenton Ash is the first and main pseudonym of UK civil engineer and author Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927) who was a writer of pulp fiction, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers. He wrote under the pseudonyms Frank Aubrey and Fenton Ash. All for Adventure fantasy adventure would suit anyone interested in old fantasy novels for children and young people.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

George Orwells novel 1984 is one of the best dystopian novels. Winston Smith, male, 39, works for the Ministry of Truth. Smiths job is to change the facts. If a person objectionable to the party appears, then you need to erase information about him, and rewrite some facts properly. Society must follow the laws of the Party and support its policy. The main character only pretends that his ideals coincide with the ideas in the party, but in fact he fiercely hates her politics.

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The Neer-Do-Well

Rex Beach

Father often asked Kirk Anthony to do a real job. But Anthony, despite almost idolizing his strong, successful father, just cant stop having a good time with his fathers money. He goes to fancy dinners, drives the latest cars, and treats his friends to sumptuous meals. Then a man steps in trying to get away from the law. At dinner, he persuades one of Anthonys drunken friends to play a terrible joke on him.

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LHomme qui rit

Victor Hugo

Un livre qui coupe le souffle... Un enfant est trouvé sur une plage anglaise. Il sappelle Gwynplaine. Il et un bébé (dont la mere morte de froid) se menent jusqu un bateleur qui voit que Gwynplaine a été mutilé, atrocement défiguré. Pour les faire vivre, lhomme montera un spectacle mettant en scene lorphelin. Lenfant est alors connu sous le nom de LHomme qui Rit.... lhistoire du monstre avec un beaux coeur, comme dans Notre-Dame de Paris.

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

An exquisite novel in which times of action are mixed and intertwined, and the summer spent by the wealthy Ramsey family on the Isle of Skye turns out to be a kind of British chronicle of lost time a fragile, almost idyllic time, doomed to be destroyed soon by the First World War. Children will grow up someone will survive and grow up, someone will lay their heads on the battlefields. Small failures and grievances will be forgotten. The old house will be abandoned, the garden will grow. But will the dream of a trip to a distant lighthouse come true even for one of Ramseys children? ..

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The Old London Merchant. A Sketch

William Harrison Ainsworth

At that festival time, when the days are the shortest and the nights the longest, and when, therefore, it is the invariable practice of all intelligent men to turn night into day; when the ratio of business and pleasure is clearly in favor of the latter; when a magnificent carnival is held in London, and everything testifies to the predominance and influence of good humor.

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Tom Sawyer Abroad

Mark Twain

The adventures of Tom Sawyer continue. This time, the fidget Tom decides to go abroad to get rich and become independent. Toms friends also dream about it, and he quickly gathers around him who want to keep him company. So, the boys go on a long journey...

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Kirgiz. Powieść

Gustaw Zieliński

Kirgiz to romantyczna powieść poetycka, pełna nawiązań do takich dzieł jak mickiewiczowskie Sonety krymskie czy Maria Malczewskiego oraz twórczości Byrona, Puszkina czy Lermontowa. Stanowi ukazaną w orientalnym kostiumie apologię wolności oraz dychotomię miłości i zemsty. Gustaw Zieliński należał do drugiego pokolenia romantyków polskich i tzw. ukraińskiej szkoły poetów. Był uczestnikiem powstania listopadowego i zesłańcem syberyjskim.

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The Face and the Doctor

Max Brand

The Face and the Doctor is another short story by Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This story filled with excitement, suspense, good guys and bad, and plot twists aplenty! Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was killed while serving in Italy. Faust wrote more than 500 novels and over 400 short stories & novellas using twenty pseudonyms, including George Owen Baxter, George Challis, Evan Evans, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning & Peter Morland.

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The Years

Virginia Woolf

The action of the novel Years, one of the most significant works of W. Woolf, takes place over fifty years from the 1880s to the mid 30s of the twentieth century. Victorian traditions are breaking down, cars and planes are appearing, the First World War is covering Europe... All this serves as the backdrop for the family saga the history of the Pargiter family: Colonel Abel Pargiter, his wife, lover, seven children, their wives, husbands, numerous relatives...

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Wiersze. Wybór

Stanisław Wyspiański

Stanisław Wyspiański, nazywany czwartym polskim wieszczem, tworzył w epoce Młodej Polski. Sławę i uznanie przyniosła mu twórczość zarówno malarska, jak i literacka. Tworzył liczne dramaty, utrzymane w duchu romantycznym i patriotycznym, pod wieloma względami nowatorskie. Zebrane w tomie wiersze Wyspiańskiego pokazują jego mniej znane, liryczne oblicze.

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Doctor Izard

Anna Katharine Green

Mary Earles mother passed away and then her father disappeared when she was very young. Now, after many years, being adult and not having her own money in her youth, she receives a rather large amount of money. Who wished this money and why? Of course, in this small town in Massachusetts there is a secret that happened many years ago!

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The Four Stragglers

Frank L. Packard

Written in 1923, this thrilling novel by the thrilling author of the Adventures of Jimmy Dale, teems with intrigue and unforgettable characters. The Four Stragglers is a war story with rockets flaring in the heavens, guns crashing, four men on the battlefield and they meet again afterwards amid mysteries and still greater thrills. In the beginning we meet four allied soldiers, who found themselves lost behind the enemy lines. When story moves on, three of them are running high-class international burglary organization running scams in England and France. They stumble upon the great opportunity to make a big score in one action, and it leads to a complex and thrilling journey to the USA.