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Lucy Gayheart

Willa Cather

Lucy Gayheart is well known in her small Nebraska town for her great looks, energy and piano playing. Everyone assumes that she will marry the son of banker Harry Gordon, including Harry, but at 18 she goes to Chicago to study piano and ends up making money accompanying the famous international vocalist when he spends time in Chicago. Her life, other peoples lives and peoples expectations changed forever.

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Suspicion Aroused

Dick Donovan

This collection dates from 1893 and includes 13 short stories written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. Many of Muddocks mystery stories feature the character Dick Donovan, a Glasgow Detective, named for one of the 18th Century Bow Street Runners. The character was so popular that later stories were published under this pen name. Muddock also wrote true crime stories, horror, and 37 novels, most as Dick Donovan.

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Lady in Chain Mail

Henry Bedford-Jones

Written in the cycle of tales by H. Bedford-Jones, Lady in Chain Mail continues amazing series about the Sphinx Emerald. From the hand of a dead Mameluke after the battle of the Pyramids, a civilian scientist with Napoleons army took the Sphinx Emerald... and though the Mamelukes militant daughter offered to buy back the gem at a price high indeed, swift tragedy followed.

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A Man Could Stand Up

Ford Madox Hueffer

1926. A Novel. The third in a series that includes Some Do Not and No More Parades. It chronicles the life of Christopher Tietjens, the last Tory, a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. The novel opens on Armistice Day and follows the fortunes of Tietjens and Valentine Wannop, until their paths finally cross again in post-war London.

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Markiza Pompadour, miłośnica królewska. Romans historyczny

Leo Belmont

Leo Belmont to żyjący w latach 19851941 polski eseista, znawca i tłumacz literatury francuskiej i rosyjskiej oraz poeta. Pisywał liczne romanse w konwencji historycznej, które z dreszczykiem sensacji opisywały romanse koronowanych głów. W powieści Markiza Pompadour, miłośnica królewska opowiada o życiu jednej z najbardziej znanych i najbardziej kontrowersyjnych kobiet XVIII wieku metresie króla Francji Ludwika XV oraz protektorce artystów, pisarzy i filozofów.

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Nie igra się z miłością. Komedia w trzech aktach

Alfred de Musset

Dramat miłosny rozgrywający się pomiędzy synem barona Oktawem, Kamilą, jego wychowaną w klasztorze siostrzenicą, oraz jej mleczną siostrą Rozalką. Zgodnie z wolą rodziców Oktaw i Kamila mają się pobrać. Jednak kobieta opiera się zalotom, nauczona w klasztorze, że mężczyźni przynoszą tylko ból i cierpienie. Oktaw przenosi więc swoje zainteresowanie na Rozalkę, która zostaje wykorzystana do miłosnej gry, ostatecznie zakończonej wielką tragedią.

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The Invisible Foe

Louise Jordan Miln

Nothing could be more characteristic of these three children than their current occupation. Stephen usually watched the birds fly when he left the house, and the birds could be seen. And the only time his uncle Richard ever laid his hand on an orphan boy was when Stephen, three months after his arrival in the Dale Dale, opened his cage and lost Elena his pet, all because he wanted to see how he flies.

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In the Days of Drake

Joseph Smith Fletcher

This is a short story about a young English boy whose cousin is kidnapped by a Spanish nobleman. He ends up in Mexico and finds himself on a galley bound for Spain. Francis Drake raids a galley and rescues British slaves, bringing them back to England.

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Ramshackle House

Hulbert Footner

Traveling through southern Florida, a New Yorker Don Counsel is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is holding the real killer captive on his yacht while detectives are searching for Counsel. Meanwhile a young Pen Broome tries to help Counsel out. Rievers men find Counsel and trap him in a ballast bulkhead, but Pen rescues him. Will Counsel be able to prove his innocence?

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Małe kobietki

Louisa May Alcott

Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w latach 60. XIX wieku w miejscowości Concord w stanie Massachusetts. Podczas gdy ojciec rodziny walczy w wojnie secesyjnej, jego cztery córki Jo, Meg, Amy i Beth zostały w domu z matką. Jest to opowieść o dorastaniu, poszukiwaniu miłości oraz odnalezieniu swojego miejsca na świecie. Książka zdobyła ogromne powodzenie. O jej sukcesie zadecydowała przede wszystkim sprawnie skonstruowana fabuła, przekonująco naszkicowane postacie i zabawne, z dużym dowcipem opisane sytuacje.

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Agnes Grey. A Novel

Anne Brontë

This story is about a girl whose family has lost everything. Despite his young age, Agnes makes an important decision for himself and his family to go to work as a governess. Those close, at first discouraging a young girl, but understanding her resolve, do not resist her impulse. The work of a governess is not an easy job, Agnes Gray on her way gets acquainted with the life, traditions and way of life of different families. Her students are not always obedient and diligent, so the girl has to put up with various difficulties.

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Zbójcy. Dramat w pięciu aktach

Fryderyk Schiller

Zbójcy to jeden z najwcześniejszych dramatów niemieckiego poety Friedricha Schillera. Hrabia Moor na skutek intrygi uknutej przez jego syna Franciszka wydziedzicza drugiego syna Karola. Ten postanawia dołączyć do bandy zbójców grasujących w Lesie Czeskim, a po pewnym czasie zostaje ich przywódcą. Wskutek kolejnych niecnych poczynań swojego brata postanawia powrócić na zamek, aby dokonać zemsty.

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Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré

George Sand

Le Novelle George Sand Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré fait référence aux meilleures uvres de la derniere période de son travail. Laction se déroule au début du XVIIe siecle. Marquis de Bois-Dore, ancien compagnon fidele dHenri IV, sest retiré apres la mort du roi et a profité paisiblement de la vie dans son château. Mais pour un homme qui a une jeunesse orageuse derriere les épaules, il est difficile de rester immobile. Autour du marquis de temps en temps, tournez lintrigue.

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Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories

Maxim Gorky

The poem in prose Twenty-Six and One is based on the writers impressions related to life in Kazan and work in Semenovs bakery. Gorky considers the image of a tramp, revealing its negative qualities. The work tells about twenty-six bakers, attitude, feelings, the behavior of which is presented by the author as the attitude of one person. This is achieved by using Gorky a huge number of pronouns we are all

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Płomienie

Stanisław Brzozowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim to dwutomowa powieść Stanisława Brzozowskiego z 1908 r. Przesycona intelektualizmem, rysuje ideową panoramę przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Z uwagi na krytykę kapitalizmu, tradycjonalizmu, ziemiańskiego konserwatyzmu i klerykalizmu długie lata stanowiła powieść kultową dla lewicującej młodzieży. W emocjonalny sposób odwoływała się do historii polskich i rosyjskich rewolucjonistów i wchodziła w polemikę z Biesami Dostojewskiego.

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The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, first published in 1922, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage of would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As they await the inheritance of his grandfathers fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice and disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness...

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All the Sad Young Men

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 follow the completion of his most recent novel, which was The Great Gatsby.

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The Reckoning

Robert W. Chambers

It is historical fiction set during the Revolutionary War in northern New England. The protagonist has been a spy in New York for a long time and then uses his intimate knowledge of Native American Indians to aid the war effort during the latter part of the war.

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Воительница (Wojownik). Очерк

Николай Семёнович Лесков, Nikołaj Siemionowicz Leskow

Домна Платоновна миловидная женщина, маленького роста, крупной комплекции, и с тяжелым характером. Живет она в столице, но родом из Мценска 2013 небольшого городка Орловской губернии. Ни про кого она не могла сказать доброго слова, все у нее были подлецами и мерзавцами. Те женщины, которым она когда-то помогла в очень щекотливом деле, в будущем начинали ее ненавидеть. Но Домна Платоновна не унывала, ненавидящим ее она воздавала сторицей, и продолжала свое не легкое дело, пристраивала женщин в хорошие руки. Повесть 201eВоительница201d, как и другие работы Н. С. Лескова, а именно 201eЖитие одной бабы201d, 201eЛеди Макбет Мценского уезда201d, посвящены женским судьбам. Самобытность характеров героинь, накал страстей, роковые обстоятельства вызывают глубокое сочувствие читателя, а богатство и разнообразие языка, особая живость рассказа придают убедительность повествованию.

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King of the Dead

Frank Aubrey

Don Lorenzo and Arnold Neville lead separate expeditions to the South American interior whereupon they encounter the exiled king of the underground world. But can Neville help him reclaim his throne when the arch-priestess, Alloyah, raises an army of the dead? The sequel to The Devil-Tree of El Dorado and A Queen of Atlantis, King of the Dead is a novel among the most famous lost race novels written by the British author Frank Aubrey.

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Strong-Hand Saxon. A Boys Adventure With a Canadian Scout in the North-West

T.C. Bridges

The boy knew all too well that his father was fighting to preserve the farm. The land was poor and they had three bad seasons. Unable to even pay for the labor, the farmer Holt and his seventeen-year-old son did almost all the work themselves, and sometimes it was hard work. They would not have known their neighbors, but the beasts themselves in the stables and stables lived better than Holt and his son.

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Pharos, The Egyptian

Guy Boothby

There was a Victorian / Edwardian fascination with evil geniuses. Professor Moriarty, Fu Manchu, Count Fosco, Dracula, Dr. Nicola they and many others were hiding in the shadows, using their magnetism to persuade others to their will and their significant mental gifts for evil purposes. This is an exciting story for those who like the somewhat predictable traditions of late Victorian history.

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Wódz narodu. Powieść z czasów młodości Tadeusza Kościuszki

Jerzy Orwicz

Pod pseudonimem Jerzy Orwicz ukrywała się Natalia Dzierżkówna (18611931) polska poetka, prozaiczka, tłumaczka, malarka i działaczka społeczna. Pochodziła z Podola, w Odessie zaangażowała się w działalność socjalistyczną. Po powrocie z zesłania zamieszkała w Warszawie, gdzie rozwinęła twórczość literacką i malarską. Rozgłos i uznanie przyniosły jej powieści biograficzne o Tadeuszu Kościuszce: Żywot wodza narodu (1909) i Od Dubienki do Racławic (1918).

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Miles Wallingford. Sequel to Afloat and Ashore

James Fenimore Cooper

At the center of one of Coopers most striking nautical novels is the life of the captain of the Dawn ship, full of exciting adventures. Sea brotherhood, battles with pirates, friendship and betrayal, and finally, love that overcomes all obstacles.