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Before Adam

Jack London

Before Adam is a striking story about our distant Neanderthal ancestors, who are just starting to become aware of themselves as people. According to the plot of the story, the protagonist has dreams in which he watches a movie about his adventures in prehistoric times in the person of the Big Tooth boy living with his mother in a nest in a big tree... The author tried to diversify the heros dreams with various adventures: problems with his mother, constantly changing husbands; complex relationships between different subspecies of modern people; cruel relationships between people and so on.

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The Bright Pavilions

Hugh Walpole

Bright pavilions the fifth book of a series of six volumes of The Chronicles of Harris. As a historical background, the stormy Elizabethan England, including her enemy Queen of Scots. The story tells how one family shared fidelity and frustrated love. If you like to plunge into history, then this book is for you.

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The Kang-He Vase

J.S. Fletcher

The main character is Ben, a trainee lawyer who survived a difficult childhood and was cured of his illness. However, from childhood into his life, a malevolent uncle climbs. He asks the main character to plant him. At night, they hear a scream, on arrival they see a dead stranger. Can uncle be guilty of this?

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Dzwonnik z Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo

Dzieło należy do klasyki literatury europejskiej. Akcja osadzona jest w Paryżu, w czasach późnego średniowiecza. Opowiada przede wszystkim o miłości archidiakona Klaudiusza Frollo do pięknej Cyganki Esmeraldy. Świadkiem skomplikowanej relacji jest adoptowany przez Klaudiusza Quasimodo, pełniący obowiązki dzwonnika słynnej katedry. Nie mniej ciekawe od głównego wątku jest tło bogaty, wielobarwny pejzaż Paryża, w którym jak w soczewce skupia się kultura średniowiecznej Europy.

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Die Unbezähmbaren

Max Brand

Max Brand (18921944), war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und gilt als einer der wichtigsten und bekanntesten Western-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Zu Max Brands Klassikern gehört auch der hier vorliegende Roman Die Unbezähmbaren (1918, englischer Titel: The Untamed), der zu den besten Western aller Zeiten zählt. Der mysteriöse Dan Barry, genannt Whistling Dan ist ein wilder Draufgänger. Der junge Dan Barry ist mit allen Wassern gewaschen, doch dann tauchen plötzlich der brutale Jim Silent und dessen mörderische Bande auf. Jim Silent und seine Zugräuber-Bande greifen Dan Barry an und entführen seine geliebte Kate. Dan Barry macht sich auf die Suche nach Kate und schwört auf ewige Rache! Ein unglaubliches Abenteuer beginnt...

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La Corde au cou

Émile Gaboriau

La corde au cou est un chef-doeuvre de la littérature policiere. Cest un récit de la famille du comte de Claudieuse. Ils subissent bien des malheurs des le début du roman: lincendie total du domaine, lagression du comte victime de coups de feu, la ruine... Les indices conduisent Jacques de Boiscoran, mais un avocat parisien, Manuel Folgat, se persuade rapidement de linnocence de laccusé. Puis il découvre que le passé dun jeune homme est uni par un lien secret avec la Comtesse de Claudieuse...

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The Place of the Lion

Charles Williams

Charles Williams is able to create wonderful ghostly episodes powerful moments of disclosure. In the novel The Place of the Lion, the world of feelings is depicted as an illusion simply a reflection of the real world from which it originates. This makes some absolutely fascinating scenes, as people suddenly face a reality that they cannot understand. The book raises some interesting questions about good and evil.

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The Brigand

Edgar Wallace

The Brigand (1927) is a collection of a dozen fast-paced, frothy crime capers set in a Britain still reeling from 1926s General Strike. An excellent collection of connected short stories all about likeable conman Anthony Newton. Newton returning from the Great War and unable to find employment decides start redistributing wealth in his own way. Deprived of a legal source of income and faced with homelessness and hunger he decides to become a brigand a sort of modern-day Robin Hood and trick rich capitalists into parting with their ill-gotten gains. Some of the ruses are clever, some only mildly interesting. This effectively boils down to a series of elaborate cons and heists with crooked and corrupt capitalists as his targets.