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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? ..