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Heritage and Environment. The 5th Heritage Forum of Central Europe – ebook
The 5th Heritage Forum of Central Europe, organised in September 2019, was dedicated to the links between cultural heritage and environment , as well as their mutual engagement. In recent years, and especially very recently, we have become increasingly aware that the environmental context is of paramount importance to the complete understanding of values and the very meaning of cultural heritage, which...Data dostępności:
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Jaragu of the Jungle – ebook
Rex Beach
Jaragu, a boy from the jungle, was surprised in his life when a giant bird, making a loud buzzing sound, descended on a beach in Central America and froze as if it had been killed, but something similar to a person crawled out of it..Data dostępności:
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North of Fifty-Three – ebook
Rex Beach
Rex Beach is an American writer, playwright, and Olympic water polo champion. Big George was drinking and the little Arctic mining camp was paralyzed. He was central to the North Club.Data dostępności:
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Whispering Death – ebook
Aidan de Brune
„Whispering Death” (1931) is the third adventure in the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). This third story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine: a small, colorless man of uncertain central Asian origin whose principal obsession is raising money by any means...Data dostępności:
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Dr. Night – ebook
Aidan de Brune
Originally published in 1926, „Dr. Night” is the first story from the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). Aidan de Brune was a big name in Australian literature but is forgotten today. He was a prolific author who wrote in a variety of genres. This story is basically rather gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end and features a very unlikely Asian villain who...Data dostępności:
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The Green Pearl – ebook
Aidan de Brune
„The Green Pearl” (1930) is the second adventure in the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). Aidan De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who settled in Australia. This second story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end (gravity powered aircraft without engines...) and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine:...Data dostępności:
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Four Faultless Felons – ebook
G.K. Chesterton
A novel series by G.K. Chesterton of four intertwined novellas whose central characters appear to be involved in murder, fraud, theft and treason. Are these friends involved in crimes? Are these individuals faultless as the book’s title suggests? A good book for people who love suspenseful novels that features mind-blowing twists, awesome plots, and events that will keep you engaged page by page.Data dostępności:
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Home as Found – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
The novel is set in the fictional town of Templeton, modeled after the village of Cooperstown. In the novel, the Effingham family returns to Templeton from New York. The central theme is the state of American society. The novel clearly shows how the party almost always outperforms the country in American politics, and all of them remain in force today.Data dostępności:
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The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson – ebook
Mark Twain
This is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. His central intrigue revolves around two boys – one born into slavery, with 1/32 black pedigree; on the other, white, born to be the master of the house. Two boys who look the same turn on in infancy. Each grows into a different social role.Data dostępności:
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Madame de Mauves – ebook
Henry James
The image of a young American woman is central to the story „Madame de Mauves”, which prefaces the „Portrait of a Woman”. Deceived by the wife of an impoverished French aristocrat who married her for her wealth, she won a moral victory over him, displaying, unexpectedly for him, intellectual subtlety and complete spiritual independence.Data dostępności:
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