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The Ne’er-Do-Well – ebook
Rex Beach
Father often asked Kirk Anthony to do a real job. But Anthony, despite almost idolizing his strong, successful father, just can’t stop having a good time with his father’s 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 Anthony’s drunken friends to „play a terrible...Data dostępności:
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying – ebook
George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a bitter, ironic novel. The protagonist is Gordon Comstock, an unrecognized poet, failed writer, forced to work in an advertising agency to earn a living. He has a real talent for composing slogans, but his work inspires him with disgust, it seems to be a caricature of literary creativity. He despises material values and the vulgarity of the everyday way of life, the symbol...Data dostępności:
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Off on a Comet – ebook
Jules Verne
Jules Verne’s novel „Hector Servadac” tells about the adventures of the captain of the French troops and his friends, who, as a result of an unprecedented disaster, fell on a fragment of the globe captured by a flying comet. Hector, his orderly, the Russian Count Timashev, a colony of English soldiers from Gibraltar, an Italian girl with a goat, a Jewish money-lender and another odd scientist are forced...Data dostępności:
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Alton of Somasco – ebook
Harold Bindloss
Harry Alton harms the natural environment. They are driven by the desire to make more money. He goes to drastic measures. The main character cuts down forests to turn this area into a profit center. Suddenly, he received the news that he inherited an estate in England. However, Alton does not wish to return there. After all, there is a selfish heir. In the end, the protagonist will begin to accuse...Data dostępności:
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Red Belts – ebook
Hugh Pendexter
The whole story revolves around the Northern Valley, which at the end of the 18th century had a great debt for the state, about 5 million. This noble kingdom, from which the state of Tennessee was to be created, was conquered by the confiscation and rifles of the settlers over the mountains and cost North Carolina neither blood nor money. The republic was too young to develop. This is a historic event...Data dostępności:
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Fortune’s Christmas – ebook
Max Brand
„Fortune’s Christmas” is a short story by Max Brand originally published in December 20, 1924. Brand was an American author best known for his thoughtful Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres, he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. „Fortune’s Christmas” is a Christmas story, told from the perspective of Anthony Hazzard, a miser...Data dostępności:
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The Stranger – ebook
Max Brand
Staying alive is worth a thousand dollars a day to Oliver Wilton. That’s what he’s paying Lew Sherry and Pete Long as hired guns to keep him healthy. And after riding the range, the money looks more than just a little inviting. But before Sherry and Long can pocket their first wages, Wilton is murdered. And town men were never so sad to see their boss take a bullet in the brain as Sherry and Long....Data dostępności:
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Zły chłopak – ebook
Terri E. Laine A.M. Hardgrove
Kobieciarz, Dziwkarz, Łamacz Serc - to imiona znane Benowi Rhodesowi. Woli Money Mana lub Sex Goda, ale nie pozwala, by rządziły nim opinie innych ludzi. Śmierć najlepszego przyjaciela w młodym wieku dała mu cenną lekcję: nie zbliżać się zbytnio do nikogo… nigdy. Aż jedna inteligentna i uparta kobieta o przyciągających wzrok krzywiznach rzuca mu wyzwanie… I nie chce dać się oswoić. Samantha Calhoun...Data dostępności:
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The Companions of Jehu – ebook
Alexandre Dumas
Set out for a rollicking good time with Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), the renowned French author who created timeless classics such as „The Three Musketeers”, „The Count of Monte Cristo” and „The Man in the Iron Mask”. „Les Compagnons de Jehu” („The Companions of Jehu”) tale is based loosely on a historical account of a band of young aristocrats-turned-highwaymen that continuously steals the money of...Data dostępności:
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The Boss of the Lazy Y – ebook
Charles Alden Seltzer
The story concerns a complicated, angry, daredevil son, Calumet Marston, who returns to his boyhood homestead to find his hated father dead and a stranger, a woman named Betty, in charge. Her family had aided his father, and now she is „"the boss"”. He also left a testimony which states that Calumet must give a practical demonstration of reform in character if he wants to inherit his father’s money,...Data dostępności:
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