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A Secret Society – ebook
Talbot Mundy
William Hulbert Footner was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. He was once described as ‘one of the most charming men who was ever on earth.’ His love for his family, travelling and writing is reflected in his stories, many of which are in the crime fiction genre. At the same time Footner began to write detective fiction; his first series detective character being Madame Rosika...Data dostępności:
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The Firing Line – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
Charming, beautifully written. Fascinating in detail pre-war Florida (and also the East Coast) high society with its fashions and mores.Data dostępności:
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Balsamo, the Magician – ebook
Alexandre Dumas
Joseph Balsamo, a skilled doctor, sorcerer, great master of the Masonic Order, whose network of intrigues includes many influential figures of the highest society of European countries. Bazzamo could command the fate of other people, was a magician, stood at the head of the mysterious society that rules the world – Massonov. Everything is subject to him: time, people, events, except for one – his beloved...Data dostępności:
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Youth and the Bright Medusa – ebook
Willa Cather
The stories in this collection mostly take place in New York and Boston, and are all about artists–writers, musicians, sculptors–and their relationship to society. There are stories of brilliance, inspiration and expectations. All of them are wonderful.Data dostępności:
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The Danger Mark – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
Wealth, romance, adventure and one woman’s struggle with addiction. This novel fits Robert W. Chambers’ love of walking the edge of what was acceptable to society at the time and then taking it one step further with tactful grace.Data dostępności:
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Satanstoe, or, the Littlepage Manuscripts – ebook
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.Data dostępności:
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The Ebb-Tide – ebook
Robert Louis Stevenson Lloyd Osbourne
South Seas, Pacific Islands. Fate throws in Tahiti several people from those who are commonly called the „"white trash."” Different in character and origin, they are united by one thing – they are people who are finished for society. But Fate gives them another chance to return to normal.Data dostępności:
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Martin Eden – ebook
Jack London
„Martin Eden” is one of the most famous novels of the famous American writer Jack London. The novel is largely autobiographical – the writer, like his hero, emerged from the bottom of society and achieved outstanding success in literature exclusively by his own efforts. Martin Eden, who comes from the very bottom of the social ladder of American society at the beginning of the 20th century, falls in...Data dostępności:
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Tono-Bungay – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Considered one of Wells most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wells’s tale is a panoramic view of an unravelling society. A semi-autobiographical satire of Edwardian advertising and patent-medicines. The story follows the life of a young man, George, and his Uncle Edward. Edward invents an elixir called TONO-BUNGAY and hires his nephew...Data dostępności:
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Kipps – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles begin. After being left a fortune by a rich uncle, Kipps finds himself in a position to marry Helen Walshingham. His main problem is that he is uneducated, knowing next to nothing of the world of books or the manners of the society he aspires to join. Helen, together...Data dostępności:
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