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okładka Ovingdean Grange, Ebook | William Harrison Ainsworth

A historical romance with a lot of local flavor. The action takes place in the South Downs, England. Everything revolves around the Civil War.

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okładka Police!!!, Ebook | Robert W. Chambers

This story continues the fantastic stories of Dr. Percy, forever searching the world for zoological discoveries and love, and doomed to never find either. Our narrator, Dr. Percy, works at the Bronx Zoo. He is one of those brave adventurers who seek to dive into the depths of uncharted lakes and discover the remains of a tribe of cave dwellers or the existence of people with three eyes.

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okładka Preston Fight, Ebook | William Harrison Ainsworth

This is a historical novel. The story revolves around the Jacobite rising and the invasion of Preston. The book is considered one of the author’s Lancashire novels.

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okładka Quick Action, Ebook | Robert W. Chambers

This is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers. Green challenges his friend, the adventure novelist, to show him what can happen to him, that indeed romance is all around us, just waiting for us to notice it. This is the only story that dives into fantasy when Green discovers a girl trying to avoid a fortune teller’s prediction.

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okładka Rookwood, Ebook | William Harrison Ainsworth

A typical gothic fantasy, Rookwood is a good read if you can stomach the songs, poetry, and flowery language. It features underground vaults, mummified corpses falling out of tombs, paranormal summonses, girls in great distress, a sinister gypsy old woman, adultery, death by lightning, and macabre prophecies.

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okładka Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Ebook | Willa Cather

The action takes place in Virginia five years before the Civil War. The story shows the impact of slavery on Saphira Colbert, a woman of spirit and common sense who is frighteningly capricious in dealing with the people she „owns”. The heroine Sapphira lacks moral qualities, she does not cause sympathy. However, the book was critically acclaimed and was a commercial success.

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okładka Shadows on the Rock, Ebook | Willa Cather

This is a historical fiction book depicting the French colonization of Canada and life in Quebec in the late 1600s. Euclid Auclair is a father and a widower. The little daughter took over the running of their home after the death of her beloved mother two years ago. She is twelve. Euclid and his family, wife and daughter, had come to Quebec eight years earlier, hired by the Governor General to be his physician.

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okładka Special Messenger, Ebook | Robert W. Chambers

This story revolves around the recognizable Miss Boyd. She is a famous Confederate spy and spy. This story keeps you in suspense until the very end.

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okładka The Adventures of a Modest Man, Ebook | Robert W. Chambers

The narrator is a widower with two daughters, living happily into a rather troubling middle age and pushing away his daughter’s suitors so that his daughters would live with him a little longer. A younger neighbor persuades him to buy a pig and then bets that the boredom of life has so eclipsed his intelligence that he won’t be smart enough to stop someone from stealing it. If the narrator loses the bet, he will jump out of his rut by going to Paris.

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okładka The Barbarians, Ebook | Robert W. Chambers

This is the story of what happened to a dozen malcontents who could no longer tolerate dirty business in Europe and politicians at home. This is an exciting story that will keep you in suspense until the end of the story.

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okładka My Mortal Enemy, Ebook | Willa Cather

The story is about a rich girl deserting her riches for the love of her life. She is an Irish Catholic and the boy for whom she leaves everything is related to German Protestantism. The life seems to be good. But when at the end of her life as the couple is reduced to abject poverty, she probes few questions relating to her life.

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okładka Dziecko Holokaustu, Ebook | Amira Keidar

PRAWDZIWA HISTORIA DZIEWCZYNKI CUDEM OCALONEJ Z ŻYDOWSKIEGO GETTA. INSPIRUJĄCA HISTORIA O PRZETRWANIU I NADZIEI W OBLICZU GROZY.Rachela, nazywana Laleczką, urodziła się w getcie w 1941 roku. Jej rodzice, Jakub i Cypa byli gotowi na wszystko, byle tylko utrzymać ją przy życiu.Tuż przed pierwszymi urodzinami Laleczki, naziści zaczęli stopniowo mordować wszystkich w getcie. Jej ojciec zdawał sobie sprawę, że oznacza to pewną śmierć również dla jego córeczki. W przypływie despera...

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okładka My Ántonia, Ebook | Willa Cather

The story of a boy who grew up in a wealthy farming family, not avoiding hardships and always ready to lend a helping hand. The story of a love that didn’t happen, but rather happened, between the main character or Antonia, turns out to be more than growing up, more than just about the history of one country. This is a story about a change of mind.

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okładka In Search of the Unknown, Ebook | Robert W. Chambers

The protagonist narrator serves as a common thread for stories that also feature humor. A young scientist travels the world in the footsteps of mysterious animals. This is an ironic and fantastic adventure of a self-confident biologist.

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okładka In Secret, Ebook | Robert W. Chambers

The main character landed in New York that very morning. At that moment, he was standing in the bar of the Astor Hotel, sober enough not to tell the bartenders everything he knew, and drunk enough to talk too much in a place where the enemy is always listening.

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okładka Iole, Ebook | Robert W. Chambers

This fantasy novel would make a wonderful addition to any bookshelf and is highly recommended for fans and collectors of seminal works. A fantastic satire about the Art Nouveau poet and his eight daughters, who grew up in the countryside and in „nature”.

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okładka Jack Sheppard, Ebook | William Harrison Ainsworth

Set in the eighteenth century, the novel is a retelling of the story of real-life criminal turned tragic anti-hero Jack Sheppard. The sensational melodrama tells about the life of the eponymous anti-hero.

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okładka Lorraine. A Romance, Ebook | Robert W. Chambers

Lorraine is a story about a young woman and her country. Lorraine comes of age during the dramatic war years in France. Its growth, conflicts and possible renewal are reflected in the country’s struggle for its independence against Germany.

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okładka Lucy Gayheart, Ebook | Willa Cather

Lucy Gayheart is well known in her small Nebraska town for her great looks, energy and piano playing. Everyone assumes that she will marry the son of banker Harry Gordon, including Harry, but at 18 she goes to Chicago to study piano and ends up making money accompanying the famous international vocalist when he spends time in Chicago. Her life, other people’s lives and people’s expectations changed forever.

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okładka Hilda, Ebook | Sara Jeannette Duncan

This book is about an actress and her growing up in a country full of secrets and strange people. Duff Lindsay faces a strange situation when he falls in love with Laura Filbert.

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okładka Guy Fawkes, Ebook | William Harrison Ainsworth

Guy Fawkes, a prominent figure in the history of England, was one of the leaders in the Gunpowder Plot, whose goal was to overthrow King James I, the Protestant king of England. The plan failed, and Fox and his accomplices were executed in front of the public.

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okładka Blue-Bird Weather, Ebook | Robert W. Chambers

Another romantic family adventure thriller by Robert W. Chambers about a young man who comes to an island with a gun he owns to hunt waterfowl. He meets the man who runs the club and falls in love. Everything is going well until he meets his daughter’s father.

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okładka Boscobel, or, The Royal Oak, Ebook | William Harrison Ainsworth

The novel clearly includes a huge amount of historical research. And then there is the geography associated with it – Charles always stops in the middle of his flight to admire this or that beautiful prospect. The author also gives us the latest news about what happened to all these places. The author uses Boscobel as a guide to follow Charles’ steps.

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okładka Cardigan, Ebook | Robert W. Chambers

Cardigan Novels is a conditional cycle that combines historical novels by Robert Chambers that tell about the period of the American Revolutionary War. The novels do not have a connected plot, but the same fictional and historical characters appear in the course of each: Sir William Johnson, Walter Butler, Jack Mount, etc.