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audioknihaWorld HistoryFall of the Third Reich (EN)
World History: Adolf Hitler ruled Germany for 12 years. As the Third Reich began to collapse in on itself in the spring of 1945, the Führer took up residence in Berlin. By the middle of April he’d entrenched himself in a bunker deep beneath the capital, as the Sov
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audioknihaJames Joyce
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (EN)
James Joyce: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and religious philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and
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audioknihaGermaine Shames
You, Fascinating You (EN)
Germaine Shames: In the final weeks of 1938, in the shadow of Kristallnacht and imminent war, a heartsick Italian maestro wrote a love song called “Tu Solamente Tu”. Its lyrics lamented his forced separation from his wife, the Hungarian ballerina Margit Wolf, in the wake
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audioknihaSir Walter Scott
Poézia
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (EN)
Sir Walter Scott: An ageing singer asks for shelter at Newark Castle, and in exchange performs for his hostess the Duchess of Buccleuch the story of a 16th century border feud. The story he tells is about the so-called “Flower of Teviot,” the Lady Margaret Scott of Buccle
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audioknihaSir Walter Scott
Poézia
The Lady of the Lake (EN)
Sir Walter Scott: “The Lady of the Lake” (1810) is a narrative poem set in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Trossach region of Scotland. It is made up of six cantos, each focusing on one day. There’s three main plots to this poem: a competition between three men fo
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audioknihaRudyard Kipling
Klasická literatúra
The Man Who Would Be King (EN)
Rudyard Kipling: “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888) is inspired by the real-life actions of James Brook, a British soldier who made himself Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo). In this short story, Kipling tells of two crook characters, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, through
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audioknihaRudyard Kipling
Klasická literatúra
The Brushwood Boy (EN)
Rudyard Kipling: “The Brushwood Boy” tells the story of British army officer, George Cottar, following him from childhood and into his first posting to India. During his placement, Cottar keeps dreaming of a young girl he once met, a dream that always starts with a heap
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audioknihaRudyard Kipling
Biografie a texty
American Notes (EN)
Rudyard Kipling: “In American Notes”, the Anglo-Indian Rudyard Kipling visits the USA, and the travel-diary that came out of it offers an interesting view of the America of the 1880’s. Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence and expresses astonishment at features of Americ
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audioknihaJohn Muir
My First Summer in the Sierra (EN)
John Muir: “My First Summer in the Sierra” (1911) takes inspiration from Muir’s journals of the months he spent between June and September 1869 as a shepherd in the Sierras. Muir went on to built a cabin along Yosemite Creek, where he lived for two years. He des
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audioknihaJohn Muir
A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf (EN)
John Muir: In early March 1867, Muir was injured while working at a wagon wheels factory: a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye. This accident changed the course of his life. He was confined to a darkened room for six weeks, worried he’d lost his
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audioknihaEliza Haywood
Klasická literatúra
The Fortunate Foundlings (EN)
Eliza Haywood: “The Fortunate Foundlings” is a picaresque novel from 1744 featuring twins Horatio and Louisa, whose journey in the world differs because of their gender. They were both abandoned in infancy and adopted, but soon leave their carer to go off on their one.
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audioknihaEddie Rickenbacker
Fighting the Flying Circus (EN)
Eddie Rickenbacker: “Fighting the Flying Circus” is fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker WWI memoir. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th “Hat-in-the-Ring” Squadron, which ended the war with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron. The ci
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audioknihaCharles Miner Thompson
Deti a mládež
The Calico Cat (EN)
Charles Miner Thompson: Solomon has hated the Calico Cat ever since he bought the house in Ellmington and he has tried his very best to drive her away, but with no luck. As he tries once more to get rid of the cat, he triggers a vicious series of events that ends with lies, the
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audioknihaAugusta Huiell Seaman
Deti a mládež
The Girl Next Door (EN)
Augusta Huiell Seaman: Marcia Brett tells her friend Janet that the old, broken-down house next door, which they always thought was empty and abandoned, is apparently not so. An old, veiled woman lives there, and so does a pretty, blond girl of about their age. They discover
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audioknihaAugusta Huiell Seaman
Deti a mládež
The Dragon’s Secret (EN)
Augusta Huiell Seaman: Sixteen-year-old Leslie has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to her ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for some quiet rest and recuperation. While the beach is lovely in October, Leslie quickly finds herself getting lonely wit
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audioknihaAndrew Carnegie
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (EN)
Andrew Carnegie: This posthumously published autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting accounts of the life of one of the wealthiest self-made men in American history. The industrialist and philanthropist lived his life according the followi
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audioknihaMarcelle Kellermann
A Packhorse Called Rachel (EN)
Marcelle Kellermann: A story of courage, fear, and defiance based on the author’s own personal experience. “A Pack Horse Called Rachel” is the remarkable tale of a young woman, half Jewish, caught in the extraordinarily brutal world of 1944 France. Rachel moves through the
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audioknihaMarcelle Kellermann
The Interpreter (EN)
Marcelle Kellermann: This story is set during the occupation of France of 1940-44, during which time the author fought as a member of the Resistance. It follows her interrogation, imprisonment and her subsequent unexpected release by the German Nazi Officer Frank Van Heugen,
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audioknihaWorld History
Nazi Mysteries (EN)
World History: World War II is the best described, most catalogued event in history. Thousands of books, hundreds of thousands of articles, and an abundance of documentaries and lectures describe the horrors of war, the battle strategies and, not least, the heroes who
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audioknihaWorld History
Pacific War (EN)
World History: On the morning of Sunday 7th December, 1941, 183 Japanese aircraft fly across the quiet American naval base of Pearl Harbor. After a few minutes, oil stocks and airfields are in flames, and several of the United States’ largest battleships are heading
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audioknihaWorld History
Death in the Trenches (EN)
World History: The showdown should have been a brief affair, where the German Empire put its neighbours in their place. Encouraged by the spirit of adventure thousands of young men volunteered to defend the nation’s honour. On the other hand, in France, Britain and
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audioknihaA. D. Ellis
What Blooms Beneath (EN)
A. D. Ellis: Kellan considers himself lucky to have an adequate existence on earth where, in the year 2044, common citizens toil under the oppressive thumb of a corrupt and unscrupulous government. Kellan dreams of becoming part of the Department of Paranormal, Super
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audioknihaAnthony Trollope
Klasická literatúra
Doctor Thorne (EN)
Anthony Trollope: “Doctor Thorne” is the third of Trollope’s Barsetshire novels and unlike some of the others has little to do with politics and religion. The plot revolves around Mary Thorne, an illegitimate child who has been lovingly raised by her uncle, a country doct
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audioknihaMichel Russell
Erotické romány
Ghostly Gay Trilogy (EN)
Michel Russell: The “Ghostly Gay Trilogy” is the story of the triumph of one man’s spirit as he casts out his demons, real and imagined, and lays to rest the ghost of his lost love, hereby learning to live again. Life and fate have dealt Ashley Wynter a series of cruel
