2020
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audioknihaMary ShelleyFrankenstein (EN)
Mary Shelley: Determined to make his mark on Science, young student Victor Frankenstein fabricates a creature out of old body parts. His dreams are crushed, however, when he realizes he has created a monster. He runs to the streets, horrified, but when he returns the
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audioknihaJonathan Swift
Humor, satira
Gulliver s Travels (EN)
Jonathan Swift: When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the size of a finger, their rope is as thin as thread, and their tiny arrows ba
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audioknihaJames Norman Hall
Dobrodružné romány
High Adventure (EN)
James Norman Hall: For pilots in the First World War even getting through training was a matter of survival. Ashamed that the US was not yet in the war, American author James Norman Hall volunteered to fly for an American unit that fought for France, and his account was pu
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audioknihaAnna Katharine Green
Detektívky
The Leavenworth case (EN)
Anna Katharine Green: The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an inside job. But who did it? With the help of the young lawyer, Everett
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audioknihaAnna Katharine Green
Detektívky
The house in the Mist (EN)
Anna Katharine Green: “Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive. ” When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesome business of an appalling family. Mistaken for a relative himself, he soon
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audioknihaJames Baldwin
Klasická literatúra
Fifty Famous Stories Retold (EN)
James Baldwin: Includes fifty legendary tales depicting certain romantic episodes in the lives of well known heroes and famous men, or in the history of a people. Children naturally take a deep interest in such stories. The reading of them will not only give pleasure
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audioknihaCharles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
Klasická literatúra
Faery Lands of the South Seas (EN)
Charles Nordhoff,James Norman Hall: James Norman Hall (USA, 1887-1951) and Charles Nordhoff (USA, 1887-1947) Faery Lands of the South Seas (1920) Reader: Mike Vendetti Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They l
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audioknihaJonathan Swift
Humor, satira
A Modest Proposal (EN)
Jonathan Swift: In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it `A Modest Proposal‘ (1729) or `A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of P
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audioknihaRobert Louis Stevenson
Dobrodružné romány
Kidnapped (EN)
Robert Louis Stevenson: Recently orphaned 17-year-old David leaves his home on the Scottish countryside to seek out a rich uncle he has never met. The uncle, as it turns out, is paranoid and unpleasant, and before David can claim his inheritance he is knocked out and taken to s
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audioknihaMyrtle Reed
Klasická literatúra
Lavender and Old Lace (EN)
Myrtle Reed: Lavender and Old Lace is a Victorian romance novel written by Myrtle Reed and published Sep. , 1902. It tells the story of some remarkable women, each of whom have a unique experience with love. The book follows in Reed’s long history of inciting laught
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audioknihaFrances Hodgson Burnett
Klasická literatúra
Little Lord Fauntleroy (EN)
Frances Hodgson Burnett: Little Lord Fauntleroy is the first children’s novel written by English playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was originally published as a serial in the St. Nicholas Magazine between November 1885 and October 1886, then as a book by Scribne
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audioknihaJoseph Conrad
Klasická literatúra
Lord Jim (EN)
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood’s Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He
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audioknihaG. K. Chesterton
Klasická literatúra
Manalive (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the ‘holy fool’, such as in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
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audioknihaJacob Abbot
Klasická literatúra
Margaret of Anjou (EN)
Jacob Abbot: Margaret of Anjou, wife of England’s Henry VI, played a key role in launching the storied War of the Roses – the 30 year civil conflict fuelled by the Lancasters and the Yorks, each vying for the British throne in the 15th century. Margaret of Anjou is o
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audioknihaMary Shelley
Klasická literatúra
Mathilda (EN)
Mary Shelley: On her deathbed, Mathilda writes a letter to her only friend, revealing the dark secret of her past, a secret so shameful, she can only manage it now because her time is running out. Written between 1819 and 1820, author Mary Shelley unfortunately never
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audioknihaWilliam Blake
Klasická literatúra
Milton, a poem (EN)
William Blake: Milton is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from Heaven and unites with Blake to explore the relationship between living writers and their predecessors, and to undergo a mys
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audioknihaG. K. Chesterton
Klasická literatúra
Eugenics and Other Evils (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. Say to them “The persuasive and
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audioknihaJohn Kendrick Bangs
Klasická literatúra
Ghosts I have Met and Some Others (EN)
John Kendrick Bangs: New York born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a delightf
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audioknihaNatalie Sumner Lincoln
Klasická literatúra
The Red Seal (EN)
Natalie Sumner Lincoln: Nothing is what it seems to be as events unfold in this entertaining mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Red seals and red herrings abound and will keep you guessing all the way through the final chapter!.
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audioknihaMyrtle Reed
Klasická literatúra
Old Rose and Silver (EN)
Myrtle Reed: Old Rose and Silver is a novel by Myrtle Reed first published in 1909. The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend
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audioknihaCharles Dickens
Klasická literatúra
Oliver Twist (EN)
Charles Dickens: “Please, sir, I want some more,” Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make survi
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audioknihaAnna Katharine Green
Detektívky
The Amethyst Box (EN)
Anna Katharine Green: On the night before his wedding, Sinclair finds that his precious amethyst box containing a tiny flask of deadly poison is missing. And he knows it can only have been taken by either of two people: his soon-to-be wife or her cousin. Together with his fr
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audioknihaHenry James
Roderick Hudson (EN)
Henry James: Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, Roderick Hudson is a One has the money but not the talent. One has the talent but not the money. It would seem that Rowland Mallet and Roderick Hudson were meant to meet. A rich and sens
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audioknihaHenry James
Washington Square (EN)
Henry James: Catherine is well on her way to becoming a spinster. She‘s 21 and part of New York‘s upper-class society, but she has never had a flirt and is plain-looking without the sparkling personality to make up for it. Or so her father thinks. Because when
