2020
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audioknihaAnna Katharine GreenDetektívky
That Affair Next Door (EN)
Anna Katharine Green: The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gryce gets on the case, he has a hard time persuading her to mind her own bus
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audioknihaLeo Tolstoj
Klasická literatúra
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch (EN)
Leo Tolstoj: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novel tells the story of the death, at age 45, of a high co
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audioknihaHerman Melville
Iné
The Encantadas (EN)
Herman Melville: Herman Melville‘s picturesque account of the Galapagos Islands will make you want to abandon all responsibilities and travel there to see for yourself. Melville wrote this series of “sketches” – or short prose works – from his own experiences saili
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audioknihaKatherine Mansfield
Iné
In a German Pension (EN)
Katherine Mansfield: Recovering from a miscarriage and a bad marriage, author Katherine Mansfield, barely 21, wrote these excellent short stories around the time she was staying in a spa town in Germany. With wry humour, she depicts a German upper middle class defined by the
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audioknihaEdgar Rice Burroughs
Klasická literatúra
The Gods of Mars (EN)
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Gods of Mars is the second of the famous Barsoom series. It was first published in All Story as a five part serial in the issues for January May 1913. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in September, 1918. At the end of t
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audioknihaSir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (EN)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly from a heart attack, a rumour of a deadly, supernatural giant dog, who may have been persecuted for generations, begins to circulate in the village. When Sir Henry Baskerville arrives from Canada for the legacy
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audioknihaLewis Carrol
Poézia
The Hunting of the Snark (EN)
Lewis Carrol: “The last of the crew needs especial remark, Though he looked an incredible dunce: He had just one idea-but, that one being `Snark‘, The good Bellman engaged him at once. ” `The Hunting of the Snark‘ (1876) is a nonsense poem by `Alice Adventures in W
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audioknihaJohn Kendrick Bangs
Klasická literatúra
The Idiot (EN)
John Kendrick Bangs: The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their skin, because when you’re beneath cont
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audioknihaRudyard Kipling
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The Jungle Book (EN)
Rudyard Kipling: Who could have known that when Rudyard Kipling wrote these Jungle Book stories in 1893-94, they would eventually inspire the Oscar nominated song “The Bare Necessities” – one of the most recognizable tunes of all time? The adventures of the young boy, M
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audioknihaJames Fenimore Cooper
Klasická literatúra
The Last of the Mohicans (EN)
James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in
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audioknihaWilliam F. Cody
Klasická literatúra
The Life of William F. Cody – Buffalo Bill (EN)
William F. Cody: The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody-Buffalo Bill-as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance than reality, and which in many respects will prove a valuable contribution to the records of our Western frontier his
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audioknihaJules Verne
Klasická literatúra
The Mysterious Island (EN)
Jules Verne: The Mysterious Island (French: L’Ile mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne’s famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly diff
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audioknihaJames Fenimore Cooper
Klasická literatúra
The Pioneers (EN)
James Fenimore Cooper: The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before a
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audioknihaGeorge MacDonald
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The Princess and the Goblin (EN)
George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a house on a mountain, it is here that she meets her mysterious great great grandmother, and her friend the minor boy Cu
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audioknihaAnthony Hope
Klasická literatúra
The Prisoner of Zenda (EN)
Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces are such that in order for th
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audioknihaAugust Strindberg
Klasická literatúra
The Red Room (EN)
August Strindberg: The Red Room (Swedish: Röda rummet) is a satire of Stockholm society, it has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. While receiving mixed reviews in Sweden, it was acclaimed in Denmark, where Strindberg was hailed as a genius. As
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audioknihaEdgar Rice Burroughs
Dobrodružné romány
The Return of Tarzan (EN)
Edgar Rice Burroughs: This follow-up to `Tarzan of the Apes‘ begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzan‘s beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble, becomes a spy for the French government. Soon,
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audioknihaL. Frank Baum
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The Marvelous Land of Oz (EN)
L. Frank Baum: Whatever happened in the lands of Oz after Dorothy left? In this sequel to the `The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‘, we meet a young boy named Tip, who, unlike Dorothy, has grown up in this magical place. He is under the care (though that is a relative term) o
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audioknihaL. Frank Baum
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The Road to Oz (EN)
L. Frank Baum: “Roads,” observed the shaggy man, “don’t go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them. ” A shaggy-looking man, imaginatively called Shaggy Man, asks Dorothy for directions to Butterfield, but the two of them end up getting lost on their
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audioknihaFrances Hodgson Burnett
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The Secret Garden (EN)
Frances Hodgson Burnett: “Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it. ” When her parents die, Mary, spoiled, yet unloved, is shipped from India to England to live with her absent uncle. When she discovers a secret garden, and st
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audioknihaLewis Carrol
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Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There (EN)
Lewis Carrol: Once again, Alice finds herself in a peculiar place. In this sequel to `Alice Adventures in Wonderland‘, Alice has climbed through a mirror and arrived in a world in which everything is reversed, like a reflection – including logic. It makes for ano
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audioknihaLeo Tolstoj
Klasická literatúra
Father Sergius (EN)
Leo Tolstoj: The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée Countess Mary Korotkova has had an affair with his
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audioknihaJack London
Klasická literatúra
The Call of the Wild (EN)
Jack London: The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush, where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal
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audioknihaJohn Buchan
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The Thirty-Nine Steps (EN)
John Buchan: “I returned to the City about three o‘clock on that Monday afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. ” So opens John Buchans The Thirty-Nine Steps and with it he creates a whole new g
