2020
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audioknihaRobert Louis StevensonDetektívky
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (EN)
Robert Louis Stevenson: Gabriel Utterson firsts hears about Mr. Hyde while on an evening walk with a friend. A sinister-looking man, Mr. Hyde is said to have violently trampled a young girl on the street for no reason. Not prone to gossip, Utterson leaves the matter be. But
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audioknihaEdgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes (EN)
Edgar Rice Burroughs: One day, an ape named Kala finds a small human boy in the jungles of Africa. She names him Tarzan (“White skin” in ape language), and raises him as her own. In time, differences between himself and his tribe become clear to Tarzan, and when he finds a h
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audioknihaThornton W. Burgess
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The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (EN)
Thornton W. Burgess: Something strange is going on. The waters of the Smiling Pool and the Laughing Brook have been mysteriously reduced to tiny streams and the creatures of the Green Forest are in a panic! Until they discover the reason: Paddy the Beaver has arrived to make
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audioknihaThornton W. Burgess
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The Adventures of Reddy Fox (EN)
Thornton W. Burgess: Young and mischievous Reddy Fox has been stealing chickens from Farmer Brown‘s boy, and now he and Granny Fox must outsmart him so they do not get caught. Along the way, Reddy encounters many of author Thornton W. Burgess‘ other beloved characters,
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audioknihaMark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (EN)
Mark Twain: An imaginative, clever, and mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn witness a murder in a graveyard and Tom is forced to testify against the murderer, Injun Joe. Injun Joe escapes and when Tom and his crush Becky Thatcher meet hi
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audioknihaHenry James
The American (EN)
Henry James: Christopher Newman, a somewhat awkward but well-meaning American businessman traveling in Europe for the first time, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic young widow Claire de Bellegarde. But her French family does not like his American ways and
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audioknihaEdgar Rice Burroughs
Dobrodružné romány
The Beasts of Tarzan (EN)
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Old enemies are back to make life hard for Tarzan in `The Beasts of Tarzan‘ (1916), the third novel in the thrilling adventure series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dividing their time between Africa and England, Tarzan and Jane and their little son Jack are
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audioknihaAlexandre Dumas
Dobrodružné romány
The Black Tulip (EN)
Alexandre Dumas: The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event – the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild
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audioknihaJacob Abbot
Klasická literatúra
History of Julius Caesar (EN)
Jacob Abbot: The book chronicles the extraordinary life and leadership of Rome’s Emperor Julius Caesar, from his early years to his assassination. History of Julius Caesar is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his brother. The
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audioknihaMark Twain
Dobrodružné romány
A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur (EN)
Mark Twain: Hank Morgan, a mechanic at a gun factory, is knocked unconscious and wakes up in England in the year 528. After he is captured and taken to Camelot, he is put before the knights of King Arthur‘s Round Table where he is condemned to death. However, he
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audioknihaOscar Wilde
Iné
The Canterville Ghost (EN)
Oscar Wilde: The first thing the American family see when they step into their new British mansion is the bloodstain in the sitting room. As it turns out, they have moved into an already occupied house, and their new roommate is a proud ghost determined to terrify th
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audioknihaAnna Katharine Green
Detektívky
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
Detektívky
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
