2020
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Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Scarlet Pimpernel (EN)
Baroness Orczy: The “League of the Scarlet Pimpernel” is a secret society made up of twenty English aristocrats. The commander is the so-called “Scarlet Pimpernel” but almost nobody knows his real identity. The society aims to defy the French revolutionaries. The main
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B. J. Harrison Reads A Question of Passports (EN)
Baroness Orczy: The Porte Montmartre is under citizen Bibot’s command and he is determined not to let anybody escape. When he finds out that Scarlet Pimpernel is planning his next rescue mission, he is ready to do whatever it takes to stop the commander of “The League
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Man from Snowy River and Other Poems (EN)
Banjo Paterson: “The Man from Snowy River and Other Poems” is one of the best known collections of poems by Banjo Paterson and was published first in 1895. It includes 48 poems which are described by Rolf Boldrewood as “the best bush ballads”. From horseback pursuits,
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B. J. Harrison Reads Anthem (EN)
Ayn Rand: Mankind has entered another Dark Age. Individuality has been eliminated. People refer to themselves only by using “we” and “they”. All live in collective homes and the mass is more important than the individual. However even in this far future, there
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Inspector Lestrade is investigating a series of break-ins in London which have one thing in common: shattered Napoleon busts. After many unsuccessful attempts to solve the case, Lestrade comes to a dead end and is forced to ask Sherlock Holmes for help.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Horror of the Heights (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Joyce-Armstrong is a pilot, whose allies dies while they are trying to break the current height record of 30,00 feet. The man is curious over the mysterious deaths and thinks that his friends have been caught in what he calls “air-jungles”. Hay Connor a
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B. J. Harrison Reads Playing with Fire (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: A small group of friends decide to attend a seance at a local art studio. While some of them are very sceptical about the whole thing, others believe in the medium’s abilities. The group starts a discussion about a new painting of a mythical creature,
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B. J. Harrison Reads A Case of Identity (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: A young woman named Mary Sutherland is engaged and about to marry Hosmer Angel, when he unexpectedly disappears. In her despair and anxiety, Mary decides to ask Sherlock Holmes for his help. This seems to be a simple case for the great detective. After
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: London is such a large city with so many various crimes and mysteries waiting to be solved. In “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, you can find the most notable, complicated and intriguing stories about the great Sherlock Holme
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Lost World (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Edward Malone is a young journalist at the “Daily Gazette”, who is eager to impress his girlfriend Gladys. To do so, he requests a dangerous and complex task. After a few days, he is assigned to an expedition leaded by the notorious Professor Challenger
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” is Sir Conan Doyle’s second collection about the great detective. In this collection we meet the same two protagonists, namely Holmes and Watson, but the cases and mysteries that must be solved are completely new. The
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B. J. Harrison Reads A Study in Scarlet (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Dr. John Watson comes back to London to recover after being heavily injured at war. However, thanks to his scarce pension, Watson cannot afford a decent apartment. One day he serendipitously meets an old friend named Stamford with whom he shares his pl
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Dying Detective (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: The great detective, Sherlock Holmes, is dying from a highly contagious tropical disease called Tapanuli fever. Dr. Watson is shocked when he hears about his friend’s illness. He travels to examine him, but Holmes refuses his help. Instead, a man ca
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventure of the Dancing Men (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Hilton Cubitt visits Sherlock Holmes to show him a sheet of paper with a weird sequence of drawn figures. When these odd messages began to arrive at Cubitt’s house, fear and panic overwhelmed his wife Elsie. She is afraid her past is catching up with
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are discussing the lack of interesting new cases when a man bursts into the room. The panicked young man is McFarlane and he believes that he will be arrested for the murder of 52-year-old Jonas Oldacre. Oldacre’s burnt
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Hound of the Baskervilles (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Dr. James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for advice, after finding his friend Sir Baskerville dead. According to the official version, Baskerville died from a heart attack, but Mortimer thinks that something terrible happened to his frien
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B. J. Harrison Reads Lot No. 249 (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Abercrombie Smith and Edward Bellingham are neighbors and fellow students at the University of Oxford. Smith is a medical student and athlete, while Bellingham is a specialist of Eastern studies and the owner of many Egyptian artefacts. A series of stra
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Speckled Band (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Helen Stoner goes to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. She is afraid that her stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott, may be trying to kill her. Helen’s sister died mysteriously two years earlier, right before her own wedding. Her last words, which Helen n
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Gloria Scott (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes is still a student when he receives his very first case. While still in college, he is invited to the house of his good friend, Victor Trevor. There he meets Trevor’s father, who challenges Holmes to analyze him, so that he can test th
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Ring of Toth (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Mr. John Smith is a British student of Egyptology who travels to Paris. The main purpose of his trip is to visit the Louvre and research some papyri. Unfortunately, tired from going round the museum, Smith falls asleep in one its the many corners. Whe
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Leather Funnel (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Lionel Dacre is a young man who lives in a small house in Paris. Because of his large interest in the occult, Dacre has gathered a huge library of occult literature and many mysterious items. One of these items is a leather funnel next to which the youn
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Three Apples (EN)
– Anonymous: One day a poor fisherman finds a large and heavy chest. Caliph Harun al-Rashid buys the chest, thinking that it encloses a treasure. Instead, he finds out that it contains a woman’s corpse sliced into pieces. Following this discovery, the caliph orde
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B. J. Harrison Reads Sinbad the Sailor (EN)
– Anonymous: Sinbad is a poor man who works as a carrier under the regime of Harun al-Rashid. Every day, obediently, the man carries the heavy load on his head. One day he feels that fatigue taking over him, and he decides to sit and rest for a few minutes. While S
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Tale of Two Viziers (EN)
– Anonymous: After their father’s death, the two brothers, Nur al-Din and Shams al-Din, agree to marry two sisters on the same day. The main idea is that Nur wants to have a son, while Shams wants to have a daughter. And so it happens. Shams al-Din has a daughter