Mark F Smith
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Dobrodružné romány
Around the World in 80 Days (EN)
Jules Verne: Phileas Fogg is English exactitude personified. He eats breakfast at 8:23, shaves at 9:37, and leaves for the Reform club at 11:30. He reads, eats, and doesn‘t travel. But one day, after getting into an argument over an article in the Daily Telegraph
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Klasická literatúra
Captain Courageous (EN)
Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen year old Harvey Cheyne Jr. , the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure’s, beginning with
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Detektívky
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (EN)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Arguably the best compilation of mystery stories ever, `The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes‘ (1892) is for any lover of intrigue and sophisticated humour. Sherlock‘s talent for solving cases based on things only he notices never disappoints, and everyo
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Klasická literatúra
White Fang (EN)
Jack London: When White Fang – part wolf, part dog – gets separated from his family, he must find a way to survive on his own. In a harsh Canadian environment that means kill or be killed. Tough surroundings and cruel masters make White Fang increasingly more ag
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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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Sci-fi, fantasy, horory
The Poison Belt (EN)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: “Bring oxygen – Challenger. ” The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance
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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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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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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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Klasická literatúra
The Wind in the Willows (EN)
Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children’s literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is nota