SAGA Egmont ALX
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Klasická literatúra
Four Great Americans (EN)
James Baldwin: An engaging introduction to four of the greatest Americans George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Their lives are set forth in a simple manner, yet with many interesting details, and a glimpse is given of the trials an
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Anne of Green Gables (EN)
Lucy Maud Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables is a children‘s classic by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery and recently adapted by Netflix in the hit series Anne with an E. 11-year-old Anne is mistakenly sent away from her orphanage to live on Prince Edward Island with brothe
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Reflections of War and Death (EN)
Sigmund Freud: Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert – it is still Freud’s argument – that our contempo
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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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Black Beauty (EN)
Anne Sewell: Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty (1877) dives into the topic of animal rights like no other novel. Black Beauty is raised by a caring mother on an idyllic farm, not knowing that he will never be as free again. Tossed from owner to owne
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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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Cranford (EN)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell: The humour in `Cranford‘ (1853) is so sly it is can be difficult to believe it was written over 150 years ago. Originally published in instalments and edited by Charles Dickens, the novel follows a delightful group of women in a small town who are unit
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (EN)
L. Frank Baum: “There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time,” said the Wizard. “As dead as poss’ble would be pretty dead, wouldn’t it?” asked Dorothy. ” During an earthquake in California Dorothy and her friends are swallowed up by cra
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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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Dream Days (EN)
Kenneth Grahame: Dream Days is a collection of children’s fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame’s 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature the same family of five children), Dream Days was first publi
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The Dragon and the Raven (EN)
G. A. Henty: During the reign of King Alfred, Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they are overrun by the savagery and sheer numbers of the Danes. One of those deeply touched by these attacks is youn
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The Age of Innocence (EN)
Edith Wharton: Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds himself drawn to May’s cousin Ellen
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Eight Cousins (EN)
Louisa May Alcott: Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls‘ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns
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Ethan Frome (EN)
Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993. Ethan Frome tells the story of
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Evangeline (EN)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acad
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The Innocence of Father Brown (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who stars in 52 short stories, later compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on Father John O’Connor (1870-1952), a parish priest in Bradford who was inv
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The Vicar of Wakefield (EN)
Oliver Goldsmith: First published in 1766, the loveable and innocent Dr Primrose and his family have given pleasure to all that have read it. The story opens with the vicar losing his fortune and moving to another parish. What follows is a tale of love, deceit, betrayal,
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Red Shadows (EN)
Robert E. Howard: First published in Weird Tales, August 1928, alternatively titled ‘Solomon Kane’. This was the first Solomon Kane story ever published. In France, Kane finds a girl attacked by a gang of brigands led by a villain known as Le Loup. As she dies in his ar
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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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Flappers and Philosophers (EN)
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, the girls turn viciously against each other. Based on letters F. Scott
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Frankenstein (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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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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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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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