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audioknihaSir Arthur Conan DoyleSci-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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audioknihaSigmund Freud
Klasická literatúra
Psychopathology of Everyday Life (EN)
Sigmund Freud: Psychopathology of Everyday Life, is a book which passed through four editions in Germany and is considered the author’s most popular work. With great ingenuity and penetration the author throws much light on the complex problems of human behavior, and c
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audioknihaRobert E. Howard
Klasická literatúra
Red Nails (EN)
Robert E. Howard: Red Nails is the last of the stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E. Howard. A novella, it was originally serialized in Weird Tales magazine from July to October 1936. It is set in the pseudo historical Hyborian Age and c
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audioknihaFrances Hodgson Burnett
The Shuttle (EN)
Frances Hodgson Burnett: Smart and intuitive, Bettina is not fooled by Sir Nigel, the English aristocrat, who has come to New York to marry her sweet and naïve older sister Rosalie. And rightly so: Sir Nigel is cruel and selfish and only marries Rosalie for her money. But stil
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audioknihaAnthony Hope
Klasická literatúra
Rupert of Hentzau (EN)
Anthony Hope: Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895, but not published until 1898. This story commences three years after the conclusion of Zenda, and deals with the same fictional country somewhere in Germanic Middle
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audioknihaLaura Lee Hope
Klasická literatúra
The Moving Picture Girls (EN)
Laura Lee Hope: Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City – times are hard, even for a talented actor like Mr. DeVere. Just as he successfully auditions for a new play, an old voice affliction renders him terribly hoarse
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audioknihaSarah Orne Jewett
Klasická literatúra
Deephaven (EN)
Sarah Orne Jewett: Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common place daily events to something remarkable, and lend dignity and grace to the most humble and homely human character. In Deephaven, go with her on vaca
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audioknihaJane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (EN)
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility (1811) was Jane Austens first published novel. When their father dies the Dashwood sisters and their mother find themselves destitute and soon, under the influence of his greedy wife Fanny, their half-brother John forces them out of
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audioknihaGeorge Eliot
Klasická literatúra
Silas Marner (EN)
George Eliot: “I thinkSilas Marnerholds a higher place than any of the author’s works,” said Henry James of this classic George Eliot novel. When a little girl wanders into a random house one cold night, the lives of two different men are about to change dramatically.
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audioknihaRobert Louis Stevenson
Detektívky
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
Deti a mládež
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
Deti a mládež
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
