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audioknihaEdith WhartonKlasická literatúra
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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audioknihaLouisa May Alcott
Deti a mládež
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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audioknihaEdith Wharton
Klasická literatúra
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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audioknihaHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
Klasická literatúra
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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audioknihaG. K. Chesterton
Klasická literatúra
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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audioknihaOliver Goldsmith
Klasická literatúra
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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audioknihaRobert E. Howard
Klasická literatúra
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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audioknihaJack London
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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audioknihaF. Scott Fitzgerald
Iné
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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audioknihaMary Shelley
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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audioknihaJonathan Swift
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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audioknihaJames Norman Hall
Dobrodružné romány
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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audioknihaAnna Katharine Green
Detektívky
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
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audioknihaAnna Katharine Green
Detektívky
The house in the Mist (EN)
Anna Katharine Green: “Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive. ” When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesome business of an appalling family. Mistaken for a relative himself, he soon
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audioknihaJames Baldwin
Klasická literatúra
Fifty Famous Stories Retold (EN)
James Baldwin: Includes fifty legendary tales depicting certain romantic episodes in the lives of well known heroes and famous men, or in the history of a people. Children naturally take a deep interest in such stories. The reading of them will not only give pleasure
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audioknihaCharles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
Klasická literatúra
Faery Lands of the South Seas (EN)
Charles Nordhoff,James Norman Hall: James Norman Hall (USA, 1887-1951) and Charles Nordhoff (USA, 1887-1947) Faery Lands of the South Seas (1920) Reader: Mike Vendetti Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They l
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audioknihaJonathan Swift
Humor, satira
A Modest Proposal (EN)
Jonathan Swift: In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it `A Modest Proposal‘ (1729) or `A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of P
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audioknihaRobert Louis Stevenson
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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audioknihaMyrtle Reed
Klasická literatúra
Lavender and Old Lace (EN)
Myrtle Reed: Lavender and Old Lace is a Victorian romance novel written by Myrtle Reed and published Sep. , 1902. It tells the story of some remarkable women, each of whom have a unique experience with love. The book follows in Reed’s long history of inciting laught
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audioknihaFrances Hodgson Burnett
Klasická literatúra
Little Lord Fauntleroy (EN)
Frances Hodgson Burnett: Little Lord Fauntleroy is the first children’s novel written by English playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was originally published as a serial in the St. Nicholas Magazine between November 1885 and October 1886, then as a book by Scribne
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audioknihaJoseph Conrad
Klasická literatúra
Lord Jim (EN)
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood’s Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He
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audioknihaG. K. Chesterton
Klasická literatúra
Manalive (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the ‘holy fool’, such as in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
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audioknihaJacob Abbot
Klasická literatúra
Margaret of Anjou (EN)
Jacob Abbot: Margaret of Anjou, wife of England’s Henry VI, played a key role in launching the storied War of the Roses – the 30 year civil conflict fuelled by the Lancasters and the Yorks, each vying for the British throne in the 15th century. Margaret of Anjou is o
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audioknihaMary Shelley
Klasická literatúra
Mathilda (EN)
Mary Shelley: On her deathbed, Mathilda writes a letter to her only friend, revealing the dark secret of her past, a secret so shameful, she can only manage it now because her time is running out. Written between 1819 and 1820, author Mary Shelley unfortunately never
