Jack London
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On the Makaloa Mat – ebook
Jack London
The storybook „On the Makaloa Mat” tells the story of the lives of natives and whites in the Hawaiian Islands. The story, which gave the name to this brilliant collection, is considered one of the best works about love in world literature. Each story has common features: firstly, they all describe some side of life in the Hawaiian Islands, and secondly, these are all the memories of old people, or...Data dostępności:
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Tales of the Fish Patrol – ebook
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This is a collection of short stories by Jack London. The action of the stories takes place in the bay of San Francisco, in the center of the plot is the activity of the local „fish surveillance”. The narration is conducted in the first person, the narrator is the owner of the reindeer sloop, chartered by a fishing company to patrol the bay in order to prevent illegal fishing methods. Another main...Data dostępności:
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Dutch Courage and Other Stories – ebook
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The young man dreams of the sea, runs away from home, hides in the hold of the ship, with the help of a friend is supplied with food. Then the terrible happens – the robinsonade of a man locked in a hold! The food spoils, the young man cannot leave his shelter for many reasons, he suffocates, suffers from hunger... The agony of body and soul begins, only at the very end comes salvation.Data dostępności:
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The Scarlet Plague – ebook
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Books about the future are always interesting to read in order to reflect on what may await us if we do not take certain actions. Usually we imagine that in many years science and technology will reach a new level, people will become more and more developed both physically and mentally, but Jack London in his novel shows a completely different world in which there is no science, medicine is replaced...Data dostępności:
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Lost Face – ebook
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Jack London, as part of his Nordic Tales series, raises a problem that is difficult to articulate clearly. This is a situation when a person is faced with the inevitability of a terrible painful death. A choice arises before him, which is worse: to accept a painful end, clinging to life until the last breath, or to die voluntarily. The peculiarity of the story is that the main character is a citizen...Data dostępności:
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Burning Daylight – ebook
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Elam Harnish is by nature a player to whom his whole life seems to be a game. Skillfully and cynically playing, Harnish makes millions. A successful businessman lives by the laws of the jungle until he meets the stenographer Didon Mason. From this moment, his life under the beneficial influence of love changes, he becomes a spiritual person. Once he finds a gold mine, and the former excitement lights...Data dostępności:
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Adventure – ebook
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The novel „Adventure” in an acute, exciting form tells about the life of American and European settlers on the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean. The main characters are no less pathos than villains who are so colorful in their villainy that they set their teeth together. Jack London, in the preface, writes that this book came out of the movie script. And truly, it is full of adventure, changing...Data dostępności:
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A Son of the Sun – ebook
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Son of the sun – a cycle of stories. The heroes of which are honest, persistent and courageous people, romantics, adventurers who have passed through difficult physical and moral tests in their lives. Griffiths and Jacobsen decided to trick Vulture into fleeing without paying the bills. But it would be better if they did not try to deceive the Son of the Sun.Data dostępności:
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The Star Rover – ebook
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Sentenced to execution a prisoner of solitary confinement travels in time, according to his past incarnations on Earth. From the primeval world to the nearest history. And we participate with him in certain events, experience ups and downs, love earthly and unearthly love, enjoy and experience humiliation, approaching the One Man whom the author tried to introduce to us.Data dostępności:
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore – ebook
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The main character tells about his stay on the ship „Elsinore”, in which from the very beginning there are not the most rainbow events. With each chapter of the event more and more go beyond the framework of the rational and the main character is aware of this. Traveling by ship is a long coexistence of many people in a limited space, where they have nowhere to go from each other, and they are forced...Data dostępności:
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