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„North of 36” is another magnificent novel by the author of „The Covered Wagon”. This is just a good old-fashioned western about the first cattle drive...

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„The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain” is an 1848 ghost story by Charles Dickens. It is the final novella in Dickens’ series of five Christmas Books,...

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Philippe d’Orléans, regent of France, although having a hard time with his two daughters and a son, wants to take care of another young girl, his...

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A book with some gothic trends in the beginning. Dark and stormy night, terrible secrets, fainting of women and orphans. The December night was wet and...

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The action revolves around three characters: a young and beautiful maiden who travels around America with fiery speeches about the importance of women;...

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„Murder in Picadilly” is a typical so-called „Golden Age” detective story published in 1936 and set in and around Soho. The story concerns the fortunes...

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A group of people is a powerful mixture of competing ambitions, and its idealism finds little satisfaction in agriculture. Instead of changing the world,...

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Little Kim meets an amazing man, a Tibetan llama, who descended from the mountains to the plains of India in search of a wonderful river. The Lama is...

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The novel is complicated, it’s true. Long, ornate sentences, philosophical speculations of the characters, complex in their structure and further...

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The image of a young American woman is central to the story „Madame de Mauves”, which prefaces the „Portrait of a Woman”. Deceived by the wife of an...

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Isabel, the main character of the story, knows the charm of marriage with a worthless person. Her fate – the confluence of fatal circumstances. Being a...

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In this story, Henry James continues his favorite theme – Old World vs New World. An American woman with a turbulent past, agitated, spontaneous,...

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Septimus Felton talks about the thirst for eternal life. Gothic, and sometimes irresistible, is the last book of this author. He changes the roles of the...

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The main character had some rivalry with the main character had some kind of rivalry with George Korvikm. He did more things than the main character, and...

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„Madame Bovary” is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, often considered his masterpiece. Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she...

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Aleksandr Petrovich lives through a spiritual re-awakening that culminates with his release from the prison camp. The narrator has been sentenced to...

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The main character in the story is a detective story. He is investigating a mysterious murder. Detective and young Richard Marchmont soon discover that...

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Inspired by Dostoevsky’s own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary...

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The main character Katherine is a girl who does not differ in anything special, but is at the same time quite an enviable bride, she has a good dowry....