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The Sea Fairies [en] (1911)
Baum Description: Mayre Griffiths, nicknamed Trot, or sometimes Tiny Trot, is a little girl who lives on the coast of southern California. Her father is the captain of a sailing schooner, and her constant companion ... |
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The La Chance Mine Mystery [en] (1920)
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Whose Body? [en] (1923)
Sayers Description: Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect at the same time a noted financier goes missing under strange circumstances. As the case progresses ... |
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The Phantom of the Opera [en] (1910)
Leroux Description: The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano,... |
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A Master of Fortune [en] (1898)
Hyne Description: "The pay is small enough," said Captain Kettle, staring at the blue paper. "It's a bit hard for a man of my age and experience to come down to a job like piloting, on eight pound a month and my grub." |
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Gunman's Reckoning [en] (1921)
Brand Description: "It was time then for action, and Lefty Joe prepared for the descent into the home of the enemy. Let it not be thought that he approached this moment with a fallen heart, and with a cringing, snaky... |
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The Jungle [en] (1906)
Sinclair Description: The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by author and socialist journalist Upton Sinclair. It was written about the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century. The nov... |
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Doña Perfecta [es] (1876)
Pérez Galdós Description: En Doña Perfecta se hace el estudio de una ciudad imaginaria, Orbajosa, anclada en una tradición cerril de inmovilismo. Al llegar el ingenuo ingeniero progresista Pepe Rey para casarse con la hija ... |
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Siddhartha [en] (1922)
Hesse Description: Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was writ... |
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La Regenta [es] (1884)
Alas Description: Obra de gran extensión, ostenta cierta declarada semejanza con Madame Bovary de Flaubert, y Ana Karenina influencia a la que habría que añadir la del naturalismo y la del krausismo (corriente filos... |
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The Mill on the Floss [en] (1860)
Eliot Description: The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior ... |
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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain [en] (1848)
Dickens Description: Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past. He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw's phantom twin and is "an awful liken... |
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L'Étrange Cas du Dr Jekyll et de Mr Hyde [fr] (1885)
Stevenson Description: Conte l'histoire d'un avoué, Charles Utterson, qui enquête sur le lien étrange entre Edward Hyde et le médecin Henry Jekyll. Le Docteur Jekyll, un philanthrope obsédé par sa double personnalité, m... |
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A Dark Night's Work [en] (1863)
Gaskell Description: A concealed crime and a false accusation of murder. |
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L'Île au trésor [fr] (1883)
Stevenson Description: Le héros de cette histoire est Jim Hawkins, fils d'un tenancier d'auberge dans un port anglais, sur la côte ouest de l'Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle. Le principal client de cette auberge se trouve êt... |
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Le Roman de la momie [fr] (1858)
Gautier Description: Une très belle histoire d'amour se déroulant dans la fascinante Egypte ancienne. |
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The Raid on the Termites [en] (1932)
Ernst Description: Armed with splinters of steel, two ant-sized men dare the formidable mysteries of a termitary. |
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Bull Hunter [en] (1924)
Brand Description: Hunter was a man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner. Nobody west of the Pecos would have dared run afoul of the mighty ... |
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The Last of the Mohicans [en] (1826)
Cooper Description: The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time. Its narrative flaws we... |
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The Filibusters [en] (1900)
Hyne Description: This story deals with the participants in an expedition that successfully captures the presidency of a Central American republic. It is very exciting, the incidents being fresh and daring with not ... |
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My Lady Ludlow [en] (1858)
Gaskell Description: My Lady Ludlow is a long novella (over 77,000 words). It appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, with framing passages added at the start an... |
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Poil de carotte [fr] (1894)
Renard Description: « Tout le monde ne peut pas être orphelin. » Poil de carotte est un enfant très mal aimé qui, pour lutter contre les humiliations quotidiennes et la haine maternelle, n'a que la ruse. Sans doute... |
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Nana [en] (1880)
Zola Description: Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, which was to tell "The Natural and Social H... |
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The Moonstone [en] (1868)
Collins Description: Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot ... |
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Thérèse Raquin [en] (1867)
Zola Description: Thérèse Raquin is a novel by Émile Zola, first published in 1867. It was originally published in serial format in the journal L'Artiste. It was published in book format in December of the same year... |
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Anne's House of Dreams [en] (1917)
Montgomery Description: A chronicle of Anne’s early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together. |
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The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu [en] (1913)
Rohmer Description: Follow the exciting adventures of Commissioner Nayland Smith as he pursues Dr. Fu Manchu across the opium dens of Thames-side London and various country estates. |
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The Planet Strappers [en] (1961)
Gallun Description: The Planet Strappers started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what the... |
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Nobody's Boy (Sans Famille) [en] (1878)
Malot Description: Hector Malot's most famous book, tells the story of an orphan, raised by a loving adoptive mother, later sold to an entertainer, traveling across the French countryside. Nobody's Boy became imme... |
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Historia de la vida del Buscón [es] (1626)
Quevedo Description: El Buscón es un relato de la peripecia vital del pícaro don Pablos de Segovia, desde su infancia a la proyectada fuga a Indias con que termina la obra. Entre estos dos polos se sitúa una serie de a... |
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Zalacaín el aventurero [es] (1909)
Baroja Description: La obra narra las aventuras y desventuras de un muchacho vasco, Martín Zalacaín, nacido en Urbía y criado por el viejo Miguel Tellagorri, un cínico de la taberna del Arcale. Su hermana, la Ñasía o ... |
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Black Jack [en] (1922)
Brand Description: The raucous beginning of Brand's Western is traditional: A gunfighter is shot dead in the street. However, when spinster Elizabeth Cornish takes his baby to raise and wagers with her brother that b... |
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Drácula [es] (1897)
Stoker Description: Drácula (Vlad Draculea), protagonista de la novela homónima del irlandés Bram Stoker, de 1897, que dio lugar a una larga lista de versiones de cine, cómics y teatro. Drácula es el más famoso de los... |
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Anne of the Island [en] (1915)
Montgomery Description: This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne attends Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her BA. The book is dedicate... |
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Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley [en] (1922)
Lord Dunsany Description: A coming of age story set in the mythical "golden age" of Spain. The titular character is excluded from the inheritance of the family castle on the grounds that given his expertise with sword and m... |
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El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde [es] (1886)
Stevenson Description: El Extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde (a veces abreviado simplemente a El Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde) es una novela escrita por Robert Louis Stevenson, publicada por primera vez en inglés en 1886, c... |
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Alcatraz [en] (1922)
Brand Description: A classic western from one of the masters of the genre. |
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Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha [es] (1615)
Cervantes Description: Don Quijote de la Mancha, escrito por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, editado en 1605, es una de las obras más destacadas de la literatura española y la literatura universal, y una de las más traduci... |
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El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha [es] (1605)
Cervantes Description: Don Quijote de la Mancha, escrito por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, editado en 1605, es una de las obras más destacadas de la literatura española y la literatura universal, y una de las más traduci... |
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Moll Flanders [en] (1722)
Defoe Description: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (commonly known as simply "Moll Flanders") is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722. Defoe wrote this after his work as a journalist an... |
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La metamorfosis [es] (1915)
Kafka Description: La metamorfosis (Die Verwandlung, en su título original en alemán) es un relato de Franz Kafka, publicado en 1915 y que narra la historia de Gregorio Samsa, un comerciante de telas que vive con su ... |
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L’Amour Impossible [fr] (1841)
Barbey d'Aurevilly Description: Extrait de la Préface: "L’Amour impossible est à peine un roman, c’est une chronique, et la dédicace qu’on y a laissée atteste sa réalité. C’est l’histoire d’une de ces femmes comme les classes élé... |
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Les Amants de Venise [fr] (1909)
Zévaco Description: La suite du Pont des soupirs, l'accomplissement de la terrible vengeance de Roland Candiano... |
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Le Pont des soupirs [fr] (1909)
Zévaco Description: Les Vénitiens en liesse acclament Roland Candiano, le fils du doge, qui s'apprête à fêter ses fiançailles avec Léonore, descendante de l'illustre famille Dandolo - et pourtant le doge et la dogares... |
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La Cour des miracles [fr] (1910)
Zévaco Description: Ce deuxième tome va peu à peu dénouer l'écheveau habilement noué par l'auteur dans Triboulet. Trois personnes, enlevées à leurs parents dans leur tendre enfance, vont voir leur destin s'entrecroise... |
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Triboulet [fr] (1910)
Zévaco Description: À 50 ans, François 1er est las de la belle Ferronnière, il aime la douce et jeune Gilette. Or Gilette n'est autre que la fille adoptive de son fou, Triboulet, et est aimée de Manfred, truand de la ... |
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Anne of Avonlea [en] (1909)
Montgomery Description: Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avon... |
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Anne of Green Gables [en] (1908)
Montgomery Description: Marilla Cuthbert and Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia... |
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Borgia ! [fr] (1906)
Zévaco Description: À partir de personnages et de faits réels, l'auteur a imaginé une formidable épopée: celle d'un chevalier français, pauvre mais plein d'audace, le jeune Ragastens qui, après s'être mis au service d... |
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North and South [en] (1855)
Gaskell Description: North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine... |
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The Nebuly Coat [en] (1903)
Falkner Description: The Nebuly Coat (1903), by J. Meade Falkner, is a novel which tells of the experiences of a young architect, Edward Westray, who is sent to the remote Dorset town of Cullerne to supervise restorati... |
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Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen [de] (1909)
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Venus im Pelz [de] (1901)
Von Sacher-Masoch Description: Venus im Pelz ist eine Novelle (1870) von Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Es sollte der erste Teil eines sechsbändigen Zyklus zum Thema „Liebe“ werden, der aber nie weitergeführt wurde. Er beschreibt da... |
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Vater Goriot [de] (1835)
Balzac Description: Balzacs Roman Le Père Goriot thematisiert an einem praktisch alle Sozialschichten umfassenden Personenensemble sowohl den gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg als auch dessen Niederungen und Abgründe im Kon... |
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Knulp [de] (1915)
Hesse Description: Knulp - Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps - ist eine Erzählung von Hermann Hesse, erschienen 1915. "Fischers Bibliothek zeitgenössischer Romane" The Project Gutenberg |
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Hearts of Three [en] (1918)
London Description: Originally intended as a film scenario, this plot is an improbably adventure story that can't help but bring to mind the "Lost Ark" films of decades later! |
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Michael, Brother of Jerry [en] (1917)
London Description: This story of brutality toward animals inspired a movement known as the Jack London Clubs, which were devoted to the cause of animal welfare and humane treatment. |
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Siddhartha [de] (1922)
Hesse Description: Digitalisiert vom Projekt Gutenberg Eine indische Dichtung ist eine Erzählung von Hermann Hesse, die im S. Fischer Verlag in Berlin im Jahr 1922 zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht wurde. Siddharth... |
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Un prêtre marié [fr] (1864)
Barbey d'Aurevilly |
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Jerry of the Islands [en] (1917)
London Description: Jerry is a dog whose experiences reflect the cruelty and racism of colonial Melanesia. |
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The Little Lady of the Big House [en] (1916)
London Description: A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from ... |
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The Blue Germ [en] (1918)
Nicoll Description: The invention of a germ that can kill all other germs, eradicating death but also desire. |
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The Star Rover [en] (1915)
London Description: The great transmigration novel inspired by the experiences of an ex-prisoner's acount of coping with "the Jacket," a form of torture at San Quentin. London was a lifelong supporter of humane prison... |
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore [en] (1914)
London Description: Written during a time of tragedy, this novel of sea life fails in either its story or doctrinaire intentions. |
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The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow [en] (1917)
Green Description: A woman's body is found in a museum gallery with an arrow through her chest, so all of the other visitors are locked inside while the crime is investigated. |
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A Strange Disappearance [en] (1880)
Green Description: A housekeeper reports the disappearance of a sewing-maid from a wealthy household. She insists that the girl has been abducted. Mr Gryce and a young detective investigate. The missing young woman h... |
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La Vallée de la peur [fr] (1915)
Doyle Description: Sherlock Holmes reçoit un message l’avertissant de l’assassinat d’un certain Douglas de Birlstone Manor House. L’inspecteur Mac Donald de Scotland Yard vient lui annoncer cette même nouvelle. Ils p... |
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The Second Jungle Book [en] (1895)
Kipling Description: The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most ... |
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The People of the Ruins [en] (1920)
Shanks |
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Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice [en] (1919)
Cabell Description: Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice is a 1919 fantasy book by James Branch Cabell - the eighth among some fifty-two books written by this author - which gained fame (or notoriety, in the view of some) shor... |
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Le Chien des Baskerville [fr] (1902)
Doyle Description: Le Chien des Baskerville (The Hound of the Baskervilles) est un roman policier anglais d'Arthur Conan Doyle, publié pour la première fois dans le Strand Magazine en 1901 et 1902. La légende court ... |
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Le Signe des quatre [fr] (1890)
Doyle Description: Le Signe des quatre est la deuxième aventure de Sherlock Holmes, écrite en 1890 par Arthur Conan Doyle. Le Signe des quatre se déroule en 1888. Son intrigue s'appuie sur l'Inde coloniale, un tréso... |
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Une Étude en rouge [fr] (1887)
Doyle Description: Londres, 1878. Le Dr Watson fait la connaissance de Sherlock Holmes lorsqu'ils décident d'habiter ensemble. Un jour, Sherlock Holmes reçoit une lettre de Tobias Gregson, un des limiers de Scotland... |
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Candide, ou l'Optimisme [fr] (1759)
Voltaire Description: Candide, ou l’Optimisme est un conte philosophique de Voltaire paru à Genève en janvier 1759. Il a été réédité vingt fois du vivant de l’auteur (plus de cinquante aujourd’hui) ce qui en fait un des... |
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The Leavenworth Case [en] (1878)
Green Description: Horatio Leavenworth is a New York merchant whose material wealth is matched by his eminence in the community and reputation for good works. He is also the guardian of two striking nieces who share ... |
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The Valley of the Moon [en] (1913)
London Description: The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind and searched Cen... |
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La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades [es] (1554)
Anonymous Description: Lazarillo de Tormes es un esbozo irónico y despiadado de la sociedad del momento, de la que se muestran sus vicios y actitudes hipócritas, sobre todo las de los clérigos y religiosos. http://es... |
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Seven Out of Time [en] (1939)
Zagat Description: The novel concerns scientists from the future who pull seven people out of time in order to study emotion which has been lost to the human race. |
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The Moving Picture Girls [en] (1914)
Hope Description: Actor Hosmer DeVere and his daughters Ruth and Alice struggle to make ends meet while Mr. DeVere is between theatrical engagements. Things look up when he wins a leading role in an upcoming play, ... |
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The Talleyrand Maxim [en] (1920)
Fletcher Description: Nesta, left alone, gave herself up to deep thought, and to a careful reckoning of her position. She was longing to confide in some trustworthy person or persons, for Pratt's revelations had plunged... |
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Scarhaven Keep [en] (1922)
Fletcher Description: When the great actor, Bassett Oliver, who was a martinet for punctuality, failed to turn up to a rehearsal which he himself had called, his business manager guessed that something had happened. It ... |
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Los viajes de Gulliver [es] (1726)
Swift Description: Los viajes de Gulliver (1726) es una novela satírica de Jonathan Swift. Presentándose como el "Dr. Lemuel Gulliver", pretendió divulgar sus viajes en los que se encuentra con una serie de culturas ... |
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The Safety Pin [en] (1924)
Fletcher Description: An elderly man called Deane is murdered in an English town. Inspector Mellapont thinks it's a simple robbery, but others disagree, and Deane's business partner, an attractive young girl named Miss ... |
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The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation [en] (1922)
Fletcher Description: Excerpt: "That's just what I was going to suggest, he said. "There's no good to be done hanging about here. Let's get on to the scene of operations. If Miss Lennard's maid has stolen her jewels, sh... |
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Ravensdene Court [en] (1922)
Fletcher Description: An expert in rare books is invited to a remote Northumbrian manor house to catalogue a library. Mysterious events ensue... |
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The Paradise Mystery [en] (1920)
Fletcher Description: A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery. |
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Refuge [en] (2008)
Herley Description: Like The Penal Colony, this is a thriller set in the near future. It is twelve years on from a global plague. John Suter believes himself the sole survivor. He has gradually come to terms with h... |
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Mr. Justice Raffles [en] (1909)
Hornung Description: This engaging rascal is found helping a young cricket player out of the toils of a money shark. Novel in plot, thrilling and amusing. |
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The Orange-Yellow Diamond [en] (1921)
Fletcher |
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The Middle Temple Murder [en] (1919)
Fletcher Description: The body of a man is found on the steps to Middle Temple Lane near London's courts of law, and a journalist and a young lawyer are drawn into the ensuing investigation. |
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The Middle of Things [en] (1922)
Fletcher Description: Classic detective fiction featuring amateur detectives. |
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The Herapath Property [en] (1921)
Fletcher Description: Excerpt: "This was the third week of Selwood’s secretaryship to Jacob Herapath. Herapath was a well-known man in London. He was a Member of Parliament, the owner of a sort of model estate of up-to-... |
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La Fin de Fausta [fr] (1926)
Zévaco Description: La suite du volume IX, La Fin de Pardaillan, et la fin de ce cycle majeur dans l'oeuvre de Zévaco. |
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In the Mayor's Parlour [en] (1922)
Fletcher Description: The Mayor of a small town is found murdered. A classic "whodunnit". |
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Dead Men's Money [en] (1920)
Fletcher Description: Nothing is what it seems, and dead bodies abound in this classic 1920 murder mystery from the British crime author and journalist, J.S. Fletcher. |
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La Fin de Pardaillan [fr] (1926)
Zévaco Description: Paris, 1614. Louis XIII n'est qu'un jeune garçon de quatorze ans. La reine mère Marie de Médicis est régente et les Concini abusent de sa faiblesse pour usurper le pouvoir et piller le trésor royal... |
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The Infinite Sea [en] (1997)
Carver Description: Interstellar troubleshooter John Bandicut returns for an amiably routine third installment (after Strange Attractors) in Carvel's Chaos Chronicles, journeying to a world where the dominant civiliza... |
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Captain Gardiner of the International Police [en] (1916)
Allen Description: In the far flung year of 1975 ("sixty years after the last and most terrible European war") Captain Gardiner, a squarejawed two-fisted Slab Thunkchest type, is the best agent that the International... |
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The Abysmal Brute [en] (1911)
London Description: A prize fighter faces the corruption of civilization and finds redemption in the wilds of California. |
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Astoria [en] (1835)
Irving Description: Astoria by Washington Irving examines the history of the Rocky Mountain Fur trade with a look at John Jacob Astor's American Fur Trade company. |