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The Complete Richard Hannay Stories : The Thirty-Nine Steps ; Greenmantle ; Mr Standfast ; The Three Hostage & The Island of Sheep / John Buchan. - Wydanie 2. - Ware : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2010. - 990 strony ; 20 cm.

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Buchan, John (1875-1940). Autor Buchan, John (1875-1940). The Thirty-Nine Steps (ang.) Buchan, John (1875-1940). Greenmantle (ang.) Buchan, John (1875-1940). Mr Standfast (ang.) Buchan, John (1875-1940). The Three Hostage (ang.) Buchan, John (1875-1940). The Island of Sheep (ang.)

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Na tylnej okladce: Complete and Unabridged.

Zawiera: The Thirty-Nine Steps ; Greenmantle ; Mr Standfast ; The Three Hostage ; The Island of Sheep.

Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the dour temperament of the Scot with the stiff upper lip of the Englishman, Hannay is pre-eminent among early spy-thriller heroes. Caught up in the first of these five gripping adventures just before the outbreak of war in 1914, he manages to thwart the enemy's evil plan and solve the mystery of the 'thirty-nine steps'. In Greenmantle, he undertakes a vital mission to prevent jihad in the Islamic Near East. Mr Standfast, set in the decisive months of 1917-18, is the novel in which Hannay, after a life lived 'wholly among men', finally falls in love; later, in The Three Hostages, he finds himself unravelling a kidnapping mystery with his wife's help. In the last adventure, The Island of Sheep, he is called upon to honour an old oath. A shrewd judge of men, he never dehumanises his enemy, and despite sharing some of the racial prejudices of his day, Richard Hannay is a worthy prototype hero of espionage fiction.

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The Last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper ; Introduction and Notes by David Blair. - London : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2002. - XXIV, [2], 350 stron ; 20 cm.

(Leatherstocking Tales / James Fenimore Cooper ; 2)

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Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851). Autor Blair, David (literaturoznawca). Wstęp Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851). Leatherstocking Tales (ang.)

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Na okładce: Complete and unabridged.

It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father. Thwarted by Magua, the sinister 'Indian runner', they find help in the person of Hawk-eye, the white woodsman, and his companions, the Mohican Chingachgook and Uncas, his son, the last of his tribe. Cooper’s novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain, skirmishes, treachery and brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists and the native peoples. Through the character of Hawkeye, Cooper raises lasting questions about the practices of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures.

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In Chancery / John Galsworthy. - Ware : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1994. - [4], 229 stron ; 20 cm.

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Galsworthy, John (1867-1933). Autor

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Forsyte Saga / John Galsworthy ; 2

Na okładce: Complete and Unabriged.

English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. The second book in Galsworthy's famous The Forsyte Saga. The novel begins: The possessive instinct never stands still. Through florescence and feud, frosts and fires, it followed the laws of progression even in the Forsyte family which had believed it fixed for ever. Nor can it be dissociated from environment any more than the quality of potato from the soil.

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Grimm's Fairy Tales / J. L. C, & W. C. Grimm. - Wydanie 2. - Ware : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2000. - 272 strony ; 20 cm.

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Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863). Autor Grimm, Wilhelm (1786-1859). Autor

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9-13 lat Młodzież

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The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane's charming line drawings.

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100 Selected Stories / O. Henry ; Chosen by Sapper. - Ware : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1995. - [8], 735 stron ; 20 cm.

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Henry, O. (1862-1910). Autor

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With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. This selection of a hundred of O. Henryĺs succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas. These stories are famed for their Ĺtrick endingsĺ or Ĺtwists in the tailĺ: repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henryĺs cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates. His style is genial, lively and witty, displaying a virtuosoĺs command of language and allusion. This great collection offers delights for the mind, imagination and emotions.

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The Portrait of a Lady / Henry James ; With Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. - Wydanie 2. - London : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1999. - XVII, 504 strony ; 20 cm.

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James, Henry (1843-1916). Autor Kelly, Lionel. Wstęp

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Na okładce: Complete and unabridged.

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading.

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Tales of Mystery and Imagination / Edgar Allan Poe. - Ware : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1993. - XIV, 286 s. ; 20 cm.

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Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849).

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Na okł.: Complete and Unabriged.

This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Premature Burial' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart', all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included.

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