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“The Cruise of the Dazzler” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy's adventure novel. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school,...

W oświadczeniu nadanym przez radio niezidentyfikowana grupa terrorystów grozi spowodowaniem potężnego trzęsienia ziemi. Gubernator Kalifornii i policja ignorują ostrzeżenie. Czy warto przejmować się tak absurdalnie brzmiącą groźbą? Młoda agentka FBI Judy Maddox uważa, że tak i podejmuje intensywne śledztwo. Rozmowa z sejsmologiem Michaelem Quercusem przekonuje ją o możliwości planowego wywoływania...

“The Sea-Wolf” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Sea-Wolf is a psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. It tells the story of a soft, domesticated protagonist — an intellectual man named Humphrey Van Weyden — forced to become tough and self-reliant...

“The Mucker“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. This is the first book in the Mucker series. Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind and has only meager...