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| Alexandre Dumas
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Count of Monte Cristo
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55h
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Listen to the original story and judge for yourself how the main idea of revenge as a highly positive and commendable human aspiration has been misinterpreted by modern and not so modern Western movies....
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| William Morris
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Well at the World End
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28h
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J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis are but successors to William Morris. Tale of quest, adventure, magic and war set in an invented age and in the invented world of the author's own imagination. Lots of very old-fashioned archaic English....
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| Alexandre Dumas
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MUSKETEERS 1 - The Three Musketeers
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25h30m
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The 1st book of Musketeers adventures....
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| Sir Walter Scott
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Quentin Durward
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20h
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The only Walter Scott's book we like....
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| Captain Frederick Marryat
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Phantom Ship
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18h45m
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Another version of Flying Dutchman legend. This one involved the captain's son and his never-ending quest to release his father from the God's punishment. Usual lots of pirates, treasures, adventures, shipwrecks and supernatural. Even a bit of Inquisition thrown in for good measure. But nothing to do with The Pirates of The Caribbean film version....
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| Wilkie Collins
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Moonstone
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18h45m
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One of the very first English detective fictions...
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| Jules Verne
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Children of Captain Grant
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18h
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In non-English speaking countries this is most known Jules Verne's book and it is probably his best book, full of adventures and humour....
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| Arthur Conan Doyle
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White Company
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17h30m
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Tough English mercenaries fighting in the bitter and bloody wars of XIV century France. A roistering, devil-may-care time brought vividly to life....
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| Bram Stoker
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Dracula
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17h15m
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The original story is more terrifying than any movie....
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| P C Wren
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Sowing Glory
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15h45m
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Adventures of English woman disguised in male attire and joined French Foreign Legion. Very interesting book but too much of "officers club verbal banter". Lots of different foreign accents....
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| Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sir Nigel
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15h30m
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Medieval knights wars and adventures. Prequel to The White Company...
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| H Rider Haggard
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She
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15h
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SHE is the mysterious white queen of a Central African tribe, whose custom is to place red-hot pots upon the heads of strangers. African supernatural adventures....
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| Daniel Defoe
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Robinson Crusoe
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15h
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Never-ending adventures of Robinson Crusoe, including his famous 28 years on the uninhabited island....some of it not very PC now...
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| Mark Twain
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Yankee In King Arthurs Court
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15h
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Hilarious adventures of a Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court...
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| Jack London
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Sea Wolf
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14h30m
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After surviving shipwreck, refined intellectual Humphrey Van Weyden have been rescued by the "Ghost" under infamous Capitan Wolf Larsen....
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