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Aeternitas's Library:

Diskuze zde.

Books:

Read:

Daniel Defoe:
- Robinson Crusoe (ENG) - 1719 / adventure - 02/2014

Arthur Conan Doyle:
- The Lost World (ENG) - 1912 / adventure - I/2014
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (ENG) - 1902 / crime - 06/2014

Mary Shelley:
- Frankenstein (ENG) - 1818 / horror - 12/2013-01/2014

Bram Stoker:
- Dracula (ENG) - 1897 / horror - 12/2013

Jonathan Swift:
- Gulliver's Travels (ENG) - 1726 / adventure - 01/2014

Jules Verne:
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (ENG, transl. from FRA) - 1864 / adventure - I/2014

H.G. Wells:
- The Island of Dr. Moreau (ENG) - 1896 / horror - 11/2013
- The Invisible Man (ENG) - 1897 / sci-fi - 10/2013
- The Wars of the Worlds (ENG) - 1898 / sci-fi - 10/2013
- The Time Machine (ENG) - 1895 / sci-fi - 9/2013

Arthur Conan Doyle:
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ENG) - 1892 / crime


Reading:

many


Plan to read:

Sir Walter Scott:
- Rob Roy (ENG) - 1817 / history
- Ivanhoe (ENG) - 1820 / history fiction

Frances Hodgson Burnett:
- The Secret Garden (ENG) - 1910 / fantasy

Ken Follett:
- The Pillars of the Earth (ENG) - 1989 / history
- World Without End (ENG) - 2007 / history

Victor Hugo:
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (ENG, transl. from FRA) - 1831 / history

Robert Anson Heinlein:
- Starship Troopers (ENG) - 1959 / sci-fi

David Andrew Gemmell:
- Legend (ENG) - 1984 / fantasy

Robert Louis Stevenson:
- Treasure Island (ENG) - 1883 / adventure

Thomas Keneally:
- Schindler's Ark (ENG) - 1982 / history


Plan to read in longer future:

Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams:
- Tunnels (ENG) - 2007 / adventure
- Deeper (ENG) - 2008 / adventure
- Freefall (ENG) - 2009 / adventure
- Closer (ENG) - 2010 / adventure
- Spiral (ENG) - 2011 / adventure
- Terminal (ENG) - 2013 / adventure

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien:
- The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (ENG) - 1937 / fantasy
- The Lord of the Rings (3 volumes) (ENG) - 1954/55 / fantasy

Isaac Asimov:
- Prelude to Foundation (ENG) - 1988 / sci-fi
- Forward the Foundation (ENG) - 1993 / sci-fi
- Foundation (ENG) - 1951 / sci-fi
- Foundation and Empire (ENG) - 1952 / sci-fi
- Second Foundation (ENG) - 1953 / sci-fi
- Foundation's Edge (ENG) - 1982 / sci-fi
- Foundation and Earth (ENG) - 1986 / sci-fi

Jules Verne:
- Around the World in Eighty Days* (ENG, transl. from FRA) - 1872 / adventure
- The Village in the Treetops* (ENG, transl. from FRA) - 1901 / adventure

Arthur Conan Doyle:
- The Case of Sherlock Holmes (ENG) - ? / crime

Christopher Priest:
- Inverted World (ENG) - 1974 / sci-fi

Edgar Rice Burroughs:
- The Land That Time Forgot (ENG) - 1918 / sci-fi
- The People That Time Forgot (ENG) - 1918 / sci-fi
- Out of Time's Abyss (ENG) - 1918 / sci-fi

Howard Phillips Lovecraft:
- At the Mountains of Madness (ENG) - 1931 / sci-fi

Bill Adams, Cecil Brooks:
- The Unwound Way (ENG) - 1991 / sci-fi
- The End of Fame (ENG) - 1994 / sci-fi

Harry Harrison:
- Deathworld 1 (ENG) - 1960 / sci-fi
- Deathworld 2 (ENG) - 1964 / sci-fi
- Deathworld 3 (ENG) - 1968 / sci-fi

Sir Henry Rider Haggard:
- King Solomon's Mines (ENG) - 1885 / sci-fi

William King:
- Trollslayer (ENG) - 1999 / fantasy
- Skavenslayer (ENG) - 1999 / fantasy
- Daemonslayer (ENG) - 1999 / fantasy
- Dragonslayer (ENG) - 2000 / fantasy
- Beastslayer (ENG) - 2001 / fantasy
- Vampireslayer (ENG) - 2001 / fantasy
- Giantslayer (ENG) - 2003 / fantasy

George Raymond Richard Martin:
- A Game of Thrones (ENG) - 1996 / fantasy
- A Clash of Kings (ENG) - 1998 / fantasy
- A Storm of Swords (ENG) - 2000 / fantasy
- A Feast for Crows (ENG) - 2005 / fantasy
- A Dance with Dragons (ENG) - 2011 / fantasy
- The Winds of Winter* (ENG) - upcoming / fantasy
- A Dream of Spring* (ENG) - upcoming / fantasy

Michael Crichton:
- Eaters of the Dead (ENG) - 1976 / adventure
- Congo (ENG) - 1980 / adventure

Geoffrey Chaucer:
- The Canterbury Tales* (Middle ENG) - 14th century / fiction-history

Sir John Mandeville:
- The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville* (Anglo-Norman French) - cca 1356-1357 / (partly) fiction-history
(The Egerton/Cotton/Metrical version of Mandeville's travels 14th century)

Edison Marshall:
- The Viking* (ENG) - 1965 / fiction-history

Richard A. Knaak:
- ?* (ENG) - ? / fantasy

(* starred books I don't have)

E-Books:


Read:

Daniel Defoe:
- The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (ENG) - 1719 / adventure e-book - 05/2014


Reading:

James de Mille:
- Lost in the Fog (ENG) - 1870 / fiction

David Livingstone:
- Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (ENG) - 1857 / exploration voyages e-book


Plan to read:

Mark Twain:
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (ENG) - ? / fiction

Ethan Allen Andrews:
- A Grammar of the Latin Language (ENG) - ? / linguistic

Daniel Defoe:
- A Journal of the Plague (ENG) - ? / history
- The history and lives ... pirates (ENG) - ? / history
- The Life and Actions of ... Cartouche (ENG) - ? / fiction

Robert Knox:
- An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon (ENG) - ? / history

Karl Joseph Simrock:
- Beowulf (DEU-schvab.) - ? / fiction

Johannes de Fordun:
- Chronica Gentis Scotorum (ENG) - ? / history

Jules Verne:
- Cinq semaines en ballon (FRA) - ? / fiction
- Les enfants du capitaine Grant (FRA) - ? / fiction
- Voyages et aventures de capitaine Hatteras (FRA) - ? / fiction
- Autour de la Lune (FRA) - ? / fiction

Gaius Iulius Caesar:
- Commentarii de bello gallico (LAT) - ? / history

Francis Trevelyan Buckland:
- Curiosities of Natural History (ENG) - ? / science

Peter Andreas Munch:
- Den Aeldre Edda (old-NOR) - ? / fiction

Fredegarius:
- Die Chronik Fredegars und der Frankenkoenige (DEU-schvab.) - ? / history

?:
- Entwurf eine Geschichte (DEU-schvab.) - ? / science

Thomas Skinner:
- Excursions in India (ENG) - ? / history

Carl Ludwig Blum:
- Herodot und Ktesias (DEU-schvab.) - ? / history

Herodotus:
- Historiarum libri IX (LAT-GRK) - ? / history

Megasthenes:
- Indica (LAT-GRK) - ? / history

Joseph Rawson Lumby:
- King Horn (ENG) - ? / fiction

De Varennes de Mondasse:
- La decouverte de l'empire de Cantahar (FRA) - ? / history

John Hannig Speke:
- Lake Victoria (ENG) - ? / history

Gabriel de Foigny:
- Les avantures de Jacques Sadeur ... terre australe (FRA) - ? / fiction

James de Mille:
- The B.O.W.C. (ENG) - ? / fiction

-:
- Norroen fornkvaedi ... Edda (old-NOR) - ? / fiction

?:
- Relation d'un voyage du pole arctique ... (FRA) - ? / history

John Mandeville:
- Reysen und Wanderschafften ... (old-DEU+schvab.) - ? / history

Arthur Drummond Carliste:
- Round the World in 1870 (ENG) - ? / history

Snorri Sturlusson:
- Snorra-Edda asamt Skaldu (old-NOR) - ? / fiction

John Mitchell Kemble:
- The Anglo-Saxon Poems of Beowulf ... (old-ENG-SAX) - ? / fiction

Geoffrey Chaucer:
- The Canterbury Tales ... (old-ENG) - ? / fiction

?:
- The English Archer or Robin Hood's Garland (ENG) - ? / fiction

Oliver Goldsmith:
- The Grecian History ... (ENG) - ? / history

Peter Longueville:
- The Hermit ... (ENG) - ? / history

Samuel Sharpe:
- The History of Egypt (ENG) - ? / history

Marry Shelley:
- The Last Man (ENG) - ? / fiction

Francis Barrett:
- The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer (ENG) - ? / fiction

Charles Dickens:
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (ENG) - ? / fiction

Stephen Henry Ward:
- The Natural History of Mankind (ENG) - ? / history

Robert Michael Ballantyne:
- The Norsemen in the West ... (ENG) - ? / history

Clara Reeve:
- The Old English Baron. A Gothic Story ... (ENG) - ? / fiction

George Perkins Marsh:
- The Origin and History of the English Language (ENG) - ? / science

George Payne Rainsford James:
- The Strings of Pearl (ENG) - ? / fiction

Payne Fisher:
- The tombes, monuments ... St. Pauls Cathedral ... (ENG) - ? / science

Saint Bede:
- The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England (ENG) - ? / history