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Maalt saadetakse kosmosesse raadiosignaale maavälise eluga kontakti saamiseks. Üks signaal jõuab väljasuremisohus tsivilisatsioonini, kes alustab ettevalmistusi Maa koloniseerimiseks. Samal ajal tekib Maal kaks koolkonda: need, kes usuvad, et maaväline elu muudab maapealse paremaks, ning need, ke...

The Man Without a CountryEdward Everett Hale The Man Without a Country IntroductionLove of country is a sentiment so universal that it is only on such rare occasions as called this book into being that there is any need of discussing it or justifying it. There is a perfectly absurd statement by C...

The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 1 (of 3)James Hogg The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 1 (of 3) CHAPTER I There was a king, and a courteous king,And he had a daughter sae bonnie;And he lo'ed that maiden aboon a' thingI' the bonnie, bonnie ha...

Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt. CompleteGeorg Ebers Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt – Complete CHAPTER I By the walls of Thebes—the old city of a hundred gates—the Nile spreads to a broad river; the heights, which follow the stream on both sides, here take a more decided outline; solitary,...

The Emperor. Volume 06Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 06 CHAPTER I Dame Hannah had watched by Selene till sunrise and indefatigably cooled both her injured foot and the wound in her head. The old physician was not dissatisfied with the condition of his patient, but ordered the widow to lie down ...

The Emperor. Volume 03Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 03 CHAPTER X While anxiety and trouble were brooding over the steward's dwelling, while dismay and disappointment were clouding the souls of its inhabitants, the hall of the Muses was merry with feasting and laughter.Julia, the prefect's wife...

The Emperor. Volume 04Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 04 CHAPTER XV After the Emperor's body-slave had started up to go to the aid of Selene, who was attacked by his sovereign's dog, something had happened to him which he could not forget; he had received an impression which he could not wipe ou...

The Emperor. Volume 05Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 05 CHAPTER XIX Plutarch was one of the richest citizens of Alexandria, and the owner of the papyrus manufactory where Selene and Arsinoe worked; and he had of his own free will offered to provide for the "suitable" entertainment of the wives ...

The Emperor. Volume 02Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 02 CHAPTER V Pontius had gone to the steward's room, with a frowning brow, but it was with a smile on his strongly-marked lips, and a brisk step that he returned to his work-people. The foreman came to meet him with looks of enquiry as he sai...

The Emperor. Volume 01Georg Ebers The Emperor – Volume 01 PREFACE It is now fourteen years since I planned the story related in these volumes, the outcome of a series of lectures which I had occasion to deliver on the period of the Roman dominion in Egypt. But the pleasures of inventive compositi...