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The Picture of Dorian Gray – ebook
Oscar Wilde
Possessing eternal youth and beauty produces exactly the same effect as sentencing a man to life without the possibility of parole. Both have nothing to lose and morals disappear before the desire for immediate self-gratification in all things. And so it is with Dorian Gray. It’s a moral story so eventually his evil catches up with him and he dies, as does the criminal. „The Picture of Dorian Gray”...Data dostępności:
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The Secret Power – ebook
Marie Corelli
Morgana Royal is a beautiful, rich female fairy, endowed with a powerful mind, has a personal flying ship, communicates wirelessly with representatives of a superior race and reveals the secret of eternal life. But the wild beauty Manella becomes her rival in the fight for the heart of a selfish scientist who dreams of subduing the whole world with his destructive discovery.Data dostępności:
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Ziska – ebook
Marie Corelli
Cairo is a city where European aristocrats come in winter to relax and admire the monuments of a great ancient civilization. And in the new season, the fabulously rich and mysterious beauty Princess Ziska becomes the main topic of all conversations. She doesn’t seem to have a past. Her eccentric antics shock society. Her knowledge of the history of Ancient Egypt delights even scientists. She is surrounded...Data dostępności:
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles – ebook
Thomas Hardy
This story of temptation, love and betrayal formed the basis of the scripts of several film adaptations. The young beauty, the daughter of an impoverished descendant of an ancient aristocratic family, seemed to be created for happiness. But suffering persecutes Tess, she becomes a victim of the words of the voluptuous bourgeois, loses her child, experiences the betrayal of her husband... „Once a victim...Data dostępności:
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Gordon of the Lost Lagoon – ebook
Robert Watson
Despite the severity of the life he encounters, like a little rat, Douglas Gordon, with good mood and good fortune, with calm courage, pushes his way through difficulties. And this is followed by a fairy tale full of sea fool, the enchanting beauty of the islands in the Gulf of Georgia, the color of the promenade: a boy, a girl and a dog in a human adventure on the wild sea coast life near Vancouv...Data dostępności:
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The Return of the Native – ebook
Thomas Hardy
Young beauty Eustace Way, passionate, self-willed, selfish and ambitious, eager to break out of the hateful rural outback into a “different life”, full of splendor, fun and pleasure. Meanwhile, after several years of service as a manager in a Paris jewelry salon, Clime Ibright returns to his Blooms End estate, who also wants to live a different life - to settle in his native land and open a school...Data dostępności:
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Sanctuary – ebook
Edith Wharton
Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiancé, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and by society’s willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis similar to the one that showed her his father’s moral...Data dostępności:
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Pomocnik Historyczny. Dzieje Koreańczyków 1/2024 – audiobook
Opracowanie zbiorowe
To zjawisko ma już swoją nazwę: hallyu – koreańska fala. Bo nie chodzi tylko o legendę Korei (Południowej) jako najprężniejszego z azjatyckich tygrysów gospodarki. Nie chodzi wyłącznie o znane chyba każdemu koreańskie marki sprzętu gospodarstwa domowego, telefonów komórkowych, elektroniki, samochodowe, militarne. Dziś świat podbija (południowo) koreańska kultura: filmy, seriale, muzyczny K-pop, moda,...Data dostępności:
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The Echoes of Love – ebook
Hannah Fielding
Seduction, passion and the chance for new love. A terrible truth that will change two lives forever. Venetia Aston-Montagu has escaped to Italy’s most captivating city to work in her godmother’s architectural practice, putting a lost love behind her. For the past ten years she has built a fortress around her heart, only to find the walls tumbling down one night of the carnival when she is rescued...Data dostępności:
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Ciałokochanie – audiobook
Martyna Kaczmarek
Wszyscy potrzebujemy korepetycji z ciałoakceptacji. Dlaczego? Bo jedną z niewielu pewnych rzeczy w życiu jest to, że nasze ciało zawsze będzie z nami i będzie się zmieniać. A zmiany te nie zawsze będą dla nas łatwe do zaakceptowania. Kultura diety i branża beauty sprawiły, że staliśmy się nieuważni w odrabianiu lekcji z bezwarunkowej akceptacji naszego ciała, które jest naszym domem. Zamiast wsłuchać...Data dostępności:
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