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Queen of the Dawn – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
Queen of the Dawn is an ancient Egyptian fantasy. The beginning of the story is very rapidly developing, from the very beginning the pharaon dies. And the daughter of Pharaoh is forced to hide. She meets and falls in love with the usurper’s disguised son. The end is full of adventures and bright battles.Data dostępności:
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History of Pyrrhus – ebook
Jacob Abbott
This book requires you to have a more detailed history.Pyrrhus is a defender of the city of Tarentum, protecting him from the Romans. Only by knowing the origins of the story can you feel this story. And if not, you will be interested in finding out.Data dostępności:
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King Alfred of England – ebook
Jacob Abbott
It’s a brief review of the life of King Alfred, but with very detailed events. A truly moving account of one of England’s greatest heroes. The author, in turn, was again able to passionately convey those events, that atmosphere of that time. Explains why he has been named and considered so „"great."” Alfred really deserved the title.Data dostępności:
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Cyrus the Great – ebook
Jacob Abbott
This story provides background information about Cyrus, who is mentioned in the Bible. Cyrus is the king who liberated the Jews from Babylonian captivity. Abbott’s talent lies in the fact that, thanks to some of the details of his story, he simply animates the characters. This book has been noted by everyone, even Abraham Lincoln.Data dostępności:
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Queen Elizabeth – ebook
Jacob Abbott
What else can impress in the history of Queen Elizabeth? However, Jacob Abbott was able to show us the other secret aspects of the queen’s life. The author is doing a tremendous job describing the area in which she lived, as well as a thorough description of the people who formed her. She was a queen to be admired.Data dostępności:
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Nero – ebook
Jacob Abbott
This book takes you inside the life and times of one of the most notoriously monstrous emperors of history. This story helps to expand your knowledge of history. Easy-to-read story about an ominous leader. We all hear some of the horror stories about Nero, but this provided a better look in the situations around him at the time.Data dostępności:
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The Sorrows of Young Werther – ebook
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The tragic story of a young burgher, who could not find an answer to his feelings and rejected by society, was instantly translated into other languages and gave rise to a series of sequels and imitations – the so-called Verterian. Over time, „Werther, the rebellious martyr” became one of the „eternal images” of world literature and introduced the sociopsychological phenomenon of „verterism” into European...Data dostępności:
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Paying Guests – ebook
E.F. Benson
The story is set around the Wentworth mention, a small boarding house in Bolton Spa and its owners and lodgers. They are quite unlikable, mainly upper-middle-class English people who came to the Spa to cure their body illnesses, but also to fill the time and escape boredom despite having no passions, interests and work. A delightful book for anybody familiar with Benson’s work, full of all the usual...Data dostępności:
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Mrs. Ames – ebook
E.F. Benson
E. F. Benson’s subject is always the petty concerns of petty people, but his talent is to make those concerns nearly as important to us as they are to his characters. For us, what happens to Benson’s people is also much funnier than it is to them. This is another of Benson’s social comedies with women battling it out for social supremacy in the village. „Mrs. Ames”, first published in 1912, has been...Data dostępności:
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Down and out in Paris and London – ebook
George Orwell
”Down and out in Paris and London” is a dramatic and at the same time full of Orwell caustic humor autobiographical story of a young English intellectual, who lives in the capitals with odd jobs as a dishwasher in restaurants. A dark, brilliant and accurate self-portrait of one of the typical representatives of the European „lost generation”.Data dostępności:
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