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Les Conteurs à la Ronde – ebook
Charles Dickens
Le personnage principal a un destin difficile. À quinze ans, elle a perdu sa mère. C’est l’histoire d’une femme forte qui a traversé de nombreuses difficultés et les a surmontées. À cause de cela, elle est devenue une reine respectée et un exemple pour beaucoup.Data dostępności:
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Cantique de Noël – ebook
Charles Dickens
Pour l’avare Ebenezer Scrooge, Noël est un jour de plus. Mais tout cela change lorsque le fantôme de son partenaire d’affaires décédé apparaît. Il avertit Scrooge de changer d’avis avant qu’il ne soit trop tard. L’énorme popularité du livre a contribué au fait que Noël était la principale fete de l’Angleterre victorienne, une période de divertissement et de charité.Data dostępności:
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Oliver Twist – ebook
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist est un excellent exemple de fiction persuasive. C’est l’une des histoires les plus célebres de Charles Dickens. Des personnages comme le maléfique Fagin avec son groupe de voleurs et de méchants. L’histoire d’Oliver Twist, orphelin et bombardé par le mal et le malheur. Le roman est sans aucun doute fascinant, avec beaucoup de mysteres et de tournures insidieuses.Data dostępności:
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Swann’s Way – ebook
Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood – a sensitive boy’s impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age – satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition – Swann’s...Data dostępności:
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Trouble for Lucia – ebook
E.F. Benson
Lucia is now rich, happily married, and Mayor of Tilling – but the village gossip is in full swing and Lucia’s arch-rival Miss Elizabeth Mapp is out for revenge. Their epic collisions rock their small society and provide the narrative engines for Benson’s gloriously farcical masterpieces. Will Lucia fall at the final hurdle? Delightfully witty and shamelessly entertaining, this is a fitting finale...Data dostępności:
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Mapp and Lucia – ebook
E.F. Benson
The fourth installment of the popular series-a hilarious study of 1930s manner and pecking order-begins when Lucia Lucas rents a summer place-the home of Elizabeth Mapp-in the English village of Tilling. So begins a battle of one-upmanship, peppered with queenly airs, ghastly tea parties, and unnerving bridge evenings as the two combatants attempt to out-do each other to win social supremacy. The pompous...Data dostępności:
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Lucia’s Progress – ebook
E.F. Benson
„Lucia’s Progress”, previously published in the U.S. as „The Worshipful Lucia” is the fifth of E. F. Benson’s famous series, opening about a year after the previous story ended. In this volume both Lucia and Mapp stand for election to the Town Council, and Lucia speculates in gold shares. While re-decorating Miss Mapp’s house, Lucia discovers and hide the remains of a Roman Villa. Excitements ensu...Data dostępności:
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Lucia in London – ebook
E.F. Benson
The third novel in the series, „Lucia in London” continues the adventures of Benson’s famously irrepressible characters, and bring them into hilarious conflict. Using her best social-climbing instincts and refusing to be embarrassed, Lucia sets out to conquer London and mingle with the beau monde. Soon a secret group of ’Luciaphiles’ springs up; the social climbers who make up its rank never tire of...Data dostępności:
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Chapters from My Autobiography – ebook
Mark Twain
Mark Twain bequeathed to publish his autobiography without cuts only a hundred years after his death, and she first saw the light in 2010. Now, finally, many readers can meet this amazingly witty book. Twain’s autobiography is very unusual: amusing episodes alternate with sad ones, sparkling jokes give way to serious reasoning – and the large-scale personality of the writer, who has presented the world...Data dostępności:
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The Gilded Age – ebook
Mark Twain Charles Dudley Warner
The book reflects the state of 19th-century society in the United States – votes in the Senate and Congress are bought and sold, all this is carefully hidden and masked. The curse of the „Tennessee” land, which could but did not enrich the young people who are the heirs of this land, is largely activated by the heirs themselves – typical Americans of that time, who want to quickly make a fortune.Data dostępności:
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