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This is one of the most uplifting of Dickens’s novels. This book is certainly different from all the other books by Charles Dickens as it has no particular central character. Well all the other novels by Dickens have a strong connection with London but this story depicts Coketown and Coketown only, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. Hard Times is a very tragic and wonderfully described...

This novel is split into two parts, „The Utopographer in the Garden” and „Advent”. The former is set on the Italian Riviera where the novel’s central figures, a British couple, The Rylands, entertain guests. The latter, written largely in the form of letters between the couple during the husband’s trip to London, provides commentary on British political landscape of the 1920’s. A pretty good book,...

Molly Murphy debiutuje na deskach nowojorskiego teatru Casino w komedii muzycznej, która ma być wydarzeniem sezonu. Gra pilną uczennicę na pensji dla dziewcząt. Dla Molly to wyjątkowo trudna rola, bo przecież wcale nie jest aktorką. Została wynajęta jako detektyw i na zlecenie gwiazdy wodewili Blanche Lovejoy ma dowiedzieć się, czy za tajemniczymi wydarzeniami w teatrze stoi duch czy człowiek. To nie...

H.G. Wells is best remembered as a central figure in the development of the science fiction genre. However, much of his literary output was more conventional in nature, and he published a number of novels dealing with interpersonal relationships and social themes. H.G. Wells was so charmed by Margaret Sanger that he based „The Secret Places of the Heart” on his time with her. The novel is a thinly-veiled...