england
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Pani England – ebook
Stacey Halls
Wyjątkowa powieść historyczna autorki światowego bestsellera „Czarownica ze wzgórza”, książki roku portalu LubimyCzytać.pl. RODZINA IDEALNA NIE ISTNIEJE. Hrabstwo West Yorkshire, rok 1904. Ruby May podjęła się opieki nad dziećmi zamożnych Charlesa i Lilian Englandów. Przejęta zasadami wyniesionymi z Instytutu Norland, z zaangażowaniem pomaga rodzinie. Chłonie obyczaje panujące w odosobnionym...Data dostępności:
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By the Light of the Soul – ebook
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Mary’s mother was from New England and her conscience was abnormally active. Her father was from New Jersey, and his conscience, although no one would dare to say that she was flawed, did not prevent him from enjoying life in the least.Data dostępności:
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Joan and Peter – ebook
Herbert George Wells
The book starts in late Victorian England and ends shortly after the first world war. It covers the transition between the end of the Victorian era, and the aimlessness of the next generation very well. The main characters grow up with the best education that can be found in England at the time, which is freely admitted to be not very good. They grow up and deal with love, decadence and the reality...Data dostępności:
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Pembroke – ebook
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Pembroke is a novel about the work and dynamics of a small town, in this case a small town in New England. Freeman treats each character individually and devotes a lot of time to their individuality, giving the events taking place in Pembroke a more authentic atmosphere. Through his characters, Freeman focuses on how a person can influence their own happiness.Data dostępności:
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Mr Britling Sees It Through – ebook
Herbert George Wells
This story is essentially the history of the opening and of the realisation of the Great War as it happened to one small group of people in Essex, and more particularly as it happened to one human brain. „Mr. Britling Sees It Through” begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month, Wells...Data dostępności:
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Bealby – ebook
Herbert George Wells
A charming tale of a young recalcitrant boy’s wanderings through England. Full of humour. It is a light tale, and one of Wells’ that holds up the best. Though young Bealby is determined to rise above his mother’s servant status, no amount of struggle helps him to prevail. He reluctantly leaves his home for Shonts, a big country house, to work as a steward’s boy. But a fateful weekend visit by distinguished...Data dostępności:
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – ebook
Charles Dickens
Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby’s father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. Nicholas then has to protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking...Data dostępności:
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Night and Day – ebook
Virginia Woolf
„Night and Day” by Virginia Woolf is her second novel and was published in 1919. But the novel is very forward-looking in its examination of relationships under the stress of the culture shift was occurring in the early 20th century. The story takes place in pre-war England and involves four characters and their relationships. Kathryn Hillbery the „middle class” privileged girl whose idea of success...Data dostępności:
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Pride and Prejudice – ebook
Jane Austen
„ Pride and Prejudice ” a novel about Elizabeth Bennet, who is a witty and independent young girl, lives in England with her four sisters, her mother, and her father. When Mr. Bingley, a handsome, rich, young bachelor, arrives to stay briefly in Hartfordshire (where the Bennets live), Mrs. Bennet immediately tries to get one of her daughters to marry him. Bingley is a charming young man and quickly...Data dostępności:
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Przemiana – ebook
Jodi Picoult
Porywająca opowieść o istocie odkupienia, sprawiedliwości i miłości. June Nealon była szczęśliwą żoną i matką, przed którą rozciągała się perspektywa wielu lat radosnego rodzinnego życia. W jednej chwili jej świat się zawalił, zamieniając życie w nieustanne oczekiwanie - na zabliźnienie ran, na dopełnienie sprawiedliwości, na cud. Shay Bourne ma wkrótce umrzeć. Nie znalazł nigdy swojego miejsca na...Data dostępności:
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