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A young man, Richard Anson is a crewman on board Sir Francis Drake’s „Golden Hind”, which is travelling north to the coast of what will one day become British Columbia. „The Kingdom of the Sun: A Romance of the Far West Coast” (1927) is an adventure novel by Alexander Maitland Stephen (May 8, 1882 – July 1, 1942), who was a Canadian author of poetry and fiction. He began writing in the early 1920s....

Prior to the twentieth century, philosophy was the driving force behind all literature. Authors used the novel as a means to communicate their ideas on man’s purpose and his place in the universe. With Louis Lambert, however, Balzac takes the idea of the philosophical novel a little too far in giving us this odd, chimerical mashup of philosophical treatise and coming-of-age novel. The novel seems to...

A young woman’s journey of discovery takes her to a world of forbidden passion, savage beauty – and revenge. Spring, 1950. Alexandra de Falla, a half-English, half-Spanish youngwriter abandons her privileged but suffocating life in London and travels to Spain to be reunited with her long-estranged family. Instead of providing the sense of belonging she yearns for, the de Fallas are riven by seething...

Wzruszający, liryczny portret pielęgniarki i zarys losów ludzi, o których się otarła. Christie Watson przepracowała dwadzieścia lat jako pielęgniarka, a w tej osobistej, przejmującej książce uchyla drzwi szpitala i zdradza jego tajemnice. Prowadzi nas szpitalnymi korytarzami na rozmaite oddziały i poznaje z najbardziej niezapomnianymi pacjentami. Pójdziemy z nią pod rękę korytarzami i odwiedzimy...