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Letters from Europe (and Elsewhere) – ebook
Ruth Ellen Gruber
Award-winning American writer Ruth Ellen Gruber contributes regular Letters from Europe (and sometimes elsewhere) to the U.S. magazine „The New Leader”. Mixing travelogue with social and cultural commentary, she delves under the skin of European society to provide a closely observed, uniquely personal take on topics ranging from politics to pop music, from architecture to local cuisine. This volume...Data dostępności:
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The Stark Munro Letters – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
This is the story of a young doctor in Victorian Britain. In this collection of letters written to an American friend, Stark Munro tells of the trials and tribulations that face him as he tries to build his practice. Each letter contains two elements: one part is the narrative of events in the life of a young medical graduate in his efforts to set up a practice, as his own man, with a very little assistance...Data dostępności:
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The letters of Jane Austen – ebook
Jane Austen
A collection of Jane Austen's letters addressed mainly to her family. The author corresponds about family life, as well as the novels she wrote. Thanks to the letters, we can get to know her almost in person. We learn facts and thoughts that are not included in the literature she created. Zbiór listów Jane Austen adresowanych głównie do jej rodziny. Autorka koresponduje na temat życia rodzinnego,...Data dostępności:
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Partisans. Journalists in Łukašenka’s line of fire – ebook
Arleta Bojke Michał Potocki
„Partisans. Journalists in Łukašenka’s line of fire” is a collection of 20 reportages written by 29 journalists. On over 300 pages, they present stories of, e.g., Raman Pratasiewicz, Sciapan Puciła, thanks to whom Belarusians coming from each corner of their homeland had presented what was happening in Belarus after the recent elections. It is stories of Kaciaryna Andrejewa and Darja Czulcowa who reported...Data dostępności:
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The Aspern Papers – ebook
Henry James
”The Aspern Papers” is one of the masterpieces of the writer’s „small” prose, the plots of which are based on the collision of European and American cultural consciousness, the „point of view” of an individual and social stereotypes, the „book” perception of the world and individual experience. The tragicomic search by the hapless biographer of the lost letters of the great poet is the conflict of...Data dostępności:
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The Sacred Fount – ebook
Henry James
The book is about history, but not the one that is written in dry letters in the textbook, but the one into which the time machine takes you and lets you live the days, months in the body of another person, a contemporary of the time you are reading about. It is about religion, but not about what they preach in churches, without the right to question, but about its origins, causes, development, problems,...Data dostępności:
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Meanwhile – ebook
Herbert George Wells
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,...Data dostępności:
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Ile z gór tych złota – ebook
C Pam Zhang
Elektryzujący debiut osadzony w czasach amerykańskiej gorączki złota. Ba umiera w nocy. Osierocone dzieci imigrantów, Lucy i Sam, nagle zostają same w kraju, który nie uznaje ich istnienia. Zmuszone do ucieczki z górniczego miasta, wyruszają, by ostatni raz pożegnać z ojcem i uwolnić się od przeszłości. Podróż wiedzie je przez opustoszały widmowy krajobraz pełen kości gigantycznych bawołów i odcisków...Data dostępności:
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W dół – ebook
Tim Johnston
Błyskotliwy thriller o więzach krwi i walce o przetrwanie. Koniec wakacji, Courtlandowie przyjeżdżają w Góry Skaliste. Dla ich córki, osiemnastoletniej Caitlin, góry mają być ostatecznym sprawdzianem biegowym. Jej rodzice liczą na to, że wspólny urlop pomoże im posklejać związek. Pierwszego ranka Caitlin i jej młodszy brat Sean idą pobiegać. Kilka godzin później z telefonu Seana dzwoni szeryf. Chłopak...Data dostępności:
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Albert Savarus – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
Wonderful tale set in the provincial town of Besançon, and focusing on the de Watteville family – the fiercely religious and independently wealthy wife, the ineffectual husband, who absents himself, spending his days working his lathe and 19-year-old daughter, Rosalie. She falls in love with the mysterious stranger who took up residence a few yards away from her family’s home. Through her maid, herself...Data dostępności:
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