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Drugie wydanie głośnego tomu esejów wybitnego amerykańskiego pisarza i działacza na rzecz praw obywatelskich. Znajdziemy tu jego szkice poświęcone afroamerykańskiej literaturze i kinematografii oraz głębokie, przejmujące eseje, w których w wyjątkowy sposób łączył zapis osobistego doświadczenia z refleksjami na temat polityki, amerykańskiego i europejskiego społeczeństwa, naznaczonych piętnem niewolnictwa...

Emilie de Fontaine is a spoiled and pround brat. She rejects all suitors her father proposes. Emilie has incredibly high standards for the man she will marry, and at the top of her unreasonable list of criteria is that he absolutely must be a peer of France. Leaving Paris for the summer, as all good families do, they go to Sceaux. At the local ball, Emilie falls in love with a charming, beautifully...

Immerse yourself in the inner workings of a quaint French village in this charming novel from Honoré de Balzac, an early master of literary realism. The work was dedicated to Balzac’s brother in law, an engineer in the corps royal des ponts et chaussées, Eugene Midy de la Greneraye Surville. Brimming with finely observed details and Balzac’s trademark insight into human motivations and morality, „An...

„Modeste Mignon”, by Honoré de Balzac (1846). The heroine of this romance, a young woman of romantic temperament Modeste Mignon, lives in a small city in northwestern France. She has the religious faith of a child, while her mind is exceptionally well informed in many ways. The young girl, daring in her simplicity, enjoys the writings of the famous Parisian poet Melchior de Canalis and imagines herself...