prose
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Mother Goose in Prose – ebook
L. Frank Baum
None of us, whether children or adults, needs an introduction to „Mother Goose”. Those things which are earliest impressed upon our minds cling to them most tenaciously. Published three years before L. Frank Baum achieved fame with „The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, this engaging volume added an exciting new dimension to old, much-loved verses. The book contains 22 prose fables based on famous nursery rhymes:...Data dostępności:
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Pokojówka – ebook
Nita Prose
„Mundurek daje mi wolność. To najdoskonalsza peleryna niewidka. Kiedy go wkładam, staję się całością. Ubrana w strój roboczy, czuję się bardziej pewna siebie, wiem, co mam mówić i robić - a przynajmniej zwykle wiem. A kiedy tylko go z siebie zdejmę na koniec dnia, czuję się naga, zagrożona, niepełna”. fragment książki Molly jest pokojówką w hotelu Regency Grand, w którym pan Black właśnie...Data dostępności:
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Fables – ebook
Robert Louis Stevenson
These are fables – in many there is morality, others clearly contain moralizing. However, fables are not only literary interest. This is a beautiful, filigree prose. The author defined the fable genre very broadly – as a combination of elements of a story about dreams with a moralizing allegory.Data dostępności:
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Dream Days – ebook
Kenneth Grahame
An excellent book to read to children, but also good to read as an adult. This story brings many adults back to childhood. In such a simple story. Delightful childhood reminiscences beautifully written in Grahame’s charming prose. Poetic, tender, insightful, very lovely, a portal into the life of a children.Data dostępności:
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Sister Carrie – ebook
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser is a famous American prose writer, publicist and public figure. This is the story of the rise of the main character, the young provincial Caroline Meeber, achieved at the cost of numerous moral compromises, and the descent of the manager of a prestigious bar, George Hurstwood, to the bottom of life.Data dostępności:
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Mistress Spitfire – ebook
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Fletcher’s understanding of human nature is evident in his writing, where his characters embody every facet of human existence in very well-written prose and dialogue. Mistress Spitfire is a simple account of some of the episodes in the history of Richard Coop, Ghent, and his cousin Mistress Alison French during the Revolution of 1642-1644.Data dostępności:
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Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories – ebook
Oscar Wilde
A pleasant short story about Sir Arthur Savile, charming in her naivety and hypertrophied in her nobility. Ironic humor, a beautiful syllable, wise quotes, an English spirit and a non-standard prose of life. At the dinner party, the young and noble Sir Arthur Savile finds out that from now on he does not allow him to live in peace and marry his girlfriend. After a night of thought, he makes a gentleman’s...Data dostępności:
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The Rajah’s Sapphire – ebook
M.P. Shiel
The M. P. Shiel’s second book and first novel. „The Rajah’s Sapphire” is a story of the final chapter in the history of a famous gem that haunts all who chance to own it. M. P. Shiel wrote twenty-five novels and dozens of short stories, most of them romantic mysteries or fast-paced adventures, several dealing with world conquest. Others are distinctly supernatural or border on science fiction. Most...Data dostępności:
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The Lost Viol – ebook
M.P. Shiel
Romantic mystery novel first published in New York by Clode in 1905. Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865–1947) was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. Shiel was more than just a writer of sensational tales of magic and mystery. There is an undercurrent of philosophic seriousness running beneath the finely textured prose of all his fiction. Like his contemporaries George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...Data dostępności:
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The Dunwich Horror – ebook
H.P. Lovecraft
Master of horror writes a story of true forces of evil. There are six short stories that comprise this edition of The Dunwich Horror. The story beats a lot of modern writers in prose, characters and plot. The story started of well and gave us a spooky small village setting with the odd family of a Grandfather, deformed Albino mother and inhuman grandson and the strange events surrounding his birth...Data dostępności:
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