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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Dead Souls – ebook
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Dead Souls is a unique novel that has become a unique standard of ironic prose for Russian literature. The story of the ingenious businessman Chichikov, buying up the „dead souls” of serfs in a remote province, still impresses with its modernity and subtle humor.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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Uncle Vanya – ebook
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The story of a Russian family and their interfamily relations, in which there are jealousy, secret love cravings and the usual altercations that occur within a few days. The end of this play is the easiest prose ever written. Family in provincial Russia, which is getting closer to bankruptcy, many of whose members live in the past, unrequited love and breaking ties.Data dostępności:
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Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories – ebook
Maxim Gorky
The poem in prose „Twenty-Six and One” is based on the writer’s impressions related to life in Kazan and work in Semenov’s bakery. Gorky considers the image of a tramp, revealing its negative qualities. The work tells about twenty-six bakers, attitude, feelings, the behavior of which is presented by the author as the attitude of one person. This is achieved by using Gorky a huge number of pronouns...Data dostępności:
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Faust – ebook
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great Goethe invented his Faust when he was a little over twenty years old, and completed the tragedy a few months before his death. This work was the result of the philosophical and artistic searches of the author – a poet, playwright, prose writer, the greatest scientist of his time, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. The hero of the tragedy, Dr. Johann Faust, lived in the first half of the 16th...Data dostępności:
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The Last Egyptian – ebook
L. Frank Baum
When Gerald Winston, an English Egyptologist travelling on the Nile, meets Kara, who claims to be the last descendant of a royal Egyptian family, the scientist’s curiosity is sparked by the story Kara tells. Is it true that Kara’s ancestor Ahtka-Ra, High Priest of Ămen, ruled Rameses II as his puppet? As Winston tries to learn more about the strange Egyptian and his mysterious tale, he is drawn into...Data dostępności:
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