revolution
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The Possessed – ebook
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
„The Possessed” (also known in English as „The Devils” and „The Demons”) is the greatest novel ever written about the politics of revolution. It is a social and political satire, a psychological drama, and large scale tragedy. Published in 1871, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel foretold with uncanny prescience events that would occur almost fifty years later during the Bolshevik Revolution and the Communist...Data dostępności:
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Mathematical Transgressions 2015 – ebook
Basia Pieronkiewicz Piotr Błaszczyk
During the last decades of the 20th century, we have entered the Digital Era. The Third Technological Revolution has an enormous socioeconomic impact. It affects modern science, including mathematics. It also determines the reforms of national education systems. Mathematicians seek to focus on the so-called concrete mathematics. They explore finite and discrete structures, rather than infinite and...Data dostępności:
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Zanoni – ebook
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
„Zanoni”, first published in 1842, was inspired by a dream. This piece of literature describes a fascinating story of love and occult aspiration. The main character is Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian who has lived since the Chaldean civilisation. He falls in love with a young opera singer, Viola Pisani – but to Zanoni, falling in love means losing his power of immortality. The story develops in the...Data dostępności:
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The Flying Inn – ebook
G.K. Chesterton
Armed with a donkey cart filled with rum, cheese and a tavern signpost, pub owner Humphrey Hump and Captain Patrick Dalroy, a crimson-haired giant with a tendency to burst into song, take to the road in this rollicking, madcap adventure, encountering revolution, romance, and a cast of memorable characters. In this hilarious, satirical romp, G.K. Chesterton demonstrates his intense distrust of power...Data dostępności:
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Paul Clifford – ebook
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
„Paul Clifford” is a novel published in 1830 by Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) who was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. It tells the life of Paul Clifford, a man who leads a dual life as both a criminal and an upscale gentleman. Paul Clifford tells the story of a chivalrous highwayman in the time of the French Revolution. This is the novel that first...Data dostępności:
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A Tale of Two Cities – ebook
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - a novel by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie,...Data dostępności:
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Leviathan – ebook
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan is a multilevel treatise that, by the type of gradation, begins to explain simple concepts, moving on to more complex categories, revealing the essence of a person’s life, his actions and actions; essence of the state, supreme authority and contract; religion and Christianity. This book is very useful for understanding how the English Revolution influenced people’s minds; to understand some...Data dostępności:
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The Lady With The Dog and Other Stories – ebook
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
No, this is not a banal story about a resort romance. Spiritually, her heroes escaped beyond the boundaries of the nineteenth century, but are forced to live in its choking conditions and foundations. The stands that will soon be brought down by World War I with an explosion of revolution. In the meantime, two loving hearts are torn in a world in which they will never be together.Data dostępności:
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Quatrevingt-treize – ebook
Victor Hugo
L’anéé 1793, Bretagne du nord. «Quatre-vingt-treize» est un récit de l’époque de la Révolution française et aussi une histoire de trois personnages symboliques: un vieil aristocrate, le marquis de Lantenac, son neveu, Gauvain, un noble rattaché aux humbles Cimourdain, père adoptif de Gauvain. Ici il y a les situations angoissantes et beaucoup de rebondissements. Pris en presse entre la loi et la raison,...Data dostępności:
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Le château de La Belle-au-bois-dormant – ebook
Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti, natif de Rochefort, a nommé ainsi le château de La Roche-Courbon en le voyant, ainsi que le parc, en total abandon lorsqu’il rendait visite à sa soeur domiciliée à Saint Porchaire. Ce château avait en effet été abandonné par ses propriétaires successifs depuis la révolution française jusqu’à la fin du XIXème siècle. C’est Pierre Loti qui s’est inquiété de la situation et a „réveillé les...Data dostępności:
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