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Tono-Bungay – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Considered one of Wells most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wells’s tale is a panoramic view of an unravelling society. A semi-autobiographical satire of Edwardian advertising and patent-medicines. The story follows the life of a young man, George, and his Uncle Edward. Edward invents an elixir called TONO-BUNGAY and hires his nephew...Data dostępności:
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Kipps – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles begin. After being left a fortune by a rich uncle, Kipps finds himself in a position to marry Helen Walshingham. His main problem is that he is uneducated, knowing next to nothing of the world of books or the manners of the society he aspires to join. Helen, together...Data dostępności:
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Children of Babylon – ebook
Shirman Stoone
This book is a future global bestseller. It is almost certain that it will divide many people on our globe. Accustomed to stereotypes in our world, inhabitants of the blue planet do not notice major threats. People are threatened by unbelievable danger. Silently, the most influential bankers are starting to create the New World Order (NWO). This secret society has one goal: enslave humans globally...Data dostępności:
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Little Dorrit – ebook
Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, is the story of Amy Dorrit, a kind and compassionate young woman who is born impoverished and becomes wealthy, but retains her goodness and strength of character throughout. Little Dorrit is a novel of family loyalty. The story of a girl who is taking care of a large family and her love for the rich young man, and at the same time sarcastic description of English...Data dostępności:
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Sanditon. The Watsons – ebook
Jane Austen
These two short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles and exploring a range of social classes and settings. Written in the last months of Austen’s life, the uncompleted novel Sanditon is set in a newly established seaside resort, with a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators,and shows the author contemplating a changing society with a mixture of scepticism...Data dostępności:
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Jane Eyre – ebook
Charlotte Brontë
Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman’s passionate search for a wider...Data dostępności:
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Daisy Miller – ebook
Henry James
A short story which deals, as many other novels by James, with the changing role of women in Society and the differences that begun to arise between the old stiff Europe and the America at the end of the XIXth century. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness,...Data dostępności:
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Laws – ebook
Long understudied, Plato’s „Laws” has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides „The Republic”. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in considerable detail its constitution, laws and other social institutions. In it, Plato describes in fascinating...Data dostępności:
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The Picture of Dorian Gray – ebook
Oscar Wilde
Possessing eternal youth and beauty produces exactly the same effect as sentencing a man to life without the possibility of parole. Both have nothing to lose and morals disappear before the desire for immediate self-gratification in all things. And so it is with Dorian Gray. It’s a moral story so eventually his evil catches up with him and he dies, as does the criminal. „The Picture of Dorian Gray”...Data dostępności:
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Dlaczego wiara chrześcijańska wciąż ma sens. Odpowiedź na wyzwania współczesności – ebook
C. Stephen Evans
Niniejsza książka powstała na podstawie wykładów wygłoszonych przez C. Stephena Evansa w ramach cyklu Wiara chrześcijańska w XXI wieku. Odpowiedź na nowy ateizm . Autor odpowiada na krytykę płynącą ze strony nowych ateistów, zwłaszcza na podstawowy zarzut mówiący, że wiara nie ma intelektualnych podstaw. Uzasadnia, że wiara wcale nie wymaga rezygnacji z rozumu, wręcz przeciwnie. Evans jednak nie tyle...Data dostępności:
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