travels
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Villette – ebook
Charlotte Brontë
Villette is Charlotte Bronte’s last novel, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. However, the novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as in its acute tracing of Lucy’s psychology, particularly Bronte’s use of Gothic...Data dostępności:
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The Secret Places of the Heart – ebook
Herbert George Wells
H.G. Wells is best remembered as a central figure in the development of the science fiction genre. However, much of his literary output was more conventional in nature, and he published a number of novels dealing with interpersonal relationships and social themes. H.G. Wells was so charmed by Margaret Sanger that he based „The Secret Places of the Heart” on his time with her. The novel is a thinly-veiled...Data dostępności:
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The Atom of the Universe – ebook
Dominique Lambert
This book takes us from the early childhood to the last days of George Lemaîitre, the man behind the theory of the primeval atom, now better known as Big Bang theory. But who was George Lemaître? A clergyman, a genius astronomer, an audacious cosmologist, a computer enthusiast ahead of his time, a professor with his head in the clouds, a bon vivant mathematician and gourmand? Dominique Lambert's book...Data dostępności:
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Uczta wyobraźni: Osama – ebook
Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar przebywał w Dar Es Salaam w dniu zamachu na ambasadę amerykańską w 1998 roku. W Nairobi mieszkał w tym samym hotelu, w którym zatrzymali się członkowie Al Kaidy. Od tamtej pory wraz z żoną o mały włos uniknęli śmierci w zamachach londyńskim (2005) i na Synaju (2004) - te doświadczenia nakłoniły autora do napisania najpierw opowiadania "My Travels with Al-Qaeda" (Moje podróże z Al Kaidą)...Data dostępności:
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