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Bunner Sisters – ebook
Edith Wharton
Originally published in 1916, but actually written in 1890, „Bunner Sisters” is a compelling, heartbreaking little novella about two sisters, who have never been apart, struggling to eek an existence as small shopkeepers on the margins of late nineteenth-century society in New York. They barely make enough money to live on. But when Ann Eliza the elder buys Evelina the younger a clock that does not...Data dostępności:
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The Bars of Iron – ebook
Ethel M. Dell
Avery Denys, the novels heroine, lost her husband and her blind daughter. But in response to these tragic events, Avery simply reflects that she was „left with nothing to do”, and finds a job that allows her to act out the mother role she now misses. A rock to her female friends, Avery is rational yet caring, but also submissive in the face of her eventual second husband’s violence towards her and...Data dostępności:
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Madame de Treymes – ebook
Edith Wharton
Even a short novel like „Madame de Treymes” shows you what a masterful writer Edith Wharton was. It is a captivating portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. Inspired by Wharton’s own entré into Parisian society in 1906 and reminiscent of the works of Henry James, it tells the story of two young innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis...Data dostępności:
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Tales of Men and Ghosts – ebook
Edith Wharton
In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for „The Age of Innocence”. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. „Tales of Men and Ghosts” (1910) consists of ten masterful ghost stories that listed here in chronological order of their original publication...Data dostępności:
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The Gentle Grafter – ebook
O. Henry
O. Henry (whose real name is William Sydney Porter) is famous for his many short stories of everyday-life America, full of wit, charm, and inventiveness. This collection of classic tales set on the wrong side of the law showcases a master craftsman at the top of his form. „The Gentle Grafter” is a collection of 14 short stories about grafters who travel, peddle and swindle in the South. Those grafters...Data dostępności:
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The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million – ebook
O. Henry
„The Trimmed Lamp” follows „The Four Million” and provides another series of twenty-five short stories that take place in New York City in the early years of the 20th century and are representative of the surprise endings that popularized O. Henry’s work. Contents: „A Madison Square Arabian Night”, „The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball”, „The Pendulum”, „Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen”, „The Assessor...Data dostępności:
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The Echoes of Love – ebook
Hannah Fielding
Seduction, passion and the chance for new love. A terrible truth that will change two lives forever. Venetia Aston-Montagu has escaped to Italy’s most captivating city to work in her godmother’s architectural practice, putting a lost love behind her. For the past ten years she has built a fortress around her heart, only to find the walls tumbling down one night of the carnival when she is rescued...Data dostępności:
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Love and Friendship – ebook
Jane Austen
Love and Freindship is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum. They contain, among other works, Love and Freindship, written when she was fourteen, and The History of England, written when she was fifteen. Wydawnictwo...Data dostępności:
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Swatanie dla początkujących – ebook
Maddie Dawson
Bestseller "Washington Post" i list przebojów Amazona. Marnie MacGraw pragnie prostego życia – męża, dzieci, kombi i domku na przedmieściach. Wychodzi za mężczyznę swoich marzeń, jest więc pewna, że wkrótce to wszystko dostanie. I wtedy spotyka Blix Holliday, krewką ciotkę swojego narzeczonego, która jest swatką i na dodatek umiera. Wkrótce całe życie Marnie się zmieni, dokładnie tak, jak zapowiedziała...Data dostępności:
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