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Obserwując Edie – ebook
Camilla Way
Oszałamiająca psychologiczna zagadka oparta na zawiłej relacji łączącej dwie z pozoru zaprzyjaźnione kobiety Piękna, utalentowana, trochę szalona… Edie była dziewczyną, która natychmiast wywoływała zamieszanie, wkraczając w czyjeś życie. I miała wówczas swoje marzenia — jednak szybko przekonała się, że sprawy nie zawsze układają się tak, jakbyśmy chcieli. Teraz, mając trzydzieści trzy lata,...Data dostępności:
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Venus and Adonis – ebook
William Shakespeare
By the time of the author’s death, at least ten editions of the poem had been published. Adonis is preparing for a hunt; Venus is trying in every way to seduce him. Passion flares up between them, but Adonis believes that he is too young for romance novels and he is more interested in hunting. Soon Adonis dies due to an accident during a hunt.Data dostępności:
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Roxana – ebook
DANIEL DEFOE
Roxana - a novel by Daniel Defoe, an English trader, writer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Roxana is an example of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional characters (yet "drawn from life"), despite the fact that they are women. Roxana, which narrates the moral and spiritual...Data dostępności:
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You Can’t Be Too Careful – ebook
Herbert George Wells
„You Can’t be Too Careful” is a sketch of one way of life – the life path, cowardly man, in fear, made a lot of dirty tricks. He never forgot that „necessary caution”, and helped unleash the Second world war. He believed everything he was told, he did what he was told. Not it is done by world Affairs, he was only a humble and law-abiding. But he relied all those who would, in the words of wells, „to...Data dostępności:
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Mr Britling Sees It Through – ebook
Herbert George Wells
This story is essentially the history of the opening and of the realisation of the Great War as it happened to one small group of people in Essex, and more particularly as it happened to one human brain. „Mr. Britling Sees It Through” begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month, Wells...Data dostępności:
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Joan and Peter – ebook
Herbert George Wells
The book starts in late Victorian England and ends shortly after the first world war. It covers the transition between the end of the Victorian era, and the aimlessness of the next generation very well. The main characters grow up with the best education that can be found in England at the time, which is freely admitted to be not very good. They grow up and deal with love, decadence and the reality...Data dostępności:
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Dombey and Son – ebook
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. Mr. Dombey, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florence. The firm...Data dostępności:
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Ann Veronica – ebook
Herbert George Wells
First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, „Ann Veronica”, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science,...Data dostępności:
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Quo vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona - Quo vadis? A Narrative of the Time of Nero – ebook
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Tytuł książki to łaciński zwrot, oznaczający: Dokąd idziesz? Odwołuje się on do słów Quo vadis, Domine? (Dokąd idziesz, Panie?), wypowiedzianych według legendy, przywołanej również w powieści, przez apostoła Piotra do Chrystusa. Akcja rozgrywa się głównie w Rzymie, podczas końcowych 6 lat panowania Nerona (63-69 n.e.), akcja epilogu - ok. 68 r. Wydarzenia pozwalające określić czas akcji to: przybycie...Data dostępności:
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