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The Kingdom of the Sun – ebook
Alexander Maitland Stephen
A young man, Richard Anson is a crewman on board Sir Francis Drake’s „Golden Hind”, which is travelling north to the coast of what will one day become British Columbia. „The Kingdom of the Sun: A Romance of the Far West Coast” (1927) is an adventure novel by Alexander Maitland Stephen (May 8, 1882 – July 1, 1942), who was a Canadian author of poetry and fiction. He began writing in the early 1920s....Data dostępności:
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Albert Savarus – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
Wonderful tale set in the provincial town of Besançon, and focusing on the de Watteville family – the fiercely religious and independently wealthy wife, the ineffectual husband, who absents himself, spending his days working his lathe and 19-year-old daughter, Rosalie. She falls in love with the mysterious stranger who took up residence a few yards away from her family’s home. Through her maid, herself...Data dostępności:
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A House to Let – ebook
Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins Elizabeth Gaskell Adelaide Ann Procter
„A House to Let” is a novella originally published in 1858 by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole was edited by Dickens, making it fit together seamlessly as a whole. This novella is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue...Data dostępności:
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A Start in Life – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of nineteenth-century realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled „The Human Comedy” (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works and 48 unfinished works. The novel „A Start in Life” is part of the „Scenes of Private Life” section of Balzac’s masterpiece. In much of Balzac’s...Data dostępności:
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Honorine – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
An extremely collectible, sweet little book named for and written in honor of Balzac’s mother. Comtesse Honorine de Bauvan was married to the Comte at nineteen. She leaves him and is later abandoned by her lover when she becomes pregnant. She lives simply and earns money by making artificial flowers. What she doesn’t know is that her husband is paying exorbitant prices for her work, thus supporting...Data dostępności:
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Colonel Chabert – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
In 1807 Colonel Chabert, Napoleon’s beloved commander, is severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau. Taken for dead and buried in a mass grave, he manages to escape and wanders in poverty through Europe for 10 years, torn between life and death, oblivion and consciousness. Finally recovering his memories, he sets out for Paris to search for his wife who had been a prostitute before he married her and...Data dostępności:
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The Village Rector – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
Forget the erroneous title, the central figure of this particular slice of Balzac’s lifelong gift to literature is a woman of character, Madame Veronique Graslin. Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) is considered to be one of the fathers of realism in fiction and has crafted a vivid picture of Europe during the end of the Bourbon Monarchy. The first characters presented are the shopkeeper...Data dostępności:
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Dissonant heritage? The architecture of the Third Reich in Poland – ebook
Heritage can often be difficult, as best evidenced by the former Auschwitz concentration camp or the Palace of Culture and Science. In Poland, however, the most problematic is the heritage left behind by the Third Reich. The complexity of this issue is demonstrated in the latest book by the International Cultural Centre. It also provides the most complete, often surprising, overview of these "badly...Data dostępności:
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Tamten smak oranżady. Z pamiętnika 78' rocznika – ebook
Monika Marszał
Drogi Czytelniku, Z radością oddaję w Twoje ręce moje opowiadania z końca okresu PRL-u i początku lat 90-tych. Szaro i pusto versus kolorowo i chaotycznie. Obojętnie czy mieszkaliśmy na wsi, czy w mieście, na północy czy południu kraju. Nieważne, że dzieli nas różnica kilku lat, bo wspomnienia mamy bardzo podobne. Nie oceniajmy tamtych czasów, nie porównujmy czy wtedy było lepiej, czy gorzej. Zabieram...Data dostępności:
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Pies jest miłością – ebook
Clive Wynne
Czy twój pies cię kocha? Każdy miłośnik psów zna to uczucie. Wilgoć wszędobylskiego psiego nosa, ciepło leżące u naszych stóp, nie mówiąc o piskach, gdy chcą wskoczyć na łóżko albo cieszą się na nasz widok. Wydaje się to oczywiste, że nasze psy naprawdę nas kochają. Ale od lat naukowcy opierają się temu wnioskowi, ostrzegając przed antropomorfizacją naszych zwierząt. Oto jednak nadchodzi Clive...Data dostępności:
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