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King Alfred of England – ebook
Jacob Abbott
It’s a brief review of the life of King Alfred, but with very detailed events. A truly moving account of one of England’s greatest heroes. The author, in turn, was again able to passionately convey those events, that atmosphere of that time. Explains why he has been named and considered so „"great."” Alfred really deserved the title.Data dostępności:
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The School Ghost and Boycotted with Other Stories – ebook
Talbot Baines Reed
This is a storybook. Boycott, the first story, the simplest school story. A very popular boy is expelled from school, and his less popular friend is ostracized by his peers, so he does not know why. He is also too proud to ask or ask. This is a popular topic in Blaine’s school literature because it is one of the most dramatic things that can happen to a schoolboy.Data dostępności:
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The Road to Wigan Pier – ebook
George Orwell
In the 1930s, George Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Orwell went further than just studying unemployment – not wanting to watch from the outside, he learned what it is: to be a miner, live in slums, eat poorly and do backbreaking work in the mines. Everything he saw and wrote down helped him to clarify his feelings...Data dostępności:
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The Adventures of a Suburbanite – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
A city man moves to the suburbs with humorous results – gardening, automobiling, and golfing become new avocations. The book „The Adventures of a Suburbanite” includes two chapters on golf: „The Royal Game” and „Advanced Golf.” The subjects of humor in this book are mostly the two neighbors’ opposing opinions about all aspects of domestic and rural life, the gardening, and a variety of slapstick troubles...Data dostępności:
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Textbook on the First Amendment: Freedom of speech and freedom of religion – ebook
Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier
This textbook is the result of the ten years' experience of teaching about the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The textbook provides materials for discussion and consists only of selected opinions of American courts which have been abridged to enucleate the main problem and not burden the reader with all the details, and also to avoid discussing legal issues that are not directly...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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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus – ebook
L. Frank Baum
Every child knows about Santa Claus, the jolly man who brings gifts to all on Christmas. There are many stories that tell of his life, but the delightful version relayed in „The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus” is by far the most charming and original of all. Orphaned at an infant Claus is found and raised in the magical Forest of Burzee by a wood-nymph Necile, who convinces the great Ak to allow...Data dostępności:
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The Road to Oz – ebook
L. Frank Baum
Meet Dorothy’s new friends, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright and Polychrome, as you travel with them to the Emerald City. Share their adventures with the Musicker and the Scoodlers. See how they escape from the Soup-Kettle and what they found at the Truth Pond. Their adventures include: the secret behind the love magnet, entering the town of Foxville, the queen of the Scoodlers, the Truth Pond, Ozma’s...Data dostępności:
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The Country Doctor – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
„The Country Doctor” („Le Médecin de Campagne”), by Honoré de Balzac, belongs to the series known as „Scenes from Country Life”; a part of his great cycle of fiction, „The Comedy of Human Life”. It is one of Balzac’s noblest pieces of fiction, presenting beautiful traits of human nature with sympathy and power. The scene is laid in a village near Grenoble in France, and the story begins with the year...Data dostępności:
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