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The Orange-Yellow Diamond – ebook
Joseph Smith Fletcher
This novel takes place in the London parish of Paddington. The story opens with the murder of an old Jewish pawnbroker. Our Scottish hero, Andrew Lauriston, a penniless aspiring writer, has the misfortune of finding the body, and is accused of killing and robbing the old man. But then it’s found the pawnbroker had had in his possession an extraordinary South African diamond worth over eighty-thousand...Data dostępności:
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Languages for Specific Purposes in Educational Contexts – ebook
Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski Aleksandra Beata Makowska
Scholarship in LSP studies is nowadays developing at an unprecedented rate reflecting the growing complexity, diversity and dynamicity of professional domains and their discourses. This volume sets out to disseminate the results of practicioners’ research carried out in various occupational and educational settings. Ranging from Business, Law and Logistics to Music, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine,...Data dostępności:
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The Mustang Herder – ebook
Max Brand
Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his Western fiction. Raised on the tough streets of Old New York, Gregg could beat a man to death with his fists and use a pistol like an artist. Armed with these talents, he headed west to make his fortune, never realizing...Data dostępności:
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Wielki polsko-ukraiński słownik frazeologiczny z indeksem / Великий польсько-український фразеологічний словник з реєстром – ebook
Iryna Kononenko
Wielki polsko-ukraiński słownik frazeologiczny obejmuje około 5000 wyjściowych polskich frazeologizmów oraz ich ukraińskie odpowiedniki. Jest to pierwsze leksykograficzne ujęcie polsko-ukraińskiej frazeologii w takim zakresie. Odnalezienie frazeologizmu w Słowniku ułatwia indeks umieszczony na końcu tomu. Słownik przeznaczony jest dla szerokiego grona użytkowników – uczniów, studentów, słuchaczy szkół...Data dostępności:
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Twenty Years After – ebook
Alexandre Dumas
Anyone old enough to have friends they haven’t seen for many years knows how difficult it can be to get everyone together again. And when you do, it’s never quite the same. That’s the theme of „Twenty Years After” (1845), Alexandre Dumas’s sequel to „The Three Musketeers” that is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. This story follows events in France during La Fronde, during the childhood...Data dostępności:
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Mother Goose in Prose – ebook
L. Frank Baum
None of us, whether children or adults, needs an introduction to „Mother Goose”. Those things which are earliest impressed upon our minds cling to them most tenaciously. Published three years before L. Frank Baum achieved fame with „The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, this engaging volume added an exciting new dimension to old, much-loved verses. The book contains 22 prose fables based on famous nursery rhymes:...Data dostępności:
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A Chicago Princess – ebook
Robert Barr
„The Chicago Princess” is a historical novel with a romantic line, written by Robert Barr. Robert Barr (1849-1912) was a British-Canadian short story writer and novelist, who published the first Holmes parody, „The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs” in 1892. A novel „The Chicago Princess” first published in 1904. After working several years in foreign affairs, and after winning and then losing a fortune,...Data dostępności:
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Domestic Peace – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
„Domestic Peace”, a short story by Honoré de Balzac, was originally published in 1831 under the French title of „La Paix du Ménage” and can be found in Scenes from private life (Scenes de la vie privee) in „La Comedie Humaine”. It takes place in November of 1809 at the height of Napoleon’s empire, a time of great splendor and decadence. Everyone who’s anyone in the Parisian aristocracy is gathered...Data dostępności:
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Gobseck – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
Originally published in 1830, here we have perhaps Balzac’s best short work, named simply „Gobseck”. Gobseck is a marvelous sketch of a money-lender and miser in Paris during the early part of the nineteenth century who is a font of psychological insight when it comes to humankind’s greed, vanity and other dark motives. His philosophy of never helping anyone because „adversity is the greatest of all...Data dostępności:
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Biltmore Oswald – ebook
Thorne Smith
A comic diary about entering life in the Navy. Published in 1918 and written for the Naval Reservist journal „The Broadside” while the author Thorne Smith was in the Navy, it is a series of short vignettes poking fun at the culture of the time in general and the military in particular. It’s the diary of Biltmore Oswald, a hapless naval recruit with no appreciable talents besides befriending animals...Data dostępności:
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