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Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. The story begins seven years after the broken engagement of Anne Elliot to then Commander Frederick Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her...

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada’s Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers, most notably „The Thirty-Nine Steps”, and it is for these that he is now best remembered. „A Lodge in the Wilderness” (1906)...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, „This Side of Paradise,” focuses on several themes and illustrates some social and moral changes in America during the early 20th century. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Amory Blaine is utterly an idealist. He indulges in every...

W przyszłości tak realistycznej i bliskiej, że mogłaby być współczesnością, coś dziwnego dzieje się z kobietami, które zasypiają: szczelnie owija je zwiewna substancja przypominająca kokon. Gdy ktoś je budzi, gdy obrastający je materiał zostaje naruszony bądź zerwany, uśpione kobiety wpadają w dziką furię i stają się szaleńczo agresywne; śpiąc, przenoszą się do innego świata − świata, w którym panuje...