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Three Guineas – ebook
Virginia Woolf
The story of how women can prevent war when they are deprived of education, professions and the public sphere. The name „Three Guineas” comes from Wolfe’s reflection on whether she should support three different reasons for giving a guinea donation – this creature; a society to end the war, a campaign to support the restoration of the women’s college, and an organization to promote the employment of...Data dostępności:
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The Odyssey – ebook
A classic for the ages, „The Odyssey” recounts Odysseus’ (Ulysses) journey home after the Trojan War. After the end of the war, Ulysses and his companions decide to return home, but in the middle of the path a horrible storm deviates them from the original route. Just one more difficulty, they have to face monsters like Cyclops and Mermaids, always overcoming them with cleverness astuteness. During...Data dostępności:
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The Iliad – ebook
One of the greatest stories ever told, „"The Iliad"” has survived for thousands of years because of its insightful portrayal of man and its epic story of war, duty, honor, and revenge. The poem itself centers on the figure of Achilles the Greek warrior, his quarrel with King Agamemnon the Greek leader, the death of Achilles’ friend Patroclus, and Achilles’ ultimate defeat of the Trojan warrior Hector....Data dostępności:
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The Years – ebook
Virginia Woolf
The action of the novel „Years”, one of the most significant works of W. Woolf, takes place over fifty years – from the 1880s to the mid 30s of the twentieth century. Victorian traditions are breaking down, cars and planes are appearing, the First World War is covering Europe... All this serves as the backdrop for the family saga – the history of the Pargiter family: Colonel Abel Pargiter, his wife,...Data dostępności:
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Between the Acts – ebook
Virginia Woolf
The author describes us only one day. One summer day of 1939. England. Between the Acts – plays devoted to the history of England and presented on the stage of the amateur theater, a drama of misunderstanding and alienation in real life of the main characters of the novel is played. Between acts, the ideals and hopes of people standing on the threshold of World War II are crumbling, the whole world...Data dostępności:
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To the Lighthouse – ebook
Virginia Woolf
An exquisite novel in which times of action are mixed and intertwined, and the summer spent by the wealthy Ramsey family on the Isle of Skye turns out to be a kind of British „chronicle of lost time” – a fragile, almost idyllic time, doomed to be destroyed soon by the First World War. Children will grow up – someone will survive and grow up, someone will lay their heads on the battlefields. Small failures...Data dostępności:
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The Mad King – ebook
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The Mad King“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. Set in the fictional European kingdom of Lutha, the protagonist is a young American named Barney Custer, of Beatrice, Nebraska, who is the son of an American farmer and a runaway Luthan princess, Victoria Rubinroth. Unaware of his royal blood, much...Data dostępności:
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The Lost World – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World - a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. It is a novel concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. The character of Professor Challenger...Data dostępności:
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Wyspa tajemnicza. L’Île mystérieuse. The Mysterious Island – ebook
Jules Verne
Jules Verne: Wyspa tajemnicza. L’Île mystérieuse. The Mysterious Island. Edycja trójjęzyczna - polska, francuska i angielska. Książka opowiada o czasach wojny secesyjnej w Ameryce - przedstawia kilkuletni pobyt grupki uciekinierów na małej, niezamieszkanej wyspie, nazwanej później przez rozbitków imieniem Abrahama Lincolna, w pobliżu drugiej małej i niezamieszkanej wysepki Tabor...Data dostępności:
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Koszyk kwiatów - Das Blumenkörbchen – ebook
Ks. Christoph von Schmid
Koszyk kwiatów : powieść dla młodzieży. Historia bardzo smutna, o niesłusznym oskarżeniu młodej, pięknej, bardzo uczciwej dziewczyny o kradzież pierścionka w pałacu hrabiego. Na skutek tego dziewczyna trafiła do więzienia. Życie całej rodziny legło w gruzach... Co prawda po dłuższym czasie prawda wyszła na jaw i bohaterkę powieści przeproszono za niesłuszne oskarżenie i skazanie, ale zmarnowanych lat...Data dostępności:
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