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Monday or Tuesday – ebook
Virginia Woolf
A woman looks at the mark on the wall and ponders the whims of thoughts and opinions; a series of couples is captured by nostalgia for their past as they stroll among the vibrant colors of Kew Gardens; the heron flies high above cities and towns, lakes and mountains, and below life continues in all its abundance; and blue and green are given in words.Data dostępności:
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Orlando – ebook
Virginia Woolf
A fascinating fantastic story about a beautiful young man Orlando, who comes from a noble family, is distinguished by intelligence and beauty, loves life, women, poetry and in general has a very impressive nature and subtle imagination, resists, as far as possible, the influence of light and gravitates to solitude. All the time he seeks the meaning of life and does not find it... One fine day Orlando...Data dostępności:
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When God Laughs & Other Stories – ebook
Jack London
“When God Laughs & Other Stories” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. When God Laughs & Other Stories is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of twelve moving and thrilling stories such as: When God Laughs, A Wicked Woman, Make Westing or The Curious Fragment....Data dostępności:
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The Bonds – ebook
Agnieszka Gajda
Summary: You are in England, the 19th and 20th centuries. You witness a murder, you would witness. But first of all you should know who, and why had to kill an innocent person: a young woman with a child. When every suspicion is incriminating her husband, a former soldier, he becomes fated to go through his own ordeal. However, in the end, is he truly guilty? Or maybe their torments were all in va...Data dostępności:
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White Nights – ebook
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
White Nights - a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. Like many of Dostoyevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He...Data dostępności:
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Shirley – ebook
Charlotte Bronte
The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel's popularity led to Shirley's becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel, Shirley was an uncommon – but distinctly male – name and would have been...Data dostępności:
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Little Dorrit – ebook
Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, is the story of Amy Dorrit, a kind and compassionate young woman who is born impoverished and becomes wealthy, but retains her goodness and strength of character throughout. Little Dorrit is a novel of family loyalty. The story of a girl who is taking care of a large family and her love for the rich young man, and at the same time sarcastic description of English...Data dostępności:
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Northanger Abbey – ebook
Jane Austen
The story’s heroine is Catherine Morland, an innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with...Data dostępności:
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African Heat – ebook
Renée Pascal
Monon is an actress on the threshold ofa career. On the day of the first of a significant theatre award happens suddenly something what breaks her world into small pieces. The pain of personal tragedy she trying to suppress in intensive work as a war correspondent… and not only. Transmissions journalistic and relationships from engulfed by chaos Libya are only a cover for a dangerous and full of puzzles...Data dostępności:
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The Bonds – ebook
Agnieszka Gajda
Summary: You are in England, the 19th and 20th centuries. You witness a murder, you would witness. But first of all you should know who, and why had to kill an innocent person: a young woman with a child. When every suspicion is incriminating her husband, a former soldier, he becomes fated to go through his own ordeal. However, in the end, is he truly guilty? Or maybe their torments were all in va...Data dostępności:
The Passionate Friends – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Although most famous for his sci-fi, Wells’ best work often deals with ordinary people having big thoughts in picturesque settings. „The Passionate Friends” is a fine representative example of this. Wells uses the changing relationships among childhood friends as the media for his thoughts on human relations on personal and global scales, and of what it all means. On the death of his father, Stephen...Data dostępności:
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Ann Veronica – ebook
Herbert George Wells
First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, „Ann Veronica”, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science,...Data dostępności:
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Major Barbara – ebook
George Bernard Shaw
“Major Barbara” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many...Data dostępności:
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Candida – ebook
George Bernard Shaw
“Candida” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The play questions Victorian notions of love and marriage, asking what a woman really desires from her husband. It was published as a part of Plays Pleasant, which also included Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny and You...Data dostępności:
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The Little Lady of the Big House – ebook
Jack London
“The Little Lady of the Big House” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Little Lady of the Big House is a novel by American writer Jack London. It was his last novel to be published during his lifetime. The story concerns a love triangle. The protagonist, Dick Forrest,...Data dostępności:
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The Human Drift – ebook
Jack London
“The Human Drift” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. "The Human Drift" is a collection of essays and short sketches by Jack London, also including a number of plays. The collection consists of these titles: The Human Drift, Small-Boat Sailing, Four Horses and...Data dostępności:
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The way in the front – ebook
Feng Ping
It is a great pleasure to recommend to a Polish reader the literary debut of the Chinese student of the University of Warsaw (who studies International Relations). From the very first lectures which I held for the students of her year, Ms Feng Ping stood out as person showing keen interest in Poland and ready to discover the links which bring the Chinese and Poles closer together. I was also impressed...Data dostępności:
Kiedy ptaki powrócą – ebook
Fernando Aramburu
Książka, która koi duszę i daje nadzieję na to, że nawet najgorszy czas ma swój kres. Toni, zgryźliwy i wściekły na cały świat nauczyciel, to malkontent, który widzi wokół siebie tylko szarość i czerń. Rozwód, kiepski kontakt z synem i liczne niepowodzenia sprawiają, że czuje się zawiedziony i rozgoryczony. Z pozornym spokojem postanawia, że za rok odbierze sobie życie. Do tego czasu codziennie...Data dostępności:
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Marzenie panny Benson – ebook
Rachel Joyce
Brawurowa opowieść o sile kobiecej przyjaźni Mając lat dziesięć, Margery Benson się zakochała. Mając lat czterdzieści sześć, uświadamia sobie, że to ostatni moment, by odnaleźć tę miłość i zacząć wszystko od nowa. Rzuca pracę nauczycielki i postanawia podążyć za marzeniem z dzieciństwa – odnaleźć złotego chrząszcza, który przed laty oczarował ją na ilustracji w książce o niesamowitych stworzeniach....Data dostępności:
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Northanger Abbey – ebook
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, in 1803, but it wasn't until after her death in 1817 that it was published, along with her other novel Persuasion. The novel is a satire of the Gothic novels popular at the time of its first writing in 1798–99. This "coming of age," story revolves around the main character, Catherine, a young and naïve "heroine,"...Data dostępności:
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