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The Headswoman – ebook
Kenneth Grahame
The Headswoman is an unusual little tale about the power a woman can wield. A funny, witty, intelligent story about an executioner. Along the way, Grahame takes shots at lawyers and small town officials, among others. Thoroughly delightful and well worth reading.Data dostępności:
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Work – ebook
Louisa May Alcott
A story about a nineteenth-century woman’s search for a meaningful life through work outside the family sphere, „Work: A Story of Experience” is at once Alcott’s exploration of her personal challenges and a social critique of America, examining women’s independence, the moral significance of labor, and the goals to which a woman can aspire. The story depicts the struggles of a young woman trying to...Data dostępności:
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Behind a Mask – ebook
Louisa May Alcott
Originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym „A. M. Barnard.” Louisa May Alcott’s novel of romance and sexual intrigue is one of her lesser-known gems. „Behind a Mask, or A Woman Power” is a controversial novella; its tone and characterizations strike a markedly different chord from her best-known works, such as „Little Women” and „Little Men”. The plot of the novella is focused upon Jean Muir,...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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Hill O’ the Winds – ebook
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Clorinda is for everyone except her husband and a few old people. She was so sweet and dignified. However, she was born Cooper. She was a plump woman who, at sixty, still retained the girl’s questioning look. She was fond of wearing light dresses, which she calmly recognized were too young for her. Now she wore one, a muslin with pink flowers and a lampshade of hats. Despite her age, she was very energetic....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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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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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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