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Almayer’s Folly – ebook
Joseph Conrad
Almayer is a European by nature who never lived in Europe. He has to marry the adoptive Malay daughter of another European, who promises Almayer a rich life. But the European does not keep his word. The main character gets depressed. But the story revolves around the stupidity of Almayer’s life and the stupidity of Europeans, who believe that they are superior to others.Data dostępności:
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The God of His Fathers and Other Stories – ebook
Jack London
A white man bought an Indian woman as a wife. Bought without any romantic feelings, bought for help. The girl did her job: cooked, fed dogs, paved the way for teams. And the point is not in servile worship of the master, but in the fact that she saw in her husband an honest and courageous man trying to save other people from hunger and cold. They hoped for him, and she, at the cost of her life, helped...Data dostępności:
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A Daughter of the Snows – ebook
Jack London
Life and adventures during the Klondike Gold Rush are breathtakingly realistic. Frona Wells, the main character of the novel, is a strong, intelligent, courageous and at the same time unusually charming character – in a word, a woman who is able to think, love, fight and share trials along with the best of men. Who is worthy of the hands and hearts of a confident and independent ruler of the North...Data dostępności:
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Avalanche – ebook
Zane Grey
Pearl Zane Grey (1872 – 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier. Zane Grey is the author of 86 books, he is today considered the father of the Western genre, with its heady romances and mysterious outlaws. Raised together in the wild country of the Tonto basin, Jake and Verde grew up closer than...Data dostępności:
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Dark Lady of the Sonnets – ebook
George Bernard Shaw
“Dark Lady of the Sonnets” 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. “Dark Lady of the Sonnets” is a short play by George Bernard Shaw. “THE BEEFEATER: Stand. Who goes there? Give the word. THE MAN: Marry! I cannot. I have clean forgotten it. THE BEEFEATER: Then...Data dostępności:
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Great Expectations – ebook
Charles Dickens
„Great Expectations” is one of the most famous and much-loved novels by the great master of Victorian prose, Charles Dickens, that has become one of English languages greatest and most recognized stories. Here Dickens tells the story of the growth and development of young Philip Pirrip („Pip”) who begins his life as an orphan, neglected and abused, by his sister. Through a series of chance encounters,...Data dostępności:
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Facets of prefabrication. Perspectives on modelling and detecting phraseological units – ebook
Piotr Pęzik
Corpus-based studies have brought fresh insights into the role of collocability and lexico-grammatical patterning as core aspects of language permeating its structure and use. Facets of Prefabrication builds upon these findings and provides further impetus in the direction of large-scale explorations of phraseology. lt introduces a dependency- based method of detecting potential phraseological...Data dostępności:
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Civilians in contemporary armed conflicts – ebook
Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala
Raport po konferencji ""Cywile we współczesnych konfliktach zbrojnych. Dziedzictwo Rafała Lemkina"" współorganizowanej przez Uniwersytet Warszawski, Lwowski Uniwersytet Narodowy im. Iwana Franki i Fundację Współpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej we Lwowie (15–16.10.2015). Autorzy koncentrują się wokół zagadnienia bezpieczeństwa ludności w trakcie trwania konfliktów zbrojnych. Część artykułów przybliża postać...Data dostępności:
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Sekret Listu – ebook
Lucinda Riley
Zakazana miłość, niebezpieczny list i historia, która się powtarza. Śmierć znanego aktora Jamesa Harrisona wywołuje poruszenie nie tylko w Wielkiej Brytanii. Dziennikarka Joanna Haslam, idąc na nabożeństwo żałobne, w którym ma uczestniczyć wiele słynnych osób, liczy na smakowite kąski mogące poprawić jej pozycję w redakcji. Tymczasem uwagę dziennikarki odciąga pewna staruszka, uniemożliwiając jej...Data dostępności:
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Spartan symmachy in the VI and V century BCE – ebook
Aleksander Wolicki
The book contains systematic critique of the traditionalist model’s historiographical assumptions concerning the Spartan alliances in the VI and V century BCE. First chapter is devoted to the critique of the sources. In the second chapter we look at three areas where the original impulse for the creation of a coherent, uniform alliance around Sparta has been sought: Sparta’s helot problem, relations...Data dostępności:
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