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- Maja i Krzysiek mieli się wspierać niezależnie od tego, które z nich otrzyma awans i obejmie posadę w filii korporacji w Nowym Jorku. Jednak gdy to Maja zostaje wybrana, urażona męska duma nakazuje Krzyśkowi zakończyć związek. Gdy po przyjeździe do Stanów Maja wybiera się na karaoke, nie spodziewa się, że podczas swojego występu spadnie ze stołu i wpadnie (DOSŁOWNIE) w ramiona przystojnego nieznajomego....
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- Tam, gdzie kończy się przeszłość, a zaczyna przyszłość. Jaśmina nie miała pojęcia, jak wiele zmieni się w jej życiu tego dnia. Zamiast zdawać egzamin na studiach, wsiadła do samolotu i poleciała do Ameryki. Wraz z postawieniem nogi na jankeskiej ziemi i poznaniem Stanleya miała zrozumieć, że patrzenie w przeszłość nie przyniesie niczego poza bólem. Historia o życiu po stracie, nauce kochania nie tylko...
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- Autorka bestsellerowego „The Spanish Love Deception” powraca z historią, która sprawi, że twoje serce zabije szybciej! Czasem miłość potrzebuje jedynie odrobiny inspiracji! Rosie Graham ma problem. A właściwie kilka. Rzuciła dobrze płatną pracę dla kariery pisarskiej. Tyle że właściwie nie pisze, a deadline oddania wydawcy tekstu zbliża się nieubłaganie. Na domiar złego sufit jej nowojorskiego mieszkania...
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- No one could have been more surprised than our Provincial Lady to receive an invitation from her American agent to travel transatlantic and embark upon a programme of lectures and signings. What follows after she sets foot on American soil is a series of whirlwind tours about the continent, and also including a trip to Canada. This is book 3 in the Provincial Lady series by English author E. M. De...
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- The Relentless City is a manners novel built around Lord Bertie Keynes, intending to inherit the title and pledged property of a young English widow. These two people decide they want to marry wealth, and that means marrying Americans. Bertie must marry money, and Sybil admires the American spirit. A novel about the American way of life, embodied by the millionaire and workaholic himself, a former...
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- A sequel to extremely popular, largely autobiographical „Diary of a Provincial Lady,” by E. M. Delafield (also known as Mrs Henry de la Pasture), about her life in England in the early 20th century. Provincial Lady lives in a country house with her husband, two children, the children’s French governess, Cook and a few assorted helpers. A delightful see-youselves-as-others-see-you view that challenges...
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- This is a terrible story about Harkness, a timid American who travels all over Europe with his etchings as his only friends. While in London, he meets a man at the club who recommends visiting a small town during his holidays. The next 24 hours completely change his life. He made friends with a frightened young woman who is unhappily married and meets a man with red hair, a rich and sadistic man who...
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- Natalia Kowal to młoda studentka, która wygrywa płatny staż w głównej siedzibie Watson Hotels Corporation w Nowym Jorku. Polka ma spełnić swój American Dream. Kiedy po przyjeździe okazuje się, że nastąpił błąd i zamiast pracy w dziale HR, zostaje osobistą asystentką samego Coltona Watsona- niesamowicie przystojnego, a także irytującego prezesa firmy, jej życie diametralnie się zmienia. Czy różnice...
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- Seven short stories from the prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton. With a wide variety of protagonists – a cloistered monk to a struggling artist to a Governor to a New England lawyer’s wife – she is flexing her writing muscles and trying on personas. Includes „The Last Asset”, „In Trust”, „The Pretext”, „The Verdict”, „The Pot-Boiler”, and „The Best Man”. In the title story,...
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- In the early years of the 20th century, life on a farm in Massachusetts is not easy. The New England winters are hard; snow and ice cover the fields for months, and the nights are long and cold. For a poor farmer like Ethan Frome, life has few bright moments. He works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But...
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- A collection of short sketches by the prolific American author which was first published in 1913. Carolyn Wells was an early 20th century poet and author best known for mysteries like „The Gold Bag” and „Fleming Stone Detective Stories”. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children’s books. After 1910, she devoted herself to the mystery genre. The book contains:...
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- O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). Porter’s 400 short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. He needs no introduction of course; the man who made the short story with the surprise ending famous. These 16 stories are all wonderful examples of his word sculpting art. They include: „The Rose of Dixie”,...
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- „Heart of the West” is a collection of O. Henry nineteen short stories, all of which are set in or feature the American West at the turn of the 20th century, back before paved interstates, when cowboy culture was at its peak. This collection of short fiction from master of the form centers on tales of romantic entanglement, adventure, and lost love among the dusty trails and plains of the Wild West....
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- „Cabbages and Kings” is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious country. A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town called the Republic of Anchuria while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates...
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- O. Henry is most widely recognized for his stories’ dry wit, plot twists and surprise ending. But another major element in his fiction is his love of the American urban environment, as well as a keen appreciation of the rapid diversification that occurred in many cities in the early twentieth century. In „The Voice of the City”, O. Henry uses excellently written short stories and high vocabulary to...
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- Settle in for a whimsical, thoroughly enjoyable whirlwind tour through the prodigious imagination of American short-story master O. Henry. When he wrote the following, he may have discounted his own creativity. „Whirligigs”, comprised of 24 short stories and published in 1910, is evidence of this. O. Henry writes of love and loss, of mystery and drama, of journalism and murders and trials. He creates...
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- 1912. Ethel May Dell (1881-1939), British writer, began writing at a young age. Most of her stories were stories of passion and love set in India and other British colonial possessions. American Nap Errol is in love with reserved Englishwoman, Lady Anne. Lady Anne is unhappily married to an unpleasant, wealthy drunk, who is twice her age. Nap is, in his own and most other’s opinion, a knave and a bounder....
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- Even a short novel like „Madame de Treymes” shows you what a masterful writer Edith Wharton was. It is a captivating portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. Inspired by Wharton’s own entré into Parisian society in 1906 and reminiscent of the works of Henry James, it tells the story of two young innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis...
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- Edith Wharton’s 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to Paris. Undine Spragg is one of the most ruthless characters in all of literature, as selfishly unscrupulous as she is fiercely beautiful. As Undine climbs the social ladder through a series of marriages and affairs, she shows...
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- American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She lived in Paris throughout World War I and was heavily involved in refugee work. She was a hugely successful writer and the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel „The Age of Innocence”. In this 1918 novella, we are introduced to the story of 15-year-old...
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