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The Beautiful and Damned – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, first published in 1922, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage of would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather’s fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice and disintegrates under the weight...Data dostępności:
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Beyond Good and Evil – ebook
Friedrich Nietzsche
„Beyond Good and Evil” is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written. This work rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil and demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a „slave morality”. It promotes a philosophy that celebrates the present...Data dostępności:
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Youth and the Bright Medusa – ebook
Willa Cather
The stories in this collection mostly take place in New York and Boston, and are all about artists–writers, musicians, sculptors–and their relationship to society. There are stories of brilliance, inspiration and expectations. All of them are wonderful.Data dostępności:
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The Law and the Lady – ebook
Wilkie Collins
A young woman gets married and suddenly finds herself in a situation where her loving and beloved husband turns out to be the bearer of a different surname, and a terrible, dark and discrediting secret is revealed in his past.Data dostępności:
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders – ebook
DANIEL DEFOE
Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe’s „The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders” (aka „Moll Flanders”) details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll Flanders’ drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society...Data dostępności:
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Sense and Sensibility – ebook
Jane Austen
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward...Data dostępności:
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The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables – ebook
Robert Louis Stevenson
The wreck of the ships of the Spanish Golden Armada off the Scottish coast generates a lot of rumors and superstitions. At the invitation of his uncle, Gordon Darnaway, young Charles visits these places and, through the roar of the breakers, nicknamed the Jolly Fellows, tries to uncover the mystery of the ships „Christ-Anna” and „Espirito Santo” in order to secure the future for himself and his be...Data dostępności:
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Chip and the Cactus Man – ebook
Max Brand
Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable short novel „Chip And The Cactus Man „. Packed with enough action and romance to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the novel also addresses a wide range of important themes with insight and sensitivity. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists....Data dostępności:
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The Insulted and the Injured – ebook
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The book contains several topics: the relationship between a man and a woman before marriage, the betrayal of loved ones and their forgiveness, fathers and children. As the life stories of two women are almost the same, as Ivan tried to prevent the same end for Natasha. The breaking lives of good people because of unclean ones on hand.Data dostępności:
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Big Brother and Other Stories – ebook
Rex Beach
This is a simple and sweet book. A story about a little sister who doesn’t like being teased by her older brother. But one day she starts to notice that it’s just a tease and she doesn’t give him the power to upset her. He gets bored and joins in her fun.Data dostępności:
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