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- The Italian Watch is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to its fullest. Throughout the book, he is constantly returning to the beauty and delights of Italian life, despite being too often significant shortcomings. Venice and Rome are undergoing the most extensive treatment.
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- Isabel, the main character of the story, knows the charm of marriage with a worthless person. Her fate – the confluence of fatal circumstances. Being a dowry and finding herself in Europe, she refuses to be quite worthy applicants for a hand, and having received a fortune, connects life with the rogue Osmond.
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- The reader will meet with the wise caliph – Prince Florisel, with the insignificant but important villain-Dynamite, with the new Scheherazade – the charming clever Clara, and with listeners of her fairy tales – three noble and trusting young gentlemen. And he learns that being a terrorist is not only bad, but just shameful and bad. And that love is the strongest.
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- The most amazing thing about this story is that we can feel the life story of Genghis Khan. Starting from being the son of a minor chieftain in Mongolia to becoming the ruler of arguably the largest empire in history. His name itself caused so much terror in the minds of the countries he invaded, that most of them just gave him the keys to their kingdoms hoping that he won’t kill them all.The book...
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- Charles the Second is the story of Prince Charles, who, after his father’s death, came to the throne. In a sense, this is a continuation of the book „Charles the First.” However, we watch the fate of the newly-made ruler, who is being pursued by his father’s misfortunes. Charles the Second had a difficult fate, he even had to flee the country.
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- A personal memoir, detailing the life of Niusia Horowitz-Karakulska and her family, penned by Magda Huzarska-Szumiec, interwoven with chapters covering Oskar Schindler’s wartime exploits and his famous list. Magda Huzarska-Szumiec takes us back to the grimmest moments of World War II, showing what Niusia experienced as a child in the Krakow ghetto and two concentration camps. And yet this story contains...
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- Isabel, the main character of the story, knows the charm of marriage with a worthless person. Her fate – the confluence of fatal circumstances. Being a dowry and finding herself in Europe, she refuses to quite worthy applicants for a hand, and having received a fortune, she links life with the rogue Osmond, who married her only to provide a bastard daughter, Pansy, born of a courtesan, a decent existence....
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- At the reception in the rich manor there are not the first youth mister and also not a young lady anymore. Both belong to the same circle of birth, but the financial affairs of a man are in somewhat better condition. It all seems to him that he is meant for something great and terrible that will destroy his own life and the lives of loved ones – like a sudden fit of madness or, yes, how many anything...
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- "Once the were people... short stories of people with mental disorders” is a collection of moving stories that portray the lives of people struggling with various mental disorders. The book not only introduces readers to their daily struggles but also reveals their dreams, hopes, and relationships with loved ones. I am trying to break societal stereotypes about mental illnesses by presenting the...
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- „Partisans. Journalists in Łukašenka’s line of fire” is a collection of 20 reportages written by 29 journalists. On over 300 pages, they present stories of, e.g., Raman Pratasiewicz, Sciapan Puciła, thanks to whom Belarusians coming from each corner of their homeland had presented what was happening in Belarus after the recent elections. It is stories of Kaciaryna Andrejewa and Darja Czulcowa who reported...
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- A young man, Richard Anson is a crewman on board Sir Francis Drake’s „Golden Hind”, which is travelling north to the coast of what will one day become British Columbia. „The Kingdom of the Sun: A Romance of the Far West Coast” (1927) is an adventure novel by Alexander Maitland Stephen (May 8, 1882 – July 1, 1942), who was a Canadian author of poetry and fiction. He began writing in the early 1920s....
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- „Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan” is a comic tale about a society woman, a Princess and a Duchess, who attempts to recycle her slightly seedy past by pursuing a minor literary figure of great probity and innocence. The Princess de Cadignan, aka the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, has consorted with such notable Balzac rakes as Henri de Marsay, Maxime de Trailles, and Eugene de Rastignac, but is disconcerted...
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- „Domestic Peace”, a short story by Honoré de Balzac, was originally published in 1831 under the French title of „La Paix du Ménage” and can be found in Scenes from private life (Scenes de la vie privee) in „La Comedie Humaine”. It takes place in November of 1809 at the height of Napoleon’s empire, a time of great splendor and decadence. Everyone who’s anyone in the Parisian aristocracy is gathered...
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- On September 1, 2009, after talking to a psychiatrist, I decided to go to a psychiatric hospital in the neurotic disorders ward of my own free will. After many years of treatment, which still didn’t bring the expected results, I came to the conclusion that the hospital was my last hope. I went there because I suffered from eating disorders - bulimia nervosa and anorexia. Then it turned out that it...
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Let me take you to the jungle in Belize. This is not by any means a safe location. Sweaty, stifling green hell is around. Anything that flies is trying to get to your blood. Anything that crawls and hisses can get at you. You will learn the secrets of stalking the enemy in a jungle, and the art of survival in extreme conditions where even one minor mistake can cost you life. Three weeks...Data dostępności:
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- The capturing of the trans-shipment terminal near Umm Qasr, Iraq’s only deep water port, thwarting an attempt to blow up one of the Iraq’s major river dams, dozens of seized fighters and fellow comrades of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party… For the first time ever Naval reveals the details of the background of the Polish GROM Unit and US Navy SEALs joint security operations, hitherto highly classified....
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