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“Press Cuttings” 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. Press Cuttings, is a play by George Bernard Shaw. It is a farcical comedy about the suffragettes' campaign for votes for women in Britain. The play is a departure from Shaw's earlier Ibsenesque dramas on social issues....

The Battle of Life - a novel by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Two sisters, Grace and Marion, live happily in an English village with their two servants, Clemency Newcome and Ben Britain, and their good-natured widower father Dr Jeddler. Dr Jeddler is a man whose philosophy is to treat life as a farce. Marion, the younger...

“England Your England and Other Essays“ is a book by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. “England Your England and Other Essays“ is a collection of 11 essays written by George Orwell. The collection consists of these titles: Why I Write (Gangrel, 1947), Writers and Leviathan...

Od królowej Anny do królowej Wiktorii. Wykłady o literaturze i kulturze brytyjskiej z XVIII i XIX wieku. Tom 7 Siódmy tom serii "From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria" zawiera zarówno nowe odczytania podejmowanych wcześniej zagadnień, jak i analizy kolejnych istotnych tematów badawczych. Autorzy koncentrują się na literaturze, kulturze, historii społecznej i politycznej Wielkiej Brytanii w okresie,...