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Travel and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century British Writing – ebook
Magdalena Pypeć Przemysław Uściński
The essays collected in the volume cover a wide selection of texts representing different genres, literary currents and ideological perspectives to offer diverse interpretative insights into the cultural significance of travel and foreignness in British writing of the nineteenth century. Taken together, they aptly display the complexity of attitudes towards the Other as well as the diversity of textual...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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Byzantium and the Arabs. The Encounter of Civilizations from Sixth to Mid-Eighth Century – ebook
Teresa Wolińska Paweł Filipczak
This book is an attempt at a reconstruction of complex relations between Byzantium and the Arabs from the sixth to the eighth century. It discusses the religious and political situation in the Middle East on the eve of the Arab conquest, characterises the attitude adopted by the inhabitants of Byzantine provinces toward the Arab invaders, analyses the administrative structures of Byzantium and the...Data dostępności:
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Panoply in Defense of Orthodoxy. The Case of Moldavian Manuscript BAR Ms. Slav. 636, 16th Century – ebook
Mariyana P. Tsibranska-Kostova Ivan Aleksandrov Biliarsky Georgi Minczew
The monograph is dedicated to the Slavic manuscript BAR Ms. Slav. 636 from the Library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest, compiled in the Principality of Moldavia in 1557 during the reign of the Moldavian ruler Alexandru L ă pu ş neanu (1552-1561; 1564-1568) and under the Suceava Metropolitan Gregory II, written by the hand of Hierodeacon Hilarion, in all probability in the Neamt Monastery. The...Data dostępności:
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Looking Backward – ebook
Edward Bellamy
This is a book about a man of 1887, who turned out to be in 2000. It was actually written in 1887, and author Edward Bellamy predicts certain things, such as radio and credit cards. The main character discovered that all social class differences were erased, and there is a utopian society. He wonders how in the twenty-first century all kinds of music are available at the touch of a button. Credit card...Data dostępności:
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Collected Short Fiction – ebook
H.P. Lovecraft
This is a collection of classic Lovecraft stories. What readers like about him is how he can terribly make everything seem, a feeling of fear and foreboding that his thick prose can create. These early works of H.P. Lovecraft were originally published in the first half of the 20th century. „The Dunwich Horror’ and ’The Call of Cthulhu’”, which subsequently brought him a place as one of the most influential...Data dostępności:
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Obrazowanie Zagłady – ebook
Krzysztof Rybak
Książka stanowi analizę opublikowanych w XXI wieku polskich utworów literackich dla dzieci i młodzieży mówiących o Zagładzie. Autor analizuje sposób obrazowania Szoa w książkach kierowanych do młodych czytelników i odpowiada na pytanie, jak konstruowane są literackie i wizualne obrazy postaci, przestrzeni i czasu oraz peryteksty. Wykorzystuje przy tym narzędzia narratologiczne, badania nad postpamięcią...Data dostępności:
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The Complete Novels – ebook
George Orwell
George Orwell is one of the most widely read authors in the world and a very controversial person. His first international fame came from traditional psychological novels. This collection includes all of Orwell’s novels. His name was immortalized by the anti-utopias „1984” and „Animal Farm”, which became the first anti-utopias of the twentieth century and laid the foundation for a whole trend in l...Data dostępności:
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – ebook
Mark Twain
A chance meeting in the Warwick Castle leads to an unusual acquaintance. An American who was born and raised in Connecticut shares his diary, which describes in detail his journey to England in the VI century. Darkness and horror, hunger and poverty – the main companions of the time. Wild laws, the incredible power of the church and the nobility, unlimited faith in words. Absolutely implausible, but...Data dostępności:
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The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories – ebook
Rudyard Kipling
The world of Kipling’s stories is complex and rich, representing essentially an encyclopedia of the plot experience of the best English and American storytellers of the XIX century. They are characterized by psychology, innovation, which consists in introducing new layers of life into the fabric of narration, and a kind of naturalism. The lazy tourists demanding communication with people have already...Data dostępności:
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