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“Under Deodars” is a collection of stories, against the backdrop of which the bizarre and calm environment of the Shimla mountains. The towering mountains, covered with ice, are dumb evidence of deception, debauchery and dedication of the main characters and opponents. The book begins with a story called Otis Yir’s Education. The rude and enterprising Mrs. Hawksby proposes to create a salon in Simla,...

Set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–32, and widely considered the greatest of Victorian novels. It comprises several distinct (though intersecting) stories and a large cast of characters: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician:...

Robert Barr has been almost completely overlooked by critics and anthologists of Canadian literature, in part because, although he was educated in Canada, he spent most of his life in the United States and England. However, since most of his serious novels are either set in Canada or have some Canadian connection, Barr deserves attention. „The Measure of the Rule” is a 1907 coming-of-age novel about...

Obraz wielkiego kryzysu gospodarczego lat 1929-1941 przedstawia się najczęściej w sposób zdeformowany, wskazując wolnorynkowy kapitalizm jako przyczynę ekonomicznych problemów i propagując interwencję rządu jako ich rozwiązanie. W niniejszej książce, Lawrence Reed, prezes Foundation for Economic Education, obala ten stereotypowy pogląd i próbuje prześledzić decydującą rolę, jaką w tamtej legendarnej...