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„Uncle’s Dream” is a somewhat comic small-town society tale. It satirizes Petersburg society with an emphasis on the evils of gossip. When the aging Russian Prince, Prince K., arrives in the town of Mordasov, Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva, a doyenne of local society life, takes him under her protection, with the aim of engineering his marriage with her 23 year old daughter Zina. Yet with many rivals...

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...

Historia sygnalistki z Facebooka, która poprzez zwiększenie transparentności i odpowiedzialności gigantów technologicznych pragnie pomóc nam odzyskać kontrolę nad naszym życiem W 2021 roku media rozpisywały się o tzw. „Facebook Papers” - wewnętrznych dokumentach pokazujących skalę wykorzystania Facebooka do dezinformacji i manipulacji przedwyborczych, podsycania mowy nienawiści oraz degradacji...