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- The young heroine matures through her perception of family problems. The aristocratic family fell apart: the parents decided to live separately, but Macy does not agree with this. The girl is looking for a way to reunite her mom and dad...
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- This story is about Hannibal Barca, who was compared to Julius Caesar. Virtually every family in Rome lost a family member because of Hannibal in the fifteen years he spent occupying Italy. He never lost a battle with the Romans in fifteen years of fighting them, and he was in the minority in each of their battles.This book is excellent to introduce you to one of the most important figures of the ancient...
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- Po Brexicie powróciło pytanie o niepodległość Szkocji, a odpowiedź na nie przestała być oczywista. Ale jak miałaby wyglądać niezależność kraju, który posiada przecież instalacje brytyjskiego arsenału nuklearnego? Od stuleci Anglia i Szkocja zastanawiają się: „razem czy osobno”? Cofnijmy się w czasie i sprawdźmy, jak zaczęła się ich wspólna droga! Paweł Burdzyński w e-booku „Droga...
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- This story is about a girl whose family has lost everything. Despite his young age, Agnes makes an important decision for himself and his family to go to work as a governess. Those close, at first discouraging a young girl, but understanding her resolve, do not resist her impulse. The work of a governess is not an easy job, Agnes Gray on her way gets acquainted with the life, traditions and way of...
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- The Reverberator is a short novel from Henry James. Comedy traces the complications. which leads when unpleasant, but true stories about Paris family fall into the American scandal sheet of the name of the novel. George Flack is a Paris correspondent for the American sheet scandal called reverberator.
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- Historia rodzin (Bronikowscy, Kęszyccy, Pflanz, Zdrójkowscy, de Nehl, Mroczkowscy, Strawińscy, Busse…) spisana na podstawie dokumentów z archiwum rodzinnego oraz z archiwum cyfrowego: Geneszukacz. Drzewa genealogiczne utworzone w MyHeritage Family Tree Builder. Sylwetki znanych powszechnie osób z rodziny: Zofii Pflanz-Dróbeckiej — tancerki z okresu międzywojennego i Stanisława Birmy-Dróbeckiego — literata...
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- Mistrz batuty szczerze i barwnie, nie skąpiąc anegdot, w szesnastu chronologicznie i tematycznie ułożonych rozdziałach opowiada o swoim życiu, rodzinie, zainteresowaniach, a przede wszystkim o bogatym dorobku artystycznym. Artysta wprowadza czytelników w świat zarówno wspaniałych dzieł muzycznych, jak i znakomitych śpiewaków, instrumentalistów, słynnych orkiestr oraz wielkich kompozytorów. Opisuje...
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- Swann’s Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood – a sensitive boy’s impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age – satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition – Swann’s...
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- Insurance company agent George „Fatty” Bowling lives with his family in a featureless house among the same featureless houses in the London suburbs. When George wins some money at the races and is thinking about what to spend it on, he catches his eye on an advertising poster, and George begins to sort through his own memories – memories of his childhood spent in Lower Binfield.
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- In this story, readers are introduced to Leonard Outram, a penniless British adventurer in his pocket who is seeking wealth in distant lands, having lost his family lands and estates. He is involved in the rescue of a young Portuguese woman from the largest slave camp in Africa. As a result, the main character discovered a lost race. He will not be easy, because he will face their God.
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- If you had to choose between the love of a lifetime and your relationship with your family, who would you pick? In „The Mill on the Floss” by George Eliot, the author draws on her own experiences when writing the tale of the complicated relationship between a young woman Maggie and her brother Tom Tulliver during a time when women had limited choices. Maggie’s often tormented battle to do her duty...
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- Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds...
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- Fans of Romeo and Juliet will delight in the novella „Vendetta”, Honoré de Balzac’s unique take on the timeless theme of star-crossed lovers. This short novel is a story of love and revenge, dealing with the vendetta between two families of Corsican origin, set in early 19th century Paris just after the fall of Napoleon. It relates the tragic fate of Ginevra Piombo, the daughter of proud Corsican immigrants,...
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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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- This work is about how black stripes always alternate with white. About how a child learns his mind, for the first time experiences one of the most terrible events of his life – the death of his mother, about how he first feels one of the most beautiful and bright feelings – his first love, about how he feels affection, grief. In the first part, we begin our acquaintance with the family of Nicholas,...
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- „Brentwood” is a romance novel of a young woman adopted by a well to do couple. Marjorie Wetherill had always known she was an adopted child; her adoptive parents, the Wetherills, whom Marjorie loved deeply, had made no secret of it. But when she faces her first Christmas alone after her parents’ deaths, she starts to wonder about finding her first family. A letter among Mrs. Wetherill’s things gives...
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- In the novel The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the founders of American literature, once again, after a series of short stories and the famous Scarlet Letter, addresses the Puritan past and present of his homeland, New England. Legends and legends from national and family history, animated by the author’s fantasy on Gothic themes, add up to the chronicle of the age-old confrontation...
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- The romance story of a hearty well-known explorer, who finally, at the age of 62 crosses the Antarctic and the spinster who accompanies him on his journey to the Andes in 1895. Here we have a young Victorian woman’s unconventional romance with a man, who was already married, had various adventures, was disowned by her family, etc. So, what happened in between? Did their romance end when he left for...
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- A collection of Jane Austen's letters addressed mainly to her family. The author corresponds about family life, as well as the novels she wrote. Thanks to the letters, we can get to know her almost in person. We learn facts and thoughts that are not included in the literature she created. Zbiór listów Jane Austen adresowanych głównie do jej rodziny. Autorka koresponduje na temat życia rodzinnego,...
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- KAUKAZ I AZJA ŚRODKOWA 2 książki - Bawełna, samowary i Sartowie / Najpiękniejszy klejnot w carskiej koronie - e-book PAKIET 1) Bawełna, samowary i Sartowie. Muzułmańskie okrainy carskiej Rosji 1795-1916 „Dni imperiów i sfer wpływów dobiegły końca” mówił w Warszawie Barack Obama, mając - oczywiście - na myśli Rosję i - zapewne - słynne stwierdzenie Putina o „największej tragedii...
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