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- Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.
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- The Gambler - a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. The first-person narrative is told from the point of view of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General,...
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- Iza is a young Warsaw high school student; when Iza moves to a new house in her hometown a year after losing her father, she meets Jim, a year older than her, who comes from a poor family. The boy is very, interested in getting to know Iza and, in order, to get to know her better, Jim invites her to stay with him. After a month of knowing each other, they are, finally, able to enjoy each other, but...
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- The Haunted Castle portrays vicissitudes of a noble family inhabiting an ancient castle, struggling throughout long years with reverses of fortune, because of a cruel curse cast on the entire line. Visits of the vindictive ancestors’ spectres seeking redress for the old-time wrongs, the past unsettled conflicts, disclose grim secrets of the mansion’s former proprietors. Chance discovery of the 17th...
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- Let’s ask you, as a potential adventurer preparing to hop to some other world, every difficult question there is. Family, credit card debt, career, fear, the need for comfort — admit, it all makes an escape to the Other World questionable, even if you suddenly find a way to make it happen. Take part in a mental experiment, go through the doubts, the planning, and the decision-making together with our...
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- “Getting Married” 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. Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908, it features a cast of family members who gather together for a marriage. The play analyses and satirises the status of marriage in Shaw's day,...
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- The Cricket on the Hearth - a novella by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging...
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- Alaba`s incredible trip is a wonderful and heart-touching story for children and adults in two language versions — Afrikaans and English. It is story about a girl who for the first time in her life leaves the family home called HERE and sets off into an unknown world called THERE. Alaba observes the world through the eyes of a child, draws her own conclusions and learns from her own mistakes. And all...
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- Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814. The novel tells the story of Fanny Price starting when her overburdened family sends her at age 10 to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle, through to her marriage. Mansfield Park is perhaps Austen's most controversial novel due to its brief mention of the British slave trade, and the fact that Fanny's...
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- “Captain Brassbound's Conversion” 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. The play explores the relationship between the law, justice, revenge and forgiveness. Sir Howard Hallam, a judge, and his sister-in-law, Lady Cicely Waynflete, a well-known explorer, are at the home...
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- “The Girl from Hollywood“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. The story alternates between the all-American Pennington family on their remote California ranch and a young Hollywood actress. The Penningtons have a beautiful estate, and affectionate relationships with their children, Custer and Eva....
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- Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt, at the same time as the wars come to an end, putting sailors on shore. They rent their home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife’s brother, Navy...
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- Who said fairy tales are just for children? Introducing "InspiTales" by Grzegorz Glinka – an extraordinary collection of 33 stories that serves as a bridge connecting generations. This is a book that magically speaks to both a child's imagination and an adult's need for reflection. It is the perfect continuation of the bestselling series "Motivational Fairy Tales for Children and Adults" and "Cuentos...
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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,...Data dostępności:
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- “Things” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Things” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis. “This is not the story of Theodora Duke and Stacy Lindstrom, but of a traveling bag with silver fittings, a collection of cloisonné, a pile of ratty school-books, and a fireless cooker that...
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- “You Never Can Tell” 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. The play is set in a seaside town and tells the story of Mrs. Clandon and her three children, Dolly, Phillip, and Gloria, who have just returned to England after an eighteen-year stay in Madeira. The children have...
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- “Martin Eden” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his...
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- The Hound of the Baskervilles - a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Dr James Mortimer calls on Sherlock Holmes in London for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the yew alley of his manor...
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- A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. A second edition was published in 1871 which included previously unpublished Jane Austen writings. A family project, the biography was written by James Edward Austen-Leigh but owed much to the recollections of Jane Austen's many relatives. However, it was the decisions...
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