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- Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, is the story of Amy Dorrit, a kind and compassionate young woman who is born impoverished and becomes wealthy, but retains her goodness and strength of character throughout. Little Dorrit is a novel of family loyalty. The story of a girl who is taking care of a large family and her love for the rich young man, and at the same time sarcastic description of English...
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- The story’s heroine is Catherine Morland, an innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with...
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- „Marriage” is a surprising story about relationships and people by science fiction legend, H.G. Wells. It features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer whose business has been ruined by the advent of the automobile, and R. A. G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family at the age of 21. The novel...
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- Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby’s father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. Nicholas then has to protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking...
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- A young girl named Fanny Price comes to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram. Fanny’s family is quite poor; her mother, unlike her sister Lady Bertram, married beneath her, and Fanny’s father, a sailor, is disabled and drinks heavily. Fanny is abused by her other aunt, Mrs. Norris, a busybody who runs things at Mansfield Park , the Bertrams’ estate. The Bertram daughters,...
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- Translation: Saturnin, October 2022 Józef Pawlikowski (1767 near Piotrków — 1828 in Warsaw) was a Polish noble (from an impoverished noble family) and political activist. One of the Polish Jacobins; secretary of Tadeusz Kościuszko in 1795 in France. An independence activist in Congress Poland, he was arrested in 1826 and died in prison in 1828.
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- When Johnny sets out for the Kraków market with his friends and family, he doesn’t expect to end up in a place like that. In search of his companions, he roams through the corners of a dark forest and meets various inhabitants — some friendly, others not so much. The book was created with the help of AI. Artificial Intelligence worked on the cover design, the English translation and the editing of that...
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- Villette is Charlotte Bronte’s last novel, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. However, the novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as in its acute tracing of Lucy’s psychology, particularly Bronte’s use of Gothic...
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- The novel comes from what is called James’s ‘late period’. The writing is mannered, baroque, complex, and focused intently on the psychological relationships between his characters. There is very little ‘plot’ here in the conventional sense. Much of the interest in the narrative is centred on the limitations of the principal character, from whose point of view the story is told. Lambert Strether is...
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- Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. Mr. Dombey, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florence. The firm...
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- When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward...
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- Światowy fenomen, bestsellerowa powieść, na podstawie której powstał film Szesnastoletnia Hazel choruje na raka i tylko dzięki cudownej terapii jej życie zostało przedłużone o kilka lat. Jednak nie chodzi do szkoły, nie ma przyjaciół, nie funkcjonuje jak inne dziewczyny w jej wieku, zmuszona do taszczenia ze sobą butli z tlenem i poddawania się ciężkim kuracjom. Nagły zwrot w jej życiu następuje,...
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- First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, „Ann Veronica”, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science,...
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- „Night and Day” by Virginia Woolf is her second novel and was published in 1919. But the novel is very forward-looking in its examination of relationships under the stress of the culture shift was occurring in the early 20th century. The story takes place in pre-war England and involves four characters and their relationships. Kathryn Hillbery the „middle class” privileged girl whose idea of success...
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- A short story which deals, as many other novels by James, with the changing role of women in Society and the differences that begun to arise between the old stiff Europe and the America at the end of the XIXth century. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness,...
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- Światowy fenomen, bestsellerowa powieść, na podstawie której powstał film – w polskich kinach od 6 czerwca 2014 Szesnastoletnia Hazel choruje na raka i tylko dzięki cudownej terapii jej życie zostało przedłużone o kilka lat. Jednak nie chodzi do szkoły, nie ma przyjaciół, nie funkcjonuje jak inne dziewczyny w jej wieku, zmuszona do taszczenia ze sobą butli z tlenem i poddawania się ciężkim kuracjom....
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- Gdy marzysz o dziecku za wszelką cenę… Po dziesięciu latach małżeństwa i długotrwałych bezskutecznych staraniach o dziecko, Zoe i Max Baxter postanawiają się rozstać. Zoe, ku własnemu zaskoczeniu, znajduje szczęście u boku kobiety, Max szuka pocieszenia w kościele. Lecz marzenie o dziecku trwa, i to, co wydawało się być na wyciągnięcie ręki, przeradza się w starcie światopoglądów i przekonań religijnych,...
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