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The Richest Widow – ebook
Hulbert Footner
After a minimal education in Canada, Footner emigrated to New York in 1898 and worked at a variety of jobs, including an unsuccessful stint as an actor. He turned to journalism and worked for a time as a freelancer, contributing articles to periodicals such as Field and Stream. His first works were primarily travelogues of various river trips in Canada and the U.S., although he did produce some adventure...Data dostępności:
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The Room with the Tassels – ebook
Carolyn Wells
It had seemed an idyllic way for a group of wealthy New Yorkers to spend a summer month, researching the supernatural in a reputed haunted mansion in the depths of Vermont’s Green Mountains. That is until two of their number are mysteriously struck down at afternoon tea. Could the supernatural be at the heart of these deaths? Or did humans do the deed. This is the riddle that the famed detective Pennington...Data dostępności:
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Dombey and Son – ebook
Charles Dickens
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...Data dostępności:
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Piastowskie fundacje klasztorów żeńskich w Polsce XIII wieku – ebook
Anna Agnieszka Dryblak Andrzej Małkiewicz
Monografia stanowi analizę fundacji najważniejszych żeńskich założeń monastycznych powstałych w kręgu dynastii piastowskiej w XIII wieku. Ukazuje je na tle porównawczym, przedstawia ideę klasztoru kobiecego we wczesnośredniowiecznej Europie Zachodniej i jej recepcję w Europie Środkowej. Zarysowuje też (nieco inaczej prezentujące się) początki żeńskich wspólnot w Polsce, przywołując przy tym także znaczące...Data dostępności:
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Travel and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century British Writing – ebook
Magdalena Pypeć Przemysław Uściński
The essays collected in the volume cover a wide selection of texts representing different genres, literary currents and ideological perspectives to offer diverse interpretative insights into the cultural significance of travel and foreignness in British writing of the nineteenth century. Taken together, they aptly display the complexity of attitudes towards the Other as well as the diversity of textual...Data dostępności:
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Every Boy I Ever Kissed – audiobook
Nellwyn Lampert
A bold step toward a new cultural narrative around sex. Sex was supposed to be easy. It was supposed to be fun, liberating, and empowering for a girl who'd been brought up thinking the battle for sexual equality had been won. But for Nellwyn Lampert, losing her virginity would turn out to be anything but simple. Whether she was being confronted with porn-induced erectile dysfunction or other crises...Data dostępności:
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Śmierć, pogrzeb i upamiętnienie władców w dawnej Polsce – ebook
Hanna Rajfura Patrycja Szwedo Barbara Świadek Marek Walczak Piotr Węcowski
Prezentowany tom zawiera wyniki badań historycznych oraz historyczno-artystycznych nad problematyką śmierci, pochówków i upamiętnienia władców oraz władczyń (nie tylko polskich) od późnego średniowiecza do początku XX wieku. Publikowane artykuły dotyczą, z jednej strony, prywatnej sfery życia monarchów, ich religijności i stosunku do śmierci, z drugiej zaś – organizacyjnego, politycznego i symbolicznego...Data dostępności:
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A Tale of Two Cities – ebook
Charles Dickens
„A Tale of Two Cities” is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens and it is one of his most tragic works. The plot centers on the years leading up to the French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. The novel, first and foremost, follows several characters including Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite...Data dostępności:
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Little Women – ebook
Louisa May Alcott
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, „Little Women”. Four sisters are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother in a quiet Massachusetts town while their father serves as an army chaplain during the American Civil War. Here are independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth;...Data dostępności:
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An African Millionaire – ebook
Grant Allen
Colonel Cuthbert Clay is a master of disguise and an ingenious con man who sets his sights on the South African Millionaire, Sir Charles Vandrift, a millionaire owner of diamond mines in Africa. Each chapter brings new cringing on the reader’s part as we realize before Charles does that he is about to be a victim anew. As his South African diamond fortune takes hit after hit from the quick-witted master...Data dostępności:
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