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“The Job” 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. The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation...

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Graham’s money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world...

This is a short novel about a nineteen century Englishman who falls in a deep sleep only to awake over two hundred years later. The World has changed beyond recognition, and „The Sleeper” finds himself in a remarkable predicament – he has become the owner of the entire planet. However, his awakening profoundly shakes this state of affairs, and he suddenly finds himself at the very center of revolutionary...

Pierwsza w Polsce książka o naszej przyszłości po izolacji. Anatomia pęknięcia Michała Protasiuka jest jak literacka odsłona brytyjskiego serialu Black Mirror . Zanurzamy się w rzeczywistość zdominowaną przez nowe technologie. Podzielony internet, rządzące nami algorytmy i bańki filtrujące – to tematy, wokół których Protasiuk buduje fabułę trzymającą w napięciu jak znakomity thriller. Ta literatura,...