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Hard Times – ebook
Charles Dickens
This is one of the most uplifting of Dickens’s novels. This book is certainly different from all the other books by Charles Dickens as it has no particular central character. Well all the other novels by Dickens have a strong connection with London but this story depicts Coketown and Coketown only, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. Hard Times is a very tragic and wonderfully described...Data dostępności:
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The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman – ebook
Herbert George Wells
„The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman” is a novel set in the era surrounding the days of women’s suffrage. The story revolves around the wife of a baking magnate who goes into hiding after his female employees go on strike. Although the hero of this novel Sir Isaac Harman didn’t think much of the suffragette movement, his female employees certainly did, and he thought it prescient that he too should do his...Data dostępności:
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The Ambassadors – ebook
Henry James
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...Data dostępności:
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The Pathfinder – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
In the third installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper takes his main character, here called the Pathfinder (Natty Bumppo) and examines his role as an explorer for British/Colonial forces in the forests and islands around the Great Lakes. The story is a classic historical adventure/romance and Bumppo falls in love, for the first and only time in the five novels, only to see his choice fall in...Data dostępności:
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Galveston – ebook
Nic Pizzolatto
Debiut twórcy serialu Detektyw ! Roy Cady radził sobie jak dotąd doskonale. Uzbrojony w metalową pałkę dwumetrowy brodacz, postrach niesolidnych dłużników w Nowym Orleanie, nie jest może zbyt lubiany, ale na pewno skuteczny. Do czasu. Wiadomość o toczącej go śmiertelnej chorobie i zdradziecka pułapka, w jaką wpada podczas zdawać by się mogło rutynowej roboty zmuszają go do zerwania z dotychczasowym...Data dostępności:
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