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An exquisite novel in which times of action are mixed and intertwined, and the summer spent by the wealthy Ramsey family on the Isle of Skye turns out to be a kind of British „chronicle of lost time” – a fragile, almost idyllic time, doomed to be destroyed soon by the First World War. Children will grow up – someone will survive and grow up, someone will lay their heads on the battlefields. Small failures...

“The Mucker“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. This is the first book in the Mucker series. Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind and has only meager...

„Memories and Adventures” is an autobiography written by Arthur Conan Doyle published in The Strand Magazine from october 1923 to july 1924. It was later published in book form by „Hodder & Stoughton Ltd”. on 18 september 1924. „I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded. I have known what it was to be a poor man and I have known what it was to be fairly affluent....

"Portrety z Krakowskiego, nie wszystkie prawdziwe" są debiutanckim zbiorem wierszy i opowiadań poetyckich Joanny Gocłowskiej-Bolek. To pełen wrażliwości i niepokoju spacer Krakowskim Przedmieściem z widokiem na Uniwersytet Warszawski. Autorka, ukazując Uniwersytet i jego okolice, wprowadza Czytelnika w świat coraz bardziej nierzeczywisty i przekorny, zwodzi i narzuca subtelną grę niedopowiedzeń i magicznych...