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- Insurance company agent George „Fatty” Bowling lives with his family in a featureless house among the same featureless houses in the London suburbs. When George wins some money at the races and is thinking about what to spend it on, he catches his eye on an advertising poster, and George begins to sort through his own memories – memories of his childhood spent in Lower Binfield.
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- ”Down and out in Paris and London” is a dramatic and at the same time full of Orwell caustic humor autobiographical story of a young English intellectual, who lives in the capitals with odd jobs as a dishwasher in restaurants. A dark, brilliant and accurate self-portrait of one of the typical representatives of the European „lost generation”.
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- This is another of Haggard’s eternal love stories. This novel tells of intersecting fates, the triangle: scholarly Morris Monk, inventor; his first cousin, Mary Porson; and the daughter of the new church rector, Stella Fregelius. The story at one point plays with the idea that love cannot exist between man and woman without lust, which implies a rare power to Morris and Stella’s bond. The moral of...
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- What Jacob Abbott really appreciates is his ability to uncover and animate well-known characters. So, for example, he did with Peter the Great. Most of the story is dedicated to the achievements of the great leader. But at the same moment he can describe the cruelty that lives in Peter the Great. What was particularly interesting in this book was Peter’s conflict with his son Alexis; it was an emotionally...
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- "Once the were people... short stories of people with mental disorders” is a collection of moving stories that portray the lives of people struggling with various mental disorders. The book not only introduces readers to their daily struggles but also reveals their dreams, hopes, and relationships with loved ones. I am trying to break societal stereotypes about mental illnesses by presenting the...
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- George Eliot’s (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) first full-length novel, „Adam Bede” paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, self-deception and redemption. First published in 1859, this innovative novel carried its readers back sixty years to a time of impending change for England and the wider world. The story follows the rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope – a rural,...
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- W książce zostały zaprezentowane życiorysy czterech działaczy społecznych: Antoine’a-Frédérica Ozanama (1813-1853), ks. Carla Sonnenscheina (1876-1929), Piera Giorgia Frassatiego (1901-1925) i Alberta Marvellego (1918-1946). Na ich podstawie ukazano specyfikę dzieł dobroczynnych realizowanych pod patronatem Kościoła katolickiego i w ramach jego doktryny miłosierdzia. Dobroczynność bez względu na formę...
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- At the reception in the rich manor there are not the first youth mister and also not a young lady anymore. Both belong to the same circle of birth, but the financial affairs of a man are in somewhat better condition. It all seems to him that he is meant for something great and terrible that will destroy his own life and the lives of loved ones – like a sudden fit of madness or, yes, how many anything...
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- A predecessor to such monumental works such as „Crime and Punishment” and „The Brothers Karamazov”, „Notes From Underground” represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky’s writing towards the more political side. In this work, we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives, withdraws from that society into the underground....
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- In a dark, narrow street in Paris lives an old widow and her pretty young daughter, sit by the window most days. They share a poor but contented existence, supporting themselves through embroidery work. They see a gentleman in a brown coat pass by in the mornings and return in the evenings. The mother always remarks that he appears either over-worked or in delicate health. The daughter ignores most...
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- Kobiety przewyższają mężczyzn pod każdym względem. Nie wierzysz? Oto kilka faktów: kobiety żyją dłużej od mężczyzn, mają silniejszy układ odpornościowy, lepiej radzą sobie z nowotworami, postrzegają świat w szerszej palecie barw... Mało? To wcale nie wszystko! Sharon Moalem, autor książki "Lepsza połowa" prezentuje bardzo długą listę argumentów, dowodzących, że kobiety są po prostu lepsze od mężczyzn....
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- Drugie wydanie głośnego tomu esejów wybitnego amerykańskiego pisarza i działacza na rzecz praw obywatelskich. Znajdziemy tu jego szkice poświęcone afroamerykańskiej literaturze i kinematografii oraz głębokie, przejmujące eseje, w których w wyjątkowy sposób łączył zapis osobistego doświadczenia z refleksjami na temat polityki, amerykańskiego i europejskiego społeczeństwa, naznaczonych piętnem niewolnictwa...
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- Aleksandr Petrovich lives through a spiritual re-awakening that culminates with his release from the prison camp. The narrator has been sentenced to penalty deportation to Siberia and ten years of hard labor for murdering his wife. Published in 1861, „House of the Dead” is a semi-autobiographical work based upon Dostoevsky’s exile to Siberia where he was punished with „hard labor” after he was initially...
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- An extremely collectible, sweet little book named for and written in honor of Balzac’s mother. Comtesse Honorine de Bauvan was married to the Comte at nineteen. She leaves him and is later abandoned by her lover when she becomes pregnant. She lives simply and earns money by making artificial flowers. What she doesn’t know is that her husband is paying exorbitant prices for her work, thus supporting...
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- By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of nineteenth-century realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled „The Human Comedy” (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works and 48 unfinished works. The novel „A Start in Life” is part of the „Scenes of Private Life” section of Balzac’s masterpiece. In much of Balzac’s...
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- Prior to the twentieth century, philosophy was the driving force behind all literature. Authors used the novel as a means to communicate their ideas on man’s purpose and his place in the universe. With Louis Lambert, however, Balzac takes the idea of the philosophical novel a little too far in giving us this odd, chimerical mashup of philosophical treatise and coming-of-age novel. The novel seems to...
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- „Modeste Mignon”, by Honoré de Balzac (1846). The heroine of this romance, a young woman of romantic temperament Modeste Mignon, lives in a small city in northwestern France. She has the religious faith of a child, while her mind is exceptionally well informed in many ways. The young girl, daring in her simplicity, enjoys the writings of the famous Parisian poet Melchior de Canalis and imagines herself...
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- WIEJĄCY GROZĄ REPORTAŻ O MŁODYCH ROSYJSKICH FASZYSTACH Pogrążona w wojennej gorączce Rosja tonie w faszystowskich symbolach. Gorliwi „patrioci” atakują dziennikarzy, działaczy opozycji i każdego podejrzewanego o zdradę ojczyzny. Internetowi trolle wrzucają do sieci zmyślnie zmontowane klipy wideo przedstawiające wściekłych młodych mężczyzn i wzywają obywateli do przyłączenia się i poparcia...
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