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- The novel „"Roughing It"” is a book of memoirs by Mark Twain about the years of vagrancy in the Far West during the „"silver rush"”. The book begins with Mark Twain embarking on a journey to the West with his brother, Orion Clemens, who received the post of Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Further, the author tells about the subsequent events of his own life.
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- The name of Joan of Arc became a legend: an illiterate village girl, standing at the head of the French army, delivered her country from English rule and enthroned the king, who later betrayed her. In the novel by Mark Twain, the story of Jeanne – her childhood, her victories and death – is presented to the reader on behalf of her friend and secretary. This is a story about a great and noble soul,...
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- Mark was an engineer and is currently out of work. The landscape was colorless and dreary, but Mark was young, and after the pulsating workshop he liked the space and tranquility. The Croziers owned the soil they cultivated on the hills. They held tenaciously everything that belongs to them
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- The town of Gedliberg boasted of the purity of its morals and virtuous humility. But once the city fathers had the opportunity to pass a test for these qualities. Some eccentric bequeathed a huge amount of money to his benefactor from Gedliberg, whose name does not remember. It remains only to go and impersonate the heir...
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- Wealth, romance, adventure and one woman’s struggle with addiction. This novel fits Robert W. Chambers’ love of walking the edge of what was acceptable to society at the time and then taking it one step further with tactful grace.
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- Haggard’s story about greed and selfishness. This is the story of the dastardly Mr. Meeson, the rich owner of the publishing house. The only brave human who wants to stop his atrocities is Augusta. However, he leaves a mark on her spine before death, which leads further to battle.
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- Twain begins his story by telling of the Mississippi river and some of its origins. He describes several facts that gives the reader a little bit of information of its discovery. After covering the history of the river, Twain shifts to his history with the river. Growing up near the river created Twain’s dream as a child to become a steamboat pilot. Life on the Mississippi is no ordinary guided tour,...
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- The adventures of Tom Sawyer continue. This time, the fidget Tom decides to go abroad to get rich and become independent. Tom’s friends also dream about it, and he quickly gathers around him who want to keep him company. So, the boys go on a long journey...
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- It was interesting how Twain switched between stories. For example, a horse started a story from a first-person perspective. At first, people told, then letters told about past events, often to characters who do not participate in the events of history, and, finally, animals told other animals about the dialogue.
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- Two surviving American sailors, Mark and Bob, found themselves on a bare volcanic rock in the middle of the ocean. Gradually, they manage to form a soil layer using silt, guano and algae. As a result of a storm, Bob is carried away on a boat to the ocean, but he manages to get to America, from where, after stories about adventures, a party of their 9 relatives and friends of sailors arrives.
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- „The Forty-Five Guardsmen”, by Alexandre Dumas (1894), the most celebrated of French romance writers, is in two volumes, and is the third of a series known as „The Valois Romances”. It basically deals with Diana de Meridor and her servant Remy who find a way to take revenge upon Duc d’Anjou for his heinous betrayal of Bussy d’Amboise. Historically it commences with the execution of Salcede and the...
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- The career of prolific writer of Westerns novels B. M. Bower was notable for several reasons. The author, who always used initials as part of her pen name, was born Bertha Muzzy and was the first female writer to make a significant mark in the genre. Secondly, many of Bower’s books were adapted for the big screen, and her characters and landscape descriptions have been indelibly stamped on the conventions...
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- It’s an exciting adventures of Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn – meeting with a ghost, finding a corpse, etc. Tom unexpectedly became a detective – the boy showed amazing observation and outstanding deduction, which helped not only expose the diamond thief and solve the insidious murder, but also save the innocent man from prison.
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- The tall Englishman, Pembroke, was scratching lines on the earth with his hunting knife, talking in a jerky tone that indicated suppressed excitement: „I tell you, Ormond, that peak to the west is the one we were to look for. Here, I’ve marked a map in the dirt. This mark here represents our camp, and this one is the peak. We’ve marched north far enough.
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- Tom Canty is a poor boy in the London slums. His birth only brings more poverty to his already dirt poor family. Edward VI is the long awaited heir to the English throne. They are born on the same day and look so alike they can’t believe it. They exchange clothes and Edward VI ends up being thrown out of the palace by guards who think he is the poor boy he looks to be. Both boys have difficulty fitting...
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- Purpurowa nić to powieść o miłości i zdradzie, o zwątpieniu i nadziei, o rozstaniu i powrotach… Życie Sierry Madrid miało być sielanką. Wspaniały mąż. Cudowne dzieci. I pomyślne widoki na przyszłość. Ale czasami powracały we wspomnieniach Sierry słowa jej ojca: „Zobaczysz, że przez tego chłopaka będziesz jeszcze płakać!” Wtedy nie chciała w nie wierzyć, teraz zaś Alex, jej mąż,...
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- Czwarta część przygód rusowłosej Anne Shirley w nowym – najbliższym oryginałowi – tłumaczeniu Anny Bańkowskiej Po ukończeniu studiów w Redmond College Anne otrzymuje stanowisko dyrektorki liceum w Summerside. Ma jednak problem ze znalezieniem w miasteczku lokum. Pani Tomowa Pringle, która od piętnastu lat wynajmowała pokój kolejnym dyrektorom szkoły, z nieznanych powodów zdecydowała, że jej nie...
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- Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne z Avonlea przeł. Anna Bańkowska Drugi tom przygód rudowłosej Anne Shirley w znakomitym przekładzie Anny Bańkowskiej. Anne zamierza wyjechać na studia, ale los chce inaczej – zostaje w Avonlea, żeby opiekować się tracącą wzrok Marillą. Dostaje posadę w tutejszej szkole, zawiera nowe znajomości z mieszkańcami wioski, a założone przez nią Koło Entuzjastów Avonlea...
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