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- The main character, an aspiring artist, hires a faded noble couple, Monarchs, as models after they have lost most of their money and need to find some kind of work. They are „real” in the sense that they are beautifully of the aristocratic type, but they turn out to be inappropriate for the artist’s work. The artist must finally get rid of the monarchs, especially after his friend and colleague, artist...
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- W grudniu 2000 roku Real Madryt został uznany przez FIFA za najlepszy klub XX wieku . To, co najciekawsze, miało jednak dopiero nadejść. Florentino Pérez stworzył projekt, który rozpalił umysły milionów kibiców na całym świecie i wyniósł Los Blancos na zupełnie nowy poziom: finansowy i sportowy. W tej książce Leszek Orłowski przygląda się narodzinom, rozwojowi i triumfowi idei Galácticos...
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- Powstali, by wzajemnie rywalizować. Nie mogą bez siebie żyć. Real Madryt założony przez Katalończyka. FC Barcelona zawieszona za wygwizdanie hymnu Hiszpanii. Zażarte boje o Alfredo Di Stéfano i Ladislao Kubalę z reżimem generała Franco w tle. Kontrowersyjny transfer Luísa Figo i świński łeb rzucony na Camp Nou. Palec José Mourinho w oku Tito Vilanovy... Piłkarska rywalizacja...
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- Inspirująca historia zwyczajnej islandzkiej matki, z przedmową Kate Winslet. „I am real”. Jestem prawdziwy. To pierwszy komunikat, który Keli przekazał słowami. Miał wtedy dziesięć lat, a jego dotychczasowe życie było zdrowotnym rollercoasterem, który przetrwał dzięki nieprawdopodobnej sile swojej matki. Margrét Dagmar Ericsdóttir miała świetną pracę, dwóch zdrowych synów i udane życie rodzinne. Razem...
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- Nada the Lily is a historical novel. It tells about the origins of Umslopogaas, the illegitimate son of the Zulu king in the 19th century. Parts of the story are inspired by the real historical events and fairy tales that Haggard heard during his time in South Africa. Haggard portrays the Zulus as real people–people with hopes and dreams, as well as flaws.
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- Some Stories by Henry James is a small collection of tales. The best story is considered „Brooksmith”, about a butler who descends into the depths when the master dies, whom he apparently forced to serve. After that, „The Real Thing” is published about an emaciated couple desperately trying to find a way to make a living.
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- A mystical and a little detective story. A dark and terrible tragedy occurred within the walls of this gloomy red farmhouse. In this room a man was killed – stabbed to death. A riddle for a real detective. Only an attentive reader will understand everything in advance.
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- A novel was born and developed in literature, which we call classic English in terms of both plot and character of the heroes and style of presentation. Victorian books became the standard for many decades, inspiring all European literature, and later cinema, to create real masterpieces of romance. The multibook includes books such as „Jane Eyre”, „Wuthering Heights”, „Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and...
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- In this story, Henry James continues his favorite theme – Old World vs New World. An American woman with a turbulent past, agitated, spontaneous, somewhat vulgar, but beautiful and not devoid of mind, sets out to join the European high society. For this, she tries to marry a young English Baronet on herself, a very stiff and cold man, but spellbound by that which he cannot understand. But this situation...
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- The novel is complicated, it’s true. Long, ornate sentences, philosophical speculations of the characters, complex in their structure and further awareness of the phrase.. but.. this and not only the novel represents the uniqueness and sophistication. Restrained and at the same time shocking, harmonious and scary real. Did you know that among the higher aristocracy there are wolves in sheep’s clot...
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- The main character of the story, Dmitry Olenin, is close to the author both in spiritual experience and in moral aspirations. Like Tolstoy, he finds himself in the Caucasus in an attempt to start a new life, „"in which there will be no more mistakes, there will be no remorse, and probably there will be only happiness."” But instead of imagining paintings on the way to the Caucasus in the spirit of...
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- „"Master and Man"” is the story of L. N. Tolstoy about two people caught in a terrible snowstorm. The owner throws his worker to save his life, but he himself cannot get out... Faced with death, he rethinks his life. The merchant achieved a lot. Vasily Andreevich Brekhunov: opened a shop, two taverns, a mill, several estates... And all through his tireless passion for accumulating goodness and frugality....
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- ”War and Peace” is not just a classic novel, but a real heroic epic, the literary value of which is not comparable to any other work. The writer himself considered it a poem, where the private life of a person is inseparable from the history of the whole country. Events and impressions from a peaceful life do not leave characters during the war, on the contrary, they come to life more strongly in their...
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- The main character Katherine is a girl who does not differ in anything special, but is at the same time quite an enviable bride, she has a good dowry. And the bridegroom appears on the horizon, love, everything, but the father is against their relationship, because this Maurice squandered all his fortune, and aunt Catherine, on the contrary, for real happiness. The whole book revolves around the relationship...
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- Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds...
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- „Madame Bovary” is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, often considered his masterpiece. Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband Charles Bovary in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life...
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- This novel opens in the old town of Guerande which still enclosed by mighty walls and possesses moats still full of water. The houses have not changed and the streets are as they were one hundred years in the past. It is the family seat of the de Guenics. The old society of the town gather here to play cards and gossip, often about the younger generations. The son of the house, Calyste, is going to...
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- This is the coming of age story of a young sculptor named Sarrasine and the choices he will face on his journey towards his destiny. We follow Sarrasine as he travels from France to Italy to search for his passion and find the love of his life. The story of Sarrasine is intertwined with that of the beautiful La Zambinella, and Italian singer with whom the young sculptor will fall madly, deeply in love...
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- Superman. Diesel. The Big Aristotle. Shaq Fu. The Big Daddy. The Big Shaqtus. Wilt Chamberneezy. The Real Deal. The Big Shamrock. Shaq. Znasz go pod wieloma imionami. Istnieje nawet szansa, że wiesz wszystko na temat jego koszykarskiej kariery: czterokrotny mistrz NBA, trzykrotnie uznany za najbardziej wartościowego gracza, 28 596 punktów na koncie, 13 099 zbiórek, 3 026 asyst, 2 732 bloki i 15 występów...
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- Tylko ambicję stawiał nad wierność Królewskim. To była może najtrudniejsza decyzja w jego życiu. Mógł zostać i cieszyć się statusem legendy. Kochał Madryt, a Madryt kochał obłędną miłością jego. Ale jeszcze bardziej kochał rywalizację i możliwość gry. Ta ambicja zaprowadziła go na sam szczyt, to jej w pierwszej kolejności musiał pozostać wierny. 20 lat temu w barwach Królewskich zadebiutował...
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