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The Aspern Papers – ebook
Henry James
”The Aspern Papers” is one of the masterpieces of the writer’s „small” prose, the plots of which are based on the collision of European and American cultural consciousness, the „point of view” of an individual and social stereotypes, the „book” perception of the world and individual experience. The tragicomic search by the hapless biographer of the lost letters of the great poet is the conflict of...Data dostępności:
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Fanshawe – ebook
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne’s use of the language is magnificent, and the premise was interesting. We get acquainted with the love triangle between the heiress of Ellen, the immature student Edward and the painful scientist Fanshaw, and everything starts to go south after the villain enters. The pacing of this novel goes beyond the strange and not in a good way. After the first half of the novel, all expectations disappeared,...Data dostępności:
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Anna Karenina – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
The story of all-consuming passion, the story of a married woman who fell in love with a handsome officer and threw her husband against everything: the opinion of the world, generally accepted morality, her conscience. This is a much deeper work than just a story of love and suicide. This is a book about the torment of conscience, about egoism, about hypocrisy, meanness and selfishness, about the search...Data dostępności:
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Brentwood – ebook
Grace Livingston Hill
„Brentwood” is a romance novel of a young woman adopted by a well to do couple. Marjorie Wetherill had always known she was an adopted child; her adoptive parents, the Wetherills, whom Marjorie loved deeply, had made no secret of it. But when she faces her first Christmas alone after her parents’ deaths, she starts to wonder about finding her first family. A letter among Mrs. Wetherill’s things gives...Data dostępności:
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Colonel Chabert – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
In 1807 Colonel Chabert, Napoleon’s beloved commander, is severely wounded in the Battle of Eylau. Taken for dead and buried in a mass grave, he manages to escape and wanders in poverty through Europe for 10 years, torn between life and death, oblivion and consciousness. Finally recovering his memories, he sets out for Paris to search for his wife who had been a prostitute before he married her and...Data dostępności:
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Sarrasine – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
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...Data dostępności:
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Tour de France. Etapy, które przeszły do historii – ebook
Richard Moore
20 historii, które zbudowały legendę TdF Merckx odrabiający blisko 10-minutową stratę do lidera. Emocjonalna wygrana Armstronga po śmiertelnym wypadku jego przyjaciela. 180-kilometrowa ucieczka zakończona sukcesem. Szaleńczy plan Cavendisha, podróż Hinaulta przez piekło i LeMond, który ledwo wyrwał się objęciom śmierci. Tour de France to nie tylko tradycja, prestiż i wielkie pieniądze. To także etapy,...Data dostępności:
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