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Tales of Mean Streets – ebook
Arthur Morrison
„Tales of Mean Streets”, published in 1894, is a collection of short stories describing the appalling conditions that many working people endured. These stories are a brilliant evocation of a narrow, close-knit community, that of the streets of London’s East End. Having lived and worked there, he author knew that East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but...Data dostępności:
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The Voice of the City – ebook
O. Henry
O. Henry is most widely recognized for his stories’ dry wit, plot twists and surprise ending. But another major element in his fiction is his love of the American urban environment, as well as a keen appreciation of the rapid diversification that occurred in many cities in the early twentieth century. In „The Voice of the City”, O. Henry uses excellently written short stories and high vocabulary to...Data dostępności:
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Anne’s House of Dreams – ebook
Lucy Maud Montgomery
A chronicle of Anne’s early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together in the little „house of dreams” in the picturesque, lonely and sometimes wild seascapes of Four Winds Harbour. A tale uniting the much-loved characters also brings a farewell to Anne Shirley and officially welcomes Anne Blythe. It also introduces intriguing and entertaining...Data dostępności:
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Nig-Nog and Other Humorous Stories – ebook
Edgar Wallace
„Nig Nog and Other Humorous Stories” is a collection of short humorous stories that include „Jimmy’s Brother”, „Sentimental Simpson”, „Chubb of the Slipper”, and many more. There are reasons worth exploring why Edgar Wallace was so successful in his writings and amongst them were his imagination, cleverness, and humor as demonstrated in these initial short stories, especially „Nig- Nog” (making an...Data dostępności:
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Private Selby – ebook
Edgar Wallace
As a prophecy of modern warfare, this book, written before the Great War, is distinctly remarkable, as well as having the genuine Edgar Wallace sense of thrilling narrative. The centre of the plot is the invasion of Britain in 1909. It could be a crime story, as it opens in the mean streets of working class Deptford in the opening years of the 20th century, and includes criminals petty and not so petty....Data dostępności:
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Sawtooth Ranch – ebook
B.M. Bower
B. M. Bower (a woman who actually lived in early 20th century Montana when this story was written) has a good sense of humor and touches on some of the big issues of the West such as water rights and land ownership and development. Her intrepid heroine starts out as a girl actor in the silly Westerns of early Hollywood and then switches to a remote ranch for the real cowgirl experience. Many of Bower’s...Data dostępności:
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The Parowan Bonanza – ebook
B.M. Bower
B. M. Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns. Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana, reflected „an interest in ranch life, the use of working cowboys as main characters, the occasional appearance of eastern types for the sake of contrast, a sense of western geography as simultaneously harsh and grand, and a good deal of factual attention...Data dostępności:
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Hawks and Eagles – ebook
Max Brand
Hawks and Eagles is the author’s classic. The brand is a great storyteller who shows his enthusiasm for humans and animals, such characters as a professor, a small dog, and Mole. Joe Good, the protagonist, he’s twenty years old. His father was killed by the richest man in the city, because he wants a good ranch not to be. A good, lazy, prickly guy who lacks a sense of respect and respect for everyone...Data dostępności:
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The Thundering Herd – ebook
Zane Grey
In this breathless tale of bravery and battle, of white mans courage and red mans daring, Zane Grey has written one of his finest novels. The great western writer’s story of the buffalo hunters, and the passing of the great herds of buffalo. „The Thundering Herd” is the story of the buffalo and of their near extinction when hide hunters swarmed the plains killing them by the tens of thousands, and...Data dostępności:
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Huntingtower – ebook
John Buchan
A true adventure story involving the unlikely hero Dickson McCunn, retired successful businessman and former greengrocer who sets out on a walking holiday in the Scottish Borders. There he meets a young English poet, and both soon become embroiled in the plot of an international gang to capture a Russian princess. With the help of the Gorbals Die-hards, an indomitable gang of urchins from Glasgow,...Data dostępności:
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The Tragedy of the „Korosko” – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ten tourists from England, Ireland, America and France, six men and four women are on a vacation trip down the Nile in 1895. Without warning they are captured by Islamic terrorists, and the possibility of rescue becomes more remote with each passing day. Their choice is a stark one: either convert to Islam and become slaves for the rest of their lives or die. In this story, the reader is swept out...Data dostępności:
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Collected Short Stories Vol. 9: Collected Short Stories. Volume 9 – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional consulting detective in London 1880-1914 created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes, master of disguise, reasoned logically to deduce clients’ background from their first appearance. He used fingerprints, chemical analysis, and forensic science. This volume contains the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan...Data dostępności:
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The Incredulity of Father Brown – ebook
G.K. Chesterton
The Incredulity of Father Brown is the third collection of short mysteries by G.K. Chesterton about that character. In The Incredulity of Father Brown, all the stories involve murders and conflicts between Catholicism and atheism and spiritualism. We find the usual Chesterton „moral landscape” -- in which the author paints a picture of nature somehow mirroring the fact that something is very wrong....Data dostępności:
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The Ambassadors – ebook
Henry James
The novel comes from what is called James’s ‘late period’. The writing is mannered, baroque, complex, and focused intently on the psychological relationships between his characters. There is very little ‘plot’ here in the conventional sense. Much of the interest in the narrative is centred on the limitations of the principal character, from whose point of view the story is told. Lambert Strether is...Data dostępności:
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This Side of Paradise – ebook
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, „This Side of Paradise,” focuses on several themes and illustrates some social and moral changes in America during the early 20th century. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Amory Blaine is utterly an idealist. He indulges in every...Data dostępności:
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The Council of Lithuanian Jews 1623-1764 – ebook
Anna Michałowska-Mycielska
The Council of Lithuanian Jews (Lithuanian Vaad) was the central representative organ of the Jews in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It operated for nearly one and a half centuries (1623-1764), touching all spheres of the Jewish community's life. It undertook important initiatives for the benefit of its constituency at diets and dietines (legislative assemblies of the nobility), at the courts of the...Data dostępności:
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Oliver Twist – ebook
Charles Dickens
The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens’s tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters – the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements...Data dostępności:
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Annales Mathematicae Silesianae. T. 25 (2011) – ebook
Na niniejszy tom złożyły się artykuły prezentujące nowe, interesujące wyniki z różnych dziedzin matematyki, a także sprawozdanie z konferencji. W publikacji zamieszczono następujące prace: Differential inclusions – the theory initiated by Cracow mathematical school ; Fixed point approach to the stability of an integral equation in the sense of Ulam–Hyers–Rassias ; On continuous involutions and Hamel...Data dostępności:
Nadając sens. Rozmowy o świadomości, moralności i przyszłości – ebook
Sam Harris
„Sam Harris jest najodważniejszym intelektualnie człowiekiem, jakiego znam. Nie boi się mówić otwarcie tej prawdy, którą inni ze strachu przed modną policją myśli wolą głęboko pogrzebać. Jego oczytanie, intelekt i elokwencja wydobywają z rozmówców to, co najlepsze; również z tych, którzy się z nim nie zgadzają” .- Richard Dawkins, autor Samolubnego genu „Swobodna i otwarta debata,...Data dostępności:
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Nadając sens. Rozmowy o świadomości, moralności i przyszłości – audiobook
Sam Harris
„Sam Harris jest najodważniejszym intelektualnie człowiekiem, jakiego znam. Nie boi się mówić otwarcie tej prawdy, którą inni ze strachu przed modną policją myśli wolą głęboko pogrzebać. Jego oczytanie, intelekt i elokwencja wydobywają z rozmówców to, co najlepsze; również z tych, którzy się z nim nie zgadzają”. - Richard Dawkins, autor Samolubnego genu „Swobodna i otwarta debata,...Data dostępności:
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