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“Burmese Days“ is a novel by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of the empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India,...

“The Girl from Farris's“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. „JUST what Mr. Doarty was doing in the alley back of Farris’s at two of a chill spring morning would have puzzled those citizens of Chicago who knew Mr. Doarty best. To a casual observer it might have appeared that Mr. Doarty was doing...

"Sutra Serca" wydana w 2020 roku w Hongkongu natychmiast po ukazaniu się wzbudziła kontrowersje jeszcze większe niż wcześniejsze powieści Yan Lianke. Ta osadzona już nie w wymiarze oniryczno-metaforycznym, ale metafizycznym transcendentalna groteska, której bohaterami są m.in. kursanci Centrum Kształcenia Religijnego oraz założyciele i wysoko postawieni przedstawiciele największych światowych religii,...