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Cousin Pons – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
„Cousin Pons” is one of the last and greatest of Balzac’s novels of French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature. The book tells the story of Sylvain Pons, a poor moderately successful musician who is swindled by his wealthy relatives when they learn that his collection of art and antiques is worth a fortune. In contrast to his counterpart Cousin Bette,...Data dostępności:
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Animal Farm – ebook
George Orwell
“Animal Farm“ 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. Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals...Data dostępności:
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1984 – ebook
George Orwell
“1984“ 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. 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell. 1984 centers on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors...Data dostępności:
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Filip II Król nieprzezorny – ebook
Geoffrey Parker
Ponad trzy tysiące dokumentów odkrytych przez Geoffreya Parkera, największego znawcę epoki Filipa II, stało się inspiracją do napisania nowej biografii hiszpańskiego monarchy. Część tych odręcznych notatek króla, z archiwum rodziny Altamira, była przechowywana w madryckiej Biblioteca de Zabálburu, do której nie można było zajrzeć z racji zawiłości spadkowych do 1987 roku. Kolejne zapiski autor odkrył...Data dostępności:
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The Mucker – ebook
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The Mucker“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. This is the first book in the Mucker series. Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind and has only meager...Data dostępności:
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Jungle Tales of Tarzan – ebook
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“Jungle Tales of Tarzan“ is a collection of short stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. This is a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories comprising the sixth book in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being...Data dostępności:
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Roxana – ebook
DANIEL DEFOE
Roxana - a novel by Daniel Defoe, an English trader, writer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Roxana is an example of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional characters (yet "drawn from life"), despite the fact that they are women. Roxana, which narrates the moral and spiritual...Data dostępności:
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The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains – ebook
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In The Great Stone Face, Hawthorne compares different types of human activity. Most of them are aimed at finding success in society. But Hawthorne believes that the success of the Finnish businessman or general, who turned military affairs into a means of his personal career, or a clever politician who is uncleanly making his way to power, is an imaginary success. Even the poet, the creator of beautiful...Data dostępności:
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Les Misérables – ebook
Victor Hugo
One of the best classic novels in world literature. Jean Valjean, Cosette, Gavrosh – the names of the heroes of the novel have long become common nouns, the number of its readers for a century and a half since the publication of the book has not been reduced, the novel does not lose popularity. A kaleidoscope of people from all walks of life in French society in the first half of the 19th century,...Data dostępności:
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Crime and Punishment – ebook
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Is murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose? Meet Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. His struggle with himself and those around him becomes a battle of the individual...Data dostępności:
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