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The Vanished Messenger – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Mystery novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim involving a handicapped art collector. The book concerns recently demobbed and down on his luck Major Owston, who becomes the bodyguard of the deformed amoral art collector Martin Hews. Enabled by his enormous wealth to buy the world’s most beautiful works of art. Hews is plunged into a bitter rivalry with a gang leader simply known as „Joseph”. This is a thrilling...Data dostępności:
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History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt – ebook
Jacob Abbott
This is not just a story, but a biography of Cleopatra, an evil woman who studies the effect of poison on her prisoners, and the lover of the art of seduction.Wars and conflicts are highlighted, making an intriguing story. Cleopatra should be included in the list of the most sinister people in the world. Because of it, two nations could be destroyed. All these events are described in detail in the...Data dostępności:
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Following the Equator – ebook
Mark Twain
In the book „Following the Equator,” the author talks about his journey from the shores of America to Australia, then to India and South Africa. This is a kind of traveler’s diary, written in art form. The narration is in the first person. The author talks about what he saw, remembered so figuratively, as if the reader himself had visited this distant journeyData dostępności:
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Co można zrobić z dziełem sztuki? – ebook
Katarzyna Zalasińska
Publikacja pokonferencyjna przygotowana z okazji 10-lecia działalności Koła Naukowego Law&Art stanowi próbę wskazania aktualnych problemów i współczesnych wyzwań będących domeną niemal wszystkich gałęzi prawa w odniesieniu do kultury i sztuki. Zebrane w tomie artykuły dotyczą między innymi ochrony dziedzictwa, rynku sztuki, działalności kulturalnej, zmian zachodzących w obszarze kultury, zagadnień...Data dostępności:
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Between the Cataracts. Part 2, fascicule 1: Session papers – ebook
Włodzimierz Godlewski Adam Łajtar
Between the Cataracts, Part Two: Session Papers (fasc. 1-2) completes the publication of the proceedings of the 11th Conference of Nubian Studies that was held at the University of Warsaw in 2006. It follows in the wake of the first volume of the proceedings which included the main papers read at the conference. The Session Papers reflect the richness of periods and topics that were discussed: from...Data dostępności:
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8 Best Weird and Fantasy Stories – ebook
H.P. Lovecraft
The name Howard Phillips Lovecraft thundered to the whole world as a standard of horror literature. Gifted with the art of exquisite literature, he wrote about terrible shadows in the corner and that which was inaccessible to ordinary mortals, but only to the elect. His contemporaries and today’s heroes of horror stories pay their tribute to Lovecraft’s tales. The multibook includes the most read novels...Data dostępności:
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The Republic – ebook
Plato was the first Western philosopher to apply philosophy to politics. His ideas on, for example, the nature and value of justice, and the relationship between justice and politics, have been extraordinarily influential. „The Republic” of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the „Laws”, and is certainly the greatest of them. Presented as a series of dialogue between Socrates and...Data dostępności:
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The Warsaw Group Rytm (1922-32) and Modernist Classicism – ebook
Małgorzata Sears
The first monograph of the influential Polish group Rytm to be published in English, this book is a nuanced reconstruction of this forgotten interwar association of artists, and an original contribution to the ongoing debates on the new classicism in Europe. Engaging critically with both recent scholarly works, and early twentieth-century writing, on modernism, classicism, Maurice Denis, and Henri...Data dostępności:
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Poetics – ebook
The first part of this essay gives a general description of the term „poetics”. At first, Aristotle claims that any art is based on a mimesis, or imitation. Aristotle proves this by arguing that curiosity is peculiar to any person. In particular, the curiosity of observing all sorts of unpleasant things, for example, images of dead animals, and getting pleasure from it.Data dostępności:
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The Goldfish – ebook
Mary Cholmondeley
This was the main character’s first professional visit to the Robinsons. Arthur Robinson had a bronchial coryza. He seemed – like most selfish people – very much in need of a listener, and he poured out his views on art and the form his own message to the world was likely to take.Data dostępności:
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