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God’s Good Man – ebook
Marie Corelli
The plot takes place in England. Pastor John Walden, a forty-year-old „man of worship”, is presented as having a cheerful, optimistic personality, athletic build, and strong character. He owns one of the smallest „living quarters” in England, an old relic from a medieval church. The ending is unpredictable and keeps you in suspense until the last words.Data dostępności:
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The Kidnap Murder Case – ebook
S.S. Van Dine
Casper Kenting disappeared from the family home and a ransom note was found. Tips indicate Kenting’s involvement in his own abduction, but Vance sees this false trail. The abduction case is full of ordinary cliches: a ransom note consisting of words cut out from a newspaper and a demand to leave the ransom on an empty tree at midnight.Data dostępności:
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Poppy Ott and the Tittering Totem – ebook
Leo Edwards
A number of boys are ambitious to form a career for themselves in journalism and its various industries, and trusting friendship and willingness to give advice as the protagonist began this work. In other words, the main characters must have a great desire to do this. If they have a „desire”, naturally, they will continue to try. Boys travel to Wisconsin very often with their elders. These adventures...Data dostępności:
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The Second Deluge – ebook
Garrett P. Serviss
The protagonist is a rich scientist who predicts the onset of a new flood due to the passage of the Earth through a nebula. Instead of panic, people had laughter, because no one believed in his words. They thought he was crazy. While everyone was laughing, the mad scientist built the ark. The rains did not stop. The world is sinking, but will the main character survive?Data dostępności:
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Christmas Carols and Hymns of All Time – ebook
The songbook contains favourite Christmas carols and hymns with melody, words and chords. The generous selection of songs from old carols to new tunes makes this the perfect book for you this Christmas. The accessible arrangements of lyrics, melody, and chords in this sheet music mean that you don’t have to spend too much time practising before family and friends can gather around the piano for a Christmas...Data dostępności:
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Słowa klucze – ebook
Anna Wierzbicka
Prezentowana książka to pierwszy pełny przekład polski Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words. English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese, wydanej przez Oxford University Press w 1997 roku, będącej próbą przekrojowego spojrzenia na kulturę (tradycje, wartości, sposób myślenia o świecie) różnych grup etnicznych poprzez języki używane przez te grupy. Najważniejsze założenie tej książki, jak...Data dostępności:
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Tender Is the Night – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, „Tender Is the Night” is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver who marries one of his patients, a wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgerald’s words, un homme épuisé („a used-up man”). The novel explores how love can be won, lost, and perverted...Data dostępności:
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Overruled – ebook
George Bernard Shaw
“Overruled” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Overruled is a comic one-act play written by George Bernard Shaw. In Shaw's words, it is about "how polygamy occurs among quite ordinary people innocent of all unconventional views concerning it." The play concerns two couples...Data dostępności:
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – ebook
Mark Twain
A chance meeting in the Warwick Castle leads to an unusual acquaintance. An American who was born and raised in Connecticut shares his diary, which describes in detail his journey to England in the VI century. Darkness and horror, hunger and poverty – the main companions of the time. Wild laws, the incredible power of the church and the nobility, unlimited faith in words. Absolutely implausible, but...Data dostępności:
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles – ebook
Thomas Hardy
This story of temptation, love and betrayal formed the basis of the scripts of several film adaptations. The young beauty, the daughter of an impoverished descendant of an ancient aristocratic family, seemed to be created for happiness. But suffering persecutes Tess, she becomes a victim of the words of the voluptuous bourgeois, loses her child, experiences the betrayal of her husband... „Once a victim...Data dostępności:
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