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Travel and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century British Writing – ebook
Magdalena Pypeć Przemysław Uściński
The essays collected in the volume cover a wide selection of texts representing different genres, literary currents and ideological perspectives to offer diverse interpretative insights into the cultural significance of travel and foreignness in British writing of the nineteenth century. Taken together, they aptly display the complexity of attitudes towards the Other as well as the diversity of textual...Data dostępności:
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21 Culture Challange. British and American Holidays – ebook
Joanna Tomczuk
10 zestawów po 21 zdań w każdym z nich, z wybranych elementów kultury, tradycji i świąt krajów anglojęzycznych Materiał zawiera następujące zagadnienia: Christmas New Year Valentine's Day Easter St Patrick's Day Independance Day Hallowe'en Bonfire Night Thanksgiving Burn's Night, April Fool's Day, Columbus' Day, Oak Apple Day oraz inne W skład zestawu wchodzą: PDF...Data dostępności:
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Money, Banks and Business in British and American Literature, Culture and Language – ebook
Marek Błaszak
This monograph should be of interest to a wide range of readers because money, banks and business have been an integral part of history of all societies as well as an experience shared by each one of us. The book is divided into two parts - the more extensive part one comprises: - several texts that follow advancement of capitalist economy in 18th and 19thcentury Britain with all the concurrent developments...Data dostępności:
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Soldier Stories – ebook
Rudyard Kipling
Three Soldiers is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Three soldiers of this title - Leroid, Mulvani and Orteris, who also previously appeared in the collection "Simple Tales from the Hills." Books reveal the side of British Tommy in Afghanistan, rarely seen in the Twilight of the British Empire. The soldiers comment on their improvements, act fools, but right against the backdrop of...Data dostępności:
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The Inheritors – ebook
Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Hueffer
„The Inheritors” is a little-known book of two main British writers. The plot is based on a political scheme to undermine the British Empire, based on a Congo-like colonial enterprise and manipulated by journalists. The main character claims that she is from the Fourth Dimension and works to replace the human race.Data dostępności:
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Burmese Days – ebook
George Orwell
“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,...Data dostępności:
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Smithy – ebook
Edgar Wallace
A collection of 23 stories from every-day life in the British military, centered around the characters of „Smithy” and „Nobby”. Edgar Wallace, who is also famous for his own stories of colonial life – the Sanders stories – was principally a writer of crime and detective fiction. However, he was well aware that the irrepressible spirit of Kipling’s famous rankers would live on, and he wrote his own...Data dostępności:
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Burmese Days – ebook
George Orwell
”Burmese Days” is an early novel by Orwell, in which the future great English writer enters into a kind of literary confrontation with his no less brilliant predecessor, Kipling. The life of the British colonists in Burma, united in a sense of superiority over the natives, but internally divided, exhausted by snobbery and petty strife. The fate of the local inhabitants, who seem to have become Europeanized,...Data dostępności:
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The Path of a Star – ebook
Sara Jeannette Duncan
This is a novel about how the British colonizers of late Victoria in Calcutta fall in love with the wrong people. Hilda Howe is a travel-loving actress clearly on her way to the top of her profession before she meets Stephen Arnold, a Catholic priest.Data dostępności:
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An Impossible Ideal – ebook
Sara Jeannette Duncan
The action of the story takes place in the summer capital of the British Raj, is a narrative. The author questions the concepts of taste, distinction and pretension in a colonial context. The book keeps you in suspense until the very end.Data dostępności:
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