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The Laslett Affair – ebook
Harold Begbie
According to many people, true friendship lasts until the end of life. However, what happens if something goes wrong? The Laslett Affair novel was written on this subject. A story about friends who believe that there is nothing stronger than their friendship and nothing can prevent their friendship. However, everything changes with time...Data dostępności:
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History of Pyrrhus – ebook
Jacob Abbott
This book requires you to have a more detailed history.Pyrrhus is a defender of the city of Tarentum, protecting him from the Romans. Only by knowing the origins of the story can you feel this story. And if not, you will be interested in finding out.Data dostępności:
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Queen Elizabeth – ebook
Jacob Abbott
What else can impress in the history of Queen Elizabeth? However, Jacob Abbott was able to show us the other secret aspects of the queen’s life. The author is doing a tremendous job describing the area in which she lived, as well as a thorough description of the people who formed her. She was a queen to be admired.Data dostępności:
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Chapters from My Autobiography – ebook
Mark Twain
Mark Twain bequeathed to publish his autobiography without cuts only a hundred years after his death, and she first saw the light in 2010. Now, finally, many readers can meet this amazingly witty book. Twain’s autobiography is very unusual: amusing episodes alternate with sad ones, sparkling jokes give way to serious reasoning – and the large-scale personality of the writer, who has presented the world...Data dostępności:
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A Diversity of Creatures – ebook
Rudyard Kipling
Despite the fact that, as the name implies, they are diverse in nature, most of these stories are affectionate satires with the participation of the social strata into which he belonged and who knew best of all – a class of officers from a public school. The „Honor of the War” was a funny story of „hooliganism” in which Kipling seemed to fully endorse this practice; Regulus removes the lid from the...Data dostępności:
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A London Life and Other Tales – ebook
Henry James
In this story, Henry James continues his favorite theme – Old World vs New World. An American woman with a turbulent past, agitated, spontaneous, somewhat vulgar, but beautiful and not devoid of mind, sets out to join the European high society. For this, she tries to marry a young English Baronet on herself, a very stiff and cold man, but spellbound by that which he cannot understand. But this situation...Data dostępności:
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Confidence – ebook
Henry James
It only seems in the book that people can always deceive themselves, and life cannot be regulated on the „scientific” principles that fall on Gordon’s shoulders as the main character. „Crazy” scientist Gordon Wright calls Longville in Baden-Baden to judge whether he should marry Angela. After a couple of years, Longville meets Angela again at a French beach resort and realizes that he loves her.Data dostępności:
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The Midnight Queen – ebook
May Agnes Fleming
This story is told during the great plague of London. A fantastic and historical tale begins with the story of Sir Norman Kingsley about the mystical La Masque, he ends up visiting her, and soon certain visions come to life in her presence. But how does a woman, supposedly dead, come to life and how can such a dead man suddenly disappear?Data dostępności:
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Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories – ebook
Nathaniel Hawthorne
An early collection of fairy tales. Some of the subtle, almost subconscious problems that Hawthorne faces with female sexuality. Like the stories, these plays often do not follow the traditional dramatic arcs that can disappoint, but Hawthorne is always more interested in character than plot, so you just need to abandon any expectations of high drama and sometimes enjoy the amazing revelations that...Data dostępności:
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Bardell v. Pickwick – ebook
Percy Fitzgerald
What makes this work so unusual is that it tries to mimic the format of a legal report covering a fictional trial of Pickwick, who is accused of breaking a promise to marry his mistress. In a large number of quotes from the source text, Fitzgerald explains some of the factual materials. Having some experience in legal matters, Fitzgerald can also indicate where Dickens’ knowledge of the British legal...Data dostępności:
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