existence
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Michael – ebook
E.F. Benson
There has never been a city that would be so inimitable. Most trains, too, completely ignore its existence and pass through it on the way to more useful stops. The story was supposed to strengthen many people during the First World War. The book is full of sentimentalism, but it describes well the different scenes of everyday life.Data dostępności:
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Une page d’amour – ebook
Émile Zola
Helen, une jeune femme de vingt-huit ans, qui vit avec sa fille Zhanna, âgée de 12 ans apres le déces de sa mari/ La pauvre et faible existence de cette famille est remplie des choses et préoccupations simples les plus ordinaires. Cependant, un cas change radicalement tout. Le theme de l’amour est dans ce roman.Data dostępności:
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Bunner Sisters – ebook
Edith Wharton
Originally published in 1916, but actually written in 1890, „Bunner Sisters” is a compelling, heartbreaking little novella about two sisters, who have never been apart, struggling to eek an existence as small shopkeepers on the margins of late nineteenth-century society in New York. They barely make enough money to live on. But when Ann Eliza the elder buys Evelina the younger a clock that does not...Data dostępności:
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Ethan Frome – ebook
Edith Wharton
In the early years of the 20th century, life on a farm in Massachusetts is not easy. The New England winters are hard; snow and ice cover the fields for months, and the nights are long and cold. For a poor farmer like Ethan Frome, life has few bright moments. He works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But...Data dostępności:
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The Happy Average – ebook
Brand Whitlock
„The Happy Average” is a novel of far more genuine merit than Mr. Whitlock’s former works. It is a realistic story of commonplace life in a small Ohio town, the realism being of that wholesome sort which portrays the every-day existence, the small joys and sorrows, of the average men and women of the average Western village. The story deals with the struggles of the hero, Glenn Marley, a young man...Data dostępności:
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