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The cold drizzle made Plymouth unhappy, and it was with a sigh of relief that Bruce Carey exchanged the greasy, dirty platform of North Road Station for the warm, well-lit comfort of a first-class night mail coupe for London. At first he thought that he would have a car, but when the train was getting ready to start, a man jumped into it and fell on the seat opposite Bruce. He was breathing heavily,...

„Rilla of Ingleside” is a coming-of-age novel written in 1921 by L.M. Montgomery that focuses on the youngest daughter of the beloved Anne Shirley, now Mrs. Blythe from the „Anne of Green Gables” series. In this final book in the Anne of Green Gables series, young Rilla Blythe dreams only of her first dance and getting her first kiss from the dashing Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await...

A comic diary about entering life in the Navy. Published in 1918 and written for the Naval Reservist journal „The Broadside” while the author Thorne Smith was in the Navy, it is a series of short vignettes poking fun at the culture of the time in general and the military in particular. It’s the diary of Biltmore Oswald, a hapless naval recruit with no appreciable talents besides befriending animals...

Światowy bestseller, na podstawie którego powstał film wytwórni Twentieth Century Fox. Liesel Meminger swoją pierwszą książkę kradnie podczas pogrzebu młodszego brata. To dzięki „Podręcznikowi grabarza” uczy się czytać i odkrywa moc słów. Później przyjdzie czas na kolejne książki: płonące na stosach nazistów, ukryte w biblioteczce żony burmistrza i wreszcie te własnoręcznie napisane… Ale Liesel...