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Three Lives – ebook
Gertrude Stein
"„Three Lives” to pierwsza książka wydana przez Gertrudę Stein, amerykańską powieściopisarkę żydowskiego pochodzenia. Książka przyniosła jej dużą popularność, uznano ją za arcydzieło, gdyż była nowatorska zarówno pod względem treściowym, jak i językowym. Dzieło składa się z trzech części stanowiących historie przeciętnych kobiet i ich nie koniecznie przeciętnych losów. Dzięki tej i wielu...Data dostępności:
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Under the Tonto Rim – ebook
Zane Grey
Over 30 million Zane Grey paperbacks sold since 1954. Lucy Watson has finally escaped from the town where she grew up. She takes a job as a state welfare worker and travels to distant Cedar Ridge to help „primitive” backwoods families improve their lives. She quickly overcomes their fears, and achieves popularity by the practical results of her work. From the grandeur of the old forests, loomed over...Data dostępności:
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The Insulted and the Injured – ebook
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The book contains several topics: the relationship between a man and a woman before marriage, the betrayal of loved ones and their forgiveness, fathers and children. As the life stories of two women are almost the same, as Ivan tried to prevent the same end for Natasha. The breaking lives of good people because of unclean ones on hand.Data dostępności:
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Death Comes for the Archbishop – ebook
Willa Cather
The novel tells about the life of a French missionary in the southwestern United States. In the center of the novel are two Frenchmen, Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Veillant, who left Europe and devoted their entire adult lives to creating a new Catholic parish in Santa Fe after the Mexican War.Data dostępności:
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Lucy Gayheart – ebook
Willa Cather
Lucy Gayheart is well known in her small Nebraska town for her great looks, energy and piano playing. Everyone assumes that she will marry the son of banker Harry Gordon, including Harry, but at 18 she goes to Chicago to study piano and ends up making money accompanying the famous international vocalist when he spends time in Chicago. Her life, other people’s lives and people’s expectations changed...Data dostępności:
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The Copy-Cat and Other Stories – ebook
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
This is an excellent collection of softly written short stories set in early 20th century New England. In all the first stories of the collection, the main characters are children. Many of these stories are about ordinary people’s lives and the ways they find a way out of a difficult life.Data dostępności:
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Afloat and Ashore, or, the Adventures of Miles Wallingford – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
In the center of the book is the life of a young man, Miles, who lives in America. He wants to become a sailor like his father. This is an exciting adventure story of the life of a ship captain. Sea brotherhood, battles with pirates, friendship and betrayal, and finally, love that overcomes all obstacles.Data dostępności:
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A Son of the Sun – ebook
Jack London
Son of the sun – a cycle of stories. The heroes of which are honest, persistent and courageous people, romantics, adventurers who have passed through difficult physical and moral tests in their lives. Griffiths and Jacobsen decided to trick Vulture into fleeing without paying the bills. But it would be better if they did not try to deceive the Son of the Sun.Data dostępności:
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Soldiers Three – ebook
Rudyard Kipling
“Soldiers Three” is a series of fascinating stories by the great English writer and poet Joseph Rudyard Kipling. A collection of short stories written in 1888 provides a glimpse into the life of “tommies,” as the English soldiers called it, in Afghanistan. They fool around, complain and talk about their daily lives - against the backdrop of the war and sunset of colonial England.Data dostępności:
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The Yellow God – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
The Yellow God is another excellent book by H. Rider Haggard. Jeekie lives in England for about 30 years, arriving in England with his uncle. His uncle, Alan Vernon was involved in a dubious financial deal and left the company, after which he lost all his money. Jeekie persuades Alan to go to West Africa in search of good luck, and now the exciting adventures begin.Data dostępności:
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