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Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously;  By A Lady appears on the cover page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, both of age to marry. The novel follows the young women to their new home with their widowed mother, a meagre cottage on the property of a distant relative, where...

James Joyce first wrote Portrait as a one-thousand page novel, full of well-developed scenes and long explanations of Stephen’s motives, but he decided to trim it into a short book with a new sort of style. The novel tells the story of the first twenty years of Stephen Dedalus – a young Catholic boy growing up in late 19th century Ireland. As the title suggests, this is the story not just of a young...

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„Kroniki królobójcy”, akt drugi, scena druga! Dzień drugi chyli się ku zachodowi. Kvothe powoli ujawnia, jak rodziła się jego legenda. Czy możliwe jest, by rozmawiał z istotą, która dzięki swojemu jasnowidzeniu doprowadza ludzi do obłędu? Ile zaś prawdy może być w tym, że w tak młodym wieku spędził wiele nocy z Felurianą, której sztuka miłosna pozbawiła już życia rzesze mężczyzn? Utalentowany arkanista...