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Some Short Stories – ebook
Henry James
Some Stories by Henry James is a small collection of tales. The best story is considered „Brooksmith”, about a butler who descends into the depths when the master dies, whom he apparently forced to serve. After that, „The Real Thing” is published about an emaciated couple desperately trying to find a way to make a living.Data dostępności:
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Mrs. Ames – ebook
E.F. Benson
E. F. Benson’s subject is always the petty concerns of petty people, but his talent is to make those concerns nearly as important to us as they are to his characters. For us, what happens to Benson’s people is also much funnier than it is to them. This is another of Benson’s social comedies with women battling it out for social supremacy in the village. „Mrs. Ames”, first published in 1912, has been...Data dostępności:
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Lucia’s Progress – ebook
E.F. Benson
„Lucia’s Progress”, previously published in the U.S. as „The Worshipful Lucia” is the fifth of E. F. Benson’s famous series, opening about a year after the previous story ended. In this volume both Lucia and Mapp stand for election to the Town Council, and Lucia speculates in gold shares. While re-decorating Miss Mapp’s house, Lucia discovers and hide the remains of a Roman Villa. Excitements ensu...Data dostępności:
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Northanger Abbey – ebook
Jane Austen
"Northanger Abbey" is a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen. It was completed for publication in 1803, making it the first of Austen's novels in order of completion, but was only published posthumously in 1817 with another of her novels, "Persuasion". The story revolves around Catherine Morland, the young and naïve "heroine", and her journey to a better understanding of herself and the world...Data dostępności:
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The Kingdom of the Sun – ebook
Alexander Maitland Stephen
A young man, Richard Anson is a crewman on board Sir Francis Drake’s „Golden Hind”, which is travelling north to the coast of what will one day become British Columbia. „The Kingdom of the Sun: A Romance of the Far West Coast” (1927) is an adventure novel by Alexander Maitland Stephen (May 8, 1882 – July 1, 1942), who was a Canadian author of poetry and fiction. He began writing in the early 1920s....Data dostępności:
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A Chicago Princess – ebook
Robert Barr
„The Chicago Princess” is a historical novel with a romantic line, written by Robert Barr. Robert Barr (1849-1912) was a British-Canadian short story writer and novelist, who published the first Holmes parody, „The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs” in 1892. A novel „The Chicago Princess” first published in 1904. After working several years in foreign affairs, and after winning and then losing a fortune,...Data dostępności:
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Tajemniczy ogród. The Secret Garden – ebook
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. „Tajemniczy ogród” to powieść obyczajowa autorstwa Frances Hodgson Burnett. „Tajemniczy ogród” jest współcześnie uważany za najlepszą powieść tej autorki i zaliczany do klasyki literatury dziecięcej. Prócz warstwy obyczajowej, książka daje też wyraz przekonaniu o uzdrowicielskiej,...Data dostępności:
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The Safety Curtain and Other Stories – ebook
Ethel M. Dell
A set of melodramatic love stories, first published in 1917 by the hugely successful English writer of popular romances. This collection contains five of Ethel M. Dell’s best short stories: „The Safety Curtain”, „The Experiment”, „Those Who Wait”, „The Eleventh Hour”, „The Place of Honor”. In „The Safety Curtain”, a dragonfly-like dancing girl is „rescued” by a subaltern when he offers her a marriage...Data dostępności:
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Jesse James, the Outlaw – ebook
W.B. Lawson
Jesse James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death. His exploits inspired the imagination of America, including a whole series of dime novels dedicated...Data dostępności:
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Niebieski rower. 1939-1942 – ebook
Régine Deforges
Jak się odnaleźć w obliczu wojny, okupacji oraz wszechogarniającej śmierci, gdy ma się tylko 17-lat i ogromny apetyt na poznawanie rozkoszy dorosłego życia? Kochająca wolność, zmysłowa Léa Delmas wiedzie spokojne życie wśród malowniczych winnic ojca i coraz śmielej podąża za pragnieniami o namiętnej miłości. Beztroskę tej złotowłosej nastolatki o fiołkowych oczach rujnuje wybuch II wojny światowej,...Data dostępności:
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