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Andalucian Nights 1: Indiscretion – ebook
Hannah Fielding
A young woman’s journey of discovery takes her to a world of forbidden passion, savage beauty – and revenge. Spring, 1950. Alexandra de Falla, a half-English, half-Spanish youngwriter abandons her privileged but suffocating life in London and travels to Spain to be reunited with her long-estranged family. Instead of providing the sense of belonging she yearns for, the de Fallas are riven by seething...Data dostępności:
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In New York with the Tucker Twins – ebook
Emma Speed Sampson
„In New York with the Tucker Twins” is a sixth book in the Tucker Twins series, written by an American author of juvenile fiction and a movie censor Emma Speed Sampson and published between 1915 and 1924. Nominally it’s a boarding school series, but actually only two of the books are set at school. Our heroine is 15 year-old Page Allison, a doctor’s daughter, raised in a rural Virginia community where...Data dostępności:
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The Last Days of Pompeii – ebook
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
‘The Last Days of Pompeii’ is a love story set in that Roman town just before the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried it and most of its citizens in ash. It draws a vivid portrait of the lifestyle of the Imperial Romans, their daily baths, symposia, and gladiatorial entertainments, their religious practices and their homes while presenting a busy plot full of decadent, diabolical seducers, religious...Data dostępności:
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Methods and Theories of Magick – ebook
Saturnin
This is a selection of methods in magic and sketches in heathen theology that were found effective over the years. It is not an absolute course, but a supplement to Occultosophia, and is intended to contain practical methods with which one can easily get started. It is intended for an intelligent practitioner who is a beginner. Magick is an art of virtuosity. It is a personal religion and set of tools...Data dostępności:
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Paying Guests – ebook
E.F. Benson
The story is set around the Wentworth mention, a small boarding house in Bolton Spa and its owners and lodgers. They are quite unlikable, mainly upper-middle-class English people who came to the Spa to cure their body illnesses, but also to fill the time and escape boredom despite having no passions, interests and work. A delightful book for anybody familiar with Benson’s work, full of all the usual...Data dostępności:
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The Deerslayer – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
The Deerslayer is an exciting story about the adventures of the woodsman known as Deerslayer and his Delaware Indian friend, Chingachgook. The novel presents the violence and unpredictability of life in a place where only a few white hunters and hunting parties of Indians have ever set foot. The interface between the wilderness and civilization, the pristine life of nature and the impact being made...Data dostępności:
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Sanditon. The Watsons – ebook
Jane Austen
These two short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles and exploring a range of social classes and settings. Written in the last months of Austen’s life, the uncompleted novel Sanditon is set in a newly established seaside resort, with a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators,and shows the author contemplating a changing society with a mixture of scepticism...Data dostępności:
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The Brothers Karamazov – ebook
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
„The Brothers Karamazov” is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century of Russia that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia. The plot of the novel revolves around the murder of perhaps one of the most despicable characters ever created, Fyodor...Data dostępności:
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A House to Let – ebook
Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins Elizabeth Gaskell Adelaide Ann Procter
„A House to Let” is a novella originally published in 1858 by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole was edited by Dickens, making it fit together seamlessly as a whole. This novella is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue...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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