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The Man-Stealers – ebook
M.P. Shiel
In „The Man-Stealers” we have the French plot to kidnap the Duke of Wellington to avenge Napoleon’s imprisonment. Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865–1947) was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained „Shiell” though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances. His work was published as serials, novels,...Data dostępności:
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Collected Short Stories – ebook
A. Merritt
„The Collected Short Stories” is a collection of Abraham Merritt’s shorter works, and contains eight stories and two „fragments.” Included are: „The People of the Pit”, „Through the Dragon Glass”, „The Drone”, „The Last Poet and the Robots” and others. These short stories span the entire career of the man who has been called America’s foremost adventure fantasist of the 1920s and ’30s. The collection...Data dostępności:
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The Ebony Stick – ebook
Earl Derr Biggers
No sooner had Bob from the Silver Star ranch reached Italy than a telegram arrived asking for $1,000. A pretty woman was behind it, but that wasn’t all. This early work by Earl Derr Biggers was originally published in 1916. „The Ebony Stick” is one of Biggers shorter stories, published after his death. The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and...Data dostępności:
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Szkice o sztuce przekładu i sztuce czytania – ebook
Tadeusz Pióro
Autor omawia polskie przekłady Portretu artysty i Ulissesa Jamesa Joyce’a oraz dwóch pomniejszych jego dzieł, polskie przekłady dwóch powieści Toni Morrison, jak również amerykańskie przekłady wierszy Wisławy Szymborskiej. W części poświęconej sposobom lektury czytelnik znajdzie eseje o wpływie Lorda Jima Conrada na pisarstwo Ralpha Ellisona i Ngugiego wa Thingo’o, o poematach Franka O’Hary oraz o...Data dostępności:
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Market economy in Poland. A history – ebook
Tadeusz Włudyka
In countries with a tradition of more than one hundred years of a free market economy, both public opinion and the economic policy of subsequent governments focus on pragmatic continuity. Changes or corrections are reduced to the necessary minimum. Further, any such change in economic policy is mainly the result of democratic elections and not that of unusual events of far-reaching, unpredictable consequences,...Data dostępności:
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