youth
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Youth – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
This work is about how black stripes always alternate with white. About how a child learns his mind, for the first time experiences one of the most terrible events of his life – the death of his mother, about how he first feels one of the most beautiful and bright feelings – his first love, about how he feels affection, grief. In the first part, we begin our acquaintance with the family of Nicholas,...Data dostępności:
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The Raw Youth – ebook
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The protagonist in the novel is a young man of 19, Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the peasant woman Sophia. From childhood, he almost did not see his parents. He was sent to a special institution for rich children, where he was always humiliated and called, a footman. And after graduating from school he receives a letter from his father, in which he calls Arkady...Data dostępności:
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Youth and the Bright Medusa – ebook
Willa Cather
The stories in this collection mostly take place in New York and Boston, and are all about artists–writers, musicians, sculptors–and their relationship to society. There are stories of brilliance, inspiration and expectations. All of them are wonderful.Data dostępności:
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Exploring the virtual world of learning across generations. Information and communications technology for the educational support of immigrant youth – ebook
Marcin Rojek Joanna Leek Petr Svoboda
The book addresses the issue of intergenerational learning in a virtual world created by information and communication technology (ICT) and the role of ICT in an educational environment. In order to discuss how ICT can be used as a means to prevent early school leaving among immigrant youth, this book explores the literature on how learning can be understood in the intergenerational context, the challenges...Data dostępności:
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Mohawks – ebook
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Events unfold in England. Two friends who lived a wild life in their youth meet a rich but innocent heiress. Everyone plans to marry her, but for various reasons – one for her wealth, another for true love. Who will win her hand?Data dostępności:
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The Glorious Pool – ebook
Thorne Smith
Perhaps the best example of Thorne Smith’s acutely sharp social humor played out against a backdrop of the Prohibition. 60 year old Rex Pebble inadvertently discovers that the fountain of youth happens to be in his back yard swimming pool. A magical statue of a nymph by the name of Baggage, an ornamental pool decoration, has playfully endowed the Pebble swimming pool with the power to reverse the aging...Data dostępności:
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The Picture of Dorian Gray – ebook
Oscar Wilde
Possessing eternal youth and beauty produces exactly the same effect as sentencing a man to life without the possibility of parole. Both have nothing to lose and morals disappear before the desire for immediate self-gratification in all things. And so it is with Dorian Gray. It’s a moral story so eventually his evil catches up with him and he dies, as does the criminal. „The Picture of Dorian Gray”...Data dostępności:
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Doctor Izard – ebook
Anna Katharine Green
Mary Earle’s mother passed away and then her father disappeared when she was very young. Now, after many years, being „adult” and not having her own money in her youth, she receives a rather large amount of money. Who wished this money and why? Of course, in this small town in Massachusetts there is a secret that happened many years ago!Data dostępności:
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The Moonlit Way – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
Youth and life and happiness on the lunar path, and yet the path is not always silver for two glorious heroines. Nikhla Quellen, a dancer and beauty, is constantly entangled in a web of intrigue against which spies and secret service agents are plotting. Little Dulcie Soan finds herself in a whirlpool of excitement more than once.Data dostępności:
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Henry Dunbar – ebook
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dunbar is the heir to a large English banking firm, but makes a serious mistake in his youth. His father and uncle expel him to India for his sins. Of course, everything is not so serious, since its isolation includes the leadership of their Indian branch. Then, after the death of his father, he returns to England. All this happens in the first few chapters!Data dostępności:
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