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Villette – ebook
Charlotte Brontë
Villette is Charlotte Bronte’s last novel, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. However, the novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as in its acute tracing of Lucy’s psychology, particularly Bronte’s use of Gothic...Data dostępności:
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Marriage – ebook
Herbert George Wells
„Marriage” is a surprising story about relationships and people by science fiction legend, H.G. Wells. It features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer whose business has been ruined by the advent of the automobile, and R. A. G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family at the age of 21. The novel...Data dostępności:
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The Ambassadors – ebook
Henry James
The novel comes from what is called James’s ‘late period’. The writing is mannered, baroque, complex, and focused intently on the psychological relationships between his characters. There is very little ‘plot’ here in the conventional sense. Much of the interest in the narrative is centred on the limitations of the principal character, from whose point of view the story is told. Lambert Strether is...Data dostępności:
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Kidnapped – ebook
Robert Louis Stevenson
The story is set in 1751 and the author has successfully narrated the story keeping in mind the history of the time. If you love adventure stories then you simply cannot ignore this fast-moving adventure which promises to keep the reader engrossed from start-to-finish. The plot follows young David, who is cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle, and kidnapped into servitude on a sailing ship....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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Antonina – ebook
Wilkie Collins
A romance of the fifth century, in which many of the scenes described in the ’Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ are reset to suit the purpose of the author. Only two historical personages are introduced into the story,– the Emperor Honorius, and Alaric the Goth; and these attain only a secondary importance. Among the historical incidents used are the arrival of the Goths at the gates of Rome, the...Data dostępności:
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Prince Polonia – ebook
Max Cegielski
Lata osiemdziesiąte, ostatnia dekada PRL-u. Muzyk Radek i jego przyjaciel Janek to szczecińskie młode wilki. Marzą o lepszym życiu. Magda, ich licealna miłość, wyjeżdża z ojcem na placówkę do Indii. Chłopaki także ruszają w świat. Zaczynają od drobnego przemytu z NRD. Przez Budapeszt trafiają do Stambułu i dalej – do Singapuru. Szmuglują magnetowidy, a potem złoto. Na ich drodze stają przeszłość oraz...Data dostępności:
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