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Joan and Peter – ebook
Herbert George Wells
The book starts in late Victorian England and ends shortly after the first world war. It covers the transition between the end of the Victorian era, and the aimlessness of the next generation very well. The main characters grow up with the best education that can be found in England at the time, which is freely admitted to be not very good. They grow up and deal with love, decadence and the reality...Data dostępności:
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Love And Mr Lewisham – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Mr. Lewisham is an ambitious young teacher who has grand plans for his future. Indeed he has written up a Plan or Schema as he calls it and has committed himself to daily study to improve himself. We follow him as he moves to London and becomes a student. He also gets married and the later part of the novel is about how his naive beliefs about himself and the world survive this transition. „Love and...Data dostępności:
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Sense and Sensibility – ebook
Jane Austen
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward...Data dostępności:
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Selected issues of Public Economic Law in Theory Judicature and Practice in Czech Republic Poland and Slovakia – ebook
Petr Mrkyvka Marian Vrabko Andrzej Powałowski
This book deals with selected issues of public economic law related to the state’s infl uence on the economy and its entities. This influence is particularly visible in the infrastructure sectors, including energy, telecommunications and postal services, as well as in the sector of providing medical services. Th rough legal norms, the state regulates and rations competitive relations in the economy,...Data dostępności:
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Dombey and Son – ebook
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. Mr. Dombey, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florence. The firm...Data dostępności:
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The Mummy and Miss Nitocris – ebook
George Griffiths
The Mummy and Miss Nitocris is a science fiction novel. A story about crazy heroes and their wild travels. This is a completely different adventure, unlike the usual. The end will not be predictable for anyone!Data dostępności:
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Travel and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century British Writing – ebook
Magdalena Pypeć Przemysław Uściński
The essays collected in the volume cover a wide selection of texts representing different genres, literary currents and ideological perspectives to offer diverse interpretative insights into the cultural significance of travel and foreignness in British writing of the nineteenth century. Taken together, they aptly display the complexity of attitudes towards the Other as well as the diversity of textual...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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The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories – ebook
Rudyard Kipling
The world of Kipling’s stories is complex and rich, representing essentially an encyclopedia of the plot experience of the best English and American storytellers of the XIX century. They are characterized by psychology, innovation, which consists in introducing new layers of life into the fabric of narration, and a kind of naturalism. The lazy tourists demanding communication with people have already...Data dostępności:
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The Penalty of Life Imprisonment The Killer His Crime and the Punishment – ebook
Maria Ejchart-Dubois Maria Niełaczna Andrzej Rzepliński
After life imprisonment was reinstated as a penalty in Poland, 304 murderers were sentenced between 19 November 1995 and 31 December 2011. In this monograph, the authors present the results of their own research conducted between 2012 and 2017. The research involved: a criminological analysis of aggravated homicides and their perpetrators; an analysis of the judicial dimension of life imprisonment;...Data dostępności:
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