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The Country Doctor – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
„The Country Doctor” („Le Médecin de Campagne”), by Honoré de Balzac, belongs to the series known as „Scenes from Country Life”; a part of his great cycle of fiction, „The Comedy of Human Life”. It is one of Balzac’s noblest pieces of fiction, presenting beautiful traits of human nature with sympathy and power. The scene is laid in a village near Grenoble in France, and the story begins with the year...Data dostępności:
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Marlow of the Mounted – ebook
T.C. Bridges
Keith Marlowe, who had just been trained at the Mounted Police Barracks, Regina, is heading to the country of Kuchin and the Rockies to gather white drug dealers. Keith has a long, painful journey, and many difficulties must be overcome before his mission is successfully completed.Data dostępności:
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Bob Crane – ebook
Henryk Tur
Do małego miasteczka Sun Island niespodziewanie przyjeżdża światowej sławy gwiazda muzyki country. Mark Tamalija pracuje w dziale promocji lokalnego magistratu, ale nie jest fanem muzyki, więc sceptycznym okiem obserwuje szaleństwo, jakie rozpętała ta informacja. Bilety na koncert sprzedają się w 4 godziny, do miasta nadjeżdża tłum fanów w liczbie podobnej do tej mieszkańców miasta. Wszyscy cieszą...Data dostępności:
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Charles the Second – ebook
Jacob Abbott
Charles the Second is the story of Prince Charles, who, after his father’s death, came to the throne. In a sense, this is a continuation of the book „Charles the First.” However, we watch the fate of the newly-made ruler, who is being pursued by his father’s misfortunes. Charles the Second had a difficult fate, he even had to flee the country.Data dostępności:
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Xerxes – ebook
Jacob Abbott
The story mainly concerns the invasion of Xerxes in Greece and the burning of Athens, which was the main event in his career. The author emphasized how the war destroyed the population and productivity of the lands through which Xerxes had led his army, and also how it affected the prosperity of his own Median country. Most of the book is devoted to the campaign on the war. A brief history that contains...Data dostępności:
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Rob Halford. Wyznanie. Autobiografia wokalisty Judas Priest – ebook
Rob Halford
Nazwana jedną z najlepszych muzycznych książek 2020 roku przez magazyny „Rolling Stone” i „Kirkus Reviews” Legendarny frontman Judas Priest - jednej z najpopularniejszych grup heavymetalowych wszech czasów - świętuje pięć dekad swojej kariery w niezwykle szczerych wspomnieniach. Rob Halford, frontman znanych na całym świecie ikon metalu - grupy Judas Priest - to prawdziwy...Data dostępności:
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The Turn of the Screw – ebook
Henry James
The book opens with an unnamed narrator’s description of a party held one Christmas Eve in England at which some friends have gathered to share ghost stories. One of the partygoers, Douglas, says that he knows a particularly sinister ghost story about a governess’s time spent taking care of a wealthy Londoner’s niece and nephew at a country estate haunted by two ghosts.The story is that a governess...Data dostępności:
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War and Peace – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
”War and Peace” is not just a classic novel, but a real heroic epic, the literary value of which is not comparable to any other work. The writer himself considered it a poem, where the private life of a person is inseparable from the history of the whole country. Events and impressions from a peaceful life do not leave characters during the war, on the contrary, they come to life more strongly in their...Data dostępności:
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Cunning Murrell – ebook
Arthur Morrison
Spirit of Old Essex draws together Arthur Morrison’s lost treasure of a novel „Cunning Murrell”, a jocular tale of witchcraft, old salts, pugilists, smuggling and country life long lost, together with additional background information on Morrison’s research and inspiration. „Cunning Murrell” is a fictionalized biography of James Murrell, also known as Cunning Murrell, who was an English cunning man,...Data dostępności:
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Madame Bovary – ebook
Gustave Flaubert
„Madame Bovary” is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, often considered his masterpiece. Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband Charles Bovary in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life...Data dostępności:
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