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Woodstock Generation, czyli Wyższa Szkoła Jazdy – ebook
Hipolit Oliński
Paradoks niczym nieskrępowanej wolności polega na tym, że dążąc do niej, w końcu popadamy w niewolę. Nawet nie zauważamy, kiedy i jak staliśmy się skrępowani przez ideologie, stereotypy, osobiste przekonania, otoczenie, środowisko, używki, codzienne przyzwyczajenia. Autor książki „Woodstock Generation, czyli Wyższa Szkoła Jazdy” przedstawia pokolenie outsiderów, ludzi dryfujących gdzieś...Data dostępności:
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A Lost Lady – ebook
Willa Cather
This novel is dedicated to the generation of builders of the first railway in the West. This subtle powerful novel and very touching. Beautifully written in sharp, stingy language that enhances the meaning of the simplest gesture and the slightest statement.Data dostępności:
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The Imperialist – ebook
Sara Jeannette Duncan
Lorne Murchison is the son of a respectable first-generation immigrant family. He is of Presbyterian Scottish descent and is running for office with his ideals of a renewed British Empire. An intelligent and insightful snapshot of provincial Canada as it enters the 20th century, torn between being alone in the world and strengthening imperial ties with the mother country.Data dostępności:
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The Great Gatsby – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
„The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. The story follows the enigmatic and mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby as he chases the object of his hopeless desire, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. The result is a chronicle of the drama and deceit that swirl around the lives of the wealthy, which cemented Fitzgerals’s reputation as the voice of his generation....Data dostępności:
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Flappers and Philosophers – ebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel „This Side of Paradise”, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three, „Flappers and Philosophers” was the author’s first iconic collection of short fiction. In these pages we meet Fitzgerald’s trademark characters: the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost...Data dostępności:
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Sketches of Young Couples – ebook
Charles Dickens
„Sketches of Young Couples” is similarly a relatively early and short work by Charles Dickens – in which he outlines in a humorous and vaguely satirical way various „types” of couples (young, old and matured) in society under different subjects describing their actions, thoughts and decisions as couple. These subjects are chosen as a moral essay to raise the awareness and information in young couple...Data dostępności:
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The Heritage of the Sioux – ebook
B.M. Bower
Pioneering Western writer Bertha Muzzy Bower gained critical acclaim by bringing a unique female perspective to her tales of ranch life. In „The Heritage of the Sioux”, Bower brings a similarly empathic perspective to her fictionalized account of one of the most storied Native American tribes. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely...Data dostępności:
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Majesty’s Rancho – ebook
Zane Grey
„Majesty’s Rancho” is the sequel to „The Light of Western Stars”, both by Zane Grey. Here we meet the next generation at the ranch. It is wild with college age fun and a mix of gangsters meeting the old west. After Lance Sidway comes to the defense of beautiful Madge Stewart and ends up on the wrong side of the law, he escapes to Arizona and finds work on her father’s ranch. Fate certainly seems to...Data dostępności:
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Knights of the Range – ebook
Zane Grey
A true legend, Zane Grey has thrilled a generation of readers with his great stories of the American West. Holly Ripple, a young, headstrong woman, brought up in the upscale boarding schools of the east, has inherited her family’s cattle ranch in 1870s New Mexico, after the sudden death of her father. With the help of the ranch foreman and Renn Frayne, a newly hired hand; a outlaw seeking redemption,...Data dostępności:
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Bądź jak woda, przyjacielu – ebook
Shannon Lee
Córka Bruce'a Lee tchnęła życie w nieprzemijającą filozofię swojego ojca. Jak powiedziałby on sam: «Oczyść swój umysł» i pozwól, by jego słowa całkowicie cię przeniknęły. - „Newsweek” Bruce Lee to postać ikoniczna, zasłynął na całym świecie z mistrzowskiego opanowania kung-fu i innych sztuk walki i pozostawił po sobie niezapomniane filmowe dziedzictwo. Ale był również filozofem, wielkim myślicielem,...Data dostępności:
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