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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Set six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum...

Strings of colorful glass beads were a popular commodity traded throughout ancient Nubia in the earlier half of the first millennium AD. Combining macroscopic examination with laboratory analyses, the author breaks new ground in Nubian studies, establishing diagnostic markers for a study of trading markets and broader economic trends in Meroitic and post-Meroitic Nubia. Archaeometric results, lucidly...

“The Willow Walk” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. “The Willow Walk” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis. “From the drawer of his table Jasper Holt took a pane of window glass. He laid a sheet of paper on the glass and wrote, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the...

Wojna, miłość i przesuwanie granic ludzkiej wytrzymałości! Lucjusz Krzelewski z zamożnej polskiej rodziny mieszkającej w Wiedniu studiuje medycynę, gdy nadchodzi rok 1914, wybucha wojna i błyskawicznie rozlewa się po całej Europie. Zafascynowany tym, że z dnia na dzień może zostać lekarzem, zaciąga się do wojska, licząc na przydział do znakomicie zorganizowanego lazaretu. Niestety trafia do Lemnowic,...