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The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady – ebook
Carolyn Wells
„The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady” book is the author’s description of a fantasy land inhabited by lovers. It is a travel guide to the mythic land of Arcardy which, according to the map on page 35, is just over the Delectable Mountains from the Land of Hearts Desire and is bordered by the State of Matrimony and the Sea of Dreams. Arcady is transversed by the Road To Wealth and the River Lethe,...Data dostępności:
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The Frogs – ebook
Aristophanes is revered as the „father of comedy.” He wrote over forty works, of which eleven reached us. Centuries have passed, but the comedies of Aristophanes continue to live. The political events that Aristophanes criticized in his works have long faded into the past, but the author enjoys the inexhaustible comic ingenuity of the author, his wit and ingenious courage with which he derives the...Data dostępności:
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„Już nie zapomnisz mnie” – ebook
Ryszard Wolański
Biografia Henryka Warsa (właściwie Henryka Warszawskiego, po wojnie Henry’ego Varsa), jednego z największych polskich twórców muzyki filmowej okresu międzywojennego. Jego piosenki śpiewały ówczesne gwiazdy ekranu, m.in. panie: Loda Halama, Hanka Ordonówna, Tola Mankiewiczówna, Zula Pogorzelska, oraz panowie: Eugeniusz Bodo, Andrzej Bogucki, Adolf Dymsza i Aleksander Żabczyński. Podczas II wojny światowej...Data dostępności:
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Lysistrata – ebook
A woman named Lysistrata, determined to stop the senseless war, gathers women from all over Greece in the square in front of the Acropolis of Athens. She offers them „until the men make peace – do not sleep with them, do not give them, do not touch them! „. With difficulty and after much debate and bickering, women agree. They take refuge in the Acropolis and do not admit anyone to themselves. The...Data dostępności:
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Faust – ebook
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great Goethe invented his Faust when he was a little over twenty years old, and completed the tragedy a few months before his death. This work was the result of the philosophical and artistic searches of the author – a poet, playwright, prose writer, the greatest scientist of his time, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. The hero of the tragedy, Dr. Johann Faust, lived in the first half of the 16th...Data dostępności:
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet – ebook
William Shakespeare
A love story that everyone knows from infancy. We encounter two children at the beginning of the play, who do not yet represent what love, passion, desire are, but as soon as they get to know each other and understand that they cannot live without each other, they both change, become adults, independent. They are ready to act for their love, boldly step over obstacles and strive for each other. But...Data dostępności:
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Poppy Ott’s Seven-League Stilts – ebook
Leo Edwards
Edward Edson Lee (September 2, 1884 in Meriden, Illinois – September 28, 1944 in Rockford, Illinois), who wrote under the pen name of Leo Edwards, was a popular children’s literature author in the 1920s and 1930s. He was really a born story teller. If you have ever read any of his books, you will have to agree they are full of laughs on every page. Hundreds of thousands of boys who laughed until their...Data dostępności:
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Mistress Pat – ebook
Lucy Maud Montgomery
This book describes the life of Patricia Gardiner in her twenties and early thirties, when she remained alone and took care of her beloved home, Silver Bush. Pat hated change more than ever, and took refuge in the Silver Bush where she was protected from them, but the change did happen. Over the course of eleven years, new servants came and went, new neighbors and new lovers, all her brothers and sisters...Data dostępności:
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The Jack-knife Man – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
Another lighthearted tale from American author Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives on a decrepit houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time whittling with his jack-knife and not really doing much else. That is, until one night, a sickly woman knocks at his boat door holding her son in her arms. This encounter...Data dostępności:
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Swatty – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
First published in 1920, „Swatty: A Story of Real Boy” is another breathtaking tale from American author Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937). Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, is most famous for his short story „Pigs is Pigs” in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea...Data dostępności:
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