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Martin Eden – ebook
Jack London
“Martin Eden” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his...Data dostępności:
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Great Expectations – ebook
Charles Dickens
„Great Expectations” is one of the most famous and much-loved novels by the great master of Victorian prose, Charles Dickens, that has become one of English languages greatest and most recognized stories. Here Dickens tells the story of the growth and development of young Philip Pirrip („Pip”) who begins his life as an orphan, neglected and abused, by his sister. Through a series of chance encounters,...Data dostępności:
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection – ebook
Charles Darwin
Everyone has opinions about evolution, but how many people have actually read Charles Darwin? If you haven’t done so yet, you’re missing out on what is surely one of the greatest books ever written. Written for the general public of the 1850s, it is a rigorously documented but highly readable account of the scientific theory that now lies at the root of our present attitude to the universe. Darwin’s...Data dostępności:
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Eugenie Grandet – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honoré de Balzac’s „Eugénie Grandet” (1833) is one of the earliest and most famous novels in his „Comedie humaine” cycle, which portrays a society consumed by the struggle to amass wealth and achieve power. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently...Data dostępności:
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Northanger Abbey – ebook
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, in 1803, but it wasn't until after her death in 1817 that it was published, along with her other novel Persuasion. The novel is a satire of the Gothic novels popular at the time of its first writing in 1798–99. This "coming of age," story revolves around the main character, Catherine, a young and naïve "heroine,"...Data dostępności:
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Thirty Thousand on the Hoof – ebook
Zane Grey
Frontier story of Logan Hewitt and his wife Lucinda and their trials and travails as a pioneer family in Arizona. Story proceeds through development of the automobile and World War I. This is a tale of a single family, told mostly from the point of view of the woman who left comfort to move west and marry her sweetheart. It is also a very nice lens by which we can see the growth and change in this...Data dostępności:
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The Refugees – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
A brilliant adventure tale of life in the Court of Louis XIV and of Canada under French rule... and Huguenot persecution The Refugees is set in both 17th Century France and in the wilds of North America. Although Doyle wasn’t a Christian, he writes with a great deal of sympathy as he describes the plight of French Protestants in the late 17th century. The year is 1690 and the De Catinat family is facing...Data dostępności:
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The Doings of Raffles Haw – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors spread like wildfire about him. When his home is overtaken by workmen and strange boxes are seen coming and going, it only adds to the intrigue. Robert and Laura are his nearest neighbors and are soon delighted to meet this eccentric new addition to the small English...Data dostępności:
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The Pioneers – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
The fourth of the Leatherstocking novels, we find Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo) entering the last stages of his life. He has lost a great deal of his effectiveness with his musket and now relies a great deal on his dog to help him hunting. The main focus is one two things: 1. the reinstatement of Natty’s old commander in his properties and wealth in the new US while believing he is the victim of treachery...Data dostępności:
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Mieszczanie i podatki – ebook
Katarzyna Wagner
Zniszczenia dokonane przez wojska – zarówno szwedzkie, jak i własne – na terytorium Rzeczypospolitej w czasie tzw. potopu uchodzą za wyjątkowo dotkliwe w dziejach kraju. Czarna legenda głosi, że rabunki i zniszczenia tego okresu przyczyniły się do załamania gospodarki i ostatecznego upadku miast Rzeczypospolitej. Sceptycy nie kwestionują kryzysu gospodarczego i ustrojowego państwa, ale zauważają, że...Data dostępności:
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