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Pokonani

Hanna Cygler

Książka opowiada o barwnym i burzliwym życiu Hallmanów i Sarnowskich w niełatwych czasach odbudowy Polski i panującego w niej zamętu politycznego. Bohaterowie powieści próbują uwolnić się od koszmaru wojennych przeżyć, ale czy uwikłani w nie do końca nie wyjaśnione sprawy zdołają odzyskać utracony spokój... Ta pełna dramaturgii powieść skłania do refleksji nad wyborami, których dokonujemy każdego dnia i których dokonuje za nas historia.

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In Praise of a Suffolk Cottage

Mary Cholmondeley

Most of the stories were written in a cottage in Suffolk. Everyone now has a so-called cottage. This is a story about how a seemingly simple cottage won the heart of the protagonist and it happened for a reason.

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Wiersze. Wybór

Wacław Potocki

Wacława Potockiego do dziś uznaje się za jednego z najważniejszych poetów dawnej Polski. W swojej twórczości łączył rozliczne wątki charakterystyczne dla baroku: ziemiańskie, religijne, antyklerykalne oraz patriotyczne. Uprawiał różnorodne gatunki poetyckie: romanse, fraszki, poematy, pieśni. Jest też autorem staropolskiej epopei narodowej zatytułowanej Transakcja wojny chocimskiej....

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Скучная история (Nieciekawa historia). Из записок старого человека

Антон Павлович Чехов, Anton Pawłowicz Czechow

Одинокими мы приходим в этот мир и одинокими уходим из него. И только это есть несокрушимая истина. Живем мы тоже будучи одинокими, но столкновения с иными одиночествами рождает у нас иллюзию, что это не так. А вот те, кто осознает процесс собственного умирания, оказываются на самом ветродуе. Главному герою в полной мере досталась 201eчаша сия201d. «Скучная история» Антона Павловича Чехова (186020131904), впервые опубликованный в 1889 году 2013 это трагедия знаменитого ученого, благополучного и уважаемого человека, история, рассказанная 62 летним профессором Николаем Степановичем, более 30 лет прослужившем в университете, о жизни, взаимоотношениях с коллегами и домашними: женой, дочерью Лизой, воспитанницей Катей, о сложившихся привычках и представлениях...

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Dr. Delmores Secret

Fenton Ash

Dr. Delmores Secret is an absorbing tale of mystery by Fenton Ash, author of at least three Lost-World novels. Little is known about Aubrey/Atkins. He was involved in a scandal at the turn of the century and sentenced to nine months imprisonment for obtaining money by deception. After leaving prison he dropped the name Frank Aubrey and in his early 60s, following a three-year hiatus began writing as Fenton Ash.

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Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories

Maxim Gorky

The poem in prose Twenty-Six and One is based on the writers impressions related to life in Kazan and work in Semenovs bakery. Gorky considers the image of a tramp, revealing its negative qualities. The work tells about twenty-six bakers, attitude, feelings, the behavior of which is presented by the author as the attitude of one person. This is achieved by using Gorky a huge number of pronouns we are all

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A Crime of the Under-Seas

Guy Boothby

There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but as far as this is true, very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it is almost amazing. There are people involved in trade, some of whom are very profitable, about whom the world as a whole has never heard of, and which an ordinary Englishman, in all likelihood, would refuse to believe, even if the most reliable evidence had been provided before him.

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Privy Seal

Ford Madox Hueffer

Ford Madox Ford was a prolific English novelist and poet in the early 20th century. Ford wrote the best-selling novel The Good Soldier, as well as the Parades End series. Privy Seal is the second novel in the well-known Fifth Queen trilogy that recreates Tudor England in a masterful story of court intrigue, romance, and betrayal. Here Ford focuses on the figure of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful advisor to the King who comes to see Katharine as a rival whose good nature threatens his ambitious political agenda.