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Meanwhile – ebook
Herbert George Wells
This novel is split into two parts, „The Utopographer in the Garden” and „Advent”. The former is set on the Italian Riviera where the novel’s central figures, a British couple, The Rylands, entertain guests. The latter, written largely in the form of letters between the couple during the husband’s trip to London, provides commentary on British political landscape of the 1920’s. A pretty good book,...Data dostępności:
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Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Often called the father of science fiction, British author Herbert George Wells literary works are notable for being some of the first titles of the science fiction genre. „Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island” is a 1928 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a young Englishman Arnold Blettsworthy who, after being betrayed by a business partner, is advised to go travelling in an attempt to recover...Data dostępności:
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Joan and Peter – ebook
Herbert George Wells
The book starts in late Victorian England and ends shortly after the first world war. It covers the transition between the end of the Victorian era, and the aimlessness of the next generation very well. The main characters grow up with the best education that can be found in England at the time, which is freely admitted to be not very good. They grow up and deal with love, decadence and the reality...Data dostępności:
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Bleak House – ebook
Charles Dickens
Money often changes people’s lives. If you inherited a substantial amount of money would it change yours? Would you work or quit your job? Would you feel entitled to various privileges because of your wealth? Would you behave differently? These and other issues are the subject of the English novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Bleak House, like many of Dickens’ writings, is about various social issues....Data dostępności:
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The Pathfinder – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
In the third installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper takes his main character, here called the Pathfinder (Natty Bumppo) and examines his role as an explorer for British/Colonial forces in the forests and islands around the Great Lakes. The story is a classic historical adventure/romance and Bumppo falls in love, for the first and only time in the five novels, only to see his choice fall in...Data dostępności:
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The New Machiavelli – ebook
Herbert George Wells
About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure. A successful author and Liberal MP Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. „The New Machiavelli” describes the disarray into which his life is thrown when he meets the young and beautiful...Data dostępności:
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Droga pani Bird – ebook
AJ Pearce
Jak pocieszyć przyjaciółkę po stracie narzeczonego? Czy pomiędzy nalotami niemieckich bombowców można kochać, śmiać się i tańczyć fokstrota? Wojna oczami brytyjskich dziewczyn i kobiet Nominacja do British Book Awards Londyn, 1941. Pośród bomb spadających na miasto Emmeline Lake, młodziutka ochotniczka służby pożarniczej, marzy o karierze dzielnej korespondentki wojennej. Nieoczekiwanie...Data dostępności:
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Wąż z Essex – ebook
Sarah Perry
Na podstawie powieści powstał serial z Claire Danes i Tomem Hiddlestonem. Londyn, rok 1893. Po śmierci despotycznego męża Cora Seaborne rozpoczyna nowe życie z uczuciem ulgi, ale i głębokiego smutku. Wraz z synem Francisem – chłopcem ekscentrycznym i zamkniętym w sobie – wyjeżdżają ze stolicy z nadzieją, że czyste powietrze i otwarta przestrzeń przyniosą ukojenie. Na miejscu dociera do nich plotka,...Data dostępności:
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