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The Country Doctor – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
„The Country Doctor” („Le Médecin de Campagne”), by Honoré de Balzac, belongs to the series known as „Scenes from Country Life”; a part of his great cycle of fiction, „The Comedy of Human Life”. It is one of Balzac’s noblest pieces of fiction, presenting beautiful traits of human nature with sympathy and power. The scene is laid in a village near Grenoble in France, and the story begins with the year...Data dostępności:
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The Wind in the Willows – ebook
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows is book that made Kenneth Grahame popular. „Wind in the willows” is an elegant parable about class struggle, about the dangers of decadent country life in the face of powerful revolutionary forces. This story explores the life of four generations. Kenneth Grahame wrote this story in a difficult period:women were propagandising for the vote,the Irish were demanding Home Rule...Data dostępności:
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Xerxes – ebook
Jacob Abbott
The story mainly concerns the invasion of Xerxes in Greece and the burning of Athens, which was the main event in his career. The author emphasized how the war destroyed the population and productivity of the lands through which Xerxes had led his army, and also how it affected the prosperity of his own Median country. Most of the book is devoted to the campaign on the war. A brief history that contains...Data dostępności:
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Charles the Second – ebook
Jacob Abbott
Charles the Second is the story of Prince Charles, who, after his father’s death, came to the throne. In a sense, this is a continuation of the book „Charles the First.” However, we watch the fate of the newly-made ruler, who is being pursued by his father’s misfortunes. Charles the Second had a difficult fate, he even had to flee the country.Data dostępności:
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Rob Halford. Wyznanie. Autobiografia wokalisty Judas Priest – ebook
Rob Halford
Nazwana jedną z najlepszych muzycznych książek 2020 roku przez magazyny „Rolling Stone” i „Kirkus Reviews” Legendarny frontman Judas Priest - jednej z najpopularniejszych grup heavymetalowych wszech czasów - świętuje pięć dekad swojej kariery w niezwykle szczerych wspomnieniach. Rob Halford, frontman znanych na całym świecie ikon metalu - grupy Judas Priest - to prawdziwy...Data dostępności:
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An Old-Fashioned Girl – ebook
Louisa May Alcott
Do you ever feel like you are tied up in our times? Worrying too much about cell phones, fashions, and the latest whatever’s? This book can set you straight. It gives you a peace of mind and fills you with simple pleasures. Polly Milton is a fourteen-year-old country girl raised on old-fashioned values and invited to Boston for an extended stay with her friend, Fanny Shaw. Quite the unlikely friendship...Data dostępności:
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Kitty’s Class Day and Other Stories – ebook
Louisa May Alcott
Originally published under the title „Proverb Stories” in 1882 by Louisa May Alcott, this collection of sweet stories with a high moral tone includes: „Kitty’s Class Day”, „Aunt Kipp, Psyche’s Art”, „A Country Christmas”, „On Picket Duty”, „The Baron’s Gloves”, „My Red Cap”, and „What the Bells Saw and Said”. Using different characters in each story, she has portrayed various aspects of life brilliantly....Data dostępności:
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War and Peace – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
”War and Peace” is not just a classic novel, but a real heroic epic, the literary value of which is not comparable to any other work. The writer himself considered it a poem, where the private life of a person is inseparable from the history of the whole country. Events and impressions from a peaceful life do not leave characters during the war, on the contrary, they come to life more strongly in their...Data dostępności:
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Cunning Murrell – ebook
Arthur Morrison
Spirit of Old Essex draws together Arthur Morrison’s lost treasure of a novel „Cunning Murrell”, a jocular tale of witchcraft, old salts, pugilists, smuggling and country life long lost, together with additional background information on Morrison’s research and inspiration. „Cunning Murrell” is a fictionalized biography of James Murrell, also known as Cunning Murrell, who was an English cunning man,...Data dostępności:
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Adam Bede – ebook
George Eliot
George Eliot’s (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) first full-length novel, „Adam Bede” paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, self-deception and redemption. First published in 1859, this innovative novel carried its readers back sixty years to a time of impending change for England and the wider world. The story follows the rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope – a rural,...Data dostępności:
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