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What Maisie Knew – ebook
Henry James
The young heroine matures through her perception of family problems. The aristocratic family fell apart: the parents decided to live separately, but Macy does not agree with this. The girl is looking for a way to reunite her mom and dad...Data dostępności:
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Hannibal – ebook
Jacob Abbott
This story is about Hannibal Barca, who was compared to Julius Caesar. Virtually every family in Rome lost a family member because of Hannibal in the fifteen years he spent occupying Italy. He never lost a battle with the Romans in fifteen years of fighting them, and he was in the minority in each of their battles.This book is excellent to introduce you to one of the most important figures of the ancient...Data dostępności:
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Little Dorrit – ebook
Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, is the story of Amy Dorrit, a kind and compassionate young woman who is born impoverished and becomes wealthy, but retains her goodness and strength of character throughout. Little Dorrit is a novel of family loyalty. The story of a girl who is taking care of a large family and her love for the rich young man, and at the same time sarcastic description of English...Data dostępności:
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Northanger Abbey – ebook
Jane Austen
The story’s heroine is Catherine Morland, an innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with...Data dostępności:
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Droga do imperium. Początki Wielkiej Brytanii 1603-1707 – ebook
Paweł Burdzyński
Po Brexicie powróciło pytanie o niepodległość Szkocji, a odpowiedź na nie przestała być oczywista. Ale jak miałaby wyglądać niezależność kraju, który posiada przecież instalacje brytyjskiego arsenału nuklearnego? Od stuleci Anglia i Szkocja zastanawiają się: „razem czy osobno”? Cofnijmy się w czasie i sprawdźmy, jak zaczęła się ich wspólna droga! Paweł Burdzyński w e-booku „Droga...Data dostępności:
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Agnes Grey – ebook
Anne Brontë
This story is about a girl whose family has lost everything. Despite his young age, Agnes makes an important decision for himself and his family to go to work as a governess. Those close, at first discouraging a young girl, but understanding her resolve, do not resist her impulse. The work of a governess is not an easy job, Agnes Gray on her way gets acquainted with the life, traditions and way of...Data dostępności:
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Marriage – ebook
Herbert George Wells
„Marriage” is a surprising story about relationships and people by science fiction legend, H.G. Wells. It features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer whose business has been ruined by the advent of the automobile, and R. A. G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family at the age of 21. The novel...Data dostępności:
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – ebook
Charles Dickens
Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby’s father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. Nicholas then has to protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking...Data dostępności:
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Mansfield Park – ebook
Jane Austen
A young girl named Fanny Price comes to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram. Fanny’s family is quite poor; her mother, unlike her sister Lady Bertram, married beneath her, and Fanny’s father, a sailor, is disabled and drinks heavily. Fanny is abused by her other aunt, Mrs. Norris, a busybody who runs things at Mansfield Park , the Bertrams’ estate. The Bertram daughters,...Data dostępności:
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Can Poles reclaim their independence – ebook
Józef Pawlikowski
Translation: Saturnin, October 2022 Józef Pawlikowski (1767 near Piotrków — 1828 in Warsaw) was a Polish noble (from an impoverished noble family) and political activist. One of the Polish Jacobins; secretary of Tadeusz Kościuszko in 1795 in France. An independence activist in Congress Poland, he was arrested in 1826 and died in prison in 1828.Data dostępności:
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