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On the Other Side of Writing – ebook
Oktawian Bulanowski
„On the Other Side of Writing” is a work inspired by the philosophical concept of writing developed by J. Derrida and E. Jabes. It reveals in its hybrid and dialogical form the philosophical questions of being. It alludes to the Bible and draws on experimental poetry, always having in mind the archetype and the experience of writing.Data dostępności:
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This Side of Paradise – ebook
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, „This Side of Paradise,” focuses on several themes and illustrates some social and moral changes in America during the early 20th century. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Amory Blaine is utterly an idealist. He indulges in every...Data dostępności:
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Jerry Todd’s Poodle Parlor – ebook
Leo Edwards
This story begins with a summer vacation in the small town of Tutter, Illinois, where the protagonist was born and raised. These are the adventures of the boys during their summer holidays. Many events revolve around the Woodlawn Bay Hotel and the old Windmere House, which stood side by side on the south bank of the river, each with about fifty acres of forested land around it. It was a new hotel,...Data dostępności:
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Together at Last – audiobook
Arkadiusz Grzegorzak
Is There "Life After Death"? Are the departed ones waiting for us on the other side? Can Love defeat Death? How much are you willing to sacrifice to be together again with your loved one? A young woman travel to the end of the world to take part in the Forbidden Ritual. In a forgotten South American village, she crosses the boundaries of reality and plays dangerous game. She will do anything...Data dostępności:
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A People’s Man – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
The marathon supports the radical form of general strikes to put the entire English industry on its knees and begin a long struggle for the redistribution of wealth. In many eloquent speeches, he claims the cause of poverty. Lord Foley, by contrast, believes that the enemies of England are waiting for mass actions aimed at the collapse of the country, during which they will invade and win. The marathon...Data dostępności:
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Armadale – ebook
Wilkie Collins
The hero of the novel, Armadel, decides how to deceive fate, become loved and fall in love for life. The mysteries of life are the mysteries of love, which are presented to us by the main characters of the novel, and it is up to the readers to decide which characters to side with. A cry of passion or the silent restraint of love – this is how the heroes of the novel behave.Data dostępności:
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Soldier Stories – ebook
Rudyard Kipling
Three Soldiers is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Three soldiers of this title - Leroid, Mulvani and Orteris, who also previously appeared in the collection "Simple Tales from the Hills." Books reveal the side of British Tommy in Afghanistan, rarely seen in the Twilight of the British Empire. The soldiers comment on their improvements, act fools, but right against the backdrop of...Data dostępności:
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – ebook
Robert Louis Stevenson
In this Gothic novella, Robert Louis Stevenson combines the horrors of the human soul with a disgust for the Victorian importance of reputation. Stevenson delves into the darkest depths of humanity, and seems to discover what Sigmund Freud would not publish for another 15 years: the repression of the id, or the instinctive side of human nature, by the super-ego, or the part of us that holds on to the...Data dostępności:
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The Stark Munro Letters – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
This is the story of a young doctor in Victorian Britain. In this collection of letters written to an American friend, Stark Munro tells of the trials and tribulations that face him as he tries to build his practice. Each letter contains two elements: one part is the narrative of events in the life of a young medical graduate in his efforts to set up a practice, as his own man, with a very little assistance...Data dostępności:
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Dream’s End – ebook
Thorne Smith
A New York advertising executive leaves his job in the city to write poetry in a hut by the sea. Once there he finds himself caught in the coils of his attraction to two women – a situation that so unsettles his wits that he falls prey to a heavily symbolic dream obsession. The story centers on a love triangle that develops between Landor, the niece of the man he’s staying with, Scarlet and the wife...Data dostępności:
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Sky Rider – ebook
B.M. Bower
First published in 1918, „Johnny Jewel” is a the story of a cowboy-cum-aviator in America’s Old West. Johnny learns of a damaged plane abandoned in the desert on the Mexican side of the border, and comes up with a plan to put it to work. His affairs are being monitored by Mary V, the ranch owner’s spunky daughter, who is slowly taking interest in Johnny. But in the meantime, a gang of rustlers are...Data dostępności:
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Gun Gentlemen – ebook
Max Brand
Lucky Bill has the reputation of a natural battler, but he is not a cold-blooded killer. Then Bill finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he is accused of a crime he did not commit, and plenty of greenhorns and gringos set their sights on collecting the price on his head. He’s wanted by every tin star in the West and by every greedy gunslinger out for the price they can get for his no-good...Data dostępności:
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Young Man Axelbrod – ebook
Sinclair Lewis
“Young Man Axelbrod” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Young Man Axelbrod” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis. “In Joralemon we call Knute Axelbrod “Old Cottonwood.” As a matter of fact, the name was derived not so much from the quality of the man as from the wide grove about...Data dostępności:
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Burmese Days – ebook
George Orwell
“Burmese Days“ is a novel by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of the empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India,...Data dostępności:
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Arsène Lupin. 12 Novels and Short Story Collections – ebook
Maurice Leblanc
Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created by French writer Maurice Leblanc. Arsène Lupin is a literary descendant of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail’s fictional character Rocambole. Like him, he is often a force for good, while operating on the wrong side of the law. Those whom Lupin defeats are worse villains than he is. The book includes the following works: The Extraordinary...Data dostępności:
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Riders of the Silences – ebook
Max Brand
Riders of the Silences was written under the pseudonym of John Frederick. The story is a Western saga based in part on Arthurian legends. Pierre le Rouge, the bastard child of Martin Ryder and his red-haired mistress, was sent off as an infant to be raised by Canadian friars. When his father sends for him after being wounded by the legendary gunman McGurk, Pierre races eight hundred miles to Martin’s...Data dostępności:
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Crossroads – ebook
Max Brand
It is the continuing saga of Max Brand’s finest heroine, Jack – Jacqueline Boone. Jack is blessed and cursed by the cross of Meilan when she meets Dix Van Dyck. Dix Van Dyck, is being persecuted by an evil sheriff, named Onate. Dix, perhaps too fond of action and excitement, had stayed out of trouble on the strength of his boyish charm and the verdict of „suicide” passed on those who drew their guns...Data dostępności:
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Spotkajmy się w Central Parku – ebook
Felicia Kingsley
Brawurowo opowiedziana historia, wciągająca bardziej niż najlepszy film Knight Underwood ma wszystko: elegancki loft na Upper East Side, wymarzoną pracę i zainteresowanie kobiet. Jest przystojnym redaktorem z rekordową liczbą bestsellerów na koncie, a awans na dyrektora wydawnictwa Pageturner to jego zdaniem tylko kwestia czasu. Niestety, rzeczywistość pisze dla Knighta zupełnie inny scenariusz. ...Data dostępności:
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The Darkness at Windon Manor – ebook
Max Brand
Something natural or supernatural enters the soul of Andrew Creel, a commonplace and disaffected young man, and drives him into a swift game where death is a probability on the one side and love only a possibility on the other. Creel plays it to the end: an end unlike the end that seemed so sure when dusk fell on the garden of that charming mansion with its sinister residents who have taken up residence...Data dostępności:
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On the Makaloa Mat – ebook
Jack London
The storybook „On the Makaloa Mat” tells the story of the lives of natives and whites in the Hawaiian Islands. The story, which gave the name to this brilliant collection, is considered one of the best works about love in world literature. Each story has common features: firstly, they all describe some side of life in the Hawaiian Islands, and secondly, these are all the memories of old people, or...Data dostępności:
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