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Brother Jacob – ebook
George Eliot
First published in 1860, „Brother Jacob” is a short story about deception, imperial venture, and self-interest by George Eliot in which she explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centered, and ambitious David Faux and his simple-hearted and naif brother, Jacob. It is Eliot’s literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading.Data dostępności:
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Treasure of Heaven – ebook
Marie Corelli
A well-written book by Marie Corelli detailing the life of millionaire David Helmsley, who gave up his wealth to live as a drifter and found his inner self in a small village in Somerset. The author shows that the acquisition of wealth does not bring satisfaction, and in a simple life you can get joy.Data dostępności:
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An Autumn Sowing – ebook
E.F. Benson
The main character, Mr. Keeling, is a simple self-worker who started his business with the fish trade. That is how he became popular and famous. Having a lot of money behind him, the main character decided to fight the class community. This book puts an intriguing twist on an old story about a middle-aged man who falls in love with his secretary.Data dostępności:
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Because of the Dollars – ebook
Joseph Conrad
Self-deception regarding his wife, inflicted on the good-natured captain of the ship and the like. the willingness to succumb to base men on the part of the „painted woman”. It truly demonstrates how even those who find themselves in the most extreme situations of life can find redemption, albeit at a terrible cost. And atonement is a rare thing in Conrad. And just to make sure you understand it, the...Data dostępności:
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The Return of the Native – ebook
Thomas Hardy
Young beauty Eustace Way, passionate, self-willed, selfish and ambitious, eager to break out of the hateful rural outback into a “different life”, full of splendor, fun and pleasure. Meanwhile, after several years of service as a manager in a Paris jewelry salon, Clime Ibright returns to his Blooms End estate, who also wants to live a different life - to settle in his native land and open a school...Data dostępności:
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The Duel and Other Stories – ebook
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The center of attention was a small group of people, but everything was spinning around Ivan Laevsky, self-confident and selfish 28-year-old. He escaped with the wife of another man and lived in sin. Perhaps there is not even a duel in the literal sense, but a duel with the contradiction of the main character. He realized that love was not so, and did not know what to do, what to say.Data dostępności:
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Vincent Boys tom 1: Vincent Boys. Tom 1 – ebook
Abbi Glines
Bad boy, zakazana relacja i lato, które wszystko zmieni Ashton jest zmęczona byciem grzeczną dziewczynką, która spełnia oczekiwania wszystkich Idealna uczennica, idealna córka, idealna dziewczyna swojego idealnego chłopaka, Sawyera. Kiedy Sawyer wyjeżdża z miasta, do życia Ashton ponownie wkracza ich wspólny, najlepszy przyjaciel z dzieciństwa, Beau. Chłopak jest prawdziwym bad boyem i najseksowniejszym...Data dostępności:
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Śląski Kopciuszek – audiobook
Gabriela Anna Kańtor
Wszyscy lubimy historie o Pięknej i Bestii i o Kopciuszku, w których dobro zwycięża. Jednak wiemy doskonale, że to po prostu baśnie. W życiu Joanny Gryzik baśń wydarzyła się naprawdę. Tyle tylko, że w tej niesamowitej historii to Kopciuszek przyniósł złoty pantofelek księciu, a nie odwrotnie. Pierwsza z cyklu, powieść Gabrieli Anny Kańtor opowiada o spotkaniu dwóch osób; Joanny – „śląskiego Kopciuszka”,...Data dostępności:
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Sanctuary – ebook
Edith Wharton
Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiancé, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and by society’s willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis similar to the one that showed her his father’s moral...Data dostępności:
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Katherine Christine – ebook
Hugh Walpole
Nicholas Harris, his father, and Rosamund Harris, his mother, looked at him with love and pride. Nicholas, a huge man, was 1603 fifty-nine years old this year, and his wife thirty-seven. They were in their own house in Westminster, and everything was fine with them. Robert, their only child, was three years old. He was wide and well-built, but not tall, his strong legs lay firmly on the ground, his...Data dostępności:
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