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In New York with the Tucker Twins – ebook
Emma Speed Sampson
„In New York with the Tucker Twins” is a sixth book in the Tucker Twins series, written by an American author of juvenile fiction and a movie censor Emma Speed Sampson and published between 1915 and 1924. Nominally it’s a boarding school series, but actually only two of the books are set at school. Our heroine is 15 year-old Page Allison, a doctor’s daughter, raised in a rural Virginia community where...Data dostępności:
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Modernizmy Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej – ebook
Ewa Paczoska Izabela Poniatowska
Zebrane w tomie artykuły ukazują z rozmaitych perspektyw doświadczenie nowoczesności zapisane w kulturze i literaturze Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Autorzy prezentują kształtowanie się modernistycznej „wspólnoty pytań” w naszym regionie, podejmują próbę redefinicji europejskich miejsc „centralnych” i „peryferii”, omawiają też takie zjawiska jak literatura popularna i film czy miejsce Lwowa w kulturze...Data dostępności:
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Under the Lilacs – ebook
Louisa May Alcott
„Under the Lilacs”, published in 1878, is another lovely morality tale by Louisa May Alcott that centers around two young girls who are having a tea party with their dolls when they stumble upon a young boy and his dog who have run away from the circus. Ben and his trained dog, Sancho, run away from the circus and soon find a warm welcome in a kind community where spirited games are played. Theatricals...Data dostępności:
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Tales of Mean Streets – ebook
Arthur Morrison
„Tales of Mean Streets”, published in 1894, is a collection of short stories describing the appalling conditions that many working people endured. These stories are a brilliant evocation of a narrow, close-knit community, that of the streets of London’s East End. Having lived and worked there, he author knew that East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but...Data dostępności:
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A Child of the Jago – ebook
Arthur Morrison
„A Child of the Jago” is London-born journalist Arthur Morrison’s best known novel. It was first published in November 1896 and is set in a fictional East End slum known as the Jago, which Morrison based a real district called the Old Nichol. The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, who is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. The Perrott family, and...Data dostępności:
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The Story Girl – ebook
Lucy Maud Montgomery
„The Story Girl” is a beautifully-written classic by L. M. Montgomery. A perfect piece of literature that could be enjoyed by anyone, young or old. It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The book is narrated by Beverley, who together with his brother Felix, has come to live with his Aunt Janet and Uncle...Data dostępności:
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The Valley of Ghosts – ebook
Edgar Wallace
A murder is committed among the rich of a small town, and with more than one ghost and all the evidence seems to point to a beautiful young woman... „The Valley of Ghosts”, written as one of four detective novels in 1922, is set in the seemingly peaceful community Beverly Green, a place where upper-middle-class families live a secluded life. Why was Stella Nelson with the victim in the middle of the...Data dostępności:
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The Flying Fifty-five – ebook
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace was an English novelist, journalist and playwright, who was an enormously popular writer of detective, suspense stories, and practically invented the modern „thriller”. His popularity at the time was comparable to that of Charles Dickens – one of Wallace’s publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. „The Flying Fifty-Five” is a novel set in the...Data dostępności:
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Tiger Eye – ebook
B.M. Bower
B.M Bower had a gift for writing Westerns, weaving tales of adventure, intrigue, mystery, and romance – often with surprise endings. Her gift for creating engaging, human characters is just as evident in „Tiger Eye”, a book with a much tougher, more serious plot than some of her early works. The main character, nicknamed Tiger Eye because of his one yellow eye, is a young Texan who has left home to...Data dostępności:
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Hawks and Eagles – ebook
Max Brand
Hawks and Eagles is the author’s classic. The brand is a great storyteller who shows his enthusiasm for humans and animals, such characters as a professor, a small dog, and Mole. Joe Good, the protagonist, he’s twenty years old. His father was killed by the richest man in the city, because he wants a good ranch not to be. A good, lazy, prickly guy who lacks a sense of respect and respect for everyone...Data dostępności:
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