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The Voice of the City – ebook
O. Henry
O. Henry is most widely recognized for his stories’ dry wit, plot twists and surprise ending. But another major element in his fiction is his love of the American urban environment, as well as a keen appreciation of the rapid diversification that occurred in many cities in the early twentieth century. In „The Voice of the City”, O. Henry uses excellently written short stories and high vocabulary to...Data dostępności:
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The Relentless City – ebook
E.F. Benson
The Relentless City is a manners novel built around Lord Bertie Keynes, intending to inherit the title and pledged property of a young English widow. These two people decide they want to marry wealth, and that means marrying Americans. Bertie must marry money, and Sybil admires the American spirit. A novel about the American way of life, embodied by the millionaire and workaholic himself, a former...Data dostępności:
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Morderstwo w Panama City – ebook
Diana Palmer
Siri Jamesson jest wziętą reporterką. Dostaje zadanie opisania zabójstwa w Panama City. Wkrótce okazuje się, że sprawa jest trudniejsza, niż przypuszczała. Nie dość, że procesowi przygląda się cały kraj, to jeszcze każdy artykuł wymaga współpracy Hawke’a Graysona, obrońcy oskarżonego. Grayson, choć jest jednym z najlepszych prawników w kraju, budzi w Siri niechęć z powodu przedmiotowego stosunku...Data dostępności:
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The Four Million – ebook
O. Henry
This anthology contains 25 tales of old New York city at the dawn of the 20th century. A collection of O. Henry’s short stories bearing his trademark irony, comic misunderstandings, and surprise endings. They also capture his use of coincidence or chance to create humor in the story. O. Henry wrote about ordinary people in everyday circumstances. The true hero of „The Four Million” is the city of New...Data dostępności:
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LUST: Pod słońcem Nevady - opowiadanie erotyczne – ebook
Camille Bech
Po strasznym wypadku Jim uważa, że musi uciec. Rok wcześniej jego piękna żona i dwie cudowne córki zginęły w wypadku samochodowym. Jim musi kontynuować swoje życie i dlatego przeprowadza się do miasta Boulder City. Ale już na autostradzie w drodze do miasta poznaje Angelinę. Kiedy ich oczy się spotykają, coś się dzieje. Czy Jim odważy się żyć dalej?Data dostępności:
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The Town of Tombarel – ebook
William J. Locke
This is a late set of long stories that are read at the pace of a narrator who is in no hurry. Similarly, Locke does not tell his story to the great storyteller, an English artist named Charles Fontenay, who lives for health in the south of France in Cannes, often tells his usual storyteller, whose stories he reports, Monsieur Alcide Tombarelle, mayor of Creel Mountain City, to speed up or stop being...Data dostępności:
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Summer – ebook
Edith Wharton
Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton’s „Summer” created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman’s sexual awakening. Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behavior increasingly disturbs her. When a young...Data dostępności:
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The Emily Emmins Papers – ebook
Carolyn Wells
A humorous account of a trip to London and brief sojourn in that city and its vicinity. It includes: „A Ticket to Europe”, „Crossing the Atlantic”, „In England–Now! „, „Mayfair in the Fair Month of May”, „A Hostess at Home”, „The Light on Burns’s Brow”, „Certain Social Uncertainties”, „A Sentimental Journey”, „All in a Garden Fair”, „I Went and Ranged about to Many Churches”, „Piccadilly Circus and...Data dostępności:
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Bunner Sisters – ebook
Edith Wharton
Originally published in 1916, but actually written in 1890, „Bunner Sisters” is a compelling, heartbreaking little novella about two sisters, who have never been apart, struggling to eek an existence as small shopkeepers on the margins of late nineteenth-century society in New York. They barely make enough money to live on. But when Ann Eliza the elder buys Evelina the younger a clock that does not...Data dostępności:
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The Old Ladies – ebook
Hugh Walpole
The book opens shortly before Christmas, many years ago. The city of Polchester was an old rickety building on a cliff above old grass. The house was a windy, creaky, bitten rain place where three elderly women lived as tenants, including Miss Beringer, who had moved the day before. These old women are only 70 years old, but in the history of Walpole, written in 1924, they are seriously ancient, poor,...Data dostępności:
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