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Mr. Lewisham is an ambitious young teacher who has grand plans for his future. Indeed he has written up a Plan or Schema as he calls it and has committed himself to daily study to improve himself. We follow him as he moves to London and becomes a student. He also gets married and the later part of the novel is about how his naive beliefs about himself and the world survive this transition. „Love and...

The book is aimed at those who want to investigate translation-related problems and write a Master’s thesis that is an academic thesis as part of their second cycle of studies in the European Higher Education Area. This target audience may be enlarged to include Bachelor’s degree students (the first level) for whom certain remarks and chapters in the book will be equally pertinent. The...

First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, „Ann Veronica”, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science,...

Po raz pierwszy wydana w 1921 roku, czyli przed niemal stu laty, książka Edwarda Sapira o oryginalnym tytule Language: An introduction to the study of speech uznawana jest za jedno z najważniejszych dzieł w historii językoznawstwa. Można się w niej doszukać nie tylko zalążków słynnej hipotezy Sapira-Whorfa o relatywizmie językowym, ale również źródeł inspiracji dla późniejszych wybitnych badaczy. Przede...