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“Wisła” to książka Stefana Żeromskiego, polskiego prozaika, publicysty i dramaturga. Żeromski był czterokrotnie nominowany do Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury.“Daleko, dokąd wzrok nie sięga, za błękitnymi mgłami śni swe przedwiośnie długa, szeroka, nieprzemierzona, nieobeszła, nieogarniona ziemia. Trawi swój pokarm i napój wysysa. Drży w wiosennym oparze. Zapadły się w jej głębokość tysiące tysięcy ciał przychodniów z dalekich stron - zza siedmiu gór, zza dziewięciu rzek...

Czy miłość i piękno przetrwają czas okupacji?Paryż, rok 1939. Miasto Świateł ogarnia mrok. Dla Sandrine Paquet wojna zmieniła wszystko. Jej mąż zaginął na froncie, a szczęśliwe, pełne blasku życie stało się jedynie mglistym wspomnieniem. Tymczasem z polecenia nazistów Sandrine kataloguje dzieła sztuki kradzione żydowskim rodzinom, w tajemnicy przekazując informacje na ich temat francuskiemu ruchowi oporu. Pewnego dnia otrzymuje skrzynkę zawierającą suknię Chanel z zagadkową w...

“Wiatr od morza” to książka Stefana Żeromskiego, polskiego prozaika, publicysty i dramaturga. Żeromski był czterokrotnie nominowany do Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury.Książka jest zbiorem niepowiązanych ze sobą form literackich, takich jak opowiadania, bajki, biografie, reportaże czy relacje historyczne, których wspólnym elementem jest temat Pomorza, i diabła Smętka, znanego z legend kaszubskich i mazurskich. Książka jest uznawana za literacki argument za dostępem Polsk...

“Sułkowski” to dramat autorstwa Stefana Żeromskiego, polskiego prozaika, publicysty i dramaturga. Żeromski był czterokrotnie nominowany do Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury i jest powszechnie uznawany za jednego z najwybitniejszych polskich pisarzy.“Sułkowski” to dramat autorstwa Stefana Żeromskiego opisujący fascynujące losy polskiego oficera, a później brygadiera armii napoleońskiej Józefa Sułkowskiego.

“Ponad śnieg bielszym się stanę” to dramat Stefana Żeromskiego, polskiego prozaika, publicysty i dramaturga. Żeromski był czterokrotnie nominowany do Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury.„Ponad śnieg bielszym się stanę” to dramat w trzech aktach. Jego akcja rozgrywa się na Kresach. Główny bohater, Wincenty – z miłości do kuzynki – staje się winny ludzkiej śmierci i zrywa z matką.

“Uciekła mi przepióreczka” to dramat Stefana Żeromskiego, polskiego prozaika, publicysty i dramaturga. Żeromski był czterokrotnie nominowany do Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury.Utwór opowiada historię Edwarda Przełęckiego, naukowca i działacza społecznego, który we współpracy z nauczycielami zamierza powołać w Porębianach uniwersytet ludowy. W Edwardzie zakochuje się jednak nauczycielka Dorota Smugoniowa. Edward, mimo uczucia, którym również darzy Dorotę, świadomie wywoł...

“Main Street” 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.“Main Street” is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis.Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book, and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents...

“Róża” to dramat autorstwa Stefana Żeromskiego, polskiego prozaika, publicysty i dramaturga. Żeromski był czterokrotnie nominowany do Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury i jest powszechnie uznawany za jednego z najwybitniejszych polskich pisarzy.Żeromski w tym utworze starał się zająć stanowisko wobec sprzecznych poglądów na sens i celowość rewolucji 1905 roku oraz kreśli własną wizję rozwiązania problemów społecznych i politycznych w Polsce na początku XX wieku....

“Babbitt” 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.“Babbitt” is a satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis, about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930.

“The Cat Of The Stars” 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.“The Cat Of The Stars” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.“The fatalities have been three thousand, two hundred and ninety-one, to date, with more reported in every cable from San Coloquin, but it is not yet decided whether the ultimate blame is due to the conductor of Car 22, to Mrs. Simmy Dolson’s bland se...

“The Ghost Patrol” 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.“The Ghost Patrol” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.“Donald Patrick Dorgan had served forty-four years on the police force of Northernapolis, and during all but five of that time he had patrolled the Forest Park section.Don Dorgan might have been a sergeant, or even a captain, but it had early been seen at hea...

“Moths In The Arc Light” 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.“Moths In The Arc Light” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.“Bates lay staring at the green-shaded light on his desk and disgustedly he realized that he must have been sleeping there for hours on the leather couch in his office. His eyes were peppery, his mouth dry. He rose, staggering with the burden of d...

“Things” 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.“Things” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.“This is not the story of Theodora Duke and Stacy Lindstrom, but of a traveling bag with silver fittings, a collection of cloisonné, a pile of ratty school-books, and a fireless cooker that did not cook.Long before these things were acquired, when Theo was a girl and her father,...

“The Kidnaped Memorial” 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.“The Kidnaped Memorial” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.“Wakamin is a town with a soul. It used to have a sentimental soul which got thrills out of neighborliness and “The Star–Spangled Banner,” but now it wavers between two generations, with none of the strong, silly ambition of either. The pioneering g...

“Speed” 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.“Speed” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis. “Out in the road were two new automobile tires, and cans of gasoline, oil, water. The hose of a pressure air-pump stretched across the cement sidewalk, and beside it was an air-gauge in a new chamois case. Across the street a restaurant was glaring with unshaded electric lig...

“The Willow Walk” 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.“The Willow Walk” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis. “From the drawer of his table Jasper Holt took a pane of window glass. He laid a sheet of paper on the glass and wrote, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” He studied his round business-college script, and rewrote the sen...

“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 his gaunt white house and red barn. He made a comely row of trees on each side of t...

“Free Air” 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.“Free Air” is a road novel about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, where she falls in love with a nice, down-to-earth young man and gives up her snobbish Estate.

“The Job” 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.The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage.

“Keep The Aspidistra Flying“ 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.Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status and the dismal life that results in....

“Coming Up For Air“ 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.Coming Up for Air is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell. The story follows George Bowling, a 45-year-old husband, father, and insurance salesman, who foresees World War II and attempts to recapture idyllic childhood innocence and escape his dreary life by returning to...

“Down and Out in Paris and London“ is a book 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.Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. Its target audience was the middle- and upper-class members of society—those w...

“A Clergyman’s Daughter“ 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.A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia.

“Heartbreak House” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Heartbreak House is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a position to guide Europe to safety failed to learn their proper business of political navigation". The "Russian ma...