Publikacja poświęcona jest wizerunkowi Polski i Polaków, jaki promuje wśród swoich czytelników chicagowski „Dziennik Związkowy” - najstarsza polskojęzyczna gazeta codzienna wydawana w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Na podstawie cyklu felietonów komentujących bieżące wydarzenia w kraju nad Wisłą autorka ukazuje spojrzenie Polonii amerykańskiej na współczesną polską rzeczywistość. Analizuje zarówno treści pojawiające się na łamach „Dziennika Związkowego”, jak i formę językową badanych ...

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UWAGA! e-book jest skanem zapisanym w formacie PDF. Plik pdf uniemożliwia przeszukiwanie i kopiowanie tekstu Alexis Henri Charles Clérelde, wicehrabia de Tocqueville (1805-1859) – francuski myśliciel polityczny, socjolog, polityk. Minister spraw zagranicznych II Republiki. Był jednym z najważniejszych myślicieli w XIX wieku ze względu na stworzenie hasła liberalnej demokracji. Uważał on, iż demokracja nie jest szkodliwa tylko wówczas, gdy nie zagraża...

Niełatwego zadania przełożenia słynnego „Małego Księcia” na język śląski podjął się mistrz śląskiej mowy Grzegorz Kulik. „Mały Princ” z pewnością rozbawi wszystkich starszych i młodszych wielbicieli „Małego Księcia”. W przekładzie nie stracił jednak nic z filozoficznego charakteru oryginału. Dla tych, którzy nie najlepiej radzą sobie z językiem Ślązaków, autor przygotował specjalny słowniczek.

Guy de Maupassant to francuski pisarz, zaliczany do nurtu naturalizmu i dekadentyzmu, znany zwłaszcza ze swoich nowel. Uznany za mistrza zwięzłej, wręcz minimalistycznej formy. Jego utwory zawierają silne akcenty ironii, satyry i krytyki społecznej, przedstawiają realistyczny, pełen pesymizmu obraz ówczesnego społeczeństwa. Reprezentowane są w jego nowelistyce wszystkie niemal odmiany krótkiej formy, od osnutej na tle jednego wydarzenia anegdoty z ostro zarysowaną pointą aż p...

The story takes place in 1915, WWI has just started, Arsene Lupin returns as war veteran Don Luis Perenna. He is called to uncover the details of the mysterious murder of a Moroccan man, Essares Bey, the disappearance of 300 Million Francs in Gold, and the connection between another war veteran, Captain Patrice Beval and a volunteer nurse working in a military hospital in Paris, affectionately known as Mother Coralie. But their lives are in danger, and Arsene takes it upon ...

The fascinating story about a young Swede Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is brought up in the Paris Opera House. After a while in the opera house, she begins to hear a voice that, in the end, teaches her how to sing beautifully. The ghost is in love with the main character and is jealous of her friend, but it can only spell disaster.

Inside the Lines is a drama that developed during the First World War. The story about a business woman who came to New York to visit her department store. She meets an officer in the British signal corps. He escorts her to Paris and advises to quickly complete his business and return to America before the start of the war. But our heroine does the opposite and is in difficult circumstances.

The death of Hollywood actress Shelah Fane in her Waikiki beach house brings Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police to seek the identity of the killer. The story behind her murder is linked with the three-year-old murder of another Hollywood actor and also connected with an enigmatic psychic named Tarneverro. Through the confusion of alibis, false clues, and bizarre characters, Chan moves with the utmost calm – until the classic „gathering of suspects” climax, when his form of...

One of the most thrilling novel ever, this is a medley of mystery, farce and intrigue an especially fine example of the American mystery play and one of the outstanding dramatic successes of modern times. A hotel closed for the winter, a snowy night, our hero and a key begin this delightful mystery. As we soon learn, our hero looking only for solitude, isn’t the only one with a key. Other colorful characters arrive one by one... men and women with stories of love, loss, and...

Just as in Biggers’ first Charlie Chan mystery, „The House Without a Key,” that romantic link between the Hawaii of a different era and the city of San Francisco is explored and holds the key to the mystery. Henry Drew has cheated young Winthrop out of a partnership in a Hunan mine. Other shady deeds abound in the past of this rich and outwardly respectable old man. Despite his antagonism to Drew, Winthrop accepts the old man’s invitation to a birthday dinner, mainly to be ...

The fifth of the Earl Derr Biggers Charlie Chan books books involves the Honolulu detective in a case of murder that stretches around the world, as members of a tour group are dying, one by one. Charlie’s old friend Chief Inspector Duff from Scotland Yard comes to his rescue in this book. Duff is investigating the murder of Hugh Morris Drake, a sweet old man strangled in London’s famous and exclusive hotel, Broome’s. Drake is with a tour group encircling the globe. While Du...

Just a plain old story told by a superb story teller. „A Marriage Contract” (French: „Le Contrat de marriage”) is an 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the „Scenes de la vie privée” section of his novel sequence „La Comédie humaine”. Set in Bordeaux, the marriage between an elegant but weak young Parisian gentleman, Paul de Manerville, and the beautiful but spoiled daughter of a Spanish heiress, Natalie Evangélista, is undermined from the beginning...

Autobiographical and exceptionally romantic, „The Lily of the Valley” is an 1835 novel about love and society by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and is one of his personal favorites among his innumerable novels. The creator of the „Human Comedy” brings his creative insight to a portrait of a lady and a love affair set in the Loire valley. It concerns the affection – emotionally vibrant but never consummated – between Felix de Vandenesse and Henri...

„The Country Doctor” („Le Médecin de Campagne”), by Honoré de Balzac, belongs to the series known as „Scenes from Country Life”; a part of his great cycle of fiction, „The Comedy of Human Life”. It is one of Balzac’s noblest pieces of fiction, presenting beautiful traits of human nature with sympathy and power. The scene is laid in a village near Grenoble in France, and the story begins with the year 1829. Doctor Benassis is the title character of this novel. He is a compas...

„The Girl with the Golden Eyes” is the third part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled „Ferragus” and part two is „The Duchesse de Langeais”. The three stories are frequently combined under the title „The Thirteen”. It tells the story of a rich and ruthless young man in nineteenth century Paris caught up in an amorous entanglement with a mysterious beauty. Henri de Marsay, a young dandy who is obsessed with appearances, a physically beautiful but spiritually empty young man w...

Originally published in 1830, here we have perhaps Balzac’s best short work, named simply „Gobseck”. Gobseck is a marvelous sketch of a money-lender and miser in Paris during the early part of the nineteenth century who is a font of psychological insight when it comes to humankind’s greed, vanity and other dark motives. His philosophy of never helping anyone because „adversity is the greatest of all teachers” was well known. He also believed that all the peoples of the worl...

Aidan de Brune has been described as the Edgar Wallace of Australia. De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who settled in Australia. His latest novel, „The Shadow Crook,” certainly justifies the claim. It is an amazing story of a master criminal who terrorized Sydney, taunted the police, and baffled the finger-print experts. „The Shadow Crook” raided the detective offices in Sydney, bound and gagged the fingerprint expert, and ransacked his records. Who was he? Why did he tak...

There is always a special thrill of excitement about a mystery story, especially when the main characters cover their tracks successfully. „The Phantom Launch” is an Australian story through and through, its main setting being Sydney and Melbourne, and the swiftness and sureness with which both the launch people and amateur sleuths act will keep the reader breathless. Wireless plays an important part in this story. We defy any reader to guess the perpetrators of the crimes ...

„The Kahm Syndicate” is another breathtaking novel by the master of mystery Aidan de Brune, a colorful and prolific Australian writer whose opus is well worth saving from oblivion. Who will control the mean streets of Darlinghurst? This and another answers you can find here. The story is fast-paced with some surprising twists, well written and great to read. This genuine mystery story takes the reader from one exciting episode to another with all the adroitness and ingenuit...

Znany i ceniony, a także nowoczesny i przystępny podręcznik akademicki do prawa rzymskiego, podstawowa lektura dla studentów prawa, europeistyki, historii, kulturoznawstwa, administracji i dla aplikantów prawniczych oraz wszystkich osób interesujących się dziejami starożytnego Rzymu. Prawo rzymskie jest fundamentem naszej kultury prawnej, bez jego zrozumienia nie jest możliwe funkcjonowanie w dzisiejszym systemie prawnym, a więc i w naszej rzeczywistości. Auto...

„The Green Pearl” (1930) is the second adventure in the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). Aidan De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who settled in Australia. This second story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end (gravity powered aircraft without engines...) and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine: a small, colorless man of uncertain central Asian origin whose principal ...