Lata 30. XX wieku. Mała Lilly Blackwood jest inna niż reszta dzieci. Rodzice trzymają ją na strychu w ukryciu przed światem. Jednak nadchodzi niezapomniany moment, w którym dziewczynka wychodzi z domu pierwszy raz w życiu. Pod osłoną nocy matka sprzedaje ją właścicielowi cyrku.Ponad dwie dekady później dziewiętnastoletnia Julia Blackwood otrzymuje w spadku po rodzicach posiadłość ze stadniną koni. Dom zawsze był dla niej miejscem pełnym zakazów i surowych zasad. Ma nadzieję, ...

Ta edycja zawiera dostęp do gratisów. Wydawnictwo Wymownia przygotowało prezenty dla swoich Czytelników. Treść książki zdradzi sposób, w jaki można pobrać niespodzianki – darmowe ebooki naszego wydawnictwa.Wydanie dwujęzyczne (angielsko – polskie) popularnej powieści przygodowej autorstwa szkockiego pisarza R.L. Stevensona. Pełna emocjonujących wydarzeń fabuła wciągnie czytelnika i dostarczy mu niezapomnianych wrażeń. Powieść była kilkanaście razy ekranizowana, ...

Elektra to królowa mykeńska, córka Agamemnona i Klitajmestry, oraz siostra Orestesa, Chrysotemis i Ifigenii. Pewnego dnia, pod jej nieobecność, jej ojciec zostaje zabity przez matkę Elektry i jej kochanka Ajgistosa. Elektra wraz ze swoim bratem Orestesem postanawia pomścić śmierć ojca. Historia głównej bohaterki była wykorzystywana w licznych utworach starożytnych, m.in. Eurypidesa, jak i współczesnych, np. Jeana-Paula Sartre’a.

Beth na zawsze zapamięta dzień, w którym na progu jej domu stanął niespodziewanie Ren Graham, przyjaciel z dzieciństwa. Nie było go dziesięć lat, a teraz jakby nigdy nic proponuje jej fikcyjne małżeństwo. To prawda, że Beth potrzebuje pomocy, bo po śmierci ojca tonie w długach, jednak oprócz wdzięczności czuje złość. Dlaczego Renani razu nie napisał? Dlaczego nigdy nie przyjeżdżał do rodzinnej posiadłości, tylko wybrał życie hulaki w Londynie? Beth liczy, że po ślubie znów st...

W świecie Emoni Santiago nie ma rzeczy niemożliwych… jest magia! Emoni Santiago to dziewczyna obdarzona niezwykłym talentem – potrafi przygotować dania, które zachwycają wszystkich smakiem i aromatem, dowodząc, że magia istnieje. Ta wrażliwa czarodziejka kulinarna jednak jest jeszcze licealistką, której trudno pogodzić szkolne obowiązki z wychowywaniem dwuletniej córeczki. Ciągłe podejmowanie decyzji i stawianie czoła wyzwaniom przeznaczonym dla dorosłych powodują, że nastol...

Myślała, że wszystko stracone. I wtedy znowu dostrzegła promienie słońca. W liceum plastycznym, w którym uczy się Ania, pojawia się nowy nauczyciel matematyki. Niezwykle przystojny, a zarazem bardzo wymagający i o paskudnym charakterze. Uczniowie z miejsca nazywają go Potworem. Dla Ani miniony rok był szczególnie trudny. Teraz, kiedy wydawało się, że powoli odzyskuje spokój, uderzają w nią kolejne wydarzenia. Pola, najlepsza przyjaciółka, wyjeżdża do Londynu, a nowy n...

Powieść z wątkami autobiograficznymi. Opowiada o życiu aktorki, poetki, malarki, osoby chorującej, matki, babci i partnerki. Mówi o tym, jak zawalczyć o siebie nawet w najtrudniejszych chwilach, pokonać własne demony i pokochać życie. W tej książce znajdziesz drogę życia od dzieciństwa poprzez zdarzenia bolesne i trudne, jak i dobre, dające nadzieję, wzbudzające optymizm. Charakteryzuje się formą kolażową zdarzeń. Emanuje z niej emocjonalność i wrażliwość. Zawiera teksty z ró...

Nalewki z piwniczki farmaceuty to prawie 50 sprawdzonych receptur, fachowy komentarz farmaceuty, porady i wskazówki przydatne podczas domowego wytwarzania nalewek.Nalewki przyrządzamy i degustujemy przede wszystkim ze względu na ich smak i aromat. Okazuje się, że wiele z nich ma liczne walory prozdrowotne, ale może też np. wchodzić w korelacje z zażywanymi przez nas lekami.Warto skorzystać z wiedzy profesjonalistów i podejść do tematu przygotowywania ...

The main theme of the plot revolves around hunting for the legitimate descendant of a rich man whose great legacy was expected to be bestowed. And in this context, there are several more or less unscrupulous people who trace this genealogy, some of which turn into the best people who are deeply immersed in betrayal and continue to remain evil until the very end. He seems so respectable on the surface, but his covert actions and manipulations with others were reprehensible....

A wonderful life story, with secrets and romance, where the strongest human feelings and impulses win in a difficult moral struggle. The author has beautifully written the image of Elinor, first an impressionable teenager, and after a sensible, kind, loving girl. A lot of interesting, unexpected moments and turns, a secret investigation, secrets associated with the legacy of the old aristocrat and his will, which became an apple of discord between the characters of the book...

Women are forced to marry and forced to marry for money, not love. As in all her books, the basis is a mystery, and, like everything I read, for the reader, the screaming is obvious what is actually happening. But this does not detract from the expectations of history. The characters are well drawn, each with a distinctive style.

Dunbar is the heir to a large English banking firm, but makes a serious mistake in his youth. His father and uncle expel him to India for his sins. Of course, everything is not so serious, since its isolation includes the leadership of their Indian branch. Then, after the death of his father, he returns to England. All this happens in the first few chapters!

Edward, a handsome young soldier, considers Mary a charming child. John, the widow, is sick and poor, and asks Edward to keep an eye on Mary after his imminent death, whenever that happens. John stands in line, behind several other relatives, to inherit a huge mansion and income, and he warns Edward if he ever happens before his own death, beware of the evil relative who is next in line after himself because this person will do everything to snatch the inheritance from Mary...

The heroes of this novel became victims of intrigue with the tuned arms of a golden-haired beauty who knew how good she wanted only luxury and honors. The reader after the first chapter understands what the heroine is hiding for the secret, although the villain will be more accurate, because throughout the novel she brings the rest only evil, the meaning of which they understand much later. The ball of intrigue that she had been spinning all this time would eventually be un...

This is a story about a knight who lost his wife during childbirth and his two daughters. The eldest daughter Hyacinth with a family monastery in Paris and Angela in a Flemish monastery with an aunt. The cloisters and surroundings were like night and day. The story of the reunion of the sisters after several years apart. The sisters have different moral values, but their sisterly cares prevail until forbidden love paves the way for despair. The author does not disappoint th...

Milly Darrell isn’t the narrator, but the story is based around her. Mary Crofton is a new governess who meets her in school, and agrees to spend her vacation with Milly. She soon has to deal with the intrigues of Milly’s evil stepmother Augusta and possessive cousin Julian. Fortunately, Mary figures out that Milly is being poisoned thanks to noticing the wrong cork on a medicine bottle. Augusta’s no Lady Audley.

Events unfold in England. Two friends who lived a wild life in their youth meet a rich but innocent heiress. Everyone plans to marry her, but for various reasons – one for her wealth, another for true love. Who will win her hand?

This book is romance, mystery, murder, Christian and the best part of lost love. The main character listened to the often told story, kneeling in the firelight, at her aunt’s knee, a ruddy glow gently touched her light soft hair and a brighter forehead, her large blue eyes looked with love on Mrs. Tregonell’s face. „And he was a widower, Aunt Diana,” she repeated with an expression of disgust, as if something had clenched her teeth.

The plot of the book contrasts with the life of two ladies Hazelden, named Maria and Lesbia. Lady Mary Hazelden is much more meek and stereotypically feminine than other heroes of sensational novels such as Alicia Audley, Marian Halcomb and Magdalen Vanstone. She falls in love with a poor man named Mr. Hammond and is trying to learn how to work to compensate for her lower social status after she marries him. Her grandmother seems not to mind if she gets married because she ...

Two different riddles, three villains, one of which was really the darkest paint, three murders, one suicide, the abduction of a child, three strong Victorian women – one of them is unusually tragic, the other is quite a deceiver, like Becky Sharp, and divine retribution. Suffice it to say that one of the main characters is a young woman who lives with a man who claims to be a father, but exploits and intimidates her, and when this villain, Black Milsom, actually kills the ...

The novel has two stories that at first glance seem unconnected, but most readers will be able to find out the connection. The first is about the situation of artificial inheritance. John Treverton must marry Laura Malcolm within a year or lose his inheritance. In another story, French ballerina Zaire Chico lives an absent-minded life in Parisian and London theaters. In the end, the mystery of the murder happens, and the rest of the plot focuses on that.

Isabelle Sliford is a young girl who dreams of the books she reads and lives to read them. She sees life through the eyes of Brion, Shelley, Shakespeare and Dickens. George Gilbert, a handsome young doctor, sees that she and she are so different from the girls he knows, falling in love with her. He is pragmatic, and she is a dreamer of all that is beautiful, which causes the gulf between them.

The plot tells the story of Ida Pallizer, the daughter of a poor Anglican pastor. Miss Pugh’s teacher and a wealthier student named Urania Pallizer often taunts and makes silly remarks about her poverty. The best line from this part of the book is when Ida is excluded. Miss Pugh says: „You can stay here as long as you need to pack your bags. Not that it takes a long time. „

Antonia Thornton is raised to be a religious skeptic by her father, but has doubts after meeting with Oxford Methodists, such as Stobard. Lord Killrush is impressed by her beauty and intelligence and suggests making her his mistress. Dying from consumption, as people did in the old days, Killrush agrees to marry her. Provided that she marries no one.