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Robin Jacques

    Dubliners
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    The Penguin Book of Limericks
    Portret damy
    Everyman: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: "Tom Sawyer" is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; "Huckleberry Finn," the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American fiction that followed it, is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a tremendous parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.

      Everyman: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
      4,4
    • Portret damy

      • 896 stron
      • 32 godziny czytania

      Młoda Amerykanka, Isabel Archer, przybywa do Europy żądna przygód i wrażeń. Odziedziczywszy spory majątek, przekonana, że dokładnie rozumie sens ludzkich poczynań, odtrąca trzech konkurentów, aby poślubić czwartego – bezwzględnego obłudnika. Jednak nie tylko perypetie miłosne są treścią książki – najważniejszy jest proces dojrzewania bohaterki w atmosferze findesieclowej Europy, okupiony utratą niewinności i złudzeń. W 1996 r. „Portret damy” przeniosła na wielki ekran Jane Campion. W rolach głównych wystąpili Nicole Kidman i John Malkovich. Henry James (1843–1916) – wybitny amerykański pisarz, krytyk i teoretyk literatury, reprezentant realizmu psychologicznego. W swoich znakomitych powieściach zgłębiał mentalność Amerykanów, zderzając ją z kulturą europejską.

      Portret damy
      4,1
    • Gathers a variety of tongue twisters and humorous poems about history, religion, politics, mathematics, psychology, and sex.

      The Penguin Book of Limericks
      3,6
    • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

      • 329 stron
      • 12 godzin czytania

      The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'. Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves.

      A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
      3,7
    • Fifteen stories evoke the character, atmosphere, and people of Dublin at the turn of the century

      Dubliners
      3,5