Collector's Library (3 knihy )
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James Joyce Dubliners EN'Dubliners' was first published in 1914. The book depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter ENHawthorne's classic novel is a searing condemnation of hypocrisy and callousness in Puritan America. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. Because she refuses to reveal the identity of her lover and the father of her child, she is condemned to wear a letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover…
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Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days ENAround the World in Eighty Days (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a classic. The story starts in London on 2 October 1872. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy, solitary man with regular habits, who fires his former butler for getting wrong the temperature of his shaving water. He hires Passepartout as a replacement. Later that day he gets involved in an argument over an article in the Daily Telegraph, stating that…