8 must-read nonfiction books like W cieniu koronkowej parasolki by Joanna Dobkowska

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W cieniu koronkowej parasolki

By: Joanna Dobkowska

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Książka obejmuje okres od Wielkiej Rewolucji Francuskiej do wybuchu I wojny światowej i ukazuje, ja…

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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Joan Didion

4.19

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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2. Lalka

By: Bolesław Prus

3.82

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Lalka ukazała się pierwotnie w odcinkach na łamach warszawskiego "Kuriera Codziennego", stanowiąc d… read more

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"Toteż mając lat osiemnaście, panna Izabela tyranizowała mężczyzn chłodem."

-Bolesław Prus, Lalka

"Przez rok cierpiałem na jakąś chorobę mózgową, a zdawało mi się, że jestem zakochany."

-Bolesław Prus, Lalka

"Bo widzisz, najgorszą samotnością nie jest ta, która otacza człowieka, ale ta pustka w nim samym."

-Bolesław Prus, Lalka

"Bywają wielkie zbrodnie na świecie, ale chyba największą jest zabić miłość. Tyle lat upłynęło, prawie pół wieku ; wszystko przeszło: majątek, tytuły, młodość, szczęście... Sam tylko żal nie przeszedł…"

-Bolesław Prus, Lalka

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3. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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4. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

By: Sylvia Plath , Karen V. Kukil

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Fashion: The Whole Story

By: Marnie Fogg

3.74

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The second volume in Prestel's Whole story series is a lavish, nicely priced, and authoritative boo… read more

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6. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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7. Kordian. Część pierwsza trylogii. Spisek koronacyjny

By: Juliusz Słowacki

2.82

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

Polska pod jarzmem cara - zbrodniarza. Patrioci planują na niego zamach. Jeden z nich, tajemniczy m… read more

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8. The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more

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9. Crimen y castigo

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Esta novela, una de las mas grandes e imperecederas de la literatura universal, contiene dos de los… read more

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10. The Blue Castle

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.94

Format: 255 pages,

Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis fr… read more

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11. Balladyna

By: Juliusz Słowacki

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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12. Chłopi

By: None , Władysław Stanisław Reymont

3.41

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

O wartości Chłopów decyduje przede wszystkim rozmach, z jakim powieść ta została napisana. Nadano j… read more

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13. Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more

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"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

14. The Children of Noisy Village

By: Astrid Lindgren , Ilon Wikland , Florence Lamborn

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Noisy Village! Go crayfishing in the summer at Nocken, "dipping in the pot" at Christmas… read more

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15. Death in Danzig

By: Philip Boehm , Stefan Chwin

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Germans flee the besieged city of Danzig in 1945. Poles driven out of eastern regions controlled by… read more

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16. Nana, Vol. 1 (Nana, #1)

By: Ai Yazawa

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

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17. Nana, Vol. 2 (Nana, #2)

By: Ai Yazawa

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

This is the story of two 20-year old women who share the same name. Even though they come from comp… read more

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18. Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.17

Format: 227 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553213188 Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, … read more

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"…but youth yearned to youth."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)

"We belong to the race that knows Joseph"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)

"Death grows friendlier as we grow older."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)

"It takes all kinds of people to make a world."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)

19. Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #6)

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.88

Format: None pages,

Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on… read more

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20. Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.22

Format: 276 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When twelve-year-old Anne Shirley came to Avonlea, she quickly won everyone’s heart. Now, she’s fiv… read more

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"I've come home in love with loneliness"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)

"Everything that's worth having is some trouble…"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)

"I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)

"She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)

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21. La Dame aux Camélias

By: Alexandre Dumas fils , David Coward

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dum… read more

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"Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"La vida es maravillosa, querido. Depende del color del cristal con que se mira"

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

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22. Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach

By: Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak

4.44

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Autorka Służących do wszystkiego wraca do tematu wiejskich kobiet, ale tym razem to opowieść zza dr… read more

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23. Katedra

By: Jacek Dukaj

2.97

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

7 minut i 37 stron do Hollywood Katedra nominowana do Oscara TOMEK BAGIŃSKI - twórca Katedry, fil… read more

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24. Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.27

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for… read more

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"Home and I are such good friends."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

"Have you any unfulfilled dreams, Anne?"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

"Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

"We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

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25. Gąsienica

By: Edogawa Rampo

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Opowiadania Ranpo ewoluowały na przestrzeni lat – zaczynał od typowo detektywistycznych opowiadań w… read more

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26. Bliscy

By: Annie Ernaux

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Czy da się uciec od swojego pochodzenia? Jak pragnienie awansu społecznego wpływa na kolejne pokole… read more

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27. Dyrektor pod kanapą i inne opowiadania

By: Anton Chekhov

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Dyrektor pod kanapa i inne opowiadania. Audiobook read more

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"Being in love shows a person how he ought to be."

-Anton Chekhov, Dyrektor pod kanapą i inne opowiadania

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28. Pocztówka z Mokum. 21 opowieści o Holandii

By: Piotr Oczko

4.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Mokum to w języku jidysz „bezpieczna przystań”. Tak holenderscy Żydzi nazywali Amsterdam. Piotr Ocz… read more

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29. Narkotyki

By: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

3.63

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

"Napisane w 1932 roku „Narkotyki” są swego rodzaju rozprawą Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza z własn… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. W cieniu koronkowej parasolki

By: Joanna Dobkowska

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Książka obejmuje okres od Wielkiej Rewolucji Francuskiej do wybuchu I wojny światowej i ukazuje, ja… read more

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31. 622 upadki Bunga czyli demoniczna kobieta

By: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

3.94

Format: 540 pages, Hardcover

Mlodziencza powiesc Stanislawa Ignacego Witkiewicza ktorej kanwa jest jego burzliwy romans z wybitn… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Nie-Boska komedia

Zygmunt Krasiński

2.44

Transform Your Habits

Barndommens gade

Tove Ditlevsen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

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Maria Kuncewiczowa

3.57

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